International Activities (II)
Here are some of the individual faculty and school accomplishments during the 2001-2002 academic year:
Jeremiah Donovan, Art and Art History Department, continued his service as liaison to Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute and Shanghai University College of Fine Arts.
Charles Heasley, Art and Art History Department, lectured and displayed his recent work at J.E. Purkyne University, Usti Nad Labem, Czech Republic.
Brian Rivest, Biological Sciences Department, led a group of students to the rain forests and coral reefs of Belize for a winter session course on marine biology.
Faculty in the Communication Studies Department participated in the development of a number of international exchange projects. Thomas Mwanika, for instance, taught a course at Babes-Bolyai University in Romania. Caroline Kaltefleiter discussed institutional partnerships and faculty exchanges with the University of the Sunshine Coast and the Budapest School of Communication.
German Zarate, Economics Department, continued to conduct research in Mexico on the impact of reparations. He also traveled to a conference in Cuba this spring.
The Economics Department hosted two Russian economists from Moscow State University. They spent two weeks at SUNY Cortland, sponsored by World Bank grant, talking to faculty and gathering materials to improve the teaching of courses in Microeconomics and Industrial Organization.
Scott Anderson, Geography Department, conducted extensive research on the AIDS epidemic in Thailand.
Girish Bhat, History Department, was invited to lecture on Russian law and society at Moscow State University in October.
The Project for Eastern and Central Europe (PECE) undertook several projects during the year, in some cases working with other departments:
Hosted a year-long visit by the Junior Faculty Development Fellow, Gul Geldimuradova, from Turkmenistan.
Hosted the faculty-in-residence of Professor Larissa Titarenko from Belarus, in the departments of sociology and history in fall 2001.
Cortland has been accepted by the American Councils on International Education as a Host Institution in the Councils’ Junior Faculty Development Program. JFDP brings junior faculty from the countries of the former Soviet Union to American universities for one academic year. The visiting faculty sit in on classes and undertake self directed studies toward the goal of improving their teaching when they return home. This year we applied for four fellows to be hosted by seven departments under the Junior Faculty Development Program.
Applied for and received a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence for Spring 2003 and will host Professor Zdenka Kalnicka, from Ostrava University in the Czech Republic.
With the Performing Arts Department and the Philosophy Department, hosted a recital of piano music by Elena Letanová, Bratislava, Slovakia.
With a grant from the American Councils for International Education, PECE hosted a two week visit to Cortland of 27 Russian, Krygie, and Ukrainian school directors.
Ralph Dudgeon, Performing Arts Department, performed in Austria and England.
Tom Pasquarello, Political Science Department, taught a course “Economy and Ecology in Belize” and led students for a week of field study. The course was co-taught by Steve Broyles, Biological Sciences Department.
Craig Little, Sociology-Anthropology Department, supervised the exchange of criminology concentration students with the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
The Uniplanet maintained foreign desks in Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Slovakia and Romania. It has also developed a close working relationship with the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
Inaugurated an exchange program with the Osaka College of Foreign Languages and Business to bring Japanese students to Cortland. Two students from Osaka were in residence at SUNY Cortland this year.