Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, delivered the opening presentation in the 2023 Schering-Plough Executive Lecture Series at Fairleigh Dickinson University on Jan. 31. Her talk was titled “Comics, Covidity, and Visualizing the Invisible.”
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, had his book Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties (Wiley, 2015) cited multiple times by the Utah Department of Education in their recently released document on dyslexia.
Caroline Kaltefleiter
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies Department, has been appointed to the board of trustees of WSKG Public Media, headquartered in Vestal, N.Y. WSKG is part of the National Public Radio Network and PBS system and operates four radio stations and two television stations, providing news, entertainment, educational programming, and classical music. Kaltefleiter will bring her expertise in digital media and public broadcasting to the development team to advise on crisis campaign creation amid the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and funding cuts to NPR.
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, has had her paper “Health Promotion at the Ballpark: Peanuts, Popcorn, and Mighty Molar” selected by the editorial leadership of Health Promotion Practice for inclusion in the inaugural collection “The Best of Health Promotion Practice.” The paper, published in 2017, was selected based on “its ability to stimulate out-of-the-box thinking and reminder of the importance of nimble, creative, and appropriately opportunistic health promotion… the article also reminds us that well-planned health promotion can be both important and fun. [It] exemplifies the best of academic scholarship, insights from practice, and writing that is accessible, provocative, and inspiring to practitioners.”
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, recently had two papers published. The first was written with colleagues from India. “New Specis of Entoloma (Basidiomycetes, Agaricales) from Kerala State, India,” was published in 2012 in Mycotaxon. Co-authors were C. K. Pradeep, S.P. Varghese and K.B. Vrinda. The second more recent paper with a colleague from Canada, Y. Lamoureaux, “A New Species of Entocybe (Entolomataceae, Agaricomycetes) from Québec, Canada,” was published in a 2013 issue of Mycotaxon. The latter paper illustrates yet another newly discovered species belonging to the new genus of pink-spored mushrooms described by Baroni and colleagues in a 2011 article in North American Fungi and based on molecular phylogenetic analyses.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway English Department, gave an invited lecture on Jan. 18, at the University of Passau in Germany on “The Difference Queer Character Makes.” The lecture was supported by the Bavarian American Academy and the University of Passau Department of American Studies.
Caroline K. Kaltefleiter
Caroline K. Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies Department, presented a paper titled “Prefiguration and (COVID) Care: Anarcha-Feminism, Trebled Reflexivity, and Mutual Aid” on Aug. 24 at the 7th Anarchist Studies Network International Conference, held virtually. Also, she participated in a plenary session on the “Future of Anarchist Studies.”
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor emeritus of theatre, has had his book, The Mikado to Matilda: The British Musical on the New York Stage, published this summer by Rowman and Littlefield. The book discusses 110 London musical successes from the late 18th Century to the present and how they were received in New York City.
Daniela Baban Hurrle
Daniela Baban Hurrle, International Programs Office, traveled to Bangkok, Thailand, in April at the invitation of the U.S. Department of State, to lead workshops at the Global UGRAD-Pakistan Alumni Academy Convocation. She was one of only five U.S. university representatives invited to serve as facilitators of workshops on leadership in higher education, sustainable community engagement and intercultural exchange. In addition to the workshops, the facilitators and 150 alumni participants of the Academy Convocation worked on a community cleaning service learning projects and celebrated 14 years of the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program launched by the U.S. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State. Baban Hurrle secured SUNY Cortland’s designation as a sponsor of Global UGRAD-Pakistan students in 2018 and to date, the university has hosted nine sponsored students from Pakistan, and the campus will host another new student this fall.
Mary McGuire and John Suarez
Mary McGuire and John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, conducted an “ignite” event, titled “’Hire’ Education, Public Purpose, and Student Employers” at Campus Compact’s 30th Anniversary Conference, held March 21-23 in Boston, Mass. This session used a “What If” approach to role-play in which the audience explored benefits of, and challenges to, a SUNY system that serves as a brokerage agency for college students. Examples included: Imagine a SUNY that refers students to professionals in their disciplines; students choose and hire professionals to be mentors; and students work with those mentors in applied-learning situations for the majority of their college educations.