Frederic Pierce
Frederic Pierce, Communications Office, learned that his team won a SUNY Council for University Advancement (SUNYCUAD) Best of Category award in the category of Excellence in Marketing and Communications on a Budget – Special Events (Series). The award recognizes the College’s use of the alumni magazine, Columns, as a marketing vehicle and will be presented at the annual SUNYCUAD conference set for June 12 to 14 in Saratoga, N.Y.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, served as a discussant on a panel titled, “Presidents, the Courts, and the Law” at the recent annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, held in Philadelphia from Sept. 1 to 4. Also, he attended the executive council meeting of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honors society, on which he is serving a four-year term.
Kate McCormick, Christine Uliassi, Krystal Barber and Kim Wieczorek
Kate McCormick, Christine Uliassi, Krystal Barber and Kim Wieczorek, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an article published in Young Children titled “Creating Multimodal Experiences to Engage All Students in Early Grade Classrooms.”
Frank Evangelista, Scott Chierchio and Daron Foster
Frank Evangelista, Scott Chierchio and Daron Foster, Heating Plant, completed Applied Skilled Trades Program (ASTP) traineeship programs through the NYS & CSEA Partnership for Education and Training. Evangelista and Chierchio were awarded journey-level electrician positions at the College and Foster was promoted to a journey-level refrigeration mechanic position after completing the required two-and-a-half years of instruction in trade theory and 4,000 hours of on-the-job training in their respective trades.
Peter Ducey
Peter Ducey, Biological Sciences Department, co-authored the presentation “Predator-Prey Relationships Between Streamside Salamanders and Earthworm Communities Inhabiting the Riparian Zone” recently given by lead author and Cortland alumna Rebecca Forrest Pinder ’02 at the 10th International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology held in Athens, Ga., in June. Pinder has recently completed her Ph.D. at University at Albany in ecology and evolutionary biology and is currently a faculty member at Columbia-Greene Community College. The presentation was part of a broader study investigating the influences of non-native earthworms on biotic and abiotic components of stream ecosystems.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, presented on a virtual roundtable, “Queer Kinship,” on Sept. 24 at University of North Carolina Greensboro in honor of his book, co-edited with Elizabeth Freeman, Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form. The book is forthcoming with Duke University Press.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Distinguished Service Professor emeritus, political science, has been informed that his new book has been accepted for publication by Oxford University Press. The book, Gun Law History: How Three-Hundred Years of Weapons Laws Built the Nation, brings together, for the first time, the full panoply of types of old weapons laws, numbering in the thousands, spanning the period from the 1600s to the early 1900s. The book frames the analysis in the context of America as a developing nation-state. It also demonstrates that the Supreme Court’s recent history-based interpretation of America’s gun laws is entirely wrong.