Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, has announced that his third poetry collection, Approaching Home, will be released Feb. 1, 2013, from Finishing Line Press. The poems deal with his return to Cortland after several decades. Weatherby’s collection has received advanced reviews from notable authors, including poet, translator and editor Burt Kimmelman.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, co-presented a paper titled “School Reform and the Political Education of U.S. Teachers” at the Education Reform, Communities and Social Justice conference hosted by the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Student Development centers, has learned that the office was awarded full re-accreditation for the 2014-15 year by the International Association of Counseling Services (IACS). IACS is the only association that accredits counseling services on university and college campuses. Approval by IACS is dependent upon evidence of continuing professional development as well as demonstration of excellence in counseling performance. The office offers individual and group counseling for students, as well as consultation and outreach to the campus community.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, had his paper titled “Is the Court of Arbitration of Sport Getting Serious About Corruption” presented for him at the National Conference of Sport Sciences Research in Tehran, Iran.
John Marciano
John Marciano, professor emeritus of education, has a book coming out this July, published by Monthly Review Press. The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration? builds upon the book Marciano wrote with the late William “Bill” Griffen ’50, SUNY Cortland professor emeritus of foundations and social advocacy (Teaching the War in Vietnam, 1979) and will be dedicated to Griffen. Marciano, who retired from SUNY Cortland in 2001, has been an antiwar and social justice activist, author, scholar, teacher, and trade unionist. He resides in Talent, Oregon.
Karen Downey
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, and Joshua Eller ’14, had their article titled “Computational assessment of electron density in metallo-organic nickel pincer complexes for formation of P-C bonds” published in volume 36, issue 26 of the Journal of Computational Chemistry. The article reports on research they conducted during Eller’s senior year. Current senior Matt Ellis ’16 is advancing the work further, under the advisement of Downey.
Kathleen Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had a spiraling abecedarian poem, “Dorothy Delivered,” published in March in The 2017 Rhysling Anthology (Science Fiction Poetry Association). In February Silver Blade Magazine published her “Haiku Swarm” group of four haiku: “Path,” “Rules of the Rodeo,” “Laws of Nature” and “Unrequited Love.” Altered Reality Magazine honored Lawrence as a Rhysling award nominee on their March/April 2017 front cover. Her free verse poem “Dear Lost Love of My Life” is the featured publication today in Silver Birch Press’s Lost & Found poetry and prose series. Lawrence’s published poem, “Trump's Tip,” was recorded by request of the editor at Rattle Magazine. In the last 12 months, 49 poems by Lawrence have been published or are forthcoming.
Tisa Loewen
Tisa Loewen, Sociology/Anthropology Department, with senior Emma Caraher and Samantha Horn '24, wrote a textbook review, "Pedagogy in Practice, A Collaborative Textbook Review of: Forensic Anthropology, an Introductory Lab Manual," that was published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, was a co-author on the recently published peer-reviewed paper “Additions to quadrate spored Entoloma (Agaricales) in Kerala State, India” published in Mycosphere in late 2016. Co-authors were Indian research mycologists C. K. Pradeep, K. B. Vrinda and C. Bihjeesh of the Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden & Research Institute, Kerala, India.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, made several presentations in November. She was a guest of The Ohio State University’s Mershon Center for National Security and Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum for the Comics, Security, and the American Mission conference on Nov. 4, where she presented research called “Veteran-Created War Comics and the Workaday War.” On Nov. 10, she was an invited participant in an international panel hosted by “Military at Microsoft” about humor in the military, part of Microsoft’s National Veterans Awareness Week events. On Nov. 19, she presented in two panel discussions at the annual National Communication Association conference, held in New Orleans, La.