Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, co-authored a chapter with Michelle Kelley titled “Avid Readers in High School: Are they Reading for Pleasure?” It is included in Teaching Adolescent Literature Today, J. A. Hayn & J. S. Kaplan, editors. The book was selected to be showcased in Cambridge Scholars Publishing’s July ‘Best Sellers’ marketing campaign.
Kati Ahern
Kati Ahern, English Department, had a chapter titled “Recording Nonverbal Sounds: Cultivating Rhetorical Ambivalence in Digital Methods,” published in volume one of a WAC Clearinghouse book, Methods and Methodologies for Research in Digital Writing and Rhetoric.
Joshua Peck
Joshua Peck, Psychology Department, had his peer-reviewed paper titled “Abstinence Conflict Model: Toward an Optimal Animal Model for Screening Medications Promoting Drug Abstinence” published in the Journal of the International Review of Neurobiology. The article discusses the rising concern of illegal opiate drug abuse such as heroin and the misuse of legally available pain relievers that have led to serious deleterious health effects or even death. To address this concern, the article argues for the use of animal drug models that more closely approximate the human drug addiction condition. This could lead to the development of more effective environmental and pharmacotherapeutic interventions to treat opiate addiction and addiction to other drugs of abuse.
Theresa Curtis
Theresa Curtis, Biological Sciences Department, and two recent biology graduates had their article, “Suitability of Invertebrate and Vertebrate Cells in a Portable Impedance-based Toxicity Sensor: Temperature Mediated Impacts on Long-term Survival,” published in the journal Toxicology in Vitro.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, was in Australia in August on an invited five-city professional development tour sponsored by Learning Difficulties Australia. The presentations spanned the country, including Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Cairns and Sydney. He presented findings from scientific research into why some students struggle in learning to read and the most effective ways to address those struggles.
Kilpatrick was one of the individuals interviewed in the American Public Media episode “At a Loss for Words” which looks at how reading is being taught in American schools and how that relates to the large percentage of struggling readers in the U.S. American Public Media is a content provider for NPR. The episode is posted online.
Also, Kilpatrick was invited to present “Phonemic Proficiency, Not Phonemic Awareness, Influences Orthographic Learning” on Sept. 5 at Yale University’s Haskins Laboratory.
Bekeh Ukelina
Bekeh Ukelina, History Department, and three of his African history students, presented a digital history project titled, “Where do we come from? African Origins of Human Life and Migration” at the New York African Studies Association annual conference held April 13 and 14 at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J. Also, Ukelina’s book, The Second Colonial Occupation: Development Planning, Agriculture, and the Legacies of British Rule in Nigeria, won the New York African Studies Association (NYASA) Book Award. The award was presented on April 14 at the NYASA conference at Seton Hall University. Also, Ukelina presented a paper at the same conference titled “The Miseducation of the African Child: Migration and the Legacies of the Colonial School System in Nigeria.”
Paul Arras
Paul Arras, Communication and Media Studies Department, has a new book titled Seinfeld: A Cultural History. It is part of a series of books by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers that focuses on iconic television shows called The Cultural History of Television, which includes shows like “Friends," “The Simpsons,” “Gilmore Girls,” “Mad Men,” “Breaking Bad,” “Cheers,” “Star Trek,” and “Fraiser.” Arras’ graduate research on ’90s television turned into his first book, The Lonely Nineties, which has a chapter on “Seinfeld” among other TV shows such as “Friends,” “Law & Order” and “The Simpsons.”
Brock Ternes
Brock Ternes, Sociology/Anthropology Department, had an article published in the journal Sustainability. His manuscript, “Are Well Owners Unique Environmentalists? An Exploration of Rural Water Supply Infrastructure, Conservation Routines, and Moderation,” offers evidence that controlling for water supplies reveals differences across many associations between water conservation efforts and other pro-environmental behaviors with commonly studied demographic variables.
Gregory Phelan and Kerri Freese
Gregory Phelan and Kerri Freese, Chemistry Department, presented a one-hour session on obtaining funding for planning and implementing a regional conference at the 2012 Annual Noyce Scholarship Conference held May 25 in Washington, D.C. This year’s regional conference, which expects 200 professional investigators (PIs) and scholars from the Northeast Region, will be held Oct. 11-13 in Boston, Mass.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of an article titled “Growing Executive Power: The Strange Case of the ‘Protective Return’ Pocket Veto,” published in the September issue of the journal Presidential Studies Quarterly.