Andrea Barrick, social work and gerontology, recently had her manuscript “Committee hearings, witness affiliations, and the passage of the violence against women act” published in the Journal of Policy Practice and Research,doi: 10.1007/s42972-021-00024-3. The author tracks attention to domestic violence at the congressional level and seeks to answer the question of why Congress recognized violence…
In December 2020, Jayleen Galarza, social work and gerontology, was appointed Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the LGBT Center in Harrisburg.
Dudley Girard, computer science, worked with students from the Video Game development club and alumni during a November game jam and over winter break to build AsterRoll (https://impsbro.itch.io/asterroll) , a video game that is accepted to the Indie Makers Syndicate showcase (http://makerssyndicate.com/). The showcase will take place virtually on the weekend of March 26th and…
George Pomeroy, geography/earth science, is co-editor of the recently published volume, AUC 2019: Proceedings of the 15th Asian Urbanization Conference, Vietnam. The book, published by Springer, is part of the Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements Series. He also was one of the organizers of the conference, which was held hosted by the Vietnamese German…
Rober Shaffer, hitory professor emeritus, published “The Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the Spanish Civil War in U.S. History Textbooks” in the March 2021 issue of The Volunteer, the magazine of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives.
On February 2, 2021, Doug Ensley, mathematics, presented results from his fall sabbatical leave project in the talk, “Mathematical Proof, Online Assessment, and High School Connections in First-Year Discrete Mathematics,” at the M.I.T. Electronic Seminar in Mathematics Education (http://math.mit.edu/seminars/esme/)
In December 2020, Thomas Hatvany, psychology, co-authored a publication with a graduate student in the Journal of Social Psychology.
In November 2020, Allison Carey, sociology and gerontology, with Joan Ostrove and Tara Fannon, co-edited Volume 12 of Research in Social Science and Disability, entitled Disability Alliances and Allies: Opportunities and Challenges (Bingley, UK: Emerald Press, 2020).
Carrie Sipes, communication/journalism, published a co-authored article, ‘DataViz and Data Storytelling Education in Journalism and Communication Programs,’ in Teaching Journalism & Mass Communication.
Shishir Shakya, Economics Shakya published a co-authored in the Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy “The Impact of Economic Freedom on Startups.” https://jrap.scholasticahq.com/article/18968-the-impact-of-economic-freedom-on-startups. Prescription Drug Abuse Policy System, PDAPS.org, put a working paper of Shakya in their resources. The working paper title, “County-Level Assessment of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program and Opioid Prescription Rate in their…