Christopher Latimer and Richard Kendrick
Christopher Latimer, Institute for Civic Engagement and Political Science Department, and Richard Kendrick, Institute for Civic Engagement and Sociology/Anthropology Department, had a book chapter accepted for publication in E-Governance and Civic Engagement: Factors and Determinants of E-Democracy. The chapter is titled “How Young People Are Using Communication Technologies as Platforms and Pathways to Engagement: What the Research Tells Us?”
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communications Studies Department, was a speaker at Lorraine University in Nancy, France, on March 8 where he gave a talk on “War, Literary Journalism, and the Aesthetics of Experience” sponsored by the English Department. Afterwards, for professional development, he traveled to Alsace to taste wine, accompanied by the founding president of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies, Professor John Bak of Lorraine University. On March 12 he discussed his book Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery before the Ladies Literary Society of Cortland at the Phillips Free Library in Homer. In related news, portions of the book were excerpted in this spring’s issue of Life in the Finger Lakes.
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication and Media Studies Department, had her study published in the July issue of the journal Psychological Reports. Her study is titled “Emotional experiences in the workplace: Biological sex, supervisor nonverbal behaviors, and subordinate susceptibility to emotional contagion” and the abstract is available here.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement and service-learning coordinator, had his presentation proposal titled “‘Hire’ Education, Public Purpose, and Student Employers,” accepted for the national Campus Compact’s 30th Anniversary Conference. Mary McGuire, Institute for Civic Engagement director, and Crissana Christie, service-learning intern, are co-presenters. Christie will provoke participants’ explorations of radical designs for higher education through her defense of her “Claimed-Learning Statement” in front of her degree-team, the session’s participants, by describing her learning during the years 2021-2024.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently had her poem, “Little Thinking,” published in New Verse News. The piece was written as a political satire in response to recent news out of Washington.
Szilvia Kadas
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, is a recipient of the Design Incubation Fellowship 2019. The assistant professor of graphic design and digital media recently participated in an intensive three-day Design Incubation Fellowship Workshop, held Jan. 10- 12 at St. John’s University’s Manhattan campus.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had a poem, “Inglorious Bastards,” published recently by New Verse News. It is an abecedarian about the allegations of sexual assault, predatory behavior and abuse of power by some of Hollywood’s high-profile directors, producers, actors and comedians. Also, she had her poem, “Three’s a Crowd,” a hay(na)ku, accepted for publication by The Borfski Press for Issue III.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, gave a guest lecture on queer narrative theory at Cornell University in Caroline Levine’s School of Criticism and Theory seminar, “Formalist Methods, Political Consequences.”
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, joined Howard Gardner of Harvard University, William Damon of Stanford University, and other psychologists and educators asked to advise the Harvard Graduate School of Education on its proposed initiative in social-emotional learning and character education. The educators met at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on Sept. 25.
Dominick Fantacone
Dominick Fantacone, Research and Sponsored Programs, presented a paper titled, “Enacting Culturally Responsive Science Education in Rural & Urban Districts: Noyce Alumni Perspectives from Two Universities” at the NARST 2025 Annual International Conference on March 25 in National Harbor, Maryland. NARST is a global organization for improving science education through research.