Honors: Ying Zhang
Ying Zhang (Music) recently won second prize at the highly competitive Heartland Concerto Competition in Kansas City, Missouri. She will solo the "Praeludium and Allegro" by Fritz Kreisler with the Heartland Chamber Orchestra on Aug. 3. Zhang is a doctoral student of music professors Wei-Wei Le and Ambroise Aubrun.
Published: Celeste Calkins, Michelle Chavez, and Vicki Rosser
Celeste Calkins (Decision Support), Michelle Chavez (Academic Assessment), and Vicki Rosser (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) recently published a paper, “Preventing Extra Costs: The Impact of Faculty Satisfaction and Morale” in the International Journal of Educational Research. The paper examined the differences among morale, job…
Published: Susanna Newbury
Susanna Newbury (Art) wrote "Artists at Work: Susan Silton," which has been published in East of Borneo, the interdisciplinary journal and archive on Los Angeles art. The essay and interview address Silton's life and work in Los Angeles as well as her deep engagement in public space and accessibility, queer subjectivity, and gentrification in…
Published: Nicholas Irwin
Nicholas B. Irwin (Economics) recently published a paper, "Keeping Up Appearances: Spatial Spillovers and Housing Renovations" in Papers in Regional Science. The paper models the extent of spatial spillovers in housing renovations and estimates the effect previously observed renovations by a neighbor have on a homeowner's likelihood to…
Appointment/Election: Susan Byrne
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper titled "Lo que (no) oímos en Cervantes" during the 20th triennial conference of the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, held in Jerusalem earlier this month. During the conference, she also was re-elected to the association board, as a vocal (spokesperson), to serve a second term in…
Published: Sanae El Ibrahimi
Sanae El Ibrahimi (Environmental and Occupational Health), Matthew Lee Smith of the Center for Population Health and Aging at Texas A&M University, and Paulo Pinheiro of the department of public health sciences at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine recently published an article on the…
Honors: Danica Hays
Danica G. Hays (Education) has received the 2019 Legacy Award from the Association of Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES). The ACES Legacy Award recognizes an individual who has made a significant and lasting impression on ACES or on the counselor education and supervision profession. ACES is a division of the American Counseling…
Published: Howard Gordon
Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) co-authored with selected mentees from West Virginia University, University of Central Missouri, and Murray State University "A Pilot Survey of a Self-Efficacy Tool for Career and Technical Education Administrators," which appeared in the Journal of Leadership Education on July 9. The findings suggest…
Published: Brookings Mountian West
Brookings Mountain West is pleased to release a new policy brief from Brookings Senior Fellow in Economic Studies Richard Reeves titled "Making a Middle Class: Colleges and Cities in the Mountain West." In the piece, he explores how a stronger middle class is important for the economic and political future of both cities and…
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