David L. Snyder
David L. Snyder, Sport Management Department, served as an invited panelist at a symposium titled “Baseball and the Law: America’s National Pastimes.” The symposium was presented by the Albany Government Law Review with the Government Law Center and was held at Albany Law School on April 11.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), delivered a keynote on gender and the law at The Gender Construction of Society Conference held in April at Cantemir University, Bucharest, Romania. It will be published in a special issue of Journal of Research in Gender Studies in 2017.
Christian Berenguer and Christopher Gutierrez
Christian Berenguer ’16 and Christopher Gutierrez ’17, graduate assistants in the Recreational Sports Department, worked with a group of 20 Cortland students, staff and community members during the summer months to train and prepare for the Dick's Sporting Goods Half Marathon, in which they competed on Sept. 22. “The group started off with a few individuals who simply wanted to run a race together, but then exploded to a group of 20 individuals,” said Gutierrez. The team name, NARP, an acronym for “Non-Athletic Regular People,” was created as an all-inclusive team for all fitness levels. The name was designed to encourage participants of the campus community to join in this race. More information can be found on Binghamton’s Fox 40 website story titled, “Dick's Greater Binghamton Marathon Offers Races For All Ages.”
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication and Media Studies Department, participated in a panel discussion at the 13th annual conference of the International Association for Literary Journalism at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in May in Vienna, Austria. He discussed “Internationalizing American Campuses: Teaching World Literary Journalism.”
Also at the conference, the second “John C. Hartsock Award for Best Article” published in Literary Journalism Studies for the previous publication year was awarded. The recipient was Julie Wheelwright of the City University of London for her article on the ethical relationships in Gay Talese’s Thy Neighbor’s Wife. The award was created by IALJS in 2017. Hartsock was the founding editor of the peer-reviewed Literary Journalism Studies, the official scholarly journal of the IALJS. Previously unreported was the first award recipient, Leslie Cowling of the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, for 2016 publication year.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, was invited to lecture and help with mushroom identifications at the Northeast Mycological Foray (NEMF) held in July at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. The annual NEMF meeting drew 250 participants. Baroni’s talk, “Mushrooms with “Pink” Colored Spore Deposits Found in the Northeast,” addressed the diversity and taxonomy of pink-spored mushrooms. Also, Baroni was invited to present the keynote lecture at the 2016 Bill Russell Foray in August, held by the Central Pennsylvania Mycological Club at the Sieg Research Center at Lock Haven University (Pa). He presented “Exploring for Biodiversity of Neotropical Macrofungi: A Glimpse into the Adventures of a Mycologist” to the 50 participants, which included biologists from nearby Pennsylvania State University.
Maria Timberlake
Maria Timberlake, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had her article, “Recognizing Ableism in Educational Initiatives: Reading between the Lines” published in the June issue of Research in Educational Policy and Management.
Samuel Avery
Samuel Avery, Communication Studies Department, recently had his film, “Glimpse,” accepted into the 2016 Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival. Watch Film.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, was named last fall as the managing editor of a new journal, The Reading League Journal. The journal articles are written by top researchers from around the world and summarizes scientific findings on reading development and reading difficulties/disabilities. The unique feature of this publication is that it is not written for other researchers but rather for educational professionals working in schools (teachers, administrators, speech pathologists, and school psychologists). The journal will have three issues per year, fall, winter and spring. The first issue was published in January.
Peter M. McGinnis
Peter M. McGinnis, Kinesiology Department, was honored by USA Track and Field with the 2012 C. Harmon Brown Sports Medicine and Science Award at their annual meeting held Dec. 1 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The award was presented to McGinnis at the National Pole Vault Summit on Jan. 18 in Reno, Nev. McGinnis is the biomechanist for the pole vault event for USA Track and Field. Since 1983, McGinnis has provided scientific services to elite U.S. pole vaulters and their coaches to help them prepare for the Olympic Games, International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Championships, and other international competitions.
George McDermott
George McDermott, geography emeritus, will give a presentation at a special event honoring women during World War II being held Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Henderson County (N.C.) Heritage Museum. McDermott, who resides in Brevard, N.C., is a World War II veteran and the author of Women Recall the War Years: Memories of World War II, a collection of mini-memoirs of 27 American and nine European women describing their experiences during the war. The diversity of their roles, the hardships they endured and the contributions they made are amazing and a tribute to their resolve and ability. The locale of their stories ranges over six continents. None of the women are well known or famous, just young women who performed extraordinary tasks during extraordinary times.