Jacqueline Augustine
Jacqueline Augustine, Kinesiology Department, was an invited speaker at the Mid-Atlantic Regional American College of Sports Medicine Conference on Nov. 1 in Harrisburg, Pa. Her presentation was titled “Cardiovascular Adaptations in Female Marathoners.”
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, had her speculative abecedarian “The Large Tale of the Tiny Girl and her Big Dreams” published in Star*Line Magazine’s May issue. It is the print journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. This poem is a retelling of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale, Thumbelina.
Kate McCormick and John Suarez
Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, and John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, described a three-year applied learning participatory research project that explores an approach to extended public deliberation. The approach fosters civil civic decision-making skills among college students and long-term residents of Cortland, N.Y., by building mutual trust and respect as first steps in developing solutions to anti-racism issues. The link to the recording is https://youtu.be/GPdqBQ2z5AM
Jennifer Janes
Jennifer Janes, Institutional Advancement, earned her Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration from Stony Brook University on May 19. She is the director of The Cortland Fund.
Mark DePaull
Mark DePaull, University Police chief, was appointed president of the state-wide SUNY Police Chiefs Association at the annual conference on April 19 in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Mary Ware
Mary Ware, professor emerita of Foundations and Social Advocacy, and Mary F. Stuck, professor emerita of sociology at SUNY Oswego, facilitated a presidential salon discussion on diversity and inclusion on Feb. 27 at D'Youville College.
Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Avanti Mukherjee and Eric Edlund
Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth and Avanti Mukherjee of the Economics Department and Eric Edlund of the Physics Department had an article titled “Analysis of Hybrid Epidemiological‑Economic Models of COVID‑19 Mitigation Policies” published in the Eastern Economics Journal.
Abby Thomas, Marinda Souva and Lori Schlicht
Abby Thomas, Marinda Souva, and Lori Schlicht, Advisement and Transition, presented “Thriving in Change – Infusing Advising Across Campus Initiatives” at the 22nd National Conference on Students in Transition on Oct. 18 in Baltimore, Md.
Sam Avery
Sam Avery, MFA, Communication and Media Studies Department, made a short film, “The Catch”, which won Best New York Short at the Adirondack Film Festival before airing on Mountain Lake PBS. The film features David Hollenback, Communication and Media Studies Department, and recent SUNY Cortland alumnus, Mitchell Ensman ’17. A PBS-produced interview with Avery, promoting the film, can be found here.
Michelle Cryan
Michelle Cryan, Publications and Electronic Media Office, developed a prototype for an app designed to teach sign language to pre-verbal children. She submitted the app project as the thesis for her master’s degree in Information Design and Technology at SUNYIT. The paper and a prototype of the app can be found at http://people.sunyit.edu/~cryanm/. Cryan wrote and illustrated a lift-the-flap sign language book that was published in 2007 by Gallaudet Press.