Barbara Wisch
Barbara Wisch, art and art history, received funding to present at the National Endowment for the Humanities' 2010 Summer Institute for College Teachers. "Ritual and Ceremony from Late-Medieval Europe to Early America." It is sponsored by the Folger Institute from June 21-July 23. Wisch will present in the session titled "Traditions and Transformations on the Continent" on Monday, July 5, and Tuesday, July 6.
Thomas Lickona
Thomas Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, was featured as the author of How to Raise Kind Kids in a National Public Radio podcast posted on May 13 titled “Kindness Can Be Taught.” It is part of NPR’s “Parenting: Raising Awesome Kids” series.
Angela Pagano
Angela Pagano, Biological Sciences Department, presented at the 2015 Professional Development Schools National Conference held March 5-8 in Atlanta, Ga. Her presentation was titled “The Evolution of Trust in Co-Teaching Relationships in a Clinically Rich Model of Teacher Preparation.” Findings were from the New York State Department of Education (NYSED) funded Undergraduate Clinically Rich Teacher Preparation Program.
Karen Downey and Eric Edlund
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, and Eric Edlund, Physics Department, took the wind tunnel (WEN-D) to Smith Intermediate School for demonstrations on Thursday, March 24. The demonstrations coincided with the third-grade classes’ science lessons about weather, which involved talking about high and low pressure in relation to winds. Seven classes of third graders participated and tested their homemade and science kit anemometers with the wind tunnel. The wind tunnel was built in January 2021 by Edlund and his physics classes to study aerodynamics and lift forces.
Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, co-authored two articles published recently in publications about children’s literature. “Beyond The Lorax: Examining Children’s Books on Climate Change” was published in The Reading Teacher, 69. “The Who I Was, Who I Am, and Who I Want to Be Cycle” was published in Frontiers in American Children’s Literature, edited by D.G. Clark and L. Salem.
Thomas Lickona and Marthe Seales
Thomas Lickona and Marthe Seales, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, co-edited the winter/spring 2013 special parenting issue of excellence & ethics, which was chosen as a featured resource on Harvard University’s new Making Caring Common Project website. It is posted under the “Raising Caring and Ethical Children” section. Produced by the School of Education’s Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, the parenting issue of excellence & ethics focuses on teaching respect and promoting family communication. The Making Caring Common Project, under the direction of Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Richard Weissbourd, seeks to help educators, parents and communities raise children who are caring, respectful and responsible. Lickona, director of the Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, is a member of the project’s advisory board.
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna Videto, Alexis Blavos and Page Dobbs
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna Videto, Alexis Blavos and Page Dobbs, Health Department, along with community health seniors Jerrell DeCaille, Brenna Taggerty and Maddison Terrillion, represented SUNY Cortland at the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) annual meeting held April 4 to 6 in Columbus, Ohio.
- Hodges and Videto presented their work on fostering school district and community agency collaborations.
- Hodges, Videto and Blavos presented their preliminary work in creating a framework for college health promotion.
- Blavos presented two pieces of her work related to advocacy and health communication.
- Dobbs presented two pieces of her work on college student substance use; one on e-cigarette use and the other on driving while under the influence of marijuana.
- Students DeCaille, Taggerty and Terrillion, all Eta Sigma Gamma members, were selected to compete as a team in the annual public health case study competition.
Jacqueline Augustine
Jacqueline Augustine, Kinesiology Department, gave an invited talk, “Aortic Blood Pressure, Wave Reflections and Exercise: Does Sex Matter?” at the Mid-Atlantic Regional American College of Sports Medicine Conference on Nov. 5 in Harrisburg, Pa.
Eric Edlund
Eric Edlund, Physics Department, and colleagues from Princeton University, were awarded a patent — number is 10,300,410 — for a new concept for a liquid centrifuge. Edlund conducted his postdoctoral studies at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory managed by Princeton University, where he examined issues of angular momentum transport in relation to the evolution of black holes. During this work, he constructed a new experimental device and established the measurements that became the basis of this patent.
Lindsey Darvin
Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, had her research featured in an Ozy article titled “There’s No Gender Gap for Winning Basketball Coaches.” She is quoted in the article. Also, she provided some expert insights for a Forbes article related to the NCAA name, image, and likeness changes and the impact for women student-athletes. The article, “5 Issues To Keep An Eye On With The NCAA’s New NIL Policy,” includes a link to Darvin’s SUNY Cortland staff profile.