Gigi Peterson
Gigi Peterson, History Department, presented a poster session at the annual conference of the National Council of the Social Studies, which centered on the theme “Advancing Social Justice.” Due to the virtual nature of the conference, held Dec. 4 through 6, her presentation, “A Community Action Project Pilot: Teacher Candidates Take ‘Informed Action,’" will be on online display through April. She looks forward to adding sections on the Fall 2020 Community Action Projects carried out by teacher candidates in her Foundations of Social Studies class.
Gigi A. Peterson
Gigi A. Peterson, History Department, will lead a program that includes several SUNY Cortland students and alumni in a Universität Potsdam Summer School, “Teaching the SDGs” (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.) The program takes place in Germany from Saturday, Aug. 27 through Saturday, Sept. 3. The group will participate in “Engaging with Global Citizenship,” one of several courses at the summer school. This class centers on issues of migration, language and culture and identities. Instructors from the fields of English language education, literature and history will guide participants in developing their understanding of historical and contemporary migrations, and of transformative, culturally responsive pedagogy that empowers diverse learners. Students began background preparation through modules in history and language and culture education, and they are meeting their German partners virtually before the week in Potsdam.
The SUNY Cortland instructors include two area social studies teachers who continue to collaborate with Peterson and the Adolescence Education Social Studies Program as SUNY Cortland alumni-teacher associates. They are Caitlin Goodwin ’11, M.S.Ed. ’16, McGraw Middle School, and Taylor Weigand '10, Binghamton High School. Both have extensive international and classroom experience and will be important contributors to this international learning community.
Peter M. McGinnis
Peter M. McGinnis, Kinesiology Department, recently learned that Human Kinetics has published the 4th edition of his book Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise.
Li Jin
Li Jin, Geology Department, has been appointed associate editor for Water Resources Research for the term 2024 to 2028. Published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), this journal is recognized as a leading publication in the field of hydrology.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, and three of the Institute’s interns hosted the first video conference of the North/South Central New York Coalition for Applied Learning. Participants called the Feb. 7 meeting “productive” and “innovative.” Technology Training Associate Julia Morog was instrumental in making this meeting a success.
Twelve people participated in the video conference, including the director of SUNY’s Office of Applied Learning and two members of her staff, the executive director of the New York Campus Compact, and faculty and staff from SUNY Binghamton, Dutchess, Oneonta, and Westchester. The three interns – Mariah Asencio, a communication studies major, Kaley Decker, a business economics major, and Austen Johnson, a political science major, contributed ideas to the meeting’s primary purpose: identifying ways for faculty and staff to interest students in applied learning activities. Participants also explored ways of strengthening community impact, considerations regarding data-collection and a suggestion for a state-wide needs assessment mapping of communities’ well-being indicators.
The Coalition’s 35 members represent 23 institutions. SUNY Cortland faculty and staff are welcome to suggest topics for – and participate in – the Coalition’s video conferences by emailing John Suarez.
Dominick Fantacone
Dominick Fantacone, Research and Sponsored Programs, presented a paper titled, “Enacting Culturally Responsive Science Education in Rural & Urban Districts: Noyce Alumni Perspectives from Two Universities” at the NARST 2025 Annual International Conference on March 25 in National Harbor, Maryland. NARST is a global organization for improving science education through research.
Kati Ahern
Kati Ahern, English Department in Professional Writing and Rhetoric, co-organized the second biannual Sound Studies, Rhetoric, and Writing (SSRW) conference with synchronous keynote speakers Oct. 2 and 3. The conference was themed around sound, place and increasing diversity within sound studies scholarship. Due to COVID-19 the conference was moved online.
Wylie Schwartz
Wylie Schwartz, Art and Art History Department, will present a research paper on Saturday, Feb. 18 at the College Art Association Conference in New York City. Schwartz will present a paper titled “Ephemeral Interventions: The Radical Practices of the Danish Experimenting School (1961-1972)” as part of a panel on Generative Pedagogies in Art and Curatorial Practice.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence recently had four poems published by Synkroniciti Magazine, edited by Katherine Grace McDaniel. Two poems, “Kangaroo Court,” a satirical take on celebrities and politicians, and “Entanglements Under a Forest Canopy,” a study of nature and color and beauty), were written in the abecedarian form. Her poems “Amelia Earhart: Lost & Found” and “A Wall of Peaches of Immortality” trace the mystery and wonder of a favorite female explorer and a study of peaches and conflict in a lovely fruit grove.
Also, Lawrence received word this summer that two of her poems were included in Masques: Poetry of Identities: An Anthology by Culture Cult Press, Jay Chakravarti, editor. They included Lawrence’s abecedarian “Holy Wars,” about the inherent struggle of arguing agnostics and atheists in religious climates, and “Whirlpool,” a series of sinking cinquains of the swirling loss of culture, ideals, and principles in America.
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, will present a talk titled “Charlotte Perkins Gilman on and in Italy” at the Transatlantic Women II Conference in June in Florence, Italy.