Joshua Peluso
Joshua Peluso, Systems Administration and Web Services, gave two presentations at the Fall 2011 Wizard Collaborative SUNY Conference held Nov. 15-16 in Syracuse, N.Y. His talks were titled, “Getting Everything in your Campus Portal” and “SUNY Source.” Wizard technology conferences promote SUNY-wide technological offerings for all campuses.
Gregory D. Phelan
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, recently presented at the Board on Research Data and Information of the National Academies. The public symposium included speakers from Columbia University, Stanford University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. His talk on the use of digital media in scientific research is currently being prepared for publication.
Mark Dodds, Jordan Kobritz, Justin Lovich, Tara Mahoney and Ryan Vooris
Mark Dodds, Jordan Kobritz, Justin Lovich, Tara Mahoney and Ryan Vooris, all Sport Management Department faculty members, presented research at the 29th Annual Conference of the Sport and Recreation Law Association (SRLA) held March 2-5 in New Orleans, La. Also, Dodds was recognized with the President’s Service Award for service to SRLA.
John Foley
John Foley, Physical Education Department, was selected as a board member for the prestigious journal Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly.
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently presented two papers at the Eastern Communication Association Convention held April 10 to 14 in Providence, RI. They are titled, “Communicating Social Support to Enhance Student Emotional Wellness: Exploring Supportive Message Sources, Types, and Effectiveness” and “Computer-Mediated Communication and the Dual Identification in Chinese Organizations.”
Li Jin
Li Jin, Geology Department, recently gave a presentation at the 2017 Northeast/North-Central Geological Society of America Joint Section Meeting in Pittsburgh. She presented, “Modeling Nitrogen Dynamics in the Tioughnioga River, New York.”
Justin Bucciferro
Justin Bucciferro, Economics Department, had his article, “A Comparative Portrait of Long-Run Racial Disparity in the United States and Brazil,” published in Essays in Economic & Business History. Also, he presented a paper at the Economic History Association meeting held in September in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Charles DeMotte
Charles DeMotte, Sociology/Anthropology Department, will have his book, Bat, Ball and Bible: The Struggle for Sunday Baseball in New York, published in 2012 by Potomac Press.
Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, was invited by NASA headquarters in Washington D.C. to act as a contracted program officer to assist in the administration of several programs under the Planetary Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate. She has taken a leave of absence from teaching at SUNY Cortland for the fall semester to perform this important service to our country and the scientific community. She will continue to advise her SUNY Cortland undergraduate research assistants and postdoctoral researchers while she is on leave.
Morris was a coauthor on a presentation titled “Thermal History Match Between CBb Chondrules and Impact Plume Models” at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, held July 23-28 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Morris’ undergraduate research assistant and current SUNY Cortland senior Andrew Duval spent six weeks at Arizona State University (ASU) over the summer collecting data on meteorites using the state-of-the-art facilities at ASU’s Center for Meteorite Studies. The results of his research will be the subject of his honors thesis, and will be published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Also, Morris had a Career Profile posted on the blog of The American Astronomical Society Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy on August 8.
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, recently served as a grant reviewer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She participated in two review panels for RWJF’s new funding initiative for Advancing Systemic Changes to Promote Healthy School Environments.