Katie Silvestri
Katie Silvestri, Literacy Department, co-authored an article about positioning theory, multimodality, and embodiment in educational spaces recently published in a special issue of the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. Co-authors are Mary McVee and Kelly Schucker at the University at Buffalo SUNY as well as Aijuan Cun at the University of New Mexico. The article advocates that any analysis of positions and storylines should consider multimodal perspectives, artifactual knowing, and embodiment, rather than simply speech found in conversational interactions. We consider how the embodied actions and the artifacts produced by individuals can be analyzed. The paper includes data‐based examples of embodied interactions related to artifacts and multimodal communication in a children’s engineering literacy club. The examples demonstrate the ways in which moral orders are created and represented through multimodal interactions with artifacts as well as gesture, speech, and embodied actions.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, had an article published in the Summer 2020 issue of Perspectives on Language and Literacy, a publication of the International Dyslexia Association. The article is titled “How the Phonology of Speech Is Foundational for Instant Word Recognition.” Also, he was asked by Pearson, Inc. to help revise the reading-related subtests from the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test – 4th Edition (WIAT-4). He declined the offered remuneration for his work in order to be able to recommend the revised test battery without any financial conflict of interest. It is currently the only K-12 individualized academic achievement battery with reading-related subtests that incorporate recent advances in the scientific research on reading acquisition and reading difficulties/disabilities. The WIAT-4 released in September.
Cynthia Guy
Cynthia Guy, Community Innovation Coordinator with the Institute for Civic Engagement, has secured a grant for $1,000 from the ADP/TDC Economic Inequality Initiative Advisory Council on behalf of the Economic Inequality Initiative: Pathways to Opportunity in Cortland County, to conduct a Community State of Poverty Simulation.
Erin Morris
Erin Morris, Sport Management Department, participated on a panel on “Striving for Equality: The LGBTQ experience in Sport” at A Catalyst for the Cause: Fostering Greater Equity in Sport, a conference hosted by Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business.
Charlotte Pass
Charlotte Pass, Literacy Department, had three presentations at the New York State Reading Association’s annual conference, held Oct. 28 and 29 in Syracuse, N.Y., and two presentations at the National Council of Teachers of English, held Nov. 15 to 18 in Houston, Texas.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Hong Kong to deliver three campus-wide talks on April 25 and 26 on her books Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China, published in 2015, and Ethical Research with Sex Workers: Anthropological Approaches, published in 2013.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, contributed a chapter titled “Sports Administration: Heteronormative Presents, Queer Futures” in the recent collection Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Sport: Queer Inquiries, published by Routledge. The chapter uses queer theory and cultural studies to explore the current climate of athletics departments and imagine future, more inclusive environments for sports administrators. The chapter was co-written with Dr. Nefertiti Walker of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Jo-Ann Maclean
Jo-Ann Maclean, Admissions Office, recently completed the Administrative Skills Certificate Program (ASCP) offered through the NYS & CSEA Partnership for Education and Training. The 25-hour ASCP was completed over the course of several months and is designed around critical job-related knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for clerical, secretarial and paraprofessional administrative employees to succeed in their careers.
Lin Lin
Lin Lin, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, was invited to present “Small Island, Global Issues” at the Going Global: Leveraging Resources for International Education Conference hosted by South Asia and Southeast Asia Programs at Cornell University. The conference was held March 10 at Tompkins Cortland Community College. The presentation is based on her January two-week study tour as a Global Learning Fellow, a program sponsored by Department of Education Title VI funding for the internationalization projects of the teacher education faculty in regional teacher education programs.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, recently was interviewed by the radio show “ESPN The Classroom” about the legal issues surrounding the FIFA corruption story. FIFA is the international federation for association football (soccer).