Evan Faulkenbury
Evan Faulkenbury, History Department, had his article about SUNY Cortland’s History Department published in the Oct. 20 issue of Perspectives in History. It is titled “Practicing History: Why SUNY Cortland Requires Public History.” Also, his article “Journalism, COVID-19, and the Opportunity of Oral History” was published in the Oral History Review in September.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper titled, “Gun Law History in the U.S. and Second Amendment Rights,” at a conference on The Second Amendment: Legal and Policy Issues, held at the New York University Law School on April 8 in New York City. The conference was co-sponsored by the Brennan Center for Justice.
Denise Knight
Denise Knight, English Department, has had her essay, “‘[a] country of whose language I knew not a word’: Charlotte Perkins Gilman In and On Italy,” accepted for inclusion in a collection of essays titled Transatlantic Women: American Women Writers in Italy. The essay is an expanded version of the conference paper that Knight gave in Florence, Italy, last June.
Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita of Spanish, had her article, “Register and Forms of Address in Costa Rica: Sociolinguistic Realities and Pedagogical Implications,” published in the Spring 2017 issue of Foreign Language Annals. The article reports findings from the sociolinguistic study that LeLoup carried out in Costa Rica during the spring of 2016.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a talk titled “Gun Legislation and Obstacles to Effective Gun Control” before the Metropolitan Black Bar Association at the New York City Bar Association in New York on Nov. 29.
Melissa A. Morris
Melissa A. Morris, Physics Department, had her NASA Emerging Worlds grant proposal selected for funding in the amount of $319,000. This highly interdisciplinary grant will involve Morris, an undergraduate student and a research assistant at SUNY Cortland, as well as researchers at Arizona State University and Caltech. The entire project has been funded by NASA at a level of approximately $500,000.
Also, Morris submitted a paper, “The Effect of Multiple Particle Sizes on Cooling Rates of Chondrules Produced in Large-scale Shocks in the Solar Nebula” to Meteoritics and Planetary Science.
Also, Morris has been invited to give a talk at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. in September 2015.
David Dickerson and John Suarez
David Dickerson, Mathematics Department, and John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, had their article, “The imperative of definition,” accepted for the September 2018 issue of MathAMATYC Educator Journal.
Dickerson and Suarez explore the kinds and uses of definitions in natural language, compare and contrast these with the kinds and uses of definitions in mathematics, then suggest a revised language and a vocabulary reserved specifically for definitions in mathematics classrooms.
Jordan Kobritz and Ray Cotrufo
Jordan Kobritz and Ray Cotrufo, Sport Management Department, presented “Beyond the Box Score: The Case for Integrating Sport Analytics into the Sport Management Curriculum” at the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA) conference in Philadelphia on Feb. 13.
Eileen Gilroy and Nicole Scalera
Eileen Gilroy, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, and Nicole Scalera, a second-year graduate student in the department, presented a poster at the New York State Speech, Language and Hearing Association Convention on April 8 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The poster is titled, “The Use of Surface Electromyography as a Component of Speech Pathology Intervention for Paradoxical Vocal Fold Motion: A Case Study.”
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, organized a panel and presented her paper at the annual New York Conference of Asian Studies at Vassar College in October.