James Felton
James Felton, chief diversity officer, received an invite from SUNY Vice Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer Carlos Medina to serve on the System-wide SUNY Diversity Advisory Board, which will serve as a standing advisory body to his office and the system provost. Felton was asked to join the board because of his experience and expertise. He will assist the university in working toward its overarching goal of becoming the most inclusive system of higher education in the country.
Katie Ingraham
Katie Ingraham, Residence Life and Housing Office, presented at the 2013 SUNY Sustainability Conference on Sept. 16 at SUNY Buffalo. Her presentation, titled “Cortland’s Continued Commitment to a Sustainable Campus,” discussed SUNY Cortland’s Community Bike and Green Rep programs.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, was nominated as a board member for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Advisory Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
Szilvia Kadas
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, participated in the Arts Letters & Number Summer Artist Residency Program in Averill Park, N.Y., and had a group exhibition at the end of her artist residency program on Aug. 13.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, spoke to the Monroe County Bar Association on “Gun Violence—What to Do” on March 21 in Rochester, N.Y.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Distinguished Service Professor emeritus of political science, is the author of a new book published by Oxford University Press. Titled, The Gun Dilemma: How History is Against Expanded Gun Rights, the book examines the new, more aggressive gun rights movement that has resulted in an expansion of Second Amendment rights by the Supreme Court in 2022. Through an exploration of a gun past that is mostly unknown, forgotten, or distorted, the book demonstrates that gun regulations were the default in America’s early history, a lesson that resonates with the contemporary effort to expand gun rights. Among the subjects examined are assault weapons, ammunition magazines, silencers, public gun carrying, and the Second Amendment sanctuary movement. This book is Spitzer’s 16th, and sixth on gun policy.
Jaroslava Prihodova
Jaroslava Prihodova, Art and Art History Department, was invited to join the Evaluation Committee at the School of Art and Design Jan Evangelista Purkyne University at Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic. On June 19 and 20, all students will present their semestral project in front of the 10-person committee comprised of faculty, visiting scholars, professional artist outside of campus, students and the public. This visit is a first official step towards a collaborative project between SUNY Cortland and Jan Evangelista Purkyne University planned for summer 2019.
Li Jin
Li Jin, Geology Department, has participated in the DEltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaption (DECCMA) Consortium since January 2016. She has been working on two important river systems in India and Africa and recently had two journal papers accepted for publication in Science of the Total Environment. They are “Modeling future flows of the Volta River system: Impacts of climate change and socio-economic changes” and “Simulating climate change and socio-economic change impacts on flows and water quality in the Mahanadi River system, India.”
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, has learned that his book manuscript, Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading, is now under contract with Palgrave Macmillan for the Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism Series. It is edited by Adam Frank and Joel Faflak.
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication Studies Department, co-authored an article titled “The Expanding Territory of Organizational Communication in China,” which was published this summer in the Chinese Journal of Communication.