Faculty and Staff Activities
Kenneth A. Cohen
Kenneth A. Cohen, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department, was featured in WalletHub's recent article “2023’s Best Summer Travel Destinations.” The article by Adam McCann, financial writer, was published May 16.
Brian Williams
Brian Williams, Political Science Department, had an article accepted for publication in The Social Science Journal. His article, “Early Voting, Direct Democracy, and Voter Mobilization,” shows that direct democracy campaign contact increases voter turnout.
Jennifer Kronenbitter and Hailey Ruoff
Jennifer Kronenbitter, Library, and Hailey Ruoff, Library and Instructional Technologies and Design Services, presented at the Computers in Libraries conference held April 8-10 in Washington D.C. Their presentation focused on the streaming media project that converted the library’s video collection into a streaming format. Computers in Libraries is noted as the most comprehensive North American conference and exhibition on all aspects of library and information delivery technology.
Christopher McRoberts
Christopher McRoberts, Geology Department, and co-authors from the University of Vienna and Zurich published a paper appearing in the current issue of PALAIOS titled “Macrofaunal Response to the Late Triassic Mass Extinction in the West-Tethyan Kossen Basin, Austria.” This paper documents the first high-resolution analysis on macrofossils associated with the end-Triassic mass extinction event, one of the five largest biotic crises in earth’s history, and provides compelling support for the hypotheses of dramatic global warming and ocean acidification as the leading cause of the extinction.
Jean W. LeLoup
Jean W. LeLoup, professor emerita (Spanish), International Communications and Culture Department, and the U.S. Air Force Academy, along with colleague Haning Z. Hughes, had their article “Time and history in lyrics: A unique approach to teaching culture and civilization,” published in NECTFL Review 81, the journal of the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. In addition, with colleague Barbara Schmidt-Rinehart, their article “El voseo: A call to action” in Visionary essays: The future of Spanish and Portuguese” was published in the centenary issue of Hispania 100. Hispania is the official journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
Deborah Matheron
Deborah Matheron, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, presented “Respiratory and Laryngeal Interactions During Speech: Speakers with Multiple Sclerosis and Their Healthy Peers” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association National Convention on Nov. 18 in Philadelphia, Pa.
Amanda L. Anderson
Amanda L. Anderson, Student Conduct Office, was selected to serve as a volunteer on the C3 Care Team for the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) at its 2012 convention in Louisville, Ky. C3 is an annual job fair that takes place during ACPA’s annual convention.
Laura Davies
Laura Davies, English Department, co-authored an article, “Polymorphic Frames of Pre-Tenure WPAs: Seven Accounts of Hybridity and Pronoia,” which was published in the Fall 2016 issue of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, recently had two chapters published, one each in very different books. Both will be available this summer. “German Colonists in Southern Brazil: Navigating Multiple Identities on the Brazilian Frontier” will be published in Tales of Transit: Narrative Migrant Spaces in Atlantic Perspective 1850-1950 by Amsterdam University Press, 2013. “Imprisoning Foreign Nationals” will appear in The End of Prisons by Value Inquiry Books, 2013.
Mark Prus
Mark Prus, Academic Affairs, had his manuscript, coauthored with Kevin Duncan and Peter Philips, accepted for publication in the journal Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management. The article is titled “Using Stochastic Frontier Regression to Estimate the Construction Cost Inefficiency of Prevailing Wage Laws.”