Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, presented a paper titled “Charlotte Perkins Gilman In and On Italy” at the Transatlantic Women II Conference held in June in Florence, Italy.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, received word that her poem “Dorothy Delivered” has been awarded third place in the Highland Park Poetry’s 2019 Poetry Challenge for L. Frank Baum’s Land of Oz in the Adult Non-Resident Category. In addition, her poem “What to Do?” has been awarded honorable mention in the same contest for Tricubes (a specific poetry form) in the Adult Non-Resident Category. Highland Park Poetry will be publishing a chapbook of all selected poems and Lawrence’s two poems will appear in that anthology.
Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, gave an invited talk on Oct. 20 at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. Also, she was invited to give a talk in March 2017 to the star and planet formation group at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
Seth N. Asumah and Mechthild Nagel,
Seth N. Asumah, Political Science and Africana Studies departments, and Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), had their peer-reviewed anthology titled Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence: Transdisciplinary and Global Perspectives published by SUNY Press. The essays focus on the components of diversity, social justice and inclusive excellence, not just within the United States but also in other parts of the world. The contributors to the anthology include Elizabeth Davis-Russell, president of Tubman University, Liberia, and former provost and vice president for academic affairs at SUNY Cortland, and other prominent scholars from 11 different universities. SUNY Cortland contributors include: Janet Duncan, Foundations and Social Advocacy and Educational Leadership Department; Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Geography Department, and; Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department. With generous support from Provost Mark Prus, the anthology was made available to participants of the 2014 Summer Diversity Institute. The book will be on display by SUNY Press at the first SUNY-wide diversity conference, “Making Diversity Count: Ensuring Equity, Inclusion, Access and Impact,” set for Nov 12-13 at the Marriott Inn in Albany, N.Y.
Donna M. Videto and Aimee Greeley
Donna M. Videto and Aimee Greeley, Health Department and School Health Systems Change Project, presented two sessions at the New York State Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (NYSAHPERD) 75th Annual Conference held Nov. 15-17 at Turning Stone Resort in Oneida, N.Y. The sessions were titled: “Following Footprints: An Ecological Scan of School Health and Wellness” and “Overcoming Barriers to Developing Effective School Health Systems.” In addition, Videto was awarded the NYSAHPERD Amazing People Award in the Health Education Section for outstanding contributions and commitment to professional excellence.
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication and Media Studies Department, had her article, “Understanding Mental Health Organizations’ Instagram Through Visuals: A Content Analysis,” published in Health Communication, one of the leading journals in the field.
Chris Badurek
Chris Badurek, Geography Department, had his applied learning projects highlighted in an article in The Umbrella – The SUNY Newsletter for Applied Learning. The June 2020 issue focuses on co-curricular applied learning experiences and highlights projects from across many of the SUNY campuses. The article describes the NSF Common Problem Pedagogy Project collaboration between students in Badurek’s environmental remote sensing course and Biological Sciences Professor Steve Broyles’ tree biology course. Students from both courses joined into teams to collect and analyze tree data for the village of Homer, N.Y., in Fall 2019. The article also includes an extension of this work by student intern Connor Brierton on Badurek’s Cortland Applied Learning Practitioners grant from SUNY Cortland’s Institute for Civic Engagement. Brierton and Badurek reported on this work in a Transformations 2020 research poster.
Kevin Dames and Mark Sutherlin
Kevin Dames and Mark Sutherlin, Kinesiology Department, along with collaborators from Colorado State University, had their paper titled “Setting boundaries: Utilization of time to boundary for objective evaluation of the balance error scoring system” published in Journal of Sports Sciences.This work outlined the strengths of quantitative balance assessments in a common concussion evaluation protocol, which has traditionally been scored subjectively. Introducing data from a portable force platform better characterized balance performance across trial conditions and can eliminate potential bias, low specificity, and low sensitivity inherent in subjective concussion testing.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper titled, “The Constitution Between Opponents: Comparing the Use of Presidential Powers by Bush and Obama,” at a conference on “The State of the Presidency,” hosted by the Cecil Andrus Center for Public Policy on Feb. 28 at Boise State University, Boise, Idaho.
Jared Rosenberg
Jared Rosenberg, Kinesiology Department. was first author on a recently published article, "The effects of a 12-week lifestyle intervention on incretin response during an oral glucose tolerance test in Latino youth with obesity and impaired glucose tolerance," in the Journal of Diabetes and its Complications.