Brian D. Barrett
Brian D. Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article, “Is Interdisciplinarity Old News? A Disciplined Consideration of Interdisciplinarity,” published in the current issue of the British Journal of Sociology of Education. Aspects of the article were developed in papers he presented at a Sandwich Seminar titled “Is it the End of the University as We Know It: Do We Feel Fine?” at SUNY Cortland, in October 2009, and as plenary speaker at the Sixth International Basil Bernstein Symposium in Brisbane, Australia, in July 2010.
Eric Edlund
Eric Edlund, Physics Department, together with coinventors from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, were awarded the Edison Patent Award for Industrial Processes on Nov. 3 for their patent titled “Advanced Liquid Centrifuge Using Differentially Rotating Cylinders and Optimized Boundary Conditions, and Methods for the Separation of Fluids.”
Terrence Fitzgerald
Terrence Fitzgerald, Biological Sciences Department, is the author of an article titled “Phelypera distigma Un charançon processionnaire” (A processionary weevil) appearing in the current issue of the French magazine Insectes. Eleven of Fitzgerald’s photographs accompany the article, which was translated by the editors of the publication from an English language version appearing on the author’s website “Social Caterpillars.” The original studies of the larva, the only weevil known to form head-to-tail processions, were conducted in the Guanacaste, Costa Rica and Jalisco, Mexico as a collaborative effort between the author, James Costa ’85 of Western Carolina University, Alfonso Pescador of the University of Colima in Mexico, Dan Janzen of the University of Pennsylvania and Michael Turna ’03, who recently completed an advanced degree in the chemical ecology of host selection behavior of the eastern tent caterpillars at Binghamton University.
Lin Lin
Lin Lin, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, presented “No Excuse to Live in a Bubble: How Do Children in Your Classroom Stay Connected to the World?” at the National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference on Nov. 30 in Chicago. She also served as discussion facilitator for the international assembly at this conference.
Brian Williams
Brian Williams, Political Science Department, recently had his book, Anarchism and Social Revolution: An Anarchist Politics of the Transitionary State, published as part of Springer Nature's series: Contributions to Political Science.
Lisa Czirr, Jeremy Pekarek and Hilary Wong
Lisa Czirr, Jeremy Pekarek and Hilary Wong of Memorial Library presented virtually at Eastern New York Association of College and Research Libraries on Wednesday, May 19. The title of the presentation was “New Visions for Old Tools: Reinventing Libguides for Online Instruction during COVID.”
Pete Ducey
Pete Ducey, Biological Sciences Department, recently gave an invited presentation at Cornell University titled “Superfund Herpetology: Decades of Change at Onondaga Lake” hosted by the Cornell Herpetological Society. The presentation discussed the research and consulting work of Ducey, his students and faculty colleagues concerning the amphibian and reptile populations living in the highly disturbed ecosystem of Onondaga Lake and its surrounding wetlands. Also highlighted were the rolls of Cortland’s research team in assisting the federal and state governmental agencies, as well as environmental consulting firms, with their efforts at restoration at that site.
Ryan Vooris
Ryan Vooris, Sport Management Department, had a research article about perceptions of media bias among viewers of ESPN published in Communication & Sport.
Jena Nicols Curtis and Susie Burnett
Jena Nicols Curtis and Susie Burnett, Health Department, delivered a research presentation on “College Men’s Perceptions of Affirmative Consent, Coercion and Sexual Violence: Research Findings and Implications for Policy and Practice” at the Ending Violence Against Women International’s annual conference on Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence and Engaging Men and Boys, held from March 22-24 in Washington, D.C. The conference was attended by more than 2,000 law enforcement personnel, criminal justice and victims’ advocates, medical providers and campus health and safety professionals from a dozen countries around the world.
Erica Pratt
Erica Pratt, Physical Education Department, will be inducted in the Movement Science Alumni Hall of Fame at Westfield State University on Thursday, April 22.