Caroline K. Kaltefleiter
Caroline K. Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies Department, was a guest on “Anarchy on the Airwaves! Under the Pavement," a weekly radio program broadcast from Manchester, United Kingdom. She joined the program to talk about the Punk and Anarchism book series on Active Distribution Press, for which she serves as one of the editors. She discussed her forthcoming edited book, Smash the System: Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance. Will Boisseau, one of the co-editors of the book series, joined the conversation from London. The program aired in late June.
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, was recently named a Fellow of the American School Health Association. She and other award winners will be honored at the ASHA National Conference in Denver in October.
James Webb, Chris Pecone, Alyssa McConnell and Nichole Snyder
James Webb and Chris Pecone, Auxiliary Services Corporation (ASC) executive chefs, and Alyssa McConnell and Nichole Snyder, ASC assistant managers of food production, won a team bronze medal at the Culinary Conference and Competition held in January at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. This is the first time an ASC team has participated in the “Chopped”-style competition that featured 11 colleges. The event was sponsored by the American Culinary Federation.
Gregory D. Phelan
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, served as part of the leadership team at the 2012 United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship National Conference held Jan. 12-15 in New Orleans. He also led a breakout meeting at which he was nominated and elected to serve as the president of the International Entrepreneurship Special Interest Group for a two-year term.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented “Stories to Tell—Listening to the Words in LGBT Themed Children’s Literature” at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention held Nov. 22 in Washington, D.C.
David Barclay
David Barclay, Geology Department, was a co-author on an international collaborative project that was recently published in Science Bulletin. The study, “Global wood anatomical perspective on the onset of the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA) in the mid-6th century CE,” used tree-ring data from around the world to examine the spatial and temporal expression of this climate event, which was the largest volcano-induced cooling event of the past two millennia.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, presented “Victimhood and Memory: Danube Swabians and the Ethnic Cleansing Campaigns in Yugoslavia, 1944-1948” at the Wayles Browne Slavic Studies Symposium on Feb. 26 at the A.D. White House at Cornell University. The symposium was held in honor of Browne, who is a linguist at Cornell and longtime human rights activist.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, had her article, “Hermann von Ihering: Shifting Realities of a German Brazilian Scientist from the Late Empire to World War I,” published in the Special Edition: Germans and Brazilians issue of the Oxford Journal German History.
Dennis Weng
Dennis Weng, Political Science Department, co-authored an article that has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Chinese Political Science in 2017. “Disrespect for Human Rights and Contentious Participation: Evidence from China,” was co-authored with Ching-Hsing Wang of the University of Houston and two SUNY Cortland undergraduate students, Laura Barnstead and Garrett DuMond. Also, Weng is a guest speaker at a conference on human rights issues set for Friday, April 21 in Taiwan.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Performing Arts Department, will perform in the Ithaca Shakespeare Company’s production of “Othello” from July 25 to 28 and from Aug. 1 to 3, at the Cornell Plantations, Ithaca, N.Y.