Natasha McFadden
Natasha McFadden, The Cortland Fund, was honored at the Leadership in Civic Engagement Awards Ceremony on April 25. She received two awards for her work with the SUNY Cortland Cupboard food pantry: the Donald M. Wilcox 2019 Civic Engagement Award for her service on the Cortland Cupboard board, and the board was recognized with the Civic Engagement Leadership Award. Also, she received the Civic Engagement Leadership Award as a member of the New York State Mentor Program.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, has been invited to update the entry “Feminist Perspectives on Class and Work” with the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a common reference source for philosophy students and scholars. Her updated entry, which was recently accepted, can be found on this link.
Kerri Freese, Gregory D. Phelan and Gauri Kolhatkar
Kerri Freese, SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, and mathematics graduate student Gauri Kolhatkar, attended the Sixth Annual National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Conference titled “Building Excellence in STEM Teaching.” STEM is the acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The conference, held in Washington D.C., brought together Noyce Scholars and faculty from more than 300 Noyce Scholarship programs throughout the country. SUNY Cortland presented a poster on its recruitment techniques to meet its goal of distributing scholarships to future math and science teachers. To date, the College has distributed 35 scholarships to 27 future teachers. SUNY Cortland currently tops the nation with its Noyce Scholarship distribution.
Kaitlin Flannery
Kaitlin Flannery, Psychology Department, had her article, “Breaking Up (With a Friend) Is Hard to Do: An Examination of Friendship Dissolution Among Early Adolescents,” published March 24 in The Journal of Early Adolescence.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of a chapter titled, “Hot Button Issues in the Presidential Campaign: 47 Percent Yes, Guns No?” for the book, Winning the Presidency 2012, recently published by Paradigm Publishers.
Lorraine Berry
Lorraine Berry, Neovox project director, was selected to be a judge for The Guardian’s Not the Booker Book Prize. The article announcing the contest and its judges can be found online.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of the new fifth edition of The Politics of Gun Control. Published by Paradigm Publishers, the book is widely recognized as the standard work on the subject.
C. Ashley Ellefson
C. Ashley Ellefson, professor emeritus of history, was interviewed by a reporter from the Baltimore Sun for an article that ran in the March 16 issue about the impending appeal of capital punishment in Maryland. Last fall, Ellefson provided a law clerk in the Maryland attorney general’s office with information on executions in Maryland from 1776 through 1800.
Sebastian Purcell
Sebastian Purcell, Philosophy Department, had his article, “Life on the Slippery Earth,” published in Aeon magazine’s July 4 issue. Purcell’s article discusses how the Aztec moral philosophy has profound differences from the Greek tradition, not least its acceptance that nobody is perfect.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, was conference co-chair with Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, University of Ghana, for the 2017 Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) from Oct. 12 to 14 at the University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana. The ASAA Conference theme was “African Studies and Global Politics.” Asumah was also one of the keynote speakers for this conference and he spoke about his research on “Africa: Rethinking Democratic Consolidation and Development.” Professor Jacob Gordon, University of Kansas; Dr. Wangui Wa Goro, African Development Bank; rofessor Jean Allman, Washington University; Dr. Yao Graham, Third World Network-Africa; and Professor Takyiwaa Manuh, UN Economic Commission for Africa, were also plenary keynote speakers at the conference. Also, SUNY Cortland Africanists Ibipo Johnston Anumonwo, Geography Department, and Bekeh Utietiang, History Department, presented papers at the ASAA Conference in the concurrent session, “African Migrations: National Security and the Politics of Representing the Movements of Persons.” Organizations such as the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the Association of African Universities (AAU) presented their position papers on higher in Africa and the African Diaspora. Africanists, Africologists and African enthusiasts from the African continent, United States, the Caribbean and Europe, participated in this international conference.