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Jean-Paul Benowitz<\/strong>, director of student transition programs and prestigious scholarships and fellowships, was as recognized at Tabor Community Services\u2019 annual celebration and fundraising banquet, last month, for writing the history of Lancaster-based organization. His book \u201cWelcome Home: Fifty Years of Tabor Community Services: Tabors 50th Anniversary Addendum (2008-2018) to the 40th Anniversary History (1968-2008)\u201d was an update to his original “Make Yourself at Home: Tabor Community Services: Housing and Financial Counseling; Forty Years of Rebuilding Lives and Community, 1968-2008.” Established by the Mennonites in 1968, Tabor is a nonprofit provider of housing, financial counseling and education services for 4,600 Lancaster County residents, annually.<\/p>\n

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Douglas Bomberger<\/strong>, professor of musicology in the Music Division of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts had the article \u201cTalking Music: Amy Fay and the Origins of the Lecture Recital\u201d published in the book \u201cThinking Together: Lecturing, Learning and Difference in the Nineteenth Century<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bomberger also presented the paper \u201cTaking the German Muse out of Music: How The Chronicle Shaped Musical Opinion in World War I\u201d at the annual conference of the Society for American Music, held in March at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City.<\/p>\n

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Dan Chen<\/strong>, assistant professor of political science and Asian studies, was awarded a Sydney China Fellowship by the University of Sydney (Australia). She will be a visiting fellow at the China Studies Centre for six weeks this summer.<\/p>\n

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Lauren Gibson<\/strong>, assistant professor of chemistry, had an article \u201cCharacterization of Plasmodium Lactate Dehydrogenase and Histidine-Rich Protein 2 Clearance Patterns via Rapid On-Bead Detection from a Single Dried Blood Spot<\/a>\u201d published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene with colleague Christine Markwalter from Vanderbilt University. They based their work on data collected during a research trip to Macha, Zambia.<\/p>\n

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Don Kraybill<\/strong>, Distinguished College Professor and senior fellow emeritus, presented the commencement address<\/a> and received an honorary degree from Thiel College, at its 144th commencement exercises held in May.<\/p>\n

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Peter Licona<\/strong>, assistant professor of education, lobbied for after-school programming during Advocacy Day in Harrisburg in May. Licona collaborated with other Pennsylvania STEM Ambassadors and Pennsylvania Legislators to advocate for STEM education and the importance of providing Pennsylvania’s youth with quality after-school programming.<\/p>\n

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Steven Nolt<\/strong>, Senior Scholar at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, recently provided cultural-competency training seminars for healthcare professionals who work with Amish and Old Order Mennonite patients in the region. Seminars were presented to groups at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Lancaster Maternal Fetal Medicine and Hospice & Community Care of Lancaster.<\/p>\n

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Oya Ozkanca,<\/strong> associate professor of political science and College Professor of International Studies; John Craig<\/strong>, adjunct faculty member in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Legal Studies, and Wayne Selcher<\/strong>, professor of international studies emeritus, served as referees during a Counterterrorism Simulation event held April 25 and 30 at Elizabethtown College. The event was attended by the students enrolled in PS 370A Terrorism and Counterterrorism co-taught by Ozkanca and Craig. The simulation is one of the first held in the United States at the undergraduate level. Students in the course each represented members of different teams, such as the federal government, local government and media, producing policy responses to an evolving terrorist scenario. In the course, made possible through a Mellon Grant, students learned about many facets of terrorism, its evolution and examined the effectiveness of counterterrorism measures. During the simulation, students had a chance to experience, firsthand, the difficult policy dilemmas associated with counterterrorism, such as the tension between states’ rights and human rights.<\/p>\n

Ozkanca <\/strong>also presented her research, titled “Turkish Soft Balancing against the United States,” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Nationalities held at Columbia University in May.<\/p>\n

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Kelly Poniatowski<\/strong>, associate professor of communications, presented a paper, titled “Climbing Mt. Midoriyama: The representation of gender and race in NBC\u2019s American Ninja Warrior,” at the International Association for Communication in Sport\u2019s annual conference at Indiana University, Bloomington, in April.<\/p>\n

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Jonathan Rudy<\/strong>, Peacemaker in Residence with the Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking, received an Interfaith Youth Core Curriculum Development Grant for summer revision of PCS262-Restorative Practices and Community Security course to include interfaith themes.<\/p>\n

Rudy had his article \u201cHuman Security Approaches in Conflict Affected Areas<\/a>\u201d published in Carlisle War College\u2019s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute\u2019s \u201cStability Operations Lessons Learned and Information Management Systems (SOLLIMS) Sampler\u201d publication, Volume 9, Issue 2. The volume title is \u201cInclusive Peacebuilding: Working with Communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rudy also facilitated two courses at Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute<\/a> in Davao City, Philippines, titled \u201cBe the Change: Designing Transformative Justpeace through the Power of Nonviolence (BTC)\u201d and \u201cHuman Centered Security: Reimagining Conflict Stakeholder Relationships (HCS).\u201d Each weeklong course had 16 participants; most came from the Asia\/Pacific region.<\/p>\n

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Carl Strikwerda<\/strong>, College president and professor of history, had a review essay “Too Much of a Good Thing? Consumption, Consumerism and Consumer Cooperation in Modern History” published in the International Review of Social History, 63 (April, 2018), pp. 127-142.<\/p>\n

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Mark Stuckey<\/strong>, professor of physics; Timothy McDevitt<\/strong>, professor of mathematics; Michael Silberstein<\/strong>, professor of philosophy, and Alex Sten \u201917<\/strong> wrote a paper that received honorable mention in the prestigious Gravity Research Foundation 2018 Awards for Essays on Gravitation. The paper, “Could GR Contextuality Resolve the Missing Mass Problem?,” will now be considered for publication in the International Journal of Modern Physics D.<\/p>\n

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Nobuaki Takahashi<\/strong>, associate professor of Japanese and Asian studies in the Department of Modern Languages, presented his paper, \u201cUsing Digital Storytelling as an Assessment Tool for Intercultural Competence After Study Abroad,\u201d at the 24th Princeton University Japanese Pedagogy Forum on May 12. It was published in the proceedings.<\/p>\n

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

Brian Stottler \u201918<\/strong>, math and computer science major, won a first-place prize of $250 in the second-annual data-modeling contest sponsored by the College\u2019s Data Analytics Center. Tim White \u201919<\/strong>, actuarial science major, won a second place prize of $150 and Melissa Spencer \u201919<\/strong>, English major, won the third place prize of $100.<\/p>\n

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The following faculty members, recent graduates and current students, from the Department of Occupational Therapy, attended and presented various posters and sessions at the American Occupational Therapy Association’s Annual Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, in April.<\/p>\n