Andrea R. Harbin
Andrea R. Harbin, English Department, presented “The Augmented Palimpsest: Engaging Students with Augmented Reality” at the Modern Languages Association annual conference on Jan. 8. She was on the panel titled, “Middle English Literature after the Digital Turn.”
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, presented “Pitfalls of Diversity Management” at a symposium titled “Difference that Makes no Difference: The Non-Performativity of Intersectionality and Diversity.” The symposium was hosted on Feb. 5 by the Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Nagel is serving as a visitor at the Max Planck Institute for Ethnic and Religious Diversity in Germany during the spring semester. Best papers from the symposium will be edited by Professor Nikita Dhawan, University of Innsbruck, Austria, and will appear in SUNY Cortland’s journal Wagadu in 2016.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his article, “Queer Narrative Theory and the Relationality of Form,” published in PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America), the flagship journal of literary studies. It appears in vol. 136, issue 5, pp. 711-727.
Christa Chatfield and Katherine Hicks
Christa Chatfield, Biological Sciences Department, and Katherine Hicks, Chemistry Department, were co-authors along with three former students of a paper recently published in Biochemistry. Former biology majors Devon Dattmore ’16 and Devin Stives ’16, and biochemistry major Ashley Jackson ’17, were also involved in the research, which was funded by a SUNY Cortland Faculty Research Program grant. The article is titled, “Structural and Functional Basis for Targeting Campylobacter jejuni Agmatine Deiminase to Overcome Antibiotic Resistance.”
Deborah Van Langen, James F. Hokanson, Erik Lind and Larissa True
Deborah Van Langen, James F. Hokanson, Erik Lind and Larissa True, all from the Kinesiology Department, co-authored an article that was published in Clinical Kinesiology: Journal of the American Kinesiotherapy Association. The article is titled “Cardiovascular Response to Exercise on a Lower Body Positive Pressure Treadmill.”
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and Center for Ethics, Peace, and Social Justice, co-authored a book titled Contesting Carceral Logic Towards Abolitionist Futures, now available through Routledge.
Gary Evans
Gary Evans, Human Resources Department, won the Technology Innovation Award from PeopleConnect Live. The annual customer award is from SUNY Cortland’s applicant tracking vendor. Tina Vumbaco from the State University of New York also received the award, recognizing the system-wide and the campus-level HR information system program.
Genevieve Birren and Mark Dodds
Genevieve Birren and Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, attended the Sport and Recreation Law Association’s 26th annual conference from March 13 to 16 in Denver, Colo. Birren’s presentation was titled “Do Student Codes of Conduct Hold Water?” Dodds’ presentation was titled “Ordinary Negligence or Suboptimal Playing Conditions: Are Schools Being Let off Easy?”
Vickie Hess and Lisa Kahle
Vickie Hess and Lisa Kahle, Campus Technology Services, co-presented “Implementing a Cloud-based Student Print Management Solution” at the SUNY Technology Conference held June 18 in Lake Placid, N.Y.
Gretchen Herrmann
Gretchen Herrmann, Library, has had an article accepted for publication by the journal Ethnology. Titled “New Lives from Used Goods: Garage Sales as Rites of Passage,” the article treats various types of garage sales as life transitions on the part of sellers, and to a lesser extent shoppers. Moving, combining households, divorcing or downsizing can all signal significant passages in participants’ lives and open the potential for new “potential selves.”