Rena Janke, Greg Phelan, Kerri Freese, Dave Dickerson and Mary Gfeller
Rena Janke, Biological Sciences Department, Greg Phelan and Kerri Freese, Chemistry Department, and Dave Dickerson and Mary Gfeller, Mathematics Department, participated in a workshop on campus along with 17 Noyce scholars and 11 local teachers and administrators on March 24. Held in conjunction with the SUNY Cortland Noyce Project and sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the workshop’s goal was to support the teaching success and retention of Noyce scholars by addressing issues related to successfully teaching mathematics and science in a high-need environment. The Noyce scholars attended four break-out sessions on the following topics: the summer before your first year teaching; setting the tone for a successful class: classroom management; what to expect and how to handle situations common in high-need schools; and get a job offer you'll love – how to market yourself and find the right fit. The latter was led by Judi Riley, assistant superintendent for Pupil and Personnel Services for the Cortland City School District.
Heather Bartlett, Laura Davies, Tim Emerson, Mario Hernandez, Jeff Jackson and Kevin Rutherford
Heather Bartlett, Laura Davies, Tim Emerson, Mario Hernandez, Jeff Jackson and Kevin Rutherford, all from the English Department Composition Program, presented together at the SUNY Council on Writing Conference on Sept. 9. Their panel was titled, “Making Changes: Revising a First-Year Writing Curriculum within a Teaching Community.”
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, has been accepted as a participant in the seminar, “Writing Histories of Germans Abroad,” to be held at the annual conference of the German Studies Association in San Diego this fall.
Deborah Matheron
Deborah Matheron, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, presented a research poster at the Biennial Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital Conference on Motor Speech on March 4 in Newport Beach, Calif. Her poster was titled, “Speech breathing and laryngeal aerodynamics in individuals with Multiple Sclerosis.”
Raymond J. Cotrufo
Raymond J. Cotrufo, Sport Management Department, received notice that his article, “NFL Player Safety: Does Prioritizing Player Welfare Attract Consumers,” will be published in the International Journal of Sport Management. In the study, college-aged participants completed a survey providing information regarding their exposure to increased player safety measures implemented by the National Football League, and whether or not these measures influenced their consumption intentions toward the League. Results demonstrated that exposure to increased player safety in the NFL influenced participants in a positive way, especially in the cases of their intentions to consume NFL-related media and their intentions to discuss the NFL with others.
Brittany Adams
Brittany Adams, Literacy Department, had an article titled “Beyond Perpetrators, Victims, and Survivors: Young Adult Literature as Bystander Intervention Education” published in Volume 49, Issue 3 of The ALAN Review.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, partnered with Linda Drake, director of SUNY Oneonta’s Center for Social Responsibility and Community, to form a new professional organization: The North/South Central NY Applied Learning Coalition. On Aug. 10 at SUNY Oneonta, Suarez and Drake co-conducted the Coalition’s first meeting, which included 19 of the Coalition’s 27 members. New York Campus Compact’s Executive Director Laurie Worrall participated in, and provided lunch for, the meeting. The Coalition is designed to be an informal and agile mutual-assistance organization. In that spirit, the meeting’s participants identified shared challenges and explored solutions. Worrall is creating a listserv for the Coalition, and Merissa McKasty, assistant to SUNY’s Director of Applied Learning, will work on making time and space available for Coalition members to continue developing ad hoc partnerships while they are at SUNY’s Applied Learning Conference in October. Membership includes 19 public and private colleges and universities whose locations range from Canton to Binghamton to Stony Brook.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, has been informed that his article, “Gun Law, Policy, and Politics,” has been accepted for publication in a future issue of the journal Government Law and Policy Journal.
Brittany Adams
Brittany Adams, Literacy Department, was awarded the Gary Moorman Early Career Literacy Scholar Award from the American Reading Forum.
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, was awarded the Hunt-Simes Visiting Junior Chair Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre at the University of Sydney to teach in the Institute in Sexuality Studies in 2024.