Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, served as advisor to 40 SUNY Cortland students as they gained valuable experience working at the Empire State Marathon and Expo held Oct. 21 in Syracuse, N.Y. Sport management, kinesiology, Dartfish Club and Running Club students assisted with event management, video broadcasting, sponsorship analysis, video performance analysis and the event's green initiative. Seven students and Dodds ran either the half or full marathon.
Ubaldo Valli
Ubaldo Valli, Performing Arts Department, has been selected as a prize winner in The American Prize National Nonprofit Competition in the Performing Arts. Valli shared third prize in the Vytautas Marijosius Memorial Award in Orchestral Programming, College/University Division category. The American Prize is “the nation’s most comprehensive series of contests in the classical arts” and is “designed to evaluate, recognize and reward the best performers, ensembles, composers and administrators in the United States.”
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, distinguished professor emeritus of biological sciences, was lead author with 10 colleagues from Puerto Rico, Denmark, Peru and the U.S. on the peer reviewed publication “Four new species of Morchella from the Americas” in the journal Mycologia. New species of morels, highly prized gourmet mushrooms, were described from the mountain regions in the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru and the southwestern U.S. using morphological and multigene molecular phylogenetic data. Baroni was also a co-author with Rachel Swenie, Ph.D., a student at the University of Tennessee, and her mentor P. Brandon Matheny, on the peer reviewed article “Six new species and reports of Hydnum (Cantharellales) from eastern North America” in the journal MycoKeys. Baroni provided collections with detailed descriptions from the Cortland Herbarium (CORT) that were generated by him and also by his former students from the field mycology courses held at the Outdoor Education Center at Raquette Lake from 1980’s through 2000. At least one of these collections was selected as an epitype, a collection that anchors the concept of the species. Color images of collections by Baroni were also used in the publication to help document these tooth fungi from the northeast.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited to deliver campus-wide talks at Hamilton College in September and at Columbia University in November on her recent research on self-identified gay men in postsocialist China.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his article titled “Graphic Attachment: Relational Formalism and Queer Dependency," published on March 27 in ASAP/J.
Katie Ducett
Katie Ducett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Special and Inclusive Education Research SIG at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual conference held in early April in Philadelphia. Her dissertation was titled “Social Lives at College: Experiences of Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disability.” Along with this award, Ducett also presented four other collaborative research projects and chaired two sessions while at AERA.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy, presented his paper, with Rob Moore of Cambridge University, titled “Changing from Within: Basil Bernstein, Teacher Education, and Social Justice” at the Seventh International Basil Bernstein Symposium in Aix-en-Provence, France. Additionally, his review of Knowledge, Pedagogy and Society: International Perspectives on Basil Bernstein’s Sociology of Education, edited by Daniel Frandji and Philippe Vitale, was recently published in the journal International Studies in Sociology of Education, volume 22, issue 1.
Harry M. Sydow
Harry M. Sydow, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, will earn the title of lecturer IV emeritus when he retires from the College on Aug. 31. He joined SUNY Cortland in July 2001 and is a coordinator/supervisor of field studies.
Maaike Oldemans
Maaike Oldemans, Memorial Library, recently had her chapter, “Developing Library Services for International Students,” published in Improving Library Services in Support of International Students and English as a Second Language (ESL) Learners, by Leila June Rod-Welch.
Pete Ducey
Pete Ducey, Biological Sciences Department, is a coauthor on the manuscript “Is there more than one way to skin a newt? Convergent toxin resistance in snakes is not due to a common genetic mechanism” that has been accepted for publication in Heredity. The paper documents the genetic underpinnings of a novel strategy that evolved in a predator allowing for consumption of highly toxic prey. The research team, led by Chris Feldman of University of Nevada, includes researchers from seven universities and government agencies. The project’s findings add a new component to one of the most thoroughly studied evolutionary arms races in nature, that between newts with potent skin toxins and their snake predators.
Also, Ducey was recently appointed to the Board of Editors for the journal The Northeastern Naturalist.