Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, was selected to the SUNY Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice Fellows Program.
Ann McClellan
Ann McClellan, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, presented her paper, “‘Oh, Watson, the (Record) Needle!’: Sherlock Holmes and American Jazz,” at the annual Popular Culture Association conference on March 29 in Chicago, Ill. Also, on April 23 she gave a virtual talk for the Groton Public Library in Groton, Mass., on “The Sherlock Holmes You Never Knew: Black American Adaptations, Then and Now.”
Alexander G. Gonzalez and Michele I. Gonzalez
Alexander G. Gonzalez, English Department, and Michele I. Gonzalez, Literacy Department, received the 2016 Garrison Award, awarded by the Finger Lakes Trail Conference for their efforts to protect via easements public hiking trails that are built on private land.
Gretchen Herrmann
Gretchen Herrmann, Library, presented a paper on March 30 at the Society for Applied Anthropology in Baltimore, Md. Her paper, titled “Exchanging Memories, Emotions and a Little Cash: Alternative Economic Exchange in the US Garage Sale,” covered extended case studies of garage sale participants who sold items that still retained important emotional value and/or memories. She also addressed how the sellers incorporated their emotional values into the exchange.
Jason Tucker
Jason Tucker, English Department, served on the panel “Balancing Professional Writing with Your Creative Side,” at The Association of Writers and Writing Program’s 2011 AWP Conference on Feb. 4 in Washington D.C.
Barbara Wisch
Barbara Wisch, Art and Art History Department, had an article accepted by the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. The article, titled “The Matrix: Le sette chiese di Roma of 1575 and the Image of Pilgrimage,” will appear in issue 56, 2011.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, was a keynote speaker at the 34th Annual Foray of the Northeast Mycological Federation held Sept. 23-26, 2010, in Kerhonkson, N.Y. He presented “Macrofungi in Tropical America, Some New — Some Not So New — What it Tells Us.”
Baroni was a co-author of an article titled “Aurantiopileus mayanensis a new genus and species of polypore (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from Belize with connections to existing Asian species,” that ran in the Nov. 19, 2010, issue of North American Fungi, volume 5. Co-authors were mycologists from Canada; the USDA-Forest Service, Madison, Wis.; and University of Oslo, Norway. The new genus and species of polypore is from a collection that Baroni made during a 12-scientist, helicopter-assisted, two-week expedition to Doyle’s Delight in the Maya Mountains of Belize in August of 2007 and was partially funded by a National Geographic Society research grant he received earlier that year.
Edward P. Caffarella
Edward P. Caffarella, Educational Leadership Department, presented “Leadership in Education: Moving Beyond Administration and Management” on Dec. 2 as part of the Intellectual Discourse Series at the Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited to deliver a book talk and present a graduate seminar Feb. 22-24 at University of California at Berkeley.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, received a national appointment to referee the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association (NJCAA) National Soccer Championships from Nov. 3-6, hosted by Tompkins County Community College, Dryden, N.Y. Asumah is a member of the United States Soccer Federation and the National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association. He has represented the United States in five international matches and has received six national appointments to officiate the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Final Four Championship games in all divisions. This is his fourth NJCAA National Soccer Championship appointment.