Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, had his essay "The Persistent Myth of the Nuclear Family" published in Anthropology News, the online member magazine for the American Anthropological Association.
Noelle Chaddock
Noelle Chaddock, Chief Diversity Officer and Director of Multicultural Life and Diversity, co-presented “Diversity Equity and Inclusion: What is Our Responsibility” with Dean Kevin Railey from Buffalo State for the executive committee and invited guests of the University Faculty Senate. Participants from across the SUNY system were in attendance.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, received word that four of her poems were published in Altered Reality Magazine. They include “The Conjunction: Jupiter Pursues Venus,” “Things That Go Bump & Smile In The Night,” “Brunch, Spaceship Side” and “Atopic Catastrophi.” In addition, her poem “Once Upon a Time” will be in the upcoming issue of The Poet’s Haven Digest in the edition themed “It Was a Dark and Stormy Night...” It will be published on Dec. 15.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), presented her paper “The Ethic of Ubuntu and the End of Penality,” at a symposium on Mass Incarceration, Religion, and Abolitionism held Oct. 4 at Cornell University.
Craig Foster
Craig Foster, Psychology Department, wrote an article in October titled “Another Voice: Trump’s best option is to depart with dignity,” which was published in The Buffalo News. Also, he co-authored “Love Is Blind Is Blinding Us with ‘Science’” that was published in the November/December issue of Skeptical Inquirer.
David A. Kilpatrick
David A. Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, was an invited panelist at the Reading League Summit on Wednesday April 23 in Chicago, Illinois. His panel’s topic was “Word Recognition: Consensus and Critique” and focused on how students remember written words for later retrieval.
Daniel Radus
Daniel Radus, English Department and the coordinator of the Native American Studies Program at SUNY Cortland, has been selected as a new fellow in Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. Radus specializes in 18th and 19th century Indigenous literatures in North America, with particular interests in Indigenous historical writing, book history, print culture and materialism. His current project, “Indigenizing the Book,” considers a series of 18th and 19th century books that have been inscribed, embellished or otherwise altered by Indigenous readers, writers and artists.
Susan J. Rayl
Susan J. Rayl, Kinesiology Department, presented “The Right to Pursue Arete’” at 4th Annual Athletes and Social Change Forum, April 8-9. Regularly held at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Ky., the forum was conducted online in order to accommodate the schedules of the participants. Participants discussed topics directly and indirectly related to an International Bill of Rights for Athletes.
Seth N. Asumah and Mechthild Nagel
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, and Mechthild Nagel, Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies and Philosophy Department, presented papers at the recent Syracuse University symposium, hosted by the Department of African American Studies, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the late Nigerian author Chinua Achebe’s landmark book, Arrow of God. Among the presenters were members of the Achebe family, international personalities in Africana and oral literature, and scholars from various universities around the world. Asumah’s paper is titled “Arrow of God as a Tool for Analysis in Comparative Political Science.” Nagel’s paper is titled “The Art of Restorative Justice vs. Colonial Punishment with its Focus on Prisons (Engendering Social Death), Referencing Arrow of God.”
Li Jin
Li Jin, Geology Department, has participated in the DEltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaption (DECCMA) Consortium since January 2016. She has been working on two important river systems in India and Africa and recently had two journal papers accepted for publication in Science of the Total Environment. They are “Modeling future flows of the Volta River system: Impacts of climate change and socio-economic changes” and “Simulating climate change and socio-economic change impacts on flows and water quality in the Mahanadi River system, India.”