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FACULTY AND STAFF ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND BEST PRACTICES // December 2019
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Terry Lindvall's
two-art series on "Shall We Gather at the Movies?: Religious Hymns and the Evoca
tive Experience of a Cinematic Singing School Movement" appeared in the November and December 2019 issues of The Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians.
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Elizabeth Malcolm, Noah Craft '20, and Warren Cannady '19 presented the poster "A Novel Method Using Phycoremediation to Reduce Toxic Metals in Surface Waters" at the 2019 EPA International Decontamination Research and Development Conference. Virginia Wesleyan faculty Maury Howard, Phil Rock, Kat
rina Henry, and Margaret Reese were co-authors.
Loren
Loving
Marquez and Jennifer Slivka attended The Women's Achieve
me
nt Summit at the Greater Richmond C
onvention Center. This year, the
10th anniversary of the Virginia Women's Conference, Senator Mark Warner and Queen Latifah were the honorary co-hosts of American Evolutions Women's Achievement Summit.
Larry Hultgren presented "Sustainability Inside a
nd Out(side)," as part of a panel on "Honors as a Perfect Forum for th
e Interdisciplinary Subject of Sustainability," at the 2019 National Collegiate Honors Council Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA.
Maury Howard
presented "Teaching essential QA/QC in the undergraduate an
al
ytical l
aboratory through pharmaceutical analysis: Cephalexin (DPAL project)," at the Southeastern
R
e
g
ional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SERMACS) in Savanna, GA. She was accompanied by research students Chris Fegan and Marcos Davilla-Banrey, who jointly presented their project, "HPLC analysis a
nd evaluation of cephalexin for DPAL
(Distributed Pharmaceutical Analysis Laboratory)."
Robert Ariel and undergraduate psychology student Jessica McCullough presented a research poster titled, "Mindfulness and Metacognitive Monitoring Accuracy: Mindless Overconfidence in the Mindful," at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Montreal, Canada.
Kellie Holzer organized the annual conference for the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States (VISAWUS): "Victorian Stakes and Stakeholders," in Seattle, WA. She presented a paper entitled "#ThemToo? Teaching Students to Read Sexual Harassment in Victorian Texts," as part of a standing-room only panel she co-organized entitled "Teaching Victorian Literature in the Age of #MeToo."
Dan Margolies presented "Submerged Lands, Navigable Waters, and Jurisdiction as a Technology of Spatial Governance in the United States," at the Interdisciplinary symposium on the Role of Water Transit Points in Past Societies, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Helsinki, Finland.
Mort Gamble taught a two-hour class for the Institute for Learning in Retirement. The title of the class was "Those Amazing Circus People--and Their Animals," an overview of star performers, owners and managers, famous animals, and the myriad other people who made up the golden age of the circus, 1870s-1940s.
Bill McConnell presented at the Virginia Association of Science Teaching conference in Roanoke with two of his students, Arika Marosi and Emily Purdin. They presented an innovative elementary science lesson inspired by an EPA-funded research apprenticeship in which they took part.
Deirdre Gonsalves-Jackson, Bill McConnell, and Arika Marosi (MAEd student) presented "An environmental institute to increase E_STEM diversity" at the Virginia Association of Science Teaching conference in Roanoke. They shared their experiences in designing and implementing the Virginia Wesleyan Environmental Institute: Summer Scholars program for the past two years.
Modupe Oshikoya presented a paper titled "They just do business in our blood: the militarisation of gender-based violence in Nigeria," as part of panel titled 'Soldiers and Peacekeepers in Africa', at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.
Taryn Myers was co-author on a poster presented by VWU alumna and summer research intern Makayla Kelley entitled "Functional impairment and body image dissatisfaction in men who identify
as members of the LGBTQ+ community: Potential assessment and treatment considerations," at the Obesity and Eating Disorders Special Interest Group at the annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
Taryn Myers
presented as part of a panel discussion on "Integrating Commu
nity-Based Projects in the Training of Clinical Scientists for Social Impact" at the annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies in Atlanta, GA.
Taryn Myers presented two posters with alumna coauthors at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies annual convention in Atlanta, GA: "What type of cognitive dissonance influences self-esteem and where?" and "What role does cognitive dissonance play in body image and affect? An examination of a brief appearance-focused versus non-appearance-focused intervention on public versus private Instagram pages."
Michelle Albert Vachris gave a talk, "Pride and Profit: the Intersection of Jane Austen and Adam Smith," at Emporia State University in Kansas.
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Susan Wansink and her
students welcomed 391 high school students studyin
g German from Virginia Beach City Public Schools to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Fall of the B
erlin Wall. The event included a presentation and live connection to Berlin. Jill Sturts and her students organized wall-related games for the students. Thanks to INTEL for supporting this event.
Wayne Pollock accompanied seven recreational therapy majors to Longwood University for a Therapeutic Recreation Showcase. Students were able to meet, network and interview for internships with recreational therapists from across Virginia and North Carolina.
Taryn Myers received the Early Career Award from the Women's Issues in Behavioral Therapy Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
Lisa Lyon Payne has been named Vice President of Communication for the Society for College Journalists (SCJ) national board. SCJ is the nation's oldest honor society for student media leaders, serving to advance ethical, accurate, and innovative collegiate journalism and create a strong network of advocates for First Amendment education.
Computer science majors Andrew Bright, Bryce Davis, and Jackson Simmons, coached by
Kathy Ames, participated in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Division of the International Collegiate Programming Competition held at Christopher Newport University.
Congratulations to April Christman who passed the Association of Social Work Boards Clinical Examination and is now credentialed as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).
The Social Work
Department received an eight-year re-accreditation for its BSW from the Council on Social Work Education. There was lots of hard work from Annette Clayton, April Christman, and Benjamin Dobri
n to prepare this 580 page document and successful accreditation package!
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Kathy Merlock Jackson and the students enrolled in Comm 333: Cult Films and Their Fans visited Westminster-Canterbury for a showing of "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956) and a discussion of the film and 1950s culture. They also provided refreshments indicative of the time.
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