Mark Dodds, Jordan Kobritz, Justin Lovich, Tara Mahoney and Ryan Vooris
Mark Dodds, Jordan Kobritz, Justin Lovich, Tara Mahoney and Ryan Vooris, all Sport Management Department faculty members, presented research at the 29th Annual Conference of the Sport and Recreation Law Association (SRLA) held March 2-5 in New Orleans, La. Also, Dodds was recognized with the President’s Service Award for service to SRLA.
Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, had her article “Producing Their Own Literature: June Jordan and the Pedagogical Politics of Literary Anthologies” published in Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the U.S. (MELUS). Read more
Claus Schubert
Claus Schubert, Mathematics Department, was invited for a weeklong stay with the research group on quadratic forms at the Zukunftskolleg of the Universität Konstanz, Germany, from June 4-8. While there, he gave a talk titled “On Quadratic Forms of Height 2.”
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, and Sutton Richmond, University of Florida, presented their project at the World Congress of the International Society of Posture and Gait Research, held July 3 to 7 in Montreal. The study, “Characterizing Trial Duration in Single and Multi-Dimensional Postural Control Measures” establishes minimum trial durations necessary to acquire reliable force platform-derived outcomes. Recommendations from this project can improve consistency in collecting balance data for future studies and enhance confidence in clinical assessments of sensorimotor function.
Moataz Emam
Moataz Emam, Physics Department, is the editor and co-author of an e-book titled “Are We There Yet? The Search for a Theory of Everything,” located at https://benthambooks.com/book/9781608052141/
Scott Anderson
Scott Anderson, professor emeritus of geography, had his latest book, Pricing the Land: The Buying and Selling of Frontier New York and the Cayuga Reservation, published by Cornell University Press over summer 2024. Building upon his service as expert witness in the Cayuga Land Claim trials of 1999-2001, Anderson traces the history of land sales in the territory on the northern side of Cayuga Lake. Although the Cayuga Nation was awarded $247.9 million in compensation, the award was overturned in 2005. He concludes Pricing the Land with a conservative land valuation estimate entitling the Cayuga to twice the original judgement amount. The book has received positive review and praise from scholars of New York’s land use history.
Chris Badurek
Chris Badurek, Geography Department, gave an invited keynote address at the Regional STEM Summit of the Greater Southern Tier STEM Learning Network held Aug. 13 at the Corning Corporation in Corning, N.Y. His presentation, The Power of Creative Thinking: Harnessing GIS and Machine Learning for Career Preparation, highlighted approaches to generate student interest in STEM using machine learning for applied problem solving and facilitate IT career readiness in students without computer science degrees.
Kevin Dames
Kevin Dames, Kinesiology Department, and Sutton Richmond from Malcom Randall VA Medical Center presented their project “Are Your Balance Data Telling Tall Tales? Impact of Height on Stability Assessments” at the 48th annual meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics held Aug. 5 to 8 in Madison, Wis. This work demonstrates the limitations of height as a normalization factor in position-based center-of-pressure outcomes across eyes open and closed static upright standing balance trials. In contrast, time to boundary effectively eliminates the body size concern by scaling center-of-pressure motion to an individual's base of support area. Clinicians or researchers reporting differences in position-based center-of-pressures measures between cohorts may be detecting effects of body size inequality rather than indicators of disease progression, aging or imposed interventions. In contrast, TtB is not related to height and may be used to discern the effects of clinical conditions and fall risk without concern for anthropometric inequalities.
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Geography Department, had her promotion to SUNY Distinguished Professor confirmed in June. Johnston-Anumonwo has a long tenure at SUNY Cortland and a distinguished record of scholarship at the nexus of race, gender and urban geography. Also, she has a distinguished record of academic and professional service, making significant contributions to SUNY Cortland as well as the geography discipline. Her promotion is a significant accomplishment at SUNY Cortland and across SUNY as she is the first woman to be named a SUNY Distinguished Professor from a Geography Department. With her promotion, SUNY Cortland leads SUNY in Distinguished Professorships in the field of geography (three) along with the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Johnston-Anumonwo joins the ranks of Cortland Geography Department’s two Distinguished Teaching Professors David Miller and John Willmer.
Ann Blanton and Amanda Olson
Ann Blanton and Amanda Olson, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, attended the Cortland Pride Festival held on July 13 to promote the Center for Speech, Language and Hearing Center's gender affirming voice care services.
Gender affirming voice services are dedicated to individuals who want to develop communication styles that are aligned with their gender identity and expression across all settings. These services are designed to educate and train clients to modify their voice through vocal pitch, intonation, resonance, articulation and voice quality as well as nonverbal communication. Gender affirming voice therapy can guide individuals to communicate in a way that feels authentic to them.