Jennifer Kronenbitter and Jenifer Phelan
Jennifer Kronenbitter and Jenifer Phelan, Memorial Library, had their conference presentation proposal accepted for the SUNY Library Association Conference in June. They will deliver a talk about the success of SUNY Cortland’s Red Dragons Read initiative to librarians from other SUNY campuses. The university’s program provides recreational, screen-free reading material through a “take a book, leave a book” model, with bookcases in high-traffic academic buildings around campus.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy, co-organized and chaired an inaugural conference on incorporating indigenous and ancient knowledge into contemporary teaching. The conference, Reclaiming What Was Lost: Teaching and Learning Ancient and Indigenous Histories and Knowledges, took place March 14 to 16.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, was appointed by the Eastern College Athletics Conference (ECAC) as a referee and officiated the National Junior Colleges Athletics Association (NJCAA) women’s national soccer championship held Nov. 8 at Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3). He refereed a game between Ann Arundel Community College, Arnold, Md., and Richland College, Dallas, Texas. Asumah has officiated numerous soccer championship matches at the international, professional, NCAA and NJCAA levels in the past 25 years.
Jill Toftegaard and Mary Emm
Jill Toftegaard and Mary Emm, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, received a grant for the 2019-20 academic year from the Parkinson Voice Project. The grant provides materials and trains clinical educators and graduate students to conduct therapy in the Center for Speech, Language and Hearing Disorders using the SPEAK OUT!® and The LOUD Crowd® program for persons with Parkinson’s.
Cynthia Guy
Cynthia Guy, Community Innovation Coordinator, Main Street SUNY Cortland, has been elected and approved to serve on the board of Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) of Cortland County. She was confirmed at the annual dinner meeting on Nov. 20, and will begin serving on the CCE Board in January. Earlier in November, Guy was elected and endorsed to serve on the Cortland Mental Health Sub-committee.
Peter McGinnis
Peter McGinnis, Kinesiology Department, has announced the recent publication of the third edition of his undergraduate biomechanics textbook, Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise. Published by Human Kinetics, the textbook is used in biomechanics and kinesiology courses in the United States and elsewhere.
Angela Pagano, Mary Gfeller and Kerri Freese
Angela Pagano, Biological Sciences Department, Mary Gfeller, Mathematics Department, and Program Coordinator Kerri Freese, Chemistry Department, along with eight students, represented the SUNY Cortland Undergraduate Clinically Rich Teacher Preparation Pilot program, a New York State Education Department (NYSED)-funded grant, during February in Albany, N.Y. They participated in a networking event with district administrators during a NYSED Diagnostic Tool for School and District Effectiveness training workshop. SUNY Cortland students included: Eric Reisweber, Zachary Gracyck and Brendan Creegan, adolescence education: earth science; Kelsey O’Donnell and Robin Tobin, adolescence education: mathematics; Taylor Jones and Lisa Dovi, adolescence education: physics; and Elyse Brill, adolescence education: biology.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, and Andrew Sluyter, Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University, had their article published in the latest issue of Journal of Historical Geography. The article, “How Incipient Colonies Create Territory: The Textual Surveys of New Spain, 1520s-1620s,” explores the practices of early colonial land surveying to reveal how territory was created through negotiations among local actors, centralized state power and specific landscapes.
Alexis Blavos
Alexis Blavos, Health Department, is on the board of directors for the National Health Education honorary, Eta Sigma Gamma, as the director of advocacy. She serves as a voting delegate for the Coalition of National Health Education Organizations and was involved in planning the 50th anniversary celebration that was held on March 30 in Denver, Colo. Also, she was appointed co-chair for the national awards committee for the Society for Public Health Education. And, Blavos recently had her article, “Marijuana and College Students: A Critical Review of the Literature,” published in the American Journal of Health Education, currently posted online.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, and E.L. McCallum of Michigan State University, will co-edit a book titled After Queer Studies: Literary Theory and Critical Interpretation. Their book is now under contract with Cambridge University Press. The volume maps the literary influences that made queer theory's academic emergence possible and charts the trajectories that shape its continued evolution.