John Marciano
John Marciano, professor emeritus of education, has a book coming out this July, published by Monthly Review Press. The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration? builds upon the book Marciano wrote with the late William “Bill” Griffen ’50, SUNY Cortland professor emeritus of foundations and social advocacy (Teaching the War in Vietnam, 1979) and will be dedicated to Griffen. Marciano, who retired from SUNY Cortland in 2001, has been an antiwar and social justice activist, author, scholar, teacher, and trade unionist. He resides in Talent, Oregon.
Karen Downey
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, and Joshua Eller ’14, had their article titled “Computational assessment of electron density in metallo-organic nickel pincer complexes for formation of P-C bonds” published in volume 36, issue 26 of the Journal of Computational Chemistry. The article reports on research they conducted during Eller’s senior year. Current senior Matt Ellis ’16 is advancing the work further, under the advisement of Downey.
Kathleen Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had a spiraling abecedarian poem, “Dorothy Delivered,” published in March in The 2017 Rhysling Anthology (Science Fiction Poetry Association). In February Silver Blade Magazine published her “Haiku Swarm” group of four haiku: “Path,” “Rules of the Rodeo,” “Laws of Nature” and “Unrequited Love.” Altered Reality Magazine honored Lawrence as a Rhysling award nominee on their March/April 2017 front cover. Her free verse poem “Dear Lost Love of My Life” is the featured publication today in Silver Birch Press’s Lost & Found poetry and prose series. Lawrence’s published poem, “Trump's Tip,” was recorded by request of the editor at Rattle Magazine. In the last 12 months, 49 poems by Lawrence have been published or are forthcoming.
Tisa Loewen
Tisa Loewen, Sociology/Anthropology Department, with senior Emma Caraher and Samantha Horn '24, wrote a textbook review, "Pedagogy in Practice, A Collaborative Textbook Review of: Forensic Anthropology, an Introductory Lab Manual," that was published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, was a co-author on the recently published peer-reviewed paper “Additions to quadrate spored Entoloma (Agaricales) in Kerala State, India” published in Mycosphere in late 2016. Co-authors were Indian research mycologists C. K. Pradeep, K. B. Vrinda and C. Bihjeesh of the Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden & Research Institute, Kerala, India.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, made several presentations in November. She was a guest of The Ohio State University’s Mershon Center for National Security and Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum for the Comics, Security, and the American Mission conference on Nov. 4, where she presented research called “Veteran-Created War Comics and the Workaday War.” On Nov. 10, she was an invited participant in an international panel hosted by “Military at Microsoft” about humor in the military, part of Microsoft’s National Veterans Awareness Week events. On Nov. 19, she presented in two panel discussions at the annual National Communication Association conference, held in New Orleans, La.
Ben Lovett and Karen Davis
Ben Lovett and Karen Davis, Psychology Department, had an article accepted for publication in the journal Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. Their article argues that certain techniques from forensic psychology can improve the accuracy of adult ADHD assessments, helping to reduce misdiagnosis.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, was invited in October to conduct a program review of the Department of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. His focus was on their journalism and related courses.
Szilvia Kadas
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, gave an invited lecture titled “Sustainable Design Thinking and Design Research Methods in a Complex Global World” on June 6 at the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), Holon, Israel.
Varya McCaslin-Doyle and Krista Natale
Varya McCaslin-Doyle and Krista Natale, The Help Center, presented at the SUNY Wizard Conference held in Syracuse on Nov. 16 and 17. They prepared a panel discussion to talk about the challenges of training a successful student workforce in the continuously changing world of information technology.