Shippensburg University’s September & October 2025 Faculty Kudos

Dr. Jennifer Clements, MSW Program Director and Professor of Social Work and Gerontology Dr. Jen Clements was accepted and received a scholarship to the 2025 WeCOACH – NCAA Women Coaches Academy in Indianapolis. This is a multi-day growth and development program available to collegiate women coaches in sports. This program is designed for women who…

Patterson co-hosts Our Better Half podcast

In June 2024, Dr. Jayleen Galarza Patterson, along with the other co-hosts of the Our Better Half podcast, were invited to keynote at AASECT’s 2024 Annual Conference. As part of the keynote, the co-hosts recorded a podcast episode in front of a live audience and were awarded AASECT’s 2024 Best Podcast of the Year Award.…

Elizabeth Aragunde led Ship students on tour of the Baltics

In May of 2023, Dr. Elizabeth Aragunde, music and theatre arts, led two dozen Ship students and members of the Ship Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers on a ten-day tour of the Baltics, the farthest east any ensemble from Ship has ever traveled! The choir performed in historical venues in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to…

David Wildermuth organized exhibit in Lehman Library

Dr. David Wildermuth, global languages and cultures, organized the International Traveling exhibition: Names Instead of Numbers: Remembrance Book for the Prisoners of the Dachau Concentration Camp, exhibited in the First Floor Gallery of the Ezra Lehman Memorial Library November 6 – 29, 2023. Dr. Wildermuth and Dr. Monika Moyrer, US Program Director, Action Reconciliation Service…

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.