Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Student Development, has learned that the office was awarded full re-accreditation by the International Association of Counseling Services (IACS), the only association that accredits counseling services on university and college campuses. Approval by IACS is dependent upon evidence of continuing professional development as well as demonstration of excellence in counseling performance. The office offers individual and group counseling for students, as well as consultation and outreach to the campus community.
Terrence Fitzgerald
Terrence Fitzgerald, Biological Sciences Department, is the author of an article titled “Phelypera distigma Un charançon processionnaire” (A processionary weevil) appearing in the current issue of the French magazine Insectes. Eleven of Fitzgerald’s photographs accompany the article, which was translated by the editors of the publication from an English language version appearing on the author’s website “Social Caterpillars.” The original studies of the larva, the only weevil known to form head-to-tail processions, were conducted in the Guanacaste, Costa Rica and Jalisco, Mexico as a collaborative effort between the author, James Costa ’85 of Western Carolina University, Alfonso Pescador of the University of Colima in Mexico, Dan Janzen of the University of Pennsylvania and Michael Turna ’03, who recently completed an advanced degree in the chemical ecology of host selection behavior of the eastern tent caterpillars at Binghamton University.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, was invited to give a lecture at West Chester University of Pennsylvania on April 11. His talk was titled “Queer Experimental Literature and the Narration of Kinship.” Also, he guest taught a seminar on experimental short fiction.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy, contributed to an article published in the education journal Compare titled Charting the path after 2030: what should higher education’s role be in the future of the sustainable development agenda?. His specific essay for the article was "Demodernising the sustainability development goals: our only path to sustainability."
Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson, Sociology/Anthropology Department, recently completed an Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility in the Department of Ancient History and Archaeology at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, România.
Lin Lin
Lin Lin, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, is the lead author for an article, “Expanding the Global View through Children’s books: Bringing South Asians and South Asian Americans to K-6 Curriculum,” published Nov. 1 in the Ohio Social Studies Review.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his book, Basil Bernstein: Code theory and beyond, published by Springer.
Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, co-edited the recently published Encyclopedia of Sport Management and Marketing. Contributing writers include Sport Management Department faculty members Peter Han, Ted Fay and Genni Birren, former faculty members Kevin Heisey and James Reese as well as former students in the master’s-level sport marketing class.
Jena Nicols Curtis and Susie Burnett
Jena Nicols Curtis and Susie Burnett, Health Department, delivered a research presentation on “College Men’s Perceptions of Affirmative Consent, Coercion and Sexual Violence: Research Findings and Implications for Policy and Practice” at the Ending Violence Against Women International’s annual conference on Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence and Engaging Men and Boys, held from March 22-24 in Washington, D.C. The conference was attended by more than 2,000 law enforcement personnel, criminal justice and victims’ advocates, medical providers and campus health and safety professionals from a dozen countries around the world.
Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, had her article titled “Do the CCSS Support Developmentally Responsive Teaching of Young Adolescents?” published in volume 34 of the American Reading Forum Yearbook.