Lorraine Berry
Lorraine Berry, NeoVox, interviewed Ryan Gattis, author of the novel, All Involved, which chronicles the six days of the Los Angeles Riots of 1992. The interview can be found online on Salon.
Also, Berry had her essay on the new language of grief published in Salon. The essay was picked up by Literary Hub as a featured essay as well: http://lithub.com/lithub-daily-july-29-2015/
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had a co-authored article, “Opposing Innovations: Race and Reform in the West Philadelphia Community Free School, 1969-1978,” published in the History of Education Quarterly. This piece examines competing conceptions of “innovation” at work in the creation and operation of the West Philadelphia Community Free School, 1969-1978. The article pays particular attention to the range of values and goals amongst stakeholders in the school's community/university/district partnership and argues that the burden of reconciling opposing innovations fell unevenly upon the teachers and community members.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, recently joined the Northeast Regional Planning Group of Amnesty International (AI) headquartered in Boston, Mass. Currently, she is the coordinator of the Ithaca Chapter of AI and the faculty advisor to the SUNY Cortland AI student group.
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Geography Department, was awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program to travel to Nigeria to work with Alabi Soneye at the University of Lagos. They will be collaborating on research in Sustainable Urban Transportation.
Their project is part of a broader initiative that will pair 51 African Diaspora scholars with one of 43 higher education institutions and collaborators in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda to work together on curriculum co-development, research, graduate teaching, training and mentoring activities in the coming months. The visiting fellows will work with their hosts on a wide range of projects that include controlling malaria, strengthening peace and conflict studies, developing a new master’s degree in emergency medicine, training and mentoring graduate students in criminal justice, archiving African indigenous knowledge, creating low cost water treatment technologies, building capacity in microbiology and pathogen genomics, and developing a forensic accounting curriculum. To deepen the ties among the faculty members and between their home and host institutions, the program is providing support to several program alumni to enable them to build on successful collaborative projects they conducted in previous years.
The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program, now in its sixth year, is designed to increase Africa’s brain circulation, build capacity at the host institutions, and develop long-term, mutually-beneficial collaborations between universities in Africa and the United States and Canada. It is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE) in collaboration with United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa) in Nairobi, Kenya, which coordinates the activities of the Advisory Council. A total of 385 African Diaspora Fellowships have now been awarded for scholars to travel to Africa since the program’s inception in 2013.
Fellowships match host universities with African-born scholars and cover the expenses for project visits of between 21 and 90 days, including transportation, a daily stipend, and the cost of obtaining visas and health insurance. See full list of 2018 projects, hosts and scholars and their universities.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement’s Office of Service-Learning, has secured a $500 New York Campus Compact grant for a roundtable discussion that will focus on economic mobility in Cortland County. Broome Community College’s Civic Engagement Center will help guide the planning and execution of this event’s deliberative discussion format. The discussion, scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 21, is part of the greater Cortland community’s economic Inequality Initiative.
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, was an invited presenter at the SOPHE/CDC Institute for Higher Education (IHE) Academy, held March 20 and 21 in Atlanta, Ga. The IHE Academy works with teams from professional preparation programs across the country on refining and updating curricula and skills, so their programs provide their students with the most current essential tools required to teach health and physical education with a focus on health education teacher preparation.
Also, Hodges presented a poster on Educational Support Professionals: “Hidden Assets in Plain Sight” at the annual conference of the Society for Public Health Education held March 21 to 24 in Atlanta.
Syed Pasha and Ralph Dudgeon
Syed Pasha, Communication Studies Department, and Ralph Dudgeon, Performing Arts Department, will team teach a new two-week class in India called “World Cultures and Communication” as part of SUNY Cortland’s Study Abroad Program. Students selected to be part of the class will travel to India for two weeks.
Mary Gfeller, Claus Schubert and Christopher Donohue
Mary Gfeller, Claus Schubert and Christopher Donohue, Mathematics Department, were informed that their paper, “Using Group Explorer in Teaching Abstract Algebra,” was accepted by the International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. The paper was authored by Schubert and Gfeller, faculty in the Mathematics Department, and Donohue, a former graduate student.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had two interviews published in Spectre Journal. The first examines teacher organizing in Philadelphia during Covid-19, and the second interviews two educators in Vancouver, Canada about their recent union organizing efforts.
Robert J. Spitzer
Robert J. Spitzer, Distinguished Service Professor political science emeritus and author, was featured in WalletHub’s recent article titled “Cities with the Biggest Homicide Rate Problems,” written by Adam McCann and published April 26.