Li Jin
Li Jin, Geology Department, co-authored a paper that was published in May in Science magazine titled “Late inception of a resiliently oxygenated upper ocean.” The multi-institution collaboration project with lead authors from Syracuse University is detailed in this news release.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, has learned that her poem, “Things That Go Bump and Smile in the Night,” has been nominated for a Rhysling Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, had a new article, “Challenging the American Dream: The New Journalism and Its Precursors,” published in Witnessing the Sixties: A Decade of Change in Journalism and Literature, which is volume 51 of the Groningen Studies in Cultural Change series published by the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. The article examines how the American New Journalism of the 1960s subverted the cultural shibboleth and cliché of the American Dream. The series is published by the academic publisher Peeters of Louvain, Belgium.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, presented at two conferences in late July. She participated in a panel discussion, “Comics on Campus: Fandom + Academia,” in the educational track of the San Diego Comic Con-International on July 23. Also, she presented a co-authored paper, “Letters and Lace: Male Call and its Readers,” with Dr. Daniel Yezbick, St. Louis Community College, Wildwood, at the annual convention of the Comics Studies Society held July 29 at Michigan State University. Earlier in the summer, it was announced that Dr. Knopf is now a co-editor of the Routledge Advances in Comics Studies book series.
Anna Curtis
Anna Curtis, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented a paper titled “Little Me versus My Princess: Prisoners’ Gendered Expectations for Fathering” at the 2015 annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems held Aug. 21-23 in Chicago.
Katie Ducett
Katie Ducett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Special and Inclusive Education Research SIG at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual conference held in early April in Philadelphia. Her dissertation was titled “Social Lives at College: Experiences of Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disability.” Along with this award, Ducett also presented four other collaborative research projects and chaired two sessions while at AERA.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, had her critical review of the exhibition, “Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie” (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pa.) published in the current issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism.
Melissa A. Morris
Melissa A. Morris, Physics Department, had two postdoctoral researchers visit SUNY Cortland for 10 days in late May to work on her NASA project, “The Formation Environment of Chondrules in Planetesimal Impact Plumes.” They were visiting from University of Oxford and Montreal, Canada.
Also, Morris served on a NASA review panel in early June.
In late June, Morris and Anthony Terzolo, her undergraduate student research assistant, presented posters at the Gordon Research Conference on the Origin of Solar Systems. Morris and Terzolo presented “The Indirect Detection of Liquid Water in Extrasolar Protoplanetary Disks,” and Morris and four coauthors presented “Modeling Collisional Ejecta in 3-D with Adaptive Mesh Refinement.” The conference was at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass.
Ben Lovett
Ben Lovett, Psychology Department, recently had his study, “Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and Speed of Performance,” published in the Journal of Attention Disorders. Lovett conducted the study in collaboration with researchers at Syracuse University.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, was named last fall as the managing editor of a new journal, The Reading League Journal. The journal articles are written by top researchers from around the world and summarizes scientific findings on reading development and reading difficulties/disabilities. The unique feature of this publication is that it is not written for other researchers but rather for educational professionals working in schools (teachers, administrators, speech pathologists, and school psychologists). The journal will have three issues per year, fall, winter and spring. The first issue was published in January.