Craig A. Foster
Craig A. Foster, Psychology Department, and undergraduate students Emalee L. Sickles and Emily E. Camp, had their article titled “Wooooooo: Old Bovines in New Twaddle” published in the May/June 2023 issue of Skeptical Inquirer. The article evolved out of work in the Spring 2022 Psychology of Pseudoscience class.
Sam Avery
Sam Avery, MFA, Communication and Media Studies Department, made a short film, “The Catch”, which won Best New York Short at the Adirondack Film Festival before airing on Mountain Lake PBS. The film features David Hollenback, Communication and Media Studies Department, and recent SUNY Cortland alumnus, Mitchell Ensman ’17. A PBS-produced interview with Avery, promoting the film, can be found here.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology, and Aaron Jones M '25 presented research conducted in collaboration with Bryanne Bellovary, Kinesiology, and Jason Parks, Kinesiology. Their project, titled "Does limb specialization in track and field introduce asymmetry in dynamic stability?" was presented at the American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh. Their findings demonstrate how sport-specific definitions of limb dominance are necessary to isolate unique kinetic strategies during hop landing tasks in male track and field athletes.
Gregory Phelan
Gregory Phelan, Chemistry Department, awarded the SUNY Cortland Chemistry Award to high school junior, Dylan Reahr. He attends the Lafayette (N.Y.) Big Picture School. The award was presented at the Greater Syracuse Scholastic Science Fair, held March 25 at the Oncenter. Phelan and Kerri Freese, Chemistry Department, hosted a booth at the Scholastic Science Fair to promote sciences at SUNY Cortland and Noyce scholarships to graduating high school seniors.
Lindsey Darvin
Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, had her article “When virtual spaces meet the limitations of traditional sport: gender stereotyping in NBA2K” accepted for publication in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.
Also, she was on a Tucker Center Talks podcast, which is a co-production of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport and WiSP Sports. Her talk “Research of Women in Sports Leadership” can be heard online.
Orvil White
Orvil White, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, represented the university's chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines, at the 43rd Biennial Convention held Aug. 7-9 in St. Louis, Mo. White currently serves as vice president of the SUNY Cortland chapter and attended the convention as the chapter’s voting delegate.
Bonni Hodges, Lori Reichel and Donna Videto
Bonni Hodges, Lori Reichel and Donna Videto , Health Department, were involved in creating the recently released National Health Education Standards, 3rd edition, which will guide the U.S. school health curriculum.
Caroline Kaltefleiter
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication Studies Department, was an invited speaker on a panel titled “Beauty Standards of Women Filling Nontraditional Roles in Film” at the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in March. The panel explored representations of women in film as well as women serving in lead film crew positions. Her talk, “Juno and Ladybird: Liberated Girlhood and Beyond” discussed the 2018 Best Director Nomination of Greta Gerwig, women crew members on both films and reaction to the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements.
Lisa Czirr
Lisa Czirr, Memorial Library, presented “Cross-Pollination: Lessons Learned from Online Delivery to Enhance the Return to In-Person Information Literacy Instruction” at the SUNYLA 2021 (Virtual) annual conference held June 16 to 18. The session highlighted takeaways from the online format that can potentially improve in-person instruction. The conference theme was “From Seeds to Service: Growing the New Academic Library.”
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, co-authored an article titled “Creating an Action Plan for Event Cleaning” that was published in the September issue of Cleaning & Maintenance Management magazine.