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Tyler Bradway

Tyler Bradway, English Department, edited a special issue of College Literature, “Lively Words: The Politics and Poetics of Experimental Writing,” which was published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The issue argues for a comparative cultural studies approach to the study of 20th and 21st century experimental writing and contains 17 essays, including his essay “The Promise of Experimental Writing” and the Critical Forum he edited and introduces, “The Sonic Politics of Black Experimentalism.” View the special issue. 

Anne Vittoria

Anne Vittoria, Sociology-Anthropology Department, is the author of a book, Women of Color in a World Apart, An Ethnography of Care Workers published Oct. 29 by Routledge. The book addresses issues in the fields of medical sociology and the intersectional literature of race, class and gender.

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.

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.

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.

Tiantian Zheng

Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited to deliver a campus-wide talk at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., on Monday, Feb. 23. She will discuss “Health and Social Activism of Self-Identified Gay Men in Postsocialist China” from 4:30-6 p.m. in Rockefeller Hall, Room 115.

Danica Savonick

Danica Savonick, English Department, received the Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Award as well as a yearlong faculty fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The ACLS Fellowship Program awards fellowships to individual scholars working in the humanities and related social sciences. You can read more about the award and her project here: https://www.acls.org/Recent-Awardees/ACLS-Fellows

Angela Pagano and Noyce Scholars Dominick Fantacone and Sarah Smith

Angela Pagano, Biological Sciences Department, along with SUNY Cortland Noyce Scholars Dominick Fantacone and Sarah Smith, presented a workshop session at the Noyce Northeast Regional Conference on Oct. 14 in Philadelphia, Pa. Their session was titled “Bringing Space Down to Earth! Teaching Secondary Science Using NASA Materials.” Context-based inquiry teaching approaches, especially those emphasizing links between science, technology and society, have been shown to improve student attitude toward science, increase understanding of scientific concepts and the nature of science, and reduce gender differences in attitude toward science. Cornell University’s Center for Radiophysics & Space Research Education & Public Outreach (CRSR-EPO) partnered with SUNY Cortland’s adolescence education: science program to offer professional development workshops aimed at creating context-driven, inquiry-based lessons using NASA content, teaching materials and activities. During the session, presenters provided an overview of NASA materials available to educators, worked through a selection of activities, and provided examples of how these materials can be incorporated into the secondary science curriculum. Access to plans created in the professional development series was provided.

Henry Steck

Henry Steck, Political Science Department and Project on Eastern and Central Europe, recently presented a paper titled “Squeezing Liberal Democracy: Recent Developments in the United States,” at the 22nd annual conference held at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies of the University of Zagreb in Dubrovnik, Croatia. He also delivered “‘There is No Santa Claus’: Confronting the Challenges of Educating Students for the Real World of Modern Democracy” at a conference on “Cha(lle)nging (sic) Democracy at the Beginning of the 21st Century.” The conference was held at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania.

Robert Spitzer

Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, was a keynote speaker at the Gun Studies Symposium conference held Oct. 20 at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz.