Amanda Anderson
Amanda Anderson, residence hall director for Smith Tower, participated in the Association of College and Personnel Administrators (ACPA) Conference held March 26-30 in Baltimore, Md. Anderson is a member of the Commission for Career Development and has submitted a piece for their newsletter about her experience at ACPA. She applied to join the Career Central at Convention (C3) Care Team for the 2012 ACPA convention in Louisville, Ky.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has been invited to lecture for two weeks at South China University of Technology in Guang Zhou, China, in the fall of 2014. The invitation is part of the university’s “Attracting Intelligence” program. Hartsock will give graduate lectures on American and global literary journalism, investigative journalism and American media law. Guang Zhou, perhaps better known to Westerners as Canton, is China’s third largest city, 75 miles north of Hong Kong. The university has an enrollment of more than 100,000.
In other news, Hartsock learned recently that a scholarly article of his was republished in the August issue of the Chinese journal Journalism Bimonthly, which is published by Fudan University in Shanghai. The article, “‘Literary Reportage’: The ‘Other’ Literary Journalism,” was originally published in Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, vol. XLII (2009). The Chinese version was translated by Li Mei, associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at South China University of Technology.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is co-author of a new, third edition of The Gun Debate: An Encyclopedia of Gun Control and Gun Rights, just published by Grey House Publishers. Spitzer’s book co-author is Glenn Utter of Lamar University. The book is an A-to-Z compendium of topics and issues related to the American gun debate.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of a book chapter titled, “Clinton and Gun Control: Boon or Bane?” in a new book, A True Third Way? Domestic Policy and the Presidency of William Jefferson Clinton, published by Nova Publishers.
Jo-Ann Maclean
Jo-Ann Maclean, Admissions Office, recently completed the Administrative Skills Certificate Program (ASCP) offered through the NYS & CSEA Partnership for Education and Training. The 25-hour ASCP was completed over the course of several months and is designed around critical job-related knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for clerical, secretarial and paraprofessional administrative employees to succeed in their careers.
Mary Emm
Mary Emm, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, along with graduate students Emily Tackabury and Jenna Venditti, presented a poster at the American Speech and Hearing Association Convention held Nov. 20-22 in Orlando, Fla. The poster is titled “Evidence-Based Practice Model: Collaborate. Learn. Apply.”
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, has been invited to join the Scholars Strategy Network, an organization established in 2009 by Harvard University political scientist and sociologist Theda Skocpol to find ways to make scholars’ work on public policy and public affairs more visible to a broader audience so that it can be of practical use by policymakers, journalists and the public. The organization has more than 600 scholar members. It is headed by Skocpol, and is based at Harvard.
Gregory D. Phelan
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, had three new United States patents issued in October and November. The patents are numbered 9,468,595, 9,469,941, and 9,493,670. The patents deal with applications of polymer science to consumer goods including cosmetics, bioengineered materials, preservation of wood and self-cleaning outdoor paints. More information about the patents that Phelan has been granted since joining the faculty at Cortland can be found on this database: http://bit.ly/2heJI7F
Craig Foster
Craig Foster, Psychology Department, wrote an article in October titled “Another Voice: Trump’s best option is to depart with dignity,” which was published in The Buffalo News. Also, he co-authored “Love Is Blind Is Blinding Us with ‘Science’” that was published in the November/December issue of Skeptical Inquirer.
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.