Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, co-authored a peer-reviewed paper recently published in the Argentinian journal Kurtziana. The article, “New Species and Records of Pouzarella (Agaricomyetes, Entolomataceae) from Northern Argentina/Nuevas especies y nuevas citas de Pouzarella (Agaricomyetes, Entolomataceae) del Norte Argentino,” was one of 13 invited scientific publications in an edited edition on mycological topics in South America. The publication was designed to honor Leif Ryvarden, University of Oslo, Norway, for his contributions to mycological research in South America over the past 40 years. The three co-authors, all from Argentina, included Edgardo Alberta of the Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas, Buenos Aires; Nicolas Niveiro, Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste, Sargento Cabral; and Bernardo Lechner, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Baroni and his colleagues’ paper on new species and rarely observed mushrooms of northern Argentina’s national parks and reserves came from a two-week expedition made last spring while Baroni was on sabbatical leave. Baroni had been invited as guest and collaborator to study the macrofungal diversity of several remote regions in the Yungas ecosystem of northern South America by Alberta.
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Geography Department, was named a Zonta Woman of Achievement for her achievements in scholarship and teaching, as well as her dedication to the YWCA and Zonta. She served as a U.S. delegate at a 2007 YWCA international conference in Nairobi, Kenya, which led to her being recognized by the organization. The award will be presented at a lunch reception on May 7 in Solon, N.Y.
Katherine Hicks and Andy Roering
Katherine Hicks and Andy Roering, Chemistry Department, serve as co-advisors to the SUNY Cortland Chemistry Club, which is a student chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Club members were featured in the cover photo of the April/May issue of inChemistry, the magazine for ACS student members. This photograph was taken in May 2015 at Kionix, Inc. in Ithaca, N.Y. The student club president at the time, Samuel Lothridge, who graduated with a B.S. in biochemistry in 2015, is currently employed at Kionix and was an intern there then. The picture was taken during a field trip that the club took to Ithaca to visit the Cornell synchrotron and Kionix.
James A. Felton, III
James A. Felton, III, Institutional Equity and Inclusion Office, was elected president of the Iota Iota Lambda Alumni Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. for the 2019-20 academic year. Alpha Phi Alpha is the first African-American, intercollegiate Greek-lettered fraternity founded on Dec. 4, 1906 at Cornell University.
Janet Duncan
Janet Duncan, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, has been appointed an editor for Social Welfare: Interdisciplinary Approach, a collaborative journal between Open International University of Human Development (Ukraine) and Siauliai University in Lithuania. The editor-in-chief is Kateryna Kolchenko from Kyiv, Ukraine, who is also a research partner in disability studies with Duncan. Published twice a year, the peer-reviewed journal is published in English and accepts articles related to human social welfare.
Gary Evans
Gary Evans, Human Resources Department, won the Technology Innovation Award from PeopleConnect Live. The annual customer award is from SUNY Cortland’s applicant tracking vendor. Tina Vumbaco from the State University of New York also received the award, recognizing the system-wide and the campus-level HR information system program.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, presented “Flanerie’s Art and Measure of the Globalizing City” at the College Art Association (CAA) conference in February. In March, she presented an expanded version of the CAA lecture for Shanghai Flaneur, a cultural think tank in Shanghai, China. In addition, her review of the Shanghai Biennale will appear in the Sept./Oct. 2013 issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Art and Cultural Criticism.
Eileen Gilroy and Jill Toftegaard
Eileen Gilroy and Jill Toftegaard, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, were recently awarded a $100 mini grant from the Central New York Speech Language and Hearing Association (CNYSLHA). The grant is in honor of a past president for CNYSLHA, Sandy Ladd, who passed away in July 2014. As an advocate for individuals with disabilities, Ladd often used creative cooking and craft projects to work on many speech, language and communication goals in small and large groups, often collaboratively with other teachers or staff. CNYSLHA honors her memory by offering mini grants to enable projects or activities that members would typically have to pay for out of pocket.
The funds received will be used for a spring planting project with the clients of Liberty Resources Center for Brain Injury and Rehabilitation in Cortland, N.Y. Communication disorders and sciences graduate students have provided speech/language therapy in social groups throughout this academic year. For this project, the graduate students will work with individuals from the center in planning, cultivating and maintaining a community garden.
Larissa True
Larissa True, Kinesiology Department, was the organizer of a symposium held June 21 to 23 at the North American Society for Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity’s national conference in Denver, Colo. In addition to organizing the symposium, True presented a recent study titled “Tracking of Physical Fitness Components from Childhood to Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study.”
Lin Lin
Lin Lin, Childhood and Early Childhood Education Department, presented at the SUNY Conference on Instruction and Technology on Thursday, May 27 on the topic of “My Love Affair with Nearpod.” She shared her experiences of using engaging online tools to promote historical reasoning skills and media literacy in her synchronous courses in the last three semesters.