FACULTY/STAFF
Dr. Kerri Hample, assistant professor of occupational therapy, and Leah Newman MS’16 presented a poster, titled “Autism, Dietary Modifications, and the Social Participation and Roles of Caregivers: A Comparison Study,” at the 2016 National Autism Conference in State College, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 3, 2016. This presentation was based on Leah’s graduate research project. Of the presenters from all over the United States, only three occupational therapists were selected to share research with behaviorists, teachers, speech language clinicians, parents and consumers.
Dr. Tam Humbert, associate professor of occupational therapy, and alums Christine Maley MS’14, Nicole Pagana MS’14 and Christa Velenger MS ’14 had their report, “Dealing with major life events and transitions: A systematic literature review on and occupational analysis of spirituality,” published by American Journal of Occupational Therapy.
Dr. Kirsten Johnson, associate professor of communications, presented her paper at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Aug. 4. Her paper, “Where Did You Get That Story? An Examination of Story Sourcing Practices and Objectivity on Citizen Journalism Websites,” was selected as the top faculty paper in the Participatory Journalism Interest Group.
Dr. Michele Lee Kozimor-King ’93, associate professor of sociology and director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching, was inducted as president of Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society after serving as president-elect for two years. Induction took place at the August meeting of the Alpha Kappa Delta Executive Council Meeting held in Seattle, Washington. Kozimor-King also was a panelist in a Teaching Workshop titled, “Presenting about Teaching? Publish about Teaching!” on Aug. 21, at the American Sociological Association’s 111th Annual Meeting in Seattle. She also served as the table presider of a Special Topics Table on Navigating the Tenure Process as part of the Section on Sociology of the Family Refereed Roundtable Session on Aug. 22 at the same meeting
Dr. Jeffery D. Long, professor of religion and Asian studies, presented at the Jain Vishva Bharati Center for Peace and Meditation in South Plainfield, New Jersey, Aug. 21. He spoke on the theme of Jain philosophy and inter-religious relations.
Dr. Joseph L. Mahoney, professor of psychology, delivered an invited seminar at Örebro University, Sweden, titled, “Youth development through after-school and summer activities.”
Dr. Steven Nolt, Senior Scholar at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, published “‘The Facts About Nonresistance among the Mennonites of America’: Challenges of Quantifying U.S. Mennonite Responses to Military Conscription During World War II” (coauthored with Theron F. Schlabach) in the July issue of the journal Mennonite Quarterly Review.
Nolt also published “Nordamerika, Mennoniten in den USA und Kanada,” an essay on Anabaptists in North America in the online reference source Mennonitische Lexikon (Weierhof, Germany).
Dr. Brenda Read-Daily, assistant professor of engineering, presented her paper, “Using Backpacking Water Purification Systems as a Means of Introducing Water Treatment Concepts to an Introduction to Environmental Engineering Course,” at the 2016 annual conference of the American Society for Engineering Education held in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Rachel M. Grove Rohrbaugh, archivist, presented in a session on embedded archival instruction at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Her presentation focused on the community-based components of HON170 Elizabethtown History: Campus & Community, a course she co-taught with Jean-Paul Benowitz, director of Student Transition Programs and assistant director of Academic Advising.
Dr. John A. Teske, professor of psychology, was co-organizer of “How Can We Know: Co-Creating Knowledge in Perilous Times,” the 62nd Annual Conference of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, June 25 through July 1 on Star Island, New Hampshire. He also moderated three of the Plenary Dialogues, On Imagining and Knowing, On Knowing Traditions, On Knowing Good, and participated in the dialogue on Knowing Ourselves with Warren Brown, a neuropsychologist/neuroscientist and director of the Lee Travis Research Institute in Pasadena. Teske’s position paper was “How Do We Know Ourselves? From the Outside In.” Other speakers included a Gifford lecturer from South Africa, anthropologists from North Carolina and Virginia, a philosopher of religion, a psychologist specializing in indigenous psychologies, and a Jesuit astronomer. Conference participants represented 23 states and 10 countries.
Jesse Waters, director of Bowers Writers House, has new fiction appearing in the September issue of Gargoyle Magazine and new creative non-fiction appearing in the September issue of Hippocampus.
STUDENTS
Philip Ebersole ’17 and Irene Snyder ’17 participated in the 2016 American Sociological Association (ASA) Honors Program August 19 through 23 in Seattle, Washington. Only 38 undergraduate students from across the country were selected. The program requires nearly a week of participation in professional events held at the Annual Meeting including the presentation of a research paper at a roundtable session. The students were sponsored by Dr. Michele Lee Kozimor-King ’93.
Ebersole and Snyder also participated in the Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society Strategic Planning meeting and Executive Council Meeting to present results and recommendations from a community-based research project completed by the students enrolled in SAN 330 and SAN 331 Research Methods and Statistical Analysis classes.
Snyder received the 2016 Student Forum Travel Award and the 2016 ASA Honors Program Travel Award. She also was elected to serve a two-year term as the Undergraduate Student Representative on the ASA Student Advisory Board. Her term began at ASA in Seattle.
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