Szilvia Kadas
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, presented her talk titled “Encouraging Students to Design with Social and Environmental Responsibility” at the Popular Culture Association Conference on June 3.
Susan Peterson and Lori Ellis
Susan Peterson, Modern Languages Department, and Lori Ellis, Art and Art History Department, collaborated on a writing project for NeoVox, SUNY Cortland’s online literary and new media design magazine. Students in Peterson’s Advanced Spanish Composition class viewed paintings done by students in Ellis’ 300-level painting class and chose one to critique in Spanish. Both the critiques and the artwork will be published in NeoVox this semester. The project encourages and supports both classes and individual student work. Photographs of the artwork were courtesy of Michael Bersani of the SUNY Cortland Public Relations Office.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, had her article about the potential effects of new Title IX regulations on athletics published in August. “New Title IX Guidelines Sexual Assault Mean Less Accountability for Athletics” was published on Engaging Sports, a blog that is part of the public sociology website The Society Pages.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had an essay advocating for indigenous land management in a climate changing world published in Resilence.org.
Doug Langhans
Doug Langhans, Admissions, represented Study New York, a consortium of SUNY, CUNY and private institutions formed to promote New York as a destination for international students, at the International Consultants for Education and Fairs (ICEF) 2015 North American Workshop. Langhans, a Study New York Board Member, met with a variety of international education colleagues to discuss the advantages of studying in New York.
Mecke Nagel
Mecke Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, learned that her Wagadu article, “OAJ and Wagadu: Towards a Diamond Model of Feminist, Postcolonial Publishing,” was published in the journal TripleC - Communication, Capitalism & Critique: Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, available at www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/527.
Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, recently had her blog post published. Titled “Interactive, Asynchronous On-line Discussions,” it describes how teachers can engage students in interactive, asynchronous online discussions that not only play an important role in online and hybrid classes, but are critical to assuring active participation by students.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on Nov. 13 and Sun Yat-Sen University, China on March 18 to deliver campus-wide talks on her book Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China and the contribution of anthropology to public health.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently co-edited a special issue on the #RedForEd educator union strikes for Critical Education journal. The issue is titled “Understanding the 2018 Statewide Walkouts” and is part of the “Contemporary Educator Movements: Transforming Unions, Schools and Society” special series that Maton co-edits for the same journal.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled, “What's Behind NRA TV's Grotesque Take on ‘Thomas & Friends’,” posted Sept. 14 on the CNN.com website. The article examines the political agenda and tactics behind NRA TV’s depiction of a cartoon character in Ku Klux Klan garb.