Gregory Phelan
Gregory Phelan, Chemistry Department, awarded the SUNY Cortland Chemistry Award to high school junior, Dylan Reahr. He attends the Lafayette (N.Y.) Big Picture School. The award was presented at the Greater Syracuse Scholastic Science Fair, held March 25 at the Oncenter. Phelan and Kerri Freese, Chemistry Department, hosted a booth at the Scholastic Science Fair to promote sciences at SUNY Cortland and Noyce scholarships to graduating high school seniors.
Lindsey Darvin
Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, had her article “When virtual spaces meet the limitations of traditional sport: gender stereotyping in NBA2K” accepted for publication in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.
Also, she was on a Tucker Center Talks podcast, which is a co-production of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport and WiSP Sports. Her talk “Research of Women in Sports Leadership” can be heard online.
Bonni Hodges, Lori Reichel and Donna Videto
Bonni Hodges, Lori Reichel and Donna Videto , Health Department, were involved in creating the recently released National Health Education Standards, 3rd edition, which will guide the U.S. school health curriculum.
David A. Kilpatrick
David A. Kilpatrick, professor emeritus of psychology, was invited by the United States Library of Congress to present a talk on dyslexia on April 12. Also, he was invited to present the workshop titled “Word-Level Reading Difficulties: Implications for Assessment, Instruction, and Intervention” at the annual conferences of the West Virginia Association of School Psychologists on April 19 and the Kansas Association of School Psychologists on April 28.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, will present “Promoting Social Justice and Reading Skills with Multicultural Informational Picture Books” at the International Literacy Association annual convention in July in St. Louis, Mo.
Gretchen Herrmann
Gretchen Herrmann, Library, had her article, “New Lives from New Goods: Garage Sales as Rites of Passage,” published in the most recent issue of Ethnology. Given the importance of the amount and types of consumer goods owned by people to the creation of personal identities, the public disposal and acquisition of such possessions in garage sales can signal a shift in life orientation. Moving, downsizing, selling off baby items or grandmother’s effects after her death all constitute publicly engaged rituals of transition.
Michelle Cryan
Michelle Cryan, Publications and Electronic Media Office, developed a prototype for an app designed to teach sign language to pre-verbal children. She submitted the app project as the thesis for her master’s degree in Information Design and Technology at SUNYIT. The paper and a prototype of the app can be found at http://people.sunyit.edu/~cryanm/. Cryan wrote and illustrated a lift-the-flap sign language book that was published in 2007 by Gallaudet Press.
Orvil White
Orvil White, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, represented the university's chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines, at the 43rd Biennial Convention held Aug. 7-9 in St. Louis, Mo. White currently serves as vice president of the SUNY Cortland chapter and attended the convention as the chapter’s voting delegate.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, gave lectures in early October at St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia on American and international literary journalism. He was invited by Russia’s oldest university as part of the Russia Program sponsored by Stony Brook University. In addition, he participated in a roundtable discussion on journalism ethics at the university, and gave a lecture to the general public on literary journalism at the bookstore Word Order in St. Petersburg. This was his first return to Russia in 24 years. From 1989 to 1993 he reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union for several publications.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, presented a paper at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading international conference on July 15 in Kona, Hawaii. His topic was “The Phonological Proficiency Hypothesis of Orthographic Learning: An Investigation with Kindergarteners, First Graders and Skilled Fifth-Grade Readers.”