Zachary Wilson
Zachary Wilson, Advisement and Transition, was awarded the New York State Transfer and Articulation Association’s (NYSTAA) New Professional Award at their annual conference on May 24 in Rochester, N.Y. The New Professional Award was established to recognize the service of new members to NYSTAA. It recognizes the enthusiasm of new members to become involved with the organization and promotes continued service. Wilson, who is the university’s transfer mobility advisor, is the co-chair of the NYSTAA Scholarship Committee and has assisted in raising thousands of dollars in scholarships for students at member schools.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, served on two panels that discussed leveraging pop culture as learning, recruitment and retention tools for students in business, literature, filmmaking and more at the San Diego Comic-Con International 2023. The panels were titled “Comics on Campus: Academia vs. Fandom (Battle or a Collab?)” and "Admissions Departments Emitting Geek Vibes: College Course Focused on Pop Culture." They were presented in the convention’s programming for librarians and educators on July 22 and July 23 at the San Diego Central Library.
Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented a paper at the 11th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology in Turin, Italy, on Aug. 27, 2025.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez recently published an article entitled "‘Do Not Go Through the System Passively’: Integrating Environmental Studies and Ethnic Studies Through a Social Justice Outdoor Education Program for High School Learners" that was chosen as the cover story of a special issue of academic journal Youth on young climate change activists.
Alexandru Balas
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, co-authored a peer-reviewed paper that was published in the Japanese journal of mycology, Mycoscience. “A New Species of Laccaria in Montane Cloud Forest from Eastern Mexico” was co-authored with Leticia Montoya and Victor M. Bandala from Net Biodiversidad y Sistemática, Instituto de Ecología, Xalapa, Mexico, and Thomas R. Horton from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Images of the mushrooms and scanning electron micrographs of the basidiospores of Laccaria roseoalbescens from their article were featured on the journal cover of that volume. There are nearly 90 species of Laccaria described from around the world, 20 from North America. Many of these species are important for the agroforest industry and are used in nurseries to form robust symbiosis with economically important forest tree seedlings such as pine and oak before they are planted in reforestation projects.
Claus Schubert
Claus Schubert, Mathematics Department, taught an honors abstract algebra course for the Summer Math Institute (SMI) held from June 10 through Aug. 2 at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. The SMI is a National Science Foundation-sponsored program designed to increase diversity in the mathematical sciences by encouraging highly talented students from underrepresented minorities to pursue a Ph.D. in mathematics. The program prepares the students with an intensive eight-week course and an undergraduate research experience.
Ji-Ryun Kim and John Foley
Ji-Ryun Kim, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, and John Foley, Physical Education Department, recently had their research published in the Korean Journal of Special Education. The title of their article is “Stability of Students’ IEP Status and Related Factors: Analyses of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten Cohort.”
Student Achievements
Matthew Norris, a senior exercise science major from Homer, N.Y., was nominated by SUNY Cortland faculty members for a Phi Kappa Phi honor society national fellowship. Norris will pursue a doctorate in physical therapy at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y. this fall.
Norris is accomplished academically and has made significant contributions to campus through his involvement in bringing Around the World for Yeardley program and developing the Mental Health Mondays for student athletes. Also, he is a member of the Empire Collegiate Wrestling Conference All-Academic Team among many other activities on campus and in the community.
Anne Burns-Thomas
Anne Burns-Thomas, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, led a post-keynote discussion with Paul Gorski at the Noyce NE Regional Conference held March 20-22 in Philadelphia, Pa. Participants reflected on Gorski’s keynote, which addressed key insights from his latest book, Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap. Gorski questions how strategies for teaching and relating with families in poverty might change if we truly understood the barriers they experience — barriers that have nothing to do with their cultures or their attitudes about school or their desires to learn. Participants talked about those challenges, how they affect the school experiences of low-income students, and how educators can mitigate them by providing equitable, engaging learning environments.