James Webb
James Webb, Auxiliary Services Corporation and executive chef at The Bistro Off Broadway, received the 2019 Chef Professionalism Award from the Syracuse chapter of the American Culinary Federation on March 25. Presented at The Oncenter in Syracuse, N.Y., the award recognizes chefs who exemplify the highest standard of professionalism through certification, continuing education and training, culinary competitions and community involvement. It honors culinarians who help elevate the status of chefs and cooks.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was panel organizer of “Continuity and Change of East Asia,” and a panel chair and paper presenter of “Sexual Violence and Awareness in Postsocialist China” at the New York Association of Asian Studies annual conference. It was held on Oct. 5 at SUNY New Paltz.
Genevieve Birren
Genevieve Birren, Sport Management Department, gave a presentation titled "Legal and governance implications of the growing dispute between the United States and the World Anti-Doping Agency" at the International Sport Law Journal 2025 Conference: 20 years of the World Anti–Doping Code in Action in The Hague, Netherlands, Nov. 6-7, 2025.
Nance Wilson
Nance Wilson, Literacy Department, co-authored an article titled “Investigating students during-reading practices through social annotation” that was selected by the Association of College and Research Libraries Distance and Online Learning Section’s Research & Publications Committee for the Summer Top 5 post about Digital Reading and Annotation.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, was appointed by the Eastern College Athletics Conference (ECAC) as a referee and officiated the National Junior Colleges Athletics Association (NJCAA) women’s national soccer championship held Nov. 8 at Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3). He refereed a game between Ann Arundel Community College, Arnold, Md., and Richland College, Dallas, Texas. Asumah has officiated numerous soccer championship matches at the international, professional, NCAA and NJCAA levels in the past 25 years.
Jill Toftegaard and Mary Emm
Jill Toftegaard and Mary Emm, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, received a grant for the 2019-20 academic year from the Parkinson Voice Project. The grant provides materials and trains clinical educators and graduate students to conduct therapy in the Center for Speech, Language and Hearing Disorders using the SPEAK OUT!® and The LOUD Crowd® program for persons with Parkinson’s.
Cynthia Guy
Cynthia Guy, Community Innovation Coordinator, Main Street SUNY Cortland, has been elected and approved to serve on the board of Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) of Cortland County. She was confirmed at the annual dinner meeting on Nov. 20, and will begin serving on the CCE Board in January. Earlier in November, Guy was elected and endorsed to serve on the Cortland Mental Health Sub-committee.
Peter McGinnis
Peter McGinnis, Kinesiology Department, has announced the recent publication of the third edition of his undergraduate biomechanics textbook, Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise. Published by Human Kinetics, the textbook is used in biomechanics and kinesiology courses in the United States and elsewhere.
Angela Pagano, Mary Gfeller and Kerri Freese
Angela Pagano, Biological Sciences Department, Mary Gfeller, Mathematics Department, and Program Coordinator Kerri Freese, Chemistry Department, along with eight students, represented the SUNY Cortland Undergraduate Clinically Rich Teacher Preparation Pilot program, a New York State Education Department (NYSED)-funded grant, during February in Albany, N.Y. They participated in a networking event with district administrators during a NYSED Diagnostic Tool for School and District Effectiveness training workshop. SUNY Cortland students included: Eric Reisweber, Zachary Gracyck and Brendan Creegan, adolescence education: earth science; Kelsey O’Donnell and Robin Tobin, adolescence education: mathematics; Taylor Jones and Lisa Dovi, adolescence education: physics; and Elyse Brill, adolescence education: biology.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, and Andrew Sluyter, Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University, had their article published in the latest issue of Journal of Historical Geography. The article, “How Incipient Colonies Create Territory: The Textual Surveys of New Spain, 1520s-1620s,” explores the practices of early colonial land surveying to reveal how territory was created through negotiations among local actors, centralized state power and specific landscapes.