Dr. Megan Luft, interim associate vice president for enrollment management and executive director of admissions at Shippensburg University, received the Pennsylvania School Counselor Association’s (PSCA) Advocate of the Year Award on December 7, 2023 at the 68th Annual PSCA Conference entitled “Being and Belonging,” in the Poconos, Pennsylvania. “It was a complete surprise to me!…
Dr. Steven Burg, a professor of history at Shippensburg University, is the university’s recipient of the annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Keepers of the Flame Award, organized by Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). The award recognizes an individual from each of the State System university campuses for their contributions to creating and…
Dr. Mark Sachleben, professor of political science, is known for his research and expertise in international relations, but did you know he hosts a radio show every Tuesday evening from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. on 88.7 WSYC-FM Shippensburg? Shark Jazz and Blues is an hour-long program of jazz and blues, with a little bit of reggae.…
Dr. Nicole Santalucia will join fellow award-winning poet Erin Hoover for a book reading and signing at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Harrisburg, on Wednesday, November 15 at 7:00 p.m. Santalucia will read from her most recent publication The Book of Dirt, a collection of poems that chronicles outrage, love, and fear, wed to the terrain…
Dr. Drzyzga initiated with help from Bruce Herring (Facilities Dept.) and Greg Day (IT Dept.), a public-private partnership between AlphaRTK and Shippensburg University. AlphaRTK installed a continuously operating GPS reference station atop Dauphin Humanities Center, which it uses to provide commercial GPS augmentation services that support coordinate surveys and vehicle automation. He is currently teaching…
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.
In the spring of 2021, Dr. Tim Hawkins, professor of geography and earth science, went on sabbatical to Barbados through a Fulbright Scholar Award. At that time, he was studying the impact of North Atlantic storms on Caribbean ocean swells. Dr. Hawkins met a lot of great people at the University of the West Indies…
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…
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.