Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, submitted written testimony on a federal bill called the Hearing Protection Act, designed to deregulate gun silencers, submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Federal Lands, on Sept. 12.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, was interviewed by The Detroit News on June 1. He provided a sponsorship and economic impact analysis for the Belle Isle Grand Prix IndyCar race.
Natasha McFadden
Natasha McFadden, The Cortland Fund, was honored at the Leadership in Civic Engagement Awards Ceremony on April 25. She received two awards for her work with the SUNY Cortland Cupboard food pantry: the Donald M. Wilcox 2019 Civic Engagement Award for her service on the Cortland Cupboard board, and the board was recognized with the Civic Engagement Leadership Award. Also, she received the Civic Engagement Leadership Award as a member of the New York State Mentor Program.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, received word that her poem “Visit from an Invisible Love” has been accepted for publication by the journal Voices de la Luna in their forthcoming February 2018 issue on the theme of family. Her speculative poem “Cinderella Continued” will soon appear in Star*Line, the print journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA). In addition, she recently learned that her poem “Vampirette,” published in Star*Line in 2017, has been nominated for a 2017 Rhysling Award from the SFPA.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, was one of seven invited instructors who presented a three-day course on Basidiomycete Identification — mushrooms and related fungi — in Medellin, Colombia. The course was held directly before the 8th Congreso Latinoamericano de Micologia (Latin American Congress of Mycology) held Nov. 4-7. The instructors, who were from Argentina, Costa Rica, Norway, Mexico and the U.S., taught 24 students from South, Central and North America, including the U.S., Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela. Baroni also was an invited speaker in the session on Systematics and Diversity of Basidiomycota, giving an oral presentation on “Arthromyces and Blastosporella (Lyophyllaceae) Revisited – a New Symbiosis with a Secretive/Shy Insect” with co-authors from Colombia, Brazil and Switzerland. He was co-author/presenter on two posters, resulting from collaborations with colleagues from Mexico and SUNY ESF. The first, titled “A new Species of Laccaria from the Montane Cloud Forest of Eastern Mexico,” and a second poster from collaborations with colleagues from the U.S., Colombia and Puerto Rico, titled “Sarcodon in the Neotropics: New Species from Belize, Colombia, Guyana and Puerto Rico.” The information presented in these oral and poster presentations was made possible by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the British Mycological Society and the SUNY Cortland Faculty Research Program over a 10-year period of field expeditions.
Susan Wilson
Susan Wilson, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, presented with Jennifer Hinton of Western Carolina University at the 2019 American Therapeutic Recreation Association’s annual conference held in September in Reno, Nev. They presented “Social4: Deeper understanding of social skills, social affiliation, social cognition, social empowerment and beyond.”
Jennifer Janes
Jennifer Janes, The Cortland Fund, recently learned that the office won a SUNY Council for University Advancement (SUNYCUAD) Award for Excellence Best in Category award for the 2010 Faculty and Staff Campaign. The award will be presented during the annual educational conference scheduled for June 8-10 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had three poems, all abecedarians of different types, published in Inigo Online Magazine on April 12. They are titled “Mean Girls,” “H-I-V: Hope Is a Verb” and “King.” In celebration of National Poetry Month in April, Poetry Super Highway has been publishing daily poetry writing prompts. Featured in this series on April 6 was Lawrence’s writing exercise “I’m Taking a Mulligan,” an instructional essay that suggests writing a poem about a “do-over” of a day or event in one’s life.
Dennis Weng
Dennis Weng, Political Science Department, had his paper published in the Asian Journal of Comparative Politics in January. The article is titled “Can economic profit influence public opinion? Observing generational change on cross-strait relations in Taiwan.”
Marissa Whitaker
Marissa Whitaker, Conley Counseling and Wellness Services, twice presented about cannabis, harm reduction and the evolution of prevention — at a virtual conference hosted by Stanford University and at a conference in New Orleans for the American College Health Association.