Dr. Tanya Al-Talib (Dental) has been inducted as a fellow of the International College of Dentists, USA Section. The College of Dentists is a worldwide honorary organization for outstanding dentists who have demonstrated abiding interest and concern for their communities and profession through serving others with leadership, integrity, and ethical…
Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), associate professor and Research Coordinator for the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education Center, provided the keynote session for the Early Intervention/Early Childhood Conference sponsored by United Cerebral Palsy of Alabama on October 17 in Mobile, Alabama. Her session…
Dean Ronald T. Brown (Integrated Health Sciences) presented at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, "Creating Positive Change Through Synergistic Pediatric and Psychological Care."
Jarret Keene (English) published a short story, "Dream Evil," in issue 5 of the international journal SHiFT: A Journal of Literary Oddities, published by Ringling College of Art and Design. On Oct. 17, he met with Ringling students, gave a luncheon talk on journalism and creative writing, and did a reading in the Alfred R. Goldstein Library…
Amy Brown (Music) presented a session at the Fall Computer Using Educators (CUE) conference in Stockton, California, (October 21-22, 2023). The session was titled, "Keep"ing Your Sanity and focused on how to use Google Keep to encourage active listening and notetaking skills for 2nd-12 grade students. Participants listened, responded, and…
Emily Budd (Art) has published a creative essay titled, “Cruising the Monuments of the Outskirts of Las Vegas,” for the ecoartspace publication, The New Geologic Epoch. Budd’s essay reimagines Robert Smithson’s seminal work, “A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey,” to explore the possibilities of Queer Renewal among a set of environmental…
Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) published a chapter titled, "Terminal Violence: Online Interactions and Infra-Humanization," in the edited volume People, Technology, and Social Organization: Interactionist Studies of Everyday Life (Routledge). The chapter uses vignettes of interactions with terminals and with people through terminals to denounce…
Jyoti Mago (Dental) has been inducted as a fellow by the Pierre Fauchard Academy, which recognizes and develops outstanding leadership within the dental profession. Fellowship in the Academy is by nomination and based on past contributions to dentistry including dental literature, service to the profession, and service to the general community.…
Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) was one of the authors of Corporate Social Advocacy in Women's Sport: A Business Opportunity and was published by the Arthur W. Page Center (2023) in the 2023 Insights Report on Corporate Social Advocacy. Top insights:  78% of CSA messages did not relate to…

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