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Here are the faculty and staff activities for February 3, 2011.
Staff Activities
Dr. Ximena Catepillan, mathematics, gave a presentation “A First Year Experience Seminar” at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans, January 2011.
Dr. Abdelhadi Halawa, wellness and sport sciences, has completed a peer review of two grant research proposals. The first one was for the Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) titled “Consanguinity, short inter-pregnancy interval and risk of low-birth weight in the State of Qatar.” The second one, titled “Metabolic Syndrome in Patients Receiving Antipsychotics in the Gulf Population” was for The National Priorities Research Program (NPRP). UREP and NPRP are the largest research grant funding agencies of the State of Qatar National Research Funds (QNRF). The two grant proposals were presented by researchers from Turkey and Lebanon respectively. The UREP study will employ three undergraduate students as co-researchers from the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. The mission of QNRF is to encourage and advance knowledge and education by supporting original, competitively selected research by providing grants ranging from $20,000 up to $350,000 per proposal per year in a myriad of research disciplines.
Dr. Carol Heintzelman, social work, had her book review, “Domestic violence: Intersectionality and culturally competent practice” published electronically in Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services. The review can be accessed at www.FamiliesinSociety.org/BookReviews.asp.
Dr. Changfu Chang, communication and theatre, was among the seven faculty from the department who shared their scholarship at the 96th National Communication Association Convention in San Francisco, Calif., in November. Chang presented on the panel titled “US-China Relations and Intercultural Communication: Major Issues and Challenges” for the Association for Chinese Communication Studies. Dr. Stacey Irwin presented her paper titled “The Turn to Hermeneutic Phenomenology for the Scholar and Writer” in the Philosophy of Communication Interest Division. Dr. Greg Paul presented “When Groups Go Bad: How Public Relations Faculty members Prepare Students for Group Work and Group Conflict in the Public Relations Campaigns Course,” a paper co-authored with Dr. Theresa Russell-Loretz, and student Stacey Dill, and “Forgiveness at Work: Exploring the Moral Foundations of Forgiveness in the Workplace,” co-authored with Linda Putnam, UC Santa Barbara. Russell-Loretz also presented a paper titled “Building Bridges Through Collaboration: Configurations that Inspire Best Practices in Public Relations Research and Education,” in the Experiential Learning in Communication and in the Scholar to Scholar session titled “A Scholar to Scholar Roundtable: From Interpretational to Academic Divisions: Examining and Proposing Necessary Bridges to further the Ideas, Activism and Contributions of Feminism.” She also presented her paper, “The Case of the Women’s Narrative Group at Millersville University Using Primary Source Material as an Interdisciplinary Bridge.” Dr. Lisa Schreiber presented her paper “Bridging the Divide: Speech Expertise and Assessment Issues” in the Communication Assessment Division and “Building Bridges Between Spirituality and Health” in the Spiritual Communication Division. She also presented a paper titled “A Metaphysical Model of Human Communication: Lessons from a Holistic Healing Community” in the Cultural Studies Division. Dr. Jennifer Wood acted as chair for a panel titled “Interrogating Race and Privilege as Public Pedagogy” in the Critical and Cultural Studies Division and a respondent for “The Power of Perry: An Examination of Tyler Perry’s Mediated Representations of Race in Film” in the African American Communication and Culture Division.
Retired faculty
Dr. Dennis Denenberg, retired from the School of Education, spoke January 17, in Bedford, Texas, giving two Hooray for Heroes presentations. He will also speak at a Teaching American History grant event in Woodbury, N.J., Feb. 25 and 26. Denenberg is also planning an ebook release of 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet this spring and he is continuing his as a monthly columnist for Cobblestone Magazine. His column is titled “Dr. D’s Mystery Hero.”
