Katie Silvestri
Katie Silvestri, Literacy Department, co-authored an article about Twitter as a kind of digital literacy that was recently published in School-University Partnerships. Co-authors are Jevon Hunter of Buffalo State College and Madison Ackerman of Niagara County Community College. The article shares the qualitative research findings of an emerging professional development schools partnership that investigated the way Twitter, as a type of digital literacy, mediated literature discussions of Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” between urban high school students and master’s degree literacy specialist candidates. The findings were organized into three themes that indicated Twitter’s productive use for literacy engagement among participants: (a) extending time-on-task engagement by encouraging text-specific discussions; (b) organizing cognitive engagement through questions to enhance text comprehension; and (c) facilitating affective engagement by generating enthusiasm and a desire to be part of a broader, more authentic literacy community. Collectively, these findings have implications for designing socially mediated digital literacy activities that lead to theorizing about the potential of adolescent online literacies in classrooms, leveraging 21st century literacy-based technologies for academic learning, and expanding the literacy pedagogy of preservice teachers.
Doug Langhans
Doug Langhans, Admissions, was a panelist on the International Education in 2020: A Year End Review webinar presented by InternationalStudent.com. Langhans, Study New York Chair, and three other industry leaders from various study state consortia, discussed the challenges and changes that have occurred in the international student recruitment field due to the global pandemic.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, presented research conducted with former student Cabel McCandless M ’21 and Christopher Aiken from New Mexico State University at the 46th annual meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics held in August in Knoxville, Tenn. The project, “A Battle of Balance: Differences in postural stability among cross-country runners, trail runners, and healthy non-runners,” found trail runners exhibit greater balance control than their cross-country peers and the control group. Improved balance may be an adaptation to chronic training on highly dynamic trail surfaces with uneven contours, unexpected shifting of materials underfoot such as rocks or sand, and frequent changes in step length to accommodate stepping over obstacles.
Gregory D. Phelan and Kerri Freese
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, and Kerri Freese, Noyce Program coordinator, along with co-professional investigators from Drexel University and University of Massachusetts, Boston, (UMass Boston) planned and executed the Second Annual Noyce Northeast Conference in Cambridge, Mass. Highlights of the two-day conference included 15 breakout sessions and a keynote from the 2012 MacArthur Fellows or Genius Grant recipient and Harvard University economist Raj Chetty. Other keynote speakers included physics professor Arthur Eisenkraft, UMass Boston; author Penny Noyce, daughter of Robert Noyce, the microchip inventor and founder of Intel; and chemistry teacher Rebecca Grella, who inspired homeless student Samantha Garvey to conduct research that led her to the Intel national science fair. A National Science Foundation grant written by Phelan, Sheila Vaidya of Drexel University and Lisa Gonsalves of UMass Boston funded the conference and participants’ attendance.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is co-author of a new book titled Encyclopedia of Gun Control and Gun Rights. Spitzer’s co-author is Glenn Utter, Lamar University. The book is a compendium of all aspects of the gun issue in America and abroad. It will be published next year by Grey House Publishers.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his article, “Bad Reading: The Affective Relations of Queer Experimental Literature after AIDS,” published in the Duke University Press journal GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. The article appears as the lead essay in a special issue devoted to the study of LGBTQ literature. It is drawn from Bradway’s ongoing research into the ways that contemporary LGBTQ writers use experimental literary forms to imagine new modes of social and political community.
Cynthia J. Benton, Susan K. Stratton and Karen Stearns
Cynthia J. Benton and Susan K. Stratton, Childhood/Early Childhood Education, and Karen Stearns, English, have completed a 10-year assessment of master’s projects in education. Their work has been published in a Fall 2010 article, “Action Research Empowering Teacher Development: Connecting Teacher Reflection, Teaching Effectiveness and Program Change," in the journal Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning.
Henry Steck
Henry Steck, Political Science Department, gave the keynote lecture for the Constitution Day celebration at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. The title of his lecture was “How James Madison & Federalist #10 & #51 Helps Me Think About 21st Century America.”
Charles Heasley and Jeremiah Donovan
Charles Heasley and Jeremiah Donovan, Art and Art History Department, were invited to exhibit their artwork in Jingdezhen, China, as part of the 2010 West Meets East Invitational Exhibition. This international exhibition included four SUNY Cortland students, Christine Brown, Leah Fries, Carolyn Furlong, and Xena Holzapfel, as well as regional students from Jingdezhen and professional artists from Shanghai and Beijing. Photographs of the exhibited work were included in a catalog produced for the exhibition, which opened June 10 at the Jingdezhen International Ceramic Museum.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, recently had her essay, “The Flaneur’s Redemption,” published in The European Mind: Narrative and Identity, University of Malta Press, 2010. In addition, her critical review of Richard Langston’s Visions of Violence: German Avant-Gardes after Fascism will appear in the October 2010 issue of German Studies Review.