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Szilvia Kadas and Benjamin Wilson

Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, Benjamin Wilson, Economics Department, and Dowd Gallery are hosting a student-created graphic design exhibition titled “Care, Crisis, Climate, and Debt.” The student show is open to the public in Old Main Colloquium through Friday, Dec. 13.

Caroline Kaltefleiter

Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies Department, moderated a discussion with film director James Dean Le Sueur, who directed The Art of Dissent, one of the feature films screened at the BlackBird Film Festival held June 17 to 20. The Art of Dissent documents the power of artistic engagement and inspired resistance in Czechoslovakia before and after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion. In addition, Kaltefleiter was a producer for the film “Fill the Need,” which features original music written and performed by Colleen Kattau, Modern Languages Department, and also was screened at the festival.

Terrence Fitzgerald and Frank Rossi and alumni Mike Kelly ’14 and Tyler Potter ’14

Terrence Fitzgerald, Biological Sciences Department, Frank Rossi, Chemistry Department, and alumni Mike Kelly ’14, and Tyler Potter ’14, are coauthors of an article titled “Trail Following Response of Larval Cactoblastis cactorum to 2-Acyl-1,3 Cyclohexane Diones” appearing in the current issue of the Journal of Chemical Ecology. The paper reports the isolation and identification of a pheromone that might serve as a bio-rational substitute for a chemical pesticide in the management of the caterpillar.  The caterpillar is an invasive species originally from Argentina that attacks prickly pear cactuses in the Gulf Coast states.  Kelly is currently a graduate student at SUNY Cortland and Potter is in the Chemistry Ph.D. program at Yale University.  Both students worked on the study as Cortland undergraduates. The United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service supported the study.

Rhiannon Maton

Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had a book review published in Teachers College Record. She reviewed the book Exploring Gender and LGBTQ Issues in K-12 and Teacher Education: A Rainbow Assemblage.

Anne Burns-Thomas

Anne Burns-Thomas, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, led a post-keynote discussion with Paul Gorski at the Noyce NE Regional Conference held March 20-22 in Philadelphia, Pa. Participants reflected on Gorski’s keynote, which addressed key insights from his latest book, Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap. Gorski questions how strategies for teaching and relating with families in poverty might change if we truly understood the barriers they experience — barriers that have nothing to do with their cultures or their attitudes about school or their desires to learn. Participants talked about those challenges, how they affect the school experiences of low-income students, and how educators can mitigate them by providing equitable, engaging learning environments.

Tracy A. Trachsler and Raymond J. Cotrufo

Tracy A. Trachsler and Raymond J. Cotrufo, Sport Management Department, received notice that their article, “National Collegiate Academic Association: The Implications of Increased NCAA Oversight of Academics,” will be published in the Journal of Contemporary Athletics. The paper discussed recent academic scandals with an emphasis on events at the University of North Carolina, where student-athletes, over a period of several years, were enrolled in “paper classes” with limited oversight from faculty. Since some have proposed increased involvement by the NCAA in academic affairs on member campuses as a way to prevent occurrences of academic impropriety, this paper outlines some of the far-reaching effects of such an action.

Brian Barrett

Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy, presented his paper, with Rob Moore of Cambridge University, titled “Changing from Within: Basil Bernstein, Teacher Education, and Social Justice” at the Seventh International Basil Bernstein Symposium in Aix-en-Provence, France. Additionally, his review of Knowledge, Pedagogy and Society: International Perspectives on Basil Bernstein’s Sociology of Education, edited by Daniel Frandji and Philippe Vitale, was recently published in the journal International Studies in Sociology of Education, volume 22, issue 1.

Kathryn Kramer

Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, had her critical review of the exhibition, “Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie” (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pa.) published in the current issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism.

Melissa A. Morris

Melissa A. Morris, Physics Department, had two postdoctoral researchers visit SUNY Cortland for 10 days in late May to work on her NASA project, “The Formation Environment of Chondrules in Planetesimal Impact Plumes.” They were visiting from University of Oxford and Montreal, Canada.

Also, Morris served on a NASA review panel in early June.

In late June, Morris and Anthony Terzolo, her undergraduate student research assistant, presented posters at the Gordon Research Conference on the Origin of Solar Systems. Morris and Terzolo presented “The Indirect Detection of Liquid Water in Extrasolar Protoplanetary Disks,” and Morris and four coauthors presented “Modeling Collisional Ejecta in 3-D with Adaptive Mesh Refinement.” The conference was at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass.

Timothy J. Baroni

Timothy J. Baroni, distinguished professor emeritus of biological sciences, was lead author with 10 colleagues from Puerto Rico, Denmark, Peru and the U.S. on the peer reviewed publication “Four new species of Morchella from the Americas” in the journal Mycologia. New species of morels, highly prized gourmet mushrooms, were described from the mountain regions in the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru and the southwestern U.S. using morphological and multigene molecular phylogenetic data. Baroni was also a co-author with Rachel Swenie, Ph.D., a student at the University of Tennessee, and her mentor P. Brandon Matheny, on the peer reviewed article “Six new species and reports of Hydnum (Cantharellales) from eastern North America” in the journal MycoKeys. Baroni provided collections with detailed descriptions from the Cortland Herbarium (CORT) that were generated by him and also by his former students from the field mycology courses held at the Outdoor Education Center at Raquette Lake from 1980’s through 2000. At least one of these collections was selected as an epitype, a collection that anchors the concept of the species. Color images of collections by Baroni were also used in the publication to help document these tooth fungi from the northeast.