Regina B. Grantham
Regina B. Grantham, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, attended the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention, the premier annual educational event for the profession, in November in Philadelphia, Pa. She attended several councils as a member of the association’s board of ethics. Also, she co-presented with the board in an oral seminar, “Workplace Ethics: Challenges and Solutions” and poster session, “Suspect Ethical Misconduct? The Code of Ethics (2016) Is a Path to Resolution.”
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, spoke at King’s College in London, England, and at the Southbank Centre in London on “American Gun Policy,” “Gun Violence: A Comparative Perspective,” and “America and the World, 1960-1990,” from Nov. 9 to 11. Two of the talks were in conjunction with the Southbank Centre’s Superpower Weekend, examining America's influence on Britain and the world.
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, keynoted a national conference on character education in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Nov. 17. The following week, Lickona conducted “Smart & Good Schools” seminars for teachers and school leaders in Singapore. The week of Dec. 5, he speaks to parents at the Guadalajara campus of Tec de Monterrey, Mexico, on “Raising Children of Character.” Lickona’s Character Matters book was published last year in Spanish by Producciones Educacion Aplicada.
Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, had an article titled “The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks” published in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, distinguished professor emeritus of biological sciences, was awarded the “Amicus Tironum” (Friend of Amateurs) certificate from the Northeast Mycological Federation (NEMF) at the 2018 NEMF meetings at SUNY Geneseo this past summer by NEMF President Dianna Smith. The meetings centered on biodiversity sampling of fungi from Letchworth State Park this year and included a wide variety of lectures on fungal biology from Thursday to Sunday provided by a host of professional mycologists including Baroni. The event had an attendance of just over 200 participants.
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.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, was invited in October to conduct a program review of the Department of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. His focus was on their journalism and related courses.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled “The Gun-Safety Issue is Actually Helping Democrats,” published by the New York Times on Nov. 12.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, presented “Why is Michael Jordan Suing a Grocery Store” and “Sponsorship in Brazil: Compliance with the FCPA and CCA” at the Sport Marketing Association Conference, held Oct. 22-24 in Philadelphia, Pa.