Julie Ficarra and Sam Avery
Julie Ficarra, International Programs Office, and Sam Avery, Communication Studies Department, presented at the 17th International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Annual Conference held at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Julie presented on problematizing issues of race, power and the “helping imperative” in service-learning programs in the Global South; and together, they co-presented a film project exploring the politics of space, memory and belonging for two immigrant groups on the north side of the city of Syracuse.
J. Richard Kendrick Jr.
J. Richard Kendrick Jr., Sociology/Anthropology Department and Institute for Civic Engagement, was a panelist at the New York Campus Compact Workshop, “Achieving Carnegie Community Engagement Classification,” on March 1 at Syracuse University. On Friday, March 5, he presented as part of the “Models for Civic Education and Engagement” series of the Civic Education and Leadership Fellows (CELF) program at Syracuse University. The CELF program brings eight scholars from the Middle East to study for a semester at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited to speak in February at Oxford University in England and in March at the University of North Park in Chicago, about her first book, Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is co-author of an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of McDonald v. Chicago. The McDonald case is a constitutional challenge to Chicago's strict handgun law based on a Second Amendment right to bear arms claim that asserts that the Second Amendment should also apply to the states. As of now, the amendment applies only to the federal government. In the brief, Spitzer and co-authors argue that the right of states to regulate guns should fall outside of Second Amendment's protection as first established in the Supreme Court's 2008 ruling in D.C. v. Heller. The Supreme Court held oral argument in the McDonald case on March 2.
Robert J. Spitzer
Robert J. Spitzer, Distinguished Service Professor political science emeritus and author, was featured in WalletHub’s recent article titled “Cities with the Biggest Homicide Rate Problems,” written by Adam McCann and published April 26.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, Lance Lacey '04 and colleagues from Harvard University, University of Florida, University of Georgia, University of Central Oklahoma, UNAM Mexico an the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks published "Hydnum (Cantharellales) of the Neotropics: four new species and new reports from Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Panama" in Mycological Progress 24:13. 2025. This 14-page paper documented these new species of Hydnum, and confirmed six additional eastern North American species as also occurring in this tropical region for the first time using morphological and molecular data (ITS and TEF-1 sequences). An identification key to all known Hydnum species from these neotropical habitats was provided as well.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, had her panel presentation approved for the College Art Association’s 105th annual conference, set for Feb. 15-17, 2017, in New York City. Her panel, titled “Manifesta at Twenty,” will discuss the 20th anniversary of the contemporary art biennial exhibition, Manifesta, which reflects the geopolitics of the European Union.
Joseph Anthony
Joseph Anthony, Political Science Department, was quoted in a story titled “Ranked-choice voting proposals gain traction across Michigan ahead of local elections,” which aired on NPR on Friday, Nov. 3. Anthony, an assistant professor, has been studying voter opinions on ranked choice voting over the last decade. The story was produced by Michigan State University’s NPR member station WKAR.
Eric Edlund
Eric Edlund, Physics Department, coauthored a paper that was published in the Feb. 12 issue of the journal Physical Review E. The paper is titled “Turbulence and jet-driven zonal flows: Secondary circulation in rotating fluids due to asymmetric forcing.” Edlund will be working at the Max Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik in Greifswald, Germany during the month of June.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, recently was contacted by BBC World Service radio to be interviewed for their show “Outside Source.” She was asked to be prepared to discuss masculinity in China and the recent publication of Little Men, a textbook for boys aimed to correct effeminate behavior. Little Men contains six chapters that encourage boys to be in touch with their masculinity and is aimed at children in the 4th and 5th grades to fight the growing “gender crisis” in the country. Part of Zheng’s recent book Tongzhi Living has analyzed the perceived “crisis” of masculinity, “feminized” boys/men, and nation-wide implemented measures in China to enhance gender difference to combat the issue.