David A. Kilpatrick
David A. Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, presented a research paper at the annual international conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading on July 19 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The paper was entitled “Phonemic awareness difficulties do not go away on their own: A comparison of high school students with dyslexia and non-disabled elementary students.” The paper’s coauthor was Michelle Storie, associate professor and coordinator of the school psychology program at SUNY Oswego.
Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, received the Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Award as well as a yearlong faculty fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The ACLS Fellowship Program awards fellowships to individual scholars working in the humanities and related social sciences. You can read more about the award and her project here: https://www.acls.org/Recent-Awardees/ACLS-Fellows
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.
Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, co-authored two articles published recently in publications about children’s literature. “Beyond The Lorax: Examining Children’s Books on Climate Change” was published in The Reading Teacher, 69. “The Who I Was, Who I Am, and Who I Want to Be Cycle” was published in Frontiers in American Children’s Literature, edited by D.G. Clark and L. Salem.
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna Videto, Alexis Blavos and Page Dobbs
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna Videto, Alexis Blavos and Page Dobbs, Health Department, along with community health seniors Jerrell DeCaille, Brenna Taggerty and Maddison Terrillion, represented SUNY Cortland at the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) annual meeting held April 4 to 6 in Columbus, Ohio.
- Hodges and Videto presented their work on fostering school district and community agency collaborations.
- Hodges, Videto and Blavos presented their preliminary work in creating a framework for college health promotion.
- Blavos presented two pieces of her work related to advocacy and health communication.
- Dobbs presented two pieces of her work on college student substance use; one on e-cigarette use and the other on driving while under the influence of marijuana.
- Students DeCaille, Taggerty and Terrillion, all Eta Sigma Gamma members, were selected to compete as a team in the annual public health case study competition.
Eric Edlund
Eric Edlund, Physics Department, and colleagues from Princeton University, were awarded a patent — number is 10,300,410 — for a new concept for a liquid centrifuge. Edlund conducted his postdoctoral studies at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory managed by Princeton University, where he examined issues of angular momentum transport in relation to the evolution of black holes. During this work, he constructed a new experimental device and established the measurements that became the basis of this patent.
Alexandru Balas
Alexandru Balas, International Studies Department and Clark Center for International Education, together with his co-authors Andreas Kotelis, 2017 Clark Center for Global Engagement Scholar-in-Residence, and Noam Ebner, Creighton University, was the winner of the 2018 E-PARCC Role-Play Simulation Competition for their publication of the European Union simulation titled “Model EU-European Council-European Agenda on Migration.” The competition is organized by the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Cooperation at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. Read more about the European Union role-play simulation.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, hosted the second teleconference of the North/South Central New York Applied Learning Coalition. Two SUNY Cortland students joined 10 applied learning professionals from seven colleges and universities in a two-hour discussion that generated ideas to address student food insecurity, to improve assessment of applied learning projects’ learning outcomes, and to increase student participation in voting-related activities.
Emily Quinlan and Marinda Souva
Emily Quinlan and Marinda Souva, Advisement and Transition, facilitated a roundtable discussion on Excelsior Scholarship’s impact on advising and academic decision making at the first annual SUNY Academic Advising Conference held in February in Albany, N.Y.
David A. Kilpatrick
David A. Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, was the keynote speaker on July 23 at the Summer Dyslexia Institute in Plano, Texas, held at the Texas Region 10 Educational Service Center. His keynote was entitled, “Word-Level Reading Problems: Implications for Assessment Instruction and Intervention.” He also presented a breakout session at the conference entitled, “How to Improve Word-Level Reading Skills in Struggling Readers.”