David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, had his book Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties (Wiley, 2015) cited multiple times by the Utah Department of Education in their recently released document on dyslexia.
Marie Blanden and Lauren Scagnelli
Marie Blanden, Division of Student Affairs, and Lauren Scagnelli, Counseling and Wellness Services, conducted a presentation titled “One College’s Journey to Tobacco and Nicotine Free Campus” at the annual meeting of the New York State College Health Association, held Oct. 18 in Syracuse, N.Y.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of a new book, just published by Oxford University Press, titled, Guns Across America: Reconciling Gun Rules and Rights. The book argues that, contrary to the current national debate, gun laws and rights were perfectly compatible throughout most of American history, and that guns were actually regulated more strictly in the past than in the current era. In addition to gun law history, the book also examines the so-called right of rebellion, the Second Amendment and the assault weapons ban controversy, modern “stand-your-ground” laws, and New York state’s tough new gun laws and their impact on gun habits.
Jeffrey Radloff and Dominick Fantacone
Jeffrey Radloff, Childhood and Early Childhood Education Department, and Dominick Fantacone, Research and Sponsored Programs, published a book chapter, "The Dangerous Use of X-ray Fluoroscopy on African Mine Workers,” in Justice-Oriented Science Teaching and Learning, edited by David Steele and Alison K. Mercier, published by Springer, p. 435-455. The book is available at this link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-76297-0.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, Lance Lacey '04 and colleagues from Harvard University, University of Florida, University of Georgia, University of Central Oklahoma, UNAM Mexico an the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks published "Hydnum (Cantharellales) of the Neotropics: four new species and new reports from Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Panama" in Mycological Progress 24:13. 2025. This 14-page paper documented these new species of Hydnum, and confirmed six additional eastern North American species as also occurring in this tropical region for the first time using morphological and molecular data (ITS and TEF-1 sequences). An identification key to all known Hydnum species from these neotropical habitats was provided as well.
Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, has been invited by publisher Gale Cengage to produce an installment of their Drama Criticism series on the play “Fuenteovejuna” (1619), by Spanish playwright Lope de Vega. “Fuenteovejuna” is currently the most performed, read and studied play of the Spanish baroque period. Drama Criticism is a resource for scholars; the entry will include a study of the author and the play, reprints of the most important research on the work, and an annotated bibliography of additional key criticism of the drama.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), presented “Troubling Justice: A Case for a Ludic Ubuntu Ethic” on April 27 at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen, Germany. Nagel is a scholar-in-residence from January through July, and this is her official contribution as a research professor at Max Planck under the auspices of the African Diversities Colloquium.
Kevin Dames and Aaron Jones
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, and Aaron Jones, grad student, helped physics classes from Cortland High School visit the Biomechanics Laboratory in the Professional Studies Building for National Biomechanics Day. The high schoolers learned how to apply principles from their physics education, like free body diagrams, action-reaction, force and torque, to a human problem: postural control.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, had three peer-reviewed papers published recently. The first, titled “Towards a better understanding of Tetrapyrgos (Basidiomycota, Agaricales: New species, type studies, and phylogenetic inferences)” was published in late 2015 in Phytotaxa. It was co-authored by Amy Honan and Dennis Desjardin of San Francisco State University, and Brian Perry, California State University East Bay. One of the new species came from Baroni’s National Science Foundation (NSF) funded biodiversity work in the Greater Antilles, from the island of Puerto Rico. Two more recent papers came out in mid 2016, one with co-authors Juan Luis Mata, University of South Alabama, Clark Ovrebo, University of Central Oklahoma, and Karen Hughes, University of Tennessee. “New Species of Neotropical Rhodocollybia” was published in Mycotaxon. The new species were discovered during Baroni’s NSF-funded work in the Dominican Republic. The article “Rhodocybe tugrulii (Agaricales, Entolomataceae), a New Species from Turkey and Estonia Based on Morphological and Molecular Data, and a New Combination in Clitocella (Entolomataceae)” was published in Phytotaxa. It was co-authored with Alfredo Vizzini, University of Turin, Italy, Ertugrul Sesli, Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey, Vladimír Antonín, Moravian Museum, Czech Republic, and Irja Saar, University of Tartu, Estonia. Baroni was invited to contribute to the research on this new taxon because of his numerous publications on Rhodocybe globally and because he was a co-author of the newly erected genus Clitocella, now being recognized by fungal systematists.
Lindsey Darvin
Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, was featured in a State of Sport Management podcast, in which she discussed a viral tweet about Alabama running back honoring U.S. Women’s National Team Member Megan Rapinoe. The tweet received 19,400 likes and 1 million impressions.