Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, organized a panel titled “Truth and Responsibility in the Ethnography of Sexuality” and presented a paper titled “Ethical Research on Ethnography of Sexuality” for the annual conference of American Anthropological Association, held Nov. 16 and 17 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, has been informed that she is a winner of the 2012 Bedtime Stories Competition at the Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, Mass. Her story, “Pennies from Heaven,” appears in the Spring 2012 issue of the Inn’s Storybook.
Katie Ducett
Katie Ducett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, will receive the Megan Cartier Early Career Scholar Award in October at the State of the Art Conference on Inclusive Postsecondary Education and Individuals with Intellectual Disability. This award goes to an early career scholar who demonstrates a commitment to innovation in the field of inclusive higher education through research and service, while centering the voices and lived experiences of those with intellectual disability.
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, will appear as Bardolph and the Archbishop of York in Ithaca Shakespeare Company's production of “Henry IV” (Parts 1 and 2). Performances will be held July 9-26 outside at Cornell Plantations, alternating performances with “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish, recently had the third edition of her textbook, ¡Anda! Curso intermedio, published by Pearson Education. It is an intermediate-level Spanish text for the college level.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, presented a poster at the 11th International Mycological Congress meetings held July 15 to 21 in San Juan, PR. Baroni and co-authors from Italy, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the US, including two of Baroni’s former students, Tracy Armstrong Curtis ’01 and Lance Lacey ’04, presented data accumulated in the Dominican Republic over an extended 20-year period on the biodiversity of group of not well-known fungi. Curtis and Lacey worked in the Dominican Republic with Baroni from 1996 to 2006 funded by Research Experiences for Undergraduates from the National Science Foundation. The title of the presentation and the publication that will result from the work is “The Rhodocybe/Clitopilus clade (Entolomataceae, Agaricomyetes) in the Dominican Republic: a new genus, new species and first reports for Hispaniola.”
Jaroslava Prihodova
Jaroslava Prihodova, Dowd Gallery, was interviewed for the dArt International Magazine by Dominick D. Lombardi, curator, writer and artist. His articles, interviews and art reviews have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Sculpture, Juxtapoz, among others. The feature article titled Jaroslava Prihodova’s Measured Confluence covers her personal history, art and curatorial practice at SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Gallery.
Philip M. Gipson
Philip M. Gipson, Mathematics Department, had his article “Invariant Basis Number for C*-Algebras” published in the Illinois Journal of Mathematics.
Kevin Pristash
Kevin Pristash, Campus Activities and Corey Union Office, attended the annual conference of the Association of College Unions International from March 22 to 25 in Anaheim, Calif., where he received, on behalf of SUNY Cortland, an award celebrating the College’s 50 years of membership. It was presented at the event’s honors luncheon.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, participated in a planning meeting on Aug. 2 of the newly-formed “Campus Compact of New York and Pennsylvania.” Participants identified priorities and resources that the new organization can help them with as they work on projects such as data collection and assessment.
Also, Suarez’s article on the Institute’s Action Team was published in the August 2018 issue of Umbrella, the SUNY System’s Applied Learning newsletter. The article describes ways in which the Action Team’s interns built the Institute’s capacity through their entrepreneurial spirit.