David A. Kilpatrick
David A. Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, was an invited panelist at the Reading League Summit on Wednesday April 23 in Chicago, Illinois. His panel’s topic was “Word Recognition: Consensus and Critique” and focused on how students remember written words for later retrieval.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently had one of his books translated and published in Mandarin Chinese. A History of American Literary Journalism: The Emergence of a Modern Narrative Form has been published by Fudan University Press in Shanghai. The translation was released in the U.S. at the 14th Conference of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies held earlier this month at Stony Brook University. It was translated by Li Mei, professor of journalism at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China. It was originally published in 2000 by the University of Massachusetts Press and is still in print. In 2001 it was honored with the Best History Award of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for its publication year, and the similar award of the American Journalism Historians Association. It was also published in Romanian in 2015.
In related news, the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies awarded the third “John C. Hartsock Award for Best Article” published in Literary Journalism Studies to Lindsay Morton of Avondale College in Macquarie, Australia for her article "The Role of Imagination in Literary Journalism." This was for 2018 publication and was the third year for the international award, with previous recipients from South Africa and the United Kingdom. The award was founded by the association to honor Hartsock as the founding editor of the journal during its first five years of publication. This year the journal celebrated its tenth year of publication.
Ryan Vooris
Ryan Vooris, Sport Management Department, had his article “Development of a Sport Twitter Utilization Scale” published in the Journal of Contemporary Athletics.
Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Student Development, has been informed that the Counseling Center has met the criteria for full re-accreditation by the International Association of Counseling Services (IACS), the only association that accredits counseling services on university and college campuses. Accreditation by IACS is dependent upon evidence of continuing professional development as well as demonstration of excellence in counseling performance. The office offers individual and group counseling for students, as well as consultation and outreach to the campus community.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, gave an opening plenary keynote address on “African and Africana Knowledge: Past Representations, Current Discourses, Future Communities” at the Third Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) at United States International University (USIU) in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa. At the event, held Oct. 23 to 26, Asumah received recognition and an award of honor for organizing and facilitating a preconference workshop on “Educational and Academic Leadership: Rethinking Responsibilities and Challenges for Department Chairs in African/Africana Studies.” Africologists, Africanists and African enthusiasts from 34 African countries, Europe, North and South America and the Caribbean attended the ASAA conference.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, is the incoming co-editor for Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor. Workplace is a leading international peer-reviewed and open-access journal published by the Institute for Critical Education Studies, and aims to generate dialogue and publish scholarship and scholar-activism connected to issues of academic labor within and beyond higher education. Maton will be spearheading various projects for the journal, including pursuing journal indexing, refreshing the editorial board, supporting the journal's ongoing development in reach, reputation, and strength, and editing a range of special and regular journal issues.
Jennifer Wilson
Jennifer Wilson, Communications Office, received an “Award of Merit” for outstanding achievement in the category of “Best Original Photo” on May 5 at the United University Profession’s Spring Delegate Assembly in Albany, N.Y. The image, taken during the 2016 “SUNY Cortland Works!” labor-management walk and celebration, was published in the SUNY Cortland/The Cortland Cause newsletter.
Katie Silvestri
Katie Silvestri, Literacy Department, was recently elected for a two-year appointment as secretary for the Special Interest Group (SIG) Semiotics in Education: Signs, Meaning, and Multimodality, a SIG within the American Education Research Association (AERA). This SIG provides a forum for teacher educators and literacy researchers to discuss signs, meanings and meaning making processes that people use in the context of teaching and learning from a multimodal standpoint. As secretary, Silvestri will maintain the SIG website and listserv as well as spearhead initiatives to foster conversations about and collaborations in scholarly work across the SIG's membership, as detailed on Featured Member Scholarship. She served in this position as interim secretary during a restructuring of the SIG for the past nine months and will now serve as secretary for the 2020-22 term. To learn more about Silvestri’s work as secretary or about social semiotics and multimodality, visit the Semiotics in Education SIG website.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, conducted a two-part workshop at Barnard College’s STEM Colloquium, part of Barnard’s Noyce Scholars Program. Eight students and three faculty members participated in the “Reflective Listening in Multi-Dimensional STEM Classrooms” workshop. In the workshop’s first part, participants enacted a scripted play through which they identified and discussed hidden ways in which government policies and low-income life can interfere with children’s learning. During the event’s second part, participants practiced reflective listening skills in the context of STEM classrooms in which teachers faced political, religious, and cultural opposition to their lessons.
Mary Gfeller
Mary Gfeller, Mathematics Department and SUNY Cortland Noyce Scholars Kelsey O’Donnell and Robin Tobin presented “Teaching Math Using Culturally Relevant Teaching Strategies” at the National Science Foundation 2014 Noyce NE Regional Conference held in March in Philadelphia, Pa. Perspectives on culturally relevant teaching strategies in teaching secondary math concepts were discussed using examples from real classrooms, including several from O’Donnell and Tobin’s current student teaching placement at Binghamton High School. The presenters explored the various strategies designed to make math more accessible and more meaningful to students.