Mike Fusilli
Mike Fusilli, Development Office, a major gift officer and a volunteer coach for SUNY Cortland’s wrestling team, was inducted into the upstate New York chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Fusilli helped lead Ithaca College to two national titles during his collegiate wrestling career and was an NCAA Div. III individual national champion in 1990. He previously served as head coach at Binghamton University and has prior assistant coaching experience at Ithaca College and North Carolina University.
James Hokanson
James Hokanson, Kinesiology Department, was invited to collaborate with ongoing ageing research at the University of Salamanca, Spain. The study, sponsored by the Salamanca University Hospital and Department of Physical Therapy and Nursing, focuses on the health and fitness levels of older adults. The study, which has been continuously funded for nearly 20 years, evaluates health and fitness of approximately 600 adults in the province of Salamanca in the Castille and León region of Spain and includes organized rehabilitation and exercise programs.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is co-author of an article posted Nov. 30 by U.S. News and World Report titled, “Obama’s Guantanamo Paradox.” The article is co-authored with Chris Edelson of American University.
Rhiannon Maton
Eric Edlund
Eric Edlund, Physics Department, gave a talk at Colgate University on Nov. 15 titled “A simplified analysis of orbital interception and rendezvous” which was based on his 2021 paper in the American Journal of Physics.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, was recently interviewed in the “Teaching Sport Management” chapter of Experiential Learning in Sport Management, a leading textbook in the field.
Moataz Emam
Moataz Emam, Physics Department, in collaboration with recent physics graduate Charles Canestaro ’13, jointly wrote “The Five Dimensional Universal Hypermultiplet and the Cosmological Constant Problem,” which was published in the journal Physics Letters B. The paper is based on research Canestaro conducted during his junior and senior years on the Cosmological Constant problem. This involves the apparent discrepancy between the measured rate of expansion of the universe and the theoretically calculated rate. The work proposes a solution to this problem based on the possible existence of higher dimensional supersymmetric fields and their effect on our universe from the “outside.”
Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, had her article, “Teaching with an Index Card: The Benefits of Free, Open Source Tools,” published in October in The Chronicle of Higher Education special issue on “Innovation.”
Orvil White
Orvil White, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, received an award from Srinakharinwirot University (Bangkok, Thailand) for $11,880 for the “Nature of Science,” a professional development workshop.
Brian Williams
Brian Williams, Political Science Department, had an article accepted for publication in Representation: Journal of Representative Democracy. His article, ‘Private Member Bills and Electoral Connection in Wales’ finds evidence of an electoral connection between members of the National Assembly for Wales and their constituencies.