Genevieve Birren
Genevieve Birren, Sport Management Department, authored an article that was published in the fall issue of the Marquette Sports Law Review. The article is titled “The Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act: The United States’ Response to the Russian Doping Scandal.”
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, has been invited to join the advisory board of the Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Journal of Politics. Pi Sigma Alpha is the national political science honors society. Cortland has had a chapter since 1970.
Hilary Wong
Hilary Wong, Memorial Library, presented “Sowing Good Seeds: Outreach Strategies for Liaisons,” at the SUNYLA 2021 (Virtual) annual conference held June 16 to 18. Wong explained the strategies she has found most effective in creating new opportunities for instruction, both before and during the pandemic. The conference theme was “From Seeds to Service: Growing the New Academic Library.”
Alexis Blavos
Alexis Blavos, Health Department, had an article titled “Advocacy Skill Development in Public Health Education Curriculum: A Pilot Study” published in Health Promotion Practice. Also, she and colleagues presented a plenary titled “Utilizing the Power of AI to Advocate for Equity Where You Live, Work, and Play” at the 2024 Health Education Advocacy Summit, held Oct. 19 to 21 in Washington, D.C.
Steven Gabriel
Steven Gabriel, Health Department, and colleagues had their article titled “Women’s Motivators to Engage in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment While Enrolled in an Opioid Intervention Court,” published in April in the journal Substance Use & Misuse.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, has been named the new editor of the Presidential Briefings book series, published by Transaction Books. The books in the series provide concise and readable introductions to topics of general interest to students of the presidency. By approaching their subjects from the vantage point of what a president most needs to know, and what we most need to know about the presidency, each book provides a highly practical overview of an important subject. The first book in the series will be published this summer.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, was an invited panelist at the annual North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference held virtually from Nov. 4 to 6. The panel addressed Title IX in the time of COVID.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, with co-authors, described the new species of mushroom in their article “A new species and a new combination of Rhodophana (Entolomataceae, Agaricales) from Africa.” It describes Rhodophana flavipes, T. J. Baroni, Daniëls and Hama, a mushroom of the family Entolomataceae, and made the new combination Rhodophana fibulata, (Pegler) T. J. Baroni, Kluting and Daniëls, for a species described in 1977 and still only known from Uganda and Tanzania. Their paper was based on morphological and phylogenetic evidence and published in 2017 in the journal Phytotaxa, volume 306. Only two species of Rhodophana are now known for the entire continent of Africa. Scientists names follow the species names as it is accepted in botanical taxonomy to include the authors of a species, governed by the Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
Co-authors were Pablo Daniëls and Felix García-Pantaleón, University of Cordoba, Spain, Oumarou Hama, University of Tahoua, Niger, and Kerri Kluting, Uppsala University, Sweden, Saha Bergemann, Middle Tennessee State University, Moussa Barage and Dahiraou Ibrahinm, Abdou Moumouni University, Niger.
Timothy Davis
Timothy Davis, Physical Education Department, has received a partnership agreement in the amount of $15,000, developed with the DeRuyter Central School District and SUNY Cortland, to support a new graduate assistant position from Sept. 1, 2011-June 30, 2012.
Alex Vizgaitis
Alex Vizgaitis, Psychology Department, recently had an article titled “Identity Pathology and Mentalization Deficits: An Attempt to Support Clinical Theory with Data” published in Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.