Katie Silvestri
Katie Silvestri, Literacy Department, was recently elected for a two-year appointment as secretary for the Special Interest Group (SIG) Semiotics in Education: Signs, Meaning, and Multimodality, a SIG within the American Education Research Association (AERA). This SIG provides a forum for teacher educators and literacy researchers to discuss signs, meanings and meaning making processes that people use in the context of teaching and learning from a multimodal standpoint. As secretary, Silvestri will maintain the SIG website and listserv as well as spearhead initiatives to foster conversations about and collaborations in scholarly work across the SIG's membership, as detailed on Featured Member Scholarship. She served in this position as interim secretary during a restructuring of the SIG for the past nine months and will now serve as secretary for the 2020-22 term. To learn more about Silvestri’s work as secretary or about social semiotics and multimodality, visit the Semiotics in Education SIG website.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, conducted a two-part workshop at Barnard College’s STEM Colloquium, part of Barnard’s Noyce Scholars Program. Eight students and three faculty members participated in the “Reflective Listening in Multi-Dimensional STEM Classrooms” workshop. In the workshop’s first part, participants enacted a scripted play through which they identified and discussed hidden ways in which government policies and low-income life can interfere with children’s learning. During the event’s second part, participants practiced reflective listening skills in the context of STEM classrooms in which teachers faced political, religious, and cultural opposition to their lessons.
Mary Gfeller
Mary Gfeller, Mathematics Department and SUNY Cortland Noyce Scholars Kelsey O’Donnell and Robin Tobin presented “Teaching Math Using Culturally Relevant Teaching Strategies” at the National Science Foundation 2014 Noyce NE Regional Conference held in March in Philadelphia, Pa. Perspectives on culturally relevant teaching strategies in teaching secondary math concepts were discussed using examples from real classrooms, including several from O’Donnell and Tobin’s current student teaching placement at Binghamton High School. The presenters explored the various strategies designed to make math more accessible and more meaningful to students.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper titled, "Hot Button Issues in the 2012 Presidential Campaign: 47% Yes, Guns No?" for a conference on the 2012 presidential elections held at Hiram College in Ohio on November 16-17.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had a coauthored article published in Teachers College Record. The article is titled "White Parent and Caregiver Perceptions of, and Resistance to, Equity and Anti-Racism Work in an Independent School."
Kaitlin Flannery
Kaitlin Flannery, Psychology Department recently published the article “A Multi-Method Assessment of the Friendship Adjustment Trade-Offs of Social Perspective-Taking Among Adolescents" in the journal Adolescents
Karen Downey
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, presented a poster with undergraduate student Tyler Potter at the American Chemical Society’s 244th national meeting, held August 19-23 in Philadelphia, Pa.
Randi Storch and Kevin Sheets
Randi Storch and Kevin Sheets, History Department, attended the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) project director’s meeting to receive final training before launching their $180,000 Landmarks in American History and Culture workshop for K-12 teachers. The meeting was held Oct. 26-27 in Washington, D.C. Their workshop, coordinated with the assistance of Kerri Freese, SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, invites teachers from around the country to learn about the Gilded Age and Progressive Era from the perspective of the wilderness, using Camp Huntington in Raquette Lake, N.Y., as a living classroom. The application and details about the workshop can be found at http://www2.cortland.edu/foreverwild/.
Terrence Fitzgerald
Terrence Fitzgerald, Biological Sciences Department, is the author of a paper titled “Collectively Facilitated Behavior of the Neonate Caterpillars of Cactoblastis cactorum (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)” appearing in the current issue of the journal Insects. The paper consists of a series of studies on the behavioral ecology of the insect conducted over a four-year period by former biology students Elizabeth Fabozzi '14, Katelyn Meyer '16, Michael Wolfin '11, and junior Ryan Young, all of whom are coauthors of the paper. The studies are part of a larger project on the chemical ecology of the insect being conducted by the senior author and Frank Rossi, Chemistry Department, that is supported by grants from the United States Department of Agriculture-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
Wylie Schwartz
Wylie Schwartz, Art and Art History Department, presented a research paper titled “Radical Subjectivity in the Scandinavian Situationist Bauhaus” at the ‘Artists’ colonies in the world / The world in artists’ colonies’ conference. Held Monday, Nov. 28 through Wednesday, Nov. 30 at the University of Melbourne in Australia, Schwartz presented her paper remotely. The conference is intended for imagining the artists’ colony as an alternate model for writing art history.