Honors
Ted Branoff, TEC, was the distinguished lecturer for the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education at North Carolina State University. Branoff was also awarded the Orthogonal Medal from North Carolina State. The medal honors those who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of graphic science.
WGLT’s News Department was given the regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence by the Radio Television Digital News Association. WGLT also won the News Series Award for its investigative reports, “Police and Race in the Twin Cities.” That series also took honors in the Investigative Reporting category.
Jonathan Rosenthal, Office of the Provost, was given the 2015 Michael C. Holen Pacesetter Award by NACADA, the Global Community for Academic Advising. The award recognizes significant contributions to the improvement of academic advising.
Rick Whitacre, AGR, received the National Agri-Marketing Association’s (NAMA) Outstanding Advisor Award at the national conference. The NAMA student chapter earned 16 awards at the conference, including Outstanding Student Chapter.
Publications
Dane Ward, Milner Library, had his article “It Takes a University to Build a Library” published in Inside Higher Ed.
Katrin Paehler, HIS, co-edited A Nazi Past: Recasting German Identity in Postwar Europe that was published by the University Press of Kentucky.
Presentations
Five Politics and Government faculty members presented papers at the 2015 Midwest Political Science Association annual conference in Chicago. Meghan Leonard presented “Court-Curbing Legislation in the States: Position-Taking or Policy-Making?”; Kerri Milita presented “Restricting Initiative: The Role of Legislative Threat Perception”; Carl Palmer made two presentations, “The Enemy of My Enemy: Assad, ISIS, and Ethnic Priming in the Syrian Conflict” and “Exploring the Underlying Facets of Openness to Experience in the Big Five Personality Traits”; Noha Shawki presented “Formulating the Sustainable Development Goals: An Analysis of Norm Contestation and Change”; T.Y. Wang presented his co-authored paper “One Country, Two Colors: Regional Politics and Electoral Behaviors in Taiwan”; and L.J. Zigerell presented “A Troublesome Belief?: Social Inequality and Belief in Human Biological Differences.”
Also during the Midwest Political Science Association conference, Milita served as the conference section head of State and Intergovernmental Politics, and Shawki served as section head of the Midwest Women’s Caucus for Political Science.
Osaore Aideyan, POL, presented “Turning the Corner in Africa’s Developmental State: Insights from Political Elasticity Theory” at the 2015 Africa Conference at the University of Texas-Austin.
Julie Webber-Collins, POL, presented “Hillary Clinton and the Tea Party” at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting.
Adam O’Leary, Herbert Oberacher, Seth E. Hall, and Christopher C. Mulligan, CHE, published “Combining a Portable, Tandem Mass Spectrometer with Automated Library Searching – An Important Step Towards Streamlined, On-site Identification of Forensic Evidence” in Analytical Methods.
