Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs (Respect and Responsibility), had his Psychology Today blog post, “But, Mom, We Do Love Each Other!” reprinted in Australia’s MercatorNet.
Tracy Rammacher and Tony DeRado
Tracy Rammacher and Tony DeRado, Publications and Electronic Media, recently received two Awards for Excellence from the SUNY Council for University Advancement for their work on two College publications. They won a Best of Category for the new financial aid award booklet and a Judges’ Citation for The Campaign for Raquette Lake fund raising piece.
Amy DiRenzo
Amy DiRenzo, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, will speak at the Empire Longevity Symposium on Saturday, Sept. 29. The symposium will be held at the Center 4 the Arts in Homer, N.Y. She will be speaking on the impact natural environments can have on human health, with a particular focus on the connection between adventuring outdoors and wellbeing. For more information and tickets, go to empirelongevity.com.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Service-Learning, learned that his book chapter, “Empathy, Action, and Intercultural Competence: A Neurological Rationale for Simulation’s Effectiveness in Developing Intercultural Competence,” was accepted for publication in The Intercultural Horizons Proceedings. The book is a collection of peer-reviewed presentations from the Second Annual Horizons Conference, held in October 2012, at SUNY Global Center in New York City. The conference theme was “Intercultural Strategies in Civic Engagement.”
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor of theatre emeritus, was one of seven playwrights nationwide to have a play selected by the American Association of Community Theatres (AACT) for its 2016 New Play Fest. Hischak’s play “The Emperor of North America” was produced in September by the Silver Spring Stage in Silver Spring, Md., and the script is to be published by the Dramatic Publishing Company. Hischak is currently an adjunct professor at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Fla.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, wrote a book that was released on Sept. 8 by Wiley and Sons. His book is titled Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties.
Kate McCormick
Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an article recently published in Early Education & Development. It is titled “Early Childhood Professional Well-being as a Predictor of the Risk of Turnover in Early Head Start & Head Start Settings
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, will present a paper at the Seventh International Conference on the Arts in Society on July 23 in Liverpool, England. It is titled “Doug Aitken’s Song 1 and Washington’s National Mall: Activating Monument Space.” Also, her review essay on Aitken’s video projection on the Hirshhorn Museum facade, “Fascinating Rhythm,” will appear in the July-August issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism.
Mark DePaull
Mark DePaull, University Police chief, was appointed president of the state-wide SUNY Police Chiefs Association at the annual conference on April 19 in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Jeremy Pekarek
Jeremy Pekarek, Memorial Library, on behalf of the College Archives was fully awarded $7,565.87 in grant funds from the South-Central Regional Library Council to finish digitizing the Cortland Normal News historical student newspaper. This project is outsourced to Hudson Archival and will be available on NYS Historic Newspapers. This is the third grant on behalf of the archives and will complete the digitization of student newspapers ranging from 1879 to 2017.