Faculty and Staff Activities
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, was a participant in the Assembly on Health Equity and Prosperity held Aug. 4-5. Hosted by the University of Maryland’s Center for Health Equity and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the assembly brought practitioners, academics, business leaders, and government officials together to build skills and capabilities to empower local actions to improve health equity and prosperity.
Joshua Peluso '00
Joshua Peluso '00, Information Systems and Security, earned his Information Systems Security Professional Certification (CISSP), awarded by International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium. Meeting all certification requirements, which include the professional experience prerequisite, adoption of the (ISC)2 Code of Ethics, and successful performance on required competency examinations.
Mark A. Dodds and David L. Snyder
Mark A. Dodds and David L. Snyder, Sport Management Department, had their article titled “School Drug Strip Searches Limited in Scope” published in the February 2010 issue of The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance.
Emmanuel S. Nelson
Emmanuel S. Nelson, English Department, presented a paper titled “Maps of Desire: James Baldwin, Europe and the Pleasures of (Homo)Sexual Exile” at the International Conference on Arts and Humanities held in January in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Mark Prus
Mark Prus, Academic Affairs, co-authored “The Effects of Prevailing Wage Regulations on Construction Efficiency in British Columbia” with Kevin Duncan, Colorado State University-Pueblo, and Peter Philips, University of Utah. The study, which examines the effect of prevailing wage legislation on the efficiency of school construction, was published by International Journal of Construction Education and Research in 2009.
David Snyder
David Snyder, Sport Management Department, had his article, “Automatic Outs: Salary Arbitration in Nippon Professional Baseball,” published in the Fall 2009 edition of the Marquette Sports Law Review. Portions of the article were also in Japanese.
Brian D. Barrett
Brian D. Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article, “The ‘Invisible Institution’ and a Disappearing Achievement Gap” published in the Fall 2009 issue of Religion and Education. The article examines the relationship between religious involvement and educational outcomes among urban African-American adolescents. He presented aspects of the paper on campus at a Black History Month Sandwich Seminar in February 2009 and in New York at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
Lin Lin
Lin Lin, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, was lead co-author of two articles that were recently published. “Teaching Historical and Current Events from Multiple Perspectives: The Korean War and Six-Party Talks” was published in Social Science Research and Practice, Winter 2009, Volume 4, Number 3. “Whose History? An Analysis of the Korean War in History Textbooks from the United States, South Korea, Japan and China” was published in the September-October 2009 issue of The Social Studies.
Brent T. Wilson
Brent T. Wilson, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, has been invited to present at the 13th meeting of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association June 23–26 in Oslo, Norway. Two Speech and Hearing Science majors who completed an independent study with Wilson during the Fall 2009 semester were also invited to present. They are Alyssa J. Riehle of Webster, N.Y., and Alicia M. Gloede of Coram, N.Y.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, edited a book titled Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia, published by the University of Hawaii Press in March.