David L. Snyder
David L. Snyder, Sport Management Department, appeared as a guest on the community syndicated cable television show, “Beyond the Game.” The show, hosted by John Vorperian, appears in prime time twice a week on White Plains Cable Television Channel 76. The episode in which Snyder appears as a guest is tentatively scheduled to air on Monday, April 5, to coincide with the opening games of the 2010 Major League Baseball season. The 30-minute segment featuring Snyder was taped on March 19 and addresses some unique aspects of baseball in Japan. Prior to his arrival at SUNY Cortland, Snyder was president of a sports marketing company based in Tokyo. His primary research interest involves the business of Japanese professional baseball. Since the show started in 2002, Vorperian has interviewed hundreds of guests on “Beyond the Game.” The show has been the subject of many feature stories, including a 2007 article in The New York Times.
Melinda Shimizu
Melinda Shimizu, Geography, prepared and guided a virtual workshop about the Humap mapping platform as a tool for digital cultural heritage for members of WHIPIC in Korea on Dec. 3, 2025. WHIPIC is the International Centre for the Interpretation and Presentation of World Heritage Sites under the auspices of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The workshop developed as a collaboration between Shimizu and Heekyoung Yeo, head of office at WHIPIC, following their work as co-presenters at the 2025 Digital Heritage Forum in Abu Dhabi in a session co-convened by Bekeh Ukelina and Tokie Laotan-Brown.
Alexandru Balas
Alexandru Balas, International Studies, published a book chapter about organizing experiential learning Model European Union conferences. The book chapter titled “What is Model EU?” was published in the book Practising Transnational Politics. Preparing and Participating in UN and EU Simulations, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2026.
Caroline Kaltefleiter
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies, participated in an online roundtable discussion, “Journalists Safety in the U.S.: Protecting Data and Devices.” The event was hosted by the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Society for Professional Journalists in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 12.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences, with Todd Osmundson, a mycological colleague and professor in biology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, had their paper on a new eye-catching rose-pink variety of the Bear’s Head Tooth Fungus published in the journal Mycologia. This very rarely collected species was documented by citizen naturalists from northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada only 11 times from 2017 to 2022. The mycophiles who found collections of this bright pink tooth fungus were responding to a request by Baroni in his 2017 field guide (Mushrooms of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada) for information and collections of this highly colored variant of the typical all white form of Hericium americanum. Baroni has never collected or seen this fungus in his 50 years of field work, but learned about this rarity from a single collection documented in the technical literature in 1973. Osmundson confirmed the identity of the collections provided by the citizen naturalists using molecular DNA markers, and Baroni produced the macro description, standard light microscope and scanning electron microscope images and descriptions of the new variety. Also, a first for Baroni and Osmundson, a color image of the new variety in their article was selected by the editorial staff of the Mycologia for the cover image on the January 2026 volume.
Li Jin
Li Jin, Geology, has been elected chair-elect of the Geological Society of America Research Grant Committee for 2026 and will serve as chair in 2027. This committee comprises 40 members who evaluate research grant proposals and award grants to selected recipients.
Deborah Warnock
Deborah Warnock, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented about class and higher education on two panels at the annual meetings of the Working Class Studies Association in early June at SUNY Stony Brook.
Alexandru Balas
Alexandru Balas, International Studies, published an article about the 2025 Romanian presidential elections. The article is titled “A Tale of Two Diasporas During the 2025 Romanian Presidential Elections,” published in the Romanian Journal of Political Science, 25(2): 49-64, and is co-authored with Professor Ana Pantea (Babes-Bolyai University). The article is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18480546
Genevieve Birren
Genevieve Birren, Sport Management, gave a presentation titled “Will Congress Cause Salt Lake City to Lose the 2034 Winter Olympic Games?” at the Sport and Recreation Law Association Conference in New Orleans from Feb. 25-27, 2026.
Genevieve Birren
Genevieve Birren, Sport Management, was invited to join the Journal of the Legal Aspects of Sport’s article review board.