Dr. E. Douglas Bomberger, professor of music, presented the paper, “Amy Fay and the origins of the Lecture Recital,” at the Popular Knowledge, Public Stage: Cultures of Lecturing & Learning in the Long Nineteenth Century conference in Alexandria, Virginia, in September.
Dr. Dan Chen, assistant professor of political science and Asian studies, coauthored a book chapter with Dr. John Kennedy from the University of Kansas. The chapter, “Urbanization and Urban Villages: Institutional Factors and Social Identity in Urban China,” is published in New Approaches to Area Studies by Northern Illinois University Press.
In addition, Chen presented the paper, “Facilitating Local Public Goods Provision: Emerging Political Role of Local Television News in China,” at the annual conference of the Association of Chinese Political Studies in Beijing in June.
Milt Friedly, professor of art, had two works accepted in the Really Affordable Art Show, a National Exhibition at the Brooklyn (New York) Waterfront Artists Coalition. Out of 1,308 entries, Friedly’s mixed media work, “Razor Blade and Ink Test,” and his etching, “Mixed Emotions,” were chosen by juror Carolyn Ramo. In addition, Friedly was asked to exhibit his new etching, “Prague,” an image of St. Ivo, in the St. Vitus Cathedral in Brooklyn in October.
Dr. James R. Hughes, professor of mathematical sciences, presented the paper, “Using Fundamental Groups and Groupoids of Chord Spaces to Model Voice Leading,” at the biannual international conference of the Society of Mathematics and Computation in Music held in June in London, England. The paper also was published in the conference proceedings, Springer LNAI 9110.
Dr. Kyle Kopko, assistant professor of political science and director of the College’s Honors and Pre-Law programs, published an article with Erin Krause ’16, titled “Shooting from the Hip: Concealed Cameras in the U.S. Supreme Court,” in the August edition of Judicature. The article also was the subject of the cover story in the Aug. 10 National Law Journal, titled “‘Kodak’ Moments: A Spotlight on Secret Photos in the Supreme Court.”
Additionally, Kopko delivered a Sept. 17 Constitution Day invited-lecture at Mount Vernon (Ohio) Nazarene University. The title of the lecture was “The Constitutional Right to Marry: What Just Happened and What Comes Next?”
Kopko delivered two additional presentations at the annual meeting of the Midwest Association of Pre-Law Advisors in Columbus, Ohio, and, on Sept. 18, he participated in a presentation, “Pedagogical Techniques for Pre-Law Students: Lessons from Small and Large Institutions,” at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law with Dr. Lawrence Baum of Ohio State University and Dr. Christopher Devine of Mount Vernon Nazarene University. On Sept. 19, he participated in another presentation, “Professionalism in Practice: A Road Map to Designing Robust Goals for Prelaw Students,” with Karen Graziano of Villanova University and Victoria Turco of Georgetown University.
Dr. Dmitriy Krichevskiy, assistant professor of economics; Dr. Fletcher McClellan, dean of faculty and professor of political science; and Dr. Brian Newsome, assistant dean for general education and assessment and associate professor of history, delivered a presentation on assessment-driven core reform at September’s Assessment for Student Success: Building Academic Innovation and Renewal, the annual conference on learning and assessment hosted by Drexel University.
Kelly Pool ’16 and Ryan Schwark ’16 presented research at the 27th annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science held in May in New York City. The research, “What color is my personality?: Comparisons between synesthetes people-color experiences,” was supervised by Dr. Catherine Lemley, professor of psychology. Samantha Bancroft ’14 was a co-contributor.
At this same meeting, Lemley and Katherine Cotter ’14 presented “Enhanced object imagery is associated with intrusive images among sexual trauma survivors.” Dr. Evan Smith, associate professor of psychology and director of the College’s WGS Program, and Meghan Jones ’12 were coauthors on this project.
Dr. Michael Roy, associate professor of psychology, and psychology students Tatem Burns ’16, Haley Diener ’15, Sarah Nanovic ’15, Melanie Newman ’15 and Taras Letnaunchyn ’15 presented the research, “Factors that increase the likelihood of experiencing an earworm.” In addition, Anastasia Frees ’15, in collaboration with faculty members Jean Pretz, associate professor of psychology and psychology department chair and Michael Roy presented “Role of rumination in professional field hockey players.”
Rita Shah, assistant professor of sociology, successfully completed the International Visual Methods Summer Seminar at the University of Antwerp (Belgium).
Dr. Michael Swanson, associate professor of theatre and director of theatre and dance, and Richard Wolf-Spencer, associate professor of theatre, were involved in the September production of the Ephrata Performing Arts Center production of Bernard Pomerance’s “The Elephant Man.” Swanson directed the production; Wolf-Spencer, designed the lighting. The play examines the life of the famously disfigured Victorian, Joseph Merrick, as he ascends from being peered at in freak shows to audiences with the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Dr. Nobuaki Takahashi, assistant professor of Japanese, presented “The impact of explicit instruction of error correction techniques on pairwork: uptake and tendency for chosen corrective techniques” on May 16 at the 22nd Princeton University Japanese Pedagogy Forum. It was published in the proceedings.
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