Henry Steck
Henry Steck, Political Science Department and Project on Eastern and Central Europe, recently presented a paper titled “Squeezing Liberal Democracy: Recent Developments in the United States,” at the 22nd annual conference held at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies of the University of Zagreb in Dubrovnik, Croatia. He also delivered “‘There is No Santa Claus’: Confronting the Challenges of Educating Students for the Real World of Modern Democracy” at a conference on “Cha(lle)nging (sic) Democracy at the Beginning of the 21st Century.” The conference was held at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited to deliver a campus-wide talk at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., on Monday, Feb. 23. She will discuss “Health and Social Activism of Self-Identified Gay Men in Postsocialist China” from 4:30-6 p.m. in Rockefeller Hall, Room 115.
Angela Pagano and Noyce Scholars Dominick Fantacone and Sarah Smith
Angela Pagano, Biological Sciences Department, along with SUNY Cortland Noyce Scholars Dominick Fantacone and Sarah Smith, presented a workshop session at the Noyce Northeast Regional Conference on Oct. 14 in Philadelphia, Pa. Their session was titled “Bringing Space Down to Earth! Teaching Secondary Science Using NASA Materials.” Context-based inquiry teaching approaches, especially those emphasizing links between science, technology and society, have been shown to improve student attitude toward science, increase understanding of scientific concepts and the nature of science, and reduce gender differences in attitude toward science. Cornell University’s Center for Radiophysics & Space Research Education & Public Outreach (CRSR-EPO) partnered with SUNY Cortland’s adolescence education: science program to offer professional development workshops aimed at creating context-driven, inquiry-based lessons using NASA content, teaching materials and activities. During the session, presenters provided an overview of NASA materials available to educators, worked through a selection of activities, and provided examples of how these materials can be incorporated into the secondary science curriculum. Access to plans created in the professional development series was provided.
Al Sofalvi
Al Sofalvi, Health Department, was named a Fellow of the American Association for Health Education at the recent American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD) national convention held in San Diego, Calif.
David L. Snyder
David L. Snyder, Sport Management Department, served as an invited panelist at a symposium titled “Baseball and the Law: America’s National Pastimes.” The symposium was presented by the Albany Government Law Review with the Government Law Center and was held at Albany Law School on April 11.
Dianne Wellington
Dianne Wellington is invited to be a panelist at the Crafting the Irresistible: Creative - Critical Literacies and Communities virtual symposium hosted by the University at Arkansas-Fayetteville Community Literacies Collaboratory on Oct. 21. The symposium will explore how the interplay between the creative and critical can bolster literacies scholarship, pedagogical practices, political and activist expression, and community formation and transformation. Wellington will be presenting as a panelist about imaginative pedagogies.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, is serving as a visitor at the Max Planck Institute for Ethnic and Religious Diversity in Goettingen, Germany during the spring semester.
Craig A. Foster
Craig A. Foster, Psychology Department, and undergraduate students Emalee L. Sickles and Emily E. Camp, had their article titled “Wooooooo: Old Bovines in New Twaddle” published in the May/June 2023 issue of Skeptical Inquirer. The article evolved out of work in the Spring 2022 Psychology of Pseudoscience class.
Regina B. Grantham
Regina B. Grantham, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, attended the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention in November in Los Angeles, Calif. She was actively involved in education seminars as well as the association’s Board of Ethics. She co-presented with the board in an oral seminar, “Ethical Challenges: Be in the ASHA Leader for the Right Reasons,” and poster session, “Suspect Ethical Misconduct? The Code of Ethics (2016) Is a Path to Resolution.”
Debbie Warnock
Debbie Warnock, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented a paper on the effects of student debt on transitions to young adulthood last month at the annual meetings of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, held Nov. 4-7 in Denver.