Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, had a book chapter titled “The Pleasures of Reading Camp” published by Cambridge UP in The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature, edited by Benjamin A. Kahan.
Gretchen Herrmann
Gretchen Herrmann, Library, had her article, “New Lives from New Goods: Garage Sales as Rites of Passage,” published in the most recent issue of Ethnology. Given the importance of the amount and types of consumer goods owned by people to the creation of personal identities, the public disposal and acquisition of such possessions in garage sales can signal a shift in life orientation. Moving, downsizing, selling off baby items or grandmother’s effects after her death all constitute publicly engaged rituals of transition.
Lindsey Darvin
Lindsey Darvin, Sport Management Department, had her article “When virtual spaces meet the limitations of traditional sport: gender stereotyping in NBA2K” accepted for publication in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.
Also, she was on a Tucker Center Talks podcast, which is a co-production of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport and WiSP Sports. Her talk “Research of Women in Sports Leadership” can be heard online.
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, presented the keynote to open the London conference of the International Federation of Family Development. Held Oct. 19 and 20, he presented “Raising Kind Kids” to an audience of 1,200 family educators from 70 countries. In September, Lickona spoke at South Korea’s International Forum on Human Values on the character education work of SUNY Cortland’s Center for the 4th and 5th Rs. In October, during a week-long visit to the Philippines, he addressed several conferences on fostering kindness at school and home. Most recently, Lickona spoke in Mexico City on “How to Raise Kind Kids” in a lecture tour sponsored by the organization Moders.
Joel Pape
Joel Pape, Performing Arts Department, is the recipient of a professional salary increase as per the Human Resources Office. Pape is a full-time instructional support technician.
Chris Manaseri
Chris Manaseri, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article titled “Keeping Schoolhouses in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State,” published in the Country School Journal, Volume 6.
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, recently served as the chair of the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) accreditation site visit team for the University of Nebraska-Omaha's bachelor's degree in public health.
Kim Wieczorek
Kim Wieczorek, Childhood/Early Childhood Department, attended the Association of Teacher Educators' conference in Atlanta in February as a representative to the Council for Unit Presidents and to the Delegate Assembly in her role as president of the New York State Association of Teacher Educators. At the conference, she presented a roundtable titled “Press Play and Repeat: Identifying and Documenting a Repertoire of Skills and Dispositions for Preservice Candidates in a Professional Development School Context.”
Bonni C. Hodges and Mike Urtz
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, and Mike Urtz, Athletics Department, conducted a webinar for the Society for Public Health Education titled “Student Athlete Wellbeing: One Team, One Family, Many Branches.” The webinar provided an overview of student-athlete wellbeing challenges, current student-athlete wellbeing initiatives in the U.S., and a process used to plan future student-athlete wellbeing initiatives at SUNY Cortland.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, was invited to lecture and help with mushroom identifications at the Northeast Mycological Foray (NEMF) held in July at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. The annual NEMF meeting drew 250 participants. Baroni’s talk, “Mushrooms with “Pink” Colored Spore Deposits Found in the Northeast,” addressed the diversity and taxonomy of pink-spored mushrooms. Also, Baroni was invited to present the keynote lecture at the 2016 Bill Russell Foray in August, held by the Central Pennsylvania Mycological Club at the Sieg Research Center at Lock Haven University (Pa). He presented “Exploring for Biodiversity of Neotropical Macrofungi: A Glimpse into the Adventures of a Mycologist” to the 50 participants, which included biologists from nearby Pennsylvania State University.