Caroline Kaltefleiter
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies Department, participated in a panel discussion titled, “Care Protesting Care Protesting” held Sept. 28 at the Kunstal Charlottenborg at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. During her tenure at the Kunstal Charlottenborg, she attended the exhibition “Post-Capital: Art and the Economics of the Digital Age” and took part in follow-up lectures and discussions.
In October, Kaltefleiter discussed her research on “Do-It-Yourself Media Campaigns” with colleagues at the Copenhagen University and Aalborg University in Denmark.
Nance Wilson
Nance Wilson, Literacy Department, presented “Teacher Candidates: Teaching and Learning with Technology to Improve Literacy Skills and Practices” at the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers Annual conference held in November in Costa Mesa, Calif. Also, Wilson co-authored an article titled “Reading, Writing and the Common Core Standards,” that was published in the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) Magazine.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, gave a presentation at the International Literacy Association Annual Convention on July 18 in St. Louis, Mo. The title of the presentation was “Promoting Social Justice and Reading Skills with Multicultural Informational Picture Books.”
Sonia Sharma
Sonia Sharma, Mathematics Department, recently had her article, “Real Operator Algebras and Real Completely Isometric Theory” accepted for publication in the journal Positivity.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, was recently appointed to the editorial board of Sports Marketing Quarterly, a leading sport management journal.
Lorraine Berry
Lorraine Berry, Neovox project director, was selected to be a judge for The Guardian’s Not the Booker Book Prize. The article announcing the contest and its judges can be found online.
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, presented at the 27th Annual Sport and Recreation Law Association Conference held Feb. 26-March 1 in Orlando, Fla. With Douglas Manning from Eastern New Mexico University, he discussed “Royal Pain: Hot Dog Throwing Mascot in Kansas City.” Kobritz and Jeffrey Levine, from University of Louisville, presented “NFL Concussion Lawsuit Settlement: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”
Heather Bridge, M. Lorraine Melita and Patricia Roiger
Heather Bridge, Assistant Professor Emerita of Childhood/Early Childhood Education, M. Lorraine Melita, librarian emerita and Patricia Roiger, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an Open SUNY Textbook titled The ELC: An Early Childhood Learning Community at Work.
The book compiles six case studies from a practicum model designed and coordinated by the authors at SUNY Cortland in which action research approaches were applied to teaching challenges in early childhood classrooms. Appropriate for practiced educators as well as educators in training, this text provides a real-world look into applying Learning Standards in early childhood classrooms.
The ELC: An Early Childhood Learning Community at Work can be downloaded as a PDF and an eBook and read online at https://textbooks.opensuny.org/the-elc-an-early-childhood-learning-community-at-work/
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, is a member of the team from the Society for Public Health Education that developed this year’s Toolkit for National Health Education Week, planned for Oct. 15-19. This year’s theme, “Adolescent Health: Planting Seeds for a Healthier Generation,” focuses on the “importance of promoting and establishing healthy behaviors among our nation’s youth.” Toolkits will be available in mid-September at www.sophe.org.
Robert Rubendall
Robert Rubendall, Center for Environmental and Outdoor Education, was named a 2011 Josh Miner Dialogue Series honoree. The Josh Miner Series, named for the person responsible for bringing Outward Bound to this country, was started in 2003 to honor and hear from a longtime leader in the field of experiential education who has made a distinct impact over the course of their career. The series consists of a public dialogue or conversation between the years’ honoree and another professional in the field. Following tradition, Rubendall was interviewed during the Northeast Regional Conference of the Association for Experiential Education , which was held April 9 in Beckett, Mass. He was interviewed by Paul Hutchinson from Boston University.