Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his book, After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory, and Sexuality in the 21st Century, published recently by Cambridge University Press. Co-edited with E.L. McCallum from Michigan State University, the book contains 12 chapters that address the reciprocal relationships between queer studies and literary studies, including Bradway and McCallum’s co-written essay, “Thinking Sideways, or An Untoward Genealogy of Queer Reading.” Read more about the book.
Laura J. Davies
Laura J. Davies, English Department, was accepted to present at the Northeast Modern Language Association annual conference planned for April 2015 in Toronto, Canada.
Matthew Whitman
Matthew Whitman, Institute for Civic Engagement and SUNY Cortland AmeriCorps member, presented “Using Social Media to Engage Students” at Imagining America's national conference held Oct. 6 in Syracuse, N.Y.
Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, recently had her blog post published. Titled “Interactive, Asynchronous On-line Discussions,” it describes how teachers can engage students in interactive, asynchronous online discussions that not only play an important role in online and hybrid classes, but are critical to assuring active participation by students.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on Nov. 13 and Sun Yat-Sen University, China on March 18 to deliver campus-wide talks on her book Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China and the contribution of anthropology to public health.
Paulo Quaglio
Paulo Quaglio, Modern Languages Department, was an invited speaker on March 12 at Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey. His talk, titled “The Power of Concordancing in ESL/FL Teaching & Learning: Making the Invisible Visible,” presented techniques used in corpus linguistics to enhance language teaching and learning.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, and Sutton Richmond, University of Florida, had an article published in Human Movement Science. The paper, “Good times, bad times? An evaluation of event detection strategies in time to boundary postural assessments” experimentally determined the effects of four algorithmic procedures for determining points of greatest postural instability during quiet standing. Their findings provide a replicable, objective means of eliminating unrealistic events in the continuous time series, which will increase clinical applicability of time to boundary for future work.
Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Wellness Services, was a co-presenter at the annual conference of the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD) on Oct. 16 in New Orleans. She, along with Peter LeViness, University of Richmond, and Kim Gorman, Western Carolina University, presented “Highlights from the AUCCCD 2017 Directors’ Survey.”
Christopher Badurek
Christopher Badurek, Geography Department, was honored with the 2018 GISP of the Year Award in February from the Geographic Information Systems Certification Institute (GISCI) for over five years of sustained contributions to the development of GIS professional knowledge certification standards used nationally in industry, government, and academia.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented “Being Born in the Wrong Gender: Thinking about the Availability of Current Transgender Children’s Books,” at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual convention, held Nov. 18 in St. Louis, Mo.