Szilvia Kadas
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, presented with project collaborators Mitchell Christensen and Judy Livingston “Cross-Institutional Collaboration: Design Studio Initiative Across Campuses” at the 110th Annual College Art Association of America Conference on Feb. 17 in Chicago.
Anne Burns-Thomas
Anne Burns-Thomas, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, led a post-keynote discussion with Paul Gorski at the Noyce NE Regional Conference held March 20-22 in Philadelphia, Pa. Participants reflected on Gorski’s keynote, which addressed key insights from his latest book, Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap. Gorski questions how strategies for teaching and relating with families in poverty might change if we truly understood the barriers they experience — barriers that have nothing to do with their cultures or their attitudes about school or their desires to learn. Participants talked about those challenges, how they affect the school experiences of low-income students, and how educators can mitigate them by providing equitable, engaging learning environments.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, co-authored a peer-reviewed paper that was published in the Japanese journal of mycology, Mycoscience. “A New Species of Laccaria in Montane Cloud Forest from Eastern Mexico” was co-authored with Leticia Montoya and Victor M. Bandala from Net Biodiversidad y Sistemática, Instituto de Ecología, Xalapa, Mexico, and Thomas R. Horton from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Images of the mushrooms and scanning electron micrographs of the basidiospores of Laccaria roseoalbescens from their article were featured on the journal cover of that volume. There are nearly 90 species of Laccaria described from around the world, 20 from North America. Many of these species are important for the agroforest industry and are used in nurseries to form robust symbiosis with economically important forest tree seedlings such as pine and oak before they are planted in reforestation projects.
Lin Lin and Valerie Widdall
Lin Lin and Valerie Widdall, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, presented on the topic of “Expanding Pre-Service Teachers’ Global Education Pedagogy” at the annual conference of the National Council for the Social Studies on Nov. 13 in New Orleans, La.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had a book review published in Teachers College Record. She reviewed the book Exploring Gender and LGBTQ Issues in K-12 and Teacher Education: A Rainbow Assemblage.
R. Bruce Mattingly
R. Bruce Mattingly, School of Arts and Sciences, participated in a panel discussion on tenure issues in higher education hosted by Syracuse University on March 28. The panel was presented as part of SU’s Future Professoriate Program for graduate students who intend to pursue faculty careers. Other panelists included Risa Lieberwitz, Cornell University, and Robert Rubinstein, Syracuse University.
Claus Schubert
Claus Schubert, Mathematics Department, taught an honors abstract algebra course for the Summer Math Institute (SMI) held from June 10 through Aug. 2 at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. The SMI is a National Science Foundation-sponsored program designed to increase diversity in the mathematical sciences by encouraging highly talented students from underrepresented minorities to pursue a Ph.D. in mathematics. The program prepares the students with an intensive eight-week course and an undergraduate research experience.
Patricia Roiger
Patricia Roiger, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, was featured in a Cortland Standard article titled “History Lesson a ‘Hoot.’” Roiger regularly contributes to the program called ”Time Travel,” created by the Cortland County Historical Society and the Cortland Free Library to teach children about history.
Ji-Ryun Kim and John Foley
Ji-Ryun Kim, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, and John Foley, Physical Education Department, recently had their research published in the Korean Journal of Special Education. The title of their article is “Stability of Students’ IEP Status and Related Factors: Analyses of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten Cohort.”
Student Achievements
Matthew Norris, a senior exercise science major from Homer, N.Y., was nominated by SUNY Cortland faculty members for a Phi Kappa Phi honor society national fellowship. Norris will pursue a doctorate in physical therapy at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y. this fall.
Norris is accomplished academically and has made significant contributions to campus through his involvement in bringing Around the World for Yeardley program and developing the Mental Health Mondays for student athletes. Also, he is a member of the Empire Collegiate Wrestling Conference All-Academic Team among many other activities on campus and in the community.