FACULTY AND STAFF ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND BEST PRACTICES // JUNE 2022 |
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Sara Sewell published "Rächen. Nicht trauern. Deutsche kommunistisch-antifaschistische Trauerkultur, 1931-1932" ("Avenge. Don't Mourn. German Communist Antifascist Mourning Culture, 1931-1932"), Arbeit-Bewegung-Geschichte. Zeitschrift für historische Studien, vol. 21, 2022, no 2, (May 2022).
President Scott D. Miller and Dr. Marylouise Fennell continue to collaborate as Executive Editors on the thought leadership series President to President. The 2021-2022 series is titled “The Vitality and Power of Higher Education,” and examines how colleges are approaching their missions with new vigor and re-examining their role in the community. In the ninth chapter of the 2021-2022 series, “Toward a Post-Pandemic Preferred Future,” Portland Community College president Mark Mitsui, M.Ed., examines the critical role that higher education will play in the post-pandemic world. He describes how colleges can promote greater equity and help address social issues, and he offers examples of programs his campus has implemented to actively work towards these goals while preparing students for the jobs of the future. President Miller's daily blog, Dialogue, can be found at prezscottmiller.blogspot.com.
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Elizabeth Malcolm was a panelist for the Risk Management Association's virtual event "Climate Risk in the Banking Industry," which was attended by 190 professionals from the financial industry and organized by VWU alumna Melissa Burroughs '86.
Bill McConnell, Rebecca John, and Lydia Kennedy led a session entitled "Addressing Students' Math Anxiety" for the Virginia Council for Learning Disabilities annual conference. They shared their research on math anxiety with general education and special education teachers across the state.
An undergraduate student, Carolyn Tryfiates, gave a poster presentation at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego (virtually). The poster title was "Chemical Analysis of Novel Gland in Hispid Cotton Rat." This was a result of a collaborative effort with Dr. Robert Rose of ODU.
Two undergraduate students, Savejah Cooper-Anderson and Christopher Fegan (2021), who worked in Kevin Kittredge’s lab, presented virtually at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego. Their poster was titled "FTIR Studies on the Effects of Salt Water on the Degradation of Various Plastics."
Five undergraduate students, Sydney Carter, Meghan Pease, Emily Imhof, Breanna Kokes, and Alyssa Holmes, who worked in Kevin Kittredge’s lab, gave a virtual talk at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego. Their talk was entitled "Substituent Effects on the Equilibrium Acidities of Substituted Phenylnitromethanes in Methanolic Solvents."
Kellie Holzer presented a paper entitled "Padmarag, an Transimperial, Anti-Patriarchal Sensation" as part of a panel on "Gender and Colonialism in Indian Literature: Toru Dutt and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain" at the thirtieth annual British Women Writers Conference at Baylor University in Waco, TX on May 19, 2022.
Eric Johnson presented a poster titled "RNAseq reveals BURP domain protein expression during spermatogenesis in the model moss, Physcomitrium patens" at the Mid Atlantic Sectional meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists at the University of Maryland.
Maynard Schaus and Vic Townsend presented a talk entitled "Effect of a Hurricane on the Abundance of Puerto Rican Harvestmen along an Altitudinal Gradient" at the Virginia Academy of Science meeting in Lynchburg, VA. Co-authors included VWU alumni Amanda Albert and Dan Proud (currently on the faculty at Moravian University) and Don Yee of the University of Southern Mississippi.
Maynard Schaus, Vic Townsend, Deirdre Gonsalves-Jackson, and Eric Johnson presented a poster entitled "Transformation of an Introductory Biology Course Sequence to Improve Student Success and Scaffold Learning" at the Virginia Academy of Science meeting in Lynchburg, VA.
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Mindy Gumpert, President of the Virginia Council for Learning Disabilities, hosted the VCLD symposium at Virginia Wesleyan. Bill McConnell, Lydia Kennedy, and Rebecca John shared their research on students' math anxiety. Wendy Scott and Rachael Woodward presented information about Tidewater Collegiate Academy. Also, as a panelist Bill McConnell shared his experiences as a co-teacher. Sue Larkin offered closing remarks.
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OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
A team comprised of Larry Belcher, Heather Campbell, Chris Haley, Maynard Schaus, and Jill Sturts participated in four workshops over the course of the academic year as part of a Teagle planning grant with the Virginia Foundation of Independent Colleges to assess the transfer student process.
Ben Haller participated in a Zoom marathon reading of the complete text of Herodotus' Histories, reading Book 1.181-187 in the original Ionian Greek. The marathon included polyglot readings of the Father of History in Irish, Welsh, Persian, Lombard, Catalan, Spanish, German, Swiss German, Polish, Ukrainian inter alia, and featured such celebrity scholars as Mary Beard of Cambridge University.
Steven Emmanuel was interviewed on Paul Vogelzang's 'Not Old Better Show' podcast to promote his upcoming Smithsonian Associates lecture ("The Presence of Mister Rogers: Preserving Our Humanity in the Digital Age). The interview is streaming on Apple Podcasts and on SoundCloud here.
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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Five of Elizabeth Malcolm and Chris Haley's research students presented their research to the Tidewater Master Naturalists Association. The presentations were titled "Virginia Beach Heat Vulnerability: Correlation to Urban Tree Cover and Neighborhood Demographics" and "Carbon Sequestration in Virginia Wesleyan University's Old Growth Beech & Pine Forests."
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