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Faculty and Staff Activities

Caroline Kaltefleiter

Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication Studies Department, has been named to the editorial board of the journal Anarchist Studies, which is published in the United Kingdom. Kaltefleiter is professor of communication studies whose research focuses on anarcha-feminism, Girl Culture, digital media and utopianism. She presented “Embrace the Gap: Liminality, Riot Grrrls, Feminist Utopianism and (Trans)locution” at the “Utopia after the Human Symposium” at Cornell University. The article is slated for publication in the journal Utopian Studies in 2018.

Christopher Gascón

Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, presented a paper, “Transferencia cultural de la comedia aurisecular en Repertorio Español” (“Cultural Transference of Spanish Golden Age Plays at New York City’s Repertorio Español”), on April 30 at the First Symposium of Early Modern Hispanic Studies. The symposium was sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor and the Spanish and Hispanic Studies Department of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. 

Brian D. Barrett

Brian D. Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article, “Is Interdisciplinarity Old News? A Disciplined Consideration of Interdisciplinarity,” published in the current issue of the British Journal of Sociology of Education. Aspects of the article were developed in papers he presented at a Sandwich Seminar titled “Is it the End of the University as We Know It: Do We Feel Fine?” at SUNY Cortland, in October 2009, and as plenary speaker at the Sixth International Basil Bernstein Symposium in Brisbane, Australia, in July 2010. 

Eric Edlund

Eric Edlund, Physics Department, together with coinventors from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, were awarded the Edison Patent Award for Industrial Processes on Nov. 3 for their patent titled “Advanced Liquid Centrifuge Using Differentially Rotating Cylinders and Optimized Boundary Conditions, and Methods for the Separation of Fluids.”

Terrence Fitzgerald

Terrence Fitzgerald, Biological Sciences Department, is the author of an article titled “Phelypera distigma Un charançon processionnaire” (A processionary weevil) appearing in the current issue of the French magazine Insectes. Eleven of Fitzgerald’s photographs accompany the article, which was translated by the editors of the publication from an English language version appearing on the author’s website “Social Caterpillars.”  The original studies of the larva, the only weevil known to form head-to-tail processions, were conducted in the Guanacaste, Costa Rica and Jalisco, Mexico as a collaborative effort between the author, James Costa ’85 of Western Carolina University, Alfonso Pescador of the University of Colima in Mexico, Dan Janzen of the University of Pennsylvania and Michael Turna ’03, who recently completed an advanced degree in the chemical ecology of host selection behavior of the eastern tent caterpillars at Binghamton University.  

Lin Lin

Lin Lin, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, presented “No Excuse to Live in a Bubble: How Do Children in Your Classroom Stay Connected to the World?” at the National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference on Nov. 30 in Chicago. She also served as discussion facilitator for the international assembly at this conference. 

Brian Williams

Brian Williams, Political Science Department, recently had his book, Anarchism and Social Revolution: An Anarchist Politics of the Transitionary State, published as part of Springer Nature's series: Contributions to Political Science.

Lisa Czirr, Jeremy Pekarek and Hilary Wong

Lisa Czirr, Jeremy Pekarek and Hilary Wong of Memorial Library presented virtually at Eastern New York Association of College and Research Libraries on Wednesday, May 19. The title of the presentation was “New Visions for Old Tools: Reinventing Libguides for Online Instruction during COVID.”  

Pete Ducey

Pete Ducey, Biological Sciences Department, recently gave an invited presentation at Cornell University titled “Superfund Herpetology: Decades of Change at Onondaga Lake” hosted by the Cornell Herpetological Society. The presentation discussed the research and consulting work of Ducey, his students and faculty colleagues concerning the amphibian and reptile populations living in the highly disturbed ecosystem of Onondaga Lake and its surrounding wetlands. Also highlighted were the rolls of Cortland’s research team in assisting the federal and state governmental agencies, as well as environmental consulting firms, with their efforts at restoration at that site.

Ryan Vooris

Ryan Vooris, Sport Management Department, had a research article about perceptions of media bias among viewers of ESPN published in Communication & Sport.