Regina B. Grantham
Regina B. Grantham, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, attended the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention, the premier annual educational event for the profession, in November in Philadelphia, Pa. She attended several councils as a member of the association’s board of ethics. Also, she co-presented with the board in an oral seminar, “Workplace Ethics: Challenges and Solutions” and poster session, “Suspect Ethical Misconduct? The Code of Ethics (2016) Is a Path to Resolution.”
Carrie E. Rood
Carrie E. Rood, Foundations and Social Advocacy, recently co-authored an article titled "Promoting Access Through Segregation: The Emergence of the “Prioritized Curriculum” Class” that was published in Teachers College Record, Volume 118, Issue 14.
Fran Elia
Fran Elia, Sports Information Office, received the Special Awards Salute: 25-Year Award from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) recognizing members who have completed 25 years in the profession. Elia has worked at SUNY Cortland for 27 years, 26 of them as the full-time sports information director. Read more about Elia’s history with the College and with CoSIDA.
Vaughn Randall
Vaughn Randall, Art and Art History Department, recently brought three students to a planning event for the 2018 International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art in Scranton, Pa., where they participated in a pour at Scranton Iron Furnaces, a state historic site in Pennsylvania. The students included: Paige Heil, an art studio major from Endicott, N.Y.; Justin Pribulick, an art studio major from Horseheads, N.Y.; and Erin Schiano, a therapeutic recreation major from Swain, N.Y.
Mary McGuire and Bruce Mattingly
Mary McGuire, Political Science Department, and Bruce Mattingly, dean, School of Arts and Sciences, along with eight other co-authors from SUNY Plattsburgh, SUNY Oneonta and SUNY Oswego, authored “The Common Problems Project: An Interdisciplinary, Community-Engaged, Problem-Based Pedagogy,” published in June in the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, volume 22, no. 2.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, has been informed that his article, “Gun Law, Policy, and Politics,” has been accepted for publication in a future issue of the journal Government Law and Policy Journal.
Peter M. McGinnis
Peter M. McGinnis, Kinesiology Department, recently learned that Human Kinetics has published the 4th edition of his book Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise.
Li Jin
Li Jin, Geology Department, has been appointed associate editor for Water Resources Research for the term 2024 to 2028. Published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), this journal is recognized as a leading publication in the field of hydrology.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, and three of the Institute’s interns hosted the first video conference of the North/South Central New York Coalition for Applied Learning. Participants called the Feb. 7 meeting “productive” and “innovative.” Technology Training Associate Julia Morog was instrumental in making this meeting a success.
Twelve people participated in the video conference, including the director of SUNY’s Office of Applied Learning and two members of her staff, the executive director of the New York Campus Compact, and faculty and staff from SUNY Binghamton, Dutchess, Oneonta, and Westchester. The three interns – Mariah Asencio, a communication studies major, Kaley Decker, a business economics major, and Austen Johnson, a political science major, contributed ideas to the meeting’s primary purpose: identifying ways for faculty and staff to interest students in applied learning activities. Participants also explored ways of strengthening community impact, considerations regarding data-collection and a suggestion for a state-wide needs assessment mapping of communities’ well-being indicators.
The Coalition’s 35 members represent 23 institutions. SUNY Cortland faculty and staff are welcome to suggest topics for – and participate in – the Coalition’s video conferences by emailing John Suarez.
Dominick Fantacone
Dominick Fantacone, Research and Sponsored Programs, presented a paper titled, “Enacting Culturally Responsive Science Education in Rural & Urban Districts: Noyce Alumni Perspectives from Two Universities” at the NARST 2025 Annual International Conference on March 25 in National Harbor, Maryland. NARST is a global organization for improving science education through research.