Robert Ponterio
Robert Ponterio, Modern Languages Department, with Jean LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish, U.S. Air Force Academy, and Mark Warford, Buffalo State College, presented a session at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) annual convention on Nov. 18 in Denver, Colo. Titled “90% Target Language in the Classroom: Yes We Can!” focused on techniques for teaching in the target language. The session explored research that supports 90-100 percent use of the target language in language classes at all levels as recommended in ACTFL’s position paper. It also addressed techniques for implementing the recommendations and for training pre-service and in-service teachers.
Alex Corbitt
Alex Corbitt, Literacy Department, was recognized by the National Council of Teachers of English with the 2024 Promising Researcher Award. Corbitt’s research explores how youths and adults represent their identities, communities and civic lives through processes of play and coauthorship. Oriented by participatory and ethnographic methods, he engages in long-term partnerships with schools and organizations to understand their learning ecologies, reflexively analyze their pedagogical practices and codesign justice-oriented programming. His scholarship has been published in several academic journals, including Linguistics and Education, Journal of Literacy Research, English Teaching: Practice & Critique, English Journal, Curriculum Inquiry, English in Education, Digital Culture & Education, Voices from the Middle, and Mind, Culture, and Activity.
Arden Zipp
Arden Zipp, chemistry emeritus, was honored at the 238th National American Chemical Society meeting recently held in Washington, D.C. Zipp was presented with a certificate, signed and presented by Thomas Lane, president of the Society, recognizing Zipp's 25 years of service to the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad (USNCO) program.
The USNCO program, which began in 1984, uses a series of exams to identify the 20 top high school chemistry students in the country. These individuals attend a two-week study camp at the Air Force Academy where they are given further chemistry instruction and exams designed to select four students to compete in the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO). At the 2009 IChO, held in July in Cambridge, England, the U.S. team was awarded a gold and three silver medals, its best showing in several years.
Zipp became involved with the USNCO in 1985 when he was invited to mark student free response exams. He began contributing questions soon after that and continued marking exams. In 1993 he was named chair of the Examinations Task Force, which prepares the new multiple choice and free response exams used in the selection process yearly, and continues in this role to the present time. He is also the current chair of the USNCO Subcommittee that establishes policies for the program.
In addition to his efforts on behalf of the USNCO, Zipp has been active in both the College Board's advanced placement chemistry program and the international baccalaureate chemistry program for more than 25 years and held major leadership roles in both programs. He is the author of more than 50 publications in inorganic chemistry and chemistry education and has delivered more than 250 papers, presentations and workshops at local, regional, national and international conferences.
John Hartsock
John Hartsock, communication studies, had his book, The Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery, accepted for publication in June by Cornell University Press. The book is a work of narrative journalism and recounts the cycle of the seasons at a ″mom-and-pop″ winery on Cayuga Lake — Long Point Winery owned by Gary and Rosemary Barletta — by capturing everyday activities such as planting and pruning the vines, grape crushing and fermenting and aging wine in barrels and bottles. It also details the challenges and triumphs of trying to make the perfect vintage. The book, intended for wine lovers, is the first to examine the national phenomenon of the rapid rise of small artisanal wineries outside of California. It is also the first in a new publishing initiative on the part of Cornell University Press to publish narrative journalism on regional subjects with the potential for national appeal.
Accepted for publication in July by the University of Massachusetts Press was Hartsock′s book Theorizing Literary Journalism: Examining a Narrative Genre. The volume will re-synthesize the last 10-plus years of his work which has appeared in publications such as Prose Studies, DoubleTake, the Journal of Communication Inquiry and Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, as well as insights gained as the founding editor of Literary Journalism Studies, the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of the genre and published in cooperation with the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. The book will provide a scholarly summary after 20 years of research on the subject, and will serve as a companion volume to Hartsock′s award-winning A History of American Literary Journalism: The Emergence of a Modern Narrative Form, published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2000, which is now in its second printing.
David L. Snyder
David L. Snyder, Sport Management Department, appeared as a guest on the community syndicated cable television show, “Beyond the Game.” The show, hosted by John Vorperian, appears in prime time twice a week on White Plains Cable Television Channel 76. The episode in which Snyder appears as a guest is tentatively scheduled to air on Monday, April 5, to coincide with the opening games of the 2010 Major League Baseball season. The 30-minute segment featuring Snyder was taped on March 19 and addresses some unique aspects of baseball in Japan. Prior to his arrival at SUNY Cortland, Snyder was president of a sports marketing company based in Tokyo. His primary research interest involves the business of Japanese professional baseball. Since the show started in 2002, Vorperian has interviewed hundreds of guests on “Beyond the Game.” The show has been the subject of many feature stories, including a 2007 article in The New York Times.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, co-wrote “Leveraging and Activating NASCAR Sponsorships with NASCAR-linked Sales Promotions,” which was published in the December 2009 issue of Journal of Sponsorship.
Jack Carr and Nancy Kane
Jack Carr, Communications and Media Studies Department, and Nancy Kane ’13, Kinesiology Department, received discretionary awards for their musical performances and ensemble work with the Auburn Players in “Antigone and Letters to Soldiers Lost,” directed by Robert Frame, at the Theatre Association of New York Festival 2021 held Nov. 20 in Rome, N.Y. The play is a combination of Sophocles’ “Antigone” and actual letters left at the Vietnam Wall, with original music performed by Carr, Kane and John Fracchia from Ithaca College. Also, the production won adjudicators’ discretionary awards for Music and Best Long Production, as well as a People’s Choice Award for Best Production, among other honors. Kane was nominated for Best Performer in a Play on the Broadway World website.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, philosophy, has published a co-edited anthology Dancing with Iris: The Philosophy of Iris Marion Young in the series Studies in Feminist Philosophy, Oxford University Press. It includes an essay by Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, geography, titled "Women's Work Trips and Multifaceted Oppression." Nagel was also a keynote speaker at the Hochschule Fulda, Germany, in June while she was a Visiting Professor.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, political science, is the author of a recently published book titled Gun Control: A Documentary and Reference Guide. The book brings together more than 50 primary documents, from early colonial laws to contemporary court cases, that illuminate the evolution of gun policy in the United States. Each document is accompanied by the author′s analysis and commentary to explicate the document′s significance. The book includes original photography by Dawn Van Hall, library, and is published by Greenwood Publishing Group. Spitzer also was interviewed in July on CNN′s ″Lou Dobbs Tonight″ on the nationwide shortage of bullets.
Ralph Dudgeon
Ralph Dudgeon, performing arts, traveled to China May 6-14 where he taught trumpet students from Beichuan Middle School, now relocated in Mianyang in Sichuan after being devastated by the earthquake on May 12, 2008. Dudgeon also worked with graduate students as they taught there as part of the ″Music from the Heart″ relief program developed by Capital Normal University in Beijing. On May 13, Dudgeon gave a lecture/recital on keyed bugle at Capital Normal University for graduate music research students and faculty.
Also, Dudgeon participated in the Historic Brass Society Early Brass Festival July 17-19 in New London, Conn., where he gave a paper ″The Privilege of Joseph Riedl and Joseph Kail: 1 November 1823″ dealing with the development of valve brass instruments patents in Vienna. As a part of the festival's finale concert, Dudgeon performed with the Berlioz Historical Brass Ensemble and also conducted the world premiere of Jonathan Miller's ″Jump In″ for natural trumpet ensemble and percussion.