Christopher D. Gascón
Christopher D. Gascón, Modern Languages Department, presented “Taking Liberties with Cervantes, Calderón, and Lope,” at the annual conference of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater held in March in El Paso, Texas. His paper analyzes how Spanish classical theater is transformed when performed in other cultural contexts.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, presented at the Eastern Communication Association Conference held March 29 through April 2 in Baltimore, Md. She presented three papers: “Politics as Unusual: Editorial Cartooning and the 2024 Election,” “Roe, Reproduction, and Representation: Artists on Abortion” and “‘Wake Up, Sheeple!’ Sheeple Aren’t Real: Cartooning Conspiracies in a Theater of the Absurd – Netflix’s Inside Job.” The latter of these was recognized as the Top Paper in Political Communication.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, one of four original members of the weekly television program, “The Ivory Tower Half Hour,” was on hand to commemorate the program’s 10th anniversary on the air, as noted on the program’s broadcast on Sept. 7. “The Ivory Tower” is a weekly public affairs program broadcast at 8 p.m. on Fridays on WCNY-TV, Syracuse, N.Y. The panelists, consisting of college faculty from central New York universities including Syracuse University, Cazenovia College, Colgate University and Onondaga Community College, discuss the events of the week, and close each program with A’s and F’s. According to Nielsen ratings, “The Ivory Tower” has the highest viewership of any local program broadcast on any local television station in Central New York.
Jared Rosenberg
Jared Rosenberg, Kinesiology Department, was first author on a recently published article, "Do Functional Movement Screens Predict Body Composition Changes after Resistance Training?," in online resource PubMed.
Casey Hickey, Jennifer Kronenbitter and Hailey Ruoff
Casey Hickey, Campus Technology Services; Jennifer Kronenbitter, Library; and Hailey Ruoff, Library, Instructional Technologies and Design Services; presented at the Wizard 2012 held Nov. 13 in Syracuse, N.Y. Their presentation focused on the streaming media project that converted the library’s video collection into a streaming format. Wizard conferences are geared toward the SUNY technical community in order to address current information technology-related issues important to SUNY. The attendees represent the full range of SUNY campuses and university-wide programs that include IT professionals at every level.
Eric Edlund
Eric Edlund, Physics Department, gave a presentation titled "Sensitivity of optical positioning errors applied to the Wendelstein 7-X phase contrast imaging diagnostic" at the 2025 American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics (APS-DPP) conference in Long Beach, California, on Nov. 17-21, 2025.
Gretchen Herrmann
Gretchen Herrmann, Library, has just published her article “Machiavelli Meets Christmas: The White Elephant Gift Exchange and the Holiday Spirit” in the December issue of the Journal of Popular Culture. The article analyzes the popular holiday game that involves stealing gifts as an inversion of the values and practices of giving that are highlighted in the holiday season.
Jeffrey Radloff
Jeffrey Radloff, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, and Bridget Miller, Teacher Education at the University of South Carolina, were selected to be the new co-editors of the peer-reviewed science education journal called Innovations in Science Teacher Education (ISTE) starting in Spring 2024. This is an Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE) affiliated publication.
Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, served on several NASA review panels over the summer, as well as serving as reviewer for “The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Earth, Moon, and Planets.”
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, recently was appointed by the Association of African Universities and the Carnegie Diaspora Linkage Fellowship Program as an international invigilator and examiner for doctoral programs in Africa. Asumah will be travelling to the University of Ghana, Legon Ghana and the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, as an international examiner for doctoral dissertation defenses from April 22-30.