Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, has an article currently in press with The Professional Geographer. The article, “Land Use Change in New Spain: A Three-Dimensional Historical GIS Analysis,” offers new insights about the local-scale landscape effects of European colonization of the New World.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, received a national appointment to referee the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association (NJCAA) National Soccer Championships from Nov. 3-6, hosted by Tompkins County Community College, Dryden, N.Y. Asumah is a member of the United States Soccer Federation and the National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association. He has represented the United States in five international matches and has received six national appointments to officiate the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Final Four Championship games in all divisions. This is his fourth NJCAA National Soccer Championship appointment.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, gave a guest lecture on queer narrative theory at Cornell University in Caroline Levine’s School of Criticism and Theory seminar, “Formalist Methods, Political Consequences.”
Jeremy Jiménez
Jeremy Jiménez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had his article, co-written with SUNY Cortland alumni Tova Wilensky ’20, published in the journal International Studies in Sociology of Education. The article is titled “‘It’s my responsibility’: perspectives on environmental justice and education for sustainability among international school students in Singapore.”
Mary McGuire
Mary McGuire, Political Science Department, chaired a roundtable discussion at the New York State Political Science Association’s annual meeting held April 7-8 in Buffalo, N.Y. The panel participants included SUNY Cortland undergraduate students Megan Connors, Amanda Ephraim and Jefferey Quain. Participants discussed the opportunity to conduct original research related to internships and presented their own research on child neglect, hydrofracking and campaign initiation.
Henry Steck
Henry Steck, Political Science Department, has published a chapter titled “Higher Education in New York State” in The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics, edited by Gerald Benjamin and published by Oxford University Press.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, was quoted twice by Sir Jim Rose, who was the Chair of the U.K. Reading Panel, which reviewed the scientific literature on teaching reading and released the Rose Report (2006). His quotes were from David’s book Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties (Wiley, 2015) and written in The Teacher Magazine, a publication for teachers in Australia.
Paul Arras
Paul Arras, Communication and Media Studies Department, presented a paper titled “The Presence and Absence of Bodies in 9/11 Imagery” at the Popular Culture Association National Conference held March 27-30 in Chicago.
Mecke Nagel
Mecke Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, taught a summer course in German, “Reflections on Nietzsche’s Zarathustra,” for the International Summer University at Fulda University, which is in its first year of a student exchange agreement with SUNY Cortland. Nagel also co-edited a volume on “Prisons, Peace and Social Justice,” for the Summer 2011 issue of Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, (Routledge).
Gregory D. Phelan and Kerri Freese
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, and Kerri Freese, SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, organized and led the 4th Annual National Science Foundation (NSF) Noyce NE Conference held March 26-28 in Cambridge, Mass. More than 250 math and science faculty and teachers/pre-service teachers attended the conference with the theme, “Successful Teaching in High-Need Schools.” This initiative was funded by a two-year, $715,398 NSF grant to three universities: SUNY Cortland, the University of Massachusetts Boston and Drexel University. It aims to advocate for strong content knowledge and teaching practices in mathematics and science and to include researchers, science teacher educators, K-12 educators, school administrators and policy makers who can support teachers and work to positively transform practices and policies to better support science and mathematics learning for students in high-need schools.