Brian Williams
Brian Williams, Political Science Department, gave a presentation titled, “Public Bills in the Canadian Senate: An Evaluation of Partisanship and Seniority” on Nov. 15 at a seminar hosted by the Center for the Study of Parliament in Ottawa, Ontario.
Kerri Freese
Kerri Freese, Noyce Project coordinator, collaborated with Maritza Macdonald, senior director of education and policy and co-director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Earth Science Residency Program at the American Museum of Natural History, to plan and implement a workshop for National Science Foundation (NSF) Noyce Scholars. The workshop, held Dec. 4 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, highlighted using a museum and informal resources for science, technology, engineering and math education (STEM) and culture knowledge. More than 60 Noyce scholars and faculty from Noyce programs throughout the northeast attended the workshop. The event was supported by leftover funds from a NSF conference grant awarded to Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, Sheila Vaidya, Drexel University and Lisa Gonsalves, University of Massachusetts Boston, that aimed to enhance pre-service and in-service teachers’ successful teaching practices in high-need schools. The SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, sponsored by the NSF, seeks to encourage talented STEM majors to become K-12 teachers in high-need rural and urban schools.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented “How to Evaluate Cultural Authenticity in Multicultural Children’s Literature” at the New York State Reading Association Conference held Nov. 10 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. On Nov. 21, he will give a presentation at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). The title of the presentation is “Discussing the Missing Piece of the Puzzle: LGBTQ Books for Children in Intermediate Grade Levels.”
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, learned that her article, “Hermann von Ihering: Shifting Realities of a German Brazilian Scientist from the Late Empire to World War I,” has been accepted for publication in a special edition of the British Journal German History. The volume is scheduled for publication in 2015.
Deborah Van Langen, James F. Hokanson, Erik Lind and Larissa True
Deborah Van Langen, James F. Hokanson, Erik Lind and Larissa True, all from the Kinesiology Department, co-authored an article that was published in Clinical Kinesiology: Journal of the American Kinesiotherapy Association. The article is titled “Cardiovascular Response to Exercise on a Lower Body Positive Pressure Treadmill.”
David A. Kilpatrick
David A. Kilpatrick, professor emeritus of psychology, presented two half-day workshops at the National Association of School Psychologists annual conference held Feb. 9 in Denver. His presentations were “Intervention-Oriented Assessment of Reading Difficulties” and “Interventions for Difficulties with Word Identification, Fluency and Reading Comprehension.” On March 24, he presented an all-day conference titled “Word-Level Reading Difficulties: Implications for Assessment, Instruction and Intervention” at the South Carolina Association of School Psychologists annual conference.
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.
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.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, received word that her poem “Visit from an Invisible Love” has been accepted for publication by the journal Voices de la Luna in their forthcoming February 2018 issue on the theme of family. Her speculative poem “Cinderella Continued” will soon appear in Star*Line, the print journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA). In addition, she recently learned that her poem “Vampirette,” published in Star*Line in 2017, has been nominated for a 2017 Rhysling Award from the SFPA.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, has been appointed a contributing editor to the Handbook of Latin American Studies. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the Handbook is the oldest and most prestigious areas studies bibliography in the world.