John M. Bowers (English) presented his paper "The Myth of the Poor, Homeless Chaucer" at the Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society in Pasadena on July 18, 2024.  

Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (Psychology) was awarded the Charles and Shirley Thomas Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race, a division of the American Psychological Association. This award was created in honor of the significant contributions made by Charles and Shirley Thomas in the area of student…

Katherine Walker (English) presented at the Marlowe Society of America Conference in London on the upcoming publication of The Handbook of Christopher Marlowe.

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by the Radio Taiwan International in Taiwan to have a talk on July 2 titled, "Media Resilience and Geopolitics." In this talk, Wang discussed the definition of cognitive warfare and its conflict with the freedom of speech. Wang then shared examples of cognitive warfare in Taiwan and showed…

Jeff Schauer (History) participated in a workshop, New Histories of Childhood and Youth in Southern Africa, at the University of the Free State, in Bloemfontein, South Africa.   Schauer's paper was titled "Children, Conservation, and Zambia's Environmental Turn," and explored Chongololo, the children's conservation clubs and magazine.…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented a paper titled, "Al Morir, Nos Volvemos 'Muertos'?" (When We Die, Do We Become 'Muertos'?) and three workshops on Philosophy for Children pedagogy for the international Filosofía, Literatura, Arte e Infancia (Philosophy, Literature, Art and Childhood) course held in Albarracían, Spain. The events were…

Robert Futrell (Sociology) was featured on NPR's All Things Considered in the story "A decade after armed standoff, the Bundys appear to be above the law." 

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) was granted a scholarship to participate in the inaugural professional development training program BELC États-Unis from July 10-14 at San Diego State University (SDSU). Organized by the Embassy of France in the United States, in partnership with the Embassy of France in Canada and the…

John Curry (History) acted as an Early Table Leader for the College Board's Advanced Placement World History: Modern examination in Kansas City, Missouri. The exam was taken by over 400,000 high school students around the country. Having helped to design this year's exams, he worked with the leadership of the College Board to set the scoring…

Michelle Poston and Stephen Benning (Psychology) published an article with colleagues titled, "Why college women and men refrain from sex despite desire: Development of the No Sex Despite Desire (NSDD) measure," in The Journal of Sex Research.

Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) and colleagues published a new article titled "The Integration of Sleep Research Into Eating Disorders Research: Recommendations and Best Practices" in the International Journal of Eating Disorders.  

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues have published several papers in the month of June.  The first paper, "Uncovering the most robust predictors of problematic pornography use: A large-scale machine learning study across 16 countries," was published in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science.  The second paper, "…