Theresa Curtis
Theresa Curtis, Biological Sciences Department, was awarded a new National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation Research grant to develop and commercialize a new instrument to assist researchers in characterizing cells.
In this collaborative grant, Curtis will be working with the company Applied BioPhysics Inc., Troy, N.Y., and statisticians from Cornell and Mount Holyoke College. The device is based on Electric Cell-substrate Impedance Sensing (ECIS), a well-established technology using impedance measurements to quantify cell morphology and behavior. The research group proposes to take advantage of the multivariant nature of the ECIS measurement to ultimately select features that, when plotted in a 2 or 3-dimensional coordinate system, will allow the user to visually confirm the identity of their cells as well as detect subtle unwanted anomalies in culture that could jeopardize experimental results. Animal cell culture plays an indispensable role in biological and biomedical research and the production of biopharmaceuticals, but misidentification of cell lines, subtle forms of contamination, as well as epigenetic changes often affect the outcomes of experiments. With the grant money ($154,772) coming to SUNY Cortland, Curtis will be able to pay students during the semester and over the summer for two years to work on this project.
James Webb
James Webb, Auxiliary Services Corporation and executive chef at The Bistro Off Broadway, received the 2019 Chef Professionalism Award from the Syracuse chapter of the American Culinary Federation on March 25. Presented at The Oncenter in Syracuse, N.Y., the award recognizes chefs who exemplify the highest standard of professionalism through certification, continuing education and training, culinary competitions and community involvement. It honors culinarians who help elevate the status of chefs and cooks.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was panel organizer of “Continuity and Change of East Asia,” and a panel chair and paper presenter of “Sexual Violence and Awareness in Postsocialist China” at the New York Association of Asian Studies annual conference. It was held on Oct. 5 at SUNY New Paltz.
Genevieve Birren
Genevieve Birren, Sport Management Department, gave a presentation titled "Legal and governance implications of the growing dispute between the United States and the World Anti-Doping Agency" at the International Sport Law Journal 2025 Conference: 20 years of the World Anti–Doping Code in Action in The Hague, Netherlands, Nov. 6-7, 2025.
Craig A. Foster
Craig A. Foster, Psychology Department, and undergraduate students Emalee L. Sickles and Emily E. Camp, had their article titled “Wooooooo: Old Bovines in New Twaddle” published in the May/June 2023 issue of Skeptical Inquirer. The article evolved out of work in the Spring 2022 Psychology of Pseudoscience class.
Regina B. Grantham
Regina B. Grantham, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, attended the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention in November in Los Angeles, Calif. She was actively involved in education seminars as well as the association’s Board of Ethics. She co-presented with the board in an oral seminar, “Ethical Challenges: Be in the ASHA Leader for the Right Reasons,” and poster session, “Suspect Ethical Misconduct? The Code of Ethics (2016) Is a Path to Resolution.”
Debbie Warnock
Debbie Warnock, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented a paper on the effects of student debt on transitions to young adulthood last month at the annual meetings of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, held Nov. 4-7 in Denver.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy, is co-editing with Nina Bascia, University of Toronto, a handbook for Routledge in the field of teachers’ work. The volume is titled Handbook on Teachers’ Work: International Perspectives on Research and Practice, and includes over 30 chapters from leading international scholarly experts.
Kim Wieczorek
Kim Wieczorek, Childhood/Early Childhood Department, attended the Association of Teacher Educators' conference in Atlanta in February as a representative to the Council for Unit Presidents and to the Delegate Assembly in her role as president of the New York State Association of Teacher Educators. At the conference, she presented a roundtable titled “Press Play and Repeat: Identifying and Documenting a Repertoire of Skills and Dispositions for Preservice Candidates in a Professional Development School Context.”
Bonni C. Hodges and Mike Urtz
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, and Mike Urtz, Athletics Department, conducted a webinar for the Society for Public Health Education titled “Student Athlete Wellbeing: One Team, One Family, Many Branches.” The webinar provided an overview of student-athlete wellbeing challenges, current student-athlete wellbeing initiatives in the U.S., and a process used to plan future student-athlete wellbeing initiatives at SUNY Cortland.