Dr. Chattopadhyay was recently invited to serve on the Advisory Board of Bhavan College’s soon-to-be-launched Management School of Events, Entertainment & Design (MSEED). The college is part of one of India’s largest public universities – the University of Mumbai. Dr. Chattopadhyay who recently returned from a month-long trip to India is also an invited speaker…
Dr. Ramsey’s new research study, “The humor paradox and identity in professional stand-up comedy: humor enactment as a predictor of personal-relational and enacted-relational identity gaps in the comedian–audience relationship,” was published in Communication Research Reports (https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2025.2464707). Dr. Ramsey is also scheduled to present his original humor research in April at the Southern States Communication Association meeting in…
Dr. Dave Kennedy coached the SU Chess Team at the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Championship in Charlotte, NC. The team placed 5th in the U1800 Division, believed to be the highest finish ever for a PASSHE school. Shippensburg was undefeated in six matches, including wins over Ohio State and U. Mass Amherst. Congratulations to Dr. Kennedy and…
Dr. Horner’s book chapter entitled “Saints’ Lives: Bodies, Texts, and Readers in Medieval Lives of Female Saints” was recently published in Women in Christianity in the Medieval Age, 1000-1500, edited by Laura Kalas and Roberta Magnani, Routledge, 2025, pp. 86-109. Here’s the link to the book: https://www.routledge.com/Women-in-Christianity-in-the-Medieval-Age-1000-1500/Kalas-Magnani/p/book/9781032080802
Dr. Sangkook Lee was re-elected as the 2025 IEEE Region 2 Susquehanna Section Treasurer in December 2024 after serving as a member of the Executive Leadership Team over the past six years. Dr. Lee has been a member of IEEE for 25 years and was elevated to the grade of Senior Member in 2018. Learn…
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…