Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by Brown University to deliver a campus-wide book talk on March 9. She will discuss her new book Tongzhi Living: Same-Sex Attracted Men in Postsocialist China, published in 2015 by University of Minnesota Press.
Mark Dodds, Jordan Kobritz, Justin Lovich, Tara Mahoney and Ryan Vooris
Mark Dodds, Jordan Kobritz, Justin Lovich, Tara Mahoney and Ryan Vooris, all Sport Management Department faculty members, presented research at the 29th Annual Conference of the Sport and Recreation Law Association (SRLA) held March 2-5 in New Orleans, La. Also, Dodds was recognized with the President’s Service Award for service to SRLA.
Jim Hokanson
Jim Hokanson, Kinesiology Department, was invited to present a talk titled “Physical Activity and the AlterG Treadmill” as part of the Department of Nursing and Physical Therapy’s Seminar Series at the University of Salamanca, Spain. The presentation highlighted previous research with the AlterG treadmill, carried out at SUNY Cortland’s Exercise Physiology Lab.
Deborah Matheron
Deborah Matheron, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, presented her research on motor speech disorder in a platform paper presentation at the 19th Biennial Conference on Motor Speech: Motor Speech Disorders and Motor Speech Control on Feb. 24 in Savannah, Ga. Her paper, “Temporal differences in a quasi-speech task: A comparison of highly intelligible speakers with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and neurologically intact speakers,” was well received.
This is an international conference organized by Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, one of the nation's foremost providers for medical and physical rehabilitation for adults and children. The conference focuses on injury or disease processes affecting neuromuscular control of speech such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, stroke, and birth defects. Relevant topics included experimental studies of sensory or motor function in the pulmonary, laryngeal, velopharyngeal and orofacial systems of persons with motor speech disorders, diagnostic evaluation or treatment of disrupted intelligibility, speech naturalness, voice, articulation and prosody in motor speech disorders in children and adults, as well as advances in uses of neuroimaging to support treatment effect.
Eric Edlund
Eric Edlund, Physics Department, presented a poster at the 2020 American Physical Society’s Division of Plasma Physics conference titled “Overview of measurements from the Wendelstein 7-X phase contrast imaging diagnostic and plans for the OP2 campaign.”
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, co-authored a book titled Sex Workers and Criminalization in North America and China: Ethical and Legal Issues in Exclusionary Regimes, which was published Jan. 24 by Springer.
Li Jin
Li Jin, Geology Department, co-authored an article recently published in the journal Sustainability. The paper examines the impacts of climate change and population growth on the water quality of Awash River in Ethiopia where water resources are limited and comprehensive monitoring datasets are lacking. The outcomes of the work help evaluate the efficiency of mitigation measures to curb river water pollution. The paper is titled “Impacts of Climate Change and Population Growth on River Nutrient Loads in a Data Scarce Region: The Upper Awash River (Ethiopia).”
Adam Ferguson M ’12
Adam Ferguson M ’12, English Department, presented his paper “Written Beyond the Body: Queer Narratives, Transgender Identity, and Sem-erotics” at the 2021 Conference of the Semiotic Society of America. The virtual conference was held from Oct. 20 to 23.
James Hokanson
James Hokanson, Kinesiology Department, served as a mentor for kinesiology graduate student Lindsey Taylor, who presented her poster at the “Graduate Research: Making a Difference in New York Partnering with SUNY and CUNY” event held Feb. 11 in Albany, N.Y. Taylor’s poster is titled “Whole-Body High-Intensity Interval Training as an Alternative to Endurance Training.”
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, presented an invited talk titled “The Ethic of Ubuntu and the End of Penality,” at the Symposium on Mass Incarceration, Religion, and Abolitionism, held Oct. 5 at Cornell University.
Also, Nagel was the keynote speaker for the annual Arts and Science lecture on Oct. 25 at Clarkson University. Her talk, “The Many Faces of Abolitionism Discourse: From Chattel Slavery, to Prisons and Prostitution,” also served as the opening lecture for the first Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference at the university.