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Alexis Blavos

Alexis Blavos, Health Department, received a presidential citation from the Society for Public Health Education. In addition, she presented her research at its 2023 annual conference held March 22 to 24 in Atlanta.

Laura J. Davies

Laura J. Davies, English Department, had her essay, “Teaching with Love,” published in the Fall 2014 issue of Composition Studies. 

Jordan Kobritz

Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, wrote an article for the Concussion Litigation Reporter commenting on the proposed settlement of the NFL concussion lawsuit. The title of the article is “Plaintiffs Had Little Choice but to Take the Deal Offered by the NFL.”

Ute Ritz-Deutch

Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, gave the keynote address at the Nov. 24 international webinar “Reproductive Choice of Women: A Fundamental Right” organized by St. Aloysius College in Mangaluru, India, which is one of SUNY Cortland's study abroad locations. The daylong webinar event was under the initiative of the National Commission of Women (NCW), India for better implementation of the existing policies, schemes, programs or projects relating to the well-being and empowerment of women. An article quoting Ritz-Deutch titled “Domestic violence increased during Covid-19 pandemic” was published in the Deccan Herald.

Nance S. Wilson

Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, had an article published in the March issue of the Association for Middle Level Education’s magazine, This We Believe and the Common Core. The article, titled “Beyond the Hype: The CCSS and Middle Grades Instruction,” was co-authored by Carla K. Meyer of Duquesne University and Laurie A. Ramirez of Appalachian State University.

Mark Dodds

Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, presented two papers concerning legal issues at the Sport Marketing Association conference held Oct. 23 to 26 in Albuquerque, N.M. The first dealt with a team’s liability when a fan gets injured from the team’s promotional activity and the other examined the legality of the NCAA.

Frederic Pierce

Frederic Pierce, Communications Office, learned that his team won a SUNY Council for University Advancement (SUNYCUAD) Best of Category award in the category of Excellence in Marketing and Communications on a Budget – Special Events (Series). The award recognizes the College’s use of the alumni magazine, Columns, as a marketing vehicle and will be presented at the annual SUNYCUAD conference set for June 12 to 14 in Saratoga, N.Y.

Robert Spitzer

Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, served as a discussant on a panel titled, “Presidents, the Courts, and the Law” at the recent annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, held in Philadelphia from Sept. 1 to 4. Also, he attended the executive council meeting of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honors society, on which he is serving a four-year term.

Melissa A. Morris

Melissa A. Morris, Physics Department, gave an invited talk titled “Phyllosilicate Emission from Protoplanetary Disks. Is the Indirect Detection of Extrasolar Water Possible?” at Cornell University in early December. Also, she submitted a paper to The Astrophysical Journal Letters titled “New Insight into the Solar System’s Transition Disk Phase Provided by the Metal-rich Carbonaceous Chondrite Isheyevo.” Morris travelled to Salt Lake City, Utah, for three days in December for in-depth planetarium training, and to Arizona State University (ASU) from Jan. 8-10 to participate in an international conference that she helped organize. The conference was titled “AstroRecon 2015, Conference on Spacecraft Reconnaissance of Asteroid and Comet Interiors.” While at ASU, she met with fellow NASA grant collaborators and conducted experiments on meteoritic material, which will be reported in upcoming publications and future grant proposals. Most recently, Morris coauthored two posters presented at the 225th Astronomical Society Meeting held Jan. 4-8 in Seattle, Wash.

Kathleen A. Lawrence

Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had her poem titled “I Was a Carvel Soft Serve Queen” appear in the “My First Job” series at Silver Birch Press on June 22. Also, two of her poems were published in the debut issue of Scryptic Magazine on June 19. They are titled “Shadow Beach” and “Walking the Graveyard of My Poems.” Her two poems titled “Adding Machines” and “Lab Test” were published in Lemon Quarterly on April 8.