Dominick Fantacone
Dominick Fantacone, Research and Sponsored Programs Office, presented a poster at the Association for Science Teacher Education 2024 International Conference held Jan. 10 to 13 in New Orleans, La. Fantacone’s poster was titled “CRE: Are they in our programs? Two Case Studies” and was included in a structured poster session titled “How is our ASTE Community Working to Address Equity.”
Willnide Lindor
Willnide Lindor, English Department, published an article, “Experience Retrieval Exercise (ERE): A Pedagogical Approach to Shakespeare, Race, and Empire,” for the peer-reviewed journal Literature Compass.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, has received a research grant from the Ibero-American Institute to continue her archival research on German scientists in Brazil. Her work is part of the Institute’s current research theme on “Cultural Transfer and Academic Exchange between Europe and Latin America.” She will be working in the archives during June and July 2014.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, recently spent 10 days in China lecturing on American literary journalism, investigative journalism and media law. Hartsock was invited by the School of Journalism and Communication at the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou from Oct. 21 to Nov. 1. In addition, Hartsock participated in a translation workshop in which students are translating his History of American Literary Journalism into Mandarin Chinese.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the recipient of the “Chapter Advisor of the Year” award given out by Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honors society. Spitzer has served as advisor for SUNY Cortland's Zeta Delta chapter for nearly 20 years. He is one of two recipients of this nationwide award.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, was a guest on the British podcast, “Reasons to be Cheerful,” hosted by former Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband in July. In the episode “A Question of Sport: The Fight for Gender Equality,” she talked about Title IX, the Women’s World Cup, and the state of gender equality in sports in the U.S.
Susan Bush and Michelle Congdon
Susan Bush, School of Professional Studies, and Michelle Congdon, Human Resources Office, recently completed the Administrative Skills Certificate Program (ASCP) offered through the NYS & CSEA Partnership for Education and Training. The 26.5-hour ASCP was completed over the course of seven months and is designed around critical job-related knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for clerical, secretarial and paraprofessional administrative employees to succeed in their careers.
Christopher Badurek
Christopher Badurek, Geography Department, was elected president of the New York State GIS Association at the 2019 NYS GIS Conference held Sept. 21 to 23 in Syracuse, N.Y. Also, he was co-chair of the conference and gave two presentations on integrating geographic information systems (GIS) and Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS), frequently referred to as drones.
Geography Department faculty and staff members Wendy Miller, Melinda Shimizu and Adam Levine also each presented their recent projects at this primary conference for academics and professionals working in the GIS industry. The presentations covered use of GIS tools for community-based applied learning projects as well as the Campus Tree Walk App for the Cortland campus.
In addition, four students Badurek mentored presented posters, including: “Assessment of Land Use Land Cover Change 2009-2015 around Onondaga Lake, NY” and “Application of GIS in an Interdisciplinary Field Course on Sustainable Development of Adirondack Park, NY.” They also presented a report on a collaborative course at Camp Huntington on Raquette Lake. Collaborators are Badurek, assistant professor of economics Ben Wilson and history professor Scott Moranda, with support from the SUNY Cortland Common Problems Pedagogy Project. Student participation in the conference was supported by a grant facilitated by the Cortland College Foundation.
Kathleen Lawrence
, Communication Studies Department, had a poem titled “King,” — elegizing blues great B.B. King — appear as an exemplary poem in the textbook Composing Poetry by Gerry LaFemina, published by Kendall Hunt, in November. In December, two haiku titled “The Oldies” and “The Uninvited” were published on two separate days by haikuniverse. In January, the poem “Just Rosie,” about the Jetsons' robot maid, appeared in the journal Eye to the Telescope. Also in January, Lawrence was chosen as Poet of the Week by the Poetry Super Highway website, publishing her poem “Holly Would.” In February, four poems —“Goddesses,” “Tree Swing,” “Space Travel” and “Scientifically Speaking”—were published by Altered Reality Magazine. Since March of last year, Lawrence has had 44 poems published or forthcoming.
Jennifer Moore, Janet Ochs, Jeremy Pekarek and Hilary Wong
Jennifer Moore, Janet Ochs, Jeremy Pekarek and Hilary Wong, Memorial Library, presented virtually at the New York Archives Conference June 12. The title of the presentation was “If you've got it flaunt it: Revitalizing the archives through collaborative exhibits.”