Herbert Haines
Herbert Haines, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was interviewed by a Northern Lights Productions video crew in August as part of a documentary film about protests against the classic silent film “The Birth of a Nation” in 1915. The documentary is scheduled to air nationally on PBS sometime in 2016.
Kate McCormick
Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, had her book review published in Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. The review discusses the book Power play: Explorado y empujando fronteras en una escuela en Tejas through a multilingual play-based early learning curriculum.
Eileen Gilroy
Eileen Gilroy, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, and second-year graduate students Douglas Bently and Savannah Hempstead joined the local chapter of “Friends of Aphasia” on Monday, June 3, to celebrate a county-wide proclamation of June as “National Aphasia Awareness Month” in Cortland County. The annual ice cream get-together was held at the Super Cream Dairy Bar in Homer, N.Y.
Eric Edlund
Eric Edlund, Physics Department, together with coinventors from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, were awarded the Edison Patent Award for Industrial Processes on Nov. 3 for their patent titled “Advanced Liquid Centrifuge Using Differentially Rotating Cylinders and Optimized Boundary Conditions, and Methods for the Separation of Fluids.”
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, conducted a full-day Civic and Community Engagement event at SUNY Broome on Monday, Jan. 22. The 36 participants included faculty, staff and administrators. Through a variety of activities, they applied civic engagement principles and active listening skills and they discussed the value of civic engagement in learning and in student recruitment. On Wednesday, Feb. 14, Suarez will conduct a follow-up workshop in which participants will collaborate with community partners to design service-learning-based syllabi for courses in the 2024-25 academic year.
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, had his article on the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) National Letter of Intent published in Sports Litigation Alert, Volume 10, Issue 3.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, spoke at the international conference organized by University of Vienna in Vienna on April 17. Her presentation was titled “Criminal Intimacies: Sexual Geographies and the State.”
Michael Bersani, Stephen Cunningham, Ron Hulslander and Christopher Tucker
Michael Bersani, Public Relations Office; Stephen Cunningham, Institutional Research and Analysis; Ron Hulslander, Facilities Operations and Services; and Christopher Tucker, Purchasing, make up the SUNY Cortland J.P. Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge team that will compete at the series’ international championship race in San Francisco on Wednesday, Sept. 9. The College’s four-person men’s team finished with the fastest total time at the 3.5-mile Syracuse race in June 2014.
AJ Fallon-Korb
AJ Fallon-Korb, Kinesiology Department, and Amanda Leibovitz, Gily Meir, and Chris Stanley, University of Western States, recently published an article, “The Impact of Sexual Orientation on College Athlete Sport-Related Belonging and Well-Being,” in The Sport Psychologist.
Nick Koziol
Nick Koziol, Alumni Affairs Office, recently learned that his office was awarded a National Educational Alumni Trust (NEAT) grant to assist with an alumni communications audit. The grant, which Koziol discovered and applied for, will fund research into how alumni communicate and how they want to communicate with the College. The findings will be used to re-vamp the SUNY Cortland’s alumni communications strategy.