Meghan Andrews, Ph.D., associate professor of English, published the essay “The Commonplacing of Professional Plays Revisited: Print, Theater, and Early Modern Institutional Exchange” in the most recent issue of Shakespeare Quarterly (73.3-4 [FallWinter 2022]: 199-223). Shakespeare Quarterly is the top journal in her field and publishes just 6.25 percent of all essays submitted. Snowden Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Sue Fulton as archives technician. In this role, Fulton will manage the College’s archives and history and work closely with the Humanities Research Center to support new student research initiatives. John Capo, assistant professor of corporate communication, was interviewed for The American Bar Association's article “8 More Skills to Build.” He offered communicationsrelated suggestions for student lawyers, including the importance of learning the communication norms of various subsets of the population, the value of learning new languages due to increased migration, and the need to keep up with online slang. Capo also joined the board of directors of Lycoming Arts, an organization founded in 1960 that works to create local and regional connections that generate awareness, opportunities, and support of the arts. Kimberly Kohler, Ph.D., assistant professor of special education, was an invited author for the October 2022 issue of Times Magazine, a publication of the Studying and SelfRegulated Learning Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. This issue focused on self-regulation and academic achievement of students in the context of trauma and adversity. Her submission discussed the importance of effective traumainformed teaching practices beginning in teacher preparation programs. Christopher Kulp, Ph.D., professor of physics, Mica Kurtz, Ph.D., associate professor of economics, Charlie Hunt ’23, economics major, and Matthew Velardi ’22, physics major, co-authored a paper titled “The distribution of wealth: An agent-based approach to examine the effect of estate taxation, skill inheritance, and the Carnegie Effect,” which has been published in the Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination. Jessica Munson, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology and archaeology, is co-author on an article published in the journal PLOS ONE. The paper, “Ancient lowland Maya neighborhoods: Average nearest neighbor analysis and kernel density models, environments, and urban scale,” quantitatively assesses the spatial organization of ancient Maya neighborhoods across 23 different settlements located in a range of different environments using a single method of identification. Munson’s research at the site of Altar de Sacrificios is included in the present study. Mary Kate O’Donnell, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, was published in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology for her postdoctoral work conducted at Brown University. “Untethered muscle tracking using magnetomicrometry” was done in collaboration with The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Julie Yingling, Ph.D., and Justin Lopez-Medina, Ph.D., assistant professors of criminal justice-criminology, worked on a community-based learning project in Yingling’s Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Lopez-Medina’s Policing and Society courses. The classes completed a survey collection of community members regarding the community perceptions of police for the Williamsport Bureau of Police. Students worked in groups and knocked on more than 500 doors in four neighborhoods over six weeks to recruit participants for the survey. Student teams collected more than 70 surveys, which is a response rate consistent with survey research. As an incentive, the professors offered to dye their hair the color of the teams with the highest response rates. 22 LYCOMING COLLEGE 2023 SPRING MAGAZINE
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