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.
Beth Klein
Beth Klein, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, recently presented a plenary session on the “Status of the New York State Environmental Literacy Plan” at the New York State Outdoor Education Association (NYSOEA) conference in Callicoon, N.Y. Klein co-chairs the NYSOEA Environmental Literacy Plan Committee which is leading the development of a state-wide environmental literacy plan.
Kevin Pristash
Kevin Pristash, Campus Activities and Corey Union Office, attended the annual conference of the Association of College Unions International from March 22 to 25 in Anaheim, Calif., where he received, on behalf of SUNY Cortland, an award celebrating the College’s 50 years of membership. It was presented at the event’s honors luncheon.
Samantha Moss
Samantha Moss, Kinesiology Department, had an article titled “The Associations of Physical Activity and Health-Risk Behaviors toward Depressive Symptoms among College Students: Gender and Obesity Disparities” published in March in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The article was co-authored by Xiaoxia Zhang, Ziyad Ben Taleb and Xiangli Gu.
Christine Paske
Christine Paske, Health Department, recently was elected to the American School Health Association (ASHA) Board of Directors.
Jaroslava Prihodova
Jaroslava Prihodova, Dowd Gallery, was interviewed by the Cortland Standard about her role as gallery director for an article that was published Monday, April 10 titled “She stays surrounded by art.” It is also available online on the publication’s website (for subscribers only) and promoted on its Instagram page.
Mark A. Dodds and David L. Snyder
Mark A. Dodds and David L. Snyder, Sport Management Department, had their article titled “School Drug Strip Searches Limited in Scope” published in the February 2010 issue of The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance.
Gail Wood and Anita Kuiken
Gail Wood and Anita Kuiken, Memorial Library, presented “What is this Thing Called a Commons?” at the SUNY Technology Conference 2010 held June 15 in Rye Brook, N.Y.
Mark Dodds and Harlan Bigelow
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, and Harlan Bigelow, Budget Office, ran the Lake Placid Marathon for Team in Training, a non-profit organization that raises money to fight leukemia. More than 200 people ran the Lake Placid Marathon and Half Marathon on June 13, raising more than $500,000. Bigelow finished third in his age group.
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.