Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, joined Howard Gardner of Harvard University, William Damon of Stanford University, and other psychologists and educators asked to advise the Harvard Graduate School of Education on its proposed initiative in social-emotional learning and character education. The educators met at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on Sept. 25.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement and service-learning coordinator, had his presentation proposal titled “‘Hire’ Education, Public Purpose, and Student Employers,” accepted for the national Campus Compact’s 30th Anniversary Conference. Mary McGuire, Institute for Civic Engagement director, and Crissana Christie, service-learning intern, are co-presenters. Christie will provoke participants’ explorations of radical designs for higher education through her defense of her “Claimed-Learning Statement” in front of her degree-team, the session’s participants, by describing her learning during the years 2021-2024.
Seth Asumah, Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo and Mechthild Nagel
Seth Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Geography Department, and Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department, presented papers at the New York Africana Studies Association (NYASA) annual conference held April 5 and 6 at Binghamton University. SUNY Cortland exchange student Adiam Zersenai, from Fulda, Germany, presented on her internship in Israel. Nagel was elected president of NYASA.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, was invited to present a paper titled “Comparing the Constitutional Presidencies of Bush and Obama: War Powers, Signing Statements, Vetoes” for a conference on “Change in the White House? Comparing the Presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.” The conference was held at Hofstra University on April 19 and hosted by Hofstra’s Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency.
Dan Harms
Dan Harms, Memorial Library, had two of his books published: Witch Bottles: History, Culture, Magic was published by Avalonia Press and The Book of Four Occult Philosophers was published by Llewellyn.
Susana Davidenko and Gail Tooker
Susana Davidenko and Gail Tooker, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, participated in the XIV International Consortium for Research in Science and Mathematics Education (ICRSME) Consultation from March 12-19 in Granada, Nicaragua. They made presentations to the mathematics and science educators who traveled to the site from abroad and to local elementary and secondary teachers. Also, the Cortland professors offered workshops to these teachers at one of the public elementary schools on topics related to mathematics fluency, outdoor education and environmental science projects.
Barbara Wisch
Barbara Wisch, Art and Art History Department, will have her co-edited book, Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual, Spectacle, Image (Cambridge University Press, 2000), reissued in paperback. Cambridge has selected a number of out-of-print volumes to be part of this new program.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his article, “Bad Reading: The Affective Relations of Queer Experimental Literature after AIDS,” published in the Duke University Press journal GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. The article appears as the lead essay in a special issue devoted to the study of LGBTQ literature. It is drawn from Bradway’s ongoing research into the ways that contemporary LGBTQ writers use experimental literary forms to imagine new modes of social and political community.
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication and Media Studies Department, had her study published in the July issue of the journal Psychological Reports. Her study is titled “Emotional experiences in the workplace: Biological sex, supervisor nonverbal behaviors, and subordinate susceptibility to emotional contagion” and the abstract is available here.
Lauren Scagnelli, Natasha McFadden and John Suarez
Lauren Scagnelli, Counseling and Wellness Services, Natasha McFadden, The Cortland Fund, and John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, presented “Combating Food Insecurity: Tools to Implement a Food Pantry on Your Campus” at the annual meeting of the New York State College Health Association. They delivered their message on Oct. 18 in Syracuse to a multi-state audience.