Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, with co-authors, had a peer-reviewed paper titled “A new species of Phlebopus (Boletales, Basidiomycota) from Mexico” published in North American Fungi, issue 10, 2015. Phlebopus is a relative of the highly sought after porcini mushrooms (boletes) of culinary fame. In addition to describing this new tropical species of bolete, a phylogenetic analysis using RNA genes is provided, a brief overview of the economic importance of Phlebopus in the new world tropics is presented and an identification key of all known species of Phlebopus reported from the Americas is included for use by future investigators. Co-authors included Joaquin Cifuentes of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Beatriz Ortiz Santana of the USDA- Forest Mycology Research, Madison, Wis., and Silvia Cappello from Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Mexico.
Richard Kendrick and Timothy Rodriguez ’08
Richard Kendrick, Institute for Civic Engagement and Sociology/Anthropology Department, and Timothy Rodriguez ’08, a graduate student at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, presented a seminar on April 18 at Syracuse University. They discussed “Building a Culture of Volunteering” with the Leaders for Democracy Fellows, which included journalists, activists, and non-governmental organization leaders from the Middle East and North Africa.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Political Science and Africana Studies departments, was appointed to the International Advisory Board of Culture and Development International and the International Conference on Africana Culture and Development (ICACD), Accra, Ghana.
Nan Pasquarello
Nan Pasquarello, Career Services, was interviewed for a story titled “Candidates battling AI to get hired” that aired on Oct. 30 on Spectrum News 1 based in Syracuse, N.Y. The story about was about how companies use artificial intelligence (AI) in their hiring processes.
Wylie Schwartz
Wylie Schwartz, Art and Art History Department, will co-chair a panel session with her colleague,Katherine Jackson (assistant professor, Department of Art History, Utah Valley University) from Oct. 19-22 at the 2025 Nordik Association for Art History Conference in Helsinki, Finland. Their panel session, titled, "Negotiating Spaces: Nordic artists working within or in resistance to institutional spaces," includes papers that examine Nordic and Northern European artists and artist collectives from the 1960s to the present in their operation within or in their attempt to change institutional bodies such as the government, the corporation and the art school. This panel ultimately grapples with the complex question: Can an artist operate critically within systemic structures without dismantling the institution itself?
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled “Armed Private Militias Like Charlottesville’s Offend the Founding Fathers’ Intent,” that appeared in the August 16 issue of the New York Daily News.
Terrence Fitzgerald
Terrence Fitzgerald, Biological Sciences Department, is the author of a paper titled “Temporal and Spatial Foraging Behavior of the Larvae of the Fall Webworm, Hyphantria cunea” appearing in the current issue of the entomological journal Psyche. Also, he is the coauthor with Alfonso Pescador-Rubio of the keynote talk “Historia natural de Cactoblastis cactorum: intervenci?n en los mecanismos de Comunicaci?n Larval y uso potencial en el control sus problaciones,” presented by Pescador-Rubio, the current president of the Mexican Entomological Society, at the Congreso Nacional de Entomología held in Acapulco, Mexico. The presentation focused on an eco-rational approach to managing the invasive caterpillar based on the use of pheromone disruptors identified and synthesized by SUNY Cortland students directed by Frank Rossi of the Chemistry Department.
Claus Schubert
Claus Schubert, Mathematics Department, was invited for a weeklong stay with the research group on quadratic forms at the Zukunftskolleg of the Universität Konstanz, Germany, from June 4-8. While there, he gave a talk titled “On Quadratic Forms of Height 2.”
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, co-authored a book titled Sex Workers and Criminalization in North America and China: Ethical and Legal Issues in Exclusionary Regimes, which was published Jan. 24 by Springer.
Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, has been invited to speak at a workshop on the early Solar System set for Nov. 7-10 in Tokyo, Japan, and to contribute a manuscript to the publication of the workshop proceedings. Also, Morris has been issued a VIP invitation to the launch of the OSIRIS-REx mission, NASA’s sample return mission to the asteroid Bennu. The launch is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 8, at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, with a launch window through Friday, Sept. 10. More information can be found at www.asteroidmission.org