Kevin B. Sheets
Kevin B. Sheets, History Department, was recently elected to the North American board of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History. Also, he was appointed to a three-year term to the Organization of American Historians’ Committee on Teaching, which works to improve the teaching of history in K-12 and college settings.
Celeste McNamara
Celeste McNamara, History Department, presented a paper titled “Illicit Sex in Early Modern Venice” at the 2020 American Historical Association Conference in New York City, in a session organized by the Society for Italian Historical Studies.
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, was quoted in an NBC news article on ballpark netting after a young girl was struck by a foul ball during a Yankees-Twins game at Yankee Stadium on Sept. 20.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department and Sutton Richmond from the University of Florida had their article titled “A static posturography guide to implementing time-to-boundary” published in the Journal of Biomechanics. This work summarizes the state-of-the-field in time to boundary methodology, interpretation, and application for postural stability assessments. As a supplement, they also share a full MATLAB script and sample data to produce the outcome for universal access to the methodology, a resource hitherto not available. Lack of comprehensive, transparent methodology presentation in past literature has limited comparisons among studies or feasibility of establishing normative data given possibility of dissimilar data processing routines.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of a chapter titled, “The Unitary Executive and the Bush Presidency” appearing in the new book, The George W. Bush Presidency, published by Nova Publishers.
Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish, had her article “Challenges and opportunities in language teaching: ‘Connecting’ the dots,” published in the August issue of the New York State Language Association Journal. Her article addresses the “connections” goal area of the national standards for foreign language learning and provides a blueprint for foreign language educators to use in meeting this goal area.
Eric Edlund
Eric Edlund, Physics Department, had an article titled “Overview of the Wendelstein 7-X phase contrast imaging diagnostic” published in the Review of Scientific Instruments. View the online version of the article here.
Hilary Wong
Hilary Wong, Memorial Library, presented at the virtual Great Lakes Science Boot Camp on June 23. She gave a lightning talk titled “Library Outreach during COVIDity.”
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies and Philosophy Department, co-edited “The End of Prisons: Reflections from the Decarceration Movement,” published in Philosophy Department chair Andrew Fitz-Gibbon’s social philosophy series of Rodopi.
David Barclay, Jason Graves and Michael Kloczko
David Barclay, Geology Department, wrote a paper that will be published in Quaternary Science Reviews in December. Two former Cortland students, Jason Graves ’01 and M.S.Ed. ’05, and Michael Kloczko ’03, co-authored the paper, titled “Late Holocene Glacial History of the Copper River Delta, Coastal South-Central Alaska, and Controls on Valley Glacier Fluctuations.” The paper details the glacial-geomorphic histories of four glaciers, including the longest and most detailed tree-ring dated glacier record yet developed for Alaska, and shows solar irradiance to be the primary climatic driver of glacier fluctuations prior to the 20th century.