Gregory D. Phelan
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, was selected to participate in a video project on grant management created by the National Academy of Engineering. In addition to appearing in the video production, Phelan was asked to sit on a panel to discuss grant management for first-year grant recipients that was held in July in Washington, D.C.
Karen Downey and Eric Edlund
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, and Eric Edlund, Physics Department, took the wind tunnel (WEN-D) to Smith Intermediate School for demonstrations on Thursday, March 24. The demonstrations coincided with the third-grade classes’ science lessons about weather, which involved talking about high and low pressure in relation to winds. Seven classes of third graders participated and tested their homemade and science kit anemometers with the wind tunnel. The wind tunnel was built in January 2021 by Edlund and his physics classes to study aerodynamics and lift forces.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has been invited to be a keynote speaker at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands in May for a conference on the subject of “Witnessing the 60s: A decade of change in journalism and literature.” The conference explores the rise of the “New Journalism” in the United States at that time, as well as parallel developments in what was then a divided Cold War Europe. Hartsock will speak on the causes of the New Journalism, how they were manifested in earlier periods, and how they are still with us today. The conference is May 19-20.
In other news, Hartsock spoke in Elmira on April 5 at the annual convention of the Public Historians of New York State about his new book, Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery, released in March by Cornell University Press. His talk focused on the importance of everyday life at wineries in the Finger Lakes as a basis for understanding that community’s history. He also appeared April 11 on “Bridge Street,” a news and information program on NewsChannel 9 in Syracuse, to discuss the book. In addition, to kick off this year’s Finger Lakes Literary Festival, he has been invited by host Bill Jaker to discuss the book on “Off the Page,” to be taped at the Finger Lakes Wine Center on May 6 and broadcast on May 10 on WSKG-FM Public Radio in Binghamton.
Celeste McNamara
Celeste McNamara, History Department, recently gave an invited lecture at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, titled “Priests Behaving Badly: The Problem of Scandal in Renaissance Italy.” The talk examined the history of how the Catholic Church has handled sinful priests, arguing that the Church’s contemporary strategies for suppressing scandal are built on a long theological and practical history. Due to the challenges of the Protestant Reformation, the 16th and 17th centuries were particularly important for the development of these strategies. By understanding this longstanding trajectory, we can see how the strategy of hiding clerical crimes and repressing information about bad priests has been centuries in the making.
Stephen Halebsky
Stephen Halebsky, Sociology/Anthropology Department, has been informed that his paper, “Corporate Practices and Harmful Consequences: Learning from the Holocaust,” has been accepted for publication in Humanity and Society.
Angela Pagano
Angela Pagano, Biological Sciences Department, presented at the 2015 Professional Development Schools National Conference held March 5-8 in Atlanta, Ga. Her presentation was titled “The Evolution of Trust in Co-Teaching Relationships in a Clinically Rich Model of Teacher Preparation.” Findings were from the New York State Department of Education (NYSED) funded Undergraduate Clinically Rich Teacher Preparation Program.
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna Videto, Alexis Blavos and Page Dobbs
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna Videto, Alexis Blavos and Page Dobbs, Health Department, along with community health seniors Jerrell DeCaille, Brenna Taggerty and Maddison Terrillion, represented SUNY Cortland at the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) annual meeting held April 4 to 6 in Columbus, Ohio.
- Hodges and Videto presented their work on fostering school district and community agency collaborations.
- Hodges, Videto and Blavos presented their preliminary work in creating a framework for college health promotion.
- Blavos presented two pieces of her work related to advocacy and health communication.
- Dobbs presented two pieces of her work on college student substance use; one on e-cigarette use and the other on driving while under the influence of marijuana.
- Students DeCaille, Taggerty and Terrillion, all Eta Sigma Gamma members, were selected to compete as a team in the annual public health case study competition.
Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, co-authored two articles published recently in publications about children’s literature. “Beyond The Lorax: Examining Children’s Books on Climate Change” was published in The Reading Teacher, 69. “The Who I Was, Who I Am, and Who I Want to Be Cycle” was published in Frontiers in American Children’s Literature, edited by D.G. Clark and L. Salem.
Eric Edlund
Eric Edlund, Physics Department, and colleagues from Princeton University, were awarded a patent — number is 10,300,410 — for a new concept for a liquid centrifuge. Edlund conducted his postdoctoral studies at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory managed by Princeton University, where he examined issues of angular momentum transport in relation to the evolution of black holes. During this work, he constructed a new experimental device and established the measurements that became the basis of this patent.
Alexandru Balas
Alexandru Balas, International Studies Department and Clark Center for International Education, together with his co-authors Andreas Kotelis, 2017 Clark Center for Global Engagement Scholar-in-Residence, and Noam Ebner, Creighton University, was the winner of the 2018 E-PARCC Role-Play Simulation Competition for their publication of the European Union simulation titled “Model EU-European Council-European Agenda on Migration.” The competition is organized by the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Cooperation at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. Read more about the European Union role-play simulation.