Steven Gabriel
Steven Gabriel, Health Department, has had his paper appear in the SUNY Journal of the Scholarship of Engagement, which is published in collaboration with SUNY Buffalo students and housed at SUNY Cortland.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled “How Obama Can Use the Power of the Veto and Still Avoid Being Nicknamed ‘President No,’” that was published on the editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times on Feb. 3. The link to the article is: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0203-spitzer-presidential-veto-20150203-story.html
Katie Silvestri
Katie Silvestri, Literacy Department, led authorship on a journal article about multimodal positioning as seen in interactions between children and the designs they create in an after-school engineering club recently published in Multimodal Communication. Co-authors are Mary McVee, Christopher Jarmark, Lynn Shanahan and Kenneth English at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). The article features a case study and uses multimodal positioning analysis to determine and describe how a purposefully crafted emergent artifact influenced and manipulated social dynamics, structure, and positionings of one design team comprised of five third graders. In addition to social semiotic theories of multimodality and multimodal interactional analysis, Positioning Theory is used to examine group interactions with their constructed artifact, with observational data collected from audio, video, researcher field notes, analytic memos, photographs, student artifacts (e.g., drawn designs, built designs), and transcriptions of audio and video data. Analysis of interactions of the artifact as it unfolded demonstrates multiple types of role-based positioning with students (e.g., builder, helper, idea-sharer). Foregrounding analysis of the artifact, rather than the student participants, exposed students’ alignment or opposition with their groupmates during the project. This study contributes to multimodal and artifactual scholarship through a close examination of positions emergent across time through multimodal communicative actions and illustrates how perspectives on multimodality may be analytically combined with Positioning Theory.
Theresa Curtis
Theresa Curtis, Biological Sciences Department, and students Nicholas Puoplo ’15 and Joseph Hannett ’17, co-authored a paper recently published in Neurotoxicology. It is titled “The secretome of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells protects SH-SY5Y cells from arsenic-induced toxicity, independent of a neuron-like differentiation mechanism.”
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, had her article, “Hermann von Ihering: Shifting Realities of a German Brazilian Scientist from the Late Empire to World War I,” published in the Special Edition: Germans and Brazilians issue of the Oxford Journal German History.
Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, presented a paper and a workshop at the International Literacy Association Annual Convention in St. Louis, Mo. On July 18, she presenter her paper, “Keeping Our (Hi)stories Alive: Providing Perspective on Current Practice and Policy,” and on July 19 she presented the “Integrating E-Readers into the Secondary Classroom” workshop.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of two new articles: “Guns Don’t Belong Near Polling Places. Right Wingers Want Them There Anyway” appeared in the Washington Post on Sept. 30, and his article “President Trump’s Record on Promises: Did He Keep Them?” was in the Syracuse Post-Standard on Oct. 4.
Richard Kendrick
Richard Kendrick, Institute for Civic Engagement and Sociology/Anthropology Department, gave a series of 11 talks, workshops and class presentations at universities, community centers and high schools in Morocco from April 25 through May 6. He spoke on the topics of civil society, civic and community engagement and civic education to two classes at Hassan II University in Casablanca and in one class at Mohammed I University in Oujda. He gave two workshops in Oujda, one at Mohammed I University and one at the American Corner and a public presentation at Mohammed I University. He also gave two public lectures at Moulay Ismail University in Meknes, conducted a workshop at a private high school in Meknes and gave public presentations at the regional center in Meknes and at Mohammed V University in Rabat.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the recipient of the “Chapter Advisor of the Year” award given out by Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honors society. Spitzer has served as advisor for SUNY Cortland's Zeta Delta chapter for nearly 20 years. He is one of two recipients of this nationwide award.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, was a guest on the British podcast, “Reasons to be Cheerful,” hosted by former Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband in July. In the episode “A Question of Sport: The Fight for Gender Equality,” she talked about Title IX, the Women’s World Cup, and the state of gender equality in sports in the U.S.