Faculty and Staff Activities
Peter McGinnis
Peter McGinnis, Kinesiology Department, accompanied two graduate students who presented at the “Research That Matters: An Exposition of Graduate Research in SUNY and CUNY” on March 8 at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y. Hobit LaFaye, master’s degree candidate in outdoor and environmental education in the Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, presented “Creating Cultural Change through Heritage Interpretation and the Theory of Planned Behavior: A Project Promoting the Safety and Use of Bicycling for Transportation.” Her faculty sponsor is Edward Hill, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department. Katherine Clancy, master’s degree candidate in exercise science, Kinesiology Department, will discuss “Comparison of Lumbar Spine Loads During Back and Front Squats. Her faculty sponsors are Kinesiology Department faculty members McGinnis, Joy Hendrick and Wendy Hurley.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, is in the final editing stages of the Encyclopedia of Sport Management and Marketing. This encyclopedia is the first of its kind within the sport management discipline. Numerous persons from SUNY Cortland contributed by writing entries, including faculty members Peter Han, Ted Fay, Kevin Heisey, Dodds, several graduate students from Dodds’ sport marketing classes and undergraduate student Eli Roberge. The encyclopedia will be published by Sage Publications in September 2011.
Janet Ochs, Jennifer Parker and Jeremy Pekarek
Janet Ochs, Jennifer Parker and Jeremy Pekarek of Memorial Library had their bibliographic essay titled “Resources on Women in STEM” published in Choice Magazine and featured in the March 2020 issue. This essay highlights women role models in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professions and includes 58 book titles that explore various elements within STEM fields such as gender inequality, history, education, academic contributions, societal impacts and government involvement.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently was interviewed for the Washington Post's TikTok feature "Variant Cover," about "review bombing" and fan backlash to feminism in the new Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. The story can be viewed online.
Lieutenant Francis Cullen
Lieutenant Francis Cullen, University Police Department, was recognized by the State University of New York with a 2021 University Police Award. The SUNY Police Chiefs Association held a ceremony on Nov. 16 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. to present the annual awards to lieutenants, officers and staff who played a key role in life-saving events in the past year, as well as others on the New York University Police force for their outstanding professional service.
Melissa A. Morris
Melissa A. Morris, Physics Department, appeared on the Discovery Channel show “NASA’s Unexplained Files” on March 11. Also, her paper, “New Insight into the Solar System’s Transition Disk Phase Provided by the Metal-rich Carbonaceous Chondrite Isheyevo,” was published in the March 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper titled, “Gun Accessories and the Second Amendment: Assault Weapons, Magazines, and Silencers,” for the Symposium on Gun Rights and Regulation Outside the Home, held Sept. 27 at Duke University.
Joshua Peluso
Joshua Peluso, Systems Administration and Web Services, presented “The Pixar Way on a SUNY Budget,” at the SUNY Technology Conference held in June in Lake Placid, N.Y. The talk detailed management techniques used to motivate and create synergies in a modern technical field.
Patricia Martinez de la Vega Mansilla
Patricia Martinez de la Vega Mansilla, Modern Languages Department, was awarded the Clark Center Internationalization Award on April 27. Since 2010, the Clark Center Internationalization Award is given each year at SUNY Cortland to recognize individuals from the faculty or staff who have significantly contributed to or shown leadership in internationalizing the campus.
In selecting an honoree, the Clark Center Steering Committee recognizes the variety of ways an individual can enrich SUNY Cortland and the wider community. Recognized activities include, for example, expanding study abroad opportunities or mentoring international students on campus. Awardees have also repeatedly exposed SUNY Cortland students to a diversity of international perspectives, whether by presenting their scholarship, bringing guest scholars to campus, promoting the study of foreign languages, or diversifying our curriculum.
Past recipients are:
2010 Henry Steck
2011 Carol van der Karr
2012 International Advocates
2013 Sharon Steadman
2014 Jerome O’Callaghan
2015 Craig Little
2016 Jeremiah Donovan
2017 Mary Schlarb
2018 Luo Xu
2019 William Skipper
2020 Mecke Nagel
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, chaired a panel titled “Queer Asias: Exploring the Intersections of Queer and Asian Studies” and presented a paper titled “Money, Class, and Money Boys in Postsocialist China,” at the Association of Asian Studies annual conference, held March 23 to 29 in Honolulu.