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.
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.
Gregory D. Phelan and Kerri Freese
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, and Kerri Freese, Noyce Program coordinator, along with co-professional investigators from Drexel University and University of Massachusetts, Boston, (UMass Boston) planned and executed the Second Annual Noyce Northeast Conference in Cambridge, Mass. Highlights of the two-day conference included 15 breakout sessions and a keynote from the 2012 MacArthur Fellows or Genius Grant recipient and Harvard University economist Raj Chetty. Other keynote speakers included physics professor Arthur Eisenkraft, UMass Boston; author Penny Noyce, daughter of Robert Noyce, the microchip inventor and founder of Intel; and chemistry teacher Rebecca Grella, who inspired homeless student Samantha Garvey to conduct research that led her to the Intel national science fair. A National Science Foundation grant written by Phelan, Sheila Vaidya of Drexel University and Lisa Gonsalves of UMass Boston funded the conference and participants’ attendance.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement and service-learning coordinator, had his presentation proposal titled “‘Hire’ Education, Public Purpose, and Student Employers,” accepted for the national Campus Compact’s 30th Anniversary Conference. Mary McGuire, Institute for Civic Engagement director, and Crissana Christie, service-learning intern, are co-presenters. Christie will provoke participants’ explorations of radical designs for higher education through her defense of her “Claimed-Learning Statement” in front of her degree-team, the session’s participants, by describing her learning during the years 2021-2024.
Philip M. Gipson
Philip M. Gipson, Mathematics Department, had his article “Invariant Basis Number for C*-Algebras” published in the Illinois Journal of Mathematics.
Mechthild Nagel and Seth Asumah
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments, and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, and Seth Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, presented a talk at the 2014 National Conference of Black Political Scientists, on March 13 in Wilmington, Del. The talk was based on their article, “Diversity Studies and Managing Differences – Unpacking SUNY Cortland's Case and National Trends,” recently published in the book Sprache - Macht – Rassismus(Language-Power-Racism), by G. Hentges, K. Nottbohm, M. M. Jansen and J. Adamou (eds.), Metropol Verlag, 2014, pages 349-466.
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.
Doug Langhans
Doug Langhans, Admissions, was a panelist on the International Education in 2020: A Year End Review webinar presented by InternationalStudent.com. Langhans, Study New York Chair, and three other industry leaders from various study state consortia, discussed the challenges and changes that have occurred in the international student recruitment field due to the global pandemic.
Alexander G. Gonzalez and Michele I. Gonzalez
Alexander G. Gonzalez, English Department, and Michele I. Gonzalez, Literacy Department, received the 2016 Garrison Award, awarded by the Finger Lakes Trail Conference for their efforts to protect via easements public hiking trails that are built on private land.
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.