Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Student Development centers, has learned that the office was awarded full re-accreditation this fall semester by the International Association of Counseling Services (IACS). Accreditation by IACS is a voluntary evaluative process involving a written self-study and the adherence to established standards of practice. These standards are articulated by the IACS Board of Accreditation, the members of which are directors of counseling services located throughout the United States and internationally. IACS is the only accreditation association that accredits counseling services on university and college campuses.
Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, has been invited to speak at a workshop on the early Solar System set for Nov. 7-10 in Tokyo, Japan, and to contribute a manuscript to the publication of the workshop proceedings. Also, Morris has been issued a VIP invitation to the launch of the OSIRIS-REx mission, NASA’s sample return mission to the asteroid Bennu. The launch is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 8, at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, with a launch window through Friday, Sept. 10. More information can be found at www.asteroidmission.org
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, has had her essay, “Assessing Class Participation: One Useful Strategy,” included in a new e-book titled Grading Strategies for the College Classroom: a Collection of Articles for Faculty, from Magna Publications. The book is available on Amazon.com.
Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Student Development, has been invited to join the Survey Team for the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD). AUCCCD promotes the awareness of student mental health and development issues in higher education through research, advocacy, education and training provided to members, professional organizations and the public. In 2006, AUCCCD instituted the Annual Survey as a means to increase objective understanding of factors critical to the functioning of college and university counseling centers. The survey is published online annually and serves as a resource for directors as well as others interested in college mental health and development.
Christopher D. Gascón
Christopher D. Gascón, Modern Languages Department, had an article about a recent off-Broadway production in Spanish published in the journal Bulletin of the Comediantes (issue 69.1, 2017). The article, titled “Virués’s Theater of the Grotesque: Interrogating La gran Semíramis from Roman Chronicle to the New York Stage,” analyzes elements of the grotesque in the 1579 text by Cristóbal de Virués and in Diego Chiri’s 2015 production of the play at Repertorio Español in New York City. Integrating the perspectives of Kristeva, Bakhtin, and Foucault, the study concludes that Chiri uses the grotesque to reconcile contradictory elements of the work, and that Virués participates in the processes of distortion and degradation that have typified the production of the Semiramis myth, itself grotesque, throughout the centuries.
Karen Downey and Matthew Ellis
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, and senior student researcher Matthew Ellis, presented their work, “Density Functional Theory Modeling for Design of Group 10-based Metallo-organic Catalysts,” at the Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society on June 10 in Ithaca, N.Y.
Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, co-authored a paper in the journal Nature Anthropology.
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, was elected to serve a five-year term on the Modern Language Association (MLA) Sexuality Studies Executive Committee. She also gave a presentation on LGBTQ+ kinship narratives at the annual MLA Convention held in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper titled “To Brandish or Not to Brandish: The Consequences of Gun Display” at the Duke University Law School Conference on Historical Gun Laws, held virtually on June 19.
Michael Hough
Michael Hough, Biological Sciences Department, recently co-authored a paper announcing the first record of a native orchid in New York state. “Discovery of Spiranthes odorata (Nutt.) Lindl. (Fragrant Ladies’-tresses) in Central New York” was published in The Native Orchid Conference Journal. It was co-authored with J.M. McMullen, M.A. Young, and C.L. Landis
The article is currently only available to members but should be publicly available by the end of 2021. Also, Hough was interviewed about the article by the Syracuse Post-Standard in a feature that was published on Oct. 12 titled “A ‘stunning’ discovery: Fragrant orchid found near Onondaga Lake, 350 miles from nearest known site.”