Jeffery Swartwood
Jeffery Swartwood, Psychology Department, recently had his college textbook titled Educational Psychology published by BVT Publishing. The textbook covers traditional topics in the field, but adds a unique interdisciplinary perspective and expanded coverage for special learning needs.
Ben Wodi
Ben Wodi, Health Department, spent four weeks partnering with public health professionals at the University of Port Harcourt and the Rivers State Primary Health Care Management Board in Nigeria to assess the implementation of the United Nation’s 2000 Millennium Development Goals 4, 5 and 6, as well as prospects of achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal 3 for health and wellness throughout the state. Lessons learned will guide programs aimed at reducing morbidity/mortality from preventable diseases in the sub-Saharan nation of Nigeria. As the Principal Investigator, Wodi has established a team in the state that will continue the research initiative.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, recently learned that her poem “Three’s A Crowd” was accepted for publication in the upcoming anthology Hay(na)ku 15, edited by Eileen R. Tabios and forthcoming from Meritage Press.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by Reed College in Oregon to deliver a campus-wide book talk on her book Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China and to teach a class on her book Red Lights on Nov. 15.
Kevin B. Sheets
Kevin B. Sheets, History Department, had an article, “Talking Toward Success: In the World of the 19th Century, Social Climbers Used Conversation to Scale the Ladder,” published in the Fall 2022 issue of Forum, the quarterly magazine of Phi Kappa Phi.
Kevin Sheets and Randi Storch
Kevin Sheets and Randi Storch, History Department, were awarded a $190,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support their “Forever Wild: Americans and Their Land in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era” program, which provides professional development for K-12 humanities teachers from across the nation. This is their eighth grant from the NEH since 2012. Their program invites two cohorts of teachers to each spend a week at SUNY Cortland’s Camp Huntington facility on Raquette Lake to develop new understandings of US history and to develop innovative teaching approaches using place-based pedagogies.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, had footage from her interview with Jose Sadana included in a Dec. 14 Pacifica radio segment on the impact of elders in prison and COVID, titled “Caging in COVID.” The footage originally aired on Ritz-Deutch’s weekly radio show, the WRFI Human Rights and Social Justice Program. The Pacifica show is part of a larger program on COVID, Race and Democracy and the first nationally produced radio program in some years.
Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, had her book, Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College, published by Duke University Press in August.
Quincy Loney
Quincy Loney, Mathematics Department, was invited to present selected results from his doctoral dissertation at the 1,072nd meeting of the American Mathematical Society held Sept. 10-11 at Cornell University. Quincy’s talk, “Decomposition of Level-1 Representations of D_4^(1) with Respect to its Subalgebra G_2^(1) in the Spinor Construction,” was given as a part of the special session on Kac-Moody Lie Algebras, Vertex Algebras and Related Topics.
Jose Ortiz
Jose Ortiz, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, published two articles, one in the Ethnic Studies Pedagogies journal and another in the Association of Mexican American Educators Journal:
Ortiz, J. (2025). "The Potential Role of In Lak’ech and the Nahui Ollin in Nurturing Social Emotional Learning." Ethnic Studies Pedagogies, 3(1), 192-205. https://www.ethnicstudiespedagogies.org/gallery/Vol3-Issue1-29_PotentialRole.pdf
Ortiz, J. (2025). "Using Testimonios to Enhance Social Emotional Learning Skills for High School Latina/o/x Students." Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 19(1), 32-61. https://doi.org/10.24974/amae.19.1.519