Faculty Kudos
College of Liberal Arts
Lena Ampadu (English) presented a paper, “Women’s Identities and the Immigrant Experience in Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brown Stones,” at the College Language Association conference in New Orleans on March 27.
Jennifer Ballengee (English) presented a paper, “Tragedy, Memory, and Community,” at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference at NYU. She and Erin Fehskens (English) also organized a three-day seminar there called “Tragedy, Memory, and Community.”
Peggy Benner (English) and Mignon C. Fogarty (English) talked about things grammatical on Maryland’s WYPR Radio on March 4, National Grammar Day. Reaching far beyond the Old Line State’s frontiers, Peggy’s OWS has beamed enlightenment to some 1,325,000 questioners worldwide.
Michelle Chester (English) is a contributing editor for The Norton Mix: Readings on Education: A Custom Publication.
Erin Fehskens (English) had an article, “Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard as Global Literature,” published in CLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture (15 December 2013). At the ACLA conference Erin presented a paper, “Les pays du Revenants: Underworlds and the Impossibilities of Home in Dennis Scott’s Echo in the Bone.” And with Jennifer Ballengee (English) she organized the three-day seminar at the conference noted above.
Leslie Harrison (English) won a $6,000 Maryland State Arts Council individual artist award for her poetry. She continues a departmental tradition after both Geoff Becker (English) and Michael Downs (English) won prizes last year for their fiction.
Victoria Kamphaus (English) has been named the Faculty Fellow for Women’s Field Hockey.
Tim Nelson (English) published “Dub Club,” a piece of flash prose fiction in a postcard series with Hidden Clearing Books this month.
Salvatore Pappalardo (English) presented his paper, “Habsburg Hybrid: Italo-Slavic Myths of Origin in Joseph Roth’s Radetzkymarsch,” to the ACLA conference at NYU.
Carol Quinn (English) read some of her poems at the Split This Rock Conference in Washington, D.C. on March 28.
Joel Slotkin (English) had an article, “’Seeke Out Another Godhead’: Religious Epistemology and Representations of Islam in Tamburlaine,” published in Modern Philology 111.3 (February 2014).
Zosha Stuckey (English) presented a paper, “The Under-life of an Archive,” at the Letters and Letter-Writing Conference, March 18-20 in Prague.
College of Health Professions
Saradha Ananthakrishnan (Audiology) presented a poster titled “Effects of adverse listening conditions on subcortical neural representation of speech sounds in normal and impaired ears” at the 37th Annual Midwinter Meeting for the Association for Research in Otolaryngology in San Diego, CA from February 22-26. She also presented “Neural encoding of speech in healthy and impaired auditory systems” at the American Auditory Society’s 41st Annual Scientific & Technology Conference in Scottsdale, AZ from March 6-8.
Jaime DeLuca (Kinesiology) gave a presentation titled “I just want to be sexy: An examination of new mothers’ post-partum quest for physical capital” at the Eastern Sociological Society’s Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD on February 21.
Kathleen Gould (Health Science) gave a presentation titled “Comparing content knowledge change in online problem based learning versus traditional instruction” at the Annual Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching in Newport Beach, CA from February 20-23.
Karla Kubitz (Kinesiology) presented a pre-conference workshop titled “Making the specific choice” and conference workshop titled “Using Haidet et al.’s guidelines for reporting on TBL implementations” at the Annual Conference of the Team-based Learning Collaborative in Fort Worth, TX from March 5-7.
Margaret McCormick (Nursing) presented a workshop titled “Effective program planning workshop for asthma educators” at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology 2014 Annual Conference in San Diego, CA on March 1. She also gave a presentation titled “Predictors and interventions used to promote timely progression and NCLEX success” at the Health Education System Inc.’s Elevate Outcomes conference in Las Vegas, NV from March 12-14.
Honors College
Andrew Reiner (English and Honors College) wrote the cover story entitled, “Does E.B. White’s simple, peaceful Main still exist?” for the Washington Post Magazine Spring Travel issue.
Howard Baetjer (Economics and Honors College) recently published a new book: Free Our Markets, A Citizens’ Guide to Essential Economics.
Staff Kudos
Christine Eifert (Economics) completed the Leadership Certificate, one of five noncredit certificates offered by the Office of Human Resources. This certificate is designed for those new to or interested in moving into a leadership role. Click this link to learn more about competency focus and certificate programs available to all faculty and staff.
Julie Hall (Financial Services) completed the Leadership Certificate, one of five noncredit certificates offered by the Office of Human Resources. This certificate is designed for those new to or interested in moving into a leadership role. Click this link to learn more about competency focus and certificate programs available to all faculty and staff.
JR Rathjens (Campus Recreation Services) completed the Leadership Certificate, one of five noncredit certificates offered by the Office of Human Resources. This certificate is designed for those new to or interested in moving into a leadership role. Click this link to learn more about competency focus and certificate programs available to all faculty and staff.
Mary Weir (Financial Services) completed the University Business Certificate, one of five noncredit certificates offered by the Office of Human Resources. This certificate is designed for university employees responsible for business functions. Click this link to learn more about competency focus and certificate programs available to all faculty and staff.
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