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Faculty and Staff Activities

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.

Alexandru Balas

Alexandru Balas, International Studies Department and director of the Clark Center for International Education, had his book, The Puzzle of Peace. The Evolution of Peace in the International System, published in February by Oxford University Press. The book is co-authored with Gary Goertz and Paul Diehl. The Puzzle of Peace moves beyond defining peace as the absence of war and develops a broader conceptualization and explanation for the increasing peacefulness of the international system. The authors track the rise of peace as a new phenomenon in international history starting after 1945.

Caroline Kaltefleiter

Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies Department, participated in a panel discussion titled, “Care Protesting Care Protesting” held Sept. 28 at the Kunstal Charlottenborg at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. During her tenure at the Kunstal Charlottenborg, she attended the exhibition “Post-Capital: Art and the Economics of the Digital Age” and took part in follow-up lectures and discussions.  

In October, Kaltefleiter discussed her research on “Do-It-Yourself Media Campaigns” with colleagues at the Copenhagen University and Aalborg University in Denmark. 

Kristine Newhall

Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, co-authored a chapter in the edited collection LGBT Athletes in the Sports Media from Palgrave Macmillan (Dec. 2018). The chapter, “Out of the Frame: How Sports Media Shapes Trans Narratives,” analyzes media coverage of transgender participation in sports and discusses how the constructed narratives narrowly shape cultural understandings of trans athletes.