Published: Sheniz Moonie, Brian Labus, and Rebecca Scherr
Sheniz Moonie, Brian Labus (both Environmental and Occupational Health), and Dr. Rebecca Scherr (Medicine), along with Julia Anderson, '19 PhD Public Health, and former faculty member Mary Beth Hogan (now of Marshall University) recently published an article on "Chronic Inflammatory Disease Cost: The Impact of Eosinophilic Esophagitis in Nevada"…
Published: Marina Colacicchi-Garber
Marina Colacicchi-Garber (World Languages and Cultures) wrote "The Death of Comedy: Joker," an essay film review that appeared in the Russian-German editorial The Text.
She also wrote an essay on “10 Important Books.” The books were selected out of those read over a lifetime.
Both articles are in Russian.
Notable: Howard Gordon
Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) recently was nominated for the Distinguished Alumni Award for Academia by the agricultural leadership, and community education department in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech.
Presentation: Jeffrey Ebersole
Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) accepted an invitation to speak during the 76th annual meeting of the American Institute of Oral Biology. He presented two lectures: "Oral Health Sciences in the Era of Precision Medicine" and "Aging and Periodontitis: Immunosenescence/ Inflammaging & the Oral Microbiome." The three-day conference engages researchers…
Published: Vanessa Núñez, Esmeralda Cruz Lopez, and Mariana Sarmiento Hernández
Vanessa Núñez, Esmeralda C. Cruz Lopez (both Sociology), and Mariana Sarmiento Hernández (Social Work), along with former sociology faculty-in-residence Anna C. Smedley, published an article in the Association of Mexican American Educators Journal titled, “La Lucha Sigue: Making the Case for Institutional Support of …
Published: Jennifer Byrnes
Jennifer Byrnes (Anthropology) has co-authored a chapter that appears in a new edited volume, Evaluating Evidence in Biological Anthropology: The Strange and the Familiar, edited by Cathy Willermet and Sang-Hee Lee. The chapter, "(Re)Discovering Paleopathology: Integrating Individuals And Populations In Bioarchaeology," co-authored with Ann L. W.…
Presentation: Alicia Rico, Jorge Galindo, and Vanesa Cañete-Jurado
Vanesa Cañete-Jurado, Jorge Galindo, and Alicia Rico (all World Languages and Cultures) presented papers during the annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, which was held in San Diego earlier this month.
Cañete-Jurado presented "Performing Freedom: Drama Translation as Political Engagement in 19th-Century…
Grant: Austin Horng-En Wang
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) and his colleagues, Fang-Yu Chen (Michigan State University), Charles K.S. Wu (Purdue), and Yao-Yuan Yeh (University of St. Thomas), were awarded $10,000 on the project "War, Collective Action, and Nation-building" by Global Taiwan Institute, a D.C.-based think tank. The project aims at using survey…
Presentation: Erika Engstrom
Erika Engstrom (Communication Studies) presented "Surviving the Darkness: The Washington Post's Super Bowl Ad and Press Freedom" at the 2019 annual convention of the National Communication Association in Baltimore. She spoke about the visual and conceptual content of the historic ad, which featured journalists, images, and national events…
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