Gretchen Herrmann
Gretchen Herrmann, library, presented her paper, “Stuff at High Tide: The Ebb and Flow of Household Clutter Witnessed through the U.S. Garage Sale,” at the 110th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association held Nov. 16-20 in Montreal, Canada. The paper focuses on the over-accumulation of consumer goods in the last 40 years and the ways in which garage sales serve as “release valves” for too much household clutter.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a talk titled “Gun Legislation and Obstacles to Effective Gun Control” before the Metropolitan Black Bar Association at the New York City Bar Association in New York on Nov. 29.
Bruce Mattingly
Bruce Mattingly, School of Arts and Sciences, co-presented “The Common Problem Project: A New Pedagogy Developed by a Consortium of SUNY Colleges” at SUNY’s 5th Annual Applied Learning Conference. Mattingly joined his Common Problem Project colleagues from SUNY Plattsburgh, Oswego and Oneonta in describing benefits, challenges, successes and suggestions for institutions that would like to use this approach to learning.
Szilvia Kadas and Eric Edlund
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, and Eric Edlund, Physics Department, recently had their paper titled “A multidisciplinary collaboration between graphic design and physics classes responding to COVID-19” published in the Journal of Scholarship of Engagement (JoSE).
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, was an invited panelist at the annual North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference held virtually from Nov. 4 to 6. The panel addressed Title IX in the time of COVID.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, presented a one-hour workshop at the annual conference for the New York Association of School Psychologists on Oct. 28. The workshop was titled “Not all Phonemic Awareness Tests are Created Equal.” Phonemic awareness is a very important linguistic skill that affects learning to read. The workshop was designed to assist school psychologists in determining if a student’s reading difficulties were influenced by difficulties in phonemic awareness. The conference was held Oct. 27-28 at the Turning Stone Resort in Oneida, N.Y.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, co-authored a research article titled “Coping strategies during drought: The case of rangeland users in southwest Iran” that appears in the current issue of Rangelands.
Richard Kendrick
Richard Kendrick, Institute for Civic Engagement and Sociology/Anthropology Department, contributed the lead story that will appear on the front page of the Bringing Theory to Practice Winter 2014 Newsletter, a national publication mailed to more than 40,000 subscribers. His article spotlights SUNY Cortland’s ability to create a campus culture of engaged learning with Bringing Theory to Practice grants.
Genevieve Birren
Genevieve Birren, Sport Management Department, authored an article that was published in the fall issue of the Marquette Sports Law Review. The article is titled “The Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act: The United States’ Response to the Russian Doping Scandal.”
Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Student Development centers, has learned that the office was awarded full re-accreditation this fall semester by the International Association of Counseling Services (IACS). Accreditation by IACS is a voluntary evaluative process involving a written self-study and the adherence to established standards of practice. These standards are articulated by the IACS Board of Accreditation, the members of which are directors of counseling services located throughout the United States and internationally. IACS is the only accreditation association that accredits counseling services on university and college campuses.