Doug Langhans
Doug Langhans, Admissions, was a panelist on the State Study Consortia: Pool Resources & Increase Exposure! webinar presented by International English Language Testing System (IELTS) USA. IELTS hosted a variety of online workshops throughout the summer discussing various topics related to international education. Langhans, Study New York past-chair, and a number of other industry leaders discussed the benefits of forming a study state consortium to help increase the exposure of colleges and universities to international students and scholars. Langhans has been the SUNY Cortland representative for Study New York since it was founded in 2009 and has been a member of the Executive Leadership Team since 2016.
Caroline Kaltefleiter
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies Department, received a 2022 Transformative Justice Scholar-Activist of the Year Award from the national grassroots fully-volunteer organization Save the Kids. The organization is dedicated to alternatives to, and the end of the incarceration of all youth and the school-to-prison pipeline. Her work on creative youth media outreach projects and mutual aid actions over the last decade was highlighted.
Matthew Whitman
Matthew Whitman, Institute for Civic Engagement and SUNY Cortland AmeriCorps member, presented “Using Social Media to Engage Students” at Imagining America's national conference held Oct. 6 in Syracuse, N.Y.
Kathleen Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had her poem “Trump’s Tip” appear in the Oct. 9 issue of Rattle magazine’s weekly Poets Respond feature about recent events in the news. She has 25 poems published or forthcoming this year, to date. Her poem “Even Happy Ghosts Can Be Scary Ghosts When You’re 7” won third place in the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s (SFPA) international 2016 contest and was published on the SFPA website in September. In October, her poem “Detecting Nancy Drew” appeared in in Silver Birch Press’s Nancy Drew Anthology. Nine clerihews (humorous short poems) appeared in The Muses’ Gallery of Highland Park Poetry, in September. Lawrence’s clerihews lampooned George W. Bush, Caitlyn Jenner, Ryan Lochte, Michelle Obama, Bernie Sanders, O.J. Simpson, Ringo Starr and Anthony Weiner. Five of Lawrence’s poems, “High Tea,” “The Infected,” “Howl E’en,” “Schoolyard Games” and “A Congress of Ghosts” were accepted for publication in the anthology Lupine Lunes by Popcorn Press, to be published on Halloween.
Szilvia Kadas
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, presented her talk titled “Encouraging Students to Design with Social and Environmental Responsibility” at the Popular Culture Association Conference on June 3.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his book, After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory, and Sexuality in the 21st Century, published recently by Cambridge University Press. Co-edited with E.L. McCallum from Michigan State University, the book contains 12 chapters that address the reciprocal relationships between queer studies and literary studies, including Bradway and McCallum’s co-written essay, “Thinking Sideways, or An Untoward Genealogy of Queer Reading.” Read more about the book.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, recently was informed by SUNY Oneonta that he has been selected as one of SUNY Oneonta’s Alumni of Distinction. The SUNY Oneonta Alumni Association bestows this honor upon its most inspirational and accomplished graduates. Nominations are assessed and approved by the Alumni of Distinction Committee. Asumah will officially be recognized during SUNY Oneonta’s Red Day Anniversary Celebration on Sept. 2. Asumah earned his baccalaureate degree in 1982 from SUNY Oneonta. He received his MPA and doctorate from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.
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.
Vierne Placide
Vierne Placide, Health Department, presented a poster titled “Factors Influencing Counseling Adherence in Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder” at AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting held June 2 to 4 in Washington, D.C.
David A. Kilpatrick
David A. Kilpatrick, professor emeritus of psychology, presented an invited address at University of California, Los Angeles at the International Dyslexia Association–Los Angeles Branch on Saturday, March 5. His topic was “Boosting Reading Skills in Struggling Readers.” This trip provided Kilpatrick ’82 and his wife Andrea Belaskas Kilpatrick '83 with the opportunity to spend an evening with David’s Cortland roommate Timothy Shanahan ’83, a professor of philosophy of science at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles.