William Hopkins
William Hopkins, professor emeritus of psychology, recently received a Paul Harris Fellow award from Cortland Rotary for developing and facilitating the Cortland-Belize Partnership in Special Education. He presented the keynote address at the 60th Diamond Jubilee Annual Convention of the New York State Retired Teachers Association, along with a session on preventing stress.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of a chapter titled, “Gun Control: Constitutional Mandate or Myth?” that appears in the just-published book, Moral Controversies in American Politics. The book is published by M.E. Sharpe.
Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish, recently had the third edition of her textbook, ¡Anda! Curso intermedio, published by Pearson Education. It is an intermediate-level Spanish text for the college level.
Ryota Yaginuma,
Ryota Yaginuma, a visiting scholar from Japan, will study character education under the guidance of Thomas Lickona, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department and Director of Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, through September 2011. Yaginuma is an associate professor at Gifu National University, Graduate School of Education in Japan, and has a Ph.D. in literature from Waseda University in Japan for the study of John Dewey’s pragmatism and educational theory.
Yaginuma has published numerous works, including John Dewey’s Pragmatism and Education (2002); The Problem-Solving Type Moral Teaching (2006); The Study of Moral Education (2007); Rorty’s Philosophy and Education (2008); The Problem-Solving Type Moral Teaching -Case Study (2009); and Schooling and Moral Education (2010).
The goals of this visiting scholarship study are to write about character education for Japanese teachers and to translate important papers and books regarding character education, in particular, “Smart & Good High Schools,” written by Lickona and Matthew Davidson in 2005. Yaginuma will visit area schools that represent best practices of character education and make a comparative study of American character education and Japanese moral education.
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, will appear as Bardolph and the Archbishop of York in Ithaca Shakespeare Company's production of “Henry IV” (Parts 1 and 2). Performances will be held July 9-26 outside at Cornell Plantations, alternating performances with “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Michael Hough
Michael Hough, Biological Sciences Department, authored a book, Flora of Cortland and Onondaga Counties, New York, that is now available from Amazon.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, presented a poster at the 11th International Mycological Congress meetings held July 15 to 21 in San Juan, PR. Baroni and co-authors from Italy, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the US, including two of Baroni’s former students, Tracy Armstrong Curtis ’01 and Lance Lacey ’04, presented data accumulated in the Dominican Republic over an extended 20-year period on the biodiversity of group of not well-known fungi. Curtis and Lacey worked in the Dominican Republic with Baroni from 1996 to 2006 funded by Research Experiences for Undergraduates from the National Science Foundation. The title of the presentation and the publication that will result from the work is “The Rhodocybe/Clitopilus clade (Entolomataceae, Agaricomyetes) in the Dominican Republic: a new genus, new species and first reports for Hispaniola.”
Gregory Phelan, Mary Gfeller, Kerri Freese and student Jennifer Traxel
Gregory Phelan, Chemistry Department, Mary Gfeller, Mathematics Department, Noyce Project Coordinator Kerri Freese and MsEd chemistry student Jennifer Traxel attended the 5th Annual NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program Conference July 7-9 in Washington, D.C. The invitation-only conference included plenary speakers and panel sessions; concurrent workshop sessions, including sessions for Noyce Scholars and new teachers; and poster sessions. Gfeller and Freese presented a poster on SUNY Cortland’s Noyce Project. In the past year SUNY Cortland has received one of the top number of Noyce Scholarship applications, in large part due to the active interest and engagement of campus faculty and leaders to produce the best and brightest science and math teachers. The conference provided an opportunity for NSF Noyce Program awardees to learn from and share strategies with each other, as well as with AAAS K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) leaders and national experts in recruiting, preparing and retaining new K-12 STEM teachers.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, published an exhibition report of Sitelines.2018, the revisionary biennial exhibition of SITE Santa Fe, for Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. Sitelines.2018 is a new kind of biennial of contemporary art, focusing on a local community of artists that resists the generic internationalism that marks most biennial exhibitions. This is the first of a series of critical reviews that Kramer will publish in Afterimage throughout her Spring 2019 sabbatical of similarly oriented biennial exhibitions throughout the Global South.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently received word that her poem, “The Nonpareils: As Told by the Woman in the Gingerbread House,” has been nominated for a prestigious Pushcart Prize. Wikipedia describes the Pushcart Prize as “an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best ‘poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot’ published in the small presses over the previous year.” Lawrence’s poem originally was published in Star*Line, the print magazine for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. “The Nonpareils” is a retelling of the well-known German fairytale by the Brothers Grimm titled Hansel and Gretel from the perspective of the witch, or homeowner. This is the second Pushcart Prize nomination she has received.