NEWS FACULTY & STAFF Misty Palmatier joined Lycoming College as director of counseling services. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist who for the last seven years has been working at Community Services Group as a clinical coordinator and school-based psychotherapist. In addition, Palmatier is an adjunct professor at Pennsylvania College of Technology for counseling theory, abnormal psychology, behavior modification, and general psychology. Townsend Velkoff retired as director of counseling services in December 2022 after 18 years of dedicated service to the College and its students. Amy Rogers, Ph.D. ’92, associate provost for assessment and accreditation and professor of education, represented Lycoming College as an invited co-facilitator for a workshop, Self-Study Institute 2.0: Writing the Report & Preparing for the Visit, hosted by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Lycoming was complimented for its recent Self-Study Team Report and the manner in which the visit was organized. Allison Holladay, associate director of global education, earned The Forum Professional Certification in Education Abroad from The Forum on Education Abroad. The Forum on Education Abroad is the only Standards Development Organization (SDO) for the field of education abroad. Recognized as an SDO by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, The Forum develops and disseminates Standards of Good Practice for Education Abroad in order to promote quality education abroad for students. Certification in education abroad validates fundamental knowledge of the Standards of Good Practice for Education Abroad and recognizes the ability to articulate and to apply the Standards, ensuring high quality education abroad programming. Written by Andrew Leiter, Ph.D., professor of English, the essay “Detecting the Forbidden Fruit in Eudora Welty’s ‘The Golden Apples’” has been published in “Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight” (Ed. Agner and Pollack, University Press of Mississippi). Michael Smith, Ph.D., department chair and assistant professor of mathematics, had a paper titled “Active Learning Ideas for the Transition to Proofs Course” published in the journal PRIMUS. This paper presents several active and tactile learning experiences used to help students understand logic, set theory, and proof writing, as well as an evaluation of their effectiveness in an introduction to proofs class. Biliana StoytchevaHorissian, Ph.D., associate professor of theatre, was invited to serve as a mentor at the 2022 Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Leadership Institute. ATHE is the largest and most prestigious national organization that focuses on theatre in academia. Additionally, she was asked to present the initial findings of her current research on theatre job satisfaction and campus climate in college and university theatre programs at the Leadership Institute’s session in Detroit, Mich., and her report was published on ATHE’s website. The debut novella “When We Hold Each Other Up,” written by Phoebe Wagner, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, will be released on April 18, 2023, through Android Press. The novella follows Rowan on a quest to rid a post-apocalyptic community of eco-fascists. 23 www.lycoming.edu
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