Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Student Development, has been invited to join the Survey Team for the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD). AUCCCD promotes the awareness of student mental health and development issues in higher education through research, advocacy, education and training provided to members, professional organizations and the public. In 2006, AUCCCD instituted the Annual Survey as a means to increase objective understanding of factors critical to the functioning of college and university counseling centers. The survey is published online annually and serves as a resource for directors as well as others interested in college mental health and development.
Christopher D. Gascón
Christopher D. Gascón, Modern Languages Department, had an article about a recent off-Broadway production in Spanish published in the journal Bulletin of the Comediantes (issue 69.1, 2017). The article, titled “Virués’s Theater of the Grotesque: Interrogating La gran Semíramis from Roman Chronicle to the New York Stage,” analyzes elements of the grotesque in the 1579 text by Cristóbal de Virués and in Diego Chiri’s 2015 production of the play at Repertorio Español in New York City. Integrating the perspectives of Kristeva, Bakhtin, and Foucault, the study concludes that Chiri uses the grotesque to reconcile contradictory elements of the work, and that Virués participates in the processes of distortion and degradation that have typified the production of the Semiramis myth, itself grotesque, throughout the centuries.
Karen Downey and Matthew Ellis
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, and senior student researcher Matthew Ellis, presented their work, “Density Functional Theory Modeling for Design of Group 10-based Metallo-organic Catalysts,” at the Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society on June 10 in Ithaca, N.Y.
Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, co-authored a paper in the journal Nature Anthropology.
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, was elected to serve a five-year term on the Modern Language Association (MLA) Sexuality Studies Executive Committee. She also gave a presentation on LGBTQ+ kinship narratives at the annual MLA Convention held in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper titled “To Brandish or Not to Brandish: The Consequences of Gun Display” at the Duke University Law School Conference on Historical Gun Laws, held virtually on June 19.
Michael Hough
Michael Hough, Biological Sciences Department, recently co-authored a paper announcing the first record of a native orchid in New York state. “Discovery of Spiranthes odorata (Nutt.) Lindl. (Fragrant Ladies’-tresses) in Central New York” was published in The Native Orchid Conference Journal. It was co-authored with J.M. McMullen, M.A. Young, and C.L. Landis
The article is currently only available to members but should be publicly available by the end of 2021. Also, Hough was interviewed about the article by the Syracuse Post-Standard in a feature that was published on Oct. 12 titled “A ‘stunning’ discovery: Fragrant orchid found near Onondaga Lake, 350 miles from nearest known site.”
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), Philosophy and Africana Studies departments, had her article, “Trafficking with Abolitionism: An Examination of Anti-Slavery Discourses,” published in the journal Champ Pénal/Penal Field’s special issue on “Abolitionnisme /Abolitionism.”
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently received word that her poem “Waiting, Still” has been published in the June issue of Pif Magazine. Pif Magazine is the oldest, continuously published literary magazine online.
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, had his poem “Old Friends” accepted for publication in Mudfish 22.