Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, coauthored an article titled “Sin City Betting on the Major Leagues? An Analysis of the Sport-based Approach to Economic Redevelopment in Las Vegas,” published in July in Sport in Society.
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Geography Department, had her promotion to SUNY Distinguished Professor confirmed in June. Johnston-Anumonwo has a long tenure at SUNY Cortland and a distinguished record of scholarship at the nexus of race, gender and urban geography. Also, she has a distinguished record of academic and professional service, making significant contributions to SUNY Cortland as well as the geography discipline. Her promotion is a significant accomplishment at SUNY Cortland and across SUNY as she is the first woman to be named a SUNY Distinguished Professor from a Geography Department. With her promotion, SUNY Cortland leads SUNY in Distinguished Professorships in the field of geography (three) along with the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Johnston-Anumonwo joins the ranks of Cortland Geography Department’s two Distinguished Teaching Professors David Miller and John Willmer.
Garrett Otto and Kevin Dames
Garrett Otto, Mathematics Department, and Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, co-authored a paper with Sutton Richmond, University of Florida, that was recently published in Journal of Biomechanics. The study, “Characterization of trial duration in traditional and emerging postural control measures,” establishes minimum trial durations necessary to acquire reliable force platform-derived outcomes. Recommendations from this project can improve consistency in collecting balance data for future studies and enhance confidence in clinical assessments of sensorimotor function.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, presented “Why is Michael Jordan Suing a Grocery Store” and “Sponsorship in Brazil: Compliance with the FCPA and CCA” at the Sport Marketing Association Conference, held Oct. 22-24 in Philadelphia, Pa.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has had an invited article accepted for publication in the Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism tentatively to be published at the end of this year. His article examines the place of the aesthetics of everyday experience in narrative literary journalism, and draws from his recently published book Literary Journalism and the Aesthetics of Experience (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016).
Szilvia Kadas
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, gave an invited lecture titled “Sustainable Design Thinking and Design Research Methods in a Complex Global World” on June 6 at the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), Holon, Israel.
Varya McCaslin-Doyle and Krista Natale
Varya McCaslin-Doyle and Krista Natale, The Help Center, presented at the SUNY Wizard Conference held in Syracuse on Nov. 16 and 17. They prepared a panel discussion to talk about the challenges of training a successful student workforce in the continuously changing world of information technology.
David A. Kilpatrick
David A. Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, did a spoken presentation at the New England Research on Dyslexia Society on Friday April 4. The conference was held at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions. His presentation was “The persistence of phonemic proficiency deficits in high school students with reading disability: How orthographic mapping theory explains dyslexia.” David represented SUNY while other presenters were from Harvard, Yale, MIT, the University of Connecticut and Florida State University, which for decades has been a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development funding hub for dyslexia.
Deborah Matheron
Deborah Matheron, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, presented a research poster at the Biennial Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital Conference on Motor Speech on March 4 in Newport Beach, Calif. Her poster was titled, “Speech breathing and laryngeal aerodynamics in individuals with Multiple Sclerosis.”
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna M. Videto and Aimee Greeley
Bonni C. Hodges, Donna M. Videto and Aimee Greeley, Health Department, presented on the School Health System Change Project throughout the fall. In October, they discussed “Plotting a New Course: Letting the Data Drive Your School Health Program” at the American School Health Association conference in South Carolina. In November, Hodges represented the project at the American Public Health Association conference in Boston to present “Barriers to School and Community Health Organization Collaborations.” Videto and Greeley shared the project’s work in November at the New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance conference via two presentations, “ Embracing Health, Wellness, and the Common Core” and “School Health Systems: Creating Your Own Success.”