Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, was a participant in the Assembly on Health Equity and Prosperity held Aug. 4-5. Hosted by the University of Maryland’s Center for Health Equity and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the assembly brought practitioners, academics, business leaders, and government officials together to build skills and capabilities to empower local actions to improve health equity and prosperity.
Helena Baert
Helena Baert, Physical Education Department, was the recipient of SUNY Cortland’s Tools of Engagement Project’s (TOEP) first award for completing TOEP learning activities. More information about TOEP can be found on these links: TOEP Cortland Team and SUNY TOEP.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had a co-authored article published in Journal of Educational Change. The article, “Educators Learning through Struggle: Political Education in Social Justice Caucuses,” explicates how five forms of political education support educators’ political learning within and beyond their unions.
Mark A. Sutherlin
Mark A. Sutherlin, Kinesiology Department, gave two presentations at the National Athletic Trainers’ Association 68th Clinical Symposia & AT Expo, was accepted into the NATA Foundation Research/Faculty Mentor Program, and participated as part of the Athletic Training Research Agenda Focus Group this summer in Houston, Texas.
Joshua Peluso '00
Joshua Peluso '00, Information Systems and Security, earned his Information Systems Security Professional Certification (CISSP), awarded by International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium. Meeting all certification requirements, which include the professional experience prerequisite, adoption of the (ISC)2 Code of Ethics, and successful performance on required competency examinations.
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, gave a talk on “Why Baseball is a Metaphor for Life” on April 15 at the Southworth Library in Dryden, N.Y.
Joshua Peck
Joshua Peck, Psychology Department, with co-authors Philip Chu and Joshua Brumberg of Queens College, had their peer-reviewed paper titled “Exercises in Anatomy, Connectivity and Morphology using Neuromorpho.org and the Allen Brain Atlas” published in the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education. The article discusses how laboratory instruction of neuroscience is often limited by the lack of physical resources and supplies and that the cost of acquiring, maintaining and updating the materials for these labs can be prohibitive. The authors recommend incorporating online, or e-learning, opportunities into undergraduate laboratory courses and describe a method using two free online databases, the Neuromorpho.org and the Allen Brain Atlas (ABA), that freely provide access to data from working brain scientists that can be modified for laboratory instruction and exercises.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, had her panel presentation approved for the College Art Association’s 105th annual conference, set for Feb. 15-17, 2017, in New York City. Her panel, titled “Manifesta at Twenty,” will discuss the 20th anniversary of the contemporary art biennial exhibition, Manifesta, which reflects the geopolitics of the European Union.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, edited a book titled Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia, published by the University of Hawaii Press in March.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, recently was contacted by BBC World Service radio to be interviewed for their show “Outside Source.” She was asked to be prepared to discuss masculinity in China and the recent publication of Little Men, a textbook for boys aimed to correct effeminate behavior. Little Men contains six chapters that encourage boys to be in touch with their masculinity and is aimed at children in the 4th and 5th grades to fight the growing “gender crisis” in the country. Part of Zheng’s recent book Tongzhi Living has analyzed the perceived “crisis” of masculinity, “feminized” boys/men, and nation-wide implemented measures in China to enhance gender difference to combat the issue.