Gregory D. Phelan
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, had three new United States patents issued in October and November. The patents are numbered 9,468,595, 9,469,941, and 9,493,670. The patents deal with applications of polymer science to consumer goods including cosmetics, bioengineered materials, preservation of wood and self-cleaning outdoor paints. More information about the patents that Phelan has been granted since joining the faculty at Cortland can be found on this database: http://bit.ly/2heJI7F
David Barclay, Jason Graves and Michael Kloczko
David Barclay, Geology Department, wrote a paper that will be published in Quaternary Science Reviews in December. Two former Cortland students, Jason Graves ’01 and M.S.Ed. ’05, and Michael Kloczko ’03, co-authored the paper, titled “Late Holocene Glacial History of the Copper River Delta, Coastal South-Central Alaska, and Controls on Valley Glacier Fluctuations.” The paper details the glacial-geomorphic histories of four glaciers, including the longest and most detailed tree-ring dated glacier record yet developed for Alaska, and shows solar irradiance to be the primary climatic driver of glacier fluctuations prior to the 20th century.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his book chapter titled "Inchoate Kinship: Psychoanalytic Narrative and Queer Relationality in Are You My Mother?" published in The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In. The collection was edited by Janine Utell and published in February by the University of Mississippi Press.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a talk titled “Gun Legislation and Obstacles to Effective Gun Control” before the Metropolitan Black Bar Association at the New York City Bar Association in New York on Nov. 29.
Bruce Mattingly
Bruce Mattingly, School of Arts and Sciences, co-presented “The Common Problem Project: A New Pedagogy Developed by a Consortium of SUNY Colleges” at SUNY’s 5th Annual Applied Learning Conference. Mattingly joined his Common Problem Project colleagues from SUNY Plattsburgh, Oswego and Oneonta in describing benefits, challenges, successes and suggestions for institutions that would like to use this approach to learning.
Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita of French, received the William H. Heiser Award for the United States Air Force Academy’s (USAFA) Outstanding Senior Faculty Educator on May 1. Each year the Air Force Academy graduating class selects two senior faculty members, one from engineering and the sciences and one from humanities, who have contributed the most to cadet personal and intellectual development; professors who inspired and challenged their students to “work harder and dig deeper.” LeLoup is the first member of the USAFA’s Department of Foreign Languages to receive this honor since its inception in 1995.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, will have her most recent biennial exhibition report published in the May/June issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism . Kramer has written exhibition reports for Afterimage since 2012. Her latest report examines Prospect.3 New Orleans, the third citywide exhibition of international contemporary art to be held in New Orleans since 2009.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, presented a paper on Feb. 24 at annual convention of the National Association of School Psychologists in Philadelphia, Pa. Approximately 35 school psychologists, school psychology graduate students and professors of school psychology attended his 50-minute presentation titled, “Supercharge your Reading Evaluations with the ‘Simple View’ of Reading.”
Evan Faulkenbury
Evan Faulkenbury, History Department, had his article about SUNY Cortland’s History Department published in the Oct. 20 issue of Perspectives in History. It is titled “Practicing History: Why SUNY Cortland Requires Public History.” Also, his article “Journalism, COVID-19, and the Opportunity of Oral History” was published in the Oral History Review in September.
Gregory D. Phelan
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, presented results of his research at the American Chemical Society’s 245th National Meeting held in April in New Orleans, La. The presentation was titled “Plasticizers, Supersurfactants, and Cosmeceutical Additives Produced from Derivatives of Acetone” and was presented during a session of the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division.