NEWS FACULTY & STAFF Leah Bedrosian Peterson, department chair and professor of film and video arts, has been awarded a Faculty Research and Production Award Grant by The University Film and Video Foundation for her short narrative film, “Brave Little Hawk.” Only three grants were awarded this year by the not-forprofit corporation, and the research funded by the grant will be presented at the 2023 annual University Film and Video Association conference. “One-size-fits-all probation and parole are not solutions for reducing future criminality,” an opinion contribution written by Justin Medina, Ph.D., assistant professor of criminal justice, was published by The Hill (thehill.com), a top U.S. political website that reaches four million readers online. Jessica Munson, Ph.D., associate professor of archaeology and anthropology, was selected as a partner on the international and collaborative Global Dynamics of Inequality (GINI) Project. Joining a team of 20 leading archaeologists from around the globe, the project is designed to advance synthetic understandings of the relationships between inequality and other dimensions of human social dynamics as revealed through the archaeological record. The project is run through the Center for Collaborative Synthesis in Archaeology at University of Colorado Boulder and is supported by the National Science Foundation and Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis. Todd Preston, Ph.D., professor of English, has published “A Handbook of Animals in Old English Texts” with Arc Humanities Press. The text is a reference work cataloguing every natural animal that appears in the Old English corpus, some 140 entries and 345 Old English animal-terms, correlating the literary, historical, ecological, and archaeological contexts of their appearances in early medieval English contexts. Christopher Pearl, Ph.D., associate professor of history, co-authored a book with Douglas Bradburn, “From Independence to the U.S. Constitution: Reconsidering the Critical Period of American History,” published by the University of Virginia Press. PageCarol Woods, Ed.D., was appointed assistant dean for student success. She most recently served as a student support specialist at Grays Harbor College, where she specialized in support of students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Among her responsibilities, Woods will coordinate the academic advising program, direct the Lycoming Summer Academy, and support academic retention strategies, including first-year student probation support. Lycoming extends its sincere gratitude to the following individuals for their dedication and service to the College upon their retirement. Diane Carl, assistant to the president of the College (1994) Richard Erickson, Ph.D., associate professor emeritus, astronomy and physics (1973) Anne Landon, associate director for career advising (1997) “Virtual/Remote labs for fluorescent immunocytochemistry or Western blotting: The next best thing to being there,” authored by Mary Morrison, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, was published in the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education. The article describes how Morrison adapted inperson lab exercises for neuroscience and immunology courses for remote education during the COVID-19 pandemic, using videos of experimental procedures and engaging students with real (flawed) data from past semesters’ students. It also assesses the performance of students on the in-person versus remote versions of the same experiments. 15 www.lycoming.edu
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