NEWS FACULTY & STAFF Mary Kate O’Donnell, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, had her paper “Vascular and Osteological Morphology of Expanded Digit Tips Suggests Specialization in the Wandering Salamander (Aneides vagrans)” published in the Journal of Morphology. This work on histology and blood flow in Wandering Salamander toes was completed with collaborators at Washington State University, Gonzaga University, and Goldenberg Film. She presented the findings at the national meeting for the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology in Atlanta, Ga., and the results have been covered in the press by Science, ScienceDaily, and IFLScience, among others. Steven Johnson, Ph.D., professor of religion, edited “Q 14:26-27; 17:33; 14:3435: Hating One’s Family–Taking One’s Cross; Finding or Losing One’s Life; Insipid Salt.” The volume, published by Peeters of Leuven this past summer, consists of three databases compiled between 1989 and 2001 by an international team of scholars, then updated, edited, and evaluated by Johnson between 2018 and 2022. It is the 14th volume in the Documenta Q series, databasing 200 years of scholarship on the reconstruction of the sayings source “Q,” used by the authors of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament. This volume was the subject of Johnson’s recent sabbatical lecture. Andreas Rentsch, MFA, associate professor of art, was interviewed by “The Crit House” (Oct. 20, 2024), a podcast that hosts engaging discussions about photographers’ artistic and creative influences. The interview can be viewed at www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCBVtZI_hOM. This past fall, he had seven works from his “Pandemonium” series and two from his “Chair” series on exhibit in “Traces” at C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore, Md. Christopher Pearl, Ph.D., chair and associate professor of history, published “Declarations of Independence: Indigenous Resilience, Colonial Rivalries, and the Cost of Revolution” (University of Virginia Press, October 2024). The book won the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for “an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenthcentury studies.” Pearl’s book has garnered quite the attention, having been featured on Current; the Page 99 Test; a podcast of “Revolution 250;” the Society of the Cincinnati American Revolution Institute, Washington, D.C., speaker series; the Journal of the American Revolution’s podcast series “Dispatches;” and George Mason University’s R2 studio podcast “Worlds Turned Upside Down.” Lycoming College extends its sincere gratitude to Kurt Olsen, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, for his 31 years of dedicated service to the College upon his retirement. Throughout his tenure, he taught popular courses in Introductory Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Personality Theory, Dysfunctional Families, and Clinical Practicum. Marisa C. Sánchez, Ph.D., assistant professor of art history, was awarded the inaugural Mary Sieminski Endowed Humanities Research Award established at Lycoming in 2023 by Sieminski’s spouse, Richard Allen. As a librarian and historian committed to local history, Sieminski established the Lycoming County Women’s History Project and championed years of high-quality research about women of significance and renowned in northcentral Pennsylvania. The fund supports humanities or humanitiesrelated research projects. This generous award enables Sánchez to continue archival research on Ailes Gilmour, the subject in Miss A, a 1931 painting by artist Walt Kuhn. Sánchez plans to publish “Agency, Authorship and the Archive: The Case of Miss A,” her essay on Gilmour’s identity and her significance within early twentieth century U.S. art and culture. 27 www.lycoming.edu
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