Susan Rayl
Susan Rayl, Kinesiology Department, presented a paper titled “Killing History: The Senseless Death of the Renaissance Ballroom,” at the 44th North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) Annual Convention, held May 27-30 at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Also, she was named co-editor, with Gary James of Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K., of the NASSH bi-annual newsletter.
Jacqueline Augustine
Jacqueline Augustine, Kinesiology Department, recently was a co-author on the manuscript, “Influence of sex and presence of cardiovascular risk factors on relations between cardiorespiratory fitness and cerebrovascular hemodynamics,” published in the Journal of Applied Physiology.
Jacob Wright
Jacob Wright, Career Services, received the Central New York Career Development Association (CNYCDA) Student Success Champion Award at the CNYCDA annual meeting on June 2 in Dundee, N.Y. Wright is a career coach and educator. The award recognizes one professional in a 10-campus consortium for moving the industry of career development forward and promoting individual and group student success through student-centered programming.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, co-authored “Are Ticket Lotteries Fair Game? George v. NCAA Sets the Standard,” which was published in Sport Marketing Quarterly.
Michael Bersani
Michael Bersani, Public Relations Office, won a Charleton Scholarship to attend the SUNY Council for University Advancement (SUNYCUAD) conference in Saratoga Springs June 8-10.
Greg Phelan
Greg Phelan, Chemistry Department, was one of several selected nationally by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to be interviewed this month about project management and change leadership in STEM education with an emphasis on teacher education. Phelan was chosen as “having the experience and insights that will substantially advance the attainment of our goal to advance the skills of Noyce PIs (principal investigators) by drawing on the knowledge resident within the Noyce community.” Phelan is the PI for the SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, which seeks to encourage talented science, math and economics majors to become K-12 teachers in high-need rural and urban schools.
Marley Barduhn
Marley Barduhn, Assistant Provost for Teacher Education Office, has received $1,077,760 for the Migrant Education Outreach Program 2011-12 (MEOP) for the period Sept. 1, 2011, through Aug. 31, 2012.
Ben Wodi
Ben Wodi, professor of health emeritus, is the author of a new book titled Global Public Health and Culture published by Kendall and Hunt. Kassim Kone, Sociology/Anthropology Department, is a chapter contributor. The book discusses our common health experiences as a global community but from a cultural perspective and examines cultural beliefs and practices and their health implications within our global community. Among the subjects discussed are ethnomedical practices and health; religion, health care and disease; culture, immigration and global population trends, culture and global nutrition problems; women and children: cultural influences; international health organizations; cultural awareness for international travels; and career opportunities in global public health.
Kate McCormick and John Suarez
Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, and John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, described a three-year applied learning participatory research project that explores an approach to extended public deliberation. The approach fosters civil civic decision-making skills among college students and long-term residents of Cortland, N.Y., by building mutual trust and respect as first steps in developing solutions to anti-racism issues. The link to the recording is https://youtu.be/GPdqBQ2z5AM
Jennifer Janes
Jennifer Janes, Institutional Advancement, earned her Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration from Stony Brook University on May 19. She is the director of The Cortland Fund.