Brian Williams
Brian Williams, Political Science Department, gave a presentation titled, “Public Bills in the Canadian Senate: An Evaluation of Partisanship and Seniority” on Nov. 15 at a seminar hosted by the Center for the Study of Parliament in Ottawa, Ontario.
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.
Kate McCormick and Jacob Hall
Kate McCormick and Jacob Hall, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an article published in October in the journal Education and Information Technologies titled “Computational thinking learning experiences, outcomes, and research in preschool settings: A scoping review of literature.” This scoping review maps existing computational thinking studies with preschool-age participants.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, was one of seven invited instructors who presented a three-day course on Basidiomycete Identification — mushrooms and related fungi — in Medellin, Colombia. The course was held directly before the 8th Congreso Latinoamericano de Micologia (Latin American Congress of Mycology) held Nov. 4-7. The instructors, who were from Argentina, Costa Rica, Norway, Mexico and the U.S., taught 24 students from South, Central and North America, including the U.S., Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela. Baroni also was an invited speaker in the session on Systematics and Diversity of Basidiomycota, giving an oral presentation on “Arthromyces and Blastosporella (Lyophyllaceae) Revisited – a New Symbiosis with a Secretive/Shy Insect” with co-authors from Colombia, Brazil and Switzerland. He was co-author/presenter on two posters, resulting from collaborations with colleagues from Mexico and SUNY ESF. The first, titled “A new Species of Laccaria from the Montane Cloud Forest of Eastern Mexico,” and a second poster from collaborations with colleagues from the U.S., Colombia and Puerto Rico, titled “Sarcodon in the Neotropics: New Species from Belize, Colombia, Guyana and Puerto Rico.” The information presented in these oral and poster presentations was made possible by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the British Mycological Society and the SUNY Cortland Faculty Research Program over a 10-year period of field expeditions.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, submitted written testimony on a federal bill called the Hearing Protection Act, designed to deregulate gun silencers, submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Federal Lands, on Sept. 12.
Vickie Hess and Lisa Kahle
Vickie Hess and Lisa Kahle, Campus Technology Services, co-presented “Implementing a Cloud-based Student Print Management Solution” at the SUNY Technology Conference held June 18 in Lake Placid, N.Y.
Christina Papaleo
Christina Papaleo, Residence Life and Housing Office, was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Social Justice Award at the College Student Personnel Association of New York State (CSPA-NYS) Annual Conference on Oct. 15 in Albany, N.Y. The award honors outstanding service to social justice in New York state. Recipients of this award have contributed significantly to the higher education community through their commitment to social justice.
Erin Morris
Erin Morris, Sport Management Department, presented “Youth Sport Retention Through Non-Traditional and Recreational Sports” at the North American Sociology of Sport Conference on Nov. 4 in Tampa, Fla. The presentation was part of a round table titled “Socio-Cultural Trends that Influence Youth Motivation and Enjoyment in Sport.” The roundtable considered the current issues facing participation and retention in sport and the initiatives that could be used increase youth participation, particularly from youths that are often underrepresented in the elite sport, pay for play models.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his article, “Queer Narrative Theory and the Relationality of Form,” published in PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America), the flagship journal of literary studies. It appears in vol. 136, issue 5, pp. 711-727.
Deborah Van Langen, James F. Hokanson, Erik Lind and Larissa True
Deborah Van Langen, James F. Hokanson, Erik Lind and Larissa True, all from the Kinesiology Department, co-authored an article that was published in Clinical Kinesiology: Journal of the American Kinesiotherapy Association. The article is titled “Cardiovascular Response to Exercise on a Lower Body Positive Pressure Treadmill.”