College Names Leadership in Civic Engagement Honorees
Twenty-five SUNY Cortland students, three community members, five faculty members and 35 AmeriCorps members were recognized on April 19 with the College’s Leadership in Civic Engagement Awards.
The awards recognize exemplary service in support of community agencies, social change and civic engagement by SUNY Cortland students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members.
The recipients of seven civic engagement scholarships were awarded to Jessica Andrianos, Julie Gorman, Megan Flynn, Lynne Harris, Kristen Martin, Kara Silverman and Scott Stampfl.
The SUNY Cortland Emergency Medical Services received the Don Wilcox Award and Andrianos was recognized with the Cortland Area Chapter of the Alumni Association’s Community Service Award.
Award winners were selected by the Leadership in Civic Engagement Awards Committee, whose members are from campus departments and offices involved in opportunities for service activities with local, regional and national organizations, including the Institute for Civic Engagement and the Career Services Office. Also seated on the committee are a student, a community agency supervisor and an AmeriCorps member.
Student recipients were involved with a wide variety of activities, including leadership roles in the SUNY Cortland Relay for Life, tutoring and mentoring programs, reduction of bullying, economic development, literacy, health and wellness programming, hunger awareness, environmental protection and disaster relief. The vast majority of activity supports Cortland County residents, the public school system and numerous human service organizations.
Student recipients were:
Jessica Andrianos
Allison Best
Samantha Califano
Jasmine Chandoo
Megan Flynn
Austin Glickman
Julie Gorman
Matthew Green
Jennifer Hale
Lynne Harris
Matthew Hayes
Ashley Hunter
Brianna Kezner
Francesca Lansburg
Kristen Martin
Jamie Piperato
Violeta Rivera
Becky Schwartzman
Alycia Sciascia
Ashley Seeger
Kara Silverman
Scott Stampfl
Corinne Valenti
Claire Wickersham
Megan Wise
Faculty/Staff
Marie Agen
Vicki Johnson
Noelle Chaddock Paley
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Lori Schlicht
Community Partners
Aaron Baier
Kim Mullins
Mary Jane Uttech
Student Groups
Etta Sigma Gamma Health Honorary
SUNY Cortland Emergency Medical Services
SUNY Cortland’s AmeriCorps Members for 2011-12
Joyce Allen
Alex Aloi
Pierre Barosy
Jason Benza
Paloma Bido
Kathleen Burns
Rebekah Caforio
Adam Campbell
Jermaine Campbell
James Cantatore
Joanna Cimini
Christina DeCorse
Karli DeGraw
Alexis Fairbanks
Lori Forshee
Janeille Frazenburg
Nicholas Gaynor
Cassidy Harahan
Michelle McGovern
Deanna Moore
Chelsea Murray
Rayne Perry
Nicole Petit
Jordan Ramos
Sarah Redfield
Ilianatacha Rosa
Amy Riotto
Theresa Ruswick
Matthew Santorufo
Kat Stevens
Caitlin Sullivan
Sara Watrous
Jenna Wegzyn
MaryJane Wood
Samuel VanBuskirk
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, served as advisor to 40 SUNY Cortland students as they gained valuable experience working at the Empire State Marathon and Expo held Oct. 21 in Syracuse, N.Y. Sport management, kinesiology, Dartfish Club and Running Club students assisted with event management, video broadcasting, sponsorship analysis, video performance analysis and the event's green initiative. Seven students and Dodds ran either the half or full marathon.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, had his article, “Wandering the Web - Exploring Information of Japanese Americans’ Experiences in Internment Camps During World War II,” published in the journal Against the Grain, 28.
Harry M. Sydow
Harry M. Sydow, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, will earn the title of lecturer IV emeritus when he retires from the College on Aug. 31. He joined SUNY Cortland in July 2001 and is a coordinator/supervisor of field studies.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, had her critical review of the exhibition, “Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie” (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pa.) published in the current issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism.
Ben Lovett
Ben Lovett, Psychology Department, recently had his study, “Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and Speed of Performance,” published in the Journal of Attention Disorders. Lovett conducted the study in collaboration with researchers at Syracuse University.
Maaike Oldemans
Maaike Oldemans, Memorial Library, recently had her chapter, “Developing Library Services for International Students,” published in Improving Library Services in Support of International Students and English as a Second Language (ESL) Learners, by Leila June Rod-Welch.
Tara Mahoney, Kate Polasek and Larissa True
Tara Mahoney, Sport Management Department, and Kate Polasek and Larissa True, Kinesiology Department, delivered “An Examination of Participants in Women’s Specific Events” at the Sport Marketing Association Conference, held Oct. 22-24 in Philadelphia, Pa.
Melissa A. Morris
Melissa A. Morris, Physics Department, had two postdoctoral researchers visit SUNY Cortland for 10 days in late May to work on her NASA project, “The Formation Environment of Chondrules in Planetesimal Impact Plumes.” They were visiting from University of Oxford and Montreal, Canada.
Also, Morris served on a NASA review panel in early June.
In late June, Morris and Anthony Terzolo, her undergraduate student research assistant, presented posters at the Gordon Research Conference on the Origin of Solar Systems. Morris and Terzolo presented “The Indirect Detection of Liquid Water in Extrasolar Protoplanetary Disks,” and Morris and four coauthors presented “Modeling Collisional Ejecta in 3-D with Adaptive Mesh Refinement.” The conference was at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, recently learned that her poem “Wherefore Art Thou?” was accepted for publication by Star*Line, the print journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. “I'm Going to Make You Love Me,” a speculative piece, will be in the upcoming issue, Star*Line 41.3, July 2018.