Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, recently was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her poem “Just Rosie,” published in Eye to the Telescope magazine. The Pushcart Prize is the premiere literary prize for poems and stories published each year by U.S. small presses.
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sports Management Department, attended and presented at AFIDE 2017, the 7th International Convention of Physical Activity and Sports, which was held from Nov. 20-24 in Havana, Cuba. The title of Jordan’s presentation was “Sport Management: The Business of Sports.”
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, received a $3,000 Performance Improvement Fund planning grant from SUNY’s Office of Applied Learning. The grant will fund a proposal to streamline and centralize applied learning data collection so that those data are easily accessible and useable for projects such as identifying trends, creating new campus/community partnerships, meeting student learning outcomes, and applying for grants and recognitions.
Rena Janke, Gregory D. Phelan, Kerri Freese and Dominick Fantacone
Rena Janke, Biological Sciences Department, Gregory D. Phelan and Kerri Freese, Chemistry Department, and Dominick Fantacone M ’12 attended and presented a poster at the 7th Annual Noyce Scholarship Conference, Building Excellence in STEM Teaching, held May 23-25 in Washington, D.C. Carl Wieman, recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics, spoke at the conference, which celebrated 10 years of the Noyce Scholarship. The conference included representatives from nearly 350 Noyce Scholarship programs from throughout the U.S.
Erin Morris and Ryan Vooris
Erin Morris and Ryan Vooris, Sport Management Department, presented their research findings at the 2019 Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA) Conference, held Feb. 7 and 8 in Atlanta, Ga. Their presentation was titled “Study Like a Girl: An Analysis of Constraints and Facilitators to Female Sport Management Majors.”
Brent Danega
Brent Danega, Human Resources Office, was named to the “40 under FORTY" class of 2016 by BizEvents and The Central New York Business Journal. He will be recognized at an event set for Wednesday, Nov. 16, at the Oncenter in Syracuse, N.Y.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, recently had two papers published. The first was written with colleagues from India. “New Specis of Entoloma (Basidiomycetes, Agaricales) from Kerala State, India,” was published in 2012 in Mycotaxon. Co-authors were C. K. Pradeep, S.P. Varghese and K.B. Vrinda. The second more recent paper with a colleague from Canada, Y. Lamoureaux, “A New Species of Entocybe (Entolomataceae, Agaricomycetes) from Québec, Canada,” was published in a 2013 issue of Mycotaxon. The latter paper illustrates yet another newly discovered species belonging to the new genus of pink-spored mushrooms described by Baroni and colleagues in a 2011 article in North American Fungi and based on molecular phylogenetic analyses.
Patricia Martínez de la Vega Mansilla and Paulo Quaglio
Patricia Martínez de la Vega Mansilla and Paulo Quaglio, Modern Languages Department, coordinated the Virginia Levine Second Language Educators Conference held in Sperry Center on Saturday, Sept. 23. Titled “World Language Education: Supporting Our Students, Supporting Each Other,” the conference included nine workshops for TESOL, Spanish, French and general language instruction. A keynote address was given by Bill Heller, a methods and Spanish instructor at SUNY Geneseo and a member of the executive board and advisory panel for World Languages at the New York State Education Department.
Szilvia Kadas
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, recently presented “Evoking Empathy through Graphic Design” at the Popular Culture Association - American Culture Association Conference on April 18 in Washington D.C.
Randi Storch and Kevin Sheets
Randi Storch and Kevin Sheets, History Department, attended the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) project director’s meeting to receive final training before launching their $180,000 Landmarks in American History and Culture workshop for K-12 teachers. The meeting was held Oct. 20-21 in Washington D.C. Their workshop, coordinated with the assistance of Kerri Freese, SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, invites teachers from around the country to learn about the Gilded Age and Progressive Era from the perspective of the wilderness, using Camp Huntington in Raquette Lake, N.Y., as a living classroom. The application and details about the workshop can be found at http://www2.cortland.edu/foreverwild/.