James Hokanson
James Hokanson, Kinesiology Department, served as a mentor for kinesiology graduate student Lindsey Taylor, who presented her poster at the “Graduate Research: Making a Difference in New York Partnering with SUNY and CUNY” event held Feb. 11 in Albany, N.Y. Taylor’s poster is titled “Whole-Body High-Intensity Interval Training as an Alternative to Endurance Training.”
Jack Carr
Jack Carr, Communication and Media Studies Department, performed the role of the bastard fop, Don John, in “Much Ado About Nothing” for Shakespeare-in-the-Park at Thornden Amphitheatre, in Syracuse, N.Y., the only live theatre presentation in Onondaga County this summer. This was followed by an ensemble role in a COVID-compliant mashup on the lawns behind the former Case Mansion in Auburn, N.Y., of the Greek tragedy “Antigone” by Sophocles and “Letters to Soldiers Lost,” reading actual letters that had been left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, and singing contemporary folk songs, two of which were written by college students for the original production on the West Coast. For this work, Carr and his SUNY Cortland colleague Nancy Kane, Kinesiology Department, were cited by the Theatre Association of New York State (TANYS). Carr is currently playing Malvolio in “Twelfth Night,” to be posted to YouTube at Thanksgiving. Also, he is putting finishing touches on an original script, “Maintenance,” with his friend and collaborator, Cortland native Matthew B. Steele.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, co-authored a research article titled “Coping strategies during drought: The case of rangeland users in southwest Iran” that appears in the current issue of Rangelands.
Celeste McNamara
Celeste McNamara, History Department, was appointed book review editor for the Journal of Religious History, published on behalf of the Religious History Association. The Journal of Religious History is an international, double-blind, peer-reviewed journal that aims to publish high quality, impactful scholarship and research that makes original and significant contribution to the field of religious history. The scope of the journal is the history of all religions and their relationship with the human experience across all time periods; the journal explores religion and its related subjects, along with debates on comparative method and theory in religious history.
Thomas Lickona
Thomas Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs (Respect and Responsibility), has been invited to be a Distinguished Professor at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at England’s University of Birmingham.
During the week of June 23-27, Lickona will present “Integrating Ethics and Excellence: Educating for Both Moral and Performance Character” as part of the centre’s biweekly seminar series, and he will confer with teams working on different research projects within the centre. The invitation was announced in the March 2014 issue of the Jubilee Centre Research and Policy Digest.
The 2014 Winter-Spring issue of excellence & ethics, co-edited by Lickona and Office Manager Marthe Seales, focuses on how schools and parents can combat the rising rate of dating violence and sexual assault, which have received growing national attention. To download a copy, visit the center’s website at www.cortland.edu/character.
Rev. Vicki Johnson
Rev. Vicki Johnson, Interfaith Center, was coordinator of worship and music for the women of the New York Conference of the United Church of Christ, held May 1-3.
Noelle Chaddock Paley
Noelle Chaddock Paley, Multicultural Life and Diversity Office and Africana Studies Department gave a talk titled “On Being a Black Woman” at Mohawk Valley Community College for their Fall 2014 Cultural Series. The talk took place on both the Utica and Rome campuses.
Justin Bucciferro
Justin Bucciferro, Economics Department, had his article, “A Comparative Portrait of Long-Run Racial Disparity in the United States and Brazil,” published in Essays in Economic & Business History. Also, he presented a paper at the Economic History Association meeting held in September in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Charles DeMotte
Charles DeMotte, Sociology/Anthropology Department, will have his book, Bat, Ball and Bible: The Struggle for Sunday Baseball in New York, published in 2012 by Potomac Press.
Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, was invited by NASA headquarters in Washington D.C. to act as a contracted program officer to assist in the administration of several programs under the Planetary Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate. She has taken a leave of absence from teaching at SUNY Cortland for the fall semester to perform this important service to our country and the scientific community. She will continue to advise her SUNY Cortland undergraduate research assistants and postdoctoral researchers while she is on leave.
Morris was a coauthor on a presentation titled “Thermal History Match Between CBb Chondrules and Impact Plume Models” at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, held July 23-28 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Morris’ undergraduate research assistant and current SUNY Cortland senior Andrew Duval spent six weeks at Arizona State University (ASU) over the summer collecting data on meteorites using the state-of-the-art facilities at ASU’s Center for Meteorite Studies. The results of his research will be the subject of his honors thesis, and will be published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Also, Morris had a Career Profile posted on the blog of The American Astronomical Society Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy on August 8.