Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Cultural Geography. In this position, he will review manuscripts submitted to the journal, actively solicit manuscripts for submission and provide general counsel to the editor and other members of the editorial staff on a wide range of publication issues.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, presented a paper titled “Queer Contiguity and the Narration of Kinship in The Argonauts” at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present’s ASAP/10 conference on Oct. 19 at Tulane University in New Orleans, La.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his book Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form published on Aug.19 by Duke University Press. He co-edited the book with Elizabeth Freeman from University of California, Davis and it appears in Duke’s Theory Q series, which is devoted to critical sexuality studies. The Lambda Literary Foundation listed Queer Kinship on its “August’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature” list.
Tim Delaune
Tim Delaune, Political Science Department and pre-law adviser, had his article published in the Autumn 2016 edition of The Green Bag. “An Immodest Proposal” is recommending a rotating chief justiceship on the US Supreme Court and was part of the The Green Bag 2d’s microsymposium in response to criticisms of the federal judiciary by Judge Richard A. Posner.
Mary Gfeller
Mary Gfeller, Mathematics Department and SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, and Noyce Scholar Jason Miedema, adolescence education: mathematics major, hosted a book chat on Nov. 15 at the Blue Frog Café on Main Street in Cortland. Sponsored by the SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, the book chat brought together a group of SUNY Cortland faculty, staff and mathematics students to explore and review the book Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics: Toward a Pedagogy for Social Justice by Eric Gutstein. Social justice issues and examples of social justice mathematics lessons were discussed, along with questions such as the following: “Should math teachers encourage students to use mathematics to critique injustices in their community and the world?” and “Should the goal of mathematics education be to give students the tools to challenge oppression?”
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, had her commentary titled “Marchand’s ‘Kissing’ and the NHL’s Hypocrisy” published on Engaging Sports, a blog devoted to the critical analysis of sports cultures. The piece, published in June after the NHL playoffs, offers an intersectional critique of the NHL’s culture of violence.
Laura J. Davies
Laura J. Davies, English Department, had her essay, “Teaching with Love,” published in the Fall 2014 issue of Composition Studies.
Melissa A. Morris
Melissa A. Morris, Physics Department, gave an invited talk titled “Phyllosilicate Emission from Protoplanetary Disks. Is the Indirect Detection of Extrasolar Water Possible?” at Cornell University in early December. Also, she submitted a paper to The Astrophysical Journal Letters titled “New Insight into the Solar System’s Transition Disk Phase Provided by the Metal-rich Carbonaceous Chondrite Isheyevo.” Morris travelled to Salt Lake City, Utah, for three days in December for in-depth planetarium training, and to Arizona State University (ASU) from Jan. 8-10 to participate in an international conference that she helped organize. The conference was titled “AstroRecon 2015, Conference on Spacecraft Reconnaissance of Asteroid and Comet Interiors.” While at ASU, she met with fellow NASA grant collaborators and conducted experiments on meteoritic material, which will be reported in upcoming publications and future grant proposals. Most recently, Morris coauthored two posters presented at the 225th Astronomical Society Meeting held Jan. 4-8 in Seattle, Wash.
Kate McCormick, Christine Uliassi, Krystal Barber and Kim Wieczorek
Kate McCormick, Christine Uliassi, Krystal Barber and Kim Wieczorek, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an article published in Young Children titled “Creating Multimodal Experiences to Engage All Students in Early Grade Classrooms.”
David A. Kilpatrick
David A. Kilpatrick, professor emeritus of psychology, was invited by the National Association of School Psychologists to present two half-day workshops for their annual conference in New Orleans on Friday, Feb. 16. The workshops were titled “Intervention-Oriented Assessment of Reading Difficulties” and “Interventions for Difficulties with Word Identification, Fluency and Reading Comprehension.” In addition, he participated in a research presentation, “Exploring Reading Fluency as a Function of the Orthographic Lexicon” with co-presenters Michelle Storie, Ph.D., from SUNY Oswego, Vincent Alfonzo, Ph.D. from Montclair University and Daniel Hajovsky, Ph.D. from Texas A&M.