Joseph Zume, Geography and Earth Science

Dr. Zume recently presented his research titled, “Assessing the vulnerability of coastal groundwater quality to climate change impacts in Cape Coast, Ghana”, at the 18th World Water Congress held in Beijing, China, from September 11th  – 15th, 2023. Dr. Zume’s trip was supported with a grant from the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program.

Meet Ship’s New Frederick Douglass Communications Teaching Fellow

Dr. Colin Campbell is a teaching fellow from the Frederick Douglass Teaching Fellowship,  affiliated with the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. He has been assigned to teach at Shippensburg University for 1 year. According to Dr. Campbell, he will be teaching the class “Introduction to Communication Studies,” which involves speech theory and public speaking…

Cristina Rhodes, English department

Dr. Rhodes published an article, “Punk Persistence: Subversive Change and Continued Resistance in Celia C. Pérez’s The First Rule of Punk” in a special issue of Women’s Studies: “Nevertheless, she persisted”: Girls, Literature for Girls, and the Politics of Persistence.” Read it here.

Heather Sahli, Biology department

Dr. Heather Sahli was a co-author on a paper that was published in the journal New Phytologist entitled, “Rapid evolution of a family-diagnostic trait: artificial selection and correlated responses in wild radish, Raphanus raphanistrum.” Read it here. Dr. Sahli and undergraduate student Leslie Taylor were awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Experience grant in 2023 where…

Mohammad Rahman, Management, Marketing, & Entrepreneurship

Dr. Rahman and colleagues published a study titled: Keeping the ball rolling: using the S-O-R framework to investigate the determinants of football fan loyalty, in the Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics. The paper aims to understand how fan experiences impact football (soccer) fan loyalty using the stimulus-organism-response framework. The study found that fan…

James Lohrey, Communication/Journalism & Media

Over the summer, Prof. Lohrey co-edited and co-authored two chapters for the 13th edition of Video Production: Disciplines and Techniques, which is due for publication by Routledge in spring 2024.  Lohrey worked on the editing and field production chapters for the textbook.

Luis Melara, Mathematics department

Dr. Melara gave a research presentation entitled Optimal Bandwidth Selection in Biofet Measurements at the Vith Interdisciplinary International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Computational Science. The meeting was held in at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada from August 14-18, 2023. Read it here. He co-organized and chaired a session on Mathematical Modelling and Disease…

Daniel Predecki, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Dr. Predecki published an article, “Aza-Diels-Alder synthesis and NMR characterization of aromatic substituted 1-methyl-2-phenyl 2,3-dihydro-4(1H)-pyridinones,” in the Journal of Undergraduate Chemistry Research with four of our majors. Read it here. Dr. Predecki was co-author on an article titled, “The differentiation of N-butyl pentylone isomers using GC-EI-MS and NMR,” which was published in Forensic Science International. It…