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.
Dan Harms
Dan Harms, Memorial Library, presented at the International Congress of Medieval Studies, held virtually May 10 to 15. He presented “Scrying with the Saints: Holy Personalities and Their Marginality in Early Modern Magic” on May 12.
Laura J. Davies
Laura J. Davies, English Department, presented a paper at the Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference in July in Boise, Idaho.
Jim Hokanson, Ryan Fiddler and Erik Lind
Jim Hokanson, Ryan Fiddler and Erik Lind, Kinesiology Department, moderated research sessions at the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) regional meeting held Nov. 3 and 4 in Harrisburg, Pa.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, co-authored a research article titled “Relationship between socioeconomic vulnerability and ecological sustainability: The case of Aran-V-Bidgol's rangelands, Iran,” that appears in the journal Ecological Indicators.
Dennis L.C. Weng
Dennis L.C. Weng, Political Science Department, presented “Party Nomination Strategies in Taiwan’s Mixed Electoral System” at the Taiwan in the Realm of East Asia Conference on Oct. 22 at Wake Forest University, N.C.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, organized a panel and presented her paper at the annual New York Conference of Asian Studies at Vassar College in October.
Denise Knight
Denise Knight, English Department, has had her essay, “‘[a] country of whose language I knew not a word’: Charlotte Perkins Gilman In and On Italy,” accepted for inclusion in a collection of essays titled Transatlantic Women: American Women Writers in Italy. The essay is an expanded version of the conference paper that Knight gave in Florence, Italy, last June.
Melissa A. Morris
Melissa A. Morris, Physics Department, had her NASA Emerging Worlds grant proposal selected for funding in the amount of $319,000. This highly interdisciplinary grant will involve Morris, an undergraduate student and a research assistant at SUNY Cortland, as well as researchers at Arizona State University and Caltech. The entire project has been funded by NASA at a level of approximately $500,000.
Also, Morris submitted a paper, “The Effect of Multiple Particle Sizes on Cooling Rates of Chondrules Produced in Large-scale Shocks in the Solar Nebula” to Meteoritics and Planetary Science.
Also, Morris has been invited to give a talk at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. in September 2015.
Richard Kendrick
Richard Kendrick, Institute for Civic Engagement and Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented “The Engaged Campus of the 21st Century,” at SUNY Geneseo on April 10. In addition, he met with their General Education and Bringing Theory to Practice committees to discuss ways that civic engagement and high-impact learning practices might be integrated into various curricular and co-curricular programs.