Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), presented her paper “The Ethic of Ubuntu and the End of Penality,” at a symposium on Mass Incarceration, Religion, and Abolitionism held Oct. 4 at Cornell University.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, had his article, “Taking a Closer Look: LGBTQ Characters in Books for Intermediate-grade Children,” published in Children and Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, one of four original members of the weekly television program, “The Ivory Tower Half Hour,” was on hand to commemorate the program’s 10th anniversary on the air, as noted on the program’s broadcast on Sept. 7. “The Ivory Tower” is a weekly public affairs program broadcast at 8 p.m. on Fridays on WCNY-TV, Syracuse, N.Y. The panelists, consisting of college faculty from central New York universities including Syracuse University, Cazenovia College, Colgate University and Onondaga Community College, discuss the events of the week, and close each program with A’s and F’s. According to Nielsen ratings, “The Ivory Tower” has the highest viewership of any local program broadcast on any local television station in Central New York.
Jerome O’Callaghan
Jerome O’Callaghan, School of Arts and Sciences, and co-author Paula O’Callaghan, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business conference held in August in Boston. The paper, titled “As you 'Like’ it, Facebook and Free Speech in the Workplace,” examined recent case law on dismissals due to Facebook activity. Their presentation also was part of the conference’s Internet Law Development Track.
Thomas S. Hischak
Thomas S. Hischak, Performing Arts Department, recently signed a contract with Rowman and Littlefield to write the non-fiction book, Encyclopedia of Notable Film Composers. Also, he was recently interviewed on camera for the BBC-TV documentary “Secret Voices of Hollywood” about vocal dubbing in Hollywood musicals.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by four universities to deliver two campus-wide book talks on her book Tongzhi Living, one talk on criminology and fieldwork, and one talk titled “Gender, Law and Women Trafficking in Chinese History.” The talks were presented at University of Macau in September 2021, Case Western University on Feb. 11, University of Toronto on March 5 and University of London on March 21.
James Hokanson, Kate Polasek and Larissa True
James Hokanson, Kate Polasek and Larissa True, Kinesiology Department, mentored students who presented at the inaugural SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) on April 10 at The College at Brockport. SURC brings together undergraduate researchers and visual and performing artists as well as their faculty mentors throughout the SUNY and CUNY system for a full day of activities. Adam Lowe ’15, who was mentored by Hokanson, presented “Metabolic Cost of Supported Treadmill Running.” Karen Martinez ’15, who was mentored by Polasek and True, presented “Physical Activity Patterns of Latinos in the Northeast.” Their research was published in the International Journal of Exercise Science.
Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, recently was awarded 1.1 million core-hours on one of the supercomputing clusters at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. The value of these awarded resources is approximately $40,000. Also, Morris has been asked to become a member of the Science Organizing Committee for the international conference “Chondrules as Astrophysical Objects” to be held May 9-11, 2017, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Also, Morris will give an invited talk at the conference. In addition, Morris presented an invited talk at Cornell University on Sept. 22.
Jeremy Jiménez
Jeremy Jiménez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his co-written article about high school student experiences in the first combined LGBTQ+/Ethnic Studies course in a U.S. public school published in The Journal of Social Studies Research.
Alexandru Balas
Alexandru Balas, Clark Center for International Education, was chosen to volunteer as a mentor for the Institute for International Education’s program to Myanmar “Connecting with the World: International Relations for Higher Education Institutions.” For 20 weeks Balas will mentor higher-education professionals working on internationalization at universities in Myanmar and Ministry of Education officials from Myanmar.