Jody Althouse, senior associate dean of health and wellness, presented “An Overview of Prevention Efforts at Juniata College: Creating a Culture Shift” to spouses and partners of the College’s Board of Trustees, October 26, 2019. Althouse presented two sessions entitled, “Reworking Your Prevention Program to Reach College Students with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder)”, at the National Conference: Solving the Campus Sexual Assault & Dating Violence Puzzle, December 12-13, 2019, at N.C. State in Raleigh N.C. Also in December, Althouse presented “Know My Name: the story of Chanel Miller”, to the Juniata chapter of AAUW (American Association of University Women). In June, 2020, through the Department of Justice Grant, Althouse presented a webinar to Neuman University, Aston, Pa., entitled: “How to Create a Coordinated Community Response Team on Your Campus to Serve Victims and Survivors of Interpersonal Violence”. Additionally, in June, Althouse presented a virtual workshop to Tiffin University, Tiffin Ohio: “An Intersectional Approach to Serving Victims and Survivors of Interpersonal Violence in a Diverse Student Population”. On August 5, 2020, Althouse hosted a national webinar for the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, “Victim Services for the Underserved Student Population: Neuro-Diverse Students, Students of Color and LGBTQ+ Students”.
Jack Barlow, Charles A. Dana Professor of Politics, served as a guest commentator on WTAJ-TV on primary election night.
Hannah Bellwoar, associate professor of English and director of writing, published “Mentoring: Partnering with All Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies” with Jessie Moore, Sophia Abbot, and Field Watts in The Naylor Report on Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies, “The Importance of Reciprocity in Mentoring: Benefits and Challenges” with Sophia Abbot and Eric Hall in The Naylor Report on Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies, and "Multimedia Undergraduate Research in Composition" with Jill Palmer ’19 and Fisher Stroud ’20.
Kathleen R. Biddle, professor of education and chair of the education department, is serving on the editorial board for the journal Social Neuroscience.
Vince Buonaccorsi, professor of biology, with Anne Rosenwald, Douglas Chalker, Rochelle Tractenberg, and Jason Williams, presented at The Genomics Education Alliance, Plant and Animal Genome, in San Diego, California, Jan. 11-15, 2020.
Jonathan Burns, instructor in international studies, had a book review accepted for publication in Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, titled, “Historical Archaeology of the Revolutionary War Encampments of Washington’s Army, by Sgarlata, Orr, and Morrison.
Daniel Dries, associate professor of chemistry, and Nathan Vanderford, assistant professor of toxicology and cancer biology at the University of Kentucky, co-authored “Well-Being in the Workplace,” in ASBMB Today, the monthly periodical of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2020). Along with Shuchismita Dutta, associate research professor at Rutgers University, Dries authored “Virtual Exploration of Biomolecular Structure and Function,” a chapter in Biochemistry Education: Discussions of the Classroom and Laboratory Learning Environments. (2020) Published by the American Chemical Society.
Philip Dunwoody, professor of psychology, and David Widman, professor of psychology, co-authored “Authoritarianism, Life History, and a Preattentive Response to Threat” which was accepted for publication in the NEEPS 2019 special issue EvoSJournal: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium.
Christine Elliott, learning Services and assessment librarian, with Dr. James Borgardt, William W. Woolford Professor of Physics, co-authored “Connecting Science & Community: Engaging the ACRL Framework in a Physics Seminar,” a proceedings article for LOEX (Library Orientation Exchange) describing a successful information literacy activity conducted in Fall 2020. This was presented at the online LOEX on May 6, 2020. This collaboration included creating and executing a multi-week information literacy project for Physics Seminar, where students were grouped into diverse teams that mixed seniors, juniors, sophomores, and first-years.
Grace Fala, professor of communication, authored and Dawn Hayes, assistant professor of education, illustrated a book on interpersonal serendipity and cultural adaptations, “We Built the Bridge,” published in December 2019.
April Feagley, assistant director of communication, published “When Life Takes You Off the Beaten Path of Parenting” in The Mighty Jan. 2, 2020, and “Nine Platitudes to Stray From When Comforting Someone Who is Struggling” in The Mighty Jan. 24, 2020.
Ryan Gibboney, assistant professor of Integrated Media Arts, has been invited to contribute her community-driven design knowledge to the AIGA Design Educators Committee. The committee is seeking to publish expert advice for U.S. and internationally-based design educators to utilize as they instruct courses with community partners during a global pandemic. Her extensive work in the Huntingdon community focused on Community Engaged Learning and Local Engagement will be developed into case studies for educators to use when determining ways to develop a new curriculum. Gibboney published research in conference proceedings that was presented at the AIGA Design Educators conference at the University of Michigan, “Civically-Driven Design Curriculum Grounded in Sustainable Community Partnerships.”
Doug Glazier, professor of biology, published two articles on how biological structures and processes (especially metabolic rate) scale with body size in the journals Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution and Journal of Comparative Physiology B. He coauthored three more articles with two Juniata College graduates and two colleagues at the University of Salento (Italy). These articles include “Effects of fish predators on the mass-related energetics of a keystone freshwater crustacean” that Glazier and Drs. Jonathan Borrelli ’10 and Casandra Hoffman.’12 published in Biology; “A perspective on body size and abundance relationships across ecological communities” that Glazier and Dr. Vojsava Gjoni published in Biology; and “Temperature and predation cues interactively affect ontogenetic metabolic scaling of aquatic amphipods” that Glazier and Drs. Gjoni and Alberto Basset published in Biology Letters.
Holly J. Hayer, associate professor of Spanish, presented, “We Can Do It, Greater Effectiveness With Can-Do Statements & IPA,” to 40 world-language educators at the 2019 ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) Annual Convention in Washington, D.C., in November 2019. Hayer conducted the five-year external review of the World Languages Department in the Hollidaysburg Area School District in Hollidaysburg, Pa., in March 2020.
Dave Hsiung, Charles and Shirley Knox Professor of History, published "Mast Trees, the British Navy, and the American Revolution," a chapter in Commonwealth Forestry and Environmental History, a volume from Primus Books out of Delhi, India (2020). Hsiung also gave presentations on other topics connected to environmental history and the American Revolution at the William L. Clements Library (University of Michigan), the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (College of William and Mary), the Massachusetts Historical Society, and Virginia Humanities.
Melissa N. Innerst, assistant professor of mathematics, successfully defended her dissertation.
Katharine Johanesen, assistant professor of geology, published a paper, “Piecing Together Northwestern North Carolina’s Dismembered Ophiolites in Southeastern Geology,” with co-authors Adam Ianno, research associate in geology and chemistry, Anna VanDusen ’18, and Kaylee Pennell ’18.
Jill Keeney, Charles A. Dana Professor of Biology, presented a poster at The Allied Genetics Conference held remotely in April 2020. Keeney, along with Pamela K. Hanson, Tammy Tobin, Erin Strome, Mary Miller, David Aiello, Steve Johnston, and David Kushner, presented “The Yeast ORFan Gene Project: Finding a Place for Uncharacterized Genes to GO,” at The Allied Genetics Conference Virtual April 2020. In July 2020, in collaboration with Orna Cohen-Fix, Mary Miller, and Pamela Hanson, Keeney helped to organize a virtual workshop, “BREW: Bridging Research and Education Workshop,” sponsored by the Genetics Society of America.
At the workshop, she presented the group’s yeast gene discovery network, funded by the National Science Foundation, emphasizing the bioinformatics modules that the network has developed, that provide a remote laboratory experience. Keeney presented “Yeast Gene Discovery: Flexible Model for Challenging Times,” at BREW: Bridging Research and Education Workshop sponsored by the Genetics Society of America. Virtual July 13, 2020.
Jared LaGroue, instructor in communication, co-authored a chapter for the book, “Cultural Studies of LEGO: More Than Just Brick,” in early 2020.
Regina Lamendella, George ’75 and Cynthia ’76 Valko Professor of Biological Sciences, traveled to the Annual Rust Microbiome Conference at Carnegie Mellon University with five Juniata students Nov. 1, 2019. They presented their work along with 100 other students. Maria Fowler ’19 won first place for her research presentation. Gina was interviewed by CNN regarding the coronavirus she and Justin Wright ’14 are doing through Contamination Source Identification (CSI).
Sara Kern, access services and instruction librarian, served as the judge for the North American History for the Association of American Publishers PROSE (R.R. Hawkins) Awards for the second year. Kern, along with Jacob Gordon, reference and instruction librarian, published “Teaching and Programming with Graphic Novels in Academic Libraries,” a chapter in The Library’s Guide to Graphic Novels.
Lisa McDaniel, dean of the library and assistant professor of library science, announced the award of a $164,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in June 2020.
Monika Malewska, professor of art, exhibited her painting, Monkey Skeleton with Amaryllis (from the tree of life series) at the 33 Exhibition and Auction of Young Warsaw Art at Pragaleria, in Warsaw Poland. She presented a lecture, “The Pictorial Journey: How my Studio Work Informs my Teaching Practice” at a Lecture series with Kolo—The Student and Art Faculty University Organization, Artistic Education Division, The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Warsaw, Poland.
Ryan Mathur, professor of geology and chair of the geology department, Jonathan Burns, instructor in international studies, and Robert Boryk, instructor of art and art history, took part in groundbreaking interdisciplinary research in their evaluation of Fe isotope values as a provenance tool for chert artifacts from the northeastern United States. Archaeometry 62(3).
George Merovich, associate professor of environmental science, was elected president of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Fisheries Society (AFS) and organized and held the annual technical chapter conference Feb. 6-7, 2020, at Juniata College. At the 2020 state AFS meeting, Merovich was a co-presenter for “Rusty crayfish impact on smallmouth bass and Allegheny crayfish” and “Rusty crayfish in the Juniata River watershed.” Along with Vincent Buonaccorsi, professor of biology, he presented “Quantifying threats to the upper Juniata River from invasive Rusty Crayfish,” at the 2020 Spring Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Panel on Aquatic Invasive Species. April 29-30, 2020. Merovich was awarded a $10,000 grant, “River habitat restoration and classification of watershed conditions in the Little Juniata watershed,” by the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds to fund student research during summer 2020 and a $16,500 grant, “Assessment of rusty crayfish detection and distribution in the upper Juniata River using environmental DNA technology,” by the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds for fall 2020. Merovich was a co-author of “Response of aquatic biota to mining activity in the Appalachians,” Chapter 13 in Skousen and Zipper, eds. Ecology and Management of Appalachian Mined Landscapes. Springer Nature.
Norris Muth, professor of biology, presented “Dr. Strange-Olive, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Live With (Some) Invasive Species,” to Drexel’s Biodiversity, Earth, & Environmental Science Graduate Research Seminar.
Emil Nagengast, professor of politics and international studies, was named a Resident Fellow to IAU France for summer 2020.
Roy Nagle, Director of Environmental Health and Safety and instructor of environmental science and studies, and Christopher Grant, assistant professor of biology, received a grant of $16,500 from the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds for their research project, Northern Map Turtles of the Juniata River: A Long-lived Sentinel Species for Clean Water. Their research will examine contaminants in turtles, turtle prey items, and local riverine habitats, and the implications for wildlife and human health. Nagle was also appointed associate editor of the journal Herpetological Conservation and Biology.
Deborah W. Roney, assistant professor of English and director of Language in Motion, and Kati R. Csoman, former dean of international education, co-authored, “Language in Motion: A Model Program of Partnerships on Campus and in the Community for International Learning” accepted for publication by Internationalisation of Higher Education–Developments in the European Higher Education Area and Worldwide, supplemental vol. 2, 2020, pp. 75-90.
Kimberly Roth, professor of mathematics, began her term as the section representative for the Allegheny Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) to the MAA Congress in August 2020. She published “Hiring a Statistician in a Mathematics Department,” in MAA FOCUS in October/November 2019. Roth presented “Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Random Forests and Predicting Fracking" at California University of Pennsylvania Mathematics Club and at the Franklin and Marshall College and Millersville University Joint Colloquium in Mathematics in October 2019 and at the Penn State Microbiome Center, State College, and for the Juniata College Math Department Colloquium in February 2020. She presented “So You Want to Start an Undergraduate Statistics or Data Science Program?” at a panel for SIGMAA StatEd, Joint Mathematics Meeting, in Denver, Colorado, in January 2020.
Li Shen, assistant professor of marketing, published “Use of Social Media Platforms for Purchasing Fashion Items: A Comparison of US and Chinese Consumers" in the Journal of Comparative International Management 2020, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1–25
Kat Swantak, assistant dean of admission, graduated from Penn State University with a master’s degree in higher education in May 2020.
Belle Tuten, Charles A. Dana Professor of History, presented in a teaching panel at the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, for which she also serves on the board. Tuten published "Care of the Breast in the Late Middle Ages," in Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550 (Amsterdam University Press, 2020).
James Tuten, professor of history, was one of the historians featured in episodes of the podcast Combahee: The Last Rice River funded by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Heritage Trust. Tuten authored “Gullah-Geechee,” in Omari L. Dyson, Judson L. Jeffries, and Kevin L. Brooks, Ed.s, African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs, ABC-CLIO, 2020. He was a consulting scholar on a grant “South Carolina Rice Field Mapping Project Final Phase Development,” awarded to Folk Land Management and Clemson University from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Tuten reviewed “Rice to Ruin: The Jonathan Lucas Family in South Carolina, 1783-1929,” by Roy Williams III and Alexander Lucas Lofton. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2018) in the Journal of Southern History, (November 2019).
Polly O. Walker, director of Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and associate professor for Peace and Conflict Studies, and Suzan McVicker published “A Reconceptualization of the Self-In-Relationship: Contributions from Voices of Cherokee Americans,” in the Journal of Indigenous Research. Walker hosted and co-facilitated a week-long workshop for Kenyan scholars on “Research in Africa in the Arts, Cultural and Conflict Transformation Field.” She was appointed group leader for the UNESCO Art Lab Project, “Assessing the Role of the Arts in Addressing Human Rights.” Walker published “Decolonizing Peace Studies: Moving Toward Settler Responsibilities for Colonialism” in The Peace Chronicle in Spring 2020.
Jamie White, William I. and Zella B Book Professor of Physics and Engineering Physics, was appointed to the Committee on Education of the American Physical Society and will serve a three-year term from January 2020 to December 2022.
David Widman, professor of psychology, was awarded a NEEPS Fellowship for 2020. Widman, along with Rebecca Burch, professor of human development at SUNY Oswego, authored "The Point of Nipple Erection 1: The Experience and Projection of Perceived Emotional States While Viewing Women With and Without Erect Nipples" in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. He and Rebecca Weldon, assistant professor of psychology at SUNY Poly, published “Intrasexually Competing Women Do Not Differentially Discount Future Appearance Enhancing Products.” in Evolutionary Psychological Science.