Erin Morris and Ryan Vooris
Erin Morris and Ryan Vooris, Sport Management Department, presented their research findings at the 2019 Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA) Conference, held Feb. 7 and 8 in Atlanta, Ga. Their presentation was titled “Study Like a Girl: An Analysis of Constraints and Facilitators to Female Sport Management Majors.”
Brent Danega
Brent Danega, Human Resources Office, was named to the “40 under FORTY" class of 2016 by BizEvents and The Central New York Business Journal. He will be recognized at an event set for Wednesday, Nov. 16, at the Oncenter in Syracuse, N.Y.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, recently had two papers published. The first was written with colleagues from India. “New Specis of Entoloma (Basidiomycetes, Agaricales) from Kerala State, India,” was published in 2012 in Mycotaxon. Co-authors were C. K. Pradeep, S.P. Varghese and K.B. Vrinda. The second more recent paper with a colleague from Canada, Y. Lamoureaux, “A New Species of Entocybe (Entolomataceae, Agaricomycetes) from Québec, Canada,” was published in a 2013 issue of Mycotaxon. The latter paper illustrates yet another newly discovered species belonging to the new genus of pink-spored mushrooms described by Baroni and colleagues in a 2011 article in North American Fungi and based on molecular phylogenetic analyses.
Patricia Martínez de la Vega Mansilla and Paulo Quaglio
Patricia Martínez de la Vega Mansilla and Paulo Quaglio, Modern Languages Department, coordinated the Virginia Levine Second Language Educators Conference held in Sperry Center on Saturday, Sept. 23. Titled “World Language Education: Supporting Our Students, Supporting Each Other,” the conference included nine workshops for TESOL, Spanish, French and general language instruction. A keynote address was given by Bill Heller, a methods and Spanish instructor at SUNY Geneseo and a member of the executive board and advisory panel for World Languages at the New York State Education Department.
Szilvia Kadas
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, recently presented “Evoking Empathy through Graphic Design” at the Popular Culture Association - American Culture Association Conference on April 18 in Washington D.C.
Randi Storch and Kevin Sheets
Randi Storch and Kevin Sheets, History Department, attended the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) project director’s meeting to receive final training before launching their $180,000 Landmarks in American History and Culture workshop for K-12 teachers. The meeting was held Oct. 20-21 in Washington D.C. Their workshop, coordinated with the assistance of Kerri Freese, SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, invites teachers from around the country to learn about the Gilded Age and Progressive Era from the perspective of the wilderness, using Camp Huntington in Raquette Lake, N.Y., as a living classroom. The application and details about the workshop can be found at http://www2.cortland.edu/foreverwild/.
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, was invited to write a monthly blog titled “Raising Kind Kids” for Psychology Today. The request was in response to Lickona’s How to Raise Kind Kids book (Penguin, 2018).
Lauren Stern and Maaike Oldemans and Szilvia Kadas
Lauren Stern and Maaike Oldemans, Library, and Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, presented “Win-Win: Students Solving Problems” at the State University of New York Librarian Association’s annual conference, SUNYLA 2019, held June 13 in Syracuse, N.Y.
Jo Schaffer and Gregg Weatherby
Jo Schaffer, professor of art and art history emerita, and Gregg Weatherby, professor emeritus of English, will act in Reader’s Theater’s virtual presentation of “84 Charing Cross Road” at 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 11. The script is based on the memoir of Helene Hanff, a freelance writer in New York City, who ordered rare books from the London bookseller Marks & Company, at 84 Charing Cross Road. Schaffer will play Hanff, a part she first performed in 1988. Weatherby performs the part of Frank Doel. Community member and actor Barbara Jo Williams directs the play.
Benjamin Wilson
Benjamin Wilson, Economics Department, co-presented at the National Environmental Health Association Conference in June in San Antonio, Texas. He and Kevin Kennedy, managing director at The Center for Environmental Health at Children’s Mercy Hospital, presented “Mapping Health and Housing: Using Community Wide Data to Investigate Environmental Exposure Risks.”