Dominick Fantacone
Dominick Fantacone, Research and Sponsored Programs, presented a paper titled, “Enacting Culturally Responsive Science Education in Rural & Urban Districts: Noyce Alumni Perspectives from Two Universities” at the NARST 2025 Annual International Conference on March 25 in National Harbor, Maryland. NARST is a global organization for improving science education through research.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, has an article titled “Grammatical subjects, ‘Hell is other people’, and irreprehensible nature” in the current issue of Cultural Geographies.
Jena Nicols Curtis
Jena Nicols Curtis, Health Department, presented at the Ending Violence Against Women’s International Conference held April 18-20 in Orlando, Fla. She presented “Working to Better Understand How Domestic Violence Survivors Experience and Interpret Abuse: Research Findings & Strategies for Outreach and Intervention.” The conference brought together more than 2,000 law enforcement personnel, prosecutors, victim advocates, judges, parole and probation officers, rape crisis workers, health care professionals, faith community members, educators and researchers from around the world to collaborate on ending gender-based violence.
Jeremy Jiménez
Jeremy Jiménez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article about helping students create their own digital history texts published in The History Teacher. “Recasting the History Textbook as the Collaborative Creation of Student-Authored Interactive Texts” was co-authored with Laura Moorhead, San Francisco State University. A second article, “Education for global citizenship and sustainable development in social science textbooks,” was published in September in the European Journal of Education, Research, Development and Policy. It was co-authored with Julia Lerch of University of California, Irvine, and Patricia Bromley from Stanford University.
Frank Rossi and Terrence Fitzgerald
Frank Rossi, Chemistry Department, and Terrence Fitzgerald, Biological Sciences Department, are the principal authors of an article titled “Response of the neonate larvae of Cactoblastis cactorum to synthetic cactoblastins, a newly identified class of pheromonally-active chemicals found in the caterpillar’s mandibular glands” appearing in the journal Chemoecology. Four recent Cortland students are coauthors of the paper: Daniel Rojas ’19, a current a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Delaware, Danielle A. Cervasio ’17, currently a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University majoring in neuroscience, John Posillico ’16, now a middle school science teacher in New York City, and Kyle Parella ’17, currently a PhD candidate in biochemistry at SUNY ESF. The paper is the fifth to be published by the principal investigators that explores the possibility of using the insect’s own pheromones as an eco-rational alternative to biocides in managing populations of the invasive caterpillar. The research was support by grants from the USDA-APHIS.
Carol Van Der Karr, Susan Wilson, Andrea Dávalos, Michael Hough and Tim Baroni
Carol Van Der Karr, Academic Affairs, Susan Wilson, Parks, Recreation and Leisure Studies Department, and Andrea Dávalos, Michael Hough and Tim Baroni, all from the Biological Sciences Department, volunteered at the 24-hour community BioBlitz Sept. 8 and 9 held at the Cayuga Nature Center in Ithaca, NY. The event was sponsored by Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Sciences (SIPS) and the Cayuga Nature Center and the censing work was done at the both the center and The Smith Wood Preserve in Trumansburg, a patch of old growth forest near Taughannock State Park that has recently yielded newly discovered species for the Cayuga Lake Basin. A BioBlitz is the cataloging of all life forms, from mammals to bacteria, that can be found in a defined area over a 24-hour time span. It is meant to serve as a baseline snap shot of biodiversity for the area. The first ever BioBlitz was held in 1996 at Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens in Washington, D.C. Such events are now common across the US and can cover small or large areas, such as national parks, and the time frames can be extended to a year or more. Van Der Karr and Wilson helped with the census for mollusks (snails and slugs) and annelids (worms). Dávalos assisted with identification of non-native annelids, Hough helped with identification of plants and Baroni with collecting and identification of fleshy fungi (mushroom and relatives). The BioBlitz started at 5 p.m. Friday at the Cayuga Nature Center and included talks and demonstrations that evening until 9 p.m. on snails, slugs, bats, spiders, moths and other nighttime insects. Saturday’s events began at 10 a.m. and included talks, walks and demonstrations on plants, fungi, microbiology, bees, large wild animal back yard feeding and birds. In addition, some of the selected organisms collected by the survey teams and brought to the nature center for identification were placed on display, along with field guides and literature on identification of organisms in nature. The event drew nature enthusiasts from as far away as Rochester, N.Y., and resulted in an overflow parking capacity at the center on Saturday.
Kevin D. Dames
Kevin D. Dames, Kinesiology Department, collaborated with members of Colorado State University’s Sensorimotor Neuroimaging Laboratory on research presented at the Rocky Mountain Regional American Society of Biomechanics held in March in Chapel Hill, N.C., and at the Neural Control of Movement conferences, held in May in Santa Fe, N.M.
Anne Adams
Anne Adams, Africana Studies Department, chaired a panel and presented a paper at the annual conference of the Caribbean Studies Association in June in Havana, Cuba. Her paper, comparing folkloric and performance characteristics in African American and Caribbean literature, was titled “Pan-African Literature as Performance: Signifiyin’ Tricksters from Zora Neale Hurston and Marlon James.”
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, organized three conference panels. “How Should We Understand and Address Gender Based Violence Around the World,” was for the May 11 SUNY Graduate Research Conference. “Asian Queer Studies: A Critique of Euro-America Centric Queer Studies,” was for the annual conference of the Association of Asian Studies, held March 17 in Boston. “Dynamic Culture Issues in Global China” was organized for the New York Association of Asian Studies held Oct. 8, 2022, at Syracuse University.
Jacob Hall and Kate McCormick
Jacob Hall and Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an article published in TechTrends titled ‘My Cars don’t Drive Themselves’: Preschoolers’ Guided Play Experiences with Button‑Operated Robots. The article describes what preschool children’s computational thinking experiences are like when button-operated robots are introduced into their guided play.