Szilvia Kadas
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, presented with project collaborators Mitchell Christensen and Judy Livingston “Cross-Institutional Collaboration: Design Studio Initiative Across Campuses” at the 110th Annual College Art Association of America Conference on Feb. 17 in Chicago.
Chris Manaseri
Chris Manaseri, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, presented at the Country School Association of America’s annual conference this June in New London, N.H. The group, devoted to the restoration and interpretation of one-room schools across the country, heard Manaseri’s dissertation presentation called “Keeping School: One-room Schoolhouse Preservation Projects in the Greater Finger Lakes Region.” Manaseri visited, photographed and catalogued more than three dozen projects, and interviewed 60 informants for the study.
Lin Lin and Valerie Widdall
Lin Lin and Valerie Widdall, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, presented on the topic of “Expanding Pre-Service Teachers’ Global Education Pedagogy” at the annual conference of the National Council for the Social Studies on Nov. 13 in New Orleans, La.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, spoke on “The Mass Media and Presidential Elections” at OASIS in Syracuse, N.Y., on Oct. 22.
Robert Spitzer and Brian Williams
Robert Spitzer and Brian Williams, Political Science Department, participated in activities at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, held Aug. 30 to Sept. 2 in Boston, Mass. Williams presented a paper titled, “Democratization and Polarization in Belgium” for a panel on “The Historical Development of Legislatures.” Spitzer served as a discussant for a panel on “Executive Power and Democratic Functioning in the Trump Era.” He also participated in the governing board meeting of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honors society. He has served on the board for the last three years.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, made an all-day presentation to 180 school psychologists and teachers at the New Hampshire Association of School Psychologists Conference on March 25. His topic was effective approaches to preventing and correcting reading problems.
Jim Hokanson
Jim Hokanson, Kinesiology Department, was senior author on a presentation at the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) regional meeting held Nov. 3 and 4 in Harrisburg, Pa. The research, titled “Elevated Temperature Inside a Lower Body Positive Pressure Treadmill During Exercise: A Possible Environmental Constraint,” was presented by Casey Austin ’14, who is currently working on his master’s thesis in exercise science.
Robert Ponterio
Robert Ponterio, Modern Languages Department, presented a session titled “Make Web Materials Work on Student Smart Phones” at the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers’ NYSAFLT Annual Convention on Oct. 11 in Buffalo, N.Y. The session examined the basic techniques of Responsive Design for adjusting Web page text size, images, columns and video to display on desktop, tablet and smartphone media. Templates were provided to simplify converting existing class materials to an HTML5 format with built-in responsive style elements to make the process easier for teachers with limited Web development skills. All presentation materials and templates are available online at web.cortland.edu/flteach/wksp/nysaflt2013.html.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, co-authored a peer-reviewed paper that was published in the Japanese journal of mycology, Mycoscience. “A New Species of Laccaria in Montane Cloud Forest from Eastern Mexico” was co-authored with Leticia Montoya and Victor M. Bandala from Net Biodiversidad y Sistemática, Instituto de Ecología, Xalapa, Mexico, and Thomas R. Horton from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Images of the mushrooms and scanning electron micrographs of the basidiospores of Laccaria roseoalbescens from their article were featured on the journal cover of that volume. There are nearly 90 species of Laccaria described from around the world, 20 from North America. Many of these species are important for the agroforest industry and are used in nurseries to form robust symbiosis with economically important forest tree seedlings such as pine and oak before they are planted in reforestation projects.
Terrence Fitzgerald and Frank Rossi and alumni Mike Kelly ’14 and Tyler Potter ’14
Terrence Fitzgerald, Biological Sciences Department, Frank Rossi, Chemistry Department, and alumni Mike Kelly ’14, and Tyler Potter ’14, are coauthors of an article titled “Trail Following Response of Larval Cactoblastis cactorum to 2-Acyl-1,3 Cyclohexane Diones” appearing in the current issue of the Journal of Chemical Ecology. The paper reports the isolation and identification of a pheromone that might serve as a bio-rational substitute for a chemical pesticide in the management of the caterpillar. The caterpillar is an invasive species originally from Argentina that attacks prickly pear cactuses in the Gulf Coast states. Kelly is currently a graduate student at SUNY Cortland and Potter is in the Chemistry Ph.D. program at Yale University. Both students worked on the study as Cortland undergraduates. The United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service supported the study.