Gregory D. Phelan
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, served as part of the leadership team at the 2012 United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship National Conference held Jan. 12-15 in New Orleans. He also led a breakout meeting at which he was nominated and elected to serve as the president of the International Entrepreneurship Special Interest Group for a two-year term.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented “Stories to Tell—Listening to the Words in LGBT Themed Children’s Literature” at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention held Nov. 22 in Washington, D.C.
David Barclay
David Barclay, Geology Department, was a co-author on an international collaborative project that was recently published in Science Bulletin. The study, “Global wood anatomical perspective on the onset of the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA) in the mid-6th century CE,” used tree-ring data from around the world to examine the spatial and temporal expression of this climate event, which was the largest volcano-induced cooling event of the past two millennia.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, presented “Victimhood and Memory: Danube Swabians and the Ethnic Cleansing Campaigns in Yugoslavia, 1944-1948” at the Wayles Browne Slavic Studies Symposium on Feb. 26 at the A.D. White House at Cornell University. The symposium was held in honor of Browne, who is a linguist at Cornell and longtime human rights activist.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, had her article, “Hermann von Ihering: Shifting Realities of a German Brazilian Scientist from the Late Empire to World War I,” published in the Special Edition: Germans and Brazilians issue of the Oxford Journal German History.
Dennis Weng
Dennis Weng, Political Science Department, co-authored an article that has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Chinese Political Science in 2017. “Disrespect for Human Rights and Contentious Participation: Evidence from China,” was co-authored with Ching-Hsing Wang of the University of Houston and two SUNY Cortland undergraduate students, Laura Barnstead and Garrett DuMond. Also, Weng is a guest speaker at a conference on human rights issues set for Friday, April 21 in Taiwan.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Performing Arts Department, will perform in the Ithaca Shakespeare Company’s production of “Othello” from July 25 to 28 and from Aug. 1 to 3, at the Cornell Plantations, Ithaca, N.Y.
Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, presented a paper, “Transferencia cultural de la comedia aurisecular en Repertorio Español” (“Cultural Transference of Spanish Golden Age Plays at New York City’s Repertorio Español”), on April 30 at the First Symposium of Early Modern Hispanic Studies. The symposium was sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor and the Spanish and Hispanic Studies Department of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Melissa A. Morris
Melissa A. Morris, Physics Department, appeared on the Discovery Channel show “NASA’s Unexplained Files” on March 11. Also, her paper, “New Insight into the Solar System’s Transition Disk Phase Provided by the Metal-rich Carbonaceous Chondrite Isheyevo,” was published in the March 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Alexandru Balas, Jeremy Jimenez and Maria Timberlake
Alexandru Balas, Jeremy Jimenez and Maria Timberlake participated in an international conference, “Sustainable Development Goals: Confluence of Local, National and Global Actions,” hosted at St. Aloysius (Deemed to Be University) in Mangalore, Karnataka, India from Jan. 15 to 17. SUNY Cortland served as an institutional partner for the three-day conference, along with Universidad Católica de Valencia in Spain and Sophia University in Japan. Balas, professor of international studies and director of the Clark Center for Global Engagement, and Jimenez, associate professor of foundations and social advocacy, each delivered individual technical sessions. “Building Peace: Internal Wellbeing (SDG3) and External Conflict Resolution (SDG16)” was presented by Balas, while Jimenez’s talk was titled “End of Modernity.” Timberlake, associate professor of foundations and social advocacy, was joined by students Isabella Powell and Alexa Trotta for a paper panel presentation.