Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, political science, is the author of a recently published book titled Gun Control: A Documentary and Reference Guide. The book brings together more than 50 primary documents, from early colonial laws to contemporary court cases, that illuminate the evolution of gun policy in the United States. Each document is accompanied by the author′s analysis and commentary to explicate the document′s significance. The book includes original photography by Dawn Van Hall, library, and is published by Greenwood Publishing Group. Spitzer also was interviewed in July on CNN′s ″Lou Dobbs Tonight″ on the nationwide shortage of bullets.
Lutz Mayer
Lutz Mayer, associate professor emeritus of music, was featured in an online publication published by the Department of Music at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The article, titled “Proud Tar Heel Celebrates 75th Birthday and a Life of Music,” presents a biography of Mayer’s life and includes highlights from his years at SUNY Cortland, where he was an assistant and an associate music professor from 1963-1995. Mayer was co-founder of the Council on the Arts for Cortland and a concertmaster of the College-Community Orchestra, which he directed for seven years. The article can be found at http://music.unc.edu/75.
Mary Ware
Mary Ware, foundations and social advocacy, authored a chapter titled "Learning Contracts as Part of Learning Design and Evaluation" for the volume Assessment and Evaluation in Career and Technical Education, edited by Victor C.X. Wang and published simultaneously by Information Science Reference, Hershey, Pa., and Zhejiang University Press this fall. The text is in print and in use in several universities including California State University, but will show a copyright of 2010. Ware was asked to author this chapter after the editor attended her presentation titled "Whadjaget: Learning Contracts in Distance Education" at the spring meeting of Lilly West Conference on Higher Education in Pomona, Calif. Ware is contracted to prepare two more chapters for a forthcoming encyclopedia of online learning to be published by Information Science Reference next year. These chapters, co-authored with Mary Stuck, will focus on gender, race and age as variables in online learning and on learning contracts in distance learning.
Christopher Latimer and Robert Spitzer
Christopher Latimer and Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, attended the American Political Science Association annual meeting, held Sept. 2-5 in Washington, D.C. Latimer presented a paper titled “Using Presidential Popularity to Understand the Campaigning Relationship Between President Bush and Congressional Republicans: An Examination of Representative Web Sites in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 Elections,” for a panel on “Presidential Elections in Perspective.” Spitzer chaired a panel on “Early Assessments of the Obama Presidency.”
Mary Ware
Mary Ware, Foundations and Social Advocacy, co-authored a publication with Mary Stuck of SUNY Oswego titled, “Diversity in Career and Technical Education On-Line Classrooms: Considering Issues of Gender, Race and Age.” The publication was published in the International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, Vol. 1, #3 (July-Sept.) 2010.
John Hartsock
John Hartsock, communication studies, discussed the place of James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men in the history of American literary journalism. He participated in a panel discussion on the book at the annual convention of the American Journalism Historians Association held Oct. 8 in Birmingham, Ala.
Correction: John Hartsock, communication studies, has signed a contract with the University of Massachusetts Press to publish Theorizing Literary Journalism: Examining a Narrative Genre. The volume will provide his scholarly summa on the subject of literary journalism.
R. Bruce Mattingly and Amber J. Murphy ’09
R. Bruce Mattingly, School of Arts and Sciences, and Amber J. Murphy ’09, co-authored an article titled “A Markov Method for Ranking College Football Conferences” that will be included as a theme essay on the Mathematics Awareness Month Web site, sponsored by the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics. Murphy, an adolescence education: mathematics major, was a recipient of a 2008 Undergraduate Research Council Summer Fellowship.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of a book chapter titled “Gun Control: Constitutional Mandate or Myth?” for a book titled Moral Controversies in American Politics, to be published later this year by M.E. Sharpe.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Biological Sciences Department, recently had two papers published from work he participated in with a team analyzing macrofungal biodiversity in Guyana, South America. “The Entolomataceae of the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana III: New Species of Rhodocybe,” was published in the Dec. 26, 2009, issue of Mycoscience. “The Entolomataceae of the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana IV: New Species of Calliderma, Paraeccilia and Trichopilus,” appeared in the Dec. 21, 2009, issue of MYCOLOGIA. Both articles were written by team members by T.W. Henkel, M. C. Aime, D. L. Largent and T. J. Baroni. The team was funded by grants awarded to Henkel by the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. Henkel is from Humboldt State University in Northern California, Baroni's alma mater for his B.A. and M.A. degrees.
A third paper, published in late 2009 in Synopsis Fungorum Fungiflora, was written by L. Ryvarden, Aime and Baroni. “Studies in Neotropical Polypores 26. A New Species of Trametes and Revisitation of an Old,” is the result of National Geographic Funding to Baroni in 2007 to study fungal diversity of the Maya Mountains in Belize.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, was a commentator at the annual conference of the German Studies Association held Oct. 8 in Oakland, Calif. She commented on the panel “Wishful Brothers: The Invention of Native Americans in German Literature, Media, and Performance.”