Marley Barduhn
Marley Barduhn, Teacher Education Office, participated as a member of the American Council on Education’s (ACE) Internationalization Site Visit Team to Richard Stockton College in Galloway, N.J., from March 21-23. The team reviewed the college’s internationalization plan as a product of their work in the 2010-11 cohort of ACE’s Internationalization Laboratory.
Brittany Adams
Brittany Adams, Literacy Department, was awarded the Gary Moorman Early Career Literacy Scholar Award from the American Reading Forum.
Janet L. Huie
Janet L. Huie, Biological Sciences Department, presented “Application of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (scCO2) for Sterilization of Medical Sutures” at a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pre-investigational device meeting, on behalf of NovaSterilis Inc. The meeting was held June 7 in Silver Spring, Md.
Jacqueline Augustine and Kevin Dames
Jacqueline Augustine and Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, recently co-authored the manuscript “Efficacy of an Audio-Based Biofeedback Intervention to Modify Running Gait in Female Runners” which was published in November in the Journal of Sports Rehabilitation.
Brittany Adams
Brittany Adams, Literacy Department, had an article titled “Beyond Perpetrators, Victims, and Survivors: Young Adult Literature as Bystander Intervention Education” published in Volume 49, Issue 3 of The ALAN Review.
Joshua Peluso, Chris Cubells, Eli Simon and Matt Mccarthy
Joshua Peluso, Chris Cubells, Eli Simon and Matt Mccarthy, all from Systems Administration and Web Services, presented on DevOPs at the SUNY Technology Conference on June 19 in Lake Placid, N.Y. The session, titled “DevOps Stack: Systems Engineers and Software Engineers Living Together,” explored concepts of leadership, teamwork and technologists working together in a cohesive, empathetic and productive environment.
Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, had an article titled “The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks” published in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, keynoted a national conference on character education in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Nov. 17. The following week, Lickona conducted “Smart & Good Schools” seminars for teachers and school leaders in Singapore. The week of Dec. 5, he speaks to parents at the Guadalajara campus of Tec de Monterrey, Mexico, on “Raising Children of Character.” Lickona’s Character Matters book was published last year in Spanish by Producciones Educacion Aplicada.
Gigi Peterson
Gigi Peterson, History Department, presented a poster session at the annual conference of the National Council of the Social Studies, which centered on the theme “Advancing Social Justice.” Due to the virtual nature of the conference, held Dec. 4 through 6, her presentation, “A Community Action Project Pilot: Teacher Candidates Take ‘Informed Action,’" will be on online display through April. She looks forward to adding sections on the Fall 2020 Community Action Projects carried out by teacher candidates in her Foundations of Social Studies class.
Gigi A. Peterson
Gigi A. Peterson, History Department, will lead a program that includes several SUNY Cortland students and alumni in a Universität Potsdam Summer School, “Teaching the SDGs” (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.) The program takes place in Germany from Saturday, Aug. 27 through Saturday, Sept. 3. The group will participate in “Engaging with Global Citizenship,” one of several courses at the summer school. This class centers on issues of migration, language and culture and identities. Instructors from the fields of English language education, literature and history will guide participants in developing their understanding of historical and contemporary migrations, and of transformative, culturally responsive pedagogy that empowers diverse learners. Students began background preparation through modules in history and language and culture education, and they are meeting their German partners virtually before the week in Potsdam.
The SUNY Cortland instructors include two area social studies teachers who continue to collaborate with Peterson and the Adolescence Education Social Studies Program as SUNY Cortland alumni-teacher associates. They are Caitlin Goodwin ’11, M.S.Ed. ’16, McGraw Middle School, and Taylor Weigand '10, Binghamton High School. Both have extensive international and classroom experience and will be important contributors to this international learning community.