Laura J. Davies
Laura J. Davies, English Department, presented a paper at the Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference in July in Boise, Idaho.
Jim Hokanson, Ryan Fiddler and Erik Lind
Jim Hokanson, Ryan Fiddler and Erik Lind, Kinesiology Department, moderated research sessions at the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) regional meeting held Nov. 3 and 4 in Harrisburg, Pa.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, co-authored a research article titled “Relationship between socioeconomic vulnerability and ecological sustainability: The case of Aran-V-Bidgol's rangelands, Iran,” that appears in the journal Ecological Indicators.
Dennis L.C. Weng
Dennis L.C. Weng, Political Science Department, presented “Party Nomination Strategies in Taiwan’s Mixed Electoral System” at the Taiwan in the Realm of East Asia Conference on Oct. 22 at Wake Forest University, N.C.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, organized a panel and presented her paper at the annual New York Conference of Asian Studies at Vassar College in October.
Denise Knight
Denise Knight, English Department, has had her essay, “‘[a] country of whose language I knew not a word’: Charlotte Perkins Gilman In and On Italy,” accepted for inclusion in a collection of essays titled Transatlantic Women: American Women Writers in Italy. The essay is an expanded version of the conference paper that Knight gave in Florence, Italy, last June.
Melissa A. Morris
Melissa A. Morris, Physics Department, had her NASA Emerging Worlds grant proposal selected for funding in the amount of $319,000. This highly interdisciplinary grant will involve Morris, an undergraduate student and a research assistant at SUNY Cortland, as well as researchers at Arizona State University and Caltech. The entire project has been funded by NASA at a level of approximately $500,000.
Also, Morris submitted a paper, “The Effect of Multiple Particle Sizes on Cooling Rates of Chondrules Produced in Large-scale Shocks in the Solar Nebula” to Meteoritics and Planetary Science.
Also, Morris has been invited to give a talk at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. in September 2015.
Richard Kendrick
Richard Kendrick, Institute for Civic Engagement and Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented “The Engaged Campus of the 21st Century,” at SUNY Geneseo on April 10. In addition, he met with their General Education and Bringing Theory to Practice committees to discuss ways that civic engagement and high-impact learning practices might be integrated into various curricular and co-curricular programs.
Christopher D. Gascón
Christopher D. Gascón, Modern Languages Department, had his article, “Nomadic Subjectivity in Leyma López’s 2018 staging of Ana Caro’s Valor, agravio y mujer,” published in Living the Comedia: Essays Celebrating Amy Williamsen, edited by Esther Fernández and Yuri Porras, University Press of the South, 2020.
Susan Rayl
Susan Rayl, Kinesiology Department, presented a paper titled "“The Icing on the Cake”: Peter Westbrook and his World Class Fencers,” at the fourth annual conference of the Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research on March 19 at the California State University at Fullerton.