Yomee Lee and Sam L. Kelley
Yomee Lee, Kinesiology and Africana Studies departments, and Sam L. Kelley, Communication Studies and Africana Studies departments, presented on “Racism & White Privilege” at the Stony Point Conference Center on Oct. 18, 2013. Lee addressed the stereotypes of Asians as depicted in popular culture, with an emphasis on film and advertising and how the depictions influence perceptions about Asians. Kelley presented on racial profiling against the backdrop of the civil rights movement and the impact since 9/11. The event was organized by the Public Policy Advocacy Network of the Synod of the Northeast New York.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, and alumna Megan Wagner ’18, had an article published in Journal of Sport Rehabilitation. Wagner and her faculty mentor, Dames, completed this project with support from an Undergraduate Research Council Summer Research Fellowship. Wagner is currently pursuing a doctorate in physical therapy at D’Youville College in Buffalo, N.Y.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, Performing Arts Department, recently sold two plays to play publishers. Pioneer Drama Service, Inc. will publish the full-length comedy “Wildcat Crossing” and Brooklyn Publishers will publish the one-act comedy “The Chameleon Princess.”
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, presented a poster at the 45th annual meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics in August. Coauthors of the project include Larissa True, Jacqueline Augustine and Sarah Rothstein, M ’20, all from the Kinesiology Department. Their work, “SHH! Quiet Running Promotes Sustained Reduction in Ground Reaction Force,” won the President’s Award.
Randi Storch and Kevin Sheets
Randi Storch and Kevin Sheets, History Department, attended the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) project director’s meeting to receive final training before launching their $180,000 Landmarks in American History and Culture workshop for K-12 teachers. The meeting was held Oct. 20-21 in Washington D.C. Their workshop, coordinated with the assistance of Kerri Freese, SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, invites teachers from around the country to learn about the Gilded Age and Progressive Era from the perspective of the wilderness, using Camp Huntington in Raquette Lake, N.Y., as a living classroom. The application and details about the workshop can be found at http://www2.cortland.edu/foreverwild/.
Jo Schaffer and Gregg Weatherby
Jo Schaffer, professor of art and art history emerita, and Gregg Weatherby, professor emeritus of English, will act in Reader’s Theater’s virtual presentation of “84 Charing Cross Road” at 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 11. The script is based on the memoir of Helene Hanff, a freelance writer in New York City, who ordered rare books from the London bookseller Marks & Company, at 84 Charing Cross Road. Schaffer will play Hanff, a part she first performed in 1988. Weatherby performs the part of Frank Doel. Community member and actor Barbara Jo Williams directs the play.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, served as editor of the recently published book, Sports Leadership: A reference guide. The book includes contributions from Sport Management Department professors Genevieve Birren, Lawrence Brady, Ray Cotrufo, Ted Fay, Peter Han, Jordan Kobritz, Tara Mahoney, Matt Seyfried, Tracy Trachsler, George Vazenios and Ryan Vooris, and Kinesiology Department members Katherine Polasek and Brian Richardson.
Peter Ducey
Peter Ducey, Biological Sciences Department, coauthored a manuscript over the summer titled “Confirmation and Distribution of Tetrodotoxin for the First Time in Terrestrial Invertebrates: Two Terrestrial Flatworm Species (Bipalium adventitium and Bipalium kewense),” which appeared in the journal PLoS ONE. The eight-author team included scientists from the University of California Bakersfield, Utah State University, University of Notre Dame, University of Virginia, and SUNY Cortland. Popular articles about the work have been posted by numerous science news outlets including Science News, Science Daily, Nautilus and Mysterious Universe.
Led by Amber Stokes of UC Bakersfield, the research team found that two species of terrestrial flatworms living throughout the U.S. have within their tissues a potent neurotoxin that may be used to either defend them from potential predators or to subdue their own prey (earthworms). Because this is the same toxin that occurs in pufferfish and certain salamanders, interesting questions about its biochemistry and evolution have been raised. Ducey and his students at SUNY Cortland have been studying the ecology, behavior and evolution of these flatworms since the mid-1990s. Although the flatworms are not native to the U.S., they are now quite abundant in many parts of the country, including Central New York, and are formidable predators on earthworms. Because of the tetrodotoxin, Ducey advises against eating these flatworms if found locally.
Tegan Bradway
Tegan Bradway, English Department, interviewed Judith Butler, author of the national bestseller Who’s Afraid of Gender? (2024) and one of the founders of queer theory. Bradway’s interview, “Queer Narrative Lines: A Conversation with Judith Butler,” was published by differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies and is available online.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), is on leave for the academic year. In July she started her visiting scholar position at Cornell University’s Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies Program, where she will write a monograph on Ubuntu ethics of punishment. She will remain a scholar-in-residence until December.
In January 2015, she will commence her scholar-in-residence at the Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen, Germany, through July 2015.