Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had three poems, all abecedarians of different types, published in Inigo Online Magazine on April 12. They are titled “Mean Girls,” “H-I-V: Hope Is a Verb” and “King.” In celebration of National Poetry Month in April, Poetry Super Highway has been publishing daily poetry writing prompts. Featured in this series on April 6 was Lawrence’s writing exercise “I’m Taking a Mulligan,” an instructional essay that suggests writing a poem about a “do-over” of a day or event in one’s life.
Dennis Weng
Dennis Weng, Political Science Department, had his paper published in the Asian Journal of Comparative Politics in January. The article is titled “Can economic profit influence public opinion? Observing generational change on cross-strait relations in Taiwan.”
Marissa Whitaker
Marissa Whitaker, Conley Counseling and Wellness Services, twice presented about cannabis, harm reduction and the evolution of prevention — at a virtual conference hosted by Stanford University and at a conference in New Orleans for the American College Health Association.
Katherine Hicks and Andy Roering
Katherine Hicks and Andy Roering, Chemistry Department, serve as co-advisors to the SUNY Cortland Chemistry Club, which is a student chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Club members were featured in the cover photo of the April/May issue of inChemistry, the magazine for ACS student members. This photograph was taken in May 2015 at Kionix, Inc. in Ithaca, N.Y. The student club president at the time, Samuel Lothridge, who graduated with a B.S. in biochemistry in 2015, is currently employed at Kionix and was an intern there then. The picture was taken during a field trip that the club took to Ithaca to visit the Cornell synchrotron and Kionix.
Moataz H. Emam
Moataz H. Emam, Physics Department, and physics graduate Jesse Chandler '14 collaborated on a research paper that was recently published in the Journal of Classical and Quantum Gravity. “Geodesic structure of five-dimensional non-asymptotically flat 2-branes” summarized research in the context of the superstring theory and studies the motion of light particles around a 2-brane, which is a higher dimensional generalization of black holes. This specific brane has interesting properties in that it has a gravitational field that doesn’t get weaker as one gets farther away from it.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented her paper titled “Cosmopolitanism, Fashion, and Globalization” at the annual conference organized by the Australian and New Zealand Anthropological Society and held Nov. 10-13 in Queenstown, New Zealand.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, co-authored a peer-reviewed paper recently published in the Argentinian journal Kurtziana. The article, “New Species and Records of Pouzarella (Agaricomyetes, Entolomataceae) from Northern Argentina/Nuevas especies y nuevas citas de Pouzarella (Agaricomyetes, Entolomataceae) del Norte Argentino,” was one of 13 invited scientific publications in an edited edition on mycological topics in South America. The publication was designed to honor Leif Ryvarden, University of Oslo, Norway, for his contributions to mycological research in South America over the past 40 years. The three co-authors, all from Argentina, included Edgardo Alberta of the Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas, Buenos Aires; Nicolas Niveiro, Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste, Sargento Cabral; and Bernardo Lechner, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Baroni and his colleagues’ paper on new species and rarely observed mushrooms of northern Argentina’s national parks and reserves came from a two-week expedition made last spring while Baroni was on sabbatical leave. Baroni had been invited as guest and collaborator to study the macrofungal diversity of several remote regions in the Yungas ecosystem of northern South America by Alberta.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented “How to Evaluate Cultural Authenticity in Multicultural Children’s Literature” at the New York State Reading Association Conference held Nov. 10 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. On Nov. 21, he will give a presentation at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). The title of the presentation is “Discussing the Missing Piece of the Puzzle: LGBTQ Books for Children in Intermediate Grade Levels.”
Andrea R. Harbin
Andrea R. Harbin, English Department, presented “The Augmented Palimpsest: Engaging Students with Augmented Reality” at the Modern Languages Association annual conference on Jan. 8. She was on the panel titled, “Middle English Literature after the Digital Turn.”
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, presented “Pitfalls of Diversity Management” at a symposium titled “Difference that Makes no Difference: The Non-Performativity of Intersectionality and Diversity.” The symposium was hosted on Feb. 5 by the Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Nagel is serving as a visitor at the Max Planck Institute for Ethnic and Religious Diversity in Germany during the spring semester. Best papers from the symposium will be edited by Professor Nikita Dhawan, University of Innsbruck, Austria, and will appear in SUNY Cortland’s journal Wagadu in 2016.