Barry Schecter
Barry Schecter, Health Department and coordinator of Human Service Studies, served on a panel at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference, held Oct. 11 to 14 in Atlanta, Ga.
Lin Lin
Lin Lin, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, presented “No Excuse to Live in a Bubble: How Do Children in Your Classroom Stay Connected to the World?” at the National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference on Nov. 30 in Chicago. She also served as discussion facilitator for the international assembly at this conference.
Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, had her article, “What Can Our Writing Do in the World? The Feminist Praxis of Publishing Student Writing,” published in November in Radical Teacher. This article situates the practice of publishing student writing within a longer history of feminist teaching methods. It also features the original writing of two SUNY Cortland students, seniors Lacey Bartlett and Taylor Price.
Angela Pagano
Angela Pagano, Biological Sciences Department, along with adolescence education: earth science majors and SUNY Cortland Noyce Scholars Brendan Creegan and Eric Reisweber, presented “Using Stories to Teach Science” at the Noyce NE Regional Conference held from March 20-22 in Philadelphia, Pa. Placing scientific information into a relevant context is important for student engagement and deeper understanding of scientific content. For example, the framework for the Next Generation Science Standards suggests the use of history of science stories or cases as an important approach for providing the context for developing students’ understanding of the nature of science. Presenters gave an overview of the importance of communicating science, worked though a selection of activities, and provided examples of stories that can be incorporated into the secondary science curriculum.
Yomee Lee
Yomee Lee, Kinesiology Department, had her research, “Exploring race consciousness among South Korean college students through sport” published in Quest, the official journal of the National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education.
Lieutenant Francis Cullen ’06
Lieutenant Francis Cullen ’06, University Police Department, recently completed the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Emergency Management Academy. He completed 210 hours of coursework and has received his certification as a national emergency manager.
Brian D. Barrett
Brian D. Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article, “Is Interdisciplinarity Old News? A Disciplined Consideration of Interdisciplinarity,” published in the current issue of the British Journal of Sociology of Education. Aspects of the article were developed in papers he presented at a Sandwich Seminar titled “Is it the End of the University as We Know It: Do We Feel Fine?” at SUNY Cortland, in October 2009, and as plenary speaker at the Sixth International Basil Bernstein Symposium in Brisbane, Australia, in July 2010.
Jesse Bloom Bateman
Jesse Bloom Bateman, Biological Sciences Department, coauthored a paper that recently was published in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. The article is titled: Carbonate clumped isotope analysis (Δ47) of 21 carbonate standards determined via gas-source isotope-ratio mass spectrometry on four instrumental configurations using carbonate-based standardization and multiyear data sets) of 21 carbonate standards determined via gas-source isotope-ratio mass spectrometry on four instrumental configurations using carbonate-based standardization and multiyear data sets.
Moataz Emam
Moataz Emam, Physics Department, was invited to present two lectures at the Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt’s largest science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) university and one of the largest in the Middle East. The first lecture on July 20 was at a public seminar titled “Superstrings, Multiverses and the Future of Physics.” The second seminar on July 21 was research-oriented and Emam presented his current research interests in a talk titled, “The Rise of Symplectic and Split-complex Geometries in Calabi-Yau Compactifications.” In addition, Emam collaborated with colleagues on a discussion panel on July 26 titled, “The Theory of Everything and the Future of Physics,” organized by an academic group in the Egyptian city of Alexandria.
Janet Duncan
Janet Duncan, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, has been invited by Disability Rights International to provide technical assistance in community living and assessing family needs in Tbilisi, Ga., in October. This work is part of a long-term project with a Georgian NGO, Partners for Equal Rights, and supports its efforts to return children with disabilities to their home communities and to close institutions for children. Duncan will present to Georgian government policy officials about supporting families with children who have disabilities. Disability Rights International is an award-winning human rights organization based in Washington, D.C. Recently a documentary about children with disabilities living in deplorable conditions in Georgia was aired on the PBS program, “The Visionaries.”