Doug Langhans
Doug Langhans, Admissions, was a panelist on the State Study Consortia: Pool Resources & Increase Exposure! webinar presented by International English Language Testing System (IELTS) USA. IELTS hosted a variety of online workshops throughout the summer discussing various topics related to international education. Langhans, Study New York past-chair, and a number of other industry leaders discussed the benefits of forming a study state consortium to help increase the exposure of colleges and universities to international students and scholars. Langhans has been the SUNY Cortland representative for Study New York since it was founded in 2009 and has been a member of the Executive Leadership Team since 2016.
Matthew Whitman
Matthew Whitman, Institute for Civic Engagement and SUNY Cortland AmeriCorps member, presented “Using Social Media to Engage Students” at Imagining America's national conference held Oct. 6 in Syracuse, N.Y.
Szilvia Kadas
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, presented her talk titled “Encouraging Students to Design with Social and Environmental Responsibility” at the Popular Culture Association Conference on June 3.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, will have her critical review of the recent Shanghai Biennale art exhibition, “The Energizing Biennale,” published in the September/October issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism.
Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, recently had her blog post published. Titled “Interactive, Asynchronous On-line Discussions,” it describes how teachers can engage students in interactive, asynchronous online discussions that not only play an important role in online and hybrid classes, but are critical to assuring active participation by students.
Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Wellness Services, was a co-presenter at the annual conference of the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD) on Oct. 16 in New Orleans. She, along with Peter LeViness, University of Richmond, and Kim Gorman, Western Carolina University, presented “Highlights from the AUCCCD 2017 Directors’ Survey.”
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on Nov. 13 and Sun Yat-Sen University, China on March 18 to deliver campus-wide talks on her book Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China and the contribution of anthropology to public health.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of two recent articles about the consequences of the Las Vegas mass shooting. His article, “America Used to be Good at Gun Control. What Happened?” was published on Oct. 3 by The New York Times.
His article, “An American standoff: How contemporary pro-gun orthodoxy is at odds with the Constitution and U.S. history,” was published Oct. 8 in the New York Daily News.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, spoke on the 2016 elections before the Finger Lakes Forum on Oct. 17 in Geneva, N.Y.
Fran Elia
Fran Elia, Sports Information Office, received the Special Awards Salute: 25-Year Award from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) recognizing members who have completed 25 years in the profession. Elia has worked at SUNY Cortland for 27 years, 26 of them as the full-time sports information director. Read more about Elia’s history with the College and with CoSIDA.