Chad Hovey
Chad Hovey, Art and Art History Department, submitted his graphic art works and was selected as a part of the America’s National Design Competition. His work will be shown in this year's 2012 Print Regional Design Annual. Three of the pieces will be on display at the faculty biannual in the Dowd Gallery from Tuesday, Oct. 30, through Saturday, Dec. 15. The opening reception for the Dowd Gallery event is Thursday, Nov. 1. Dowd Gallery is now located on the third floor of Main Street SUNY Cortland at 9 Main St. In addition, all of the pieces will be on display in San Francisco, Calif., next summer at the HOW conference in the Design Awards Gallery. His work also will be celebrated on Print Magazine’s website under the Regional Design review.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had her interview with Laval University faculty member Nat Nesvaderani published in the journal Spectre. The article is titled “'We Won!': University Professors Strike in Quebec City.”
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, presented “Flanerie’s Art and Measure of the Globalizing City” at the College Art Association (CAA) conference in February. In March, she presented an expanded version of the CAA lecture for Shanghai Flaneur, a cultural think tank in Shanghai, China. In addition, her review of the Shanghai Biennale will appear in the Sept./Oct. 2013 issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Art and Cultural Criticism.
Kerri Freese
Kerri Freese, Noyce Project coordinator, collaborated with Maritza Macdonald, senior director of education and policy and co-director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Earth Science Residency Program at the American Museum of Natural History, to plan and implement a workshop for National Science Foundation (NSF) Noyce Scholars. The workshop, held Dec. 4 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, highlighted using a museum and informal resources for science, technology, engineering and math education (STEM) and culture knowledge. More than 60 Noyce scholars and faculty from Noyce programs throughout the northeast attended the workshop. The event was supported by leftover funds from a NSF conference grant awarded to Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, Sheila Vaidya, Drexel University and Lisa Gonsalves, University of Massachusetts Boston, that aimed to enhance pre-service and in-service teachers’ successful teaching practices in high-need schools. The SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, sponsored by the NSF, seeks to encourage talented STEM majors to become K-12 teachers in high-need rural and urban schools.
Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, has been invited to speak at a workshop on Chondrules and the Protoplanetary Disk at the Natural History Museum in London, England and to contribute a book chapter on the workshop proceedings. Also, she has been invited to speak at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, following the workshop.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and director of the Center for Ethics, Peace, and Social Justice, had her book chapter titled “Transitional Justice in Rwanda and South Africa” published this spring in The Routledge International Handbook on Penal Abolition.
Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, and a team of international collaborators were awarded a grant to host a design workshop by the Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis. The workshop is titled “From Close Kinship to Population Interactions in the Deep Past: Integrating Biological and Cultural Indicators of Social Identities in a Multiscalar Framework,” and it will be held in northern Germany in Spring 2026.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, held Sept. 1-4 in Seattle, Wa. His paper was titled “Growing Executive Power: The Strange Case of the ‘Protective Return’ Pocket Veto” for a roundtable panel on “In Defense of the Constitution.”
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna M. Videto and Aimee Greeley
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna M. Videto and Aimee Greeley of the Health Department gave the presentation, “Examining School Health Systems,” for the American Association of Health Education as part of the annual conference of the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. The presentation described part of their work on the School Health Systems Change Project and took place on April 27 in Charlotte, N.C.
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, recently presented at the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD) national conference in San Diego. Her talk featured Girls’ Day Out (GDO) as an illustration of a successful community-college collaboration. GDO, begun in 2001, is an annual event put on by the Cortland YWCA, SUNY Cortland and the SUNY Cortland Athletics Department involving girls in grades five through eight in a day of non-traditional sporting, recreational, vocational and health-education activities. The presentation described the evolution of GDO; illustrated the use of needs assessment and process evaluation data within the PRECEDE-PROCEED framework; discussed strategies for successful community-college collaborations; discussed this event’s growth management; and shared GDO's multidimensional mentoring model.