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Faculty and Staff Activities

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.

Tiantian Zheng

Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented her paper at a panel she organized at the New York Conference on Asian Studies held Sept. 18-20 at Hofstra University. Also, she was invited by SUNY Plattsburgh to deliver two campus-wide lectures in October.

Wylie Schwartz

Wylie Schwartz, Art and Art History Department, presented a paper titled “Experimental Pedagogies: The Art and Politics of the Danish Ex-School (1961-1972),” at the 18th International Conference on the Arts in Society held July 5 to 7 at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.

Also, Schwartz gave a museum talk titled “Between Laboratory and Mythology: Asger Jorn, Wifredo Lam and the New Primitivism” on July 11 at the Casa Jorn Museum in Albissola, Italy. Her talk is in conjunction with the exhibition LAM et Les Magiciens de la Mer at the Savona Museum of Ceramics and at the Exhibition Center of MuDA, Albissola Marina. 

Dominick Fantacone

Dominick Fantacone, School of Education and regional director for the New York State Master Teacher Program, presented a paper titled, “A Q Methodological Study: Math & Science Teachers’ Views of the Characteristics of Effective Professional Development” at the American Educational Research Association’s annual meeting on April 25 in San Diego, Calif. 

Maaike Oldemans and Jennifer Kronenbitter

Maaike Oldemans and Jennifer Kronenbitter, Memorial Library, presented at the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians Conference 2017 in May at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. They presented “Technical Metamorphosis by Design.” 

Jordan Kobritz

Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, and his co-authors recently had two articles published on the state of labor negotiations in the National Hockey League. “Don Fehr Trades His Ball For A Puck: Will He Continue To Score?” was published in the Villanova Sport & Entertainment Law Journal. “Trying His Luck at Puck: Examining the MLBPA’s History to Determine Don Fehr’s Motivation for Agreeing to Lead the NHLPA and Predicting How He Will Fare” was published in the Denver Sports and Entertainment Law Journal.