Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, professor of English emerita, will have her monograph, “‘what our union once was’: Newly Recovered Letters from Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Martha Luther Lane,” published as a special issue of American Literary Realism in Fall 2021.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper titled, “New York State and the NY SAFE Act: A Case Study in Strict Gun Laws,” at a conference on “A Loaded Debate: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms in the 21st Century,” held at Albany Law School on Oct. 9.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article titled “Rethinking the foundations: Towards powerful professional knowledge in teacher education in the USA and England” published in the Journal of Curriculum Studies. The article was co-authored with Jim Hordern, University of Bath, UK, and is part of a special issue that explores the concept of “powerful knowledge” in education from various theoretical perspectives.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, was a keynote speaker and plenary panelist during Africa Day in May in Lisbon, Portugal, and in June in Hamburg, Germany. Asumah’s papers were on “African Migration, Immigration and Remittances” in Portugal and “Germany’s Compact with Africa” in Hamburg, Germany. As a frequent keynote speaker during Africa Day in Germany, Asumah was featured in a special publication, Africa Day Magazine, May 2018, of the Intercultural, Migration, and Integration Center (IMIC) of Germany. The Africa Day Business Session focused on public/private partnerships (PPP) and a panel discussion by African Union (AU) and European Union (EU) finance ministers. Asumah and academics from the University of Hamburg were participants in this plenary panel discussion.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, was invited by Dr. Linnea Ehri of CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan to present a two-hour colloquium to her graduate students and departmental colleagues on Oct. 17. Dr. Ehri was a member and chair of the federally appointed National Reading Panel and is the developer of orthographic mapping theory, a scientifically-validated theory about how we remember the words we read. David presented a research synthesis that further elucidated that theory.
Molly McGowan
Molly McGowan, English Department, facilitated a full-day Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Summit for the Division of Student Services and Administration at Troy University in Alabama. Appreciative Inquiry is an organization development model for facilitating positive change in human systems, such as organizations, groups and communities. The outcomes of the summit were to introduce Troy staff to the concepts and examples of AI and, as fully engaged participants, learn the basic techniques of AI so they can begin to apply them at their university.
Alexis Blavos
Alexis Blavos, Health Department, was awarded the 2021 Synovitz Distinguished Service Award for her work on the national board of Eta Sigma Gamma.
Louise Mahar and Joseph Agnew
Louise Mahar, Recreational Sports, and Joseph Agnew, a graduate assistant for fitness, presented at the National Intramural and Recreational Sports Association Regional Conference held at Syracuse University in November. The presentation centered on how SUNY Cortland has integrated its Kinesiology/Fitness Development curriculum into the fitness component of the Campus Recreation Program, through Field Experience classes. The current structure as well as the history of the program was described. Strong emphasis was placed on how integrating the two programs has strengthened the quality of student employees, recreational use of the facility and fitness programs offerings.
Ryan Vooris
Ryan Vooris, Sport Management Department, had his article “From the Driver’s Seat: Fan Expectations of IndyCar Driver’s Twitter Usage published in The International Journal of Motorsport Management.
Jenifer Phelan and Daniel Harms
Jenifer Phelan and Daniel Harms, library, presented “First Blood: Using Games to Teach Authority as Constructed and Contextual to Freshmen” on June 13 at the 2019 State University of New York Librarian Association (SUNYLA) Conference held at Onondaga Community College. Their presentation explored the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Information Literacy Framework’s threshold concept “Authority is Constructed and Contextual.”