Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, co-authored an article in the current volume of Rangelands titled “Application of Vulnerability Assessment to a Grazed Rangeland: Toward an Integrated Conceptual Framework.”
Karen Downey
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, attended the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, held in State College, Pa., from July 29 through Aug. 2. While there, she presented her innovations in the pedagogy of physical chemistry.
Keith Newvine
Keith Newvine, Literacy Department, in collaboration with Sarah Fleming, was awarded a grant from the Abolitionist Teaching Network, which awards grants to those who strive to disrupt inequalities and injustice within their schools, communities or both. The funds will be used to purchase class sets of young adult texts written by and about people of color that are loaned to school districts in Onondaga County and Cortland County to introduce and reinforce the Abolitionist Teaching Network’s commitment to culturally and historically responsive education. After students and teachers engage in this antiracist literacy work, students will become Antiracist Ambassadors who engage in courageous conversations with students and educators from other high schools in Onondaga and Cortland County about the ways in which white supremacy is demystified, dismantled, and decentered in these texts and amplify the culturally sustaining and joyful counternarratives written by these authors and realized by these texts.
Katherine M. Polasek, Larissa True, Erik Lind, Joy L. Hendrick and Patrick R. Boerner ‘13
Katherine M. Polasek, Larissa True, Erik Lind and Joy L. Hendrick, all from the Kinesiology Department, and Patrick R. Boerner ‘13, had their paper titled “Is What You See What You Get? Perceptions of Personal Trainers’ Competence, Knowledge, and Preferred Sex of Personal Trainer Relative to Physique” published in the July issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.
Jim Hokanson
Jim Hokanson, Kinesiology Department, was invited to give a Zoom departmental seminar about recent research on metabolic rate and body temperature in a lower body positive pressure treadmill (Alter G) on Feb. 10 to the Department of Physical Therapy and Nursing, University of Salamanca, Spain.
Daniela Baban Hurrle
Daniela Baban Hurrle, International Programs, gave an invited presentation on Aug. 1 at the national IREX Host Institution Orientation on best practices and tips for hosting Global UGRAD-Pakistan students. Global UGRAD-Pakistan is a U.S. Department of State program administered by International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) that offers undergraduate Pakistani students cultural and academic exchange through non-degree study at a university in the U.S. for a semester. SUNY Cortland is one of only two SUNYs that has been selected to host students in this program. SUNY Cortland has been hosting one to two students every year from this prestigious program since 2017.
Scott Anderson, Seth N. Asumah, Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo and Mechthild Nagel
Scott Anderson, Geography Department, Seth N. Asumah, Political Science and Africana Studies departments, Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Geography and Africana Studies departments, and Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, attended the Race, Ethnicity and Place (REP) Conference held Sept. 21-23 at Kent State University in Ohio. The biannual conference attracts scholars representing interdisciplinary, national and international perspectives on racial transformation of places. Nagel, Asumah and Johnston-Anumonwo presented papers on race-ethnicity studies and Anderson chaired a session on Narratives of Place. Nagel’s paper was titled “Revisiting Prisons as Diasporic Sites.” Asumah’s paper was titled “Race and Diversity Leadership in Predominantly White Institutions: Rethinking Microaggressions.” In addition to her paper on “The Significance of Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the Experiences of Eritrean Migrants,” Johnston-Anumonwo was a panelist at a session honoring the late Professor Florence Margai, a founding member of the REP conference planning committee and associate dean of SUNY Binghamton’s Harpur College who died in 2015. All four SUNY Cortland faculty members were invited to the eighth REP conference at Kent and had presented at previous REP conferences hosted at Binghamton University dating back to 2002.
Danielle Candelora and Gigi Peterson
Danielle Candelora and Gigi Peterson, History Department, and students majoring in history and social studies, presented the History Department’s 2021 “Love Your Major” events on March 24 via Webex.
First, students from Peterson’s Teaching Secondary Social Studies class offered informative sessions on “Hidden Knowledge,” which required finding key campus information and resources, “Advising Advice,” “Connecting and Exploring,” introducing activities, clubs, and more, and “Student Power,” student government and civic engagement. Professors Candelora, Amy Schutt, History Department, and John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, assisted. The History Department hopes to make the recordings available for future access, as part of a virtual “Survive and Thrive” guide by adolescence education 300-level students.
Later, a panel of students, faculty and alumna Claire Leggett provided insights about “Looking Ahead” to graduate study, study abroad and careers. Organized by Peterson, the panel featured history faculty members Leggett, Candelora, Bekeh Ukelina and Laura Gathagan and senior Sophia Hall.
The evening’s finale was run by the History Club. Led by President Sophia Hall, participants speculated about varied scenarios from the past and choices they would make in an entertaining game of “Would you Rather.” Students and faculty, including the club’s advisor Candelora, joined in the fun.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, co-presented a paper titled “School Reform and the Political Education of U.S. Teachers” at the Education Reform, Communities and Social Justice conference hosted by the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement and service-learning coordinator, learned that his socio-economic docu-drama was accepted for inclusion in the final “Engaged Faculty Institute Curriculum,” to be published by the California Campus Compact, Campus Compact of the Mountain West and Community-Campus Partnerships for Health. Through this curriculum, faculty members will participate in an intensive, hands-on experience to integrate service-learning into a new or existing course. The curriculum includes research-based content, tools and resources, worksheets, reflections and assessment tools for course design, or re-design, impact assessment and sustainability.