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Mohammad Rahman presented a paper co-authored with Adam Powell titled “Competing through compelling FLOW experiences: Examining the antecedents and consequences of Chinese video gamers” at the Academy of Marketing Sciences (AMS) virtual conference on December 14-19, 2020.

Robert Hale, psychology, completed an invited review for the Oxford University Press USA of the 9th edition of the college textbook “Behavioral Neuroscience”, by Marc Breedlove and Neil Watson.

Robert Hewitt, professor emeritus, social work and gerontology, was featured in the 2021 Black History Project, shown in various newspaper articles across Pennsylvania. News reporters from Pennsylvania interviewed Black educators, diversity advocates and other leaders to get a sense of their favorite books with different facets of Black History, to include fewer familiar texts that…

Otso Massala, Robert Neidigh and Ian Langella , finance and supply chain management, completed multiyear research program in optimization of the supply chain with linear programming method under different scenarios of resource flexibility. Results were published in double blind peer reviewed article in OMER journal.

Arelys Madero, criminal justice, published a chapter titled “The Ethics of Panhandling: Free Speech Intersects with Social Control” which will appear in the textbook Society, Ethics, and the Law.

Liz Fisher, social work and gerontology, is currently serving on the Development Action Team for Healing-Empowerment-Advocacy-Learning-Prevention-Action (HEAL-PA), a Commonwealth task force under the leadership of the Governor’s Office of Advocacy and Reform charged with making Pennsylvania a trauma-informed, healing-centered state. The Development Action Team focuses on opportunities to apply for grants or engage major donors…

From Dec. 27, 2020 – Jan. 3, 2021, Toru Sato, psychology, offered a free online course for the community entitled, “Mindfulness for the New Year” through the Bosler Memorial Library in Carlisle, PA.  In response to requests from participants in these classes, he is currently creating various Guided Meditations on YouTube.

Allison Carey with Pamela Block and Richard Scotch, will receive the 2021 North Central Sociological Association’s Scholarly Achievement Award for their book Allies and Obstacles: Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities (Temple University, 2020).

We will once again be conducting the annual student research and creative activities conference as a web-based virtual event during the week of May 3-7. You will receive more information in the weeks ahead, but for now here are some key DATES TO REMEMBER: March 10: Online Registration Opens for Presenters – including Student Exhibitors and Faculty Panel…