Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, political science, has been invited to serve as an advisor for the gun violence journalism project of the Center on Media, Crime and Justice of the John Jay College School of Criminal Justice. The purpose of the project is to encourage and develop new investigative and analytical journalism on gun violence in America.
Seth Asumah, Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo and Mechthild Nagel
Seth Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Geography Department, and Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department, presented papers at the New York Africana Studies Association (NYASA) annual conference held April 5 and 6 at Binghamton University. SUNY Cortland exchange student Adiam Zersenai, from Fulda, Germany, presented on her internship in Israel. Nagel was elected president of NYASA.
David J. Barclay
David J. Barclay, Geology Department, had his paper accepted for presentation at the 2010 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, being held Oct. 31-Nov. 3 in Denver Colorado. Barclay will present “High-Resolution Valley Glacier Records from Southern Alaska for the First Millennium A.D. Ice Advance and Subsequent Medieval Warm Period.” More than 6,000 scientists are expected to attend the annual meeting.
Kathleen Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had a poem, “Young and Virgin at 17,” published by Silver Birch Press in February. Her poem “What T***p Was Really Saying” appeared in The New Verse News, also in February. Lawrence was nominated for a Rhysling Award, sponsored by the Science Fiction Association, for the poem “Dorothy Delivered,” originally published in Altered Reality Magazine in 2016. In addition, Lawrence had three poems accepted by Inigo Online Magazine — “Mean Girls,” “H-I-V: Hope Is a Verb” and “King” — scheduled to appear in April.
Taylor Lynch
Taylor Lynch, Career Services, received a President’s Award for Outstanding Service and Dedication at the annual SUNY Career Development Organization (SUNYCDO) conference held June 13 in Suffern, N.Y. The university’s internship and student employment coordinator served as secretary and new member relations coordinator for the SUNYCDO Board of Directors during the 2023-24 academic year.
Gregory D. Phelan and Kerri Freese
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, and Kerri Freese, Noyce Program coordinator, along with co-professional investigators from Drexel University and University of Massachusetts, Boston, (UMass Boston) planned and executed the Second Annual Noyce Northeast Conference in Cambridge, Mass. Highlights of the two-day conference included 15 breakout sessions and a keynote from the 2012 MacArthur Fellows or Genius Grant recipient and Harvard University economist Raj Chetty. Other keynote speakers included physics professor Arthur Eisenkraft, UMass Boston; author Penny Noyce, daughter of Robert Noyce, the microchip inventor and founder of Intel; and chemistry teacher Rebecca Grella, who inspired homeless student Samantha Garvey to conduct research that led her to the Intel national science fair. A National Science Foundation grant written by Phelan, Sheila Vaidya of Drexel University and Lisa Gonsalves of UMass Boston funded the conference and participants’ attendance.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management and Kevin Heisey, formerly of SUNY Cortland, co-authored “Riddell v. United States Casts Legal Light on Tariff Engineering.” This article was published in Sport Marketing Quarterly.
Mary Ware
Mary Ware, Foundations and Social Advocacy, co-authored a publication with Mary Stuck of SUNY Oswego titled, “Diversity in Career and Technical Education On-Line Classrooms: Considering Issues of Gender, Race and Age.” The publication was published in the International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, Vol. 1, #3 (July-Sept.) 2010.
Kevin Heisey, David Snyder and Taerin Chung
Kevin Heisey and David Snyder, Sport Management Department, and Taerin Chung, M.S. '10, a former graduate student in the Sport Management Program, presented “The Effect of Foreign Players on Attendance in the Korean Professional Baseball League” at the 2nd European Conference in Sports Economics held Oct. 5-6 at the German Sport University Cologne in Cologne, Germany.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, was a commentator at the annual conference of the German Studies Association held Oct. 8 in Oakland, Calif. She commented on the panel “Wishful Brothers: The Invention of Native Americans in German Literature, Media, and Performance.”