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Laura Davies

Laura Davies, English Department, had her chapter, “Plagiarism and the Internet: Fears, Facts, and Pedagogies,” published in The Handbook for Academic Integrity. The chapter was co-authored with Rebecca Moore Howard, Syracuse University. The Handbook for Academic Integrity, published by Springer, is international and interdisciplinary in its scope.

Jaroslava Prihodova

Jaroslava Prihodova, Art and Art History Department, received a $3000 grant under the auspices of the Conversation in the Disciplines Program initiated by the State University of New York. The funds will be used for an interdisciplinary one-day symposium titled “Beyond Obvious” set for February 2019 in Dowd Gallery. The event will include speakers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Nazareth College, Syracuse University and SUNY Cortland. The symposium will be organized in conjunction with a four-week exhibition titled “Hidden Beauty: Exploring the Aesthetics of Medical Science,” slotted for Jan. 28 to Feb. 22. This collaborative traveling exhibition was organized by Norman Barker and Christine Lacobuzio-Donahue, both from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The core idea put forth explores the aesthetics of human disease, both within and beyond the context of our preconceived social systems. The additional accompanying exhibition, “Beyond Obvious,” will feature three-dimensional works inspired by medical research and is curated by Prihodova.

Mary Schlarb and Shufang Strause

Mary Schlarb, International Programs, Shufang Strause, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, and Dennis Weng, former Political Science Department faculty member, contributed a chapter titled “The New Normal: Student and Faculty Mobility Programs between Public Teacher Education Institutions in China and the U.S.” to The Rise of China-U.S. International Cooperation in Higher Education (Spotlight on China), Christopher Johnstone and Li Li Ji, editors.

Rhiannon Maton

Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had a coauthored article published in Globalisation, Societies and Education journal. The article, "For Once We’re Asking for MORE Testing": Organisational Infrastructure in the Safe Schools Movement during COVID-19, explores how U.S. educators mobilized a range of organizational structures in their activism and organizing during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Li Jin and Kristina Gutchess ’13

Li Jin, Geology Department, coauthored a paper with former Cortland student Kristina Gutchess ’13 that was recently published in the Environmental Science and Technology. The title of the paper is “Long-Term Climatic and Anthropogenic Impacts on Streamwater Salinity in New York State: INCA Simulations Offer Cautious Optimism.”

Christopher Gascón

Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, had his article, “Supplementary Aesthetics, Affordances, and Dynamic Props: Added Objects in Isabel Ramos’s El perro del hortelano (2004)” published by Vernon Press in the volume Staging and Stage Décor: Early Modern Spanish Theater, edited by Bárbara Mujica.

Catherine Porter Lewis,

Catherine Porter Lewis, professor emerita of French, and president of the Modern Language Association (MLA), participated in the Presidential Theme Sessions at the MLA Conference held Dec. 26-30 in Philadelphia, Pa. The title of the conference was “The Tasks of Translation in the Global Context.” Lewis is currently visiting professor at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. SUNY Cortland Distinguished Alumna Therese Sullivan Caccavale ’75, presided over a special session held on Dec. 30. She is currently the administrator of an elementary-level foreign language immersion program in Holliston, Mass.

Joel Shatzky

Joel Shatzky, professor emeritus of English, had his article, "Educating for Democracy," published in the Winter 2009-2010 issue of Jewish Currents. He was writing a blog for The Examiner since October and now is writing a blog, also called “Educating for Democracy,” on The Huffington Post.

Robert Spitzer

Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, was invited to be a guest blogger for the Web site The Huffington Post. He has since written two articles for The Huffington Post, one on the Senate filibuster and the other on President Obama’s misuse of the veto power.

Marley Barduhn

Marley Barduhn, academic affairs, was recognized on Dec. 1 by the Cortland Rotary Club for her contributions to the community and to international education. Barduhn is one of 20 outstanding community leaders being honored with The Paul Harris Fellow Award during Rotary’s 90th anniversary celebration year from July 2009 to June 2010. Barduhn’s many contributions noted by the Rotary included her service with the Cortland Caring Hospice, contributions as an EMT in critical incidence stress management and response team training, impact on migrant families through the Migrant Education Outreach Program at SUNY Cortland, which she oversees, and commitment to the importance of study abroad programs and internships.