Angela Pagano
Angela Pagano, Biological Sciences Department, presented at the 2015 Professional Development Schools National Conference held March 5-8 in Atlanta, Ga. Her presentation was titled “The Evolution of Trust in Co-Teaching Relationships in a Clinically Rich Model of Teacher Preparation.” Findings were from the New York State Department of Education (NYSED) funded Undergraduate Clinically Rich Teacher Preparation Program.
Tracy Trachsler and Mark Dodds
Tracy Trachsler and Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, had their article, “Sport Commercialism and its Impact on Sponsorship Strategy,” published in a recent issue of Sport Management International Journal-Choregia. This paper examined how sport commercialism may create a negative influence for a consumer, which may lead to a negative purchase intent. This study compares this issue across demographics such as gender, age, type of sport and fan-avidity.
Thomas Lickona
Thomas Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, was featured as the author of How to Raise Kind Kids in a National Public Radio podcast posted on May 13 titled “Kindness Can Be Taught.” It is part of NPR’s “Parenting: Raising Awesome Kids” series.
Mark J. Prus
Mark J. Prus, Academic Affairs, has been informed that his paper, “Prevailing Wage Regulations and School Construction Costs: Cumulative Evidence from British Columbia,” coauthored with Kevin C. Duncan and Peter W. Philips, has been accepted for publication in Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, authored a book titled Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading, which was recently published in Palgrave Macmillan's Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism series.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled “The Unitary Executive and the Bush Presidency” that appears in the Summer/Fall issue of the Social Science Docket.
Karen Downey and Eric Edlund
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, and Eric Edlund, Physics Department, took the wind tunnel (WEN-D) to Smith Intermediate School for demonstrations on Thursday, March 24. The demonstrations coincided with the third-grade classes’ science lessons about weather, which involved talking about high and low pressure in relation to winds. Seven classes of third graders participated and tested their homemade and science kit anemometers with the wind tunnel. The wind tunnel was built in January 2021 by Edlund and his physics classes to study aerodynamics and lift forces.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has been invited to be a keynote speaker at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands in May for a conference on the subject of “Witnessing the 60s: A decade of change in journalism and literature.” The conference explores the rise of the “New Journalism” in the United States at that time, as well as parallel developments in what was then a divided Cold War Europe. Hartsock will speak on the causes of the New Journalism, how they were manifested in earlier periods, and how they are still with us today. The conference is May 19-20.
In other news, Hartsock spoke in Elmira on April 5 at the annual convention of the Public Historians of New York State about his new book, Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery, released in March by Cornell University Press. His talk focused on the importance of everyday life at wineries in the Finger Lakes as a basis for understanding that community’s history. He also appeared April 11 on “Bridge Street,” a news and information program on NewsChannel 9 in Syracuse, to discuss the book. In addition, to kick off this year’s Finger Lakes Literary Festival, he has been invited by host Bill Jaker to discuss the book on “Off the Page,” to be taped at the Finger Lakes Wine Center on May 6 and broadcast on May 10 on WSKG-FM Public Radio in Binghamton.
Donna K. Anderson
Donna K. Anderson, professor emerita of music, recently delivered a paper titled “Volunteer Church and College/University Choirs in the United States and Especially in Cortland, N.Y.,” at an International Choral Symposium held on Oct. 14-16 at Purkyne University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic.
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna Videto, Alexis Blavos and Page Dobbs
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna Videto, Alexis Blavos and Page Dobbs, Health Department, along with community health seniors Jerrell DeCaille, Brenna Taggerty and Maddison Terrillion, represented SUNY Cortland at the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) annual meeting held April 4 to 6 in Columbus, Ohio.
- Hodges and Videto presented their work on fostering school district and community agency collaborations.
- Hodges, Videto and Blavos presented their preliminary work in creating a framework for college health promotion.
- Blavos presented two pieces of her work related to advocacy and health communication.
- Dobbs presented two pieces of her work on college student substance use; one on e-cigarette use and the other on driving while under the influence of marijuana.
- Students DeCaille, Taggerty and Terrillion, all Eta Sigma Gamma members, were selected to compete as a team in the annual public health case study competition.