Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, presented “Flanerie’s Art and Measure of the Globalizing City” at the College Art Association (CAA) conference in February. In March, she presented an expanded version of the CAA lecture for Shanghai Flaneur, a cultural think tank in Shanghai, China. In addition, her review of the Shanghai Biennale will appear in the Sept./Oct. 2013 issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Art and Cultural Criticism.
Kerri Freese
Kerri Freese, Noyce Project coordinator, collaborated with Maritza Macdonald, senior director of education and policy and co-director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Earth Science Residency Program at the American Museum of Natural History, to plan and implement a workshop for National Science Foundation (NSF) Noyce Scholars. The workshop, held Dec. 4 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, highlighted using a museum and informal resources for science, technology, engineering and math education (STEM) and culture knowledge. More than 60 Noyce scholars and faculty from Noyce programs throughout the northeast attended the workshop. The event was supported by leftover funds from a NSF conference grant awarded to Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, Sheila Vaidya, Drexel University and Lisa Gonsalves, University of Massachusetts Boston, that aimed to enhance pre-service and in-service teachers’ successful teaching practices in high-need schools. The SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, sponsored by the NSF, seeks to encourage talented STEM majors to become K-12 teachers in high-need rural and urban schools.
Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, has been invited to speak at a workshop on Chondrules and the Protoplanetary Disk at the Natural History Museum in London, England and to contribute a book chapter on the workshop proceedings. Also, she has been invited to speak at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, following the workshop.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and director of the Center for Ethics, Peace, and Social Justice, had her book chapter titled “Transitional Justice in Rwanda and South Africa” published this spring in The Routledge International Handbook on Penal Abolition.
Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, and a team of international collaborators were awarded a grant to host a design workshop by the Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis. The workshop is titled “From Close Kinship to Population Interactions in the Deep Past: Integrating Biological and Cultural Indicators of Social Identities in a Multiscalar Framework,” and it will be held in northern Germany in Spring 2026.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, held Sept. 1-4 in Seattle, Wa. His paper was titled “Growing Executive Power: The Strange Case of the ‘Protective Return’ Pocket Veto” for a roundtable panel on “In Defense of the Constitution.”
Ellen R. Paterson
Ellen R. Paterson, library, recently had two book reviews published: “Does An Apple A Day Keep the Doctor Away?” by Lerner, 2010, in the July issue of Science Books & Films and, “Integrative Women’s Health, Oxford, 2010, appeared in the September issue of Choice.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and director of the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), taught a graduate seminar on “Global Feminisms” in June at Fulda University of Applied Sciences in Fulda, Germany.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Capitol Hill, Washington D.C. to speak at “China and Human Trafficking: Updates and Analysis” held in August. She was also invited to speak at “Stop Traffick International Conference” in September at DePauw University.
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, will present a keynote address, “Reconstructing Gilman in the 21st Century: Art, Parenthood, and la Vita in Bella Rome,” at an international conference on “Women and Society: Charlotte Perkins Gilman Today,” in October at the Universita di Roma, Italia.