Gigi Peterson
Gigi Peterson, History Department, co-taught the graduate class “Migrations in US History, Literature, and the EFL Classroom” with Professor Dr. Britta-Freitag Hild at the Universität Potsdam, Germany, in November. They have been collaborating since early 2020 and in Fall 2024 Freitag-Hild will visit SUNY Cortland as part of new exchange opportunities between the two campuses.
Jenn McNamara
Jenn McNamara, Art and Art History Department, will have two silkscreens, “Ahh Mortimer, I knew him well . . .” and “Unconditional Love” included in Shy Rabbit Contemporary Arts’ Print National 2. The show will run from Sept. 4-Oct. 17. The Call for Entries resulted in a total of 505 submissions being received from 150 artists located throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. Juror Yuji Hiratsuka selected a total of 90 pieces for inclusion in the show, representing 45 fine-art printmakers from 21 states, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Michael Hough
Michael Hough, Biological Sciences Department, authored a book, Flora of Cortland and Onondaga Counties, New York, that is now available from Amazon.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, presented a poster at the 11th International Mycological Congress meetings held July 15 to 21 in San Juan, PR. Baroni and co-authors from Italy, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the US, including two of Baroni’s former students, Tracy Armstrong Curtis ’01 and Lance Lacey ’04, presented data accumulated in the Dominican Republic over an extended 20-year period on the biodiversity of group of not well-known fungi. Curtis and Lacey worked in the Dominican Republic with Baroni from 1996 to 2006 funded by Research Experiences for Undergraduates from the National Science Foundation. The title of the presentation and the publication that will result from the work is “The Rhodocybe/Clitopilus clade (Entolomataceae, Agaricomyetes) in the Dominican Republic: a new genus, new species and first reports for Hispaniola.”
Gregory Phelan, Mary Gfeller, Kerri Freese and student Jennifer Traxel
Gregory Phelan, Chemistry Department, Mary Gfeller, Mathematics Department, Noyce Project Coordinator Kerri Freese and MsEd chemistry student Jennifer Traxel attended the 5th Annual NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program Conference July 7-9 in Washington, D.C. The invitation-only conference included plenary speakers and panel sessions; concurrent workshop sessions, including sessions for Noyce Scholars and new teachers; and poster sessions. Gfeller and Freese presented a poster on SUNY Cortland’s Noyce Project. In the past year SUNY Cortland has received one of the top number of Noyce Scholarship applications, in large part due to the active interest and engagement of campus faculty and leaders to produce the best and brightest science and math teachers. The conference provided an opportunity for NSF Noyce Program awardees to learn from and share strategies with each other, as well as with AAAS K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) leaders and national experts in recruiting, preparing and retaining new K-12 STEM teachers.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, published an exhibition report of Sitelines.2018, the revisionary biennial exhibition of SITE Santa Fe, for Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. Sitelines.2018 is a new kind of biennial of contemporary art, focusing on a local community of artists that resists the generic internationalism that marks most biennial exhibitions. This is the first of a series of critical reviews that Kramer will publish in Afterimage throughout her Spring 2019 sabbatical of similarly oriented biennial exhibitions throughout the Global South.
Philip M. Gipson
Philip M. Gipson, Mathematics Department, had his article “Invariant Basis Number for C*-Algebras” published in the Illinois Journal of Mathematics.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently participated in a climate change education panel at the Comparative and International Education Society conferencein Miami, Fla., based on previous research co-conducted with Miranda Kistner ’23.
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, has been informed that she is a winner of the 2012 Bedtime Stories Competition at the Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, Mass. Her story, “Pennies from Heaven,” appears in the Spring 2012 issue of the Inn’s Storybook.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently received word that her poem, “The Nonpareils: As Told by the Woman in the Gingerbread House,” has been nominated for a prestigious Pushcart Prize. Wikipedia describes the Pushcart Prize as “an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best ‘poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot’ published in the small presses over the previous year.” Lawrence’s poem originally was published in Star*Line, the print magazine for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. “The Nonpareils” is a retelling of the well-known German fairytale by the Brothers Grimm titled Hansel and Gretel from the perspective of the witch, or homeowner. This is the second Pushcart Prize nomination she has received.