Andrew Fitz-Gibbon
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, Philosophy Department, led two workshops on stress and meditation at Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES in Ithaca at the end of March. In early May, he presented at the SUNY Faculty Senate plenary meeting, held in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., during the Ethics Forum titled “What’s the Good of SUNY?”
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled “Growing Executive Power: The Strange Case of the ‘Protective Return’ Pocket Veto,” published in the September issue of the journal Presidential Studies Quarterly.
Charles Heasley
Charles Heasley, Art and Art History Department, earned a competitive award for his three photogravure entries in the 17th Mini Print International Exhibition. This touring exhibition opened Sept. 7 at the Ink Shop Printmaking Center in Ithaca, N.Y., and continues through Friday, Oct. 26. The show was co-juried by Mina Resnick and Andrea Inselmann. For more information visit the exhibit website.
Larissa True
Larissa True, Kinesiology Department, recently was interviewed for an article on training the nervous system that appears in the June issue of Runner’s World UK magazine. The article, titled “Circuit Training: A neurological master class in conditioning your nervous system for improved running performance,” was written by James Witts.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, has been invited to join the advisory board of the Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Journal of Politics. Pi Sigma Alpha is the national political science honors society. Cortland has had a chapter since 1970.
Vicki Johnson
Vicki Johnson, Interfaith Center, was a delegate from the New York Conference to the General Synod of the United Church of Christ (UCC), held June 27 through July 2 in Long Beach, Calif. She helped to work on a resolution that, for the sake of climate change, urged divestment from fossil fuel companies. The resolution passed on July 1, making the UCC the first national organization, faith-related or not, to take such a stand for the environment. On July 2, the General Synod received congratulations about the resolution from Bishop Desmond Tutu.
Li Jin
Li Jin, Geology Department, recently gave a presentation at the 2017 Northeast/North-Central Geological Society of America Joint Section Meeting in Pittsburgh. She presented, “Modeling Nitrogen Dynamics in the Tioughnioga River, New York.”
Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, co-authored a chapter with Michelle Kelley titled “Avid Readers in High School: Are they Reading for Pleasure?” It is included in Teaching Adolescent Literature Today, J. A. Hayn & J. S. Kaplan, editors. The book was selected to be showcased in Cambridge Scholars Publishing’s July ‘Best Sellers’ marketing campaign.
Joshua Peck
Joshua Peck, Psychology Department, had his peer-reviewed paper titled “Abstinence Conflict Model: Toward an Optimal Animal Model for Screening Medications Promoting Drug Abstinence” published in the Journal of the International Review of Neurobiology. The article discusses the rising concern of illegal opiate drug abuse such as heroin and the misuse of legally available pain relievers that have led to serious deleterious health effects or even death. To address this concern, the article argues for the use of animal drug models that more closely approximate the human drug addiction condition. This could lead to the development of more effective environmental and pharmacotherapeutic interventions to treat opiate addiction and addiction to other drugs of abuse.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, was in Australia in August on an invited five-city professional development tour sponsored by Learning Difficulties Australia. The presentations spanned the country, including Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Cairns and Sydney. He presented findings from scientific research into why some students struggle in learning to read and the most effective ways to address those struggles.
Kilpatrick was one of the individuals interviewed in the American Public Media episode “At a Loss for Words” which looks at how reading is being taught in American schools and how that relates to the large percentage of struggling readers in the U.S. American Public Media is a content provider for NPR. The episode is posted online.
Also, Kilpatrick was invited to present “Phonemic Proficiency, Not Phonemic Awareness, Influences Orthographic Learning” on Sept. 5 at Yale University’s Haskins Laboratory.