Assistant Chief Amanda Wasson and Lieutenant Dani Salisbury
Assistant Chief Amanda Wasson and Lieutenant Dani Salisbury, University Police Department, recently attended the International Association of Chiefs of Police Women’s Leadership Institute held in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The Women’s Leadership Institute (WLI) is a one-week in-person leadership training program for women leaders and those developing women leaders. The curriculum is focused on teaching participants evidence-informed leadership theories to help them inspire followers, lead groups, and achieve organizational goals—all in the context of better understanding the unique challenges women face in the workplace.
Jerome O’Callaghan
Jerome O’Callaghan, Political Science Department, presented research at the 55th annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association held Nov. 2 to 4 in Boston, Mass. The paper, titled “The Unbearable Inevitability of Content Regulation,” argues that the Supreme Court’s conventional approach to government regulation of speech is incoherent, and is fundamentally at odds with the history of the court’s decisions in speech cases.
Juan Diego Prieto
Juan Diego Prieto, Political Science Department, presented at the SUNY Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in the Curriculum Conference: Building a Community of Practice conference, held Nov. 3 and 4 at the University at Albany. His presentation was titled “From Family and Community to the Global (and Back Again): A Writing Assignment on Lived Experiences of Political Economy.”
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, will serve as the outside evaluator for a coalition-based Virtual Prevention Hub led by Catholic Charities of Herkimer County serving six rural counties in New York. The $100,000 sub-contract will provide implementation and summative evaluation of the Prevention Hub’s virtual delivery of the Teen Intervene and Parenting Wisely programs designed to provide parenting and substance use prevention and harm reduction skills and services.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, co-authored an article with Darryn Diuguid and Barbara Ward, titled “Taking a closer look at the American Library Association’s 2022 Rainbow Book List” recently published in the journal Multicultural Education.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy, is co-editing with Nina Bascia, University of Toronto, a handbook for Routledge in the field of teachers’ work. The volume is titled Handbook on Teachers’ Work: International Perspectives on Research and Practice, and includes over 30 chapters from leading international scholarly experts.
Alexis Blavos
Alexis Blavos, Health Department, received a presidential citation from the Society for Public Health Education. In addition, she presented her research at its 2023 annual conference held March 22 to 24 in Atlanta.
Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, received the Literacy Practice Research Journal’s Knowledge Award on Oct. 13 for an article she co-authored titled “Literacy Faculty Perspectives During COVID: What did we learn?”
Kate McCormick
Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an article published in Art Education titled, “Examining Three Populations of Preservice Teachers: SEL and Art Integration in Elementary Classrooms.”
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, gave the keynote address at the Nov. 24 international webinar “Reproductive Choice of Women: A Fundamental Right” organized by St. Aloysius College in Mangaluru, India, which is one of SUNY Cortland's study abroad locations. The daylong webinar event was under the initiative of the National Commission of Women (NCW), India for better implementation of the existing policies, schemes, programs or projects relating to the well-being and empowerment of women. An article quoting Ritz-Deutch titled “Domestic violence increased during Covid-19 pandemic” was published in the Deccan Herald.