Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, wrote and recorded a song inspired by Cortland’s common read, Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. The single, “Hold On,” was released in February 2024 and can be heard on Spotify and other music streaming services under artist name Juniper Salute.
Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, has been invited by publisher Gale Cengage to produce an installment of their Drama Criticism series on the play “Fuenteovejuna” (1619), by Spanish playwright Lope de Vega. “Fuenteovejuna” is currently the most performed, read and studied play of the Spanish baroque period. Drama Criticism is a resource for scholars; the entry will include a study of the author and the play, reprints of the most important research on the work, and an annotated bibliography of additional key criticism of the drama.
Bryanne Bellovary, Erik Lind and James Hokanson
Bryanne Bellovary, Erik Lind and James Hokanson, Kinesiology Department, co-authored two research posters with senior exercise science majors Lauren Roberts and Jacqueline Santaniello. Roberts presented the posters at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference within the American College of Sport Medicine, held Nov. 5 and 6 in Harrisburg, Pa. The poster titles are: “Heart Rate Responses to Three Unweighted Conditions on an Alter-G® Treadmill” and “Arterial Blood Pressure Responses Reflect Differences in Alter-G® Treadmill Chamber Pressure in College Age Participants.”
Juan Diego Prieto
Juan Diego Prieto, Political Science Department, wrote a commentary about Colombian politics for the Oct. 22 issue of Latin American Advisor, published by The Dialogue think-tank.
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.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, had an encyclopedic entry on the work of Iris Marion Young published in December in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), delivered a talk on June 2 titled “Criminal Justice Ethics and Ubuntu” at the workshop “The Ethics of Living: Questions of Justice, Poverty, Life and Death in the Human and Natural Sciences,” held at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.
On June 14, Nagel presented her paper, “On the Strategic Uses of Abolitionism” at the International Conference on Penal Abolition in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Lynn Anderson
Lynn Anderson, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, recently completed the Distinguished Visiting Professor program with the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom. The distinguished service professor spent the week lecturing, debating and working with faculty and students in the School of Sport, Tourism, and the Outdoors at UCLAN. The university published this article on its blog site:http://uclanoutdoors.blogspot.com/.
Andrea Davalos
Andrea Davalos, Biological Sciences Department, is part of a team of collaborators assembled by Carrie Brown-Lima, director of Cornell University’s New York Invasive Species Research Institute, that works independently on different aspects of swallow-wort ecology and control. Their work, keeping with the New York Invasive Species Research Institute’s mission to connect scientific researchers with on-the-ground managers to address key New York state invasive species issues, is detailed in a July 9 Cornell Chronicle article titled “Moth provides hope against invasive swallow-wort.” Pale and black swallow-wort are rapidly invading fields and forests across the Northeast. The team, which just received a grant from the New York Department of Transportation, will release swallow-wort biocontrol moths later this summer.
Also this summer, two SUNY Cortland students are working with Davalos on the project: Jeremy Collings, who received a Summer Research Fellowship and a grant from New York State Flora Association to pursue a parallel question regarding swallow-wort management in New York State Parks; and Emily Ammons, who started this summer. Both students are mostly involved with Davalos’ project but have assisted with the biocontrol project and will continue to be involved throughout the year.