Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, gave a presentation titled, “Gun Policy 101: What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know” on Oct. 1 at the Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany, N.Y.
Ann Blanton and Amanda Olson
Ann Blanton and Amanda Olson, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, attended the Cortland Pride Festival held on July 13 to promote the Center for Speech, Language and Hearing Center's gender affirming voice care services.
Gender affirming voice services are dedicated to individuals who want to develop communication styles that are aligned with their gender identity and expression across all settings. These services are designed to educate and train clients to modify their voice through vocal pitch, intonation, resonance, articulation and voice quality as well as nonverbal communication. Gender affirming voice therapy can guide individuals to communicate in a way that feels authentic to them.
James A. Felton, III
James A. Felton, III, Institutional Equity and Inclusion Office, was elected president of the Iota Iota Lambda Alumni Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. for the 2019-20 academic year. Alpha Phi Alpha is the first African-American, intercollegiate Greek-lettered fraternity founded on Dec. 4, 1906 at Cornell University.
Kenneth A. Cohen
Kenneth A. Cohen, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, was featured in WalletHub's recent article “2023’s Best Summer Travel Destinations.” The article by Adam McCann, financial writer, was published May 16.
Janet Duncan
Janet Duncan, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, has been appointed an editor for Social Welfare: Interdisciplinary Approach, a collaborative journal between Open International University of Human Development (Ukraine) and Siauliai University in Lithuania. The editor-in-chief is Kateryna Kolchenko from Kyiv, Ukraine, who is also a research partner in disability studies with Duncan. Published twice a year, the peer-reviewed journal is published in English and accepts articles related to human social welfare.
Jennifer Kronenbitter and Hailey Ruoff
Jennifer Kronenbitter, Library, and Hailey Ruoff, Library and Instructional Technologies and Design Services, presented at the Computers in Libraries conference held April 8-10 in Washington D.C. Their presentation focused on the streaming media project that converted the library’s video collection into a streaming format. Computers in Libraries is noted as the most comprehensive North American conference and exhibition on all aspects of library and information delivery technology.
Steven Gabriel
Steven Gabriel, Health Department, has had his paper appear in the SUNY Journal of the Scholarship of Engagement, which is published in collaboration with SUNY Buffalo students and housed at SUNY Cortland.
Christopher McRoberts
Christopher McRoberts, Geology Department, and co-authors from the University of Vienna and Zurich published a paper appearing in the current issue of PALAIOS titled “Macrofaunal Response to the Late Triassic Mass Extinction in the West-Tethyan Kossen Basin, Austria.” This paper documents the first high-resolution analysis on macrofossils associated with the end-Triassic mass extinction event, one of the five largest biotic crises in earth’s history, and provides compelling support for the hypotheses of dramatic global warming and ocean acidification as the leading cause of the extinction.
Janet Duncan
Janet Duncan, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, gave a presentation for the Alliance of Universities for Democracy (AUDEM) in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in October. The talk, “Toward a Deeper Understanding of Disability in Society,” was based on the Capabilities Approach by Martha C. Nussbaum. While in Croatia, Duncan and Elaine Little, former Special Education Administrator for the Ithaca School District, toured a local elementary school and a community residence for adults with disabilities.
Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita (Spanish), International Communications and Culture Department, and the U.S. Air Force Academy, along with colleague Haning Z. Hughes, had their article “Time and history in lyrics: A unique approach to teaching culture and civilization,” published in NECTFL Review 81, the journal of the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. In addition, with colleague Barbara Schmidt-Rinehart, their article “El voseo: A call to action” in Visionary essays: The future of Spanish and Portuguese” was published in the centenary issue of Hispania 100. Hispania is the official journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.