Zissimos P. Mourelatos, professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has won two Colwell Merit Awards from the Society for Automotive Engineers for his papers “Piston Design Using Multi-Objective Reliability-Based Design Optimization” and “Time-Dependent Reliability Estimation for Dynamic Systems Using a Random Process Approach.”
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Thomas A. Discenna, associate professor of communication, is featured in a new book that draws systematic attention to the theme of communication in twentieth-century academic philosophy.
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Kenneth P. Mitton, associate professor of biomedical sciences in the Eye Research Institute, recently received the Retinopahty of Prematurity and Related Diseases (ROPARD) Award for two years for his investigator-initiated research proposal entitled "Diabetic Live Animal Model in the PRRL for Testing Retinopathy Interventions."
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Barbara Oakley, associate professor of engineering, will be featured as a speaker at the Consilience Conference: Evolution in Biology, the Human Sciences, and the Humanities, which will take place in St. Louis, Missouri, from April 26-28.
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Thomas Discenna, associate professor of communication, authored the article, "Academic Labor and the Literature of Discontent in Communication," which appears in volume 5 of the international, peer-reviewed journal, International Journal of Communication (2011).
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Jennifer Hiesler, Ph.D., associate professor of communication and chair of the Department of Communication and Journalism, and Dr. Rob Sidelinger, assistant professor of communication, along with Brandy Frisby et al., authored the article, "Developing Student-to-Student Connectedness: An Examination of Instructors' Humor, Nonverbal Immediacy, and Self-Disclosure in Public Speaking Courses," which was selected as a top paper at the 2011 National Communication Association Convention.
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Nancy Joseph, associate professor of English, has been named president of the Michigan Council of English Educators (MCEE). Joseph has previously served on the advisory board of the Michigan Council of Teachers of English (MCTE).
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Doris Plantus, special lecturer for the Department of English, translated "Zalmoxis," a play by Romanian dramatist, poet, and philosopher, Lucian Blaga. This spring, the production had its world premiere in English at Georgetown University, directed by Dr. Cristina Bejan.
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Rob Sidelinger, assistant professor of communication, along with Derek Bolen, Brandi Frisby, and Audra McMullen, published the article, "When Instructors Misbehave: An Examination of Student-to-Student Connectedness as a Mediator in the College Classroom," in the national, peer-reviewed communication journal, Communication Education (volume 60.3, pp. 340-361).
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Frank Giblin, professor of biomedical sciences and director of the Eye Research Institute, was the keynote speaker at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Cataract Research, held in Fukuoka, Japan on June 17-19.
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Department of Communication and Journalism Professors presented their research at the International Communication Association annual convention took place in Boston this May. This conference has an acceptance rate of approximately 40 percent and draws scholars from around the world.
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Adina Schneeweis, Ph.D. and assistant professor of journalism in the Department of Communication and Journalism, authored the article, "Constructing the Roma Audience: Public Health Communication and Intervention in Contemporary Romania," which appears in the 2011 edition of Critical Public Health.
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Chaunda L. Scott, associate professor of Human Resource Development, co-edited and co-authored a workforce diversity textbook, which will be introduced in October 2011. The textbook is entitled: "Workforce Diversity: Current and Emerging Issues and Cases," and will be published by SAGE Publications Inc.
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Valerie Palmer-Mehta, associate professor of communication and journalism, and Alina Haliliuc, a doctoral candidate at the University of Iowa, authored the article, "The Performance of Silence in Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days," which appears as the lead article in the national communication journal, Text and Performance Quarterly (v31.2, April 2011).
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Jackie Wiggins, professor of music education and chair of the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance, recently presented “Vulnerability and Agency in Being and Becoming a Musician” as a keynote speaker at the 7th International Conference for Research in Music Education hosted by the Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter in association with the National Association of Music Educators.
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Robert Sidelinger, assistant professor, published a longitudinal study that examined student connectedness in public speaking courses and its association with students' communication abilities. The researchers found that student-to-student supportive communication is central to a connected classroom climate.
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S. Lily Mendoza, associate professor of communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism has published the essay, "Reflections on Bridging Paradigms: How Not to Throw Out the Baby of Collective Representation with the Functionalist Bathwater in Critical Intercultural Communication," in "The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication."
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Jim Perkinson, special lecturer in the Department of Communication and Journalism, published the essay "When Frankness Goes Funky: Afro-Proxemics Meets Western Polemics at the Border of the Suburb," in "The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication."
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