Mike Fusilli
Mike Fusilli, Development Office, a major gift officer and a volunteer coach for SUNY Cortland’s wrestling team, was inducted into the upstate New York chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Fusilli helped lead Ithaca College to two national titles during his collegiate wrestling career and was an NCAA Div. III individual national champion in 1990. He previously served as head coach at Binghamton University and has prior assistant coaching experience at Ithaca College and North Carolina University.
James Hokanson
James Hokanson, Kinesiology Department, was invited to collaborate with ongoing ageing research at the University of Salamanca, Spain. The study, sponsored by the Salamanca University Hospital and Department of Physical Therapy and Nursing, focuses on the health and fitness levels of older adults. The study, which has been continuously funded for nearly 20 years, evaluates health and fitness of approximately 600 adults in the province of Salamanca in the Castille and León region of Spain and includes organized rehabilitation and exercise programs.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is co-author of an article posted Nov. 30 by U.S. News and World Report titled, “Obama’s Guantanamo Paradox.” The article is co-authored with Chris Edelson of American University.
Katie Silvestri
Katie Silvestri, Literacy Department, co-authored an article about engineering and communicative literacies with K-12 students recently published in the Journal for Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER). Co-authors are Michelle Jordan of the University of Arizona, Patricia Paugh at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Mary McVee at the University at Buffalo SUNY, and Diane Schallert at the University of Texas - Austin.
The article is a state-of-the-art literature review focused on findings of 33 research articles informed by qualitative and quantitative data to foreground communicative literacies within engineering design teams at the pre-college level. The selected studies clustered under five overarching themes pertaining to: (a) engineering disciplinary communicative literacies in practice; (b) matters of access with populations underrepresented in engineering; (c) learning STEM content through engineering design; (d) affective responses to uncertainty and risk in engineering design; and (e) evaluating the quality of collaboration. With respect to the themes, the authors discuss possibilities of using literacy frameworks to deepen theoretical and methodological insights into the study of phenomena related to within-group communicative literacies in K-12 engineering spaces.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, was a co-author on an article “The Wild Edible Mushroom Pleurocollybia cibaria from Peru is a Species of Gerhardtia in the Lyophyllaceae (Agaricales),” recently published in Cryptogamie, Mycologie. This wild edible mushroom is widely collected and a highly prized commodity sold in the Peruvian markets. Co-authors included: P. Brandon Matheny and Marisol Sánchez-García, University of Tennessee; Andriana Simoni, Hudbay Minerals, Lima Peru; María Holgado Rojas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonia Abad del Cusco, Peru; and, Genevieve M. Gates, University of Tasmania, Australia. Baroni was invited to help sort out the taxonomy of this mushroom because he and a former student, Nicole Bocsusis ’07, had published in 2008 an article, with two other co-authors and researchers from the USDA Forest Service, in the journal Mycotaxon describing a new species of Pleurocollybia from the Maya Mountains in Belize. In that paper, they also reviewed species placed in the genus Pleurocollybia on a global scale.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his article, “Slow Burn: Dreadful Kinship and the Weirdness of Heteronormativity in It Follows," published in the journal Studies in the Fantastic.
Jena Nicols Curtis and Susie Burnett M ’15
Jena Nicols Curtis and Susie Burnett M ’15, Health Department, had their research article, “Affirmative Consent: What Do College Student Leaders Think About ‘Yes Means Yes’ as the Standard for Sexual Behavior?” published in the American Journal of Sexuality Education.
Kate McCormick
Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an article published in the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education titled “Artful learning: Early childhood pre-service teachers and art integration.”
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communications and Media Studies Department, co-authored a study that was published in Business and Professional Communication Quarterly. The title is “Communicative Care: How Companies Approach Mental Health CSR on Social Media.”
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, gave an invited talk to the New York Society for General Semantics. She spoke on “Conceptualizing campaign media and misinformation in 2024” as part of the “Misinformation, Misdirection, Manipulation and Mischief: Making Sense of Contemporary Political Propaganda” event held on Jan. 17 at the historic “Players” club in Gramercy Park, New York City. A recording of the event is available on the NYSGS YouTube channel.