Michelle LoGerfo
Michelle LoGerfo, Marketing Office, won the Totally Unfair Insider and Nepotism Award for her entry “Nasonnaise” at the inaugural Duck and Red Octopus Short Funny Animated and Stop-Action Film Festival held Sept. 23 at the Ake Gallery in Cortland, N.Y. Also, she served as a judge for the festival, alongside comedy and animation industry professionals including the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants Tom Kenny, CatDog creator Peter Hannan, Adventure Time writer and voice actor Martin Olson, Emmy Award winning writer Gene Grillo and others.
Brian Williams
Brian Williams, Political Science Department, recently had his book, Anarchism and Social Revolution: An Anarchist Politics of the Transitionary State, published as part of Springer Nature's series: Contributions to Political Science.
Gregory D. Phelan
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, had a United States patent issue on April 11. The patent, numbered 9,616,013 and titled Photo-activated hydrogels, deals with a new type of crosslinked polymeric cosmetic product. The patent was assigned to L’Oreal. This is Phelan’s 33rd issued United States Patent. Read more about patent 9616013.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his book, Basil Bernstein: Code theory and beyond, published by Springer.
Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, wrote and recorded a song inspired by Cortland’s common read, Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. The single, “Hold On,” was released in February 2024 and can be heard on Spotify and other music streaming services under artist name Juniper Salute.
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, was awarded a Hunt-Simes Visiting Junior Chair of Sexuality Studies with the Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre at the University of Sydney. In February, she traveled to the University of Sydney and taught a seminar on “Queer Relationality” as part of the Hunt-Simes Institute for Sexuality Studies, which ran from Feb. 19 to March 1.
Eric Edlund
Eric Edlund, Physics Department, had his article titled “Rendezvous revisited: The search for fast intercept solutions” published in the August issue of the American Journal of Physics.
Kyle Cannon
Kyle Cannon, Campus Activities and Corey Union, attended the National Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities, which was held Feb. 15 to 18 at the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center in Hershey, Pa. Kyle, in addition to his capacity as advisor to the Student Activities Board delegates, he worked at the conference as an event crew coordinator, leading a group of 28 student volunteers from SUNY Cortland and a number of other colleges and universities who were tasked with assisting session presenters and stamping programs for educational sessions and showcases, handing out conference swag and raffle tickets, and working and setting up the lunch and dinner showcases. In addition, the SUNY Cortland Student Activities Board was bestowed the National Boyd Jones Programming Board of the Year Award for their contributions to the SUNY Cortland campus and the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities community.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, presented research conducted with former student Cabel McCandless M ’21 and Christopher Aiken from New Mexico State University at the 46th annual meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics held in August in Knoxville, Tenn. The project, “A Battle of Balance: Differences in postural stability among cross-country runners, trail runners, and healthy non-runners,” found trail runners exhibit greater balance control than their cross-country peers and the control group. Improved balance may be an adaptation to chronic training on highly dynamic trail surfaces with uneven contours, unexpected shifting of materials underfoot such as rocks or sand, and frequent changes in step length to accommodate stepping over obstacles.
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, gave an invited lecture on Nov. 8 to the Centre for Cultural Inquiry at the University of Konstanz in Germany. Her talk, “Throuple Plots: Narrative Infrastructures of Queer Kinship,” is drawn from her book-in-progress on the representation of kinship in contemporary LGBTQ+ literature and film.