Tag Archives | Faculty and Staff Kudos

Jane Neapolitan (Office of Academic Innovation) and Marilyn Nicholas (Instructional Leadership and Professional Development) presented a paper at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association of Teachers Educators held February 10-14, in Orlando, FL. In their presentation titled, “Building the Future of Leadership Using Quality Matters (QM)” they described how TU’s graduate program in Educational […]

Associate Professor Michael Dewally (Department of Finance) and Matteo Arena (Marquette University) had their paper: “Investment Bank Expertise in Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions” accepted at the Journal of Financial Research. The paper examines the influence of country expertise of investment banks in facilitating cross-border merger deals by analyzing a large international sample of merger and […]

David Wizer (Educational Technology and Literacy) and Jane Neapolitan (Office of Academic Innovation) held a poster session at the Association of University Centers on  Disabilities Conference held December 4-7, 2016, in Washington, DC. The poster session titled, “Towson University’s Universal Design for Learning Faculty Development Initiatives that Lead to Enhanced Teaching and Student Learning,” focused […]

Jessica Loetz (Financial Affairs) completed the Workplace Professional Certificate, which is designed for developing the skills of our support staff. She also completed the Financial Knowledge Certificate, which is designed for faculty and staff who want to learn more about a variety of financial topics. Click this link to learn more about certificate programs available […]

COE Associate Professor Sarah Lohnes Watulak and COE Professor Barbara Laster published “Take 2: A Second Look at Technology Stalled: Exploring the New Digital Divide in One Urban School” in the Journal of Language and Literacy Education. The authors were invited to present an update to their original article, Technology Stalled, published in the same journal […]

Richard E. Vatz (Instructional Leadership and Professional Development) has published the lead article in the fall issue 2016 of First Amendment Studies, “The Academically Destructive Nature of Trigger Warnings.” Vatz also was the featured speaker on November 18, 2016 for  West Chester University’s University Address, sponsored by their Rhetoric Society of America.  His topic was […]

Patreena Parsons, a senior research analyst in the office of institutional research, presented “SAS Basics for Institutional Research” at the Maryland Association for Institutional Research’s fall conference. Xiaolin Li, (Finance), had an article published in the prestigious Electronic Commerce Research Journal, a Springer publication. The paper, titled “Gender discrimination in online peer-to-peer credit lending: evidence […]

Dr. Mary Helen McSweeney-Feld, (Interprofessional Health Studies), published the 2nd edition of the textbook, Dimensions of Long-Term Care Management: An Introduction (Health Administration Press), where she was the lead editor and contributor.  Contributed chapters were also submitted by Dr. Patricia Alt, Dr. Mary Carter, Dr. Cyrus Engineer, and Dr. Emiko Takagi (all Interprofessional Health Studies faculty).  The […]

Drs. Colleen Ebacher and Lea Ramsdell (Department of Foreign Languages) are serving as co-principal investigators for the “100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund Grant” awarded to Towson University and its partner, Universidad de Piura, Peru.  The grant, titled “It Isn’t Easy Being Green: Peruvian and U.S. Students Tackle Local Environmental Sustainability in a Transnational […]

Jameta Barlow (Department of Women’s & Gender Studies) was one of twelve participants in this summer’s Pardee RAND Graduate School’s Faculty Leaders Program in Policy Research and Analysis (formerly the Summer Faculty Workshop) in Santa Monica, California.  Through this program, the Graduate School offered an intensive introduction to policy analysis, RAND, and Pardee RAND to […]

In the spirit of the summer Olympics in Rio, the Management Department’s assistant professor Mariana Lebron, who was a torchbearer for the 2002 Olympic Games, brought the torch she carried to share with patients at Mt. Washington Pediatrics Hospital earlier this month. Link to Facebook post with image: https://www.facebook.com/MtWashingtonPediatricHospital/photos/a.85605687759.78548.80376667759/10154422095387760/?type=3&theater Ray Monczewski (University Store) completed the […]

Librarian Joyce Garczynski’s article titled, “#Donate: the role of social media in academic library fundraising” was published in a special issue of the journal The Bottom Line focused on library funding and development strategies. To read the article, please click here.  

Education Librarian Miriam DesHarnais’ review of Silk Tether by Minal Khan was published in School Library Journal. The review is available here: http://www.slj.com/2016/06/reviews/books/ya-xpress-reviews-july-2016/. Arlene Ceribelli (Office of Graduate Studies) completed the University Business Certificate, one of the noncredit certificates offered by the Office of Human Resources. This certificate is designed for university employees responsible for […]

Mary Cowles (Center for Professional Practice) completed the Leadership Certificate, one of the 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 certificate programs available to all faculty and staff. Joan Doremus […]

Liz Angeli (Department of English) made two appearances last month in Houston.  On April 6 she presented (with Christina Norwood, PRWR alum) “Collective Mindfulness in Public Health and Crisis Response” to the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.  The next day she voiced “Researching Writing and Action in Inaccessible Research Sites” at the Four Cs […]

Effective Supervision Program (ESP): The following participants completed the program during Spring 2016, which is conducted over three full days of learning where both the theory and application of supervision are covered.  Participants leave with a better understanding of their role as a supervisor here at TU, as well as a better understanding into how […]

Liz Angeli (Department of English) presented “Responding to Public Health Crises:  Collective Mindfulness, High Reliability, and User Experience” at the 2016 Symposium on Communicating Complete        Information” in Greenville, NC, February 22-23.  Her co-presenter was PRWR alum Christina Norwood. Thomas Bechtold (Department of English) was featured and pictured in a story in The Baltimore Watchdog […]

Librarian Sarah Burns Gilchrist has been awarded a $100 scholarship from the Maryland Library Association to attend the 2016 American Library Association Conference in Orlando, Florida. Audrey Cutler, Senior Designer/Trainer (Office of Academic Innovation) served on the Conference Program Committee for the Quality Matters NE Regional Conference on Quality Assurance in Online Learning, held March […]

Librarian Sarah Burns Gilchrist published the feature “Rediscovering Renaissance Research: Information Literacy Strategies for Success” in Volume 16, Number 1 of Libraries and the Academy.

Lena Ampadu (Department of English) was an external reviewer of the English Department of Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC on October 21. Katherine Attié (Department of English) presented “’Redeeming Time’:  Prince Hal’s Reformation and the Poetics of the Everyday,” one of three papers for “The Scales of Time and Shakespeare” panel sponsored by the  Shakespeare Forum […]