David L. Snyder
David L. Snyder, Sport Management Department, appeared as a guest on the community syndicated cable television show, “Beyond the Game.” The show, hosted by John Vorperian, appears in prime time twice a week on White Plains Cable Television Channel 76. The episode in which Snyder appears as a guest is tentatively scheduled to air on Monday, April 5, to coincide with the opening games of the 2010 Major League Baseball season. The 30-minute segment featuring Snyder was taped on March 19 and addresses some unique aspects of baseball in Japan. Prior to his arrival at SUNY Cortland, Snyder was president of a sports marketing company based in Tokyo. His primary research interest involves the business of Japanese professional baseball. Since the show started in 2002, Vorperian has interviewed hundreds of guests on “Beyond the Game.” The show has been the subject of many feature stories, including a 2007 article in The New York Times.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, recently had her essay, “The Flaneur’s Redemption,” published in The European Mind: Narrative and Identity, University of Malta Press, 2010. In addition, her critical review of Richard Langston’s Visions of Violence: German Avant-Gardes after Fascism will appear in the October 2010 issue of German Studies Review.
David Barclay
David Barclay, geology, recently had a paper titled "Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in Alaska" published in Quaternary Science Reviews. This paper synthesized evidence of ice margin changes in Alaska over the past 10,000 years and appeared in the special volume of similar data for glaciers around the world.
Brian D. Barrett
Brian D. Barrett, foundations and social advocacy, had his article titled "No Child Left Behind and the Assault on Teachers' Professional Practices and Identities" published in the current issue of Teaching and Teacher Education 25(8): 1018-1025. He presented an earlier version of the paper last summer at the Fifth Basil Bernstein Symposium in Cardiff, Wales. Additionally, his review, with Rob Moore, University of Cambridge, of David Hursh's High Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education was published earlier this year in Educational Studies 45(1): 90-94.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, gave a talk titled “Inventing Gun Rights: The Supreme Court, the Second Amendment and Incorporation” on March 24 at SUNY Geneseo. Spitzer’s talk was sponsored by Geneseo’s Political Science Department as part of its annual lecture series.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled, “Upset About a Census of People? How About a Census of Guns?” that was posted on the Huffington Post Web site on April 1. Spitzer is a guest blogger for Huffington Post.
Peter Koryzno and Jennifer Wilson
Peter Koryzno and Jennifer Wilson, Public Relations Office, have been informed that SUNY Cortland Columns, which they edit, has received a 2010 Awards of Excellence Judges' Citation from the State University of New York Council for University Advancement (SUNYCUAD) in the category for magapapers. They will accept the award at the annual SUNYCUAD Education Conference in Buffalo, N.Y., on June 9.
John Cottone
John Cottone, Schools of Professional Studies and Education, was the keynote speaker for the New York State Association of Independent Schools annual meeting for athletic directors in New Paltz, N.Y. His presentation, “Athletic Risk Management: Concepts, Controversy and Confusion,” was designed to inform coaches, administrators, parents and community organizations about the importance of developing and implementing a risk management plan. His address focused on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and the latest evidenced-based information for dealing with environmental injury and the basic guidelines for fluid replacement in preventing heat-related illness.
Brian D. Barrett
Brian D. Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy, served as plenary speaker the Sixth International Basil Bernstein Symposium held in July in Brisbane, Australia. Additionally, he assisted in the delivery of several classroom sessions to participants in SUNY Cortland’s Australia Student Teaching Program and was interviewed on Australian national radio regarding the global context of education reform and the impending implementation of Australia’s national curriculum.
Gene Bierbaum
Gene Bierbaum, professor of communications studies emeritus, recently had his book, The Parliamentarian of Tomorrow, published by Xlibris. Bierbaum, who retired from SUNY Cortland in 1992, defines and explains the building blocks of the parliamentary profession. It is available at www.xlibris.com, www.barnesandnoble.com or www.amazon.com.