Jenn McNamara
Jenn McNamara, Art and Art History Department, won Best in Show at the Foundry Art Centre’s exhibit “Fiber: Twenty Ten.” She was awarded a solo show that will take place next spring at the Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Mo.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, organized a panel titled “Truth and Responsibility in the Ethnography of Sexuality” and presented a paper titled “Ethical Research on Ethnography of Sexuality” for the annual conference of American Anthropological Association, held Nov. 16 and 17 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, recently spoke with a reporter for Rewire News about the new anti-transgender legislation in Idaho which bans transgender girls and women from participating in school-sponsored competitive sports programs. Newhall spoke about the problematic categorizations and measurements of sex and gender employed in the regulations, which unfairly discriminate against trans athletes.
Jack Daniels
Jack Daniels, former cross country and track and field head coach and physical education faculty member, recently wrote his biography titled Luck of the Draw, now available from Amazon.com.
A 1997 Cortland C-Club Hall of Fame inductee, Daniels coached the Red Dragons' men's cross country teams for 17 seasons and the women's cross country squads for 16 seasons. Also, he was Cortland's men's and women's track and field coach from 1987-91 and 1993-96, in addition to 1999-2000 for the men's team.
Daniels led Cortland women's cross country to seven national team titles. His women's teams finished in the top 10 nationally every year from 1987-99. He led the Red Dragons to 11 SUNYAC titles and his runners earned 41 All-America honors, including four individual national champions. He was honored as the NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country "Coach of the Century" for the 20th century.
On the men's side, Daniels' cross country teams made eight NCAA championship appearances, won seven SUNYAC titles and boasted five All-Americans. Cortland finished sixth nationally in both 1987 and 1991.
Additionally, Daniels guided Cortland's women's indoor track and field team to a national title in 1991.
He is a two-time Olympic team medalist in the modern pentathlon (horseback riding, epee, pistol, swimming, cross country running), earning a silver medal in the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and a bronze in the 1960 Olympics in Rome, Italy.
Kate McCormick
Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, recently co-presented a paper at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry held May 15 to 18 in Champaign-Urbana, Ill. The presentation was titled “Rhetorical Questions: Examining Early Faculty Experiences Through Found Poetry” and was presented with co-author Libba Willcox from Valdosta State University.
Maria Timberlake
Maria Timberlake, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had her research article titled “Nice, but we can’t afford it: Challenging Austerity and Finding Abundance in Inclusive Education” published in the December issue of International Journal of Inclusive Education.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Kinesiology and Physical Education departments, wrote a chapter titled “Cirit: An Etic View of Horseback Javelin,” that is included in the recently published book Do Cavalo, On Horses, edited by Constantino Pereira Martins.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology, organized and chaired a panel titled “Gender and Health in Asia,” and presented her paper “Intimate Partner Violence in Postsocial China” at the panel, at the Annual Conference of New York Association of Asian Studies held Sept. 23-24 at Utica College.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, recently had two papers published from work he participated in with a team analyzing macrofungal biodiversity in Guyana, South America. “The Entolomataceae of the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana III: New Species of Rhodocybe,” was published in the Dec. 26, 2009, issue of Mycoscience. “The Entolomataceae of the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana IV: New Species of Calliderma, Paraeccilia and Trichopilus,” appeared in the Dec. 21, 2009, issue of MYCOLOGIA. Both articles were written by team members by T.W. Henkel, M. C. Aime, D. L. Largent and T. J. Baroni. The team was funded by grants awarded to Henkel by the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. Henkel is from Humboldt State University in Northern California, Baroni's alma mater for his B.A. and M.A. degrees.
A third paper, published in late 2009 in Synopsis Fungorum Fungiflora, was written by L. Ryvarden, Aime and Baroni. “Studies in Neotropical Polypores 26. A New Species of Trametes and Revisitation of an Old,” is the result of National Geographic Funding to Baroni in 2007 to study fungal diversity of the Maya Mountains in Belize.
Henry Steck
Henry Steck, Political Science Department, had his article “Three Historical Moments: Contested Visions of the State University of New York,” published in a recent edition of SUNY at Sixty (SUNY Press).