Chris Badurek
Chris Badurek, Geography Department, gave an invited keynote address at the Regional STEM Summit of the Greater Southern Tier STEM Learning Network held Aug. 13 at the Corning Corporation in Corning, N.Y. His presentation, The Power of Creative Thinking: Harnessing GIS and Machine Learning for Career Preparation, highlighted approaches to generate student interest in STEM using machine learning for applied problem solving and facilitate IT career readiness in students without computer science degrees.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled, “Researching Gun Policy: Futile or Feasible?” that was posted Oct. 16 on the Social Science Research Council website, “Items: Insights from the Social Sciences.”
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, gave the plenary address for the Sexuality Summer School hosted by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality & Culture at the University of Manchester, England. Her talk was titled “Partner Uncoupled: Theories, Methods, and Forms of Queer Kinship.” Additionally, she taught a seminar for 40 doctoral students on queer theories of self-narration.
Jeremiah Donovan
Jeremiah Donovan, Art and Art History Department, had one of his most recent ceramic works accepted into the California Lincoln Arts Foundation, Feats of Clay XXIII. This international competition, juried by Bill VanGilder, selected 75 works of art from a field of more than 1,000 entries. It opened at the Lincoln Arts Foundation Gallery on April 24 and runs through Sunday, May 30.
Jennifer Janes and Traci Washburn
Jennifer Janes and Traci Washburn, The Cortland Fund, recently learned that the office won a 2010 Awards of Excellence Best of Category Award for the 2009 Philanthropy Day Event. The award, from the SUNY Council for University Advancement (SUNYCUAD), will be presented at the annual conference scheduled for June 9-11 in Buffalo, N.Y.
John Hartsock
John Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has been awarded a visiting professorship for four weeks to the University of Paris 12 for next fall. Hartsock will teach a graduate seminar in literary journalism, his area of research, to doctoral students from Sept. 27-Oct 22. With an enrollment of 24,000, the University of Paris 12 is one of 13 campuses of the University of Paris system. Hartsock has also been invited to give a public lecture on his research at the American University of Paris.
In related news, Hartsock was the subject of an interview by the Washington Post last week on the potential role of narrative literary journalism in newspapers. Interviewed by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Brigid Shulte, he discussed how narrative literary journalism can attract more readers at a time when newspapers, including the Post, have been losing circulation. The interview is part of a Post project called “Story Lab,” which is dedicated to exploring the future of journalism. The interview can be accessed at http://blog.washingtonpost.com/story-lab/2010/04/narrative_journalism_a_convers.html
In other scholarship news, Hartsock published his article “Literary Reportage: The ‘Other’ Literary Journalism” in the most recent issue of the journal Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture. The article explores the similarities and differences between American literary journalism and the tradition of literary reportage in Europe in the 20th century.
Mary McGuire
Mary McGuire, Political Science Department, presented her paper “Lost in Translation? Viewing the Idea of American Individualism through a Chinese Lens,” at the national conference of the Midwest Political Science Association on April 22 in Chicago. Her paper was on the Political Sociology and Culture section’s individualism panel. She also chaired the section’s panel on political cultures.
Also, McGuire served as chair and discussant on the “Internship Based Student Research in Political Science” panel at the New York State Political Science Association’s annual meeting April 17 in Albany. Two SUNY Cortland political science students presented their research on the panel. Keith Lusby presented his paper “Civil Litigation: Problems and Solutions.” Michelle Santoro spoke on “The Delicate Constituent – Representative Balance.” The Undergraduate Research Council funded the travel to Albany.
Claus Schubert
Claus Schubert, Mathematics Department, was informed that his article “Weakly Isotropic Quadratic Forms Under Field Extensions,” has been accepted for publication in the Springer journal Mathematische Zeitschrift.
Mary McGuire
Mary McGuire, Political Science Department, served as chair and discussant on the “Internship Based Student Research in Political Science” panel at the New York State Political Science Association’s annual meeting in Albany, N.Y. Two SUNY Cortland political science students presented their research on the panel. Keith Lusby gave his paper, “Civil Litigation: Problems and Solutions,” and Michelle Santoro presented “The Delicate Constituent — Representative Balance.” The Undergraduate Research Council funded the travel to Albany.
Sam Kelley
Sam Kelley, Communication Studies/Africana Studies Departments, attended an April 30 performance of his play, “Pill Hill,” which ran April 23-May 2 at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Md. The production was presented by the Coppin Players of the university’s Visual Arts Department. He also visited a pickup rehearsal on Thursday and provided feedback for the actors and the director, David Smith. Additionally, Kelley gave presentations in the African American Theatre History class, an acting class and served as a panelist for a university-sponsored symposium on the black male initiative that also took place on April 30.