Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, and his co-authors recently had two articles published on the state of labor negotiations in the National Hockey League. “Don Fehr Trades His Ball For A Puck: Will He Continue To Score?” was published in the Villanova Sport & Entertainment Law Journal. “Trying His Luck at Puck: Examining the MLBPA’s History to Determine Don Fehr’s Motivation for Agreeing to Lead the NHLPA and Predicting How He Will Fare” was published in the Denver Sports and Entertainment Law Journal.
Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Avanti Mukherjee and Eric Edlund
Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth and Avanti Mukherjee of the Economics Department and Eric Edlund of the Physics Department had an article titled “Analysis of Hybrid Epidemiological‑Economic Models of COVID‑19 Mitigation Policies” published in the Eastern Economics Journal.
Abby Thomas, Marinda Souva and Lori Schlicht
Abby Thomas, Marinda Souva, and Lori Schlicht, Advisement and Transition, presented “Thriving in Change – Infusing Advising Across Campus Initiatives” at the 22nd National Conference on Students in Transition on Oct. 18 in Baltimore, Md.
Sam Avery
Sam Avery, MFA, Communication and Media Studies Department, made a short film, “The Catch”, which won Best New York Short at the Adirondack Film Festival before airing on Mountain Lake PBS. The film features David Hollenback, Communication and Media Studies Department, and recent SUNY Cortland alumnus, Mitchell Ensman ’17. A PBS-produced interview with Avery, promoting the film, can be found here.
Michelle Cryan
Michelle Cryan, Publications and Electronic Media Office, developed a prototype for an app designed to teach sign language to pre-verbal children. She submitted the app project as the thesis for her master’s degree in Information Design and Technology at SUNYIT. The paper and a prototype of the app can be found at http://people.sunyit.edu/~cryanm/. Cryan wrote and illustrated a lift-the-flap sign language book that was published in 2007 by Gallaudet Press.
Jacob Wright
Jacob Wright, Career Services, received the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award for Individual Excellence at the annual SUNY Career Development Organization (SUNYCDO) conference held June 13 in Suffern, N.Y. Recognized for his outstanding performance and significant contribution to the career services field, the career coach and educator served as vice chair of the DEI Committee and the Conference Program Committee for SUNYCDO during the 2023-24 academic year.
Celeste McNamara
Celeste McNamara, History Department, is the author of The Bishop's Burden: Reforming the Catholic Church in Early Modern Italy, published in November by The Catholic University of America Press. Through a detailed examination of the diocese of Padua in the seventeenth century, this book provides fresh insight into the challenges and process of reforming the Catholic Church after the 1563 Council of Trent.
Cynthia J. Benton
Cynthia J. Benton, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, had her chapter, “Is This Your Best Work? Complications and Limitations of Online Instruction for High Quality Student Engagement,” published in November in the Encyclopedia of Education and Technology in a Changing Society.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, presented a paper titled, “‘Don’t Say It’s Going to Be Okay’: How International Educators Embrace Transformative Education to Support Their Students Navigating Our Global Climate Emergency” at the Comparative and International Education Society conference in April in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Also, he presented a paper titled ‘It’s my responsibility’: Perspectives on Environmental Justice and Education for Sustainability among international school students in Singapore” at the American Education Research Association conference in April in San Diego, California.
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, will have the following poems published in Home Planet News Online #6: “Red Sky at Morning,” “Remembering the Garden” and “Wolf Road and Holy Ground.”