FACULTY and STAFF
Dr. Oya Dursun-Ozkanca, associate professor of political science, was invited to attend the 2015 Belgrade Security Forum (BSF), which brought together policymakers and academics to discuss the future of the European Union and the Western Balkans. Dursun-Ozkanca presented the paper, “Turkey and the European Union in Western Balkans: Strategic Partners or Competitors?”
Dr. Kirsten Johnson, associate professor of communications, and Kelly Derbes ’15, presented their paper, “Story Sourcing Practices and Adherence to Traditional Journalistic Norms on Citizen Journalism Web Sites,” at the Pennsylvania Communication Association conference held in York, Pennsylvania, in October.
Dr. Kyle Kopko, assistant professor of political science and director of the College’s Pre-Law and Honors programs, wrote the book, “The VP Advantage,” with Christopher J. Devine. The book, about the strategy of picking a vice presidential running mate and whether running mates can deliver a decisive victory in the Electoral College through their home state’s electoral votes, is scheduled to be published by Manchester University Press in January. “The VP Advantage” will be distributed in the U.S. by Oxford University Press.
Wendy Sheaffer, director of creative services in the Office of Marketing and Communications, designed the College Viewbook, “Elizabethtown Everywhere,” that was recognized for outstanding achievement in the Neographics 2015 Power of Print Competition. The Viewbook was entered in the contest by Intell Printing.
“Elizabethtown Everywhere” also won an outstanding achievement award at the 2015 Premier Print Awards. The Premier Print Awards is the graphic arts industry’s largest and most prestigious worldwide printing competition.
Dr. Robert Spence, associate professor of music and director of instrumental studies in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, served as an adjudicator at the Manheim Township “Showcase of Sight and Sound” marching band festival in October. Nearly a dozen high school and middle school performing groups from central and eastern Pennsylvania performed in this event.
STUDENTS
Recent Occupational Therapy graduates and current OT graduate students gave presentations at the Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association’s annual conference held at the end of October in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Also, Victoria Snyder ’15, Heidi Weidemoyer ’15, Colette Hinton ’15, Rebecca Lane ’15, Erin Horting ’15, Rebecca Patten ’15, Marla Peiffer ’15 and Christina Gilley ’15, 2016 OT graduate students, participated in a Leadership Development Workshop, hosted by the Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association (POTA) in conjunction with the annual conference. The students learned more about leadership and were paired with members of the POTA board for mentoring in various leadership activities over the next 12 months
Philip Ebersole ’17, Caitlin Lockard ’17 and Samantha Poremba ’16, the Elizabethtown College Sociology and Anthropology team, won the Judith Little Problem Solving Competition at the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology Annual Meeting held in October. They researched and proposed a solution to a problem identified by the Montgomery Area Council on Aging. They presented their executive summary, solution methodology, solution materials and Power Point presentation to a panel of eight judges after 48 hours of intensive community-based research. The faculty mentor/sponsor was Dr. Michele Lee Kozimor-King, associate professor of sociology and director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching, who attended and supervised the team during the competition.
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