Anna Curtis
Anna Curtis, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented a paper titled “Paternity and the Paradigms of Possibility: Comparing Two Fatherhood Programs in American Prisons” at the 2015 International Conference on Masculinities held March 5-7 in New York City.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, hosted the SUNY Consortium of Community Engaged Leaders’ first roundtable discussion, “Convening and Facilitating Community Forums.” Public deliberations are a kind of community forum. Suarez described the nature and purposes of community forums and identified steps for planning and conducting a forum. Participants then discussed related ideas such as working with the United Way to do a poverty simulation activity called the A.L.I.C.E. (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) Project and connecting with ThinkTank-inc.org. Participants included faculty and staff from Albany, Canton, Delhi, Empire State College and Upstate Medical Center.
Mary McGuire
Mary McGuire, Political Science Department, was interviewed for education reporter Solveigj Wastvedt’s story “State Education Boards: Who’s Got the Power.” The segment was aired March 9 on public radio stations WSKG, WRVO and WXXI. McGuire focuses on education policy.
Kate McCormick
Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, had her book review published in Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. The review discusses the book Power play: Explorado y empujando fronteras en una escuela en Tejas through a multilingual play-based early learning curriculum.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, co-edited with James T. Reese a book that was recognized by Library Journal with a Best Reference 2015 award. Sports Leadership: A Reference Guide featured submissions by more than 10 SUNY Cortland faculty members.
Szilvia Kadas
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, exhibits her recent graphic design works at “The SUNY Design Invitational” at The College at Brockport among other graphic design faculty at the State University of New York system. The exhibition opened to the public on Jan. 30 and will be on display through March 6 at the Tower Fine Arts Center Gallery, located at 180 Holley St., Brockport, N.Y.
Mechthild Nagel and Karin Howe ’06
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS) and Karin Howe ’06, presented papers at the annual Central New York Peace Studies Consortium held Nov. 8 at Binghamton University, Binghamton, N.Y. Nagel presented “Prison Abolition vs. Anti-Prostitution Abolitionism” and Howe discussed “The Search for Truth and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Gacaca Courts and the ICTR.” Also, Nagel presented “Ubuntu and Criminal Justice Ethics: A Path Towards Transformative Justice” at the Radical Philosophy Association Conference held Nov. 6-9 at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, N.Y. Nagel was a keynote speaker at an Ethics of Play Conference held Nov. 18-20 at Charles University in Prague. She presented “Towards Ludic Ubuntu.”
Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, presented an invited talk at the “Before the Moon” workshop held Nov. 7-10 at the Earth and Life Science Institute, a part of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, in Tokyo, Japan. Also, Morris was invited, along with the other workshop attendees, on a tour of the JAXA (Japanese Space Agency) facilities, with particular emphasis given to the Hayabusa 1 and Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return missions.
Kathleen Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, will have her poem “Love Note” released this month in The James Dickey Review. “Love Note” is written in the form of a spiraling abecedarian. Also, her haiku “Pillowcases stuffed” was published by Haikuniverse as part of their annual Halloween tradition of featuring haiku that deal with the senses of All Hollow’s Eve.
Andrea R. Harbin
Andrea R. Harbin, English Department, presented “The Augmented Palimpsest: Engaging Students with Augmented Reality” at the Modern Languages Association annual conference on Jan. 8. She was on the panel titled, “Middle English Literature after the Digital Turn.”