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Sara Atwood<\/strong>, associate professor and chair in the Department of Engineering and Physics, gave a presentation, titled \u201cA Design-Thinking Model for Developing Socially Responsible Engineers,” at the 11th-Annual Engineering and Liberal Education Symposium held at Union College on June 1 and 2, 2018. She described an activity held in the engineering department to use the engineering design process to approach the topic of school shootings and gun violence in honor of the National Walkout Day on March 14, 2018.<\/p>\n

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Jean-Paul Benowitz<\/strong>, director of student transition programs and prestigious scholarships and fellowships, was joined by Caitlin Rossiter \u201921<\/strong>, Honors History and French, and Benjamin Errickson \u201919<\/strong>, History, on June 14, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, at the Preservation Pennsylvania\/PennDOT conference:\u00a0 Byways To The Past: Cultural Resource Management. The group presented \u201cMitigation and Public Participation\u201d as part of a workshop, called \u201cAlternative Mitigation and Transportation.\u201d The presentation featured Elizabethtown College student scholarship, published in the ArcGIS story maps for Professor Benowitz’s courses in the Honors Program, about local history. PennDOT and the FederalDOT used the maps local public works projects related to the National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 Review.<\/p>\n

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Dan Chen<\/strong>, assistant professor of political science and Asian studies, had an article, titled “Political Context and Citizen Information: Propaganda Effects in China,” accepted by the International Journal of Public Opinion Research. It will be published later this year.<\/p>\n

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Tamara K. Humbert, DEd, OTR\/L<\/strong> and Nancy Carlson, PhD, OTR\/L<\/strong> attended the World Federation of Occupational Therapy (WFOT) Congress from May 21-25, 2018, in Cape Town, South Africa. The WFOT congress is held every four years.<\/p>\n

Humbert and Rebecca Anderson MS\u201915, OTR\/L<\/strong> presented a poster, \u201cA mutual journey: Occupational therapists’ meaningful experiences of therapeutic use of self: a phenomenological study.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlson also presented a poster, \u201cThe BBC Sensory Scales: An innovative approach to measuring sensory patterns among pediatric populations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jeffery Long<\/strong>, professor of religion and Asian studies, was given a Dharma Seva Award Tuesday, June 19, by the Hindu American Foundation<\/a> in Washington, D.C. According to the award letter, it is \u201cbestowed upon individuals and\/or organizations who have worked tirelessly and selflessly for the greater good of Sanatana Dharma and the Dharmic community. … Your years of scholarship, that shines light on the Hindu tradition as it is lived, and your advocacy and leadership on behalf of the tradition and community to ensure accuracy and respect in the way Hinduism is taught in grades K-12 are indicative of your upholding the highest ideals of our tradition, namely, selfless service, courage and equanimity.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also published a review of Yiftach Fehige’s \u201cScience and Religion: East and West\u201d in the September 2017 issue of Isis, a journal published by the University of Chicago Press. He published “Reflections on Hinduphobia: A Perspective from a Scholar-Practitioner” in the December 2017 issue of Prabuddha Bharata, a journal of the Ramakrishna Order in India.<\/p>\n

Long gave the following public presentations during the 2017-2018 academic year:<\/p>\n