Claus Schubert, Gregory D. Phelan and Kerri Freese
Claus Schubert, Mathematics Department, Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, Kerri Freese, Noyce Program coordinator and six Noyce Scholars attended the second annual Noyce Northeast Conference Oct. 11-13 in Cambridge, Mass. The Noyce scholars included: Eric Reisweber, adolescence education: earth science; Lauren Pizzolla, Robin Tobin and Christopher Lambert, adolescence education: mathematics; Matthew Henderson adolescence education: biological sciences; and Katie Barbagallo, adolescence education: chemistry. More than 200 faculty and pre-in-service teachers attended the two-day event with the theme “Learning from Each Other for Excellent STEM Teaching.”
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Africana Studies and Philosophy departments and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, gave an Edu-Drama talk on March 4 titled “Playing with Memories” for the inaugural “Women of Character, Courage and Commitment” program at Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, N.Y.
Christopher McRoberts
Christopher McRoberts, Geology Department, and co-authors from the University of Vienna and Zurich published a paper appearing in the current issue of PALAIOS titled “Macrofaunal Response to the Late Triassic Mass Extinction in the West-Tethyan Kossen Basin, Austria.” This paper documents the first high-resolution analysis on macrofossils associated with the end-Triassic mass extinction event, one of the five largest biotic crises in earth’s history, and provides compelling support for the hypotheses of dramatic global warming and ocean acidification as the leading cause of the extinction.
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, chair of the Philosophy Department, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Following a sabbatical during spring 2012, two of his books in the Lindisfarne series were published by Xlibris: An Intentional Life: Reflections of a Secular Monastic and Secular Monasticism: A Journey (with Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon) and his novel, which he authored under the pen name Jack Andrews, titled The Quest for Paradise: An Owen Breese-Jones Story. A new book in the Value Inquiry Book Series’ Ethical Theory and Practice Series, Love as a Guide to Morals, was published by Rodopi. He also had two articles published: “The Reasonableness of Sentimentalism and Violence,” in the Oct.-Dec. issue of Peace Review, and “Somaesthetics and Nonviolence,” in Vol. 28 of Social Philosophy Today, the North American Society of Social Philosophy publication.
Samantha Moss
Samantha Moss, Kinesiology Department, had an article titled “Home-and community-based interventions for physical activity and early child development: a systematic review of effective strategies” published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The article, published in September, was co-authored by Xiangli Gu.
Gretchen Herrmann
Gretchen Herrmann, Library, has had an article accepted for publication by the journal Ethnology. Titled “New Lives from Used Goods: Garage Sales as Rites of Passage,” the article treats various types of garage sales as life transitions on the part of sellers, and to a lesser extent shoppers. Moving, combining households, divorcing or downsizing can all signal significant passages in participants’ lives and open the potential for new “potential selves.”
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, recently received word that her poem “High Tea” has been nominated for the Best of the Net competition by Highland Park Poetry, for the first time. Her speculative poem “Vampirette” has been accepted for publication by Star*Line, the print journal of the international Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. Her parallel haiku poem “Extracurricular” is forthcoming in Sonic Boom Journal. Her spiraling abecedarian poem “Curiously, Unexplainably Optimistic” will be published in the magazine Edify Fiction.
Gretchen Herrmann
Gretchen Herrmann, Library emerita, had her article, “Valuing Affect: The Centrality of Emotion, Memory and Identity in Garage Sale Exchange,” published in the recent issue of The Anthropology of Consciousness. The article deals with affective or “sticky” elements of feeling and emotion that cling to objects as they circulate among shoppers and sellers in garage sale exchange.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, had her poem, “Three's a Crowd,” published in Hay(na)ku 15, edited by Eileen R. Tabios for Meritage Press, xPress(ed), & Paloma Press. Also, she had her poem titled “Scarlet Letter” published in New Verse News the last week of September. The poem, written as a scrambled abecedarian, looks at the use of the word “accuser” when talking about women in the news, like Dr. Christina Blasey-Ford, for giving testimony about sexual assault identifying powerful men. This was one of several poems Lawrence has written lately that reflect the use of poetry for reflection about news stories, current events and elements of popular culture.
Erik Bitterbaum, Mary Schlarb, Daniela Baban Hurrle and Doug Langhans
SUNY Cortland President Erik Bitterbaum, International Programs Director Mary Schlarb, International Student Advisor Daniela Baban Hurrle, and Senior Admissions Advisor Doug Langhans attended the annual NAFSA: Association of International Educators conference May 24-29 in Boston, Mass. They met with representatives from 13 of SUNY Cortland’s current and prospective international partner institutions.