Dr. Jordan Windholz, English This summer Windholz held an annual “Summer with Shakespeare” seminar in partnership with the Bosler Memorial Library in Carlisle, and with research support from a Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) grant. The seminars (June 1-29) discussed Shakespearean tragedies, Macbeth and Richard III. Working with Windfolz, English major Ashleigh Kennedy researched and authored a…
Luis Melara, Mathematics Melara gave a presentation entitled “The Case for Undergraduate Research Journals” as part of the Highlights of the Special Issue of the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology on Mathematical Biology Education. Presentation was given on June 14, 2021. http://schedule.smb2021.org/EDUC/EDUC-MS02.html Melara also organized a workshop Celebrating Diversity: Survey of Different Research Problems at Different Career Stages. This mini-symposium…
You may have been made aware through media reports or by word-of-mouth about an incident that occurred over the weekend off campus in an area where students live, Queen Street in Shippensburg Township. The incident which resulted in a shooting victim remains under investigation but was isolated and poses no imminent threat to the community. No…
Senior associate director of Athletics, Carrie Michaels, was named the Vice Chair of the NCAA Division II Management Council. Management Council is a 28-member leadership group that is responsible for the day-to-day operations of NCAA Division II and is charged with recommending administrative policy and regulations pertaining to governance.
Prof. Christy Fic, Library,was recently appointed chair of the Popular Culture Association‘s Travel and Tourism section.
Dr. Wendy S Becker, Management; College of Business, published an article, ‘The Real CSI: Retention of Key Employees in the Crime Lab’ in the Journal of Human Resources Education in July.
Dr. Carrie Sipes, Communication, Journalism and Media, and her co-authors published their research article titled: “An analysis of general-audience and Black news sites’ coverage of African American issues during the COVID-19 pandemic” in the Newspaper Research Journal in July 2021.
Dr. Viet T. Dao, Management Information Systems Dao had a paper titled “An Empirical Examination of the Use of IS-enabled Sustainability Initiatives across the Integrated Sustainability Framework” accepted for publication in the Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems. Dao served as an Associate Editor for 2021 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS),…
Dr. Shishir Shakya, Economics, published a co-authored paper in The Extractive Industries and Society journal, titled: “The fracking boom and crime rates in rural American states: Some critical insights.” The paper provides causal estimates that rural states with the fracking boom encountered more crimes than comparison states with an estimated 15.68 million (2008 dollar) worth of…
Vicki Fairbanks Taylor co-edited a book titled: Experiential Exercises in the Classroom [Foster, M. K., Taylor, V. F., & Walker, J. L. (2021). Experiential exercises in the classroom. Edward Elgar Publishing]