Alexis Blavos
Alexis Blavos, Health Department, and colleagues had an article titled “Politics Spread COVID: Developing a Public Health Response” published in August in Health Promotion Practice.
Eric Edlund
Eric Edlund, Physics Department, had his article titled “Lagrange Points and Regionally Conserved Quantities” published in the June edition of the American Journal of Physics. This work provides a new take on the analysis of the three-body problem that began about 250 years ago.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, gave an opening plenary keynote address on “African and Africana Knowledge: Past Representations, Current Discourses, Future Communities” at the Third Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) at United States International University (USIU) in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa. At the event, held Oct. 23 to 26, Asumah received recognition and an award of honor for organizing and facilitating a preconference workshop on “Educational and Academic Leadership: Rethinking Responsibilities and Challenges for Department Chairs in African/Africana Studies.” Africologists, Africanists and African enthusiasts from 34 African countries, Europe, North and South America and the Caribbean attended the ASAA conference.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, is the incoming co-editor for Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor. Workplace is a leading international peer-reviewed and open-access journal published by the Institute for Critical Education Studies, and aims to generate dialogue and publish scholarship and scholar-activism connected to issues of academic labor within and beyond higher education. Maton will be spearheading various projects for the journal, including pursuing journal indexing, refreshing the editorial board, supporting the journal's ongoing development in reach, reputation, and strength, and editing a range of special and regular journal issues.
Jennifer Wilson
Jennifer Wilson, Communications Office, received an “Award of Merit” for outstanding achievement in the category of “Best Original Photo” on May 5 at the United University Profession’s Spring Delegate Assembly in Albany, N.Y. The image, taken during the 2016 “SUNY Cortland Works!” labor-management walk and celebration, was published in the SUNY Cortland/The Cortland Cause newsletter.
Katie Silvestri
Katie Silvestri, Literacy Department, was recently elected for a two-year appointment as secretary for the Special Interest Group (SIG) Semiotics in Education: Signs, Meaning, and Multimodality, a SIG within the American Education Research Association (AERA). This SIG provides a forum for teacher educators and literacy researchers to discuss signs, meanings and meaning making processes that people use in the context of teaching and learning from a multimodal standpoint. As secretary, Silvestri will maintain the SIG website and listserv as well as spearhead initiatives to foster conversations about and collaborations in scholarly work across the SIG's membership, as detailed on Featured Member Scholarship. She served in this position as interim secretary during a restructuring of the SIG for the past nine months and will now serve as secretary for the 2020-22 term. To learn more about Silvestri’s work as secretary or about social semiotics and multimodality, visit the Semiotics in Education SIG website.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, conducted a two-part workshop at Barnard College’s STEM Colloquium, part of Barnard’s Noyce Scholars Program. Eight students and three faculty members participated in the “Reflective Listening in Multi-Dimensional STEM Classrooms” workshop. In the workshop’s first part, participants enacted a scripted play through which they identified and discussed hidden ways in which government policies and low-income life can interfere with children’s learning. During the event’s second part, participants practiced reflective listening skills in the context of STEM classrooms in which teachers faced political, religious, and cultural opposition to their lessons.
Mary Gfeller
Mary Gfeller, Mathematics Department and SUNY Cortland Noyce Scholars Kelsey O’Donnell and Robin Tobin presented “Teaching Math Using Culturally Relevant Teaching Strategies” at the National Science Foundation 2014 Noyce NE Regional Conference held in March in Philadelphia, Pa. Perspectives on culturally relevant teaching strategies in teaching secondary math concepts were discussed using examples from real classrooms, including several from O’Donnell and Tobin’s current student teaching placement at Binghamton High School. The presenters explored the various strategies designed to make math more accessible and more meaningful to students.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper titled, "Hot Button Issues in the 2012 Presidential Campaign: 47% Yes, Guns No?" for a conference on the 2012 presidential elections held at Hiram College in Ohio on November 16-17.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had a coauthored article published in Teachers College Record. The article is titled "White Parent and Caregiver Perceptions of, and Resistance to, Equity and Anti-Racism Work in an Independent School."