Scott Anderson
Scott Anderson, professor emeritus of geography, had his latest book, Pricing the Land: The Buying and Selling of Frontier New York and the Cayuga Reservation, published by Cornell University Press over summer 2024. Building upon his service as expert witness in the Cayuga Land Claim trials of 1999-2001, Anderson traces the history of land sales in the territory on the northern side of Cayuga Lake. Although the Cayuga Nation was awarded $247.9 million in compensation, the award was overturned in 2005. He concludes Pricing the Land with a conservative land valuation estimate entitling the Cayuga to twice the original judgement amount. The book has received positive review and praise from scholars of New York’s land use history.
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.
Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Student Development, has been invited to join the Survey Team for the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD). AUCCCD promotes the awareness of student mental health and development issues in higher education through research, advocacy, education and training provided to members, professional organizations and the public. In 2006, AUCCCD instituted the Annual Survey as a means to increase objective understanding of factors critical to the functioning of college and university counseling centers. The survey is published online annually and serves as a resource for directors as well as others interested in college mental health and development.
Christopher D. Gascón
Christopher D. Gascón, Modern Languages Department, had an article about a recent off-Broadway production in Spanish published in the journal Bulletin of the Comediantes (issue 69.1, 2017). The article, titled “Virués’s Theater of the Grotesque: Interrogating La gran Semíramis from Roman Chronicle to the New York Stage,” analyzes elements of the grotesque in the 1579 text by Cristóbal de Virués and in Diego Chiri’s 2015 production of the play at Repertorio Español in New York City. Integrating the perspectives of Kristeva, Bakhtin, and Foucault, the study concludes that Chiri uses the grotesque to reconcile contradictory elements of the work, and that Virués participates in the processes of distortion and degradation that have typified the production of the Semiramis myth, itself grotesque, throughout the centuries.
Karen Downey and Matthew Ellis
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, and senior student researcher Matthew Ellis, presented their work, “Density Functional Theory Modeling for Design of Group 10-based Metallo-organic Catalysts,” at the Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society on June 10 in Ithaca, N.Y.
Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, co-authored a paper in the journal Nature Anthropology.
Adam Ferguson M ’12
Adam Ferguson M ’12, English Department, presented his paper “Written Beyond the Body: Queer Narratives, Transgender Identity, and Sem-erotics” at the 2021 Conference of the Semiotic Society of America. The virtual conference was held from Oct. 20 to 23.
Kati Ahern
Kati Ahern, English Department, had a chapter titled “Recording Nonverbal Sounds: Cultivating Rhetorical Ambivalence in Digital Methods,” published in volume one of a WAC Clearinghouse book, Methods and Methodologies for Research in Digital Writing and Rhetoric.
Joshua Peck
Joshua Peck, Psychology Department, had his peer-reviewed paper titled “Abstinence Conflict Model: Toward an Optimal Animal Model for Screening Medications Promoting Drug Abstinence” published in the Journal of the International Review of Neurobiology. The article discusses the rising concern of illegal opiate drug abuse such as heroin and the misuse of legally available pain relievers that have led to serious deleterious health effects or even death. To address this concern, the article argues for the use of animal drug models that more closely approximate the human drug addiction condition. This could lead to the development of more effective environmental and pharmacotherapeutic interventions to treat opiate addiction and addiction to other drugs of abuse.