Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish, had her article “Challenges and opportunities in language teaching: ‘Connecting’ the dots,” published in the August issue of the New York State Language Association Journal. Her article addresses the “connections” goal area of the national standards for foreign language learning and provides a blueprint for foreign language educators to use in meeting this goal area.
Eric Edlund
Eric Edlund, Physics Department, had an article titled “Overview of the Wendelstein 7-X phase contrast imaging diagnostic” published in the Review of Scientific Instruments. View the online version of the article here.
Hilary Wong
Hilary Wong, Memorial Library, presented at the virtual Great Lakes Science Boot Camp on June 23. She gave a lightning talk titled “Library Outreach during COVIDity.”
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies and Philosophy Department, co-edited “The End of Prisons: Reflections from the Decarceration Movement,” published in Philosophy Department chair Andrew Fitz-Gibbon’s social philosophy series of Rodopi.
David Barclay, Jason Graves and Michael Kloczko
David Barclay, Geology Department, wrote a paper that will be published in Quaternary Science Reviews in December. Two former Cortland students, Jason Graves ’01 and M.S.Ed. ’05, and Michael Kloczko ’03, co-authored the paper, titled “Late Holocene Glacial History of the Copper River Delta, Coastal South-Central Alaska, and Controls on Valley Glacier Fluctuations.” The paper details the glacial-geomorphic histories of four glaciers, including the longest and most detailed tree-ring dated glacier record yet developed for Alaska, and shows solar irradiance to be the primary climatic driver of glacier fluctuations prior to the 20th century.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his book chapter titled "Inchoate Kinship: Psychoanalytic Narrative and Queer Relationality in Are You My Mother?" published in The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In. The collection was edited by Janine Utell and published in February by the University of Mississippi Press.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a talk titled “Gun Legislation and Obstacles to Effective Gun Control” before the Metropolitan Black Bar Association at the New York City Bar Association in New York on Nov. 29.
Bruce Mattingly
Bruce Mattingly, School of Arts and Sciences, co-presented “The Common Problem Project: A New Pedagogy Developed by a Consortium of SUNY Colleges” at SUNY’s 5th Annual Applied Learning Conference. Mattingly joined his Common Problem Project colleagues from SUNY Plattsburgh, Oswego and Oneonta in describing benefits, challenges, successes and suggestions for institutions that would like to use this approach to learning.
Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita of French, received the William H. Heiser Award for the United States Air Force Academy’s (USAFA) Outstanding Senior Faculty Educator on May 1. Each year the Air Force Academy graduating class selects two senior faculty members, one from engineering and the sciences and one from humanities, who have contributed the most to cadet personal and intellectual development; professors who inspired and challenged their students to “work harder and dig deeper.” LeLoup is the first member of the USAFA’s Department of Foreign Languages to receive this honor since its inception in 1995.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor emeritus of theatre, had the second edition of his textbook, Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to the Theatre, released by Rowman & Littlefield in March.