Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita of international communications and culture, was presented with the Outstanding Academy Educator (OAE) Award at the 34th Annual OAE ceremony on April 28 at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. She was selected for this honor from among more than 60 members of the Department of Foreign Languages at the Academy. LeLoup, along with one representative each from 24 other academy departments, was recognized for excellence in teaching, significant professional contributions and leadership by example.
Jerome O’Callaghan
Jerome O’Callaghan, School of Arts and Sciences, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the North East Academy of Legal Studies in Business (NEALSB) on May 1 in Ithaca, N.Y. The paper, co-authored with Paula O’Callaghan and Rosemary Hartigan, addresses gossip in the workplace with a focus on management and free speech issues. The authors learned recently that they were joint winners of the Best Paper Award at the conference.
John Cottone
John Cottone, Schools of Professional Studies and Education, was the keynote speaker for the New York State Association of Independent Schools annual meeting for athletic directors in New Paltz, N.Y. His presentation, “Athletic Risk Management: Concepts, Controversy and Confusion,” was designed to inform coaches, administrators, parents and community organizations about the importance of developing and implementing a risk management plan. His address focused on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and the latest evidenced-based information for dealing with environmental injury and the basic guidelines for fluid replacement in preventing heat-related illness.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Physical Education Department, had the second edition of her textbook, History and Philosophy of Physical Education and Sport (Cognella), released. Her chapter on "Duty of Care: Non-traumatic Deaths and DI Collegiate Football," will also be published by Bloomsbury in College Sport Ethics (Eds. S. Klein and C. Carlson) in December, 2025.
Scott Stull
Scott Stull, Sociology/Anthropology Department, has had his submission, “Experimental Archaeology as Participant Observation: A Perspective from Medieval Food,” accepted by EXARC Journal, the leading international journal on experimental archaeology. This article explores the value of experiential learning through replication and experimental archaeology in the discipline of anthropology. A related article, “An Anthropological Archaeological Perspective on Medieval Food,” has been accepted for publication in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART), which included a discussion of the replication of medieval food by students at SUNY Cortland for Stull’s Medieval Archaeology class. He will be presenting on this continuing research at the Reconstructive and Experimental Archaeology (REARC) conference in November, held at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Va.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology, organized and chaired a panel titled “Gender and Health in Asia,” and presented her paper “Intimate Partner Violence in Postsocial China” at the panel, at the Annual Conference of New York Association of Asian Studies held Sept. 23-24 at Utica College.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, organized a panel titled “Truth and Responsibility in the Ethnography of Sexuality” and presented a paper titled “Ethical Research on Ethnography of Sexuality” for the annual conference of American Anthropological Association, held Nov. 16 and 17 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Karen Downey
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, presented her research, “Crystallization kinetics and energetics of erbium-containing zinc silicate germanate thin films,” at the American Chemical Society national meeting on March 25 in San Diego, Calif.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, recently spoke with a reporter for Rewire News about the new anti-transgender legislation in Idaho which bans transgender girls and women from participating in school-sponsored competitive sports programs. Newhall spoke about the problematic categorizations and measurements of sex and gender employed in the regulations, which unfairly discriminate against trans athletes.
Jack Daniels
Jack Daniels, former cross country and track and field head coach and physical education faculty member, recently wrote his biography titled Luck of the Draw, now available from Amazon.com.
A 1997 Cortland C-Club Hall of Fame inductee, Daniels coached the Red Dragons' men's cross country teams for 17 seasons and the women's cross country squads for 16 seasons. Also, he was Cortland's men's and women's track and field coach from 1987-91 and 1993-96, in addition to 1999-2000 for the men's team.
Daniels led Cortland women's cross country to seven national team titles. His women's teams finished in the top 10 nationally every year from 1987-99. He led the Red Dragons to 11 SUNYAC titles and his runners earned 41 All-America honors, including four individual national champions. He was honored as the NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country "Coach of the Century" for the 20th century.
On the men's side, Daniels' cross country teams made eight NCAA championship appearances, won seven SUNYAC titles and boasted five All-Americans. Cortland finished sixth nationally in both 1987 and 1991.
Additionally, Daniels guided Cortland's women's indoor track and field team to a national title in 1991.
He is a two-time Olympic team medalist in the modern pentathlon (horseback riding, epee, pistol, swimming, cross country running), earning a silver medal in the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and a bronze in the 1960 Olympics in Rome, Italy.