Gretchen Herrmann
Gretchen Herrmann, Library, presented a paper titled “From Our House to Your House: Intimate Belongings and Kindred Spirits in the American Garage Sale,” at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting on Nov. 20 in Chicago. The paper treats the transfer of special objects, often with a story attached, to buyers who become familiarized as “kindred spirits.”
Jeremy Pekarek
Jeremy Pekarek, Memorial Library, on behalf of the College Archives was fully awarded $7,565.87 in grant funds from the South-Central Regional Library Council to finish digitizing the Cortland Normal News historical student newspaper. This project is outsourced to Hudson Archival and will be available on NYS Historic Newspapers. This is the third grant on behalf of the archives and will complete the digitization of student newspapers ranging from 1879 to 2017.
Jena Nicols Curtis and Susan Burnett
Jena Nicols Curtis and Susan Burnett, Health Department, presented a workshop at the 23rd annual conference of the National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation held Feb. 26-28 in Philadelphia, Pa. The workshop was titled “Responding to Campus Sexual Violence” and was based upon Curtis’ and Burnett’s research with survivors of campus sexual violence.
Gregory D. Phelan and Kerri Freese
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, and Kerri Freese, SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, organized and led the 4th Annual National Science Foundation (NSF) Noyce NE Conference held March 26-28 in Cambridge, Mass. More than 250 math and science faculty and teachers/pre-service teachers attended the conference with the theme, “Successful Teaching in High-Need Schools.” This initiative was funded by a two-year, $715,398 NSF grant to three universities: SUNY Cortland, the University of Massachusetts Boston and Drexel University. It aims to advocate for strong content knowledge and teaching practices in mathematics and science and to include researchers, science teacher educators, K-12 educators, school administrators and policy makers who can support teachers and work to positively transform practices and policies to better support science and mathematics learning for students in high-need schools.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor of theatre emeritus, was one of seven playwrights nationwide to have a play selected by the American Association of Community Theatres (AACT) for its 2016 New Play Fest. Hischak’s play “The Emperor of North America” was produced in September by the Silver Spring Stage in Silver Spring, Md., and the script is to be published by the Dramatic Publishing Company. Hischak is currently an adjunct professor at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Fla.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, was quoted twice by Sir Jim Rose, who was the Chair of the U.K. Reading Panel, which reviewed the scientific literature on teaching reading and released the Rose Report (2006). His quotes were from David’s book Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties (Wiley, 2015) and written in The Teacher Magazine, a publication for teachers in Australia.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, wrote a book that was released on Sept. 8 by Wiley and Sons. His book is titled Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties.
James Webb
James Webb, Auxiliary Services Corporation and executive chef at The Bistro Off Broadway, received the 2019 Chef Professionalism Award from the Syracuse chapter of the American Culinary Federation on March 25. Presented at The Oncenter in Syracuse, N.Y., the award recognizes chefs who exemplify the highest standard of professionalism through certification, continuing education and training, culinary competitions and community involvement. It honors culinarians who help elevate the status of chefs and cooks.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was panel organizer of “Continuity and Change of East Asia,” and a panel chair and paper presenter of “Sexual Violence and Awareness in Postsocialist China” at the New York Association of Asian Studies annual conference. It was held on Oct. 5 at SUNY New Paltz.
Genevieve Birren
Genevieve Birren, Sport Management Department, gave a presentation titled "Legal and governance implications of the growing dispute between the United States and the World Anti-Doping Agency" at the International Sport Law Journal 2025 Conference: 20 years of the World Anti–Doping Code in Action in The Hague, Netherlands, Nov. 6-7, 2025.