Honors

Brent Paterson, Division of Student Affairs, has been named a Pillar of the Profession by the Student Affairs Professionals in Higher Education Foundation. Those receiving the Pillar designation are individuals of sustained professional distinction in the higher education field, as defined by donors and supporters.

Maureen Smith, College of Education, has been elected to the advising education majors commission chair position of NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising.

Eric Hodges, Environmental Health and Safety, has earned his certified emergency manager designation, sponsored by the International Association of Emergency Managers.  This is the highest honor of professional achievement available from the association, and is currently held by only 1,467 emergency managers around the globe.

Publications

L.J. Zigerell, POL, published Inferential Selection Bias in a Study of Racial Bias: Revisiting ‘Working Twice as Hard to Get Half as Far’ in Research and Politics and Promoting Sex Equality in the United States: Navigating Equal Treatment for Non-Identical Groups in American Government.

Marjorie Jones, CHE, was one of the authors of Process for Assembly and Transformation into Saccharomyces cerevisiae of a Synthetic Yeast Artificial Chromosome Containing a Multigene Cassette to Express Enzymes That Enhance Xylose Utilization Designed for an Automated Platform, published in the Journal of Laboratory Automation.

Susan Kalter, ENG, edited Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction by John Joseph Mathews.

Katherine Nelson, ENG, published Fast Speech Phenomena in Asante Twi in Rice Working Papers in Linguistics.

Presentations

Issam Nassar, HIS, co-organized an international conference, Photography’s Shifting Terrain, at NYU-Abu Dhabi on March 8-10. At the conference he presented Photography and the Great War: Contextualizing Images of the War on the Ottoman Front.

Touré Reed, HIS, presented Why Moynihan Was Not So Misunderstood at the Time at the Southern Labor Studies Association Conference in Washington, D.C.

Andrew Hartman, HIS, gave two recent invited presentations based on his forthcoming book, A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars at Spring Arbor University and at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich.

Alan Lessoff, HIS, gave an invited presentation based on his new book, Where Texas Meets the Sea: Corpus Christi and Its History at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas.