Faculty and Staff Briefs November and December 2024

Florida State University’s faculty and staff are central to its mission and the key to its countless accomplishments.

Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across campus. Faculty and Staff Briefs are produced monthly to recognize accomplishments and provide a space where honors, awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased.

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HONORS AND AWARDS

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) has been named the inaugural recipient of the Michael and Paula Read Phelan Professorship in Obstetrical Nursing at the FSU College of Nursing.

Jeff Hendry, MPA (John Scott Dailey Florida Institute of Government at Florida State University) has been named one of Florida’s 500 Most Influential Business Leaders by Florida Trend magazine.

Eundeok Kim, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship) has been appointed deputy editor of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education by Emerald Publishing.

Riley Krotz, Ph.D. (College of Business) has been selected to receive the Advancement in Healthcare Access Award by the Shepeard Community Blood Center for his research “Exploring Racial Inequities Among Blood Donors: Quantifying Lives Saved, Donor Attrition, and Firm Revenue.”

Wen Guo, Ph.D. and Rachel Fendler, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) have been awarded a fellowship for the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project Research Program for their proposal “Crisis Response as Arts Entrepreneurship: Leveraging SNAAP Insights to Foster Entrepreneurial Arts Educators.”

Kehinde Ishangi, MFA (School of Dance) was elected vice president of the Board of the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association.

LeeAnn H. Barfield, Ph.D., DNP, APRN-BC, CNE, FACHE (College of Nursing) has been recognized with the 2024 NP Week Unsung Hero Award by the Florida Nurse Practitioner Network.

Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FAAN (College of Nursing) has been honored with the American Heart Association Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing Council’s Clinical Article of the Year Award at the 100th American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Chicago. Her award-winning article, “Self-care Problems and Management Strategies Experienced by Rural Patient/Caregiver Dyads Living with Heart Failure: A Qualitative Study,” co-authored with Laurie Abbott, Ph.D., RN, DipACLM, PHNA-BC, CNE (College of Nursing), was published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

Anne Coldiron, Ph.D. (Department of English) and her co-contributors were awarded the 2024 Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society for the chapter “Translingual and Multi-Lingual Print” which appeared in the winning book, “The Oxford Handbook to the History of the Book in Early Modern England.”

Justin Kennemur, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) was awarded the 2024-2025 William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award, by the Florida Education Fund, for his contributions to the McKnight Doctoral Fellowship program.

Brenda Wawire, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) was awarded a Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship to continue her research on improving the learning and development of children and youth worldwide.

Amy Thompson, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was named the Higher Education Teacher of the Year by the West Virginia Foreign Language Teacher’s Association. Before joining FSU this year, Thompson served as department chair for the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at West Virginia University.

Allan Jeong, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) received the best paper award at the international conference Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age for his paper titled “The Effects of Politeness on Shaping Discourse in Online Debates” published in Distance Education.

Burcu Izci, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare/College of Social Work) was awarded the Robert B. Bradley Library Research Grant from FSU Libraries.

Wei Guo, Ph.D. (Department of Mechanical Engineering) has been selected to serve on the board of directors of the Cryogenic Society of America.

Zhe He, Ph.D. (School of Information) joined the Editorial Board of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics, a premier methodology journal.

Ebe Randeree, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) received an award from the TalTech Alliance for his service to the tech community in Tallahassee. 

GRANTS

Beth Phillips, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) Christopher Schatschneider, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology) and Lakeisha Johnson, Ph.D. (College of Communicaiton and Information) received a $3.6 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Their project, “Optimizing Early Phonological Awareness Instruction to Support Reading and Spelling Acquisition,” aims to enhance early literacy skills.

Sonia Cabell, Ph.D., Nicole Patton Terry, Ph.D., Laura Steacy, Ph.D., Matt Cooper Borkenhagen, Ph.D., Veronica Fleury, Ph.D. and Jenny Root, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) secured a $1.2 million grant from an anonymous family foundation to fund “Project TRANSLATE.” This project aims to prepare the next generation of scholars in reading education, including those specializing in reading disabilities.

Beth Phillips, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) received a $65,000 grant from Strengthening Future Families that will support her research on the efficacy of teaching parenting and child development at the secondary level, as well as social-emotional learning in the early years.

Igor Alabugin, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) received a $125,000 grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for his project “Electrocatalytic Cycles as a Hidden Secret of Photoredox Catalysis.”

DeOnte Brown, Ph.D. (Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement) and Melinda Wilson-Jones, M.Ed. (FSU Panama City) received a $55,000 grant from the Community Human Service Partnership to support precollegiate programming in Leon County.

Adrienne Barnes-Story, Ph.D. and Brenda Wawire, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) were awarded a grant to conduct research on Testing the Viability of e-CPD Across Malawian Higher Education Institutions. This grant was awarded by the Pulte Institute at the University of Notre Dame under the USAID Supporting Holistic and Actionable Research in Education envelope.

Qian (Jackie) Zhang, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) will serve as the sub-award principal investigator on an Institute of Education Sciences training grant titled “Bayesian Longitudinal Data Modeling in Education Sciences,” awarded to the University of Virginia.

BYLINES

Andrew Schrowang, Ph.D. (College of Business) co-authored the paper “Analysts’ Accuracy Following an Increase in Uncertainty: Evidence from the Art Market” which was published in the December 2024 volume of the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

Jenny Root, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) published her paper “Embracing Mixed Methods Research in Special Education” in Sage Journals in November.

Jamie Tock, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) and Yaacov Petscher, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) published their study “Exploring Profiles of Engagement in Reading, Numeracy, Writing, and Computer Skills-Use of U.S. Adults with Low Literacy Skills,” in the Journal for Research on Adult Education’s November 2024 issue.

Sana Tibi, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) and Ashley Edwards, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) published “Reading Anxiety in Arabic University Students” in Sage Journals.

Jenny Root, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) guest edited a special issue of “Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities” on Mixed Methods Research in Sage Journals.

Mike Kaschak, Ph.D., (Department of Psychology) graduate student Catherine Brousse and former doctoral student Katherine Chia published “Non-sentential Replies to Requests for Information” in the journal Memory and Cognition.

Tenley Bick, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) contributed her essay “A History of Black Diaspora Artists in Italy” to “The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History’” published by Routledge.

Paul Niell, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) contributed his essay “Drawing Cuba into African Diaspora Art History” to “The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History’” published by Routledge.

Amy Huber, MS and Kelley Robinson, MFA (Department of Interior Architecture & Design) published an article “Learning the Ropes or Walking a Tight One? Exploring the Factors of Organizational Assimilation in Design Firms” in the Journal of Design, Business, and Society.

Steven Webber, M. Arch. (Department of Interior Architecture & Design) published “Interior Design Fundamentals 2nd Edition.”

Tingting Liu, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, Jie Chen, Ph.D., RN and Jing Wang, Ph.D., MPH, RN, FAAN, (College of Nursing) co-authored “The Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Cognitive Function in Middle-Aged and Older Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial” published in the Journal Geriatric Nursing.

Tingting Liu, Ph.D., RN, FAAN (College of Nursing) co-authored “The Joint Contribution of Childhood Exposure to Parental Smoking and Genetic Susceptibility to Smoking to Epigenetic Age Acceleration in Late Adulthood: The Health and Retirement Study,” published in the journal Future.

Tingting Liu, Ph.D., RN, FAAN (College of Nursing) co-authored “Impact of Acupuncture on Human Metabolomic Profiles: A Systematic Review” published in the journal Metabolites.

Anne Coldiron, Ph.D. (Department of English) published “Indirect Translations via French in Caxton’s Corpus: England’s First Printer and the Appetite for Cultural Variety” in Philological Quarterly.

Juan Carlos Galeano, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) published a Portuguese translation of the anthology “Amazónia Antologia e Novos Poemas” with the University of Coimbra and sponsored by the European Union.

Meegan Kennedy, Ph.D. (Department of English) published “Circulation and Civility: Mid-Victorian Botany and Microscopical Method,” in the Victorians: A Botanical Perspective.

Meegan Kennedy, Ph.D. (Department of English) published “Diagnosis” in Victorian Literature and Culture.

Meegan Kennedy, Ph.D. (Department of English) published “Oliver as Object: Character, Genre, and Agency in the Victorian Novel” in the Victorian Review.

Martin Munro, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) was featured in the book “A History of Haitian Literature” published by the Cambridge University Press for his article “Exile and Twentieth-Century Haitian Writing.”

Silvia Valisa, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) co-authored a special section of the peer-reviewed journal Delos, a journal of translation and world literature, on the Italian poet Ludovica Ripa di Meana.

Robert Schoen, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) published “Improving the Teaching and Learning of Statistics” in the journal Learning and Instruction.

Vanessa Dennen, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences), alumna Lauren Bagdy and doctoral candidate Hilal Ayan Karabatman co-authored the article “Navigating the High School to University Transition with Social Media: Intensity of Use, Sense of Belonging, and Meaningful Change” published in Information & Learning Sciences.

Debra Osborn, Ph.D. and Professor Emeritus Jim Sampson, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences and the FSU Career Center) with the contribution of doctoral student Jacob Stamm co-authored “A Content Analysis of Information and Communication Technology in Career Development Articles from 2009 to 2022” published in the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance.

Jenny Root, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) guest edited a special issue of Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities on Mixed Methods Research (Volume 49 issue 4), within which she co-authored a conceptual paper titled “Embracing Mixed Methods Research in Special Education.”

Bret Staudt Willet, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-guest edited a two-part special issue of 12 articles for Information & Learning Sciences, titled “Learning with Social Media in an Algorithmic Age: Opportunities and Challenges for Education.” Staudt Willet wrote the introductory editorial to the special issue and co-authored one of its articles: “Understanding Beginning Teachers’ Socio-ecological Challenges: SelfDirected Learning in the r/Teachers Subreddit” with doctoral candidate Hunhui Na.

Amy L. Ai, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the article, “Optimism Mitigated Impacts of Pre-operative Depression and Anxiety on Post-operative Distress in Cardiac Patients” published in Psychology, Health and Medicine.

Bruce Thyer, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) authored the article “Behavioral Assessment as an Alternative to the DSM: Suggestions for Psychotherapists” published in the journal Best Practices in Mental Health.

Kristy Anderson, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the article “Changes in Child Health Care, Health, and Caregiver Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Children with Autism and Special Health Care Needs” published in the Maternal and Child Health Journal.

Gashaye Tefera, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the article “Mental Wellbeing in the Pre- and Post-pandemic Era: Perspectives of U.S. College Students, Faculty and Administrators” published in the journal Applied Research Quality Life.

Shamra Boel-Studt, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the article “‘We Do the Best We Can with What We Have”: Reflections from Residential Care Stakeholders on the Impacts of COVID-19″ published in the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal.

Karen Oehme, JD (Institute for Trauma and Resilience Studies/College of Social Work) co-authored the article “E-Learning’s Potential for Raising Awareness of Crucial Social Issues” in the International Journal of E-Learning.

Hugh Catts, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science & Disorders) had a paper accepted for publication that will appear in this winter edition of American Educator. With his colleague, Dr. Kamhi, he co-authored “Rethinking reading: Differentiating comprehension from components of reading.” 

Elizabeth Ray, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science & Disorders), Karen Oehme, JD (College of Social Work), Kelly Cooper, MSW (College of Medicine) and Cassandra DiRienzo published their paper, “E-Learning’s Potential for Raising Awareness of Crucial Social Issues,” in the International Journal on E-Learning. 

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

Changhyun (Lyon) Nam, Ph.D. and Srikant Manchiraju, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship) presented “Consumers’ Smart Fitness Apparel Purchase Intention: Do Social Acceptability Attributes, Environmental Concerns, and Health Beliefs Matter?” and “Virtual Vogue: Unveiling Privacy Trade-offs in the Fashion Metaverse” at the International Textile and Apparel Association Conference in Long Beach, California.

Changhyun (Lyon) Nam, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship) presented “The Digital World by Storm: Fashion Podcasts in Higher Education” and “The Functional Design of Necklace Clasp Development and Consumer Perception and Acceptance” at the International Textile and Apparel Association Conference in Long Beach, California.

Monica Gossman (School of Theatre) delivered the keynote presentation and served as a jury member at the World Media Festival in Hamburg, Germany.

Meghan Mick, MLA (Department of Interior Architecture & Design) delivered a lecture entitled “The Art and Science of Responsible Design” at Vanderbilt University and participated in a Q&A with students about her experience and professional practice.

Daejin Kim, Ph.D. (Department of Interior Architecture & Design) presented “Empowering Older Adults Through Smart Technology: A New Era in Aging-in-Place and Home Health Care” in the symposium “Designing Future Healthcare Environments for an Aging Society: Transdisciplinary Perspectives” at the Gerontological Society of America in Seattle.

Kris Salata, Ph.D. (School of Theatre) presented “The End of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards: The End of the Era of the Actor’s Submission” at the American Society for Theatre Research annual conference in Seattle.

Beth Osborne, Ph.D. (School of Theatre) presented “Pussycats to Pulitzers: Speculating Forward from Arthur Miller’s Early Radio Comedy” at the American Society for Theatre Research annual conference in Seattle.

Sarah Fahmy, Ph.D. (School of Theatre) presented “Reclaiming Cultural Embodied Knowledge through Ecofeminist Praxis in Egypt” at the American Society for Theatre Research annual conference in Seattle.

Aaron C. Thomas, Ph.D. (School of Theatre) presented “Performative Adulthood, Adult Performance, and Anti-drag/Anti- trans Legislation” at the American Society for Theatre Research annual conference in Seattle.

Sally Karioth, Ph.D., RN (College of Nursing) served as a keynote speaker at the third annual TMH Nursing Advisory Board Meeting and Faculty Training in Tallahassee with her presentation “Recognizing Signs of Grief and Loss When Helping Students Assimilate to New Nursing Roles: Understanding the Challenges and Building Resilience.”

Allison McHugh, DNP, MHCDS, RN, NE-BC (College of Nursing) presented “Inspiring Leaders to Improve Outcomes Using IKIGAI: Your Role as a Nurse Leader — Translating Evidence into Practice” at the Florida Organization for Nursing Leadership annual conference.

Marsha Hartline, DNP, RN, CNML, CNE (College of Nursing) served as a panelist at the 2024 Florida Nurses Association Membership Assembly in Hutchinson Island, Florida, presenting “Sharing Best Practices to Improve Florida NCLEX Pass Rates.”

Sabrina L. Dickey, Ph.D., MSN, RN (College of Nursing) presented “Navigating the Transition into Academia” at the 2024 Florida Nurses Association Membership Assembly in Hutchinson Island, Florida.

Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FAAN (College of Nursing) presented “Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Self-Care & Depressive Symptoms in Rural Heart Failure Dyads” at the 100th American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Chicago.

Tingting Liu, Ph.D., RN, FAAN and Jie Chen, Ph.D., RN (College of Nursing) co-authored and presented “Transcriptomics Analysis Reveals Dysregulated Lipid Metabolism and Signaling in Older Adults with Heart Failure” at the International Society of Nurses in Genetics 2024 World Congress in San Diego.

Tingting Liu, Ph.D., RN, FAAN (College of Nursing) presented “Physical Activity Trajectories in 12 Years and Epigenetic Age Acceleration Among Older Adults” at the International Society of Nurses in Genetics 2024 World Congress in San Diego. This research was co-authored by Jie Chen, Ph.D., RN, and Hongyu Miao, Ph.D. (College of Nursing).

Michelle Bumatay, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) presented her paper titled “Recasting France in World War II: Résistants oubliés, Morts par la France, and Plus près de toi” at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Conference in Jacksonville.

Martin Munro, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) delivered the lecture “Sound and Vision in the Caribbean: Listening to the ‘Great Noise,’” at the University of Cambridge Nineteenth Century Seminar Series in Cambridge, England.

Martin Munro, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) delivered the lecture “Translating Michaël Ferrier” at the University of Cambridge Translation Seminar in Cambridge, England.

Martin Munro, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) delivered the lecture “Columbus’ Gaze, Pineau’s Camera, Fontaine’s Drum, and the Echo-monde” at the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Annual Conference at the University of London.

Delia Poey, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) presented her paper “Unseen and Too Seen: Latina Sitcom Maids” at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Conference in Jacksonville.

Robert Romanchuk, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) delivered a virtual, invited, plenary talk titled “American Oral-traditional Scholarship and the Ukrainian Duma” at the 10th Annual Academic Conference at Oles Honchar Dnipro National University in Dnipro, Ukraine.

Suzanne Sinke, Ph.D. (Department of History) presented her paper “Relative Connections:  Family Ties in U.S. Migration Theory and Practice” at the 2024 Social Science History Association Conference in Toronto.

Silvia Valisa, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) presented her paper “Gendering the News: Women in a Nineteenth Century Italian Daily” on the Exploring Themes of Visibility and Invisibility in Italian Media, Film, and Television panel through the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.

Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) delivered a virtual, invited, plenary talk titled “Definitive Translations and Translation Pedagogy” at the 10th Annual Academic Conference at Oles Honchar Dnipro National University in Dnipro, Ukraine.

Heather Bishop, Ph.D., Robin Haggins, MS, Christina Hanna, MS and Brandon Saridjo, MSW (Transfer Student Services) co-presented “Supporting, Preparing, and Empowering, Academic Resilience for Florida State Transfer Students” at the Florida Summit on Accelerating Transfer Success in Orlando.

LaShae Roberts, MS, MSW, John Strickland, M.Ed. and Rachel Ward, MA (Advising First) presented “Entitled to Empowered: Helping Students Reclaim Their Agency” at NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising Annual Conference in Pittsburgh.

Emaly Hall, MSW and Olivia Saunders, MS (Advising First) presented a poster session titled “Teaching Critical Thinking: A Guide to Helping Students Make Their Own Decisions” at NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising Annual Conference in Pittsburgh.

LaShae Roberts, MS, MSW and DeOnte Brown, Ph.D. (Undergraduate Studies) presented a pre-conference session titled “No Fairy Dust: Perspectives, Experiences, and Lessons Learned as Black Administrators” at NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising Annual Conference in Pittsburgh.

Samantha Tackett, Ph.D. (Academic Center for Excellence) presented “Three Approaches to Support Students’ Psycho-Emotional Functions” at the International College Learning Center Association conference in Salt Lake City.

Samantha Tackett, Ph.D. (Academic Center for Excellence) presented “Designing Institution-Specific Academic Recovery Programs” at the fourth annual Academic Probation Symposium in Oxford, Mississippi.

DeOnte Brown, Ph.D., Adarius Simpkins, MS and Tatianna Duperier (Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement) co-presented “Student Success Driven by CARE Excellence” at the 2024 SACSA Annual Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina.

DeOnte Brown, Ph.D. and Lynn Hogan, Ph.D. (Undergraduate Studies) served as panelist and moderator in a webinar titled “Lessons Learned from Educational Outreach Programs that Bridge Academic and Student Affairs” sponsored by the Commission for Academic Affairs and the Commission for Academic Support in Higher Education of ACPA International.

Emily Leyava, Ph.D. (Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement) presented “Building Community and Campus Engagement Through Participation in a Summer Bridge Program” at the 68th annual conference of the Florida Educational Research Association in Orlando.

Bhushan Dahal (Learning Systems Institute) presented his paper “Enhancing Community–School Partnerships in Nepal: Study of School Management Committee Leadership” at the UCEA Graduate Student Summit.

Ana H. Marty, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented two sessions at the STEP Teaching Practice Advisory Group meeting in Malawi.

Flavia Ramos-Mattoussi, Ed.D. (Learning Systems Institute) chaired a session at the 17th annual International Conference of Education, Research, and Innovation in Seville, Spain.

Scott Bleiweis (Center for Global Engagement) served on the leadership team for the NAFSA Region VII Annual Conference in Jacksonville. He also hosted a newcomer’s session, presented on peer collaboration activities for international students and facilitated a panel discussion with representatives from the U.S. Department of State.

Robyn Brock (New Student & Family Programs), David Peters (Campus Recreation) and Allison Peters (Undergraduate Studies) presented “Cutting Through the Noise: Collaboration for Student Communication and Retention” at the National Orientation Directors Association national conference in Portland, Oregon.

DeOnte Brown, Ph.D. (Center for Academic Retention & Advancement) and Shae Roberts (Undergraduate Studies) co-led “Perspectives, Experiences, and Lessons Learned from Black Administrators” at the 2024 NACADA Annual Conference in Pittsburgh.

Shelley Ducatt, Ph.D. (Department of Student Support & Transition) made three presentations during the National Association of ADA Coordinators Annual Conference: “ADA Basics, Role of the ADA Coordinator & What OCR Expects,” “The Intersection Between Title IX and Disability” and “Student Misconduct: When You Find Yourself at the Crossroads of Mental Health, Threat Assessment, and Threat to Self.”

Michael Stewart-Meza (University Health Services) presented “Crossroads of Ethics and Medicine: Ethical Considerations in the Out-of-Hospital Care of the Dying” at the HCA Florida Capital EMS Symposium in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Sean Wilkinson (Campus Recreation) presented “Florida Man Changes the Outdoor Industry with Regional Collaborations” at the Association of Outdoor Recreation & Education conference in New Orleans.

Alice Maxwell, Alycia Malicz and Emma Massaglia (DSA Marketing and Communications) presented “Say ‘Hello’ to Campus-wide Student Engagement Marketing” in at the American Marketing Association’s Higher Education Conference in Las Vegas.

Megan Buning, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) conducted a workshop titled “AI, Imagery, & Emotion: How Consultants Can Leverage Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Client Imagery Skills & Emotion Regulation” at the Association of Applied Sport Psychology annual conference.

Ravinder Nagpal, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) delivered a research talk titled “Gut Pathobiome in Alzheimer’s Meuropathogenesis” at the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) annual meeting in Los Angeles. Nagpal was awarded a scholarship from IDSA to attend the meeting.

David Peters (Campus Recreation), Allison B. Peters, Ph.D. (Division of Undergraduate Studies) and Robyn Brock (New Student and Family Programs) presented “Cutting Through the Noise: Collaboration for Student Communication & Retention” at the 2024 NODA: Orientation, Transition, & Retention in Higher Education Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon.

Allison B. Peters, Ph.D. (Division of Undergraduate Studies) participated in the panel discussion “Unlock Your Inner Scholar” at the 2024 NODA: Orientation, Transition, & Retention in Higher Education Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon.

Amy L. Ai, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) presented “Assessing Spirituality in a Diverse World” in a virtual event hosted by the Integrative Health and Spirituality Special Group of the Society of Behavioral Medicine.

Lisa Jackson, MSW (College of Social Work) co-presented “Postsecondary Educational Practices and Strategies to Support Students Experiencing Homelessness” at the 2024 National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth Conference in Orlando.

Lisa Jackson, MSW (College of Social Work) co-presented “Pathways to College for Students with Homelessness Experience” at the 2024 National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth Conference in Orlando.

Latara Lampkin, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) presented “The Sickle Cell Disease Community Education Project” at the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America Annual National Convention.

Amanda Tazaz, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented her poster “Bridging the Gap into the Geoscience: A Partnership between Florida State University, Local Geoscience Stakeholders, and the Boys and Girls Club of the Big Bend” at the American Geophysical Union conference.

Caitlin Cates, MSW (Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement) and Lisa Jackson, MSW, LCSW (College of Social Work) co-presented “Pathways to College for Students with Homelessness Experience” at the 2024 NAEHCY Annual Conference in Orlando.

Amanda Tazaz, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) chaired “Ten Years of NSF’s GEOPAths Program: Projects, Practices, and Perspectives I and II” at the American Geophysical Union conference.

Lakeisha Johnson, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science & Disorders) co-presented the seminar “Talking Black in America: Social Justice (Part 2)” at the ASHA Convention in Seattle.

Yunjung Kim, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science & Disorders), along with graduate students Haley Willms and Mia Carter, presented the poster “Revisit Speech Intelligibility: Measures of Dysarthria Severity” at the ASHA Convention in Seattle.  

Kaitlin Lansford, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science & Disorders) was recognized as an ASHA Fellow at the ASHA Convention in Seattle. 

Don Latham, Ph.D. and Melissa Gross, Ph.D. (School of Information) spoke on three panels at the ALISE Conference in Portland, Oregon. The panels included “Preparing Students for the Workplace: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly,” “Navigating the Modern Libraryscape: The Changing Roles, Labor, and Education of Public Librarians,” and “Understanding Information Literacy Instructional Practices: Implications for Preparing Pre-Service Librarians.” 

Sladjana Lukic, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science & Disorders) provided a presentation at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital for Movement Disorders & Dementia titled “A multilevel neurocognitive approach to language impairments in neurological disorders.” 

Richard Waters (College of Communication & Information) accompanied a team of four public relations students who competed in the Direct Effect Innovation Challenge at the University of South Florida, where the team won a marketing competition. 

Carla Wood, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science & Disorders), along with graduate students Miguel Garcia-Salas, Michelle Torres-Chavarro and Kiana Hines, presented the seminar “Morphology in Action: Exploring Morphology in Children’s Writing and Unveiling Clinical Applications” at the ASHA Convention in Seattle. 

PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS

Jean Shon, MFA (Department of Art) has a solo exhibition of her work “in a word” featured at Lawndale Art Center’s Cecily E. Horton Gallery in Houston.

Lilian Garcia-Roig, MFA (Department of Art) has a solo exhibition of her work “On-Sitefulness” on display at Valley Gallery and Sculpture Garden in Dallas.

Carrie Ann Baade, MFA (Department of Art) has work featured in the latest issue of American Art Collector and in a current solo exhibition, “Mirror Worlds”, at the Museum of Art in DeLand, Florida.

Jiha Moon, MFA (Department of Art) has a solo exhibition entitled “Fool’s Moon” solo on display at Derek Eller Gallery in New York City.

Jeff Beekman, MFA (Department of Art) is having his work shown in the “Future Perfect” group exhibition at Durden + Ray Gallery in Los Angeles.

Jawole Zollar, MFA (School of Dance) is performing Solo Voyages with Tendayi Kuumba at the Whtiney Museum as part of the Edges of Ailey performance series in conjunction with the Ailey exhibit.

Matthew Schmidli, MFA (School of Theatre) played the lead role in the film “The Chain” which won Best Horror Film at the Chicago Horror Film Festival.

Jiha Moon, MFA (Department of Art), has an exhibition of ceramic sculpture work on display through Laney Contemporary at Untitled Art.

SERVICE

Lynn Jones, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) served on a professional development panel for graduate students and early career scholars regarding the process of applying for academic jobs at the 50th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference in New York City in October.

Casey Sammarco, MFA (School of Theatre) served as stage management supervisor for “The Merry Wives of Windsor and Always Patsy Cline” at the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival.

Allison McHugh, DNP, MHCDS, RN, NE-BC (College of Nursing) has been appointed to the Florida Organization of Nurse Leaders Board and will serve as co-chair of the Education Committee and President of the Panhandle Organization of Nurse Leaders.

Ravinder Nagpal, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was invited to Paris to serve as a panel member for the French National Research Agency meeting.

Kristen Guynes, Ph.D. and Casey Guynes, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science & Disorders) hosted an outreach event for families and children who are deaf or hard of hearing at Wooley Park in Panacea, Florida.

Lakeisha Johnson, Ph.D. Catherine Johnson, Ph.D. and Andrea Barton Hulsey, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science & Disorders) tabled at Worlds of Work in Tallahassee, an event which introduces local high school students to potential career paths. 

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Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, MFA (School of Dance) is the choreographer and director of a new Jake Heggie monodrama to be performed at the Fort Worth Symphony in Fort Worth, Texas.

Michelle Bumatay, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) was selected for the editorial board of the peer reviewed journal Comicalités.

Caleb Mitchell, MFA (School of Dance) instructed five ballet classes while attending the Pigmentos International Dance Festival in Puebla, Mexico.

Jennie Robinette, Kate Schell, and Brenda Wawire, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) led a series of qualitative data analysis sessions with the Large Class Pedagogy Research Team, contributing to the work conducted for the Strengthening Teacher Education and Practice Activity in Malawi.

Probak Karim led a travel team comprised of Adrienne Barnes-Story, Ph.D., Melba Marin-Velasquez, Jim Reynolds, Robert Hannah and Ninamarie Sapuppo (Learning Systems Institute) to Bangladesh to support a project in planning for secondary school teacher and leadership education professional development training and to observe the piloting of existing materials.

Ana H. Marty, Ph.D. virtually supported Augustine Kamlongera, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) on two workshops in Blantyre, Malawi with the Ministry of Education to further activities under the Strengthening Teacher Education and Practice Activity: A Teaching Practice Advisory Group meeting and a Diploma Framework Development Work Session.

Adrienne Barnes-Story, Ph.D., Augustine Kamlongera, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) and LSI staff on the USAID STEP project in Malawi delivered 6,644 books, including 5,808 National Reading Program teacher’s guides and learner books in English and Chichewa, to all primary Teacher Training Institutions.

Anna Romanova, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) hosted six visitors from Ukraine’s Nizhyn Lyceum, a historic institution founded in the 19th century, as part of the Ukraine Task Force’s continued work.

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