Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled “One Gun Policy Idea We Can Agree On: Magazine Regulation,” posted last month on Second Thoughts, a website on gun policy of the Center for Firearms Law at Duke University.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of the chapter “Gun Control” for the just-published Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, published by Elsevier.
Susan Peterson
Susan Peterson, Modern Languages Department, will have her students’ work published in the November issue of NeoVox. Students who took Spanish 202 last spring studied terminology associated with the environment, and NeoVox Project Director Lorraine Berry challenged the group with her spring topic of greed. Students wrote short pieces about the element of greed and its role in the destruction of the environment. “I congratulate my students on their work and am grateful for the opportunity presented by Berry to apply second language skills for this application,” said Peterson.
Jack Carr
Jack Carr, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently directed a short film, “Quota System,” for The Players of Utica, concerning an example of the (in)justice of the U. S. legal system along lines of race and gender. His play “Maintenance,” written with Matthew B. Steele, has won First Prize for Drama at the Community Arts Challenge sponsored by Cortland Arts Council and the Center for the Arts of Homer.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, just received word that her 5-7-5 poem “Fresh Squeezed Juice” was accepted for publication by the online journal Haikuniverse as one of the featured poems on the theme of Valentine's Day. Her triptych poem “Always Blue Cops” was published in the Spring 2018 issue of Rosebud Magazine. Her speculative poem “Cinderella Continued” appeared in Star*Line, Issue 41.1, the print journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA). In addition, she recently learned that her poem “Just Rosie,” published in Eye to the Telescope in 2017, has also been nominated for a 2017 Rhysling Award from the SFPA, along with the Pushcart Prize for 2017.
Gokhan Savas
Gokhan Savas, visiting assistant professor of sociology, has had his article, “Understanding Critical Race Theory as a Framework in Higher Educational Research,” accepted for publication in the British Journal of Sociology of Education. In addition, his co-authored article, with Yingyi Ma, titled “Which is More Consequential for Income Disparity: Fields of Study or Institutional Selectivity? — An Investigation on Gender Pay Gap among Recent College Graduates,” was accepted for publication in Review of Higher Education, the flagship journal of Association for the Study of Higher Education.
Jeffery Swartwood
Jeffery Swartwood, Psychology Department, recently had his college textbook titled Educational Psychology published by BVT Publishing. The textbook covers traditional topics in the field, but adds a unique interdisciplinary perspective and expanded coverage for special learning needs.
Carol Costell Corbin
Carol Costell Corbin, Advisement and Transition, presented a concurrent session at the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students annual conference held Feb. 4-6 in Atlanta, Ga. Her presentation was titled “Transfer Credit Services that Support Completion for all Students.”
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, professor emerita of English, has been informed that her article, “A `solitary song’: Identity, Agency, and Motherhood in Wharton’s Summer,” has been accepted for publication in American Literary Realism.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, was invited to co-present a symposium at the Social Justice Through Sport and Exercise Psychology Conference in March. The session was called “More than a Trend: Assessing the Literature on Trans Issues in Sport.”