Deborah Matheron
Deborah Matheron, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, was an invited speaker at the 56th annual New York State Speech-Language Pathology Convention on April 9 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The two-hour talk was titled “Speech Breathing and Laryngeal Function in Individuals with PD and Individuals With MS: Underlying Physiology and Current Research.”
Martine Barnaby and Jenn McNamara
Martine Barnaby and Jenn McNamara, Art and Art History Department, will have their exhibit, “Look But Don’t Touch, Touch but Don’t Look: An Art Installation by Martine Barnaby and Jenn McNamara” on display from April 2-30 at the Bundy Museum, 129 Main St., Binghamton, N.Y.
Jenn McNamara
Jenn McNamara, Art and Art History Department, will have two works of art on exhibit at the Foundry Art Centre’s “Fiber: TwentyTen.” The juried exhibition, which celebrates contemporary fiber art, will be held April 2-May 14 in St. Charles, Mo.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article arguing against granting the president an item veto in the just published book, Debating Reform: Conflicting Perspectives on How to Fix the American Political System, published by CQ Press.
Darrell Thomas
Darrell Thomas was appointed catering manager for Auxiliary Services Corporation. The 1992 graduate of culinary arts from The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., brings to the position a wealth of knowledge from his 25 years of experience in the food-service industry. Previously, Thomas worked at the Sherwood Inn in Skaneateles, N.Y., Phoebe’s Garden Café in Syracuse, N.Y., and several Ruby Tuesday restaurants. His experience includes on and off-site catering, including weddings and corporate dinners.
Henry Steck and Craig Little
Henry Steck, professor emeritus of political science, and Craig Little, professor emeritus of sociology, participated in a series of academic gatherings from Nov. 9 to 15 in Romania at the Polytechnic University of Timisoara, the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, and the Ratiu Center for Democracy in Turda. The subject of their presentations covered higher education in illiberal times, America in decline in the time of Trump, and the need for civic engagement as the prerequisite for a robust democratic society.
Joshua Peck
Joshua Peck, Psychology Department, with co-authors Philip Chu and Joshua Brumberg of Queens College, had their peer-reviewed paper titled “Exercises in Anatomy, Connectivity and Morphology using Neuromorpho.org and the Allen Brain Atlas” published in the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education. The article discusses how laboratory instruction of neuroscience is often limited by the lack of physical resources and supplies and that the cost of acquiring, maintaining and updating the materials for these labs can be prohibitive. The authors recommend incorporating online, or e-learning, opportunities into undergraduate laboratory courses and describe a method using two free online databases, the Neuromorpho.org and the Allen Brain Atlas (ABA), that freely provide access to data from working brain scientists that can be modified for laboratory instruction and exercises.
Julie Ficarra and Sam Avery
Julie Ficarra, International Programs Office, and Sam Avery, Communication Studies Department, presented at the 17th International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Annual Conference held at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Julie presented on problematizing issues of race, power and the “helping imperative” in service-learning programs in the Global South; and together, they co-presented a film project exploring the politics of space, memory and belonging for two immigrant groups on the north side of the city of Syracuse.
Patricia Martinez de la Vega Mansilla
Patricia Martinez de la Vega Mansilla, Modern Languages Department, was awarded the Clark Center Internationalization Award on April 27. Since 2010, the Clark Center Internationalization Award is given each year at SUNY Cortland to recognize individuals from the faculty or staff who have significantly contributed to or shown leadership in internationalizing the campus.
In selecting an honoree, the Clark Center Steering Committee recognizes the variety of ways an individual can enrich SUNY Cortland and the wider community. Recognized activities include, for example, expanding study abroad opportunities or mentoring international students on campus. Awardees have also repeatedly exposed SUNY Cortland students to a diversity of international perspectives, whether by presenting their scholarship, bringing guest scholars to campus, promoting the study of foreign languages, or diversifying our curriculum.
Past recipients are:
2010 Henry Steck
2011 Carol van der Karr
2012 International Advocates
2013 Sharon Steadman
2014 Jerome O’Callaghan
2015 Craig Little
2016 Jeremiah Donovan
2017 Mary Schlarb
2018 Luo Xu
2019 William Skipper
2020 Mecke Nagel
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication Studies Department, had an article published in the February issue of Management Communication Quarterly. It is titled, “Workplace Emotion and Communication: Supervisor Nonverbal Immediacy, Employee’s Emotional Experience, and Their Communication Motives.”