Professional Spotlight Summer 2015

Dr. Kara Poe Alexander, associate professor of English, published “DMAC after dark: Distributed invention at and beyond DMAC” in Computers and Composition, Fall 2015, with co-author Danielle Williams, teaching assistant.

Dr. Abjar Bahkou, senior lecturer of Arabic, published Defending Christian Faith, The Fifth Part of the Christian Apology of Gerasimus, 2014; “The Levantine Review: The Journal of Near Eastern and Mediterranean Studies at Boston College” in Using Fiction as a Vehicle for Popularizing History: Jujry Zaidan’s Historical Novels, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Spring 2015.

Dr. Kimlyn J. Bender, professor of Christian theology, published Confessing Christ for Church and World: Studies in Modern Theology, 2014.

Dr. Frieda Blackwell, associate dean for humanities and professor of Spanish, published “Garcia Lorca, Federico” (chapter) in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, 2015.

Dr. Heidi Bostic, professor of French, published “Friendship, Faineantise, and Fraternal Correction in Graffigny’s Letters to Devaux 1752-53” in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 26, Issue 3, p. 355-74, 2014; “Chairing Stories” (chapter) in Academic Leadership in Higher Education: From the Top Down and the Bottom Up, p. 233-238, 2015.

Dr. Timothy W. Burns, professor of political science, published The Key Texts of Political Philosophy: An Introduction, Oct. 6, 2015, with co-author Dr. Thomas L Pangle, University of Texas at Austin; The Future of Liberal Education, Oct. 24, 2015, with co-author Dr. Peter Augustine Lawler, Berry College.

Dr. Trey Cade, Director of Institute for Air Science, published “The Origin of “Space Weather”” in Space Weather, Vol. 13, p. 99, February 2015, with co-author Dr. Christina Chan-Park, science librarian.

Dr. Rafael Climent-Espino, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, published “Terapia teatral: una lectura psicoanalitica de La noche de los asesinos de Jose Triana (Theatrical Therapy: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Jose Triana’s Night of the Assassins)” in Confluencia. Revista Hispanica de Cultura y Literatura, Vol. 30, Issue 2, p. 88-101, 2015.

Dr. Holly Collins, assistant professor of French, published “Race Roulette: Hierarchy, Hypersexuality, and Hyperbole in Marie-Celi Agnant’s The Book of Emma and Dany Laferriere’s How to Make Love to a Negro without Getting Tired” (chapter) in Critical Insights: Contemporary Canadian Fiction, p. 88-104, 2014.

Dr. Kevin Dougherty, associate professor of sociology, published “Reframing Test Day” in Teaching/Learning Matters, Vol. 44, Issue 1, p. 11-12, Spring 2015.

Dr. Nathan T. Elkins, assistant professor of art history, published “Ancient Coins, Find Spots, and Import Restrictions: A Critique of Arguments Made in the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild’s ‘Test Case’” in Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 40, Issue 2, p. 236-243, 2015.

Dr. Jan Evans, professor of Spanish, published “La enfermedad mortal de Kierkegaard y San Manuel Bueno, martir de Unamuno” in Revista de Filosofia, Vol. 137, p. 59-71, December 2014; “Unamuno, Kierkegaard, Unhappy Lovers and Faith” in Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages, Vol. 16, p. 27-37, Spring 2015.

Dr. C. Stephen Evans, University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, published Why Christian Faith Still Makes Sense: A Response to Contemporary Challenges, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic Books, p. 145 pp + ix, May 2015.

Dr. Mary Ann Faucher, associate professor of nursing, published “Honoring U.S. Midwife Researchers Part I: Theorists and Historical Influences” (column) in Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health, Vol. 60, Issue 1, p. 89-98, January/February 2015, with co-authors Dr. Mary K. Barger, University of San Diego Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, and Dr. Patricia Aikins Murphy, University of Utah College of Nursing; “Honoring U.S. Midwife Researchers Part II: The Centering Pregnancy Model of Group Prenatal Care” (column) in Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health, Vol. 60, Issue 2, p. 211-213, March/April 2015, with co-authors Dr. Mary K. Barger, University of San Diego Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, and Dr. Patricia Aikins Murphy, University of Utah College of Nursing.

Dr. Guillermo Garcia-Corales, professor of Spanish, published “La etica de la lucidez en La oscura memoria de las armas” in Hispanic Journal, Vol. 35, Issue 2, p. 95-113, 2014; “La imagen de la nostalgia en Pasado perfecto de Leonardo Padura” in Badebec: Revista del Centro de Estudios de Teoria y Critica Literaria, Vol. 4, Issue 8, p. 251-273, 2015.

Dr. Jennifer Good, associate professor of German, published “Review of Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria” in Journal of Austrian Studies, Vol. 47, Issue 2, 2014.

Dr. Barry Hankins, professor of history, published Baptists in America: A History, Oxford University Press, 2015, with co-author Dr. Thomas Kidd, professor of history.

Kathy Hillman, associate professor and director of Baptist collections and library advancement, published “What Happens in Austin Doesn’t Stay in Austin” in Baptist Standard Digital Edition, Vol. 127, Issue 16, April 20, 2015; “#LoveMomEndHunger One Action at a Time” in Baptist Standard Digital Edition, Vol. 127, Issue 15, April 13, 2015; “Unlimited Possibilities” in Baptist Standard Digital Edition, Vol. 127, Issue 14, April 6, 2015; “Hallelujah! Christ Arose!” in Baptist Standard Digital Edition, Vol. 127, Issue 13, March 30, 2015; “Dos Hermanos en Cristo, Living the Difference” in Baptist Standard Digital Edition, Vol. 127, Issue 12, March 23, 2015; “Deep Roots … Living Legacy” in Baptist Standard Digital Edition, Vol. 127, Issue 11, March 16, 2015; “Breaking Down Defenses during Spring Break” in Baptist Standard Digital Edition, Vol. 127, Issue 10, March 9, 2015; “The Right Tools: A Compass, a Map & GPS” in Baptist Standard Digital Edition, Vol. 127, Issue 9, March 2, 2015; “Anxious: Choosing Faith in a World of Worry by Amy Simpson” (Book Review) in Baptist Standard Digital Edition, Vol. 127, Issue 15, April 13, 2015.

Dr. Steven Jug, temporary lecturer of history, German and Russian, published “Militarizing masculinities in Red Army discourse and subjectivity, 1942-1943” in Masculinities: A Journal of Identity and Culture, Vol. 2, Issue 1, February 2015.

Dr. Theresa Kennedy, associate professor of French, published “From mauvaise mere to bonne mere: The Making of Republican Mothers in Women’s Pedagogical Theater” in Dalhousie French Studies, Vol. 102, p. 81-90, Summer 2014; “’No Exit’ in Racine’s ‘Phedre’: The Making of the Anti-Hero” in The French Review, Vol. 88, Issue 1, p. 165-178, 2014; “A Mind of Her Own: La Princesse de Cleves and the Making of the Female Hero in Seventeenth-Century Women’s Tragedy” in Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XLI, Vol. 81, p. 365-378, 2014; “Staging the Impossible femme forte in Maintenon’s Dramatic Conversations” in Women’s Voices: Critical Essays on Francophone Women’s Theater, p. 62-75, 2014.

Dr. Thomas Kidd, professor of history, published Baptists in America: A History, Oxford University Press, 2015, with co-author Dr. Barry Hankins, professor of history.

Jill Wieber Lens, associate professor of law, published “Stays Pending Appeal: Why the Merits Should Not Matter” in Florida State University Law Review, 2016 forthcoming.

Luke Meier, professor of law, published “The Validity of Restraints on Alienation in an Oil and Gas Lease “ in Buffalo Law Review, 2015 forthcoming, with co-author Rory Ryan, professor of law; “Aggregate Alienability” in Villanova Law Review, 2015 forthcoming, with co-author Rory Ryan, professor of law.

Dr. Ann M. Mirabito, associate professor of marketing, published “Journal of Service Research” in You Say You Want a Revolution? Drawing on Social Movement Theory to Motivate Transformative Change, August 2015, with co-author Dr. Leonard L. Berry, Texas A&M University.

Dr. Mary P. Nichols, professor of political science, published Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom, Cornell University Press, January 2015.

Dr. Mia Moody-Ramirez, associate professor, published “Sixteen Ain’t So Sweet: Jasper Dragging Longitudinal Study” in Journal of American Studies Association of America, Vol. 45, Issue 1, p. 5, November 2014, with co-author Dr. Cassy Burleson, senior lecturer.

Rory Ryan, professor of law, published “The Validity of Restraints on Alienation in an Oil and Gas Lease” in Buffalo Law Review, 2015 forthcoming, with co-author Luke Meier, professor of law; “Aggregate Alienability” in Villanova Law Review, 2015 forthcoming, with co-author Luke Meier, professor of law.

Dr. Stephen Silverstein, assistant professor of Spanish, published “Jorge Luis Borges’s Poetic Response to the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War” in Hipertexto, Vol. 19, p. 31-42, Winter 2014.

Dr. Michael Thomas, professor of Spanish, published Coming of Age in Franco’s Spain: Anti-Fascist Rites of Passage in Sender, Delibes, Laforet, Matute, and Martin Gaite, 2014; Pax Romana: The Rise of Seren (novel), 2015.

Dr. Marley Watkins, non-resident scholar, published “The research impact of school psychology faculty” in Journal of School Psychology, Vol. 53, p. 231-241, 2015, with co-author Dr. Christina Y. Chan-Park, science librarian; “Examining the validity of the Homework Performance Questionnaire: Multi-informant assessment in elementary and middle school” in School Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 30, Issue 2, p. 260-275, 2015, with co-authors Dr. T.J. Power, University of Pennsylvania, Dr. J.A. Mautone, University of Pennsylvania, Dr. C.M. Walcott, East Carolina University, Dr. M.J. Coutts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Dr. S.M. Sheridan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Dr. Jay Yoo, assistant professor of family and consumer sciences, published “The moderating role of perceived organizational support on the relationship between emotional labor and job-related outcomes” in Management Decision, Vol. 53, Issue 3, p. 605-624, May 2015, with co-authors Dr. Won-Moo Hur, Pukyong National University, Dr. Su-Jin Han, Hoseo University, and Dr. Tae-Won Moon, Hongik University.

PRESENTATIONS

Dr. Abjar Bahkou, lecturer of Arabic, presented “Discerning the True Religion in the Apologetical Discourses of Gerasimus” at Seventh Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Middle East and Africa, “Searching for Balance in Middle East and Africa”, held Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2014, in Washington, D.C; “The Way, the Truth, the Life; the Signs of True Religion in the Apology of Gerasimus ‘The Complete Book of the Healing Meanings’” at Third International Symposium Syro-Arabicum, organized by the department of Syro-Antiochene of the Faculty of Religious and Oriental Sciences of the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik in Beirut, in collaboration with the Center for Documentation and Research on Arab Christianity of the Faculty of Religious Sciences at University of Saint Joseph, held Feb. 3-7, 2015, in Beirut.

Dr. Frieda Blackwell, associate dean for humanities and professor of Spanish, presented “Women in Transition: a Look at Female Protagonists in Representative Spanish Novels since the 1950s” at XVI Annual Conference on Latin American and Iberian Languages, Literature and Culture, held March 26-28, 2015, at Texas Tech University; “Materiality, Text, and Historical Memory in El rayo dormido by Carmen Amoraga” at Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, held October 2014 in Madison, Wis.; “Critiquing Censorship and Repression in Eloisa esta debajo de un almendro by Enrique Jardiel Poncela” at South Central Modern Language Association Meeting, held October 2014 in Austin.

Dr. Heidi Bostic, professor of French, presented “What Difference Does Difference Make” at Narrative Matters Conference, American University of Paris, held July 2014, in Paris.

Dr. Cristian Bratu, associate professor of French, presented “Oral and Written Effects in French Medieval Histories and Chronicles” at South Central Modern Language Association Conference, held Oct. 18-22, 2014, in Austin; “The Author: The Future of a Notion With a Troubled Past” at 12th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, held June 11-13, 2014, at CEU San Pablo University in Madrid; “Connected or Not: The Problematic Relationship Between Prologue and Narrative in French Medieval Chronicles” at International Conference of the Medieval Chronicle Society, held July 7-10, 2014, in Liverpool, England.

Dr. Fernanda Bueno, lecturer of Spanish and Portuguese, presented “Reflections of Marina Colasanti” at 49th SCOLAS Conference, held March 12-14, 2015, in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Dr. Rafael Climent-Espino, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, presented “Gritos que lanzan mis letras: lectura y escritura en Ifigenia de Teresa de la Parra” at International Conference on Education of Women in the History and Culture of Latin America and the Caribbean, held February 2015 in Havana; “O humor nos contos de Rubem Fonseca: o caso de Coracoes solitarios” at XV Annual Conference of the International Society for Luso-Hispanic Humor Studies, held October 2014 at University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu.

Dr. Holly Collins, assistant professor of French, presented “For Better, for Worse: Immigration in Ryad Assani-Razaki’s Deux cercles: nouvelles” at American Council for Quebec Studies Biennial Conference, held October 2014 in Montreal; “The Disappearing Savior: Salvation, Immigration, and Abandonment in Ryad Assani-Razaki’s Deux cercles and La main d’Iman” at Colloquium on Quebec Studies, held October 2014 at McGill University, Montreal; “From Trauma to Drama: Using Theater to Create a Polymorphous Space for Rwandan Representations of Genocide” at 12th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, held June 2014 at CEU San Pablo University, Madrid; “Race Roulette: Hierarchy, Hypersexuality, and Hyperbole in Dany Laferriere’s How to Make Love to a Negro without Getting Tired and Marie-Celie Agnant’s The Book of Emma” at the 56th Annual Conference of the Western Social Science Association, held April 2014 in Albuquerque, N.M.

Dr. Richard Duran, professor of French, presented “Diglossia in French Literature: Zazie dans le metro as a Pedagogical Tool” at Forging Linguistic Identities Conference, held March 12-14, 2015, at Towson University in Baltimore.

Dr. Jan Evans, professor of Spanish, and Dr. Jennifer Good, associate professor of German, presented “Future Goals for the Journal of Christianity and World Languages,” co-authored by Dr. Jennifer Good, at North American Christian Foreign Language Association, held April 9-11, 2015, at Biola University in La Mirada, Calif.

Dr. Jennifer Good, associate professor of German, and Dr. Jan Evans, professor of Spanish, presented “Future Goals for the Journal of Christianity and World Languages,” co-authored by Dr. Jan Evans, at North American Christian Foreign Language Association, held April 9-11, 2015, at Biola University in La Mirada, Calif.; “Mit Leib und Seele: A Case Study of Teaching Austria” at Annual Conference of the Austrian Studies Association, held March 20-24, 2015, in Dearborn, Mich.

Dr. Karol Hardin, associate professor of Spanish, presented “Improving Communication Between Spanish-Speaking Patients and Health Care Personnel at a Family Medicine Clinic,” co-authored by Eric Cline, undergraduate student, at South Central Modern Language Association Meeting, held October 2014 in Austin.

Dr. Adrienne Harris, associate professor of Russian, presented “Truths about Exploits: Idealized Masculinities in Post-Soviet Documentaries about World War II Heroes” at International Symposium on Men and Masculinities, held September 2014 in Ismir, Turkey; “Immortal Bodies: Sensory Commemoration of a War Heroine in Soviet collective Memory 1942-1986” at Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, held November 2014, in San Antonio; “Kazakevich’s ‘Zvezdy’: Gendered Norms and Heroic Ideals in Emmanuil Kazkevich’s Postwar Novella and Nikolai Lebedev’s 2002 Cinematic Revision” at Central Association of Russian Teachers of America, held March 2014 in Dallas.

Kathy Hillman, associate professor and director of Baptist collections and library advancement, presented “Always on My Mind: Strategies for Collaborative Digital Newspaper Projects” (co-authored by Dr. Jenny Manasco, Union University, and Vi Estel, California Baptist University) with Manasco and Estel, and “Workin’ 9 to 5, for Service and Devotion: Evaluating Duplication Policies and Fees for Baptist Libraries and Archives” with Jan Ballard, American Baptist Historical Society, and Dr. Taffey Hall, Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, at Annual Meeting of the Association of Librarians and Archivists at Baptist Institutions, held April 22-24, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn.

Billie Hulke, senior lecturer of Spanish, presented “AP Spanish Literature and Culture: An Overview of the Course” at Silver State AP Summer Institute, held July 2014 in Las Vegas; “El prendimiento de Antonito el Camborio en el camino de Sevilla (Lorca): Metaphorical Language and Interdisciplinary Connections” at AATSP, held July 2014 in Panama City; “AP Spanish Literature and Culture: An Overview of the Course” at SMU AP Summer Advanced Spanish Language Institute, held August 2014 at Southern Methodist University; “Integrating Art for the Sake of Language and Cultural Proficiency” at ACTFL, held Nov. 21, 2014, in San Antonio; “Enhancing Language and Cultural Proficiency: Resources, Activities and Strategies” at Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT), held April 25, 2014, in Snowbird, Utah; “Building Proficiency with Scaffolded Activities” at Temple Independent School District, LOTE Department, held Jan. 2, 2015, in Temple, Texas.

Dr. Steven Jug, temporary lecturer of history, German and Russian, presented “Polish Perception Problems: How Red Army soldiers interpreted the transition from liberation to conquest” at Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) 45th Annual Convention, held November 2014 in San Antonio; “Constructing Combat Collectives: How Propaganda Discourse and Soldierly Subjectivities Co-constituted Masculinity in the Red Army, 1941-1945” at International Conference on Men and Masculinities, held September 2014 in Izmir, Turkey.

Dr. Julia Kisacky, senior lecturer of Italian, presented “Rage, Outrage, and Family Ties in Moderata Fonte’s Floridoro” at Short Fuse Interdisciplinary Conference, held October 2014 at University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Eric Lai, professor of music theory, presented “Clemens Krauss’s Retouching of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony” at the Ninth Bruckner Journal Readers Biennial Conference: Editing, Performing, Listening, held April 18, 2015, at the University of Oxford.

Dr. Michael Long, professor of Russian, presented “The Impact of Tourism Development on Georgian Traditional Culture,” co-authored by Dr. Sara Alexander, associate professor of anthropology, at International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Culture, Values, and Justice, held May 21-23, 2014, in Vaasa, Finland; “Mary Russell’s The Sparrow: A Cautionary Tale of Cultural Ignorance” at 8th International Symposium National Literatures and the Process of Cultural Globalization, held September 24-26, 2014, at Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature in Tbilisi, Georgia; “The ‘Monumental’ Controversy over the Memory of Stalin in Contemporary Georgia” at American Society for East European and Eurasian Studies, held Nov. 20-23, 2014, in San Antonio.

Dr. Ann McGlashan, associate professor of German, presented “Empathy for the Devil? Student Reaction to the movie Downfall (Der Untergang) and the Dangers of Understanding the Other” at Association for Core Texts and Courses, held April 9-12, 2015, in Plymouth, Mass. Dr. Timothy McKinney, professor of music theory, presented “Niuna sconsolata: Girolamo Parabosco as Madrigalist” at Renaissance Society of America, held March 26, 2015, in Berlin.

Dr. Linda McManness, professor of Spanish, presented “Left Pronoun Dislocation and Clitic Doubling” at South Central Modern Language Association Meeting, held October 2014 in Austin; “Cultural Journals: A Tool for Second Language Writing Practice” at Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures, held March 2015 in Savannah, Ga.

Dr. Alex McNair, professor of Spanish, presented “Serpents, Incest, Serial Killers, Blind Singers, and Snake Oil Salesmen: Toward an Oral Traditional Ecology of the Penitencia del rey Rodrigo Ballads” at 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, held May 17, 2015, in Kalamazoo, Mich.; “Cervantes and the Silla del Cid Campeador: Notes on the Mention of Babieca’s Saddle in Don Quijote 1.49” at Medieval Association of the Midwest, held Jan. 23, 2015, at Saint Louis University, in Madrid; “Oralizing the Devotional Ballads of the Romancero nuevo: A Case Study in the Interface of Folk Religion and Church Doctrine” at South Central Modern Language Association, held Oct. 19, 2014, in Austin; “Performing Ethnicity and Religion: Two Golden Age Plays on El Cid and the Leyenda de Cardena” at The State of the Comedia Suelta: Celebrating the Texas Collections, held Sept. 29, 2014, in The Harry Ransom Center at University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Ann M. Mirabito, associate professor of marketing, presented “Social Stigma at the Intersection of the Marketplace and Identity” at Transformative Consumer Research, held May 2015 in Villanova, Pa.; “Developing a Model of the Effect of Display Format on Patients’ Health Decisions,” co-authored by Ilgim Dara, University of Massachusetts, Dr. Elizabeth Miller, University of Massachusetts, and Dr. Jesse Catlin, California State University, Sacramento, at Marketing and Public Policy Conference, held June 2015 in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Jane Muir, temporary lecturer of Spanish, presented “Incorporating Character and Culture into the Beginning Foreign Language Classroom” at North American Christian Foreign Language Association, held April 2015 in La Mirada, Calif.

Dr. Renee Anne Poulin, lecturer of Italian and French, presented “Boccaccio, Ariosto, and Tasso Moralized: Giulio Rospigliosi’s Operatic Adaptations for the Barberini Court” at American Association for Italian Studies Conference, held May 2014 in Zurich; “The ‘Other’ as Threat to National Unity: Castelli’s La Cinerita Trionfante (1640)” at American Association for Italian Studies Conference, held March 2015 in Boulder, Colo.

Yuko Prefume, senior lecturer of Japanese, presented “The Impact: Study Abroad in Disaster Affected North Eastern Japan” with Yayoi Takeuchi, University of North Texas, and Masumi Reade, The Woodlands High School, and “Implementation of Flipped Classroom and Its Effectiveness in Improving Proficiency” at American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention and World Language Expo, held November 2014 in San Antonio.

Dr. Stephen Silverstein, assistant professor of Spanish, presented “Another Cuban Counterpoint: Coffee and Sugar” at XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, held May 27-30, 2015, in San Juan, Puerto Rico; “Jewish Participation in the Transatlantic Slave Trade” at Latin American Jewish Studies Association Annual Conference, held May 1-2, 2014, in New York; “Cultivating Cubanness: Antonio Bachiller y Morales’s (1812-1889) La venta de un ingenio” at South Central Modern Language Association Conference, held Oct. 18-22, 2014, in Austin.

Dr. Rishi Sriram, assistant professor of educational administration, presented “Developing, Using, and Analyzing Surveys” at Webinar for the Texas Association of College & University Student Personnel Administrators (TACUSPA), held May 6, 2015; “Hope, Talent, and the Pursuit of Excellence” at 12th Annual Institute for Emotional Intelligence, held April 16, 2015, at McLennan Community College, Waco; “Student affairs, fast and slow: Engaging quantitative research in student affairs practice” at invited lecture at the University of Texas at San Antonio, held April 9, 2015; “Hope, Talent, and the Pursuit of Excellence” at Keynote for the Division of Student Affairs and Academic Support at the University of South Carolina, held May 13, 2015, in Columbia, S.C.

Dr. Marley Watkins, non-resident scholar, Dr. P.A. McDermott, University of Pennsylvania, A.M. Rhoad, University of Pennsylvania, J.L. Chao, University of Pennsylvania, Dr. F.C. Worrell, University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. T.E. Hall, Center for Applied Special Education Technology, Mass., presented “Trinidad and Tobago: National standardization, scales, and validation of the Adjustment Scales for Children and Adolescents” at American Educational Research Association, held April 2015 in Chicago; “WISC-V factor structure: Hierarchical EFA with the total standardization sample,” co-authored by Dr. G. L. Canivez, Eastern Illinois University, at Midwestern Psychological Association, held May 2015 in Chicago.

Dr. Jay Yoo, assistant professor of family and consumer sciences, presented “A tanned skin and fashion: Sociocultural attitudes toward appearance and body tanning behaviors” at an invited presentation to the Fiber Science & Apparel Design Graduate Seminar Series at Cornell University, held April 23, 2015, in Ithaca, N.Y.

HONORS

Dr. Shelby L. Garner, assistant professor, received Leadership in Undergraduate Research from Baylor University Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Achievements (URSA) and office of the Vice Provost for Research, April 22, 2015, for Outstanding Leadership in Undergraduate Research.

Dr. Mia Moody-Ramirez, associate professor, received Top Paper Abstract from AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women, 2015 Midwinter Conference, in Norman, Okla., March 2015, for Best Overall Submission.