Philip Buckenmeyer
Philip Buckenmeyer, Kinesiology Department, led seven kinesiology students in a Healthy Now project that culminated with a Wellness Day event at the Barry School in Cortland on Feb. 12. SUNY Cortland students included Hannah Smith, Jeffrey Koch, Theodore Kopytowski, Michael Grieco, Lauren Guardino, Erin Kelly and Ayden Wilbur. The Barry School children learned about their flexibility and range of motion by practicing four different exercises that focused on the hips, neck, back and shoulders.
Lin Lin
Lin Lin, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, was a presenter at the annual National Council for the Social Studies Conference on Nov. 17 and 18 in San Francisco, Calif. She presented “Reading Globally: Promoting Pre-service Teachers’ Global and Cross-Cultural Understanding” and co-presented “Engaging Elementary Children in Community-based PBL - Project-Based Learning - in Chinese Elementary Schools” with Dr. Yali Zhao from Georgia State University. Also, Lin presented “Promoting Teacher Candidates’ Global Perspectives” on Nov. 8 at Cornell University as part of the “Global Voices in Education” series. She has been a Global Learning Fellow with the Southeast Asian Studies and South Asian Studies Centers at Cornell University.
Erik Lind
Erik Lind, Kinesiology Department, and Ian Macali, Lauren Smith, Melody Dale, Hilary DeShong and Megan Holmes from Mississippi State University, had an article published in Journal of Sports Sciences. The paper, “Influence of motivation and personality on physical activity: A systematic review” summarizes the individual effects of motivation and personality and the interplay of both on physical activity. Their findings may help guide interventions designed to promote greater physical activity.
Melissa A. Morris
Melissa A. Morris, Physics Department, had her NASA proposal titled “Chondrule Formation in Impact Plumes” selected for funding in the amount of $330,000 for 2014-16. Her joint publication, “Overcoming the Meter Barrier and the Formation of Systems with Tightly Packed Inner Planets (STIPs),” was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters in September. Also, Morris attended the Circumstellar Disks and Planet Formation Conference Oct. 12-14 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, led a workshop for local inservice educators titled “How Can we Support our Students with Incarcerated Loved Ones?” The workshop was developed in partnership with Phoebe Brown from Alliance of Families for Justice community organization, and took place at the Ithaca Regional Conference on the Impact of Mass Incarceration on Families and Communities.
Alexandru Balas
Alexandru Balas, International Studies Program and Clark Center for Global Engagement, gave the keynote address titled “Reflections on Twenty Years in Conflict Resolution” at the fourth edition of the Crisis Communication and Conflict Resolution Conference held April 17-18 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Approximately 50 scholars from 20 universities in the United States, Turkey, Israel, Bosnia and Herzegovina, South Africa, France, Poland, China and Romania presented at the conference.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, with co-authors, had a peer-reviewed paper titled “A new species of Phlebopus (Boletales, Basidiomycota) from Mexico” published in North American Fungi, issue 10, 2015. Phlebopus is a relative of the highly sought after porcini mushrooms (boletes) of culinary fame. In addition to describing this new tropical species of bolete, a phylogenetic analysis using RNA genes is provided, a brief overview of the economic importance of Phlebopus in the new world tropics is presented and an identification key of all known species of Phlebopus reported from the Americas is included for use by future investigators. Co-authors included Joaquin Cifuentes of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Beatriz Ortiz Santana of the USDA- Forest Mycology Research, Madison, Wis., and Silvia Cappello from Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Mexico.
Richard Kendrick and Timothy Rodriguez ’08
Richard Kendrick, Institute for Civic Engagement and Sociology/Anthropology Department, and Timothy Rodriguez ’08, a graduate student at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, presented a seminar on April 18 at Syracuse University. They discussed “Building a Culture of Volunteering” with the Leaders for Democracy Fellows, which included journalists, activists, and non-governmental organization leaders from the Middle East and North Africa.
Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, has been invited to speak at a workshop on the early Solar System set for Nov. 7-10 in Tokyo, Japan, and to contribute a manuscript to the publication of the workshop proceedings. Also, Morris has been issued a VIP invitation to the launch of the OSIRIS-REx mission, NASA’s sample return mission to the asteroid Bennu. The launch is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 8, at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, with a launch window through Friday, Sept. 10. More information can be found at www.asteroidmission.org
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, has had her essay, “Assessing Class Participation: One Useful Strategy,” included in a new e-book titled Grading Strategies for the College Classroom: a Collection of Articles for Faculty, from Magna Publications. The book is available on Amazon.com.