Jacqueline Dyke M ’08, Jason Page M ’12, Lynn Anderson and Susan Wilson
Jacqueline Dyke M ’08, Jason Page M ’12, Lynn Anderson and Susan Wilson, of the Recreation, Parks and Leisure Services Department, presented virtually at the 2021 American Therapeutic Recreation Association annual conference. Dyke and Wilson presented “Don't Farm It Out to Facebook: Using Your Skills to Design Interventions that Work.” Page presented with Patricia Stanko, MS TR-On ’21, “It’s a Long Road: Supervising a CTRS Candidate on the Equivalency Path to Certification.” Page also presented “The Status of Clinical Supervision in Therapeutic Recreation in 2020: A Follow Up Study” with Anderson and Melissa Zahl from the University of Utah. Additionally, Wilson presented with Jennifer Hinton from Western Carolina University, “How We Teach the Language of Disability: It’s Not All Person-First Anymore” as well as a solo and live presentation titled “Burnout and Compassion Fatigue.”
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.
Kerri Freese, Gregory D. Phelan and Gauri Kolhatkar
Kerri Freese, SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, and mathematics graduate student Gauri Kolhatkar, attended the Sixth Annual National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Conference titled “Building Excellence in STEM Teaching.” STEM is the acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The conference, held in Washington D.C., brought together Noyce Scholars and faculty from more than 300 Noyce Scholarship programs throughout the country. SUNY Cortland presented a poster on its recruitment techniques to meet its goal of distributing scholarships to future math and science teachers. To date, the College has distributed 35 scholarships to 27 future teachers. SUNY Cortland currently tops the nation with its Noyce Scholarship distribution.
Robert Rubendall
Robert Rubendall, Center for Environmental and Outdoor Education, was named a 2011 Josh Miner Dialogue Series honoree. The Josh Miner Series, named for the person responsible for bringing Outward Bound to this country, was started in 2003 to honor and hear from a longtime leader in the field of experiential education who has made a distinct impact over the course of their career. The series consists of a public dialogue or conversation between the years’ honoree and another professional in the field. Following tradition, Rubendall was interviewed during the Northeast Regional Conference of the Association for Experiential Education , which was held April 9 in Beckett, Mass. He was interviewed by Paul Hutchinson from Boston University.
Jerome O’Callaghan
Jerome O’Callaghan, Political Science Department, presented research at the 55th annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association held Nov. 2 to 4 in Boston, Mass. The paper, titled “The Unbearable Inevitability of Content Regulation,” argues that the Supreme Court’s conventional approach to government regulation of speech is incoherent, and is fundamentally at odds with the history of the court’s decisions in speech cases.
Bryan Thomas
Bryan Thomas, Art and Art History Department, had his work accepted for the “Made in New York 2012” exhibition opening on Saturday, March 31, in Auburn, N.Y. His selected sculpture is a reflection on current events in Afghanistan, made of “knitted” plastic army men in the form of a child’s quilt. His work is one of 74 selected entries from a total of 549 by 294 regional artists. The annual exhibition was juried by Richard Kegler and Sydney Waller. The opening reception is from 3-5 p.m. on March 31 at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Gallery, 205 Genesee St., Auburn.
Gregory D. Phelan
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, had a new patent issued on April 14. Titled “Systems, materials and methods for recovering material from bedrock using supercritical argon compositions,” the patent deals with environmentally friendly ways to extract resources from the ground instead of using traditional hydraulic fracturing fluids. Details on the patent can be found at the following link: http://1.usa.gov/1yyFs6s
Melissa Morris and student Matthew Metcalf
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, and coauthors, including SUNY Cortland undergraduate Matthew Metcalf, had their paper, “Thermal History of CBb Chondrules and Cooling Rate Distributions of Ejecta Plumes,” accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Jack Carr
Jack Carr, Communication and Media Studies Department, performed the role of the bastard fop, Don John, in “Much Ado About Nothing” for Shakespeare-in-the-Park at Thornden Amphitheatre, in Syracuse, N.Y., the only live theatre presentation in Onondaga County this summer. This was followed by an ensemble role in a COVID-compliant mashup on the lawns behind the former Case Mansion in Auburn, N.Y., of the Greek tragedy “Antigone” by Sophocles and “Letters to Soldiers Lost,” reading actual letters that had been left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, and singing contemporary folk songs, two of which were written by college students for the original production on the West Coast. For this work, Carr and his SUNY Cortland colleague Nancy Kane, Kinesiology Department, were cited by the Theatre Association of New York State (TANYS). Carr is currently playing Malvolio in “Twelfth Night,” to be posted to YouTube at Thanksgiving. Also, he is putting finishing touches on an original script, “Maintenance,” with his friend and collaborator, Cortland native Matthew B. Steele.
Regina B. Grantham and graduate student Kelli Carsten
Regina B. Grantham, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, along with graduate student Kelli Carsten and colleague Nikki Curtis, Pediatric Developmental Therapy, presented a poster at the American Speech and Hearing Association Convention held Nov. 20-22 in Orlando, Fla. The poster was titled “Impact of Common Core State Standards on SLP Service Delivery: Current Practices and Implications.” Also, Grantham was appointed to serve on the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (ASHA) Board of Ethics for four years. ASHA is the national, professional and credentialing association for the profession of speech-language pathology and audiology with a membership of more than 173,000 members and affiliates.