Mark Dodds and Harlan Bigelow
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, and Harlan Bigelow, Budget Office, ran the Lake Placid Marathon for Team in Training, a non-profit organization that raises money to fight leukemia. More than 200 people ran the Lake Placid Marathon and Half Marathon on June 13, raising more than $500,000. Bigelow finished third in his age group.
Katie Silvestri
Katie Silvestri, Literacy Department, led authorship on a journal article about multimodal positioning as seen in interactions between children and the designs they create in an after-school engineering club recently published in Multimodal Communication. Co-authors are Mary McVee, Christopher Jarmark, Lynn Shanahan and Kenneth English at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). The article features a case study and uses multimodal positioning analysis to determine and describe how a purposefully crafted emergent artifact influenced and manipulated social dynamics, structure, and positionings of one design team comprised of five third graders. In addition to social semiotic theories of multimodality and multimodal interactional analysis, Positioning Theory is used to examine group interactions with their constructed artifact, with observational data collected from audio, video, researcher field notes, analytic memos, photographs, student artifacts (e.g., drawn designs, built designs), and transcriptions of audio and video data. Analysis of interactions of the artifact as it unfolded demonstrates multiple types of role-based positioning with students (e.g., builder, helper, idea-sharer). Foregrounding analysis of the artifact, rather than the student participants, exposed students’ alignment or opposition with their groupmates during the project. This study contributes to multimodal and artifactual scholarship through a close examination of positions emergent across time through multimodal communicative actions and illustrates how perspectives on multimodality may be analytically combined with Positioning Theory.
Kate McCormick
Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, recently co-presented a paper at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry held May 15 to 18 in Champaign-Urbana, Ill. The presentation was titled “Rhetorical Questions: Examining Early Faculty Experiences Through Found Poetry” and was presented with co-author Libba Willcox from Valdosta State University.
Kristine Newhall and Erin Morris
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, and Erin Morris, Sports Management Department, were invited to create and deliver a panel on Supporting Trans Athletes as part of SUNY Plattsburgh's Trans Day of Visibility events on March 27.
Lauren Scagnelli, Natasha McFadden and John Suarez
Lauren Scagnelli, Counseling and Wellness Services, Natasha McFadden, The Cortland Fund, and John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, presented “Combating Food Insecurity: Tools to Implement a Food Pantry on Your Campus” at the annual meeting of the New York State College Health Association. They delivered their message on Oct. 18 in Syracuse to a multi-state audience.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, wrote two articles that recently appeared on the Huffington Post. “Why Obama Must Embrace the Veto Strategy,” was posted Jan. 5; “Double Congress’s Pay,” was posted Jan. 18. Spitzer is a regular contributor to Huffington.
Jerome O'Callaghan
Jerome O'Callaghan, Arts and Sciences, was informed that his article, “Gossip, the Office, the First Amendment,” has been accepted by the North East Journal of Legal Studies for publication this spring. The article examines the constitutional dimension to policies designed to punish gossip in the workplace. Co-authors are Paula O’Callaghan and Rosemary Hartigan.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, was invited to present a paper titled “Comparing the Constitutional Presidencies of Bush and Obama: War Powers, Signing Statements, Vetoes” for a conference on “Change in the White House? Comparing the Presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.” The conference was held at Hofstra University on April 19 and hosted by Hofstra’s Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, was invited by Intercultural Migration and Integration Center in Hamburg, Germany, to give a keynote address on Africa Day 2017. Also, he participated on a panel discussion on “Africa’s Partnership with Europe and Agenda 2063.” The panelists included Professor of Journalism Jane Ayeko- Kummeth from Deutsche Welle, Hamburg, former Minister of State for Private Sector Development Honorable Abdul-Rashid Hassan Pelpuo from Ghana, and Professor of Educational Science and Economics Louis Henri Seukwa from Hamburg University of Applied Sciences.
Alexandru Balas
Alexandru Balas, International Studies Program, presented a research paper titled “Central and Eastern Europe’s Contributions to Peace Operations” at the International Studies Association’s 56th annual convention in February.