May 2025:
Graduate instructor and PhD Student in English, Jordan Traut-Jellad, was awarded $4,000 from the Francis Newman Award in English to spend a month this summer in Morocco studying Indigenous women’s carpet weaving for her dissertation. She was also selected and attended ºûµûÖ±²¥â€™s Digital Humanities Research Institute where she learned how to make her data public and engaging to a wider audience. Her final project involved creating a podcast and website using some of the resources available to faculty, staff, and students through SUNY Create.
September 2024:
Dr. Aggeliki Pelekidis's novel, published by Cornell University Press. Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Best First Book - Fiction category.
January 2023:
Dr. Heather Dorn, Lecturer of Writing for the Writing Initiative, recently received a Community Engagement Faculty Research Grant from ºûµûÖ±²¥. The grant enables Dr. Dorn to work with Independent Study student Trevor Fornara to run political science writing workshops at Chenango Valley middle and high school to produce a political science magazine.
Fornara is the Editor-in-Chief of Happy Medium, a student run political science magazine. At the end of the workshops, he will help students transition their initial publication into an ongoing club. Chenango Valley is currently engaging in a program that allows students to graduate with a Seal of Civic Readiness and these workshops will add value to this program. Students from the middle and high school will also get a look at what nonpartisan political writing looks like, get training in research and credible sources, and consider solutions for their community.