Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was recently informed that her book, Red Lights, is the winner of the 2010 Sara A. Whaley book prize from the National Women’s Studies Association for the book published in the previous calendar year judged to have made the most significant contribution to the topic of women and labor.
Susana Davidenko and Gail Tooker
Susana Davidenko and Gail Tooker, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, participated in the XIV International Consortium for Research in Science and Mathematics Education (ICRSME) Consultation from March 12-19 in Granada, Nicaragua. They made presentations to the mathematics and science educators who traveled to the site from abroad and to local elementary and secondary teachers. Also, the Cortland professors offered workshops to these teachers at one of the public elementary schools on topics related to mathematics fluency, outdoor education and environmental science projects.
Barbara Wisch
Barbara Wisch, Art and Art History Department, will have her co-edited book, Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual, Spectacle, Image (Cambridge University Press, 2000), reissued in paperback. Cambridge has selected a number of out-of-print volumes to be part of this new program.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, co-edited The Encyclopedia of Sport Management and Marketing, which was recently recognized with a Best Reference 2011 - Business and Economics Division award by Library Journal. The encyclopedia featured submissions by faculty members Genni Birren, Ted Fay, Peter Han and Jordan Kobritz, and former faculty Kevin Heisey and Jim Reese, as well as many former sport management graduate students.
Jean LeLoup
Jean LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish, presented in a session titled "Gateways to Jobs in Higher Education" at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages annual convention held Nov. 19-20 in Boston, Mass.
Robert Ponterio
Robert Ponterio, Modern Languages Department, was invited to present a 90-minute immersion workshop, “Cinéma et Vidéo: Langue et Culture Authentiques en Classe,” at the Central New York chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French meeting held at LeMoyne College on Oct. 30. The workshop focused on methods of using French cinema and various sources of online video, such as news reports, in the French classroom for teaching language and culture. Features of new tools for downloading and playing video were also demonstrated.
Barry Schecter
Barry Schecter, Health Department, will speak at the American Association for Treatment of Opiate Disorders Conference planned for April 21-25 in Las Vegas. The conference will address treating adolescents and young adults suffering from addiction and is geared to new innovations in treating youth. He will present research on the benefits of medication-assisted treatment, and the role stigma plays in keeping people sick. Schecter will present a similar topic at the American Society of Addiction Medicine at the annual Med-Sci Conference, being held April 19-22 in Atlanta.
Szilvia Kadas
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, had her latest solo exhibition, “Poetry in Visual Form” open on Sept. 4 in Nyiregyhaza, City Gallery, Hungary. The exhibition showcases 40 original illustrations by Kadas and will be on display until Wednesday, Oct. 9.
Philip M. Gipson
Philip M. Gipson, Mathematics Department, had his article “Invariant Basis Number for C*-Algebras” published in the Illinois Journal of Mathematics.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently participated in a climate change education panel at the Comparative and International Education Society conferencein Miami, Fla., based on previous research co-conducted with Miranda Kistner ’23.