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Faculty and Staff Activities

Barbara Wisch

Barbara Wisch, Art and Art History Department, served as a panelist for evaluating National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends applications in Art History for 2011. Wisch was awarded an NEH Summer Stipend in 2006 and an NEH Fellowship in 2007.

Alexander G. Gonzalez

Alexander G. Gonzalez, English Department, has been informed that his article, “Letting a Poem Mean as Much as It Can Mean: Additional Interpretations of Eavan Boland’s ‘I Remember’ and ‘In Her Own Image,’” has been accepted for publication at ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews. It will appear in a special edition on contemporary Irish writers that also will feature his previously accepted annotations on Brendan Behan’s play “The Quare Fellow.”

Robert Spitzer

Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is co-author of the just-published eighth edition of We The People: An Introduction to American Government. Published by W.W. Norton, the book is an analytic examination of the American governing system. The book’s co-authors include Benjamin Ginsberg, Johns Hopkins University; Theodore J. Lowi, Cornell University; and Margaret Weir, University of California, Berkeley.

Lieutenant Francis Cullen

Lieutenant Francis Cullen, University Police Department, was recognized by the State University of New York with a 2021 University Police Award. The SUNY Police Chiefs Association held a ceremony on Nov. 16 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. to present the annual awards to lieutenants, officers and staff who played a key role in life-saving events in the past year, as well as others on the New York University Police force for their outstanding professional service.

Patricia Martinez de la Vega Mansilla

Patricia Martinez de la Vega Mansilla, Modern Languages Department, was awarded the Clark Center Internationalization Award on April 27. Since 2010, the Clark Center Internationalization Award is given each year at SUNY Cortland to recognize individuals from the faculty or staff who have significantly contributed to or shown leadership in internationalizing the campus.

In selecting an honoree, the Clark Center Steering Committee recognizes the variety of ways an individual can enrich SUNY Cortland and the wider community. Recognized activities include, for example, expanding study abroad opportunities or mentoring international students on campus. Awardees have also repeatedly exposed SUNY Cortland students to a diversity of international perspectives, whether by presenting their scholarship, bringing guest scholars to campus, promoting the study of foreign languages, or diversifying our curriculum. 

Past recipients are:

2010      Henry Steck

2011        Carol van der Karr

2012       International Advocates

2013       Sharon Steadman

2014       Jerome O’Callaghan

2015       Craig Little

2016       Jeremiah Donovan

2017       Mary Schlarb

2018       Luo Xu

2019       William Skipper

2020      Mecke Nagel

Moyi Jia

Moyi Jia, Communication Studies Department, had an article published in the February issue of Management Communication Quarterly. It is titled, “Workplace Emotion and Communication: Supervisor Nonverbal Immediacy, Employee’s Emotional Experience, and Their Communication Motives.”

Gregg Weatherby

Gregg Weatherby, English Department, has had six poems from his current work-in-progress, Approaching Home, excerpted for an anthology of memoir to be published later in the year by Telling Our Stories Press.

Kati Ahern

Kati Ahern, English Department, co-authored an article titled “Listening for Genre Multiplicity in Classroom Soundscapes.” It was published in the July issue of the journal enculturation. 

Bonni C. Hodges, Joseph F. Governali and Donna M. Videto

Bonni C. Hodges, Joseph F. Governali and Donna M. Videto, Health Department, were part of a panel discussing “School Health Education in the 21st Century: A National Conversation” at the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) national conference held in March in Indianapolis, Ind. Sponsored by the American Association for Health Education, the panel presented position statements on the role of school health education in the 21st century. Their participation in the panel was an extension of their writings in school health education philosophy.

David Collins

David Collins, Chemistry Department, had his article published in the February issue of Crystal Growth & Design. “Construction of Metal-Organic Frameworks with 1D Chain, 2D Grid, and 3D Porous Framework Based on a Flexible Imidazole Ligand and Rigid Benzenedicarboxylates” describes a flexible molecule that, depending on the solvent used, can adopt two different shapes to link metal atoms. The molecule is then used to generate a 3D molecular grid. The article can be viewed online.