David L. Snyder
David L. Snyder, Sport Management Department, served as an invited panelist at a symposium titled “Baseball and the Law: America’s National Pastimes.” The symposium was presented by the Albany Government Law Review with the Government Law Center and was held at Albany Law School on April 11.
Joel Pape
Joel Pape, Performing Arts Department, is the recipient of a professional salary increase as per the Human Resources Office. Pape is a full-time instructional support technician.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, is serving as a visitor at the Max Planck Institute for Ethnic and Religious Diversity in Goettingen, Germany during the spring semester.
Maria Timberlake
Maria Timberlake, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had her article, “Recognizing Ableism in Educational Initiatives: Reading between the Lines” published in the June issue of Research in Educational Policy and Management.
Jacob Hall
Jacob Hall, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, was recently honored with the award for Outstanding and Dedicated Service to the Division of Teacher Education from the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). AECT is the premier professional association of instructional designers, educators and professionals from around the world who conduct research and provide leadership in the creation, use and management of technologies for effective teaching and learning.
Gretchen Herrmann
Gretchen Herrmann, Library, had her article, “New Lives from New Goods: Garage Sales as Rites of Passage,” published in the most recent issue of Ethnology. Given the importance of the amount and types of consumer goods owned by people to the creation of personal identities, the public disposal and acquisition of such possessions in garage sales can signal a shift in life orientation. Moving, downsizing, selling off baby items or grandmother’s effects after her death all constitute publicly engaged rituals of transition.
Gregory Phelan
Gregory Phelan, Chemistry Department, awarded the SUNY Cortland Chemistry Award to high school junior, Dylan Reahr. He attends the Lafayette (N.Y.) Big Picture School. The award was presented at the Greater Syracuse Scholastic Science Fair, held March 25 at the Oncenter. Phelan and Kerri Freese, Chemistry Department, hosted a booth at the Scholastic Science Fair to promote sciences at SUNY Cortland and Noyce scholarships to graduating high school seniors.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), delivered a keynote on gender and the law at The Gender Construction of Society Conference held in April at Cantemir University, Bucharest, Romania. It will be published in a special issue of Journal of Research in Gender Studies in 2017.
Thomas S. Hischak
Thomas S. Hischak, Performing Arts Department, has signed a contract with McFarland Publishers to write the nonfiction book American Literature on Stage and Screen about 19th and 20th century American fiction that has been adapted for the theatre, film and television. McFarland recently released Hischak’s Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary about all performers who did voices for every Disney animated short and feature film from “Steamboat Willie” (1928) to “Tangled” (2010).
Lindsey Darvin
Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, had her article “When virtual spaces meet the limitations of traditional sport: gender stereotyping in NBA2K” accepted for publication in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.
Also, she was on a Tucker Center Talks podcast, which is a co-production of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport and WiSP Sports. Her talk “Research of Women in Sports Leadership” can be heard online.