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Tiantian Zheng

Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, is the organizer and chair for a panel titled “Mediating State-Society Relationships Across China, Korea, and the Philippines” to be presented virtually on March 26 at the Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference.

Robert Spitzer

Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented “The Law and Politics of Gun Control after Tucson” at the 6th Annual Harry Frank Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America on “Law and Disorder: Facing the Legal and Economic Challenges to American Criminal Justice.” It was held Jan. 31-Feb. 1 at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, New York City.

Gregory D. Phelan

Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, served as part of the leadership team at the 2012 United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship National Conference held Jan. 12-15 in New Orleans. He also led a breakout meeting at which he was nominated and elected to serve as the president of the International Entrepreneurship Special Interest Group for a two-year term.

Tadayuki Suzuki

Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, presented “Stories to Tell—Listening to the Words in LGBT Themed Children’s Literature” at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention held Nov. 22 in Washington, D.C. 

David Barclay

David Barclay, Geology Department, was a co-author on an international collaborative project that was recently published in Science Bulletin. The study, “Global wood anatomical perspective on the onset of the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA) in the mid-6th century CE,” used tree-ring data from around the world to examine the spatial and temporal expression of this climate event, which was the largest volcano-induced cooling event of the past two millennia.

Mary McGuire

Mary McGuire, Political Science Department, will present her paper “Teaching Political Values Across Cultures: Clarifying U.S. Concepts of Individualism to Students in Beijing” on April 5 at the Midwest Political Science Association’s 70th Annual National Conference. The paper is based on work she did at Capital Normal University in Beijing during her 2009 sabbatical.

Tracy Hudson

Tracy Hudson, Physical Education Department, and the students in her Edu 470 class took part in a panel discussion at the 2022 International Alliance of Invitational Education World Conference via Zoom with university students from Hong Kong. The session title was “Creating a Culture of Care by Taking an I-CORT Stance: A Promising Theory of Practice for New Teachers Entering the Field.”

Mechthild Nagel

Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), had her article, “Sicherheit statt Strafe” (Security Instead of Punishment) published in a gender studies forum by Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, Germany 

Mechthild Nagel

Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, was a plenary speaker at the recent conference “Decolonizing Epistemologies, Methodologies and Ethics: Postcolonial-Feminist Interventions,” hosted on July 2 by the Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies, The Cluster of Excellence: The Formation of Normative Orders at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

Fang “Faye” Yang

Fang “Faye” Yang, Communication Studies Department, was the lead author of the article “Do Violent Movies Scare Away Potential Visitors,” published in a recent issue of the International Journal of Advertising. The article explores transportation theory’s role in the relationship between movie watching and tourism.