Andrea Davalos
Andrea Davalos, Biological Sciences Department, is part of a team of collaborators assembled by Carrie Brown-Lima, director of Cornell University’s New York Invasive Species Research Institute, that works independently on different aspects of swallow-wort ecology and control. Their work, keeping with the New York Invasive Species Research Institute’s mission to connect scientific researchers with on-the-ground managers to address key New York state invasive species issues, is detailed in a July 9 Cornell Chronicle article titled “Moth provides hope against invasive swallow-wort.” Pale and black swallow-wort are rapidly invading fields and forests across the Northeast. The team, which just received a grant from the New York Department of Transportation, will release swallow-wort biocontrol moths later this summer.
Also this summer, two SUNY Cortland students are working with Davalos on the project: Jeremy Collings, who received a Summer Research Fellowship and a grant from New York State Flora Association to pursue a parallel question regarding swallow-wort management in New York State Parks; and Emily Ammons, who started this summer. Both students are mostly involved with Davalos’ project but have assisted with the biocontrol project and will continue to be involved throughout the year.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, spoke on “Gun Policy and Schools After Parkland” at the SUNY Student Assembly Spring Conference held in Syracuse on April 7.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, was presented with the “Amnesty International Keeper of the Flame Activism Award” for the northeast region. At the annual regional conference, which took place on Nov. 15 in Providence, Rhode Island, she also led a workshop on “How to create a Human Rights Podcast.” She hosts a weekly one-hour talk radio show on WRFI community radio in Ithaca, N.Y., called “The Human Rights and Social Justice Program.” The award was partly based on that. She has more than 260 podcasts on Soundcloud.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, was invited to present a keynote lecture at Cornell University for the English Department’s Graduate Student Conference, which was held on March 15 and 16. His lecture was titled “Queer Narrative Theory and the Belongings of Form.”
Genevieve Birren
Genevieve Birren, Sport Management Department, gave an invited presentation on the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act at the National Sports Law Institute's Fall Symposium held Oct. 15 at Marquette University Law School.
Lindsey Darvin
Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, had a publication titled “Voluntary occupational turnover and the experiences of former intercollegiate women assistant coaches” published in October in the Journal of Vocational Behavior.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his article, “Slow Burn: Dreadful Kinship and the Weirdness of Heteronormativity in It Follows," published in the journal Studies in the Fantastic.
Jena Nicols Curtis and Susie Burnett M ’15
Jena Nicols Curtis and Susie Burnett M ’15, Health Department, had their research article, “Affirmative Consent: What Do College Student Leaders Think About ‘Yes Means Yes’ as the Standard for Sexual Behavior?” published in the American Journal of Sexuality Education.
Kate McCormick
Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an article published in the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education titled “Artful learning: Early childhood pre-service teachers and art integration.”
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communications and Media Studies Department, co-authored a study that was published in Business and Professional Communication Quarterly. The title is “Communicative Care: How Companies Approach Mental Health CSR on Social Media.”