Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, was the Constitution Day speaker on Sept. 17 at Manchester University in Indiana, where he met with students and gave a featured address on “The Second Amendment and Guns in America” as part of that university’s Values, Arts and Ideas speaker series.
Janet Ochs, Jeremy Pekarek, Rod Koch and Chris Badurek
Janet Ochs, Jeremy Pekarek and Rod Koch, all from Memorial Library, and Chris Badurek, Geography Department, presented virtually at the SUNY Conference on Instruction and Technology on Thursday, May 27. The title of the presentation was “Tired of video conferencing fatigue? Explore tools to increase learner engagement and energize the class.”
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Kinesiology Department, was cited by the Theatre Association of New York State for her musical and ensemble performances in an outdoor summer performance of the Greek tragedy “Antigone” by Sophocles, held at the former Case Mansion in Auburn, N.Y. Also, she choreographed the stage combat in “Antigone.”
Also, Kane’s History and Philosophy of PE and Sport class welcomed guest speaker Conor Heffernan, an assistant professor of physical culture and sport studies at Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Heffernan presented a session on “Irish Emigrants and the Shaping of American Sport.” Kane met the speaker through their participation in the summer 2020 International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES) Tokyo virtual conference, where Heffernan was a presenter.
The Fall 2020 American Dance Circle, a publication of the Lloyd Shaw Foundation (LSF), featured an article by Kane, who is LSF vice president, about dance and social activism at the Highlander School, where Myles Horton, Pete Seeger, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, John Lewis and many others met to discuss workers’ rights, civil rights, adult literacy and more during the 20th century.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, presented a talk titled “Compassion and the Apocalypse: ‘Commanders [and Communities] in Crisis’” on Aug. 7 at the Comics Studies Society annual conference, Re/Building Community.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor of theatre emeritus, has had his book 1927: A Day by Day Chronicle of the Jazz Age’s Greatest Year published by Rowman and Littlefield.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, was a co-author on the recently published peer-reviewed paper “Additions to quadrate spored Entoloma (Agaricales) in Kerala State, India” published in Mycosphere in late 2016. Co-authors were Indian research mycologists C. K. Pradeep, K. B. Vrinda and C. Bihjeesh of the Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden & Research Institute, Kerala, India.
Seth Asumah and Mechthild Nagel
Seth Asumah, Political Science and Africana Studies departments, and Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, presented a workshop at the Commission on Access, Diversity and Excellence (CADE) Conference of Association of Public and Land-grant Universities held July 28 in New York, N.Y. The workshop was titled “Diversity Leadership, Inclusive Excellence and the Emerging Roles of Chief Diversity Officers and Faculty.” Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Geography and Africana Studies departments, chaired the session.
Ryan Vooris
Ryan Vooris, Sport Management Department, had his article “Development of a Sport Twitter Utilization Scale” published in the Journal of Contemporary Athletics.
Maria Timberlake
Maria Timberlake, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, presented “Invisible at Work: A Conversation,” on March 29 as part of Cornell University’s Many Voices, One College monthly diversity and inclusion dialogue series.
Jennifer Wilson
Jennifer Wilson, Communications Office, received an “Award of Merit” for outstanding achievement in the category of “Best Original Photo” on May 5 at the United University Profession’s Spring Delegate Assembly in Albany, N.Y. The image, taken during the 2016 “SUNY Cortland Works!” labor-management walk and celebration, was published in the SUNY Cortland/The Cortland Cause newsletter.