Mary McGuire and Bruce Mattingly
Mary McGuire, Political Science Department, and Bruce Mattingly, dean, School of Arts and Sciences, along with eight other co-authors from SUNY Plattsburgh, SUNY Oneonta and SUNY Oswego, authored “The Common Problems Project: An Interdisciplinary, Community-Engaged, Problem-Based Pedagogy,” published in June in the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, volume 22, no. 2.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, has been informed that his article, “Gun Law, Policy, and Politics,” has been accepted for publication in a future issue of the journal Government Law and Policy Journal.
Peter M. McGinnis
Peter M. McGinnis, Kinesiology Department, recently learned that Human Kinetics has published the 4th edition of his book Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise.
Li Jin
Li Jin, Geology Department, has been appointed associate editor for Water Resources Research for the term 2024 to 2028. Published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), this journal is recognized as a leading publication in the field of hydrology.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, and three of the Institute’s interns hosted the first video conference of the North/South Central New York Coalition for Applied Learning. Participants called the Feb. 7 meeting “productive” and “innovative.” Technology Training Associate Julia Morog was instrumental in making this meeting a success.
Twelve people participated in the video conference, including the director of SUNY’s Office of Applied Learning and two members of her staff, the executive director of the New York Campus Compact, and faculty and staff from SUNY Binghamton, Dutchess, Oneonta, and Westchester. The three interns – Mariah Asencio, a communication studies major, Kaley Decker, a business economics major, and Austen Johnson, a political science major, contributed ideas to the meeting’s primary purpose: identifying ways for faculty and staff to interest students in applied learning activities. Participants also explored ways of strengthening community impact, considerations regarding data-collection and a suggestion for a state-wide needs assessment mapping of communities’ well-being indicators.
The Coalition’s 35 members represent 23 institutions. SUNY Cortland faculty and staff are welcome to suggest topics for – and participate in – the Coalition’s video conferences by emailing John Suarez.
Dominick Fantacone
Dominick Fantacone, Research and Sponsored Programs, presented a paper titled, “Enacting Culturally Responsive Science Education in Rural & Urban Districts: Noyce Alumni Perspectives from Two Universities” at the NARST 2025 Annual International Conference on March 25 in National Harbor, Maryland. NARST is a global organization for improving science education through research.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, was named a Wilson Scholar of the John P. Wilson Fellowship of the New York State Communication Association (NYSCA). The Wilson Scholar Committee awards the Wilson Fellowship to a member of NYSCA who has established an exemplary record of scholarship and service to the association. To be considered for the award, nominees must be members of NYSCA, have contributed a significant body of research, and have a record of service to NYSCA.
Also, Knopf planned the 79th annual convention of the New York State Communication Association, held Oct. 15 to 17 in Callicoon, N.Y. The conference featured nearly 30 programming sessions with 75 faculty and student speakers from throughout New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Knopf is now serving as president of the New York State Communication Association through October 2022.
Dan Harms
Dan Harms, Library, had his chapter, “Hell and Fairy: The Differentiation of Fairies and Demons within British Ritual Magic of the Early Modern Period,” published in the edited collection Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period from Palgrave Macmillan.
Katie Ducett
Katie Ducett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, co-authored two chapters included in recently published books, one in Multimodal and Digital Creative Writing Pedagogies and the second in Creating Our Own Lives: College Students with Intellectual Disability.
Larissa True
Larissa True, Kinesiology Department, recently was interviewed for an article on training the nervous system that appears in the June issue of Runner’s World UK magazine. The article, titled “Circuit Training: A neurological master class in conditioning your nervous system for improved running performance,” was written by James Witts.