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Faculty and Staff Activities

Mark Dodds

Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, was the Sport Law session chair at the European Association for Sport Management Conference held Sept. 5 to 8 in Innsbruck, Austria.

Henry Steck

Henry Steck, Political Science Department, has published a chapter titled “Higher Education in New York State” in The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics, edited by Gerald Benjamin and published by Oxford University Press.

Tom Lickona

Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, presented the keynote to open the London conference of the International Federation of Family Development. Held Oct. 19 and 20, he presented “Raising Kind Kids” to an audience of 1,200 family educators from 70 countries. In September, Lickona spoke at South Korea’s International Forum on Human Values on the character education work of SUNY Cortland’s Center for the 4th and 5th Rs. In October, during a week-long visit to the Philippines, he addressed several conferences on fostering kindness at school and home. Most recently, Lickona spoke in Mexico City on “How to Raise Kind Kids” in a lecture tour sponsored by the organization Moders.

David A. Kilpatrick

David A. Kilpatrick, professor emeritus of psychology, was invited by the United States Library of Congress to present a talk on dyslexia on April 12. Also, he was invited to present the workshop titled “Word-Level Reading Difficulties: Implications for Assessment, Instruction, and Intervention” at the annual conferences of the West Virginia Association of School Psychologists on April 19 and the Kansas Association of School Psychologists on April 28.

Orvil White

Orvil White, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, represented the university's chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines, at the 43rd Biennial Convention held Aug. 7-9 in St. Louis, Mo. White currently serves as vice president of the SUNY Cortland chapter and attended the convention as the chapter’s voting delegate. 

Tadayuki Suzuki

Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, will present “Promoting Social Justice and Reading Skills with Multicultural Informational Picture Books” at the International Literacy Association annual convention in July in St. Louis, Mo.

Thomas Hischak

Thomas Hischak, Performing Arts Department, is co-editor and wrote the commentary for the autobiography Noel, Tallulah, Cole and Me: A Memoir of Broadway’s Golden Age by John C. Wilson, published by Rowman and Littlefield.

Bonni Hodges, Lori Reichel and Donna Videto

Bonni Hodges, Lori Reichel and Donna Videto , Health Department, were involved in creating the recently released National Health Education Standards, 3rd edition, which will guide the U.S. school health curriculum.

Alexis Blavos

Alexis Blavos, Health Department, received a presidential citation from the Society for Public Health Education. In addition, she presented her research at its 2023 annual conference held March 22 to 24 in Atlanta.

Jeffrey Radloff and Dominick Fantacone

Jeffrey Radloff, Childhood and Early Childhood Education Department, and Dominick Fantacone, Research and Sponsored Programs Office, had their article, “Exploring Secondary Master STEM Teachers’ Tensions with Transitioning to Emergency Remote Teaching,” published in January in Technology, Knowledge and Learning.