Dominick Fantacone
Dominick Fantacone, Research and Sponsored Programs, presented a paper titled, “Enacting Culturally Responsive Science Education in Rural & Urban Districts: Noyce Alumni Perspectives from Two Universities” at the NARST 2025 Annual International Conference on March 25 in National Harbor, Maryland. NARST is a global organization for improving science education through research.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, has an article currently in press with The Professional Geographer. The article, “Land Use Change in New Spain: A Three-Dimensional Historical GIS Analysis,” offers new insights about the local-scale landscape effects of European colonization of the New World.
Chris Widdall
Chris Widdall, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, presented “Effectively Using Mobile Technology in the STEM Classroom” at the 2014 Noyce NE Regional Conference held March 20-22 in Philadelphia, Pa. During this hands-on workshop, Widdall gave participants the opportunity to see and use apps to supplement a lesson, engage students, design projects, collect data and use app-in-app tools, while showcasing the power of math and science. The presentation focused on the OS mobile platform, with infusion of Android and some cross-platform apps.
Alexandru Balas
Alexandru Balas, International Studies Program and Clark Center for Global Engagement, had his review published in the Romanian Journal of Indian Studies. He reviewed two books about the relations between India and the European Union: Changing Indian Images of the European Union Perception and Misperception and India and the European Union in a Turbulent World, both edited by Rajendra K. Jain.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, and Andrew Sluyter, Louisiana State University, presented their paper “The Use of Colonial Land-grant Documents and GIS to Reconstruct Soil Carbon Sequestration in Sixteenth-century Mexico” on June 30 at the European Society for Environmental History in Versailles, France.
Kristine Newhall and Erin Morris
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, and Erin Morris, Sports Management Department, were invited to create and deliver a panel on Supporting Trans Athletes as part of SUNY Plattsburgh's Trans Day of Visibility events on March 27.
Janet Duncan
Janet Duncan, Foundations and Social Advocacy, recently gave the keynote address for the Inclusive Education Summer Institute at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. The title of the keynote was “International Perspectives on Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities.” While at Acadia she taught a graduate course in Foundations of Inclusive Education.
Robert Ponterio
Robert Ponterio, Modern Languages Department, was invited to present a 90-minute immersion workshop, “Cinéma et Vidéo: Langue et Culture Authentiques en Classe,” at the Central New York chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French meeting held at LeMoyne College on Oct. 30. The workshop focused on methods of using French cinema and various sources of online video, such as news reports, in the French classroom for teaching language and culture. Features of new tools for downloading and playing video were also demonstrated.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Kinesiology and Physical Education departments, wrote a chapter titled “Cirit: An Etic View of Horseback Javelin,” that is included in the recently published book Do Cavalo, On Horses, edited by Constantino Pereira Martins.
Karen Downey and Julius Green
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, and Julius Green, Chemistry Department, presented their work, “Holistic assessment of capstone chemistry knowledge in an applied laboratory course”, at the American Chemical Society national meeting in Washington, D.C.