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Faculty and Staff Activities

Robert Ponterio

Robert Ponterio, Modern Languages Department, was invited to present a 90-minute immersion workshop, “Cinéma et Vidéo: Langue et Culture Authentiques en Classe,” at the Central New York chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French meeting held at LeMoyne College on Oct. 30. The workshop focused on methods of using French cinema and various sources of online video, such as news reports, in the French classroom for teaching language and culture. Features of new tools for downloading and playing video were also demonstrated.

Nancy Kane

Nancy Kane, Kinesiology and Physical Education departments, wrote a chapter titled “Cirit: An Etic View of Horseback Javelin,” that is included in the recently published book Do Cavalo, On Horses, edited by Constantino Pereira Martins.

Karen Downey and Julius Green

Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, and Julius Green, Chemistry Department, presented their work, “Holistic assessment of capstone chemistry knowledge in an applied laboratory course”, at the American Chemical Society national meeting in Washington, D.C.

Regina B. Grantham

Regina B. Grantham, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, was appointed secretary of the board of the New York State Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NYSSLHA). NYSSLHA advocates for the professions of speech-language pathology and audiology in New York and those who are served by these professions.

Christopher McRoberts

Christopher McRoberts, Geology Department, presented the keynote address on the end-Triassic mass extinction at the Museum of the Earth/Paleontological Research Institution’s 2011 Summer Symposium. He also recently published in the Journal of Paleontology a 55-page monograph on the taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Late Triassic bivalve fossils from northeastern British Columbia, Canada.

Gregg Weatherby

Gregg Weatherby, English Department, will appear in Ithaca Shakespeare Company’s “Henry V,” on stage Feb. 12-14 and Feb. 19-20 at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca.

Tyler Bradway

Tyler Bradway, English Department, presented two papers in January at the Modern Language Association conference held in San Francisco, Calif. Bradway gave a paper on his experience of publishing research in PMLA, the flagship journal in literary studies, and he gave a second paper on queer characters in contemporary LGBTQ literature for a panel focused on queer and trans theories of narrative. 

Gregory D. Phelan

Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, was issued two patents: the first patent, Dioxaborinanes and uses thereof — United State Patent Number 8,546,617, deals with a new wood preservative. The second patent, Supercritical Noble Gases and Uses Thereof — United States Patent 8,551,257, deals with a new way to use nontoxic materials to clean textiles in a more environmentally friendly way.

Brian D. Barrett

Brian D. Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had his article, “Faith in the Inner City: The Urban Black Church and Students’ Educational Outcomes,” published in the Journal of Negro Education (79(3) pp. 249-262). He presented aspects of the article on campus during a 2009 Black History Month Sandwich Seminar as well as in an invited session at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

Jeremy Jiménez

Jeremy Jiménez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had his article, co-written with SUNY Cortland alumni Tova Wilensky ’20, published in the journal International Studies in Sociology of Education. The article is titled “‘It’s my responsibility’: perspectives on environmental justice and education for sustainability among international school students in Singapore.”