Assistant Professor Chivon Fitch co-authored "No Silver Lining: Evaluating the Need for Consistent and Appropriate Functionality Assessments Among the Increasing and Incarcerated Elderly Population" that was published in Criminal Justice Review. The authors propose that future functionality assessments within correctional facilities incorporate a number of age-related factors that focus less on chronological age and more on the mental, physical, and social aging processes of incarcerated individuals.

Professor Tony Erben was selected by the Sunshine State Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (SSTESOL) of Florida to receive the Outstanding Educator (Higher Education) Award for contributions and service to ESOL Education in the state of Florida 2020. This award recognizes and honors TESOL/Bilingual Education professionals considered outstanding by their colleagues. The award will be presented to Erben on November 13 at the 2020 Sunshine State TESOL Virtual Conference.

Associate Professor Enilda Romero-Hall's article "A Short-Term Faculty-Led Study Abroad Program: Teaching and Learning Innovation in Switzerland" was published in the International Journal of Designs for Learning. In this article, Romero-Hall shares her experience conceptualizing, designing, and implementing a short-term faculty-led study abroad program for undergraduate and graduate students in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Romero-Hall's book Research Methods in Learning Design and Technology has been published online by Taylor and Francis. The UT library has purchased a copy of the electronic book with perpetual access rights. You can access the book online with your UT login credentials.

Romero-Hall was interviewed by Luke Hobson, EdD on the Dr. Luke Hobson Podcast. Listen to the podcast here: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-iron-university-podcast/the-dr-luke-hobson-podcast/e/77555049?autoplay=true

Assistant Professor Edward Pompeian's book review of Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution by Tyson Reeder was published in Journal of the Early Republic.

Chair/Associate Professor Netra Khanal co-authored "Cybersecurity: a predictive analytical model for software vulnerability discovery process" that was published in the Journal of Cyber Security Technology. The authors examine existing software vulnerability models and propose a new time-based differential equation model. The proposed model is based on the assumption that vulnerability saturation is a local phenomenon that possesses an increasing cyclic behavior within the software vulnerability life cycle.

Professor of Instruction I Morgan McAnally co-authored the paper “Explicit solutions and Darboux transformations of a generalized D-Kaup-Newell hierarchy” has been accepted for publication in Nonlinear Dynamics. Darboux and Bäcklund transformations on integrable couplings are formulated and generalized. The generalization of the theory pertains to spectral problems where the

spacial spectral matrix is a polynomial in $\lambda$ of any order. A specific application

to a generalized D-Kaup-Newell integrable couplings system is worked out, along with an explicit formula for the associated Bäcklund transformation. Solutions are given for the 0,1,2,3-order generalized D-Kaup-Newell integrable coupling system. Formulas for the general m-th order integrable couplings system are seen. Graphs of explicit solutions to the 4-th order integrable couplings are presented for chosen

parameters showing solitons. A brief discussion about open problems and physical implications of the paper conclude the paper.

Op-ed articles by Associate Professor Bill Myers were published in the Tampa Bay Times and Florida Politics. In "Are We Ready for In-Person Voting?" that was published in Florida Politics, Myers argues that unless there are more financial resources to equalize the differences in early voting and election day staffing across Tampa Bay counties, the ease or difficulty in exercising your right to vote will be determined by the county where you reside. In "It's the Republicans who are packing the court" that was published in the Tampa Bay Times, Myers argues that Senate Republicans' attempts to go back on the so-called "Garland Rule" to fill Justice Ginsburg's seat is an example of modern court-packing and part of a pattern that seeks to lock-in Republican control of the Supreme Court. In "We Need a Safe Workplace, Not an Escape Valve for Employers" that was published in the Tampa Bay Times, Myers responds to the SAFE TO WORK Act by asking the question: "If you knew a business faced no legal consequences for ignoring COVID-19 and allowed the virus to spread among employees, how safe would you feel walking through those doors?"

Assistant Professor Jonathan Lewallen's article "Booster seats: new committee chairs and legislative effectiveness" was published in The Journal of Legislative Studies. In this article, Lewallen advances an organisational explanation for legislative effectiveness (LE) and specifically focuses on committee chairs, who are given significant responsibilities and advantages to advance legislation and this increase their LE scores. To develop and test an organisational explanation for LE, Lewallen develops a measure of Chair Boost that represents the increase in a member's legislative effectiveness score simply by becoming committee chair, then uses that measure to investigate whether certain committees boost their chairs' LE scores more than others to more precisely understand what makes for better carpenters in Congress.

Lewallen's book Committees and the Decline of Lawmaking in Congress was published by University of Michigan Press. In this book, Lewallen examines the decline in lawmaking from a new, committee-centered perspective.

Assistant Professor Sara Festini's article "Directed forgetting instructions decrease proactive interference within working memory below that of a baseline encode-only condition" was published in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology. In the article, Festini provides evidence that directed forgetting of working memory is goal-directed and distinct from the termination of processing after encoding.

Professor Ryan Cragun co-authored "With a little help from my (Canadian) friends: Health differences between minimal and maximal religiosity/spirituality are partially mediated by social support" that was published in Social Science & Medicine. The researchers used a nationally representative sample of Canadians to explore the relationship that religion and spirituality had with psychological wellness, mental illness, and substance abuse, and to determine if these relationships were mediated by social support.

J. Sumerau's new book with Dr. Eric Anthony Grollman at the University of Richmond, Black Lives and Bathrooms: Racial and Gendered Reactions to Minority Rights Movements, was published in September 2020 by Lexington Books. Sumerau and Grollman examine how cisgender white people respond to minority movements like Black Lives Matter and the Transgender Civil Rights Movement in ways that maintain existing patterns of racial and gender inequality in society.

J. Sumerau' new book with Dr. Xan Nowakowski and UT Sociology alumni Nik Lampe, Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging, will be released in October 2020 by Lexington Books. Nowakowski, Sumerau, and Lampe examine inequalities and norms in U.S. Healthcare systems, and elaborate on ways healthcare systems can become more inclusive of queer, trans, and intersex populations.