Caroline Kaltefleiter
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies, participated in an online roundtable discussion, “Journalists Safety in the U.S.: Protecting Data and Devices.” The event was hosted by the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Society for Professional Journalists in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 12.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences, with Todd Osmundson, a mycological colleague and professor in biology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, had their paper on a new eye-catching rose-pink variety of the Bear’s Head Tooth Fungus published in the journal Mycologia. This very rarely collected species was documented by citizen naturalists from northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada only 11 times from 2017 to 2022. The mycophiles who found collections of this bright pink tooth fungus were responding to a request by Baroni in his 2017 field guide (Mushrooms of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada) for information and collections of this highly colored variant of the typical all white form of Hericium americanum. Baroni has never collected or seen this fungus in his 50 years of field work, but learned about this rarity from a single collection documented in the technical literature in 1973. Osmundson confirmed the identity of the collections provided by the citizen naturalists using molecular DNA markers, and Baroni produced the macro description, standard light microscope and scanning electron microscope images and descriptions of the new variety. Also, a first for Baroni and Osmundson, a color image of the new variety in their article was selected by the editorial staff of the Mycologia for the cover image on the January 2026 volume.
Li Jin
Li Jin, Geology, has been elected chair-elect of the Geological Society of America Research Grant Committee for 2026 and will serve as chair in 2027. This committee comprises 40 members who evaluate research grant proposals and award grants to selected recipients.
Deborah Warnock
Deborah Warnock, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented about class and higher education on two panels at the annual meetings of the Working Class Studies Association in early June at SUNY Stony Brook.
Alexandru Balas
Alexandru Balas, International Studies, published an article about the 2025 Romanian presidential elections. The article is titled “A Tale of Two Diasporas During the 2025 Romanian Presidential Elections,” published in the Romanian Journal of Political Science, 25(2): 49-64, and is co-authored with Professor Ana Pantea (Babes-Bolyai University). The article is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18480546
Genevieve Birren
Genevieve Birren, Sport Management, gave a presentation titled “Will Congress Cause Salt Lake City to Lose the 2034 Winter Olympic Games?” at the Sport and Recreation Law Association Conference in New Orleans from Feb. 25-27, 2026.
Genevieve Birren
Genevieve Birren, Sport Management, was invited to join the Journal of the Legal Aspects of Sport’s article review board.
Jeremy Jiménez
Jeremy Jiménez, Foundations and Social Advocacy, was invited to represent SUNY Cortland at the first-ever SUNY-wide Conversations in Indigenous and Native American Studies symposium at the University at Buffalo. It was created to learn how faculty and administration have been supporting, and can continue to support, indigenous students, faculty and staff, as well as to document indigenous-themed programming and course offerings across the SUNY system.
Jennifer Kronenbitter and Jenifer Phelan
Jennifer Kronenbitter and Jenifer Phelan, Memorial Library, had their conference presentation proposal accepted for the SUNY Library Association Conference in June. They will deliver a talk about the success of SUNY Cortland’s Red Dragons Read initiative to librarians from other SUNY campuses. The university’s program provides recreational, screen-free reading material through a “take a book, leave a book” model, with bookcases in high-traffic academic buildings around campus.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy, co-organized and chaired an inaugural conference on incorporating indigenous and ancient knowledge into contemporary teaching. The conference, Reclaiming What Was Lost: Teaching and Learning Ancient and Indigenous Histories and Knowledges, took place March 14 to 16.