Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented two roundtable sessions on Nov. 17 at the 2023 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual convention in Columbus, Ohio. “The Right to Read: The Voices of School Teachers and Preservice Teacher Students” was part of the roundtable session “Working to Understand Censorship and its Impacts on the Teaching Profession.” “Exploring the Complexity of Cultural Authenticity in Children’s Books with Gender Nonconforming Characters” was part of the roundtable session “Queer(ing) Conexións.”
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna M. Videto and Aimee Greeley
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna M. Videto and Aimee Greeley of the Health Department gave the presentation, “Examining School Health Systems,” for the American Association of Health Education as part of the annual conference of the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. The presentation described part of their work on the School Health Systems Change Project and took place on April 27 in Charlotte, N.C.
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, recently presented at the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD) national conference in San Diego. Her talk featured Girls’ Day Out (GDO) as an illustration of a successful community-college collaboration. GDO, begun in 2001, is an annual event put on by the Cortland YWCA, SUNY Cortland and the SUNY Cortland Athletics Department involving girls in grades five through eight in a day of non-traditional sporting, recreational, vocational and health-education activities. The presentation described the evolution of GDO; illustrated the use of needs assessment and process evaluation data within the PRECEDE-PROCEED framework; discussed strategies for successful community-college collaborations; discussed this event’s growth management; and shared GDO's multidimensional mentoring model.
Juan Diego Prieto
Juan Diego Prieto, Political Science Department, had a conference paper selected as the winner of the Network for Latin American Political Economy (REPAL) 2023 Best Paper Prize. The paper is titled “State Patching: A Typological Theory with Illustrations from Emergency Social Transfers in Brazil and Colombia.”
Larissa True
Larissa True, Kinesiology Department, was the organizer of a symposium held June 21 to 23 at the North American Society for Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity’s national conference in Denver, Colo. In addition to organizing the symposium, True presented a recent study titled “Tracking of Physical Fitness Components from Childhood to Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study.”
Bonni C. Hodges and Donna M. Videto
Bonni C. Hodges and Donna M. Videto, Health Department, were invited to serve on the Expert Review Group of the National Consensus on School Health Education. The National Consensus is designed “to develop a unified voice from the health education field related to key issues in school health education.” Founding members include the American School Health Association, Eta Sigma Gamma, Foundation for the Advancement of Health Education, Society for Public Health Education, and Society of State Leaders of Health and Physical Education.
Lin Lin
Lin Lin, Childhood and Early Childhood Education Department, presented at the SUNY Conference on Instruction and Technology on Thursday, May 27 on the topic of “My Love Affair with Nearpod.” She shared her experiences of using engaging online tools to promote historical reasoning skills and media literacy in her synchronous courses in the last three semesters.
Beth Klein
Beth Klein, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, was recently named SUNY Cortland’s part-time sustainability coordinator. She has a longstanding record of advocacy for the preservation of the environment and is involved in many sustainability initiatives both on and off campus. These include local food groups, Sustainable Cortland, campus-wide sustainability curriculum projects and energy saving activities, and the Cortland Green Days project. Klein regularly hosts students and area science teachers at Raquette Lake and is a prominent member of the President’s Climate Action Planning Committee.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, co-authored a book chapter with Esther Geva of the University of Toronto on learning disabilities. The chapter was published this summer in Consultation and Mental Health Interventions in School Settings: A Scientist–Practitioner’s Guide by Hogrefe & Huber.
Andrew Morene, Kyla Young and Anahis Mercedes
Three Africana Studies majors and minors, Andrew Morene, Kyla Young and Anahis Mercedes, presented papers and attended academic sessions at the 49th annual National Council for Black Studies conference from March 20 to 22 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Their session title was"Agentive and Non-Agentive Ideational Frameworks in the Black World."