Jeremy Pekarek
Jeremy Pekarek, Memorial Library, recently became a Certified Archivist (CA) through the Academy of Certified Archivists. This is a nationally recognized organization that ensures a standard of excellence in historical preservation and access to primary resources and collections. Qualified candidates took a lengthy examination to test their knowledge of seven required domains in archival theory including, (1) appraisal, selection, acquisitions, (2) arrangement and description, (3) reference services and access, (4) preservation, (5) outreach, (6) archival management and (7) ethical and legal responsibilities.
Maria Timberlake
Maria Timberlake, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, presented “Invisible at Work: A Conversation,” on March 29 as part of Cornell University’s Many Voices, One College monthly diversity and inclusion dialogue series.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, conducted his workshop, “Build Organizational Capacity: Invert the Triangle” at SUNY’s 5th Annual Applied Learning Conference.
Thirty-nine participants role-played situations in which directors of organizations can gain control by relinquishing control. Directors can relinquish (some) control when they trust their interns with specific responsibilities and authority; interns will reciprocate with innovative ideas and progress toward organizations’ missions. The associate director of SUNY’s SAIL Institute for Academic and Innovative Leadership is using this workshop’s materials as guides in designing a workshop for department chairs.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of a new book, just published by Oxford University Press, titled, Guns Across America: Reconciling Gun Rules and Rights. The book argues that, contrary to the current national debate, gun laws and rights were perfectly compatible throughout most of American history, and that guns were actually regulated more strictly in the past than in the current era. In addition to gun law history, the book also examines the so-called right of rebellion, the Second Amendment and the assault weapons ban controversy, modern “stand-your-ground” laws, and New York state’s tough new gun laws and their impact on gun habits.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), presented “Troubling Justice: A Case for a Ludic Ubuntu Ethic” on April 27 at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen, Germany. Nagel is a scholar-in-residence from January through July, and this is her official contribution as a research professor at Max Planck under the auspices of the African Diversities Colloquium.
Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, wrote and recorded a song inspired by Cortland’s common read, Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. The single, “Hold On,” was released in February 2024 and can be heard on Spotify and other music streaming services under artist name Juniper Salute.
Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, has been invited by publisher Gale Cengage to produce an installment of their Drama Criticism series on the play “Fuenteovejuna” (1619), by Spanish playwright Lope de Vega. “Fuenteovejuna” is currently the most performed, read and studied play of the Spanish baroque period. Drama Criticism is a resource for scholars; the entry will include a study of the author and the play, reprints of the most important research on the work, and an annotated bibliography of additional key criticism of the drama.
Bryanne Bellovary, Erik Lind and James Hokanson
Bryanne Bellovary, Erik Lind and James Hokanson, Kinesiology Department, co-authored two research posters with senior exercise science majors Lauren Roberts and Jacqueline Santaniello. Roberts presented the posters at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference within the American College of Sport Medicine, held Nov. 5 and 6 in Harrisburg, Pa. The poster titles are: “Heart Rate Responses to Three Unweighted Conditions on an Alter-G® Treadmill” and “Arterial Blood Pressure Responses Reflect Differences in Alter-G® Treadmill Chamber Pressure in College Age Participants.”
Juan Diego Prieto
Juan Diego Prieto, Political Science Department, wrote a commentary about Colombian politics for the Oct. 22 issue of Latin American Advisor, published by The Dialogue think-tank.
Katie Silvestri
Katie Silvestri, Literacy Department, co-authored an article about engineering and communicative literacies with K-12 students recently published in the Journal for Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER). Co-authors are Michelle Jordan of the University of Arizona, Patricia Paugh at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Mary McVee at the University at Buffalo SUNY, and Diane Schallert at the University of Texas - Austin.
The article is a state-of-the-art literature review focused on findings of 33 research articles informed by qualitative and quantitative data to foreground communicative literacies within engineering design teams at the pre-college level. The selected studies clustered under five overarching themes pertaining to: (a) engineering disciplinary communicative literacies in practice; (b) matters of access with populations underrepresented in engineering; (c) learning STEM content through engineering design; (d) affective responses to uncertainty and risk in engineering design; and (e) evaluating the quality of collaboration. With respect to the themes, the authors discuss possibilities of using literacy frameworks to deepen theoretical and methodological insights into the study of phenomena related to within-group communicative literacies in K-12 engineering spaces.