Rebekah Farrugia, Ph.D., associate professor of communication, recently published her book "Beyond the Dance Floor: Female DJs, Technology, and Electronic Dance Music" with the academic press, Intellect Books. A pathbreaking study of the women who create electronic dance music, "Beyond the Dance Floor" focuses on the largely neglected relationship between these women and the conceptions of gender and technology that continue to inform the male-dominated culture surrounding electronic music.
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Ben Bennett-Carpenter, Ph.D., special lecturer in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric and the Integrative Studies program, was elected to the executive committee of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters at the September 12, 2012, meeting at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. Dr. Bennett-Carpenter was elected for a three year term (2012-2015) as Member-at-Large. The president of the Michigan Academy announced that Oakland University will host the annual conference in 2014.
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Ben Bennett-Carpenter, Ph.D., special lecturer in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric and in the Integrative Studies program, and David Maines, Ph.D., professor of Sociology and former chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, along with Michael McCallion, Ph.D., chair of Catholic Social Analysis at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, published the article "Individualism and Community as Contested Rhetorics in the Catholic New Evangelization Movement." The article can be viewed online.
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Erin Meyers, assistant professor of Communication, authored the article, "Blogs Give Regular People the Chance to Talk Back: Rethinking 'Professional' Media Hierarchies in New Media," which appears in the international, peer-reviewed journal, New Media & Society 14.6 (2012): 1022-1038. A version of this paper was presented at the International Communication Association Annual Conference in May 2011 in Boston.
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Linda Pavonetti, professor and chair of the Department of Reading and Language Arts, presented a talk at International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) in Hlesinki, Finland on American Librarians' favorite read-aloud books. The talk was the result of a survey conducted by Dr. Pavonetti through the American Library Association (ALA) Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC).
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Adina Schneeweis, Ph.D, assistant professor of journalism, was published in the international, peer-reviewed journal, International Communication Gazette, volume 74.7. The article is titled, "If They Really Wanted to, They Would: The Press Discourse of Integration of the European Roma, 1990-2006" (pp. 673-689). Dr. Schneeweis analyzes the solidification of the discourse of integration of the Gypsy/Roma in the European press following the fall of Communism.
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Kenneth P. Mitton, associate professor of biomedical sciences in the Eye Research Institute, was one of only a few foreign biomedical researchers invited by the Chinese Medical Association to present a plenary session talk at the 17th Congress of the Chinese Ophthalmological Society meeting this August in the historic ancient capital city of Nanjing, China. More than 5,000 delegates attended this meeting from all over the Asia Pacific region, including practicing ophthalmologists, ophthalmology residents and fellows, and medical students from all over China and Hong Kong, as well as Taiwan, Australia, Japan, South Korea and other Pacific Rim nations.
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Sayed Nassar, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and founding director of the Fastening and Joining Research Institute (FAJRI), will give a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) this October. His talk is entitled, "Clamp Load Decay due to Vibration-Induced Loosening of Preloaded Threaded Fasteners."
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Valerie Palmer-Mehta, Ph.D, associate professor of communication, authored the article, "Theorizing the Role of Courage in Resistance: A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of Aung San Suu Kyi's 'Freedom From Fear' Speech" which appears as the lead article in the international, peer-reviewed journal, Communication, Culture & Critique 5.3 (2012): 313-332.
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Rasul Chaudhry, made the keynote presentation “The Promise of Translational Stem Cell Research” on Friday, Aug. 3, at the Annual meeting of the Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Society (MINS) held on Mackinac Island, Mich.
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Kerri Schuiling, Dean of the School of Nursing, is among 37 nursing education leaders from across the country to be named to the inaugural class of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing – Wharton Executive Leadership Program.
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Robert Sidelinger, assistant professor of communication, co-authored the article, "Developing Student-to-Student Connectedness: An Examination of Instructors' Humor, Nonverbal Immediacy, and Self-Disclosure in Public Speaking Courses," which appears in the Basic Communication Course Annual.
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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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