Nick Koziol
Nick Koziol, Alumni Affairs Office, recently learned that his office was awarded a National Educational Alumni Trust (NEAT) grant to assist with an alumni communications audit. The grant, which Koziol discovered and applied for, will fund research into how alumni communicate and how they want to communicate with the College. The findings will be used to re-vamp the SUNY Cortland’s alumni communications strategy.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, was a source for the Wondery podcast Sports Explains the World. She provided information about Title IX, women’s sports and the legal and cultural issues surrounding competitive cheer used in Episodes 19 and 20.
Anna Curtis
Anna Curtis, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented a paper titled “Paternity and the Paradigms of Possibility: Comparing Two Fatherhood Programs in American Prisons” at the 2015 International Conference on Masculinities held March 5-7 in New York City.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, has been appointed a contributing editor to the Handbook of Latin American Studies. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the Handbook is the oldest and most prestigious areas studies bibliography in the world.
Pete Ducey
Pete Ducey, Biological Sciences Department, recently gave an invited presentation at Cornell University titled “Superfund Herpetology: Decades of Change at Onondaga Lake” hosted by the Cornell Herpetological Society. The presentation discussed the research and consulting work of Ducey, his students and faculty colleagues concerning the amphibian and reptile populations living in the highly disturbed ecosystem of Onondaga Lake and its surrounding wetlands. Also highlighted were the rolls of Cortland’s research team in assisting the federal and state governmental agencies, as well as environmental consulting firms, with their efforts at restoration at that site.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, and Sutton Richmond from Malcom Randall VA Medical Center presented their project “Are Your Balance Data Telling Tall Tales? Impact of Height on Stability Assessments” at the 48th annual meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics held Aug. 5 to 8 in Madison, Wis. This work demonstrates the limitations of height as a normalization factor in position-based center-of-pressure outcomes across eyes open and closed static upright standing balance trials. In contrast, time to boundary effectively eliminates the body size concern by scaling center-of-pressure motion to an individual's base of support area. Clinicians or researchers reporting differences in position-based center-of-pressures measures between cohorts may be detecting effects of body size inequality rather than indicators of disease progression, aging or imposed interventions. In contrast, TtB is not related to height and may be used to discern the effects of clinical conditions and fall risk without concern for anthropometric inequalities.
Abigail Droge
Abigail Droge, English Department, co-authored “What Everyone Says: Public Perceptions of the Humanities in the Media” with Alan Liu, Scott Kleinman, Lindsay Thomas, Dan C. Baciu and Jeremy Douglass, which was published in Daedalus in Summer 2022.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented “Discussing the Missing Piece of the Puzzle: LGBTQ Books for Children in Intermediate Grade Levels” to the National Council of Teachers of English on Nov. 21 in Minneapolis, Minn.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled “Gun Law History in the United States and Second Amendment Rights,” published in the most recent issue of the journal Law and Contemporary Problems.
Jared Rosenberg
Jared Rosenberg, visiting assistant professor in the Kinesiology Department, was an invited speaker to Le Moyne College’s Natural Science Seminar Series on Friday, Sept. 20. His talk was titled “Caloric restriction, Diet, and Metabolic Disorders.” Also, Rosenberg was the third author on a publication titled, “Single point insulin sensitivity estimator index for identifying metabolic syndrome in US adults: HJANES 2017-march 2020,” recently published in the July-August journal Obesity Research & Clinical Practice.