Jacob Wright
Jacob Wright, Career Services, received the Central New York Career Development Association (CNYCDA) Student Success Champion Award at the CNYCDA annual meeting on June 2 in Dundee, N.Y. Wright is a career coach and educator. The award recognizes one professional in a 10-campus consortium for moving the industry of career development forward and promoting individual and group student success through student-centered programming.
Lisa Czirr
Lisa Czirr, Memorial Library, presented “Cross-Pollination: Lessons Learned from Online Delivery to Enhance the Return to In-Person Information Literacy Instruction” at the SUNYLA 2021 (Virtual) annual conference held June 16 to 18. The session highlighted takeaways from the online format that can potentially improve in-person instruction. The conference theme was “From Seeds to Service: Growing the New Academic Library.”
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, gave lectures in early October at St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia on American and international literary journalism. He was invited by Russia’s oldest university as part of the Russia Program sponsored by Stony Brook University. In addition, he participated in a roundtable discussion on journalism ethics at the university, and gave a lecture to the general public on literary journalism at the bookstore Word Order in St. Petersburg. This was his first return to Russia in 24 years. From 1989 to 1993 he reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union for several publications.
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, co-authored an article titled “Creating an Action Plan for Event Cleaning” that was published in the September issue of Cleaning & Maintenance Management magazine.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, gave an invited talk as part of a virtual roundtable on his new book, Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form (Duke UP, 2022). Held Jan. 19, the event was hosted by the University of Southern California and sponsored by the Race, Gender, and Sexuality Research Cluster, the USC Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, the USC Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture, and the USC Association of English Graduate Students.
Mechthild Nagel, Seth N. Asumah and Lewis Rosengarten
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, and Lewis Rosengarten, Educational Opportunity Program and Africana Studies Department, presented papers at the recent New York African Studies Association at CUNY and Columbia University. Students Deidre Kirkem and Adesola Belo also presented their papers. Asumah and Nagel’s book, Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence, published in 2014 by SUNY Press, won the New York African Studies Book Award.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has learned that his book, Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery, was named one of four finalists for the Louis Roederer Award for International Wine Book of the Year. The award is sponsored annually by the distinguished French Champagne House of Louis Roederer. Last March, Hartsock’s book won best in class at the Gourmand awards in Paris. The book was published in 2011 by Cornell University Press.
In other news, Life in the Finger Lakes published excerpts from the book in the summer and fall issues of the magazine.
Michelle LoGerfo
Michelle LoGerfo, Marketing Office, won the Totally Unfair Insider and Nepotism Award for her entry “Nasonnaise” at the inaugural Duck and Red Octopus Short Funny Animated and Stop-Action Film Festival held Sept. 23 at the Ake Gallery in Cortland, N.Y. Also, she served as a judge for the festival, alongside comedy and animation industry professionals including the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants Tom Kenny, CatDog creator Peter Hannan, Adventure Time writer and voice actor Martin Olson, Emmy Award winning writer Gene Grillo and others.
Dennis L.C. Weng
Dennis L.C. Weng, Political Science Department, participated in a live interview via Skype with news channel ETTV in Taiwan on Nov. 8, to discuss the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Also, he was invited to publish an op-ed article about the election in The United Daily News newspaper in Taiwan.
Michael Bersani
Michael Bersani, Public Relations Office, won a Charleton Scholarship to attend the SUNY Council for University Advancement (SUNYCUAD) conference in Saratoga Springs June 8-10.