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Kati Ahern

Kati Ahern, English Department, had a short fiction piece, “At My Job I Work the Robotic Arms,” published in the journal Fractured Literary as one of the 2023 Anthology Prize winners. Also, her short fiction piece “Extrusions” was published Oct. 1 in Liminal Spaces Magazine (LMNL SPCS).

Bonni C. Hodges

Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, was an invited presenter at the SOPHE/CDC Institute for Higher Education (IHE) Academy, held March 20 and 21 in Atlanta, Ga. The IHE Academy works with teams from professional preparation programs across the country on refining and updating curricula and skills, so their programs provide their students with the most current essential tools required to teach health and physical education with a focus on health education teacher preparation.

            Also, Hodges presented a poster on Educational Support Professionals: “Hidden Assets in Plain Sight” at the annual conference of the Society for Public Health Education held March 21 to 24 in Atlanta.

C. Ashley Ellefson

C. Ashley Ellefson, professor emeritus of history, announced that in October his manuscript, "Seven Hangmen of Colonial Maryland," was added to the Archives of Maryland Online, the Web site of the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis, Md. Included with the manuscript are 71 charts that Ellefson began working on in the 1960s and that include the 477 executions, including one burning, possibly alive, pardons, reprieves, gibbetings and quarterings that he has found in Maryland, mostly from 1726 through 1775.

Denise D. Knight and Noralyn Masselink

Denise D. Knight and Noralyn Masselink, English, have had their article, "A Plea for Honest Grades," accepted for publication in the Fall 2009 issue of Focus on Teacher Education.

Robert Spitzer

Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, has been appointed to serve as a member of the Cortland City Planning Commission. His appointment was approved by the City Council in November.

Henry Steck

Henry Steck, Political Science Department, recently attended the annual conference of the Alliance of Universities for Democracy held at Uludag University in Bursa, Turkey. He presented "Campaigning in Poetry - Governing in Prose: Reflections on President Obama's First Months."

Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo

Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Geography Department, was awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program to travel to Nigeria to work with Alabi Soneye at the University of Lagos. They will be collaborating on research in Sustainable Urban Transportation.

Their project is part of a broader initiative that will pair 51 African Diaspora scholars with one of 43 higher education institutions and collaborators in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda to work together on curriculum co-development, research, graduate teaching, training and mentoring activities in the coming months. The visiting fellows will work with their hosts on a wide range of projects that include controlling malaria, strengthening peace and conflict studies, developing a new master’s degree in emergency medicine, training and mentoring graduate students in criminal justice, archiving African indigenous knowledge, creating low cost water treatment technologies, building capacity in microbiology and pathogen genomics, and developing a forensic accounting curriculum. To deepen the ties among the faculty members and between their home and host institutions, the program is providing support to several program alumni to enable them to build on successful collaborative projects they conducted in previous years.

The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program, now in its sixth year, is designed to increase Africa’s brain circulation, build capacity at the host institutions, and develop long-term, mutually-beneficial collaborations between universities in Africa and the United States and Canada. It is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE) in collaboration with United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa) in Nairobi, Kenya, which coordinates the activities of the Advisory Council. A total of 385 African Diaspora Fellowships have now been awarded for scholars to travel to Africa since the program’s inception in 2013.

Fellowships match host universities with African-born scholars and cover the expenses for project visits of between 21 and 90 days, including transportation, a daily stipend, and the cost of obtaining visas and health insurance. See full list of 2018 projects, hosts and scholars and their universities.

Ute Ritz-Deutch

Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, recently joined the Northeast Regional Planning Group of Amnesty International (AI) headquartered in Boston, Mass. Currently, she is the coordinator of the Ithaca Chapter of AI and the faculty advisor to the SUNY Cortland AI student group.

John Suarez

John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement’s Office of Service-Learning, has secured a $500 New York Campus Compact grant for a roundtable discussion that will focus on economic mobility in Cortland County. Broome Community College’s Civic Engagement Center will help guide the planning and execution of this event’s deliberative discussion format. The discussion, scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 21, is part of the greater Cortland community’s economic Inequality Initiative.

Mechthild Nagel

Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), participated in plenary session on “Mentoring Advice: Publishing in Top 5 Journals,” on July 1 at the Economic Science Association World Conference at Humbold University in Berlin, Germany.