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Peter M. McGinnis

Peter M. McGinnis, Kinesiology Department, was honored by USA Track and Field with the 2012 C. Harmon Brown Sports Medicine and Science Award at their annual meeting held Dec. 1 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The award was presented to McGinnis at the National Pole Vault Summit on Jan. 18 in Reno, Nev. McGinnis is the biomechanist for the pole vault event for USA Track and Field. Since 1983, McGinnis has provided scientific services to elite U.S. pole vaulters and their coaches to help them prepare for the Olympic Games, International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Championships, and other international competitions.

Caroline K. Kaltefleiter

Caroline K. Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies Department, was a guest on “Anarchy on the Airwaves! Under the Pavement," a weekly radio program broadcast from Manchester, United Kingdom. She joined the program to talk about the Punk and Anarchism book series on Active Distribution Press, for which she serves as one of the editors. She discussed her forthcoming edited book, Smash the System: Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance. Will Boisseau, one of the co-editors of the book series, joined the conversation from London. The program aired in late June.

Robert Spitzer

Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, has been invited to serve as a fund and organizing leader for the American Political Science Association’s new Distinguished Teaching Award, a nationwide award to be given to recognize outstanding teaching in political science.

Timothy J. Baroni

Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, joined colleagues at the Instituto de Ecologia (INECOL) in Xalapa, Mexico, for two weeks of field research on biodiversity of macrofungi in Mexican forest preserves and special protected areas. Supported by a Faculty Research Program grant from SUNY Cortland, this was Baroni's second research trip to southeastern Mexico. Along with INECOL’s Victor Bandala and Leticia Montoya and several of their students, he visited and collected in tropical rainforest preserves in one of just a few remaining southern-most beech forests on the sides of an old volcano. A highlight of the trip was collecting in remnant Gymnopodium floribundum stands in Suchiapa. A good number of mycorrhizal fungi were found in this forest, confirming that the plant/fungus relationship is a new one for science. Several new species were found under these low-growing trees. 

James Webb, Chris Pecone, Alyssa McConnell and Nichole Snyder

James Webb and Chris Pecone, Auxiliary Services Corporation (ASC) executive chefs, and Alyssa McConnell and Nichole Snyder, ASC assistant managers of food production, won a team bronze medal at the Culinary Conference and Competition held in January at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. This is the first time an ASC team has participated in the “Chopped”-style competition that featured 11 colleges. The event was sponsored by the American Culinary Federation.

Brian D. Barrett

Brian D. Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, is acknowledged in Knowledge, Pedagogy and Society: International Perspectives on Basil Bernstein's Sociology of Education, Routledge, 2010, edited by D. Frandji & P. Vitale, for his translation and editorial work on 10 chapters by authors whose first language is not English.

Bonni C. Hodges

Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, has been appointed to the CNY Area Health Education Center (CNYAHEC) Cortland/Cayuga/Seneca Regional Advisory Council. The council encompasses representatives from healthcare, education, government, business and not-for-profit groups. The council collaborates with CNYAHEC to identify priorities and strategies for regional healthcare workforce development.

Robert Spitzer

Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, wrote an article for the The Huffington Post titled “Campuses Just Say ‘No’ to Guns” that appeared for the week of Feb. 28 about current efforts around the country to allow faculty and students to carry handguns on college campuses. Spitzer is a regular contributor to Huffington.

Ute Ritz-Deutch

Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, presented “Victimhood and Memory: Danube Swabians and the Ethnic Cleansing Campaigns in Yugoslavia, 1944-1948” at the Wayles Browne Slavic Studies Symposium on Feb. 26 at the A.D. White House at Cornell University. The symposium was held in honor of Browne, who is a linguist at Cornell and longtime human rights activist.

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.