Rebecca Donald was appointed director of library services and associate professor in Snowden Library in March 2022. Prior to Lycoming, she served as director of university library services at the Rolfing Library at Trinity International University. Chip Edmonds, Ed.D. ’98, executive vice president, completed his Doctor of Education degree in higher education management at the University of Pennsylvania in 2021. Edmonds’ dissertation, “Choosing Access: Mid-Market Private Colleges Enrolling Low-Income Students,” researched why and how a select number of private colleges enroll low-income students at 1.5 to 2 times the rate of their academic and reputational peers. Using a qualitative method and a matchedpair case study, Edmonds developed a “Success Matrix” that identifies five fundamental features that influence an institution’s capacity and commitment to enrolling low-income students. The Archaeological Institute of America presented the 2022 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award to Pamela Gaber, Ph.D., professor of archaeology and religion. With 40 years of teaching experience, Gaber is universally known for going above and beyond as a teacher, encouraging students to participate in research programs and present research at conferences, and counseling them to pursue postgraduate studies and careers. Murray Hanford, art director for marketing and communications, is the recipient of several advertising awards. Submissions to the 37th Annual Educational Advertising Awards earned him gold for Lycoming’s President’s Report/Fall Magazine, silver for admission’s total recruitment package, and bronze for the Warriorthon logo. The Collegiate Advertising Awards program recognized his outstanding work with silver for the President’s Report/Fall Magazine and bronze for the total recruitment package. Cullen Chandler, Ph.D., professor of history and director of the Scholars Program, has published an essay, “Charlemagne: Already a Legend,” which appears in “Cross-Cultural Charlemagne: Envisioning Empire in Medieval Europe,” edited by Jace Stuckey and published by Brill Academic Publishers in Leiden, Netherlands. Andreas Rentsch, associate professor of art, collaborated with concert pianist Andreas Klein. Eighty photographs by Rentsch were projected in the background while Klein performed Sergey Prokofiev’s “Piano Sonata No. 7” at the Ford Center at Old Miss University in Oxford, Miss. Phoebe Wagner ’14, assistant professor in English, has signed two contracts with Android Press to publish her novella and edit an anthology. In the novella, “We Survive When We Hold Each Other Up,” a young Rowan learns to amend two types of stories — and thus two ways of seeing her ecologicallycollapsed world — as a stranger comes to her community, which ultimately results in Rowan leaving on her own quest to save her home. The anthology is a collection of cyberpunk and solarpunk stories, and while not pitting the genres against each other, these stories will juxtapose nihilism and hope, dystopia and utopia, neon and solar. This is Wagner’s third solarpunk anthology, and her first one with Android Press, a small science fiction and fantasy publisher based in Eugene, Ore. Biliana Stoytcheva-Horissian, Ph.D., chair and associate professor of theatre, and her copresenter received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the EAIR - The European Higher Education Society annual forum, hosted by Humboldt University of Berlin in September 2021. As recipients of the award, they were asked to give a 10-minute talk at the closing ceremony. Their poster and presentation, “How Data Transparency Can Help Higher Ed Institutions Improve Their Planning and Marketing,” were a part of the 43rd international annual forum: “Transformation Fast and Slow: Quality, Trust, and Digitalisation in Higher Education.” Using the perspectives of a faculty member and an administrator, the collaborative presentation aimed to demonstrate how showcasing various student outcomes can address the need for more transparent information and improve recruitment efforts especially at liberal arts institutions. 22 LYCOMING COLLEGE 2022 SPRING MAGAZINE
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