Jeanine Rose
Jeanine Rose, Academic Support and Achievement Program, presented at the 2015 New York College Learning Skills Association Symposium held April 19-20 in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. The title of her presentation was “The ‘Formula’ for Success: Putting Algebra to Work.”
Maria Timberlake
Maria Timberlake, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, presented “Invisible at Work: A Conversation,” on March 29 as part of Cornell University’s Many Voices, One College monthly diversity and inclusion dialogue series.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, gave an opening plenary keynote address on “African and Africana Knowledge: Past Representations, Current Discourses, Future Communities” at the Third Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) at United States International University (USIU) in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa. At the event, held Oct. 23 to 26, Asumah received recognition and an award of honor for organizing and facilitating a preconference workshop on “Educational and Academic Leadership: Rethinking Responsibilities and Challenges for Department Chairs in African/Africana Studies.” Africologists, Africanists and African enthusiasts from 34 African countries, Europe, North and South America and the Caribbean attended the ASAA conference.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, conducted a two-part workshop at Barnard College’s STEM Colloquium, part of Barnard’s Noyce Scholars Program. Eight students and three faculty members participated in the “Reflective Listening in Multi-Dimensional STEM Classrooms” workshop. In the workshop’s first part, participants enacted a scripted play through which they identified and discussed hidden ways in which government policies and low-income life can interfere with children’s learning. During the event’s second part, participants practiced reflective listening skills in the context of STEM classrooms in which teachers faced political, religious, and cultural opposition to their lessons.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had a coauthored article published in Teachers College Record. The article is titled "White Parent and Caregiver Perceptions of, and Resistance to, Equity and Anti-Racism Work in an Independent School."
Randi Storch and Kevin Sheets
Randi Storch and Kevin Sheets, History Department, attended the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) project director’s meeting to receive final training before launching their $180,000 Landmarks in American History and Culture workshop for K-12 teachers. The meeting was held Oct. 26-27 in Washington, D.C. Their workshop, coordinated with the assistance of Kerri Freese, SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, invites teachers from around the country to learn about the Gilded Age and Progressive Era from the perspective of the wilderness, using Camp Huntington in Raquette Lake, N.Y., as a living classroom. The application and details about the workshop can be found at http://www2.cortland.edu/foreverwild/.
Jennifer Wilson
Jennifer Wilson, Communications Office, received an “Award of Merit” for outstanding achievement in the category of “Best Original Photo” on May 5 at the United University Profession’s Spring Delegate Assembly in Albany, N.Y. The image, taken during the 2016 “SUNY Cortland Works!” labor-management walk and celebration, was published in the SUNY Cortland/The Cortland Cause newsletter.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, conducted his workshop, “Build Organizational Capacity: Invert the Triangle” at SUNY’s 5th Annual Applied Learning Conference.
Thirty-nine participants role-played situations in which directors of organizations can gain control by relinquishing control. Directors can relinquish (some) control when they trust their interns with specific responsibilities and authority; interns will reciprocate with innovative ideas and progress toward organizations’ missions. The associate director of SUNY’s SAIL Institute for Academic and Innovative Leadership is using this workshop’s materials as guides in designing a workshop for department chairs.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper titled, "Hot Button Issues in the 2012 Presidential Campaign: 47% Yes, Guns No?" for a conference on the 2012 presidential elections held at Hiram College in Ohio on November 16-17.
Quincy Loney
Quincy Loney, Mathematics Department, was invited to present selected results from his doctoral dissertation at the 1,072nd meeting of the American Mathematical Society held Sept. 10-11 at Cornell University. Quincy’s talk, “Decomposition of Level-1 Representations of D_4^(1) with Respect to its Subalgebra G_2^(1) in the Spinor Construction,” was given as a part of the special session on Kac-Moody Lie Algebras, Vertex Algebras and Related Topics.