Steven Burg, History, presents at Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Board

Dr. Steven Burg was invited by the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office to present at the February 7, 2023, meeting of the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Board.  He shared with the board the research he conducted during his fall 2022 sabbatical leave in a presentation entitled, “Discovering Pennsylvania’s African American Cemeteries.”  At that meeting, the Board…

Pablo Delis, Biology, gave oral presentations in Missouri

Emeleigh Luckenbaugh (Biology Student and presenter) and Dr. Pablo Delis (Professor of Biology and Graduate Major Advisor) gave an oral presentation titled “Comparison Of Two Eastern Milksnake (Lampropeltis triangulum) Populations In A Natural And Urban Environment.” during the 49th Annual Meeting of the Kansas Herpetological Society, at the Missouri Southern State University (Joplin, Missouri) on November 4-6th 2022. For…

Laura Beckman, Arelys Madero & Melissa Ricketts present research at ACJS

Drs. Beckman, Madero, and Ricketts, will present their research at the 60th annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS). The focus of their presentation is to provide a discussion of the challenges facing faculty who serve as academic advisors. Innovative solutions to minimize those challenges will also be explored and discussed. Drs.…

Ian Langella and David Hwang publish article on alternative food pantry

Dr. Ian Langella, professor and chair of Supply Chain Management, and Dr. David Hwang, associate professor of Supply Chain Management, together with Dr. Rainer Kleber, professor of operations management at the University of Magdeburg Germany, had their article “An alternative food pantry responds to the pandemic: A case study on service redesign” accepted for publication…

James Lohrey presents research paper at national conference

Professor James Lohrey, Communication/Journalism & Media recently presented his research-in-progress at the annual National Communication Association conference in New Orleans, November 16-19. His research, A Qualitative Grounded Theory Study Exploring the Lack of Identifiable Queer Youth on Television Impacting Social Norms for Queer Young Adults, serves as the basis for Lohrey’s upcoming dissertation that he is…

Luis Melara appointed to committee for Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Dr. Luis Melara, Mathematics, was recently appointed member of the Career Opportunities Committee for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.  This committee serves as a resource for current information concerning the availability and demand of trained individuals in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science. SIAM is an international community with over 14,000 individual members. More here: https://www.siam.org/about-siam/committees/career-opportunities-committee

Luis Melara appointed chair of council for Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Dr. Luis Melara, Mathematics was recently appointed Chair of the Diversity Advisory Council (DAC) for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).  The DAC addresses policy issues with SIAM related to underrepresented groups.  SIAM is an international community with over 14,000 individual members. Find out more here: https://www.siam.org/about-siam/committees/diversity-advisory-committee

Allison Carey co-edits volume in book series

Dr. Allison C. Carey, Sociology and Anthropology, and Director of MS in Organizational Development and Leadership, along with Dr. Sara Green (University of South Florida) and Dr. Laura Mauldin (University of Connecticut) co-edited Volume 13 of the book series Research in Social Science and Disability, entitled Disability in the Time of Pandemic (Emerald Press, 2023). In this collection authors from…

Brian Wentz publishes article

Dr. Brian Wentz, Accounting and Information Systems & Analytics, published an article, “Academic Libraries and Their Legal Obligation for Content Accessibility,” in the journal First Monday. Read it here: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/12892