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Eileen Gilroy

Eileen Gilroy, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, and second-year graduate students Douglas Bently and Savannah Hempstead joined the local chapter of “Friends of Aphasia” on Monday, June 3, to celebrate a county-wide proclamation of June as “National Aphasia Awareness Month” in Cortland County. The annual ice cream get-together was held at the Super Cream Dairy Bar in Homer, N.Y.

Melissa Morris

Melissa Morris, Physics Department, and coauthors presented their work, “Radiative Cooling Rates in Planetesimal Impact Ejecta,” at the 79th annual meeting of The Meteoritical Society, held Aug. 7-12 in Berlin, Germany.

John Suarez

John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, conducted a full-day Civic and Community Engagement event at SUNY Broome on Monday, Jan. 22. The 36 participants included faculty, staff and administrators. Through a variety of activities, they applied civic engagement principles and active listening skills and they discussed the value of civic engagement in learning and in student recruitment. On Wednesday, Feb. 14, Suarez will conduct a follow-up workshop in which participants will collaborate with community partners to design service-learning-based syllabi for courses in the 2024-25 academic year.

Marni Gauthier

Marni Gauthier, English Department, had her book, Amnesia and Redress in Contemporary American Fiction: Counterhistory, published on Oct. 11 by Palgrave MacMillan in the American Literature Readings in the 21st Century series. Linda Wagner-Martin edited the book. Through interpreting the truth, claims of a contemporary historical fiction — beyond postmodernism — on epistemological and narrative bases, Amnesia and Redress identifies a new literary movement as a distinct phenomenon of recent global and national history.

Eileen Gilroy and Jill Toftegaard

Eileen Gilroy and Jill Toftegaard, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, were recently awarded a $100 mini grant from the Central New York Speech Language and Hearing Association (CNYSLHA). The grant is in honor of a past president for CNYSLHA, Sandy Ladd, who passed away in July 2014. As an advocate for individuals with disabilities, Ladd often used creative cooking and craft projects to work on many speech, language and communication goals in small and large groups, often collaboratively with other teachers or staff. CNYSLHA honors her memory by offering mini grants to enable projects or activities that members would typically have to pay for out of pocket. 

The funds received will be used for a spring planting project with the clients of Liberty Resources Center for Brain Injury and Rehabilitation in Cortland, N.Y. Communication disorders and sciences graduate students have provided speech/language therapy in social groups throughout this academic year. For this project, the graduate students will work with individuals from the center in planning, cultivating and maintaining a community garden.  

Kathryn Kramer

Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, presented “Flanerie’s Art and Measure of the Globalizing City” at the College Art Association (CAA) conference in February. In March, she presented an expanded version of the CAA lecture for Shanghai Flaneur, a cultural think tank in Shanghai, China. In addition, her review of the Shanghai Biennale will appear in the Sept./Oct. 2013 issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Art and Cultural Criticism. 

Mark Dodds

Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, presented two papers at the European Association for Sport Management conference in Bern, Switzerland. The paper topics were “Corruption’s Impact on Sport Sponsorship” and “Sponsorship Legal Issues: A Comparison of Finland and the US.” Also, he chaired a Legal and Ethical Aspects of Sport session.

Michael Bersani, Stephen Cunningham, Ron Hulslander and Christopher Tucker

Michael Bersani, Public Relations Office; Stephen Cunningham, Institutional Research and Analysis; Ron Hulslander, Facilities Operations and Services; and Christopher Tucker, Purchasing, make up the SUNY Cortland J.P. Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge team that will compete at the series’ international championship race in San Francisco on Wednesday, Sept. 9. The College’s four-person men’s team finished with the fastest total time at the 3.5-mile Syracuse race in June 2014.

Tyler Bradway

Tyler Bradway, English Department, was invited to give a lecture at West Chester University of Pennsylvania on April 11. His talk was titled “Queer Experimental Literature and the Narration of Kinship.” Also, he guest taught a seminar on experimental short fiction. 

Bonni C. Hodges

Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, recently presented at the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD) national conference in San Diego. Her talk featured Girls’ Day Out (GDO) as an illustration of a successful community-college collaboration. GDO, begun in 2001, is an annual event put on by the Cortland YWCA, SUNY Cortland and the SUNY Cortland Athletics Department involving girls in grades five through eight in a day of non-traditional sporting, recreational, vocational and health-education activities. The presentation described the evolution of GDO; illustrated the use of needs assessment and process evaluation data within the PRECEDE-PROCEED framework; discussed strategies for successful community-college collaborations; discussed this event’s growth management; and shared GDO's multidimensional mentoring model.