Seth Asumah and Mechthild Nagel
Seth Asumah, Political Science and Africana Studies departments, and Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, presented a workshop at the Commission on Access, Diversity and Excellence (CADE) Conference of Association of Public and Land-grant Universities held July 28 in New York, N.Y. The workshop was titled “Diversity Leadership, Inclusive Excellence and the Emerging Roles of Chief Diversity Officers and Faculty.” Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Geography and Africana Studies departments, chaired the session.
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.
Marie Blanden and Lauren Scagnelli
Marie Blanden, Division of Student Affairs, and Lauren Scagnelli, Counseling and Wellness Services, conducted a presentation titled “One College’s Journey to Tobacco and Nicotine Free Campus” at the annual meeting of the New York State College Health Association, held Oct. 18 in Syracuse, N.Y.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, organized and ran the 61st Annual Charles Horton Peck Foray that hosted 40 professional, amateur and student mycologists from the northeast, held Sept. 12-14 at the Vanderkamp Retreat Center in Cleveland, N.Y. Amateur Mycologists from the Central New York Mycological Association, the Rochester Area Mycological Association and the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club, joined faculty and students from Cornell University, SUNY Cortland, Clarion University and The New York Botanical Garden for the two day event that focused on collecting and studying macrofungi — mushrooms, cup fungi and their relatives. Cortland has hosted the event six times since 1976.
Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Wellness Services, has been informed that the Counseling Center has met the criteria for full re-accreditation by the International Association of Counseling Services (IACS), the only association that accredits counseling services on university and college campuses. Accreditation by IACS is dependent upon evidence of continuing professional development as well as demonstration of excellence in counseling performance. The Counseling Center offers individual and group counseling for students, as well as consultation and outreach to the campus community and beyond.
Melinda Shimizu
Melinda Shimizu, Geography Department, presented a virtual reality field trip titled "Mission to Mars" at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Detroit, Michigan, on March 26.
Michael Hough
Michael Hough, Biological Sciences Department, had his article, “Geum ×cortlandicum (Rosaceae), a new natural hybrid plus three Geum urbanum hybrids new to the flora of New York,” published in the August 2018 issue of Phytoneuron, an open-access journal. Geum ×cortlandicum M. Hough is a previously undescribed hybrid of two common native species, G. canadense and G. laciniatum. The taxon is named for Cortland County, N.Y., where this and three other Geum hybrids have recently been collected by the author. Two of the other hybrids, G. ×catlingii and G. ×macneillii, are new to the flora of New York and the other, G. ×intermedium, is not only new to New York but had not previously been reported from North America.
Carol Costell Corbin
Carol Costell Corbin, Advisement and Transition, was elected to the board of the New York State Transfer and Articulation Association (NYSTAA) as a four-year public school representative. Elections were held at the annual conference in Albany in May.
Ryan Vooris and Kerry Fischer
Ryan Vooris and Kerry Fischer, Sport Management Department, traveled to Cozumel, Mexico, to present their research at the 2018 Global Sport Business Conference. Their presentation was titled “Observing the second-screen effect: Use of an experiment to measure distracted viewing, social context, and sponsorship recall among NBA viewers.”
Joseph Anthony
Joseph Anthony, Political Science Department, received funding from the Bipartisan Policy Center. The grant is for “Cultivating Resilience in Election Administration by Impacting the Policy Landscape,” and will assess the impact of election policies passed since 2016 on local election officials and examine the roles of local election officials and their state professional associations in policymaking.
Advised by the Election Workforce Advisory Council, Anthony’s is one of nine projects that will investigate a variety of challenges facing the elections workforce including turnover, emerging technologies, funding, public trust, ethics, state policy, diversity and threats against election workers. The findings will build an important empirical foundation for long-term, evidence-based solutions to election workforce challenges and final research reports will be published in late 2024 and early 2025.
The Election Workforce Advisory Council is a joint project of the Bipartisan Policy Center and The Elections Group. The council brings together election administrators, academics, experts, and industry representatives to develop and implement best practices to improve recruitment, retention and training in election administration.
The grant program is supported by the Election Trust Initiative, a nonpartisan grant-making organization working to strengthen the field of election administration, guided by the principle that America’s election systems must be secure, transparent, accurate and convenient.