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Nance S. Wilson

Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, co-authored two articles published recently in publications about children’s literature. “Beyond The Lorax: Examining Children’s Books on Climate Change” was published in The Reading Teacher, 69. “The Who I Was, Who I Am, and Who I Want to Be Cycle” was published in Frontiers in American Children’s Literature, edited by D.G. Clark and L. Salem.

Thomas Lickona and Marthe Seales

Thomas Lickona and Marthe Seales, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, co-edited the winter/spring 2013 special parenting issue of excellence & ethics, which was chosen as a featured resource on Harvard University’s new Making Caring Common Project website. It is posted under the “Raising Caring and Ethical Children” section. Produced by the School of Education’s Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, the parenting issue of excellence & ethics focuses on teaching respect and promoting family communication. The Making Caring Common Project, under the direction of Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Richard Weissbourd, seeks to help educators, parents and communities raise children who are caring, respectful and responsible. Lickona, director of the Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, is a member of the project’s advisory board.

Bonni C. Hodges, Donna Videto, Alexis Blavos and Page Dobbs

Bonni C. Hodges, Donna Videto, Alexis Blavos and Page Dobbs, Health Department, along with community health seniors Jerrell DeCaille, Brenna Taggerty and Maddison Terrillion, represented SUNY Cortland at the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) annual meeting held April 4 to 6 in Columbus, Ohio.

  • Hodges and Videto presented their work on fostering school district and community agency collaborations.
  • Hodges, Videto and Blavos presented their preliminary work in creating a framework for college health promotion.
  • Blavos presented two pieces of her work related to advocacy and health communication.
  • Dobbs presented two pieces of her work on college student substance use; one on e-cigarette use and the other on driving while under the influence of marijuana.
  • Students DeCaille, Taggerty and Terrillion, all Eta Sigma Gamma members, were selected to compete as a team in the annual public health case study competition.

Jacqueline Augustine

Jacqueline Augustine, Kinesiology Department, gave an invited talk, “Aortic Blood Pressure, Wave Reflections and Exercise: Does Sex Matter?” at the Mid-Atlantic Regional American College of Sports Medicine Conference on Nov. 5 in Harrisburg, Pa.

Eric Edlund

Eric Edlund, Physics Department, and colleagues from Princeton University, were awarded a patent — number is 10,300,410 — for a new concept for a liquid centrifuge. Edlund conducted his postdoctoral studies at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory managed by Princeton University, where he examined issues of angular momentum transport in relation to the evolution of black holes. During this work, he constructed a new experimental device and established the measurements that became the basis of this patent.

Kathleen A. Lawrence

Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had one of her poems, “Winged Love,” published recently in Highland Park Poetry’s 2018 Winter Muses’ Gallery. Also, her poem, “Grit: The Resilience of New Yorkers” appeared in Panoply: A Literary Zine in early January. 

Alexandru Balas

Alexandru Balas, International Studies Department and Clark Center for International Education, together with his co-authors Andreas Kotelis, 2017 Clark Center for Global Engagement Scholar-in-Residence, and Noam Ebner, Creighton University, was the winner of the 2018 E-PARCC Role-Play Simulation Competition for their publication of the European Union simulation titled “Model EU-European Council-European Agenda on Migration.” The competition is organized by the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Cooperation at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. Read more about the European Union role-play simulation.

Lindsey Darvin

Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, had her research featured in an Ozy article titled “There’s No Gender Gap for Winning Basketball Coaches.” She is quoted in the article. Also, she provided some expert insights for a Forbes article related to the NCAA name, image, and likeness changes and the impact for women student-athletes. The article, “5 Issues To Keep An Eye On With The NCAA’s New NIL Policy,” includes a link to Darvin’s SUNY Cortland staff profile.

 

John Suarez

John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, hosted the second teleconference of the North/South Central New York Applied Learning Coalition. Two SUNY Cortland students joined 10 applied learning professionals from seven colleges and universities in a two-hour discussion that generated ideas to address student food insecurity, to improve assessment of applied learning projects’ learning outcomes, and to increase student participation in voting-related activities.

Tadayuki Suzuki

Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented with Darryn Diuguid of McKendree University and Barbara Ward of the University of New Orleans at the 2021 National Council of Teachers of English on Nov. 21 in Louisville, Kentucky. It was a Zoom Conference due to COVID-19.  “Exploring Intersectional Identities in Award-Winning LGBTQ-Themed Children’s Books” was part of the roundtable sessions titled “Queer Intersections of Equity, Justice, and Antiracism.”