Hilary Izatt
Hilary Izatt, Political Science Department, has been informed that her article, “Asymmetry of Power and Attention in Alliance Relations: The US-ROK Case,” has been accepted for publication in the Australian Journal of International Affairs, to be published in 2016. Izatt co-authored the article with Gi Wook Shin and Renni Moon.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article published in the Washington Post on Jan. 25 titled “The NRA wants to suppress one of guns’ most important safety features,” about a little-known bill in Congress to remove most existing restrictions on the purchase of gun silencers. Also, he was interviewed on CNN on Jan. 24 about the same subject: The next possible gun industry sales boom: Silencers.
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Christian Berenguer and Christopher Gutierrez
Christian Berenguer ’16 and Christopher Gutierrez ’17, graduate assistants in the Recreational Sports Department, worked with a group of 20 Cortland students, staff and community members during the summer months to train and prepare for the Dick's Sporting Goods Half Marathon, in which they competed on Sept. 22. “The group started off with a few individuals who simply wanted to run a race together, but then exploded to a group of 20 individuals,” said Gutierrez. The team name, NARP, an acronym for “Non-Athletic Regular People,” was created as an all-inclusive team for all fitness levels. The name was designed to encourage participants of the campus community to join in this race. More information can be found on Binghamton’s Fox 40 website story titled, “Dick's Greater Binghamton Marathon Offers Races For All Ages.”
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, was named last fall as the managing editor of a new journal, The Reading League Journal. The journal articles are written by top researchers from around the world and summarizes scientific findings on reading development and reading difficulties/disabilities. The unique feature of this publication is that it is not written for other researchers but rather for educational professionals working in schools (teachers, administrators, speech pathologists, and school psychologists). The journal will have three issues per year, fall, winter and spring. The first issue was published in January.
Kate Polasek and Mark Dodds
Kate Polasek, Kinesiology Department, and Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, presented “Stuffed fish, vibrating chairs, and anal beads: What’s new in sport cheating” at the Sport and Recreation Law Association conference held in February in Las Vegas.
Doug Langhans
Doug Langhans, Admissions, recently visited Japan and represented SUNY Cortland at two student recruitment fairs hosted by EducationUSA, an official branch of the U.S. Department of State designed to promote U.S. higher education to students around the world. The fairs were held in Tokyo and Osaka, and Langhans discussed the benefits of studying at SUNY Cortland with students, parents and representatives from a variety of educational institutions. In addition, he was invited to a reception at the U.S. Ambassador’s Residence hosted by Ambassador Caroline Kennedy. The reception highlighted the launch of “A Broader View,” a U.S. Embassy project to promote study in the United States through video interviews with prominent study abroad alumni.
Varya McCaslin-Doyle
Varya McCaslin-Doyle, Information Systems and Security, passed her Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam on May 19.
Michelle Cryan
Michelle Cryan, Publications and Electronic Media Office, developed a prototype for an app designed to teach sign language to pre-verbal children. She submitted the app project as the thesis for her master’s degree in Information Design and Technology at SUNYIT. The paper and a prototype of the app can be found at http://people.sunyit.edu/~cryanm/. Cryan wrote and illustrated a lift-the-flap sign language book that was published in 2007 by Gallaudet Press.
Gretchen Herrmann
Gretchen Herrmann, Library, had her article, “New Lives from New Goods: Garage Sales as Rites of Passage,” published in the most recent issue of Ethnology. Given the importance of the amount and types of consumer goods owned by people to the creation of personal identities, the public disposal and acquisition of such possessions in garage sales can signal a shift in life orientation. Moving, downsizing, selling off baby items or grandmother’s effects after her death all constitute publicly engaged rituals of transition.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology, and student Gwyneth Laukaitis, Kinesiology. presented research titled "Collegiate female lacrosse players demonstrate asymmetry in time to stabilization following lateral hops" at the American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh. Their research identifies deficits in medial and lateral hop landings which could contribute to the high prevalence of anterior cruciate ligament injuries in female field sport athletes.