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.”
Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, has been re-elected secretary of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT). Annually, the AHCT hosts a conference, publishes a journal and supports the oldest and longest-running Hispanic Golden Age theater festival in the world at the Chamizal National Memorial Theater in El Paso, Texas. In addition, the organization provides a library of digitized editions of plays, a video archive of performances of plays available for streaming and a biannual newsletter. Gascón has served as secretary since 2011 and has produced the last eight issues of the AHCT Newsletter, reporting on performances and scholarly activities related to Hispanic Golden Age drama.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, led a workshop for local inservice educators titled “How Can we Support our Students with Incarcerated Loved Ones?” The workshop was developed in partnership with Phoebe Brown from Alliance of Families for Justice community organization, and took place at the Ithaca Regional Conference on the Impact of Mass Incarceration on Families and Communities.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article published in the current edition of Policy Futures in Education. “Towards a Non-Deterministic Reading of Pierre Bourdieu: Habitus and Educational Change in Urban Schools,” was co-authored with Camille Martina of the University of Rochester and can be found in volume 10, issue 3.
Michael Hough
Michael Hough, Biological Sciences Department, recently co-authored a paper announcing the first record of a native orchid in New York state. “Discovery of Spiranthes odorata (Nutt.) Lindl. (Fragrant Ladies’-tresses) in Central New York” was published in The Native Orchid Conference Journal. It was co-authored with J.M. McMullen, M.A. Young, and C.L. Landis
The article is currently only available to members but should be publicly available by the end of 2021. Also, Hough was interviewed about the article by the Syracuse Post-Standard in a feature that was published on Oct. 12 titled “A ‘stunning’ discovery: Fragrant orchid found near Onondaga Lake, 350 miles from nearest known site.”
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, gave a talk on “The Meaning of Freedom for Black Women and Girls: Gender Injustice and the U.S. Judiciary System” on May 31 at the Law and Criminology Department, University of Cologne, Germany.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, will present her paper, “Violence, Deviance and Punishment,” at the Annual Conference of the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the U.S., set for Oct. 14-16 in Denver, Co.
Mary Schlarb and Nan Pasquarello
Mary Schlarb, International Programs, and Nan Pasquarello, Title IX Coordinator, presented the live webinar, “Beyond Boundaries: Prevention and Response Strategies for Study Abroad and International Student Programs,” on June 16 and July 26 as part of the Violence Prevention Webinars and Live Training series open to public and private institutions throughout New York State, across the U.S. and beyond. The State University of New York, the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence, the New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault, the New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and the New York State Department of Health offer this webinar series to train college and community partners in prevention and response. The webinars presented by Schlarb and Pasquarello were widely viewed with more than 250 registered sites for the two sessions.
Mary McGuire and John Suarez
Mary McGuire, Institute for Civic Engagement, and John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement’s Office of Service-Learning, will be panelists on a discussion titled “The Campus Action Plan,” at the Eastern Regional Campus Compact Conference at New York University in March. They are partnering with colleagues from Robert Morris University, Buffalo State University and the University of Delaware.
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Sonia Sharma
Sonia Sharma, Mathematics Department, recently had her article, “Real Operator Algebras and Real Completely Isometric Theory” accepted for publication in the journal Positivity.