Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, served as a discussant on a panel titled, “Presidents, the Courts, and the Law” at the recent annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, held in Philadelphia from Sept. 1 to 4. Also, he attended the executive council meeting of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honors society, on which he is serving a four-year term.
Ubaldo Valli
Ubaldo Valli, Performing Arts Department, has been selected as a prize winner in The American Prize National Nonprofit Competition in the Performing Arts. Valli shared third prize in the Vytautas Marijosius Memorial Award in Orchestral Programming, College/University Division category. The American Prize is “the nation’s most comprehensive series of contests in the classical arts” and is “designed to evaluate, recognize and reward the best performers, ensembles, composers and administrators in the United States.”
Jared Rosenberg
Jared Rosenberg, Kinesiology Department, was an author on a recently published article, "EXERT-BCN: An Exercise Regimen Designed to Improve Body Composition, Functional Capacity, and Srength After Treatment for Breast Cancer With Nutrition Optimization," in online resource PubMed.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had a co-authored article, “Opposing Innovations: Race and Reform in the West Philadelphia Community Free School, 1969-1978,” published in the History of Education Quarterly. This piece examines competing conceptions of “innovation” at work in the creation and operation of the West Philadelphia Community Free School, 1969-1978. The article pays particular attention to the range of values and goals amongst stakeholders in the school's community/university/district partnership and argues that the burden of reconciling opposing innovations fell unevenly upon the teachers and community members.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement’s Office of Service-Learning, has secured a $500 New York Campus Compact grant for a roundtable discussion that will focus on economic mobility in Cortland County. Broome Community College’s Civic Engagement Center will help guide the planning and execution of this event’s deliberative discussion format. The discussion, scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 21, is part of the greater Cortland community’s economic Inequality Initiative.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), participated in plenary session on “Mentoring Advice: Publishing in Top 5 Journals,” on July 1 at the Economic Science Association World Conference at Humbold University in Berlin, Germany.
Lorraine Berry
Lorraine Berry, NeoVox, interviewed Ryan Gattis, author of the novel, All Involved, which chronicles the six days of the Los Angeles Riots of 1992. The interview can be found online on Salon.
Also, Berry had her essay on the new language of grief published in Salon. The essay was picked up by Literary Hub as a featured essay as well: http://lithub.com/lithub-daily-july-29-2015/
Dennis L.C. Weng
Dennis L.C. Weng, Political Science Department, presented three papers at the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) annual meeting in Chicago from April 7-10. Also, his paper “Investigating The Changing Citizens in Southeast Asia: An Empirical Analysis of Political Participation and Democratization in Southeast Asia,” has been accepted for publication in April in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.
Al Sofalvi
Al Sofalvi, Health Department, was named a Fellow of the American Association for Health Education at the recent American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD) national convention held in San Diego, Calif.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, presented findings from his collaboration with Egyptian educators in an online historical thinking course at the Comparative International Education Society conference in Mexico City, Mexico.