Denise Knight
Denise Knight, English Department, has had her essay, “‘[a] country of whose language I knew not a word’: Charlotte Perkins Gilman In and On Italy,” accepted for inclusion in a collection of essays titled Transatlantic Women: American Women Writers in Italy. The essay is an expanded version of the conference paper that Knight gave in Florence, Italy, last June.
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, served as a consultant for a number of books on poet Paul Blackburn: The Blackburn Reader to be published by Shearsman; an as yet untitled book of critical essays to be published by Macmillan (followed by a symposium at the University of Kent, UK); and a reissue of Blackburn's translation of selected Provencal poets, Proensa, to be published by the New York Review of Books. In addition to being a poet and translator, Blackburn was also a member of the English Department faculty 1970-71.
Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita of French, received the William H. Heiser Award for the United States Air Force Academy’s (USAFA) Outstanding Senior Faculty Educator on May 1. Each year the Air Force Academy graduating class selects two senior faculty members, one from engineering and the sciences and one from humanities, who have contributed the most to cadet personal and intellectual development; professors who inspired and challenged their students to “work harder and dig deeper.” LeLoup is the first member of the USAFA’s Department of Foreign Languages to receive this honor since its inception in 1995.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, organized and ran the 61st Annual Charles Horton Peck Foray that hosted 40 professional, amateur and student mycologists from the northeast, held Sept. 12-14 at the Vanderkamp Retreat Center in Cleveland, N.Y. Amateur Mycologists from the Central New York Mycological Association, the Rochester Area Mycological Association and the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club, joined faculty and students from Cornell University, SUNY Cortland, Clarion University and The New York Botanical Garden for the two day event that focused on collecting and studying macrofungi — mushrooms, cup fungi and their relatives. Cortland has hosted the event six times since 1976.
Michael Hough
Michael Hough, Biological Sciences Department, had his article, “Geum ×cortlandicum (Rosaceae), a new natural hybrid plus three Geum urbanum hybrids new to the flora of New York,” published in the August 2018 issue of Phytoneuron, an open-access journal. Geum ×cortlandicum M. Hough is a previously undescribed hybrid of two common native species, G. canadense and G. laciniatum. The taxon is named for Cortland County, N.Y., where this and three other Geum hybrids have recently been collected by the author. Two of the other hybrids, G. ×catlingii and G. ×macneillii, are new to the flora of New York and the other, G. ×intermedium, is not only new to New York but had not previously been reported from North America.
Greg Phelan
Greg Phelan, Chemistry Department, visited St. Mary’s School in Cortland on April 26 as part of the National Science Foundation-funded SUNY Cortland Noyce Project. He conducted chemistry experiments with the pre-K class. Twenty-one four- and five-year-olds participated in hands-on experiments to learn about phases of matter, vinegar and baking soda chemistry and cooking. Afterwards, the children “chewed on” the connection between the experiments and everyday life by eating Irish soda bread, which has visible bubbles and cavities.
Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, International Communications and Culture emerita, along with U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) colleagues LeAnn Derby and Ramsamooj J. Reyes, and Sheri Spaine Long from the University of North Carolina – Charlotte, had their paper, “Fusing Language Learning and Leadership Development: Initial Approaches and Strategies,” published in Dimension 2014. The white paper was a result of a semester-long Faculty Learning Community in the Department of Foreign Languages at the USAFA that met throughout the spring of 2013. The paper focuses explicitly on the relationship between language learning and leadership development through discussion, reflection and exploration to advance strategies and develop related resources.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has been asked to serve as a reviewer this fall for Fulbright scholarship applicants from Russia for the 2015-16 academic year. The candidates would conduct research and teach in the United States in the area of journalism. Hartsock was a Fulbright scholar in journalism in Ukraine in 1993 at Taras Shevchenko Kiev State University in Kiev.
In other news, Hartsock stepped down at the end of May after five years as the editor of the peer-reviewed scholarly journal Literary Journalism Studies. The official journal of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies, it was founded by Hartsock starting with the Spring 2009 issue. The journal is published biannually. Under Hartsock’s editorship, the journal established the first bibliography in its subject field and is now listed in the MLA International Bibliography. It is also listed with Ebscohost. Bill Reynolds, director of the graduate program in journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto, has been selected as Hartsock’s successor.
Sharon L. Todd
Sharon L. Todd, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, and undergraduate student Ashlee Boughton, delivered a research presentation titled “Nature Relatedness, Sense of Place, and Well-being in Outdoor Pursuits Trip Groups” at the 28th Annual Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium on April 4 in Annapolis, Md. Ashlee, a senior majoring in therapeutic recreation, has been working all year with Todd on a longitudinal research project through the Undergraduate Research Assistant Program.
Scott Moranda
Scott Moranda, History Department, is listed in the credits of a PBS documentary on Carl Schenck, one of America’s first foresters, which showed on WSKG Binghamton and WCNY Syracuse from April 15-18. Moranda was asked to review “America’s First Forest: Carl Schenck and the Asheville Experiment” and summarize Schenck’s life in relation to his return to Germany where he lived during the Nazi period. The documentary shows German contributions to American forestry in its earliest days.