Academics & Research

Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, professor of psychology, was the mentor for both projects.

Dan Burns, assistant professor of English, co-chaired a panel examining the belated legacy of Zora Neale Hurston’s "Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo'" at this year’s MELUS conference held March 21-24 in Cincinnati. Published to wide acclaim in 2018, Hurston’s long-awaited collection of interviews recounts the story of the final apparent survivor of the Clotilda (1860)—the last known U.S. ship to participate in the transatlantic slave trade.

The Center for Engaged Learning has many resources related to the high-impact practice of Students as Partners.

 

The posts by the senior lecturer in English explore university labor issues and include advice for how to talk to non-tenure-track faculty and creative ways to think about faculty hiring.

 

Research from two School of Education faculty and two current undergraduate students was presented at the Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education Annual Conference.

Inspired by natural iridescence found in butterfly wings and fish scales, the films contain an array of magnetic nanostructures which can be rotated to manipulate the reflection of ambient light.

Singh publishes a paper in Organization Management Journal, the official journal of the Eastern Academy of Management. 

Tadros co-authored research examining how the interaction between environmental performance and economic and legitimacy factors influence firms’ environmental disclosures. 

The music and music theatre majors participated in the National Association of Singing Mid-Atlantic regional voice competition and conference held March 21-23 in Towson, Maryland. 

Shefali Christopher, assistant professor of physical therapy, gave the keynote address at the Running Medicine 2019 conference held March 15-16 at the University in Virginia in Charlottesville.