Peter McGinnis
Peter McGinnis, Kinesiology Department, accompanied two graduate students who presented at the “Research That Matters: An Exposition of Graduate Research in SUNY and CUNY” on March 8 at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y. Hobit LaFaye, master’s degree candidate in outdoor and environmental education in the Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, presented “Creating Cultural Change through Heritage Interpretation and the Theory of Planned Behavior: A Project Promoting the Safety and Use of Bicycling for Transportation.” Her faculty sponsor is Edward Hill, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department. Katherine Clancy, master’s degree candidate in exercise science, Kinesiology Department, will discuss “Comparison of Lumbar Spine Loads During Back and Front Squats. Her faculty sponsors are Kinesiology Department faculty members McGinnis, Joy Hendrick and Wendy Hurley.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, is in the final editing stages of the Encyclopedia of Sport Management and Marketing. This encyclopedia is the first of its kind within the sport management discipline. Numerous persons from SUNY Cortland contributed by writing entries, including faculty members Peter Han, Ted Fay, Kevin Heisey, Dodds, several graduate students from Dodds’ sport marketing classes and undergraduate student Eli Roberge. The encyclopedia will be published by Sage Publications in September 2011.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited to deliver a book talk and present a graduate seminar Feb. 22-24 at University of California at Berkeley.
Henry Steck
Henry Steck, Political Science Department, gave the keynote lecture for the Constitution Day celebration at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. The title of his lecture was “How James Madison & Federalist #10 & #51 Helps Me Think About 21st Century America.”
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, recently had her essay, “The Flaneur’s Redemption,” published in The European Mind: Narrative and Identity, University of Malta Press, 2010. In addition, her critical review of Richard Langston’s Visions of Violence: German Avant-Gardes after Fascism will appear in the October 2010 issue of German Studies Review.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, Performing Arts Department, has been commissioned to write six articles for the new edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music. Also, he has had two book reviews published in the music journal Fontes Artis Musicae.
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.
Peter McGinnis
Peter McGinnis, Kinesiology Department, presented a paper titled “Novel Teaching Techniques in Biomechanics” at the National Association for Sport and Physical Education Preconference Symposium on Teaching Biomechanics on July 19 in Marquette, Mich. The symposium was in conjunction with the International Society of Biomechanics in Sport Conference that began on July 19.
Arden Zipp
Arden Zipp, chemistry, chaired the annual meeting of the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad (USNCO) Subcommittee meeting that was recently held at the headquarters of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C. Zipp has chaired the USNCO Task Force for several years and has recently added the Subcommittee Chairmanship to his duties. The Task Force writes and grades the annual exams used to select 20 students to attend a two-week study camp where a four-person team is identiied to compete in the International Chemistry Olympiad.
Barbara Wisch
Barbara Wisch, art and art history, received funding to present at the National Endowment for the Humanities' 2010 Summer Institute for College Teachers. "Ritual and Ceremony from Late-Medieval Europe to Early America." It is sponsored by the Folger Institute from June 21-July 23. Wisch will present in the session titled "Traditions and Transformations on the Continent" on Monday, July 5, and Tuesday, July 6.