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FACULTY\/STAFF<\/strong><\/p>\n

Justin Badgerow<\/strong>, associate professor of music, performed a solo and collaborative recital of Brazilian music at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces; he gave a masterclass to several undergraduate and graduate piano students at the University. Badgerow also performed as a collaborative pianist in a lecture recital on Brazilian song at the National Association of Teachers of Singing (Texoma Region) Conference held in Canyon, Texas.<\/p>\n

David Bowne<\/strong>, associate professor of biology, had an original short story, \u201cHenry Ford Hated Glaciers<\/a>,\u201d featured on the Art House section of the podcast Citizens’ Climate Radio, episode 6.<\/p>\n

Dan Chen<\/strong>, assistant professor of politics, has a forthcoming article, titled “Local Distrust and Regime Support: Sources and Effects of Political Trust in China,” to be published in Political Research Quarterly.<\/p>\n

Kurt DeGoede<\/strong>, professor of engineering, and Kelly Seymour \u201912<\/strong> had significant media attention for research conducted on \u201cCellular Telephone Dialing Influences Kinematic and Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Healthy Adults.\u201d The research was published in the Journal of Motor Behavior earlier this year. Canada\u2019s Global News<\/a> and the UK\u2019s Telegraph<\/a>, Daily Mail<\/a> and IFL Science<\/a> ran articles on the research.<\/p>\n

Oya Dursun-Ozkanca<\/strong>, associate professor of political science and director of the international studies minor, took her PS 350\/BA 350 European Union Simulation class to a three-day long Mid-Atlantic EU Simulation exercise in Washington, D.C., in November 2016.<\/p>\n

About 150 students from 15 colleges and universities from the Mid-Atlantic area participate in The EU Simulation. This year, the E-town class represented two EU member states \u2013 Denmark and Cyprus. Each class members represented a member of the Danish and Cypriot Cabinet or a member of the European Parliament. The topics of debate were the immigration\/refugee crisis and Brexit. The E-town delegation attended briefing sessions at the Embassy of the Kingdom of Denmark and the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in Washington, where they asked questions of Danish and Cypriot diplomats about the Simulation topic.<\/p>\n

Two of the College\u2019s delegation members were elected into leadership positions at the European Parliament. Taylor Flamand<\/strong>, a Class of 2017 legal studies major, was elected to the position of President of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in Europe, and Joey Kobus \u201919<\/strong>, a political science and Japanese major, was elected as the President of the European United Left\/Nordic Green Left in European Parliament. The E-town team experienced, first-hand, the EU decision-making processes in this signature learning opportunity.<\/p>\n

Kyle Kopko \u201905<\/strong>, assistant dean for academic achievement and engagement; E. Fletcher McClellan<\/strong>, professor of political science; Jillian Casey ’13<\/strong>, and Julia Ward ’13<\/strong>, along with Christopher Devine co-authored a piece in the Washington Post on President Obama’s final Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/a> award ceremony.\u00a0 The authors are the first to establish an original database of Medal of Freedom recipients since the Medal’s inception in 1963.\u00a0 Their new analysis finds that President Obama has awarded more Medals of Freedom than any other president. Their previous work on this topic earned national media attention in The New York Times and C-SPAN.<\/p>\n

Also, Kopko and Christopher Devine wrote a piece for the Washington Post <\/a>discussing the failure of third party presidential candidates to secure more than five percent of the vote in 2016.\u00a0 Their analysis disputes claims that third-party candidates cost Hillary Clinton the election, and it also provides insights for the future of third parties in the 2020 presidential election and beyond.<\/p>\n

Joseph Mahoney<\/strong>, professor in psychology, presented \u201cThe potential of out-of-school time for promoting social-emotional learning: Implications for education and youth development\u201d Nov. 7, 2016, at the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL), in Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n

Fletcher McClellan<\/strong>, professor of politics, presented a paper, “It Can Happen Here: Lindbergh (as conceived by Philip Roth), Trump, and Right-Wing Social Movements,” at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association that took place Nov. 10 through 12, 2016, in Boston, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

Tara Moore<\/strong>, visiting assistant professor for English has edited a book of Victorian Christmas ghost stories. \u201cThe Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories\u201d contains a collection of 13 eerie tales originally intended to feed the 19th-century desire for ghostly experiences at Yuletide.<\/p>\n

Kelly Poniatowski<\/strong>, associate professor of communications, and Rebecca Easton \u201919<\/strong>, professional writing, presented an hour-long session, titled “Are you Divergent?: Teaching the Dystopian Novel in the Classroom,” at the annual conference of the Keystone State Reading Association in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Sabina Post<\/strong>, director of Study Abroad, co-presented a session, titled \u201cThe Application Process as a Teaching Tool,\u201d at the 2016 NAFSA Region VIII Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, along with international education staff members from The University of Maryland, Arcadia University and Lehigh University.<\/p>\n

Jeff Rood<\/strong>, associate professor of chemistry, Kayla Hess \u201918<\/strong> and Sitara Ramjit \u201918<\/strong>, presented research posters July 28, 2016, at the 8th-Annual Landmark Conference Summer Research Symposium at Moravian College. More than 100 participants attended and 90 student presentations were given. Hess and Ramjit presented on work carried out through SCARP with Rood<\/strong> and Kristi Kneas<\/strong>, dean for academic affairs and faculty development. Their project focused on luminescent metal-organic frameworks (LMOFs) that could be used for sensor applications.<\/p>\n

Carl Strikwerda<\/strong>, professor of history, published the article, \u201cWorld War I in the History of Globalization,\u201d in the Winter 2016 journal Historical Reflections.<\/p>\n

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STUDENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nicholas Christie<\/strong>, communications senior, presented his paper, “Selling Sexy or Selling your Sport: Female Athletes in Print Advertisements,” November 4, 2016, in the Sports Area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association at its annual conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey.<\/p>\n

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E-town NOW publishes achievements of our faculty and staff members once per month during academic semesters; and less frequently during breaks.\u00a0 <\/em>Submit your achievement here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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