Shippensburg University will celebrate 17 Days of Kindness beginning Wednesday April, 28. The campaign celebrates the presidency of Laurie A. Carter, who ushered in her time as 17th president of Shippensburg University with a similar Kindness Campaign, leading up to her inauguration. Carter departs from the university this summer to become the president of Lawrence…
Allison Carey, Sociology, has received the Outstanding Career in the Sociology of Disability Award from the Disability and Society Section of the American Sociological Association. The award honors a Section member whose career has shaped the sociology of disability field through their research, teaching, and professional service.
Kara Laskowski was mentioned in a Tribune-Democrat article highlighting a upcoming panel discussion. The panel sponsored by In This Together Cambria, Pitt-Johnstown and The Tribune-Democrat will discuss the impact of COVID on college campuses. Read the full article.
During the April 2021 annual Broadcast Education Association (BEA) virtual conference, James Lohrey, Communication/Journalism, moderated and presented on a panel titled, “Student Media Broadcasts in the Age of Covid.” Lohrey, along with his fellow panelists from various institutions across the country, discussed the challenges of electronic media students working on television and radio programming during…
Dorlisa Minnick, Social Work and Gerontology, is pursuing environmental justice by challenging Pennsylvania’s reliance on Census data for wastewater infrastructure needs. Environmental Justice Panel for the Shippensburg University Center for Social Research during StewardSHIP Week. Minnick, D. J. & Kumar, P. (2021 – Present). Co-chair, Society for Social Work Research Special Interest Group: Create Social…
On April 14, 2021, Andrea Barrick, Social Work and Gerontology, gave a paper presentation with John Kilwein on “Opposition to Federal Efforts to Reduce Intimate Partner Violence in Indian Country”, at the Midwest Political Science Association. In addition, Barrick gave a paper presentation on “The Not So Many Faces of Domestic Violence”, at the Western…
On April 17, 2021, Doug Ensley, Mathematics, received the 2021 James P. Crawford Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching and the 2021 Distinguished Service Award from the Eastern Pennsylvania – Delaware section of the Mathematical Association of America. The selection committee cites among Doug’s qualities and accomplishments: the testimony of his students about his…
Joseph Zume, Geography-Earth Science, has published his article, Evaluating the impacts of on-site sanitation facilities and saltwater intrusion on shallow groundwater quality in peri-urban communities of Cape Coast, Ghana, in the journal of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 193, 264 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-021-09059-1
Sean Cornell, Geography-Earth Science, is a co-PI for an NSF Grant in the amount of $397,822. The grant is titled GP-UP: Building a Geoscience Field Learning Ecosystem for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The project was approved as part of NSF’s Geopaths Undergraduate Prep program and is funded for a 3 year period.…
In January 2021, Gretchen Pierce, History, presented “To Defanaticize and Dealcoholize the Population”: The Interrelated Anti-Clerical and Anti-Alcohol Campaigns,” at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting. In addition, in March 2021, Pierce participated in a round table on teaching food and beverage history at the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies annual meeting. It…