Gregory D. Phelan
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, recently presented at the Board on Research Data and Information of the National Academies. The public symposium included speakers from Columbia University, Stanford University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. His talk on the use of digital media in scientific research is currently being prepared for publication.
Mark Dodds, Jordan Kobritz, Justin Lovich, Tara Mahoney and Ryan Vooris
Mark Dodds, Jordan Kobritz, Justin Lovich, Tara Mahoney and Ryan Vooris, all Sport Management Department faculty members, presented research at the 29th Annual Conference of the Sport and Recreation Law Association (SRLA) held March 2-5 in New Orleans, La. Also, Dodds was recognized with the President’s Service Award for service to SRLA.
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.
Susan Rayl
Susan Rayl, Kinesiology Department, received the “Sue and Ron Smith Service Award” at the annual convention of the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) held May 26 to 29 in Washington, D.C. The award recognizes exceptional contributions to the organization. Rayl has served as the convention photographer since 2013.
Jeffrey Radloff
Jeffrey Radloff, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, will receive the Excellence in Teaching Award - College Level from the Science Teachers Association of New York State at their annual conference in November.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, co-authored a manuscript with collaborators from Colorado State University and Oakland University that was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Biomechanics. The article is titled “Leveling the Playing Field: Evaluation of a Portable Instrument for Quantifying Balance Performance.” Dames and co-authors derived commonly reported postural stability metrics from a portable force plate and validated them against measures calculated from a laboratory-grade instrument. Validating this tool allows clinicians, athletic trainers and others to collect accurate postural stability outcomes outside of the traditional laboratory setting.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Galpin Institute for Civic Engagement, designed and co-facilitated a pair of civic engagement workshops for 20 Empire State Service Corps interns. In one, Joseph Scanlon (associate professor, political science, SUNY Monroe Community College), David Rogers (president, SUNY Morrisville) and Suarez coached the SUNY students to identify career and civic readiness skills demonstrated in their internships. In the second, students explored applying those skills to address a specific issue. Four SUNY Cortland students participated, Kalyiah Haynes, Kaylynn Claudio, Sahteve Lindsay and Tylar Macintyre.
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.
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, will be one of two featured poets in the second issue of Home Planet News Online.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, co-edits the Handbook on Teachers’ Work, to be released September 30, 2025, by Routledge. The Handbook brings together research and evidence-based authoritative writings from across the globe. Drawing on research from twelve countries across 6 continents, the chapters are grouped into themes that represent key issues related to teachers' work from global perspectives, including:
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The Political and Policy Contexts of Teachers' Work
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Teaching as an Occupation
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Diverse Teacher Identities and Roles
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Teaching as Collective and Relational Work; and
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Teaching and Activism
The volume explores the idea of teaching as an occupation with a history and trajectory that are shaped by political economies; historical progressions; organizational structures; social relations among educators, students, and others; teachers’ career and labor patterns; their professional norms; and raced, gendered, classed, and culturally linked expectations of teachers and about public schooling. View further information including the table of contents here.