Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, has been invited to speak at a workshop on Chondrules and the Protoplanetary Disk at the Natural History Museum in London, England and to contribute a book chapter on the workshop proceedings. Also, she has been invited to speak at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, following the workshop.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and director of the Center for Ethics, Peace, and Social Justice, had her book chapter titled “Transitional Justice in Rwanda and South Africa” published this spring in The Routledge International Handbook on Penal Abolition.
Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, and a team of international collaborators were awarded a grant to host a design workshop by the Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis. The workshop is titled “From Close Kinship to Population Interactions in the Deep Past: Integrating Biological and Cultural Indicators of Social Identities in a Multiscalar Framework,” and it will be held in northern Germany in Spring 2026.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, held Sept. 1-4 in Seattle, Wa. His paper was titled “Growing Executive Power: The Strange Case of the ‘Protective Return’ Pocket Veto” for a roundtable panel on “In Defense of the Constitution.”
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, recently presented at the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD) national conference in San Diego. Her talk featured Girls’ Day Out (GDO) as an illustration of a successful community-college collaboration. GDO, begun in 2001, is an annual event put on by the Cortland YWCA, SUNY Cortland and the SUNY Cortland Athletics Department involving girls in grades five through eight in a day of non-traditional sporting, recreational, vocational and health-education activities. The presentation described the evolution of GDO; illustrated the use of needs assessment and process evaluation data within the PRECEDE-PROCEED framework; discussed strategies for successful community-college collaborations; discussed this event’s growth management; and shared GDO's multidimensional mentoring model.
Juan Diego Prieto
Juan Diego Prieto, Political Science Department, had a conference paper selected as the winner of the Network for Latin American Political Economy (REPAL) 2023 Best Paper Prize. The paper is titled “State Patching: A Typological Theory with Illustrations from Emergency Social Transfers in Brazil and Colombia.”
Larissa True
Larissa True, Kinesiology Department, was the organizer of a symposium held June 21 to 23 at the North American Society for Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity’s national conference in Denver, Colo. In addition to organizing the symposium, True presented a recent study titled “Tracking of Physical Fitness Components from Childhood to Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study.”
Bonni C. Hodges and Donna M. Videto
Bonni C. Hodges and Donna M. Videto, Health Department, were invited to serve on the Expert Review Group of the National Consensus on School Health Education. The National Consensus is designed “to develop a unified voice from the health education field related to key issues in school health education.” Founding members include the American School Health Association, Eta Sigma Gamma, Foundation for the Advancement of Health Education, Society for Public Health Education, and Society of State Leaders of Health and Physical Education.
Lin Lin
Lin Lin, Childhood and Early Childhood Education Department, presented at the SUNY Conference on Instruction and Technology on Thursday, May 27 on the topic of “My Love Affair with Nearpod.” She shared her experiences of using engaging online tools to promote historical reasoning skills and media literacy in her synchronous courses in the last three semesters.
Beth Klein
Beth Klein, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, was recently named SUNY Cortland’s part-time sustainability coordinator. She has a longstanding record of advocacy for the preservation of the environment and is involved in many sustainability initiatives both on and off campus. These include local food groups, Sustainable Cortland, campus-wide sustainability curriculum projects and energy saving activities, and the Cortland Green Days project. Klein regularly hosts students and area science teachers at Raquette Lake and is a prominent member of the President’s Climate Action Planning Committee.