Nichole Edwards
Nichole Edwards, SUNY Cortland Auxiliary, was interviewed about our food waste composting by Spectrum News. The video was published on the statewide television station and its website on Saturday, April 22.
Katie Silvestri, Brittany Adams, Charlotte Pass and Nance S. Wilson
Katie Silvestri, Brittany Adams, Charlotte Pass and Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, co-authored a book chapter titled “Collaborative Self-Study of an Online Literacy Master's Program Pilot Year: Problem-Solving Practices in a Pandemic.” The chapter illustrates their intradepartmental, collaborative self-study of their literacy master’s program through use of an adapted collaborative conference protocol to surface problems and solutions related to policies, procedures and pedagogies. The chapter illustrates how the department prioritized pedagogies fostering deep engagement with literacy education content as well as relationship-building with students. Additionally, this intradepartmental case study leverages self-study methodology to structure collective inquiry, identifying “critical events” for deeper questioning, reflection, observation and guidance for future practice. The chapter discusses three critical events created tensions relating to the literacy master’s program’s implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic: field experience placements, community-building with students and student-teacher workload.
Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, International Communications and Culture emerita, and the U.S. Air Force Academy, had her article published in the spring issue of The IALLT Journal for Language Learning Technologies. It was titled “Effectiveness of Computer-Graded vs. Instructor-Graded Homework Assignments in an Elementary Spanish Course: A Comparative Study at Two Undergraduate Institutions.” LeLoup and co-authors Richard Dabrowski and Lunden E. MacDonald collaborated on a cross-institutional research study involving the U.S. Air Force Academy and Metropolitan State University of Denver. The study investigated issues involved in different types of online student activities.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, was a recipient of the Professor Ali A. Mazrui Outstanding Publication/Book and Educational Activities Award, presented at the 39th annual conference of the New York Africana Studies Association (NYASA). The conference was held at SUNY Cortland on April 4-5.
This inaugural award for NYASA was developed to echo and honor Ali A. Mazrui, a prominent Africanist, Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities, and the director and founder of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University. NYASA developed the award to honor Mazrui for his commitment to NYASA and his distinguished scholarship, publication, educational activities, intellectual vibrancy, national and international prominence and reputation.
Asumah is the first scholar and educator in NYASA to receive this award. He is a State University of New York Distinguished Teaching Professor, professor of political science, professor of Africana studies and chairperson of the Africana Studies Department at SUNY Cortland.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by Syracuse University in March and May and Case Western University in January to deliver three campuswide talks: two book talks on Tongzhi Living, and another talk on “Undertaking Sensitive Fieldwork” for Syracuse University in May.
Madeline Orr
Madeline Orr, Sport Management Department, received an “EE 30 Under 30” award from the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE). NAAEE's EE 30 Under 30 program recognizes individuals from around the world who are making a difference through environmental education. The class of 2020 awardees include social entrepreneurs, artists, researchers and educators from 14 countries.
Kathleen Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had five of her poems published by the HIV Here & Now Project in March. They include “Mingle,” “Male Gaze,” “Muscle Men,” “Breasts and Below” and “Music Menu.” Also, her elegy for B. B. King will be published in an introduction to poetry textbook edited by Gerry LaFemina, forthcoming from Kendall-Hunt. In addition, she received an honorable mention for her abecedarian “Boy Hoods” in the non-rhyming poetry category of the 2015 Writer’s Digest Annual International writing competition. ?
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, was interviewed about his book, Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form, on the New Books Network podcast.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, spoke on “The Architecture of the Gun Debate” at Colby College in Maine on April 2. The talk was hosted by Colby’s Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had his review of The Politics of Knowledge in Education published in Educational Studies . Additionally, in July he presented his paper titled “Bernstein in the Urban Classroom” at the Eighth International Basil Bernstein Symposium in Nagoya, Japan. During the symposium’s opening session he led a tribute, along with Parlo Singh, Griffith University, Australia, and William Tyler, Charles Darwin University, Australia, to his friend, mentor and intellectual collaborator, Rob Moore, late senior lecturer of sociology of education at the University of Cambridge, U.K.