Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had her poem “Afternoon Dance” published in haikuniverse on May 4. This micro-poem was selected to be the featured haiku of the day and reflects the social life of residents of a spring garden.
Kaitlin Flannery
Kaitlin Flannery, Psychology Department, was interviewed about her work on friendship dissolutions for a recently published BBC article titled “Downgraded or dissolved: What to do when you break-up with your friends.”
Laura J. Davies
Laura J. Davies, English Department, had her chapter, “Browsing with Intent: Digital Information Literacy and Distant Reading Practices,” published in August in The Next Digital Scholar, edited by James P. Purdy and Randall McClure. Her chapter was selected as the featured chapter on the publisher’s website.
Melinda Shimizu
Melinda Shimizu, Geography Department, presented a virtual reality field trip titled "Mission to Mars" at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Detroit, Michigan, on March 26.
Joseph Anthony
Joseph Anthony, Political Science Department, received funding from the Bipartisan Policy Center. The grant is for “Cultivating Resilience in Election Administration by Impacting the Policy Landscape,” and will assess the impact of election policies passed since 2016 on local election officials and examine the roles of local election officials and their state professional associations in policymaking.
Advised by the Election Workforce Advisory Council, Anthony’s is one of nine projects that will investigate a variety of challenges facing the elections workforce including turnover, emerging technologies, funding, public trust, ethics, state policy, diversity and threats against election workers. The findings will build an important empirical foundation for long-term, evidence-based solutions to election workforce challenges and final research reports will be published in late 2024 and early 2025.
The Election Workforce Advisory Council is a joint project of the Bipartisan Policy Center and The Elections Group. The council brings together election administrators, academics, experts, and industry representatives to develop and implement best practices to improve recruitment, retention and training in election administration.
The grant program is supported by the Election Trust Initiative, a nonpartisan grant-making organization working to strengthen the field of election administration, guided by the principle that America’s election systems must be secure, transparent, accurate and convenient.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, had his article titled “Reading Picture Books and Discussing Gender Binary Topics with Elementary Students,” published in the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) blog on Oct. 25.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, organized and ran the 61st Annual Charles Horton Peck Foray that hosted 40 professional, amateur and student mycologists from the northeast, held Sept. 12-14 at the Vanderkamp Retreat Center in Cleveland, N.Y. Amateur Mycologists from the Central New York Mycological Association, the Rochester Area Mycological Association and the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club, joined faculty and students from Cornell University, SUNY Cortland, Clarion University and The New York Botanical Garden for the two day event that focused on collecting and studying macrofungi — mushrooms, cup fungi and their relatives. Cortland has hosted the event six times since 1976.
Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Wellness Services, has been informed that the Counseling Center has met the criteria for full re-accreditation by the International Association of Counseling Services (IACS), the only association that accredits counseling services on university and college campuses. Accreditation by IACS is dependent upon evidence of continuing professional development as well as demonstration of excellence in counseling performance. The Counseling Center offers individual and group counseling for students, as well as consultation and outreach to the campus community and beyond.
Greg Sharer
Greg Sharer, vice president for student affairs, recently contributed a chapter titled “Critical Relationships During Stormy Times” in the book Crisis, Compassion, and Resiliency in Student Affairs: Using Triage Practices to Foster Well-Being.
Michael Hough
Michael Hough, Biological Sciences Department, had his article, “Geum ×cortlandicum (Rosaceae), a new natural hybrid plus three Geum urbanum hybrids new to the flora of New York,” published in the August 2018 issue of Phytoneuron, an open-access journal. Geum ×cortlandicum M. Hough is a previously undescribed hybrid of two common native species, G. canadense and G. laciniatum. The taxon is named for Cortland County, N.Y., where this and three other Geum hybrids have recently been collected by the author. Two of the other hybrids, G. ×catlingii and G. ×macneillii, are new to the flora of New York and the other, G. ×intermedium, is not only new to New York but had not previously been reported from North America.