Faculty and Staff Activities

Timothy J. Baroni

Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, was one of seven invited instructors who presented a three-day course on Basidiomycete Identification — mushrooms and related fungi — in Medellin, Colombia. The course was held directly before the 8th Congreso Latinoamericano de Micologia (Latin American Congress of Mycology) held Nov. 4-7. The instructors, who were from Argentina, Costa Rica, Norway, Mexico and the U.S., taught 24 students from South, Central and North America, including the U.S., Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela. Baroni also was an invited speaker in the session on Systematics and Diversity of Basidiomycota, giving an oral presentation on “Arthromyces and Blastosporella (Lyophyllaceae) Revisited – a New Symbiosis with a Secretive/Shy Insect” with co-authors from Colombia, Brazil and Switzerland. He was co-author/presenter on two posters, resulting from collaborations with colleagues from Mexico and SUNY ESF. The first, titled “A new Species of Laccaria from the Montane Cloud Forest of Eastern Mexico,” and a second poster from collaborations with colleagues from the U.S., Colombia and Puerto Rico, titled “Sarcodon in the Neotropics: New Species from Belize, Colombia, Guyana and Puerto Rico.” The information presented in these oral and poster presentations was made possible by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the British Mycological Society and the SUNY Cortland Faculty Research Program over a 10-year period of field expeditions. 

Kate McCormick and Jacob Hall

Kate McCormick and Jacob Hall, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an article published in October in the journal Education and Information Technologies titled “Computational thinking learning experiences, outcomes, and research in preschool settings: A scoping review of literature.” This scoping review maps existing computational thinking studies with preschool-age participants.

Ryan Fiddler, Erik Lind, James Hokanson and Phil Buckenmeyer

Ryan Fiddler, Erik Lind, James Hokanson and Phil Buckenmeyer, Kinesiology Department, attended the American College of Sports Medicine regional conference on Nov. 3 and 4 in Harrisburg, Pa. Lind presented “Altering Awareness: Attentional Focus Responses to Weighted and Unweighted Walking and Running on a Treadmill,” with Kinesiology Department co-authors Hokanson, Debra Van Langen, Larissa True, Fiddler and graduate student Saige Hupman.

Christina Papaleo

Christina Papaleo, Residence Life and Housing Office, was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Social Justice Award at the College Student Personnel Association of New York State (CSPA-NYS) Annual Conference on Oct. 15 in Albany, N.Y. The award honors outstanding service to social justice in New York state. Recipients of this award have contributed significantly to the higher education community through their commitment to social justice.

Eric Edlund

Eric Edlund, Physics Department, had his article titled “Rendezvous revisited: The search for fast intercept solutions” published in the August issue of the American Journal of Physics.

Kate McCormick

Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, had an article published in the Journal of Early Childhood Research. “Mosaic of care: Preschool children’s caring expressions and enactments” was published on Nov. 1 as an advance online publication.

Jennifer Janes

Jennifer Janes, The Cortland Fund, recently learned that the office won a SUNY Council for University Advancement (SUNYCUAD) Award for Excellence Best in Category award for the 2010 Faculty and Staff Campaign. The award will be presented during the annual educational conference scheduled for June 8-10 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Dennis Weng

Dennis Weng, Political Science Department, had his paper published in the Asian Journal of Comparative Politics in January. The article is titled “Can economic profit influence public opinion? Observing generational change on cross-strait relations in Taiwan.”

Kathleen A. Lawrence

Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had three poems, all abecedarians of different types, published in Inigo Online Magazine on April 12. They are titled “Mean Girls,” “H-I-V: Hope Is a Verb” and “King.” In celebration of National Poetry Month in April, Poetry Super Highway has been publishing daily poetry writing prompts. Featured in this series on April 6 was Lawrence’s writing exercise “I’m Taking a Mulligan,” an instructional essay that suggests writing a poem about a “do-over” of a day or event in one’s life.

Samuel S. Avery

Samuel S. Avery, Communication Studies Department, had his short film, “LocoMotion,” accepted into the 2016 Miami Fear Film Festival. Watch Film.