Andrea Davalos
Andrea Davalos, Biological Sciences Department, is part of a team of collaborators assembled by Carrie Brown-Lima, director of Cornell University’s New York Invasive Species Research Institute, that works independently on different aspects of swallow-wort ecology and control. Their work, keeping with the New York Invasive Species Research Institute’s mission to connect scientific researchers with on-the-ground managers to address key New York state invasive species issues, is detailed in a July 9 Cornell Chronicle article titled “Moth provides hope against invasive swallow-wort.” Pale and black swallow-wort are rapidly invading fields and forests across the Northeast. The team, which just received a grant from the New York Department of Transportation, will release swallow-wort biocontrol moths later this summer.
Also this summer, two SUNY Cortland students are working with Davalos on the project: Jeremy Collings, who received a Summer Research Fellowship and a grant from New York State Flora Association to pursue a parallel question regarding swallow-wort management in New York State Parks; and Emily Ammons, who started this summer. Both students are mostly involved with Davalos’ project but have assisted with the biocontrol project and will continue to be involved throughout the year.
Katie Silvestri
Katie Silvestri, Literacy Department, co-authored an article about engineering and communicative literacies with K-12 students recently published in the Journal for Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER). Co-authors are Michelle Jordan of the University of Arizona, Patricia Paugh at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Mary McVee at the University at Buffalo SUNY, and Diane Schallert at the University of Texas - Austin.
The article is a state-of-the-art literature review focused on findings of 33 research articles informed by qualitative and quantitative data to foreground communicative literacies within engineering design teams at the pre-college level. The selected studies clustered under five overarching themes pertaining to: (a) engineering disciplinary communicative literacies in practice; (b) matters of access with populations underrepresented in engineering; (c) learning STEM content through engineering design; (d) affective responses to uncertainty and risk in engineering design; and (e) evaluating the quality of collaboration. With respect to the themes, the authors discuss possibilities of using literacy frameworks to deepen theoretical and methodological insights into the study of phenomena related to within-group communicative literacies in K-12 engineering spaces.
Lynn Anderson
Lynn Anderson, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, recently completed the Distinguished Visiting Professor program with the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom. The distinguished service professor spent the week lecturing, debating and working with faculty and students in the School of Sport, Tourism, and the Outdoors at UCLAN. The university published this article on its blog site:http://uclanoutdoors.blogspot.com/.
Orvil White
Orvil White, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, received an award from Srinakharinwirot University (Bangkok, Thailand) for $11,880 for the “Nature of Science,” a professional development workshop.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), delivered a talk on June 2 titled “Criminal Justice Ethics and Ubuntu” at the workshop “The Ethics of Living: Questions of Justice, Poverty, Life and Death in the Human and Natural Sciences,” held at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.
On June 14, Nagel presented her paper, “On the Strategic Uses of Abolitionism” at the International Conference on Penal Abolition in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article, “The NRA is Doomed. It Has Only Itself to Blame,” published in the Washington Post on Aug. 8.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, was a co-author on an article “The Wild Edible Mushroom Pleurocollybia cibaria from Peru is a Species of Gerhardtia in the Lyophyllaceae (Agaricales),” recently published in Cryptogamie, Mycologie. This wild edible mushroom is widely collected and a highly prized commodity sold in the Peruvian markets. Co-authors included: P. Brandon Matheny and Marisol Sánchez-García, University of Tennessee; Andriana Simoni, Hudbay Minerals, Lima Peru; María Holgado Rojas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonia Abad del Cusco, Peru; and, Genevieve M. Gates, University of Tasmania, Australia. Baroni was invited to help sort out the taxonomy of this mushroom because he and a former student, Nicole Bocsusis ’07, had published in 2008 an article, with two other co-authors and researchers from the USDA Forest Service, in the journal Mycotaxon describing a new species of Pleurocollybia from the Maya Mountains in Belize. In that paper, they also reviewed species placed in the genus Pleurocollybia on a global scale.
Lindsey Darvin
Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, had a publication titled “Voluntary occupational turnover and the experiences of former intercollegiate women assistant coaches” published in October in the Journal of Vocational Behavior.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, was invited to present a keynote lecture at Cornell University for the English Department’s Graduate Student Conference, which was held on March 15 and 16. His lecture was titled “Queer Narrative Theory and the Belongings of Form.”
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his article, “Slow Burn: Dreadful Kinship and the Weirdness of Heteronormativity in It Follows," published in the journal Studies in the Fantastic.