Regina B. Grantham
Regina B. Grantham, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, attended the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention in November in Los Angeles, Calif. She was actively involved in education seminars as well as the association’s Board of Ethics. She co-presented with the board in an oral seminar, “Ethical Challenges: Be in the ASHA Leader for the Right Reasons,” and poster session, “Suspect Ethical Misconduct? The Code of Ethics (2016) Is a Path to Resolution.”
Bonni Hodges, Lori Reichel and Donna Videto
Bonni Hodges, Lori Reichel and Donna Videto , Health Department, were involved in creating the recently released National Health Education Standards, 3rd edition, which will guide the U.S. school health curriculum.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, presented a paper at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading international conference on July 15 in Kona, Hawaii. His topic was “The Phonological Proficiency Hypothesis of Orthographic Learning: An Investigation with Kindergarteners, First Graders and Skilled Fifth-Grade Readers.”
Joel Pape
Joel Pape, Performing Arts Department, is the recipient of a professional salary increase as per the Human Resources Office. Pape is a full-time instructional support technician.
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, presented the keynote to open the London conference of the International Federation of Family Development. Held Oct. 19 and 20, he presented “Raising Kind Kids” to an audience of 1,200 family educators from 70 countries. In September, Lickona spoke at South Korea’s International Forum on Human Values on the character education work of SUNY Cortland’s Center for the 4th and 5th Rs. In October, during a week-long visit to the Philippines, he addressed several conferences on fostering kindness at school and home. Most recently, Lickona spoke in Mexico City on “How to Raise Kind Kids” in a lecture tour sponsored by the organization Moders.
Dominick Fantacone
Dominick Fantacone, School of Education and regional director for the New York State Master Teacher Program, presented a paper titled, “A Q Methodological Study: Math & Science Teachers’ Views of the Characteristics of Effective Professional Development” at the American Educational Research Association’s annual meeting on April 25 in San Diego, Calif.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, gave lectures in early October at St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia on American and international literary journalism. He was invited by Russia’s oldest university as part of the Russia Program sponsored by Stony Brook University. In addition, he participated in a roundtable discussion on journalism ethics at the university, and gave a lecture to the general public on literary journalism at the bookstore Word Order in St. Petersburg. This was his first return to Russia in 24 years. From 1989 to 1993 he reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union for several publications.
Patrick Donnelly and Alyson Dearie
Patrick Donnelly and Alyson Dearie, Kinesiology Department, along with 17 athletic training students, attended the New York State Athletic Trainers Association (NYSATA) Lobby Day on May 7 at the New York State Capitol in Albany. This was an opportunity for students and faculty to become active in their profession, engage their legislators and advocate for the Athletic Training Licensure Act (A5499/S5127). In addition to meeting with NYSATA President Jeff Sage of Daemen College, and NYSATA Governmental Affairs Committee members Aimee Brunelle and Deanna Errico, the athletic training students met with Assemblywoman Michaelle C. Solages and Senator Rachel May who are co-sponsors of the bill. Throughout the day, the group met with their legislators and members of the higher education committees advocating for licensure for athletic trainers in New York State, and educating them about the profession of athletic training.
The students included Dean Biancaniello, Ron Chrysler, Danielle Cook, Grace DeStefano, Kelsi Donaldson, Abby Graeb, Ryan Hill, Emily Hynes, Taylor Kenney, Caroline Kiefer, Morgan Koenig, Caitlin O’Mara, James Pak, Kalyn Powell, Amber Rice, Justin Valentine and Richard Wells.
Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, co-authored a paper titled “The effect of multiple particle sizes on cooling rates of chondrules produced in large-scale shocks in the solar nebula,” that was accepted for publication in Meteoritics and Planetary Science.
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, will present “Promoting Social Justice and Reading Skills with Multicultural Informational Picture Books” at the International Literacy Association annual convention in July in St. Louis, Mo.