Adam Oldham, a two-time alumnus of Shippensburg University, earned his Bachelor of Arts in 2010 and his Master of Education in School Counseling in 2013. In 2023, completed his Doctorate of Education at Immaculata University. Oldham serves as a school counselor at Big Spring High School, an adjunct professor in Ship’s counseling department, and as…
Scouting for America fights hunger throughout the Shippensburg community
In June 2024, the Botanical Society of America hosted the National Botany Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Attendees learned more about a variety of research topics, including endangered species conservation, plant adaptation and environmental stressors. Heather Sahli, faculty member in the biology department, presented her ongoing research on the Pennsylvania endangered dwarf iris, Iris verna.…
Former SU Economics faculty member, Shishir Shakya and AEES faculty member, Michael Levinstein published an article in The Journal of Economic Education on the efficacy of small, repeated faculty nudges to improve student learning outcomes. Article PDF available upon request. Web-Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220485.2024.2372306
Tulchin won the TIPS (Teaching Innovations in Pedagogy and Scholarship) award for 2024 at Shippensburg University. He won the award for his strategy of identifying key concepts in his HIST 105 (Global History 1) course and requiring students to make flashcards on those concepts each class for homework. As a result, students’ grades improved –…
Two of Kim’s research projects were recently published in peer-reviewed academic journals. The two publications are as follows: “The Effect of Board Diversity on Cost Stickiness”. 2024. Korean Accounting Review 49 (3): 103-139; and “The Relation between Split Credit Rating and Post Earnings Announcement Drift”. 2024. Korean Accounting Journal 33 (4): 55-86. Web-Link : http://e-kar.org/search/list.asp…
Laskowski was appointed to one of two union seats on the State Board of Higher Education by Governor Josh Shapiro. Read more about it here: https://www.pa.gov/en/governor/newsroom/2024-press-releases/shapiro-admin-appoints-new-state-board-higher-ed.html
Lu’s co-translated book (with Qin Li) will be published in early 2025. The book: “Black jade age: New evidence of 5000 years’ history of China” (written by Shuxian Ye) is being published by Springer (New York). A funding of $20,000 was granted for the project by Chinese Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences for this…
Herbert is a featured Virtual Learning Speaker for the National Communication Association at its 110th annual conference. This is a two-part virtual and in-person workshop for new and continuing faculty. Find out more here: https://www.natcom.org/VLO
Ramsey’s research study, “Closing the Gaps: An Examination of Student Self-Sabotage, a Willingness to Ask for Help, and Personal-Enacted and Enacted-Relational Identity Gaps in the Student-Instructor Relationship,” was accepted for publication in Communication Studies, a peer-reviewed communication journal. The article features recent Shippensburg University graduate Elizabeth Russell (’23) as Ramsey’s coauthor. The article is available…