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Faculty and Staff Activities

Lauren deLaubell

Lauren deLaubell, Memorial Library, presented with Diane Shichtman and Michelle Malinovsky, SUNY AI for the Public Good Fellows, at the SUNY Association of Chief Academic Officers Fall 2025 Conference.  Their talk addressed ethical and social concerns related to generative AI, syllabus statements, and campus implementation.

Melissa Morris

Melissa Morris, Physics Department, presented an invited talk at the “Before the Moon” workshop held Nov. 7-10 at the Earth and Life Science Institute, a part of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, in Tokyo, Japan. Also, Morris was invited, along with the other workshop attendees, on a tour of the JAXA (Japanese Space Agency) facilities, with particular emphasis given to the Hayabusa 1 and Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return missions.   

Mechthild Nagel and Karin Howe ’06

Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS) and Karin Howe ’06, presented papers at the annual Central New York Peace Studies Consortium held Nov. 8 at Binghamton University, Binghamton, N.Y. Nagel presented “Prison Abolition vs. Anti-Prostitution Abolitionism” and Howe discussed “The Search for Truth and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Gacaca Courts and the ICTR.” Also, Nagel presented “Ubuntu and Criminal Justice Ethics: A Path Towards Transformative Justice” at the Radical Philosophy Association Conference held Nov. 6-9 at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, N.Y. Nagel was a keynote speaker at an Ethics of Play Conference held Nov. 18-20 at Charles University in Prague. She presented “Towards Ludic Ubuntu.”

Alexis Blavos

Alexis Blavos, Health Department, recently presented her work with colleagues, “Exploring the Health Education Profession’s Response to COVID” on the “Health Promotion Practice Journal” podcast. The podcast explores two of the team’s recent publications. 

Lauren Stern and Maaike Oldemans and Szilvia Kadas

Lauren Stern and Maaike Oldemans, Library, and Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, presented “Win-Win: Students Solving Problems” at the State University of New York Librarian Association’s annual conference, SUNYLA 2019, held June 13 in Syracuse, N.Y.

Brittany Adams and Annemarie Kaczmarczyk

Brittany Adams, Literacy Department, and Annemarie Kaczmarczyk, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, had an article, “Initiating Courageous Conversations about Race and Racism with Read-Alouds,” published in The Language and Literacy Spectrum, volume 31, issue 1.  

Jeremy Jimenez

Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his essay, “The Hidden Costs of Zooming: Exploring Non-digital Pedagogies for a More Sustainable Future,” published in Issue 11.1 of Texas Women's University’s journal Films for the Feminist Classroom, Winter 2021.

Melissa Morris

Melissa Morris, Physics Department, gave an invited talk at the Chondrules and the Protoplanetary Disk workshop, held Feb. 27-28 at the Natural History Museum in London, followed by an invited talk on March 1 at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England.

Rhiannon Maton

Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy, had an article “Talking race: The role of risk-taking in activist teachers’ collaborative learning” published in The SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice Education

Li Jin

Li Jin, Geology Department, gave a presentation at the 2017 Geological Society of America Meeting on Oct. 23 in Seattle, Wash. She presented “Groundwater recharge and water-rock interaction from unsaturated zone of Badain Jaran desert.”