Faculty and Staff Activities
Szilvia Kadas
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, has 34 of her illustrations and designs on display from Feb. 4 to Feb. 24 at M. Gallery, Marczibanyi Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary. Kadas’s solo show is titled “The Natural Environment and People.”
Andrea Dávalos
Andrea Dávalos, Biological Sciences Department, is a co-author of the Oct. 25 cover story in Science, titled “Global Distribution of Earthworm Diversity.”
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, served as a guest editor for the most recent issue of The Curriculum Journal. He contributed two articles to the issue: “After the Knowledge Turn? Politics and Pedagogy,” with co-authors Ursula Hoadley, Alka Sehgal Cuthbert and John Morgan, and “An Engaging Pedagogy for an Academic Curriculum,” with Elizabeth Rata and Graham McPhail.
Jena Nicols Curtis
Jena Nicols Curtis, Health Department, presented at the Ending Violence Against Women’s International Conference held April 18-20 in Orlando, Fla. She presented “Working to Better Understand How Domestic Violence Survivors Experience and Interpret Abuse: Research Findings & Strategies for Outreach and Intervention.” The conference brought together more than 2,000 law enforcement personnel, prosecutors, victim advocates, judges, parole and probation officers, rape crisis workers, health care professionals, faith community members, educators and researchers from around the world to collaborate on ending gender-based violence.
Jennifer Wilson
Jennifer Wilson, Communications Office, will be inducted into the State University of New York Council for University Affairs and Development (SUNYCUAD) Hall of Fame Class of 2018 on June 7 during the organization’s annual conference in Syracuse, N.Y. She and fellow honoree Nancy Prott of Upstate Medical University co-chaired the conference corporate sponsorship committee for five consecutive conferences through 2016, raising support and serving as sponsor liaisons for conferences in Syracuse, Farmingdale, Lake Placid, Rochester and Cooperstown. Each year, the SUNYCUAD Board of Directors adds up to two new Hall of Fame members who have distinguished themselves, their institutions and the State University by their significant contributions to the organization and its mission of service and education. Each honoree has his or her name added to a permanent plaque housed at the State University headquarters in Albany.
Yomee Lee and Jim Hokanson
Yomee Lee and Jim Hokanson, Kinesiology Department, recently had their research titled “Hearing Their Voices: Asian American College Students’ Perspectives on Sport and Physical Education” accepted for publication. The manuscript is currently in press and will soon be published in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Heath, Sport & Physical Education.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, with co-authors Bradley R. Kropp, Utah State University, Vera S. Evenon, Denver Botanical Gardens, and Markus Wilhelm, Allschwil, Switzerland, published a peer-reviewed paper titled “Cercopemyces crocodilinus, a New Genus and Species Related to Ripartitella, is Described from North America” in the September/October issue of the journal Mycologia. This new mushroom is associated with mountain mahogany shrubs in the arid mountainous regions of Utah and Colorado. Baroni coined the genus name after the Greek mythological characters, the Cercopes. The species name, crocodilinus, indicates the thick scaly skin found on the cap of the mushrooms. The authors noted that to find such a robust fungus in an arid ecosystem is unusual.
Brian D. Barrett
Brian D. Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article titled “Get Real! A Social Realist Approach to Combating Relativism and Promoting Social Justice in the Foundations of Education” published in the current issue of Educational Change. The article can be accessed online. Barrett presented an early version of the paper at the New York State Foundations of Education Association’s 2011 Annual Conference in Rochester, N.Y.
Jeremy Jiménez
Jeremy Jiménez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article about helping students create their own digital history texts published in The History Teacher. “Recasting the History Textbook as the Collaborative Creation of Student-Authored Interactive Texts” was co-authored with Laura Moorhead, San Francisco State University. A second article, “Education for global citizenship and sustainable development in social science textbooks,” was published in September in the European Journal of Education, Research, Development and Policy. It was co-authored with Julia Lerch of University of California, Irvine, and Patricia Bromley from Stanford University.
Frank Rossi and Terrence Fitzgerald
Frank Rossi, Chemistry Department, and Terrence Fitzgerald, Biological Sciences Department, are the principal authors of an article titled “Response of the neonate larvae of Cactoblastis cactorum to synthetic cactoblastins, a newly identified class of pheromonally-active chemicals found in the caterpillar’s mandibular glands” appearing in the journal Chemoecology. Four recent Cortland students are coauthors of the paper: Daniel Rojas ’19, a current a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Delaware, Danielle A. Cervasio ’17, currently a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University majoring in neuroscience, John Posillico ’16, now a middle school science teacher in New York City, and Kyle Parella ’17, currently a PhD candidate in biochemistry at SUNY ESF. The paper is the fifth to be published by the principal investigators that explores the possibility of using the insect’s own pheromones as an eco-rational alternative to biocides in managing populations of the invasive caterpillar. The research was support by grants from the USDA-APHIS.