Vierne Placide
Vierne Placide, Health Department, presented a paper titled “Factors influencing opioid abstinence and retention in Medication-Assisted Treatment for opioid addiction” during the Opioids and Behavioral Health plenary session, in addition to a poster presentation titled “Providing integrative services with an integrative workforce in Generation Rx: A review” at the 2019 Public Health Partnership Conference (NYSPHA/NYSACHO), held May 1 to 3 in Cortland, N.Y.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science Departments, had his article, “Islam, Rentier States and the Quest for Democracy in Africa,” published in the Western Journal of Black Studies, Volume 34, Number 4, Winter 2010.
Robert Ponterio
Robert Ponterio, Modern Languages, with Jean LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish and the U.S. Air Force Academy, and William Heller, Perry High School and SUNY Geneseo, had their article published in New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers’ Language Association Journal, Vol. 61, No. 3, 2010. The article, “Cultural Perspective in the Language Classroom: Providing a Meaningful Context for Communication,” evolved from work the three have been doing in presenting professional development workshops for language teachers focused on methods of integrating culture with language instruction through the national standards for foreign language learning. The attention to “perspectives” explores how artifacts and behaviors function with a culture rather than describing them on a more superficial level.
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, has been appointed to the CNY Area Health Education Center (CNYAHEC) Cortland/Cayuga/Seneca Regional Advisory Council. The council encompasses representatives from healthcare, education, government, business and not-for-profit groups. The council collaborates with CNYAHEC to identify priorities and strategies for regional healthcare workforce development.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, wrote an article for the The Huffington Post titled “Campuses Just Say ‘No’ to Guns” that appeared for the week of Feb. 28 about current efforts around the country to allow faculty and students to carry handguns on college campuses. Spitzer is a regular contributor to Huffington.
Brian D. Barrett
Brian D. Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, is acknowledged in Knowledge, Pedagogy and Society: International Perspectives on Basil Bernstein's Sociology of Education, Routledge, 2010, edited by D. Frandji & P. Vitale, for his translation and editorial work on 10 chapters by authors whose first language is not English.
Peter McGinnis
Peter McGinnis, Kinesiology Department, accompanied two graduate students who presented at the “Research That Matters: An Exposition of Graduate Research in SUNY and CUNY” on March 8 at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y. Hobit LaFaye, master’s degree candidate in outdoor and environmental education in the Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, presented “Creating Cultural Change through Heritage Interpretation and the Theory of Planned Behavior: A Project Promoting the Safety and Use of Bicycling for Transportation.” Her faculty sponsor is Edward Hill, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department. Katherine Clancy, master’s degree candidate in exercise science, Kinesiology Department, will discuss “Comparison of Lumbar Spine Loads During Back and Front Squats. Her faculty sponsors are Kinesiology Department faculty members McGinnis, Joy Hendrick and Wendy Hurley.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, is in the final editing stages of the Encyclopedia of Sport Management and Marketing. This encyclopedia is the first of its kind within the sport management discipline. Numerous persons from SUNY Cortland contributed by writing entries, including faculty members Peter Han, Ted Fay, Kevin Heisey, Dodds, several graduate students from Dodds’ sport marketing classes and undergraduate student Eli Roberge. The encyclopedia will be published by Sage Publications in September 2011.
Janet Ochs, Jennifer Parker and Jeremy Pekarek
Janet Ochs, Jennifer Parker and Jeremy Pekarek of Memorial Library had their bibliographic essay titled “Resources on Women in STEM” published in Choice Magazine and featured in the March 2020 issue. This essay highlights women role models in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professions and includes 58 book titles that explore various elements within STEM fields such as gender inequality, history, education, academic contributions, societal impacts and government involvement.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently was interviewed for the Washington Post's TikTok feature "Variant Cover," about "review bombing" and fan backlash to feminism in the new Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. The story can be viewed online.