Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, gave an invited talk on “The Marriage of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Charles Walter Stetson” in January at the Providence Art Club in Providence, R.I. Former SUNY Cortland President Judson Taylor and his wife, Elise, attended the talk.
Steven Dangler and Paul Vanvalkenburg
Steven Dangler and Paul Vanvalkenburg, University Police Department, recently attended an Investigators Roundtable Training Conference as part of SUNY’s ongoing commitment to safe campus environments. University police investigators, supervisors and officers from 23 SUNY campuses and system administration attended the conference, which was held in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and featured investigators from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Topics included: training in sexual assault investigations through the use of social media and the Internet; trends in drug trafficking reviewed by the New York State Intelligence Center and the New York State Police; an update on the federal Clery Act, Violence Against Women Act, and recent changes to Title IX by SUNY’s Office of the General Counsel.
Taylor Lynch
Taylor Lynch, Career Services, received a President’s Award for Outstanding Service and Dedication at the annual SUNY Career Development Organization (SUNYCDO) conference held June 13 in Suffern, N.Y. The university’s internship and student employment coordinator served as secretary and new member relations coordinator for the SUNYCDO Board of Directors during the 2023-24 academic year.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, and Sutton Richmond from Malcom Randall VA Medical Center presented their project “Are Your Balance Data Telling Tall Tales? Impact of Height on Stability Assessments” at the 48th annual meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics held Aug. 5 to 8 in Madison, Wis. This work demonstrates the limitations of height as a normalization factor in position-based center-of-pressure outcomes across eyes open and closed static upright standing balance trials. In contrast, time to boundary effectively eliminates the body size concern by scaling center-of-pressure motion to an individual's base of support area. Clinicians or researchers reporting differences in position-based center-of-pressures measures between cohorts may be detecting effects of body size inequality rather than indicators of disease progression, aging or imposed interventions. In contrast, TtB is not related to height and may be used to discern the effects of clinical conditions and fall risk without concern for anthropometric inequalities.
Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, gave a talk titled "A Re-evaluation of Evidence for Kinship at Çatalhöyük" at the inaugural World Neolithic Congress held Thursday, Nov. 7 in Sanliurfa, Turkey.
Officer Melissa Keelhar
Officer Melissa Keelhar M '10, University Police Department (UPD), was sworn in by President Erik J. Bitterbaum as an investigator on July 30. Keelhar’s partner, K-9 Meekah, was awarded a badge and also sworn in as UPD’s therapy K-9. Keelhar joined SUNY Cortland UPD in 2018. Meekah joined the UPD in 2023 when she was 15 weeks old as the force’s first therapy dog.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, will serve as Visiting Scholar at the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), for the 2024-2025 school year. She will examine the recent upsurge in U.S. higher education organizing efforts broadly, with a particular focus on community college organizing and bargaining.
Obidiah Atkinson
Obidiah Atkinson, Physical Education Department, was nominated for and received the 2025 National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education’s Hally Beth Poindexter Young Scholar Award. The award recognizes scholarly content, organization and pertinence to the field of kinesiology or physical education from an interdisciplinary perspective. It will be presented in January at the conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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.
Evan Faulkenbury
Evan Faulkenbury, History Department, had an article published in the peer-reviewed journal The Public Historian. “A Problem of Visibility: Remembering and Forgetting the Civil War in Cortland, New York” is about the history of Cortland’s Union soldier monument that stands downtown in Courthouse Park. A photograph from its 1877 dedication ceremony was featured on the cover of the journal.