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Faculty and Staff Activities

Ann Blanton and Amanda Olson

Ann Blanton and Amanda Olson, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, attended the Cortland Pride Festival held on July 13 to promote the Center for Speech, Language and Hearing Center's gender affirming voice care services. 

Gender affirming voice services are dedicated to individuals who want to develop communication styles that are aligned with their gender identity and expression across all settings. These services are designed to educate and train clients to modify their voice through vocal pitch, intonation, resonance, articulation and voice quality as well as nonverbal communication. Gender affirming voice therapy can guide individuals to communicate in a way that feels authentic to them. 

Rhiannon Maton

Chris Badurek

Chris Badurek, Geography Department, gave an invited keynote address at the Regional STEM Summit of the Greater Southern Tier STEM Learning Network held Aug. 13 at the Corning Corporation in Corning, N.Y. His presentation, The Power of Creative Thinking: Harnessing GIS and Machine Learning for Career Preparation, highlighted approaches to generate student interest in STEM using machine learning for applied problem solving and facilitate IT career readiness in students without computer science degrees. 

Keith Newvine

Keith Newvine, Literacy Department, worked with stakeholders throughout New York state to create the New York State Education Department K-3 Literacy Curriculum Review Guide.

John Suarez

John Suarez, Civic Engagement, has a new phone number extension for the Galpin Institute for Civic Engagement. Please dial 4395.

Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo

Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Geography Department, had her promotion to SUNY Distinguished Professor confirmed in June. Johnston-Anumonwo has a long tenure at SUNY Cortland and a distinguished record of scholarship at the nexus of race, gender and urban geography. Also, she has a distinguished record of academic and professional service, making significant contributions to SUNY Cortland as well as the geography discipline. Her promotion is a significant accomplishment at SUNY Cortland and across SUNY as she is the first woman to be named a SUNY Distinguished Professor from a Geography Department. With her promotion, SUNY Cortland leads SUNY in Distinguished Professorships in the field of geography (three) along with the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Johnston-Anumonwo joins the ranks of Cortland Geography Department’s two Distinguished Teaching Professors David Miller and John Willmer.  

Garrett Otto

Garrett Otto, Mathematics Department, recently had his article "Allee effects introduced by density dependent phenology" published in Mathematical Biosciences.

Jacob Wright

Jacob Wright, Career Services, received the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award for Individual Excellence at the annual SUNY Career Development Organization (SUNYCDO) conference held June 13 in Suffern, N.Y. Recognized for his outstanding performance and significant contribution to the career services field, the career coach and educator served as vice chair of the DEI Committee and the Conference Program Committee for SUNYCDO during the 2023-24 academic year.  

Gillian Mertens

Gillian Mertens, Literacy Department, had an article titled “Evidence of Strategic Information Literacy Practices in Early Career Teachers’ Navigation of Teachers Pay Teachers” published Nov. 12 in Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice. 

Teagan Bradway

Teagan Bradway, English Department, authored the lead chapter, “Affect and Aesthetics,” recently published in the Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English, edited by Matthew Stratton.