Daniela Baban Hurrle
Daniela Baban Hurrle, International Programs Office, traveled to Bangkok, Thailand, in April at the invitation of the U.S. Department of State, to lead workshops at the Global UGRAD-Pakistan Alumni Academy Convocation. She was one of only five U.S. university representatives invited to serve as facilitators of workshops on leadership in higher education, sustainable community engagement and intercultural exchange. In addition to the workshops, the facilitators and 150 alumni participants of the Academy Convocation worked on a community cleaning service learning projects and celebrated 14 years of the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program launched by the U.S. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State. Baban Hurrle secured SUNY Cortland’s designation as a sponsor of Global UGRAD-Pakistan students in 2018 and to date, the university has hosted nine sponsored students from Pakistan, and the campus will host another new student this fall.
Mary McGuire and John Suarez
Mary McGuire and John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, conducted an “ignite” event, titled “’Hire’ Education, Public Purpose, and Student Employers” at Campus Compact’s 30th Anniversary Conference, held March 21-23 in Boston, Mass. This session used a “What If” approach to role-play in which the audience explored benefits of, and challenges to, a SUNY system that serves as a brokerage agency for college students. Examples included: Imagine a SUNY that refers students to professionals in their disciplines; students choose and hire professionals to be mentors; and students work with those mentors in applied-learning situations for the majority of their college educations.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, was elected to the secretary/treasurer position of the Teacher's Work/Teachers Unions Special Interest Group of the American Educational Studies Association for a three-year term. In addition, she co-presented two papers at the same conference, titled: “The Micro-Macro Dialectic: Teacher Activism Within and Across Multiple Systemic Domains” and “Theorizing Resistance: Teacher Resistance to Neoliberalism in Canada and the United States.”
Maria Timberlake
Maria Timberlake, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had her research article titled “Nice, but we can’t afford it: Challenging Austerity and Finding Abundance in Inclusive Education” published in the December issue of International Journal of Inclusive Education.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Kinesiology and Physical Education departments, wrote a chapter titled “Cirit: An Etic View of Horseback Javelin,” that is included in the recently published book Do Cavalo, On Horses, edited by Constantino Pereira Martins.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Physical Education Department, had the second edition of her textbook, History and Philosophy of Physical Education and Sport (Cognella), released. Her chapter on "Duty of Care: Non-traumatic Deaths and DI Collegiate Football," will also be published by Bloomsbury in College Sport Ethics (Eds. S. Klein and C. Carlson) in December, 2025.
John Cottone
John Cottone, Schools of Professional Studies and Education, was the keynote speaker for the New York State Association of Independent Schools annual meeting for athletic directors in New Paltz, N.Y. His presentation, “Athletic Risk Management: Concepts, Controversy and Confusion,” was designed to inform coaches, administrators, parents and community organizations about the importance of developing and implementing a risk management plan. His address focused on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and the latest evidenced-based information for dealing with environmental injury and the basic guidelines for fluid replacement in preventing heat-related illness.
Jaroslava Prihodova
Jaroslava Prihodova, Dowd Gallery, was interviewed for the dArt International Magazine by Dominick D. Lombardi, curator, writer and artist. His articles, interviews and art reviews have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Sculpture, Juxtapoz, among others. The feature article titled Jaroslava Prihodova’s Measured Confluence covers her personal history, art and curatorial practice at SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Gallery.
Caroline Kaltefleiter
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies Department, presented a paper titled “Water-Tok Girls: The Politics of the Stanley Cup Craze, Capitalism, and Girls’ Consumption Practices in Everyday Day Life” at the Girlhood Studies Collective Conference held April 5 at Rutgers University, Camden, N.J. It was a virtual presentation. Her research paper, “Sista Grrrls Riot: Phantom Power, Liminality, and (Trans)Locution to Resist Racism and Fascism” was presented at the Reimagining Anarchism: Race, Class, Gender and Revolution Symposium held March 23 at Cornell University.
Philip M. Gipson
Philip M. Gipson, Mathematics Department, had his article “Invariant Basis Number for C*-Algebras” published in the Illinois Journal of Mathematics.