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Faculty and Staff Activities

Karen Downey

Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, was an invited panelist at the “Finding Your Path” workshop held by the American Chemical Society on Campus April 21 at Binghamton University.

Julie Ficarra

Julie Ficarra, International Programs Office, gave a keynote address titled “Using Critical Discourse Analysis to Locate Hidden Curriculum in Study Abroad” at the NAFSA Research Symposium in Washington D.C. The Association of International Educators’ symposium brings together scholars and practitioners from across the field of international education for critical discussions of theories, methodologies, and practices in international education.

Bonni C. Hodges

Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, has been selected by the American School Health Association to lead its school health research agenda setting initiative. Her small team of colleagues from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the University of North Carolina system, the University of Alabama and an independent consultant in international school health are tasked with devising and facilitating the research agenda setting process to identify interdisciplinary research and research translation needs in school health with a particular focus on the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child, Whole Community framework.

Jeremiah Donovan

Jeremiah Donovan, Art and Art History Department, recently co-presented at the National Council for the Education of Ceramic Arts Conference in Kansas City, Mo. The presentation, “The Future of the Past: Revitalizing Ancient Maya Cultural Traditions in Modern Maya Communities,” with Jaime Awe, professor of archaeology at Northern Arizona University, described an ongoing project bringing traditional artisan skills to an inspired group of Maya women in western Belize. In October 2016 members of this cooperative will participate in an NEA Foundation funded exhibition at the Dowd Gallery, featuring their pottery alongside ancient Maya ceramics on loan from Cornell’s H.F. Johnson Museum of Art. 

Evan Faulkenbury

Evan Faulkenbury, History Department, had his article about SUNY Cortland’s History Department published in the Oct. 20 issue of Perspectives in History. It is titled “Practicing History: Why SUNY Cortland Requires Public History.” Also, his article “Journalism, COVID-19, and the Opportunity of Oral History” was published in the Oral History Review in September.

Robert Spitzer

Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper titled, “Gun Law History in the U.S. and Second Amendment Rights,” at a conference on The Second Amendment: Legal and Policy Issues, held at the New York University Law School on April 8 in New York City. The conference was co-sponsored by the Brennan Center for Justice.

Denise Knight

Denise Knight, English Department, has had her essay, “‘[a] country of whose language I knew not a word’: Charlotte Perkins Gilman In and On Italy,” accepted for inclusion in a collection of essays titled Transatlantic Women: American Women Writers in Italy. The essay is an expanded version of the conference paper that Knight gave in Florence, Italy, last June. 

Jean W. LeLoup

Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish, had her article, “Register and Forms of Address in Costa Rica: Sociolinguistic Realities and Pedagogical Implications,” published in the Spring 2017 issue of Foreign Language Annals. The article reports findings from the sociolinguistic study that LeLoup carried out in Costa Rica during the spring of 2016.

Robert Spitzer

Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a talk titled “Gun Legislation and Obstacles to Effective Gun Control” before the Metropolitan Black Bar Association at the New York City Bar Association in New York on Nov. 29.  

Melissa A. Morris

Melissa A. Morris, Physics Department, had her NASA Emerging Worlds grant proposal selected for funding in the amount of $319,000. This highly interdisciplinary grant will involve Morris, an undergraduate student and a research assistant at SUNY Cortland, as well as researchers at Arizona State University and Caltech. The entire project has been funded by NASA at a level of approximately $500,000.

Also, Morris submitted a paper, “The Effect of Multiple Particle Sizes on Cooling Rates of Chondrules Produced in Large-scale Shocks in the Solar Nebula” to Meteoritics and Planetary Science.

Also, Morris has been invited to give a talk at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. in September 2015.