Danica Savonick
Students in Danica Savonick’s English course, Publishing Literary and Cultural Criticism, created a new journal of literary and cultural analysis called Emblaze. Issue One is now live. Read Cortland students’ interpretations of books, TV shows, movies, music and more.
Susan J. Rayl
Susan J. Rayl, Kinesiology, presented a paper, "African American Basketball in New England, The Early 1930s," at the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) Annual Conference, held May 26-29, 2025, at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. She also served as the conference photographer.
Caroline Kaltefleiter
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies Department, has been appointed to the board of trustees of WSKG Public Media, headquartered in Vestal, N.Y. WSKG is part of the National Public Radio Network and PBS system and operates four radio stations and two television stations, providing news, entertainment, educational programming, and classical music. Kaltefleiter will bring her expertise in digital media and public broadcasting to the development team to advise on crisis campaign creation amid the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and funding cuts to NPR.
Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, was selected to the SUNY Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice Fellows Program.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane '13, Kinesiology Department, presented a session, "Tariffs ARE Going To Impact the Dance World: Geopolitics Hits Home," at the annual National Dance Society conference in June.
Jared Rosenberg
Jared Rosenberg, Kinesiology Department, was first author on a recently published article, "Agreement Between Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis and Ultrasound for Measuring Body Composition in Women with Breast Cancer," in online resource PubMed.
Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, and a team of international collaborators were awarded a grant to host a design workshop by the Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis. The workshop is titled “From Close Kinship to Population Interactions in the Deep Past: Integrating Biological and Cultural Indicators of Social Identities in a Multiscalar Framework,” and it will be held in northern Germany in Spring 2026.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article written in the aftermath of the Florida high school shooting titled, “Laws We Used to Have on the Books Could Have Prevented the Florida School Shooting,” published by the Washington Post on Feb. 15.
Also, his article “The NRA’s Journey from Marksmanship to Political Brinkmanship” was published in the Feb. 23 issue of The Conversation.
Mark Prus
Mark Prus, Academic Affairs, had his manuscript, coauthored with Kevin Duncan and Peter Philips, accepted for publication in the journal Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management. The article is titled “Using Stochastic Frontier Regression to Estimate the Construction Cost Inefficiency of Prevailing Wage Laws.”
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, had her essay, “‘that pure New England stock’: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Construction of Identity,” published as the opening chapter in Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts (Ohio State University Press, 2011). Knight also has been informed that her “Note on Gilman’s Supplement to ‘A Conservative’” has been accepted by ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews. In June, she will present two papers at the Fifth International Conference on Gilman in Missoula, Mont.: “Gilman Abroad,” and “Artistic Renderings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.”