Arden Zipp
Arden Zipp, chemistry, chaired the annual meeting of the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad (USNCO) Subcommittee meeting that was recently held at the headquarters of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C. Zipp has chaired the USNCO Task Force for several years and has recently added the Subcommittee Chairmanship to his duties. The Task Force writes and grades the annual exams used to select 20 students to attend a two-week study camp where a four-person team is identiied to compete in the International Chemistry Olympiad.
Mary Gfeller, Claus Schubert and Christopher Donohue
Mary Gfeller, Claus Schubert and Christopher Donohue, Mathematics Department, were informed that their paper, “Using Group Explorer in Teaching Abstract Algebra,” was accepted by the International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. The paper was authored by Schubert and Gfeller, faculty in the Mathematics Department, and Donohue, a former graduate student.
Susan Barnett
Susan Barnett, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, was featured in WalletHub’s May 31 article “2017’s Best & Worst Cities for Staycations.” Barnett was one 13 educators on the panel of experts who helped determine the best staycation spots by comparing the 150 most populated U.S. cities across three key dimensions: 1) recreation, 2) food and entertainment and 3) rest and relaxation.
Pete Ducey
Pete Ducey, Biological Sciences Department, is a coauthor on the manuscript “Is there more than one way to skin a newt? Convergent toxin resistance in snakes is not due to a common genetic mechanism” that has been accepted for publication in Heredity. The paper documents the genetic underpinnings of a novel strategy that evolved in a predator allowing for consumption of highly toxic prey. The research team, led by Chris Feldman of University of Nevada, includes researchers from seven universities and government agencies. The project’s findings add a new component to one of the most thoroughly studied evolutionary arms races in nature, that between newts with potent skin toxins and their snake predators.
Also, Ducey was recently appointed to the Board of Editors for the journal The Northeastern Naturalist.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), participated in plenary session on “Mentoring Advice: Publishing in Top 5 Journals,” on July 1 at the Economic Science Association World Conference at Humbold University in Berlin, Germany.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, collaborated with colleagues from Louisiana State University and Humboldt State University on two papers that describe nine new species of mushrooms from Guyana. The papers were published in 2010 in the peer-reviewed journals Mycologia and Mycotaxon under the titles of “The Entolomataceae of the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana,” parts IV and V.
Baroni also coauthored two additional peer-reviewed papers in 2011, with colleagues from the USDA Forest Service in Wisconsin and the University of Oslo, on a new genus and species of polypore fungi from Belize, (Aurantiopileus mayanensis genus et species novum), and a new polypore (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from Belize with connections to existing Asian species.
One paper was published in North American Fungi and the second paper, on a different new species of polypore from Belize (a new species of Daedalea (Basidiomycota) and a synopsis of core species in Daedalea sensu stricto, was published in North American Fungi.
These papers presented a part of the results obtained from funding to Baroni and colleagues by the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. Baroni’s most recent publication, coauthored with colleagues from Switzerland, Humboldt State University and Duke University, describes a new genus of pink-spored mushrooms that has its members widely spread in the temperate zones in the northern and southern hemispheres. Entocybe is proposed as a new genus in the Entolomataceae (Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota) based on morphological and molecular evidence. It also appeared in North American Fungi.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, had her critical review of the photography and video art on display at the recent New Orleans biennial exhibition, Prospect New Orleans.2, published in the March-April issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. In addition, her article, “Flanerie and the Globalizing City,” co-authored with John Rennie Short, was published in the June-August 2011 issue of City.
Jeremy Pekarek
Jeremy Pekarek, Library, co-presented at the New York Archives Conference held June 5 to 7 in Rochester, N.Y. The presentation was titled “Portals to Public Access: Increasing Visibility of Archival Collections Via Digitization, Metadata, and Finding Aids” and was co-presented with Barbara Scheibel from Onondaga Community College and Kathryn Johns-Masten from SUNY Oswego.
Also, Pekarek co-presented twice at the 2019 State University of New York Librarian Association (SUNYLA) Conference held June 12 to 14 at Onondaga Community College. The first co-presentation was titled “On Board the Mentorship: Sailing the Sea of Change with Tenure Track Librarians” and was co-presented with SUNY Cortland Library staff members Lisa Czirr, Maaike Oldemans, Janet Ochs, Richard Powell, Jennifer Moore, Jen Parker and Hilary Wong. The second co-presentation was titled “Zombie Escape: Gamifying Library Instruction with Active Learning Activities” and was co-presented with SUNY Cortland Library staff members Annette Ernste and Jen Phelan.
Anne Vittoria
Anne Vittoria, Sociology-Anthropology Department, is the author of a book, Women of Color in a World Apart, An Ethnography of Care Workers published Oct. 29 by Routledge. The book addresses issues in the fields of medical sociology and the intersectional literature of race, class and gender.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, presented findings from his collaboration with Egyptian educators in an online historical thinking course at the Comparative International Education Society conference in Mexico City, Mexico.