Lin Lin, Margaret Gichuru and Mechthild Nagel
Lin Lin and Margaret Gichuru, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, and Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments, made a synchronous presentation “Teaching Philosophy to Children in the Time of the Pandemic” at the Fall 2021 NYACTE-NYSATE Conference sponsored by the New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the New York State Association of Teacher Educators.
Joshua Peluso
Joshua Peluso, Systems Administration and Web Services, gave two presentations at the Fall 2011 Wizard Collaborative SUNY Conference held Nov. 15-16 in Syracuse, N.Y. His talks were titled, “Getting Everything in your Campus Portal” and “SUNY Source.” Wizard technology conferences promote SUNY-wide technological offerings for all campuses.
Bryan Thomas
Bryan Thomas, Art and Art History Department, had his work accepted for the “Made in New York 2012” exhibition opening on Saturday, March 31, in Auburn, N.Y. His selected sculpture is a reflection on current events in Afghanistan, made of “knitted” plastic army men in the form of a child’s quilt. His work is one of 74 selected entries from a total of 549 by 294 regional artists. The annual exhibition was juried by Richard Kegler and Sydney Waller. The opening reception is from 3-5 p.m. on March 31 at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Gallery, 205 Genesee St., Auburn.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, was named a Boren Merit Review Panelist by the Institute of International Education and the National Security Agency, Washington D.C. Between Feb. 26 and March 1, the panel reviewed 27 National Security Education Program Merit Fellowship applications and selected finalists for the Africa Region Boren Fellowships for 2017. Serving on the panel with Asumah were Kelly O’Brien from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Lynn Westley from Lake Forest University.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, gave an invited talk as part of a virtual roundtable on his new book, Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form (Duke UP, 2022). Held Jan. 19, the event was hosted by the University of Southern California and sponsored by the Race, Gender, and Sexuality Research Cluster, the USC Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, the USC Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture, and the USC Association of English Graduate Students.
Dennis L.C. Weng
Dennis L.C. Weng, Political Science Department, participated in a live interview via Skype with news channel ETTV in Taiwan on Nov. 8, to discuss the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Also, he was invited to publish an op-ed article about the election in The United Daily News newspaper in Taiwan.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor of theatre emeritus, has had two plays published in October. His stage adaptation of Frances Hodgen Burnett’s “The Secret Garden” has been published by Brooklyn Publishers and his adaptation of O. Henry’s “A Retrieved Reformation” has been published by Pioneer Drama Publishers as “The Unexpected Reformation of Jimmy Valentine.”
Cynthia J. Benton
Cynthia J. Benton, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, had her chapter, “Is This Your Best Work? Complications and Limitations of Online Instruction for High Quality Student Engagement,” published in November in the Encyclopedia of Education and Technology in a Changing Society.
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, will have the following poems published in Home Planet News Online #6: “Red Sky at Morning,” “Remembering the Garden” and “Wolf Road and Holy Ground.”
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, presented the keynote to open the London conference of the International Federation of Family Development. Held Oct. 19 and 20, he presented “Raising Kind Kids” to an audience of 1,200 family educators from 70 countries. In September, Lickona spoke at South Korea’s International Forum on Human Values on the character education work of SUNY Cortland’s Center for the 4th and 5th Rs. In October, during a week-long visit to the Philippines, he addressed several conferences on fostering kindness at school and home. Most recently, Lickona spoke in Mexico City on “How to Raise Kind Kids” in a lecture tour sponsored by the organization Moders.