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Janet Duncan

Janet Duncan, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, has been appointed an editor for Social Welfare: Interdisciplinary Approach, a collaborative journal between Open International University of Human Development (Ukraine) and Siauliai University in Lithuania. The editor-in-chief is Kateryna Kolchenko from Kyiv, Ukraine, who is also a research partner in disability studies with Duncan. Published twice a year, the peer-reviewed journal is published in English and accepts articles related to human social welfare.

Mechthild Nagel

Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, presented “Pitfalls of Diversity Management” at a symposium titled “Difference that Makes no Difference: The Non-Performativity of Intersectionality and Diversity.” The symposium was hosted on Feb. 5 by the Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Nagel is serving as a visitor at the Max Planck Institute for Ethnic and Religious Diversity in Germany during the spring semester.  Best papers from the symposium will be edited by Professor Nikita Dhawan, University of Innsbruck, Austria, and will appear in SUNY Cortland’s journal Wagadu in 2016.

Janet Duncan

Janet Duncan, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, gave a presentation for the Alliance of Universities for Democracy (AUDEM) in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in October. The talk, “Toward a Deeper Understanding of Disability in Society,” was based on the Capabilities Approach by Martha C. Nussbaum. While in Croatia, Duncan and Elaine Little, former Special Education Administrator for the Ithaca School District, toured a local elementary school and a community residence for adults with disabilities.

Holly Manaseri

Holly Manaseri, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department and Educational Leadership Program coordinator, was a presenter at the annual conference of the International Council of Professors of Educational Leadership in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in August. Her presentation featured the importance of Universal Design for Learning in the preparation of educational leaders in light of the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requirements.

Christa Chatfield and Katherine Hicks

Christa Chatfield, Biological Sciences Department, and Katherine Hicks, Chemistry Department, were co-authors along with three former students of a paper recently published in Biochemistry. Former biology majors Devon Dattmore ’16 and Devin Stives ’16, and biochemistry major Ashley Jackson ’17, were also involved in the research, which was funded by a SUNY Cortland Faculty Research Program grant. The article is titled, “Structural and Functional Basis for Targeting Campylobacter jejuni Agmatine Deiminase to Overcome Antibiotic Resistance.”

Gary Evans

Gary Evans, Human Resources Department, won the Technology Innovation Award from PeopleConnect Live. The annual customer award is from SUNY Cortland’s applicant tracking vendor. Tina Vumbaco from the State University of New York also received the award, recognizing the system-wide and the campus-level HR information system program.

Genevieve Birren and Mark Dodds

Genevieve Birren and Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, attended the Sport and Recreation Law Association’s 26th annual conference from March 13 to 16 in Denver, Colo. Birren’s presentation was titled “Do Student Codes of Conduct Hold Water?” Dodds’ presentation was titled “Ordinary Negligence or Suboptimal Playing Conditions:  Are Schools Being Let off Easy?”

Erik Bitterbaum, Mary Schlarb, Daniela Baban Hurrle and Doug Langhans

SUNY Cortland President Erik Bitterbaum, International Programs Director Mary Schlarb, International Student Advisor Daniela Baban Hurrle, and Senior Admissions Advisor Doug Langhans attended the annual NAFSA: Association of International Educators conference May 24-29 in Boston, Mass. They met with representatives from 13 of SUNY Cortland’s current and prospective international partner institutions.

Gretchen Herrmann

Gretchen Herrmann, Library, has had an article accepted for publication by the journal Ethnology. Titled “New Lives from Used Goods: Garage Sales as Rites of Passage,” the article treats various types of garage sales as life transitions on the part of sellers, and to a lesser extent shoppers. Moving, combining households, divorcing or downsizing can all signal significant passages in participants’ lives and open the potential for new “potential selves.”

Andrew Fitz-Gibbon

Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, chair of the Philosophy Department, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Following a sabbatical during spring 2012, two of his books in the Lindisfarne series were published by Xlibris: An Intentional Life: Reflections of a Secular Monastic and Secular Monasticism: A Journey (with Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon) and his novel, which he authored under the pen name Jack Andrews, titled The Quest for Paradise: An Owen Breese-Jones Story. A new book in the Value Inquiry Book Series’ Ethical Theory and Practice Series, Love as a Guide to Morals, was published by Rodopi. He also had two articles published: “The Reasonableness of Sentimentalism and Violence,” in the Oct.-Dec. issue of Peace Review, and “Somaesthetics and Nonviolence,” in Vol. 28 of Social Philosophy Today, the North American Society of Social Philosophy publication.