Lindsey Darvin
Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, recently had a paper titled "Get in the Game Through a Sponsor: Initial Career Ambitions of Former Women Assistant Coaches" published in the Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Sport (JIIA). Also, she was featured in a Jan. 21 Forbes article discussing Title IX and changes to NCAA name, image and likeness policy.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had her article, “What We Want is the Same Thing You Want”: Educator Union Organizing for the ‘Common Good’ during Covid-19 published in Radical Teacher journal. This piece examines the “common good” organizing efforts of U.S. educator unions during the 2020-2021 school year of the Covid-19 pandemic.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, participated in a planning meeting on Aug. 2 of the newly-formed “Campus Compact of New York and Pennsylvania.” Participants identified priorities and resources that the new organization can help them with as they work on projects such as data collection and assessment.
Also, Suarez’s article on the Institute’s Action Team was published in the August 2018 issue of Umbrella, the SUNY System’s Applied Learning newsletter. The article describes ways in which the Action Team’s interns built the Institute’s capacity through their entrepreneurial spirit.
Charlotte L. Pass
Charlotte L. Pass, Literacy Department, co-presented the workshop “A Cluster of Others,” addressing the practice of “othering” and ways to increase student awareness of its enactment at the combined Australian Association of Teachers of English and Australian Literacy Educators Association Annual Conference held July 6 to 9 in Hobart, Australia.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, is the author of “The Politics of Fashion, Class Hierarchy and Transgression: Rural Migrant Women in Karaoke Bars and Japan-Korea Wave,” posted online in October on The Contemporary China Centre.
Mary McGuire
Mary McGuire, Political Science Department, served as chair and discussant on the “Internship Based Student Research in Political Science” panel at the New York State Political Science Association’s annual meeting in Albany, N.Y. Two SUNY Cortland political science students presented their research on the panel. Keith Lusby gave his paper, “Civil Litigation: Problems and Solutions,” and Michelle Santoro presented “The Delicate Constituent — Representative Balance.” The Undergraduate Research Council funded the travel to Albany.
Sam Kelley
Sam Kelley, Communication Studies/Africana Studies Departments, attended an April 30 performance of his play, “Pill Hill,” which ran April 23-May 2 at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Md. The production was presented by the Coppin Players of the university’s Visual Arts Department. He also visited a pickup rehearsal on Thursday and provided feedback for the actors and the director, David Smith. Additionally, Kelley gave presentations in the African American Theatre History class, an acting class and served as a panelist for a university-sponsored symposium on the black male initiative that also took place on April 30.
Ralph Dudgeon
Ralph Dudgeon, Performing Arts Department, will deliver a paper, “The Privilege of Joseph Riedl and Joseph Kail: 1 November 1823,” at the Library of Congress as part of the 39th annual meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society being held May 26-29 in Washington, D.C. The paper was developed by Dudgeon’s research team at the Musikinstrumentenmuseum, Schloss Kremsegg in Upper Austria and discusses a drawing for an early brass instrument valve that has not been previously examined by scholars.
Cynthia Sarver and Shufang Shi
Cynthia Sarver, English, and Shufang Shi, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, organized a daylong event for school leadership and technology teams to demonstrate incorporating World Wide Web technology into their classrooms. Representatives from approximately 25 school districts from throughout Central New York attended “The 21st-Century Leadership Forum” held May 14 at SUNY Cortland. Sarver and Shi received a Spring 2010 Cortland Regional Professional Development School (CRPDS) mini-grant to organize the day’s activities. More information about CRPDS is available online.
Maria Timberlake
Maria Timberlake, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, received the Daring to Dream Award in Social Change from the Center for Community Inclusion at the University of Maine. She was recognized on June 18 for vision and leadership that promotes social change to advance the rights of people with disabilities.