Sharon L. Todd
Sharon L. Todd, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, was inducted into the South Central Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame on Nov. 16. Part of Todd’s athletic career involved serving as assistant coach of SUNY Cortland’s field hockey team for 12 years, while also serving as a faculty member.
Kevin D. Dames
Kevin D. Dames, Kinesiology Department, collaborated with members of Colorado State University’s Sensorimotor Neuroimaging Laboratory on research presented at the Rocky Mountain Regional American Society of Biomechanics held in March in Chapel Hill, N.C., and at the Neural Control of Movement conferences, held in May in Santa Fe, N.M.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, organized three conference panels. “How Should We Understand and Address Gender Based Violence Around the World,” was for the May 11 SUNY Graduate Research Conference. “Asian Queer Studies: A Critique of Euro-America Centric Queer Studies,” was for the annual conference of the Association of Asian Studies, held March 17 in Boston. “Dynamic Culture Issues in Global China” was organized for the New York Association of Asian Studies held Oct. 8, 2022, at Syracuse University.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane '13, Physical Education Department, will lead a virtual session titled "Are Dance Degrees Related to Kinesiology Degrees?" for the International Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Dance, and Sport Virtual Roundtable on Nov. 1, 2025.
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna M. Videto, Matthew Moyer, Jill Pace and John Foley
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna M. Videto, Matthew Moyer, Jill Pace, Health Department, and John Foley, Physical Education and Health departments, each presented at the American School Health Association (ASHA) conference held Oct. 15-17 in Orlando, Fla.
A poster session titled “WSCC: Merging Health and Learning by Reinventing, Refocusing, and Recharging Your School Community” outlined the collaborative work of Moyer, Hodges, Foley and Pace. Pace is an adjunct health department faculty member and Cortland Enlarged City School District health curriculum coordinator.
The group developed and executed the initial phase of the implementation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development’s (CDC/ASCD’s) new Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model for coordinated school health in the Cortland Enlarged City School District. Videto and Hodges presented findings from their five-year School Health Systems Change Project. Hodges serves as a member of ASHA’s Research and Publication Committee and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of School Health.
Katie Ducett
Katie Ducett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, is a co-author with two colleagues from a different institution of a published article on “Working to Work: Gaining Employment After Inclusive Postsecondary Education” in the British Journal of Learning Disabilities - Wiley Online Library. The article focuses on how individuals with intellectual disability in the United States have historically been underemployed due to societally constructed barriers.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, had her book chapter, “Superman, a Super Freak: Returning the Man of Steel to the Circus in DC Bombshells,” published in Adapting Superman: Essays on the Transmedia Man of Steel, McFarland & Co., 2021.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, was a National Boren Fellowship panelist in February 2019 in Washington D.C. Asumah was invited for the fourth year by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Institute of International Education (IIE) to review 47 fellowship applications for 2019 for the Africa Region. Also, he was invited to serve on the Fulbright National Review Commission in New York City for graduate and undergraduate fellowships for United States students who would like to research in the Africa Region earlier in this year.
Herb Haines
Herb Haines, Sociology-Anthropology Department, gave an invited talk at a Stanford University conference on nonviolence and tactical diversity in social movements on May 6.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, learned that his workshop, “Build Organizational Capacity: Invert the Triangle,” has been accepted for the SUNY Applied Learning Conference set for Nov. 1 and 2. To address the challenge of limited budgets, directors of applied learning offices can build office capacity by hiring, for academic credit, interns who demonstrate entrepreneurial qualities such as creativity and initiative. Directors can nurture those qualities by inverting the traditional management triangle, thereby giving interns some autonomy in creating, designing and conducting office projects. This approach does require directors to relinquish some ownership of intern-led projects, so this session’s role plays will give participants the opportunity to surrender ownership of projects and to experience the resulting ambiguity regarding those projects’ trajectories.