Dennis Weng
Dennis Weng, Political Science Department, was invited by the Taiwan newspaper, United Daily News, to submit an op-ed article published in a forthcoming issue on the topic of the recent (April) meeting between President Trump and President Xi from China.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his book, Knowledge, Curriculum and Equity: Social Realist Perspectives, published this summer by Routledge. The book was co-edited with Ursula Hoadley, University of Cape Town, and John Morgan, University of Auckland, and contains a chapter by Barrett and Foundations and Social Advocacy Department colleagues Anne Burns Thomas and Maria Timberlake.
John Suarez
At the May 17 SUNY Civic Education Community of Practice Convening in Albany, N.Y., John Suarez, director of the Galpin Institute for Civic Engagement, co-developed and co-facilitated an active listening activity for about 65 people with Babette Faehmel, a history professor at SUNY Schenectady.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, presented a paper titled “Inchoate Kinship: Psychoanalytic Narrative and Queer Belonging” at the Project Narrative Summer Institute at Ohio State University. The Institute was held from July 9 through July 21 and brought together scholars working on “Queer and Feminist Narrative Theories.”
James F. Hokanson, Bryanne N. Bellovary and Erik Lind
James F. Hokanson, Bryanne N. Bellovary and Erik Lind, Kinesiology Department, along with three exercise science students, Madison Rees, Danielle Toth and Matthew Ballesteros, presented multiple papers at the State of New York Undergraduate Research Conference hosted by Buffalo State on April 23. The research focused on investigations of changes in body weight perception, heart rate and blood pressure while standing in an Alter-G lower body positive pressure treadmill.
Debbie Warnock
Debbie Warnock, Sociology Department, presented two papers at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association held in August in Seattle, Wa. One of her articles, “Inequalities at the Outset: Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Differences in Parents’ Perceptions of Paying for College,” was published in July in the Journal of College Student Development. Another of her articles, ““The Poor Kids’ Table”: Organizing around an Invisible and Stigmatized Identity in Flux,” was published in September in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, had her article, “Ubuntu and African Prison Intellectuals” published in the Spring 2013 journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas.
Robert Ponterio and Jean LeLoup
Robert Ponterio, Modern Languages Department, and Jean LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish and the U.S. Air Force Academy, presented a session titled “FLTEACH: Widgets, Twitter, Boards and Mail for Online Professional Development” at the American Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 2013 Annual Convention and World Language Expo held Nov. 22 in Orlando, Fla. The session examined the variety of online tools that LeLoup and Ponterio, the forum creators, have developed to enhance the 5,400-member, 81-country grass roots professional development project, now in its 20th year. There was a particular focus on recent enhancements including responsive design for the website, the use of embedded widgets pushing content to the Web, the #flteach Twitter hashtag, wiki, and FLTEACH Facebook page. The project’s searchable archives, annotated bibliography, language teaching methods syllabi collection, and various email options were also discussed. The presenters emphasized the range of options for participation and the applications of the project to pre-service teacher training and ongoing professional development for teachers in the field. The session outline is available at http://web.cortland.edu/flteach/wksp/actfl2013.html
Christa Chatfield
Christa Chatfield, Biological Sciences Department, recently was profiled by a blog titled “Women of STEM.” The series highlights women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and can be viewed on this link: http://womenofstem.com/2016/04/06/christa-chatfield-assistant-professor-of-biology/
Gillian Mertens
Gillian Mertens, Literacy Department, had an article titled “Evidence of Strategic Information Literacy Practices in Early Career Teachers’ Navigation of Teachers Pay Teachers” published Nov. 12 in Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice.