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Research, Scholarship and Creative Work
APRIL 2024: Mysoon Rizk (Art) received a $5,000 Spark Grant from Ohio Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, to organize a free and public event at the McMaster Center in the Main branch of the Toledo Lucas County Public Library. The event was held in April. After screening the documentary film Krzysztof Wodiczko: "The Art of Un-War," Rizk together with Barry Jackisch (History), the Philip Markowicz Endowed Professor in Judaism and Jewish Biblical Studies, Director of the Roger Ray Institute for the Humanities, moderated an in-person discussion with the New York City-based documentary filmmaker Maria Niro, in person; internationally renown artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, by Zoom; and the audience.
MAY 2024: Education’s Natasha Johnson (Teacher Education) and Arts and Letters’ Kevin Czjkowski (Geography and Planning) are co-principal investigators, along with Jonathan Bossenbroek (Environmental Sciences) and Kim Zeidler-Watters, executive director of the Partnership Institute for Math and Science Education Reform in Kentucky, received $2.3 million dollars from the National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Scholarship Program to support sixth through 12th grade science teachers in high need districts in Ohio and Kentucky. The cohort of teachers started this fall. More information here.
JULY 2024: In partnership with Toledo Public Schools, Jason Cox (Art), Lynne Hamer (Educational Studies), Susanna Hapgood (Teacher Education), Falynn Thompson (Herb Innovation Center), Michael Toland (Herb Innovation Center), Rhonda Aguiton (Teacher Education), and Professor Emeritus William Weber (Teacher Education) received a Tutoring Grant from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce in July 2024. The grant provided intensive math and literacy tutoring to students in second through eighth grade from 18 different TPS schools. More information here.
AUGUST 2024: Kasumi Yamazaki (World Languages and Cultures) presented her research paper, "Computer Assisted Language Learning Systematic Review: Latest Trends, Issues, and Future Directions for Japanese Language Learning," at the International Conference on Japanese Language Education (ICJLE), Madison, Wisconsin.
AUGUST 2024: Eric Zeigler (Art) had work made with his collaborator, ecologist Aaron M. Ellison, at Hartwick Pines State Park in Grayling, MI for a solo show.
He also had work made in collaboration with Aaron at the CLIMATE exhibition at Ashland University in Ashland, OH. (Sept.)
SEPTEMBER 2024: An Chung Cheng (World Languages and Cultures) published a research paper titled "Corpus of Eye Movements in L3 Spanish Reading: A Prediction Model" in the Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 23-36. The other co-authors are Hui-Chuan Lu, Li-Chi Kao, Zong-Han Li, and Wen-Hsiang Lu, all of National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
SEPTEMBER 2024: Barry Jackisch (History), the Philip Markowicz Endowed Professor in Judaism and Jewish Biblical Studies, presented two papers in Europe. The first was presented at the 16th annual conference of the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The second was at the conference "Difficult Heritage and 'Nature': Greening as Forgetting – Greening as Healing?" held at Universität Hamburg, Warburg-Haus. The papers Jackisch presented at the conferences were "Various Shades of Green and Brown: Greenspace and Racial Ideology in Nazi Berlin, 1933-1945" and "Regreening, Remembering, Rebuilding: Berlin’s Tiergarten Park after 1945," respectively.
SEPTEMBER 2024: Ami Pflugrad Jackisch (History) published an article, “Slavery, Freedom, and Survival: Life at Westover Plantation in Revolutionary Virginia,” in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (UPenn Press), Vol. 113. No. 4, pp. 47-66.
SEPTEMBER 2024: Friederike Emonds (World Languages and Cultures) presented at a panel on Food and German Studies: Creative Explorations at the 48th annual international conference of the German Studies Association in Atlanta, Georgia.
SEPTEMBER 2024: Jami Taylor (Political Science and Public Administration) co-authored a short professional piece for the Center for the Study of Federalism. It was titled "Federalism Through a Transgendered Lens."
Congratulations
Barry Jackisch (History), the Philip Markowicz Endowed Professor in Judaism and Jewish Biblical Studies, received an award from the Ohio Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission. The funding supports the project titled: “Program Development in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at The University of Toledo.”
Teona Velehorschi, a clinical psychology graduate student, received an award from the Association for Applied Sport Psychology Inc. The funding supports the project titled: “Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE) for Collegiate Athlete Injury Recovery.” Teona is co-advised by faculty Jason Rose and Wesley Bullock (Department of Psychology).
Elyse Hutcheson, a clinical psychology graduate student, was awarded the Cynthia Belar Internship Applicant Scholarship, from the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC).
UToledo alumna, Motomi Emmanuel (Psychology '23), was accepted into the M.D. Program in the College of Medicine and Life Sciences at University of Toledo.
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