Theresa Curtis
Theresa Curtis, Biological Sciences Department, and two recent biology graduates had their article, “Suitability of Invertebrate and Vertebrate Cells in a Portable Impedance-based Toxicity Sensor: Temperature Mediated Impacts on Long-term Survival,” published in the journal Toxicology in Vitro.
Seth N. Asumah and Mechthild Nagel
Seth N. Asumah, Political Science and Africana Studies departments, and Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, were invited as consultants to train close to 300 professionals on Nov. 7 at Arlington High School in LaGrangeville, N.Y. The workshop focused on difficult dialogues and implicit bias.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by Brown University to deliver a campus-wide book talk on March 9. She will discuss her new book Tongzhi Living: Same-Sex Attracted Men in Postsocialist China, published in 2015 by University of Minnesota Press.
Jim Hokanson
Jim Hokanson, Kinesiology Department, was invited to present a talk titled “Physical Activity and the AlterG Treadmill” as part of the Department of Nursing and Physical Therapy’s Seminar Series at the University of Salamanca, Spain. The presentation highlighted previous research with the AlterG treadmill, carried out at SUNY Cortland’s Exercise Physiology Lab.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, had his article titled “Reading Picture Books and Discussing Gender Binary Topics with Elementary Students,” published in the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) blog on Oct. 25.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, co-authored a research article titled “Relationship between socioeconomic vulnerability and ecological sustainability: The case of Aran-V-Bidgol's rangelands, Iran,” that appears in the journal Ecological Indicators.
Christopher D. Gascón
Christopher D. Gascón, Modern Languages Department, had his article, “Nomadic Subjectivity in Leyma López’s 2018 staging of Ana Caro’s Valor, agravio y mujer,” published in Living the Comedia: Essays Celebrating Amy Williamsen, edited by Esther Fernández and Yuri Porras, University Press of the South, 2020.
Bernice Cooper and Lorraine Lopez-Janove
Bernice Cooper, Campus Technology Services, and Lorraine Lopez-Janove, Diversity and Inclusion, were interviewed by local ABC morning talk show Bridge Street to discuss the upcoming Juneteenth celebration hosted by the Cortland County Community of Color, a collaborative initiative between SUNY Cortland and Tompkins Cortland Community College.
Philip Buckenmeyer
Philip Buckenmeyer, Kinesiology Department, led seven kinesiology students in a Healthy Now project that culminated with a Wellness Day event at the Barry School in Cortland on Feb. 12. SUNY Cortland students included Hannah Smith, Jeffrey Koch, Theodore Kopytowski, Michael Grieco, Lauren Guardino, Erin Kelly and Ayden Wilbur. The Barry School children learned about their flexibility and range of motion by practicing four different exercises that focused on the hips, neck, back and shoulders.
Melissa A. Morris
Melissa A. Morris, Physics Department, had her NASA proposal titled “Chondrule Formation in Impact Plumes” selected for funding in the amount of $330,000 for 2014-16. Her joint publication, “Overcoming the Meter Barrier and the Formation of Systems with Tightly Packed Inner Planets (STIPs),” was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters in September. Also, Morris attended the Circumstellar Disks and Planet Formation Conference Oct. 12-14 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.