Rev. Vicki Johnson
Rev. Vicki Johnson, Interfaith Center, was coordinator of worship and music for the women of the New York Conference of the United Church of Christ, held May 1-3.
Noelle Chaddock Paley
Noelle Chaddock Paley, Multicultural Life and Diversity Office and Africana Studies Department gave a talk titled “On Being a Black Woman” at Mohawk Valley Community College for their Fall 2014 Cultural Series. The talk took place on both the Utica and Rome campuses.
Justin Bucciferro
Justin Bucciferro, Economics Department, had his article, “A Comparative Portrait of Long-Run Racial Disparity in the United States and Brazil,” published in Essays in Economic & Business History. Also, he presented a paper at the Economic History Association meeting held in September in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Charles DeMotte
Charles DeMotte, Sociology/Anthropology Department, will have his book, Bat, Ball and Bible: The Struggle for Sunday Baseball in New York, published in 2012 by Potomac Press.
Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, was invited by NASA headquarters in Washington D.C. to act as a contracted program officer to assist in the administration of several programs under the Planetary Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate. She has taken a leave of absence from teaching at SUNY Cortland for the fall semester to perform this important service to our country and the scientific community. She will continue to advise her SUNY Cortland undergraduate research assistants and postdoctoral researchers while she is on leave.
Morris was a coauthor on a presentation titled “Thermal History Match Between CBb Chondrules and Impact Plume Models” at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, held July 23-28 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Morris’ undergraduate research assistant and current SUNY Cortland senior Andrew Duval spent six weeks at Arizona State University (ASU) over the summer collecting data on meteorites using the state-of-the-art facilities at ASU’s Center for Meteorite Studies. The results of his research will be the subject of his honors thesis, and will be published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Also, Morris had a Career Profile posted on the blog of The American Astronomical Society Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy on August 8.
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, recently served as a grant reviewer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She participated in two review panels for RWJF’s new funding initiative for Advancing Systemic Changes to Promote Healthy School Environments.
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs (Respect and Responsibility), had his Psychology Today blog post, “But, Mom, We Do Love Each Other!” reprinted in Australia’s MercatorNet.
Ryan Vooris and Susan Barnett
Ryan Vooris, Sport Management Department, and Susan Barnett, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, co-authored an article recently published in the International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure called “Understanding the Wearable Fitness Tracker Revolution.”
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, had an article published in the Summer 2020 issue of Perspectives on Language and Literacy, a publication of the International Dyslexia Association. The article is titled “How the Phonology of Speech Is Foundational for Instant Word Recognition.” Also, he was asked by Pearson, Inc. to help revise the reading-related subtests from the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test – 4th Edition (WIAT-4). He declined the offered remuneration for his work in order to be able to recommend the revised test battery without any financial conflict of interest. It is currently the only K-12 individualized academic achievement battery with reading-related subtests that incorporate recent advances in the scientific research on reading acquisition and reading difficulties/disabilities. The WIAT-4 released in September.
Tracy Hudson
Tracy Hudson, Physical Education Department, received a New York State Senate Commendation Award from 52nd District Sen. Lea Webb on Feb. 20. Hudson was honored for having made a lasting impact on the growth and prosperity of the Southern Tier and its residents.