Barry Schecter
Barry Schecter, Health Department and coordinator of Human Service Studies, served on a panel at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference, held Oct. 11 to 14 in Atlanta, Ga.
Lin Lin
Lin Lin, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, presented “No Excuse to Live in a Bubble: How Do Children in Your Classroom Stay Connected to the World?” at the National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference on Nov. 30 in Chicago. She also served as discussion facilitator for the international assembly at this conference.
Kathleen Lawrence
, Communication Studies Department, had a poem titled “King,” — elegizing blues great B.B. King — appear as an exemplary poem in the textbook Composing Poetry by Gerry LaFemina, published by Kendall Hunt, in November. In December, two haiku titled “The Oldies” and “The Uninvited” were published on two separate days by haikuniverse. In January, the poem “Just Rosie,” about the Jetsons' robot maid, appeared in the journal Eye to the Telescope. Also in January, Lawrence was chosen as Poet of the Week by the Poetry Super Highway website, publishing her poem “Holly Would.” In February, four poems —“Goddesses,” “Tree Swing,” “Space Travel” and “Scientifically Speaking”—were published by Altered Reality Magazine. Since March of last year, Lawrence has had 44 poems published or forthcoming.
Jennifer Moore, Janet Ochs, Jeremy Pekarek and Hilary Wong
Jennifer Moore, Janet Ochs, Jeremy Pekarek and Hilary Wong, Memorial Library, presented virtually at the New York Archives Conference June 12. The title of the presentation was “If you've got it flaunt it: Revitalizing the archives through collaborative exhibits.”
Kenneth A. Cohen
Kenneth A. Cohen, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, was featured in WalletHub's recent article, "Best & Worst Cities for Recreation."
Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, had her article, “What Can Our Writing Do in the World? The Feminist Praxis of Publishing Student Writing,” published in November in Radical Teacher. This article situates the practice of publishing student writing within a longer history of feminist teaching methods. It also features the original writing of two SUNY Cortland students, seniors Lacey Bartlett and Taylor Price.
Kate Polasek and Mark Dodds
Kate Polasek, Kinesiology Department, and Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, presented “Stuffed fish, vibrating chairs, and anal beads: What’s new in sport cheating” at the Sport and Recreation Law Association conference held in February in Las Vegas.
Alexis Blavos
Alexis Blavos, Health Department, was a presenter on Oct. 6 for the Society for Public Virtual Health Climate for Health Ambassadors Workshop.
Barry Schecter
Barry Schecter, Health Department, will speak at the American Association for Treatment of Opiate Disorders Conference planned for April 21-25 in Las Vegas. The conference will address treating adolescents and young adults suffering from addiction and is geared to new innovations in treating youth. He will present research on the benefits of medication-assisted treatment, and the role stigma plays in keeping people sick. Schecter will present a similar topic at the American Society of Addiction Medicine at the annual Med-Sci Conference, being held April 19-22 in Atlanta.
Jean LeLoup
Jean LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish, presented in a session titled "Gateways to Jobs in Higher Education" at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages annual convention held Nov. 19-20 in Boston, Mass.