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Eric Edlund and Szilvia Kadas

Eric Edlund, Physics Department, and Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, presented “Visual Storytelling of Scientific Data: Collaborations Between Art and Physics in the College Classroom” at the SUNY Applied Learning Conference held Oct. 28 to 30 in Albany, N.Y.

Jeremiah Donovan

Jeremiah Donovan, Art and Art History Department, had one of his most recent ceramic works accepted into the California Lincoln Arts Foundation, Feats of Clay XXIII. This international competition, juried by Bill VanGilder, selected 75 works of art from a field of more than 1,000 entries. It opened at the Lincoln Arts Foundation Gallery on April 24 and runs through Sunday, May 30.

Luis Columna and Marley Barduhn

Luis Columna, Physical Education Department, and Marley Barduhn, Academic Affairs Office, co-presented a paper on “Integrating Physical Activity into the Lives of Migrant Workers’ Children and Families” at the National Migrant Education Conference held April 11-14 in Anaheim, Calif.  

Alexander G. Gonzalez

Alexander G. Gonzalez, English, has been informed that his article, “Annotations for Brendan Behan’s The Quare Fellow,” has been accepted for publication in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews.

Jennifer Janes and Traci Washburn

Jennifer Janes and Traci Washburn, The Cortland Fund, recently learned that the office won a 2010 Awards of Excellence Best of Category Award for the 2009 Philanthropy Day Event. The award, from the SUNY Council for University Advancement (SUNYCUAD), will be presented at the annual conference scheduled for June 9-11 in Buffalo, N.Y.  

Jean LeLoup and Robert Ponterio

Jean LeLoup, professor emerita of international communications and culture and United States Air Force Academy, and Robert Ponterio, International Communications and Culture Department, presented a workshop titled, “Lessons in Cultural Perspective: How Can We Get There from Here?” and a session titled “French Video Online: Accessing Authentic Language and Culture” at the annual conference of the Ohio Foreign Language Association held April 8-10 in Columbus, Ohio.

Gretchen Herrmann

Gretchen Herrmann, Library, presented her paper “From Our House to Your House: Economic Utility of the U.S. Garage Sale in the ‘Great Recession’” at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting held March 24-27 in Merida, Mexico. The paper treats the renewed utilization of garage sale shopping and selling to stretch tight budgets, and, for movers and those foreclosed upon, to quickly liquidate belongings for needed ready cash during the current economic downturn.  

John Hartsock

John Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has been awarded a visiting professorship for four weeks to the University of Paris 12 for next fall. Hartsock will teach a graduate seminar in literary journalism, his area of research, to doctoral students from Sept. 27-Oct 22. With an enrollment of 24,000, the University of Paris 12 is one of 13 campuses of the University of Paris system. Hartsock has also been invited to give a public lecture on his research at the American University of Paris.

In related news, Hartsock was the subject of an interview by the Washington Post last week on the potential role of narrative literary journalism in newspapers. Interviewed by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Brigid Shulte, he discussed how narrative literary journalism can attract more readers at a time when newspapers, including the Post, have been losing circulation. The interview is part of a Post project called “Story Lab,” which is dedicated to exploring the future of journalism. The interview can be accessed at http://blog.washingtonpost.com/story-lab/2010/04/narrative_journalism_a_convers.html

In other scholarship news, Hartsock published his article “Literary Reportage: The ‘Other’ Literary Journalism” in the most recent issue of the journal Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture. The article explores the similarities and differences between American literary journalism and the tradition of literary reportage in Europe in the 20th century.

Jenn McNamara

Jenn McNamara, Art and Art History Department, won Best in Show at the Foundry Art Centre’s exhibit “Fiber: Twenty Ten.” She was awarded a solo show that will take place next spring at the Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Mo.

 

Mary McGuire

Mary McGuire, Political Science Department, presented her paper “Lost in Translation? Viewing the Idea of American Individualism through a Chinese Lens,” at the national conference of the Midwest Political Science Association on April 22 in Chicago. Her paper was on the Political Sociology and Culture section’s individualism panel. She also chaired the section’s panel on political cultures.  

Also, McGuire 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 April 17 in Albany. Two SUNY Cortland political science students presented their research on the panel. Keith Lusby presented his paper “Civil Litigation: Problems and Solutions.” Michelle Santoro spoke on “The Delicate Constituent ­– Representative Balance.” The Undergraduate Research Council funded the travel to Albany.