Dr. Claire Jantz is making a positive and sustainable difference in the South Mountain region, and her work was recognized last month with the Spirit of South Mountain Award. This award is granted each year by the South Mountain Partnership (SMP), a public-private partnership lead by the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and…
Sieta Achampong ’01 was featured in a Pennlive article featuring leaders in the community who are making Black history today. Achampong is the director of high schools for the Harrisburg School District. Read the full article.
Lawrence Eppard appeared in an article in The Source discussing myths about poverty. The book Eppard co-authored “Poorly Understood” was also highlighted in the article. Read the article.
On January 29, Claire Jantz, geography/earth science and CLUS, was presented the Spirit of South Mountain Award at the 10th annual Power of the Partnership Year-End Celebration. Each year, the South Mountain Partnership recognizes an individual, project, or organization that has made significant contributions to advancing a positive and sustainable future for the South Mountain…
Wood Honors College director Kim Klein’s monograph, Internationalizing Honors, was published in December 2020 by the National Collegiate Honors Council, the national professional association of Honors Programs and Colleges.
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.