Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, has received a research grant from the Ibero-American Institute to continue her archival research on German scientists in Brazil. Her work is part of the Institute’s current research theme on “Cultural Transfer and Academic Exchange between Europe and Latin America.” She will be working in the archives during June and July 2014.
Eric Edlund
Eric Edlund, Physics Department, together with coinventors from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, were awarded the Edison Patent Award for Industrial Processes on Nov. 3 for their patent titled “Advanced Liquid Centrifuge Using Differentially Rotating Cylinders and Optimized Boundary Conditions, and Methods for the Separation of Fluids.”
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, had his article on the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) National Letter of Intent published in Sports Litigation Alert, Volume 10, Issue 3.
Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, had her article, “What Can Our Writing Do in the World? The Feminist Praxis of Publishing Student Writing,” published in November in Radical Teacher. This article situates the practice of publishing student writing within a longer history of feminist teaching methods. It also features the original writing of two SUNY Cortland students, seniors Lacey Bartlett and Taylor Price.
Ryan Vooris
Ryan Vooris, Sport Management Department, had a research article about perceptions of media bias among viewers of ESPN published in Communication & Sport.
Lin Lin
Lin Lin, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, is the lead author for an article, “Expanding the Global View through Children’s books: Bringing South Asians and South Asian Americans to K-6 Curriculum,” published Nov. 1 in the Ohio Social Studies Review.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, received word her poem titled “Too Many to Count,” previously published in The Daily Abuse, has been accepted by an anthology to be published by Guts Publishing later this year.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, presented his paper “United States Immigration Policy and the Politics of Exclusion: Seeing More Than African Immigrants” at the New York African Studies Association (NYASA) 43rd annual conference held April 12 and 13 at Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J. Also, Asumah supervised the research projects of four Africana studies majors and minors, which were presented at NYASA conference: Alliyah Dookie presented “Rethinking Internal Migration Benefits for Africa,” Jacob Wrights presented “Should All Speech Be Free? How Hate Speech Negates Freedom,” Kevin Robinson presented “Miseducation, Socialization and Conformity in the Black Community,” and Devon Sanders presented his research paper on “Melanin.”
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor emeritus of theatre, has had his book, The Mikado to Matilda: The British Musical on the New York Stage, published this summer by Rowman and Littlefield. The book discusses 110 London musical successes from the late 18th Century to the present and how they were received in New York City.
Mary McGuire and John Suarez
Mary McGuire and John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, conducted an “ignite” event, titled “’Hire’ Education, Public Purpose, and Student Employers” at Campus Compact’s 30th Anniversary Conference, held March 21-23 in Boston, Mass. This session used a “What If” approach to role-play in which the audience explored benefits of, and challenges to, a SUNY system that serves as a brokerage agency for college students. Examples included: Imagine a SUNY that refers students to professionals in their disciplines; students choose and hire professionals to be mentors; and students work with those mentors in applied-learning situations for the majority of their college educations.