Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, collaborated with colleagues from Louisiana State University and Humboldt State University on two papers that describe nine new species of mushrooms from Guyana. The papers were published in 2010 in the peer-reviewed journals Mycologia and Mycotaxon under the titles of “The Entolomataceae of the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana,” parts IV and V.
Baroni also coauthored two additional peer-reviewed papers in 2011, with colleagues from the USDA Forest Service in Wisconsin and the University of Oslo, on a new genus and species of polypore fungi from Belize, (Aurantiopileus mayanensis genus et species novum), and a new polypore (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from Belize with connections to existing Asian species.
One paper was published in North American Fungi and the second paper, on a different new species of polypore from Belize (a new species of Daedalea (Basidiomycota) and a synopsis of core species in Daedalea sensu stricto, was published in North American Fungi.
These papers presented a part of the results obtained from funding to Baroni and colleagues by the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. Baroni’s most recent publication, coauthored with colleagues from Switzerland, Humboldt State University and Duke University, describes a new genus of pink-spored mushrooms that has its members widely spread in the temperate zones in the northern and southern hemispheres. Entocybe is proposed as a new genus in the Entolomataceae (Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota) based on morphological and molecular evidence. It also appeared in North American Fungi.
Chelsea M. Norton
Chelsea M. Norton, a graduate student in the Kinesiology Department, was recently named one of the American Kinesiology Association’s 2013 Graduate Scholars. The award recognizes her commitment to promoting and enhancing kinesiology as a unified field of study and advancing its many applications.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had a co-authored article, “Opposing Innovations: Race and Reform in the West Philadelphia Community Free School, 1969-1978,” published in the History of Education Quarterly. This piece examines competing conceptions of “innovation” at work in the creation and operation of the West Philadelphia Community Free School, 1969-1978. The article pays particular attention to the range of values and goals amongst stakeholders in the school's community/university/district partnership and argues that the burden of reconciling opposing innovations fell unevenly upon the teachers and community members.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, recently joined the Northeast Regional Planning Group of Amnesty International (AI) headquartered in Boston, Mass. Currently, she is the coordinator of the Ithaca Chapter of AI and the faculty advisor to the SUNY Cortland AI student group.
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Geography Department, was awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program to travel to Nigeria to work with Alabi Soneye at the University of Lagos. They will be collaborating on research in Sustainable Urban Transportation.
Their project is part of a broader initiative that will pair 51 African Diaspora scholars with one of 43 higher education institutions and collaborators in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda to work together on curriculum co-development, research, graduate teaching, training and mentoring activities in the coming months. The visiting fellows will work with their hosts on a wide range of projects that include controlling malaria, strengthening peace and conflict studies, developing a new master’s degree in emergency medicine, training and mentoring graduate students in criminal justice, archiving African indigenous knowledge, creating low cost water treatment technologies, building capacity in microbiology and pathogen genomics, and developing a forensic accounting curriculum. To deepen the ties among the faculty members and between their home and host institutions, the program is providing support to several program alumni to enable them to build on successful collaborative projects they conducted in previous years.
The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program, now in its sixth year, is designed to increase Africa’s brain circulation, build capacity at the host institutions, and develop long-term, mutually-beneficial collaborations between universities in Africa and the United States and Canada. It is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE) in collaboration with United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa) in Nairobi, Kenya, which coordinates the activities of the Advisory Council. A total of 385 African Diaspora Fellowships have now been awarded for scholars to travel to Africa since the program’s inception in 2013.
Fellowships match host universities with African-born scholars and cover the expenses for project visits of between 21 and 90 days, including transportation, a daily stipend, and the cost of obtaining visas and health insurance. See full list of 2018 projects, hosts and scholars and their universities.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement’s Office of Service-Learning, has secured a $500 New York Campus Compact grant for a roundtable discussion that will focus on economic mobility in Cortland County. Broome Community College’s Civic Engagement Center will help guide the planning and execution of this event’s deliberative discussion format. The discussion, scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 21, is part of the greater Cortland community’s economic Inequality Initiative.
Jeffrey Radloff, Angela Pagano and Dominick Fantacone
Jeffrey Radloff, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, Angela Pagano, Biological Sciences Department, and Dominick Fantacone, School of Education and regional director for the New York State Master Teacher Program, presented a paper titled, “Secondary Master STEM Teachers’ Tensions with Transitioning to Remote Instruction” on Jan. 15 at the International Conference of the Association of Science Teacher Education.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, had her critical review of the photography and video art on display at the recent New Orleans biennial exhibition, Prospect New Orleans.2, published in the March-April issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. In addition, her article, “Flanerie and the Globalizing City,” co-authored with John Rennie Short, was published in the June-August 2011 issue of City.
Kati Ahern
Kati Ahern, English Department, had a short fiction piece, “At My Job I Work the Robotic Arms,” published in the journal Fractured Literary as one of the 2023 Anthology Prize winners. Also, her short fiction piece “Extrusions” was published Oct. 1 in Liminal Spaces Magazine (LMNL SPCS).
Judy Bentley and Janet Duncan
Judy Bentley and Janet Duncan, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, co-edited chapters in the book, Earth, Animal and Disability Liberation: The Rise of the Eco-Ability Movement, recently published by Peter Lang Press, N.Y. Bentley’s chapter discusses toxic environments and transformative technologies, using a Michel Foucault’s framework. Duncan’s chapter examines the concepts of capability and competence, building on Martha Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach. This edited volume also contains chapters written by Lynn Anderson, Vicki Wilkins and Laurie Penney McGee, faculty from the College’s Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, featuring their work with the Inclusive Recreation Resource Center. Additionally, Amber George from the Philosophy Department has a chapter on the Disney complex. This critically acclaimed book is the first of its kind to examine the intersectionality of disability rights, animal rights and the environment. Anthony Nocella II, visiting professor at Hamline University, is the first author and was instrumental in securing contributions from leading scholars in these areas.