Seth Asumah, Mechthild Nagel and Tiantian Zheng
Seth Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), and Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, had their essays published in Wagadu’s special issue on “Race, Resistance, Reason: Contextualizing Racial Epistemologies, Imagining Social Justice.” Asumah’s essay is titled “Race, Immigration Reform, and Heteropatriarchal Masculinity: Reframing the Obama Presidency.” Nagel’s submission is “Angela Y Davis and Assata Shakur as Women Outlaws: Resisting U.S. State Violence,” and Zheng submitted “Spousal Violence, Women, and Resistance in Postsocialist China.” Nagel edited the issue and some of its essays were presented at the CGIS conference Race, Resistance, Reason, 2012.
James Felton
James Felton, Institutional Equity and Inclusion Office, co-authored a book, Inclusive Directions: The Role of the Chief Diversity Officer in Community College Leadership, that made Spelman Johnson’s 2019 Summer Reading List. Spelman Johnson is a premier executive search firm exclusively committed to serving higher education. Additionally, Felton’s book received a positive review from Choice, a publishing unit at the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Choice has been the acknowledged leader in the provision of objective, high-quality evaluations of nonfiction academic writing and its flagship publication, Choice Reviews, is in database format.
Gregory D. Phelan
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, had a United States patent issue on April 11. The patent, numbered 9,616,013 and titled Photo-activated hydrogels, deals with a new type of crosslinked polymeric cosmetic product. The patent was assigned to L’Oreal. This is Phelan’s 33rd issued United States Patent. Read more about patent 9616013.
Moataz Emam
Moataz Emam, Physics Department, is the editor and co-author of an e-book titled “Are We There Yet? The Search for a Theory of Everything,” located at https://benthambooks.com/book/9781608052141/
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, presented his paper, “Historical Land use Change in Central Mexico: Another Potential Contributor to the Little Ice Age,” at the meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers in Panama City, Panama, on Jan. 7. This paper explores how the extensive conversion of agricultural semi-terraces to pastoralism in the 16th century may have increased central Mexico’s carbon sequestration rate and thereby potentially contributed to climatic cooling.
Nance Wilson
Nance Wilson, Literacy Department, made two presentations at the New York State Association of Teacher Educators Annual Fall Conference held in October in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. “Building Partnerships Between Higher Education and High Quality Middle Level Schools” was presented with Brian Sherman. “NYS College Reading Educators Present Ideas for Preparing Teachers for Literacy Instruction in an Age of School Reform,” was presented with Kathleen Hinchman.
Amanda Anderson
Amanda Anderson, residence hall director for Smith Tower, participated in the Association of College and Personnel Administrators (ACPA) Conference held March 26-30 in Baltimore, Md. Anderson is a member of the Commission for Career Development and has submitted a piece for their newsletter about her experience at ACPA. She applied to join the Career Central at Convention (C3) Care Team for the 2012 ACPA convention in Louisville, Ky.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, recently attended the annual general meeting of Amnesty International USA in Washington, D.C., where she accepted the Hironaka Award for human rights activism on behalf of the Ithaca chapter, AI Group 73. She is the coordinator for the Ithaca chapter and a member of the Northeast Regional Planning Group. Ritz-Deutch is also the faculty advisor for the Amnesty International student group at SUNY Cortland and has recently volunteered to serve as area coordinator for Upstate New York.
Susan J. Rayl
Susan J. Rayl, Kinesiology Department, presented a paper titled “Student-Athletes as Agents of Social Change” at the inaugural “Athletes and Social Change” forum, held March 28-30 at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Ky.
Katie Ducett
Katie Ducett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, will receive the Megan Cartier Early Career Scholar Award in October at the State of the Art Conference on Inclusive Postsecondary Education and Individuals with Intellectual Disability. This award goes to an early career scholar who demonstrates a commitment to innovation in the field of inclusive higher education through research and service, while centering the voices and lived experiences of those with intellectual disability.