Peter McGinnis
Peter McGinnis, Kinesiology Department, has announced the recent publication of the third edition of his undergraduate biomechanics textbook, Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise. Published by Human Kinetics, the textbook is used in biomechanics and kinesiology courses in the United States and elsewhere.
Angela Pagano, Mary Gfeller and Kerri Freese
Angela Pagano, Biological Sciences Department, Mary Gfeller, Mathematics Department, and Program Coordinator Kerri Freese, Chemistry Department, along with eight students, represented the SUNY Cortland Undergraduate Clinically Rich Teacher Preparation Pilot program, a New York State Education Department (NYSED)-funded grant, during February in Albany, N.Y. They participated in a networking event with district administrators during a NYSED Diagnostic Tool for School and District Effectiveness training workshop. SUNY Cortland students included: Eric Reisweber, Zachary Gracyck and Brendan Creegan, adolescence education: earth science; Kelsey O’Donnell and Robin Tobin, adolescence education: mathematics; Taylor Jones and Lisa Dovi, adolescence education: physics; and Elyse Brill, adolescence education: biology.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, and Andrew Sluyter, Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University, had their article published in the latest issue of Journal of Historical Geography. The article, “How Incipient Colonies Create Territory: The Textual Surveys of New Spain, 1520s-1620s,” explores the practices of early colonial land surveying to reveal how territory was created through negotiations among local actors, centralized state power and specific landscapes.
Alexis Blavos
Alexis Blavos, Health Department, is on the board of directors for the National Health Education honorary, Eta Sigma Gamma, as the director of advocacy. She serves as a voting delegate for the Coalition of National Health Education Organizations and was involved in planning the 50th anniversary celebration that was held on March 30 in Denver, Colo. Also, she was appointed co-chair for the national awards committee for the Society for Public Health Education. And, Blavos recently had her article, “Marijuana and College Students: A Critical Review of the Literature,” published in the American Journal of Health Education, currently posted online.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, and E.L. McCallum of Michigan State University, will co-edit a book titled After Queer Studies: Literary Theory and Critical Interpretation. Their book is now under contract with Cambridge University Press. The volume maps the literary influences that made queer theory's academic emergence possible and charts the trajectories that shape its continued evolution.
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, will perform in the Ithaca Shakespeare Company’s production of “Richard II: The Death of Kings” from Friday, Feb. 13 through Sunday, Feb. 15 and on Thursday, Feb. 19 through Saturday, Feb. 21 at the Hangar Theatre.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, gave a talk on, “Live By History, Die By History: The Second Amendment, Heller, and Gun Policy,” on Oct. 18 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Chris Badurek
Chris Badurek, Geography Department, was awarded a 2020 Love of Learning Award on Sept. 1 from the Phi Kappa Honor Society for his project “At Work in the Wild: Developing Virtual Field Trips in the Adirondacks.” Funding will support development of virtual field trips focusing on significant environmental and cultural features in the Adirondack landscape using digital video and web mapping tools. The field trips will be used in teaching and research focused on sustainable development of the Adirondack region.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, spent his spring break doing professional development for teachers regarding the research on improving the reading skills of students with dyslexia for two state departments of education. He was in Ohio on March 13 and Virginia on March 20.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, has won the 2022 Research Publication Book Award from the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States for her book Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Postsocialist China, recently published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.