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Faculty-Staff Achievements

March 17, 2021

Paul ArcieroPaul J. Arciero, professor of health and human physiological sciences, published the scientific paper  in the nutrition journal Foods. The study was co-authored by six former 勛圖惇蹋 students (Olivia Minicucci, Allison Keller, Caitlin Sheridan, Gabriel Obrien, Brad Schuler and Christopher Gentile) along with former Visiting Assistant Professor Feng He and former Visiting Research Coordinator Emery Ward.  

Veena ChandraVeena Chandra, private music instructor, performed and delivered a lecture and demonstration for a virtual conference organized by the music department of Dayalbagh Education Institute (Deemed University), in Dayalbagh, Agra, India on Friday, March 12.  

Marc ConnerMarc Conner, president of 勛圖惇蹋 College, has recorded a lecture series for The Great Courses called . The 24 lectures offer an in-depth, virtual travel tour of Ireland and Northern Ireland with visuals and attention to all aspects of Ireland. The course really emerged from my decades of experience taking students and adult learners to Ireland to study and travel, the English professor said. The production is his third for The Great Courses, formerly The Teaching Company. His first, , in 2012, explores Shakespeares plays as if in a college classroom, defining the tools for understanding every Shakespeare play. , came out in 2017, and consists of 36 lectures that focus on Irish history, literature, art, politics and landscape, focusing especially on the great achievements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The courses have been very well reviewed and featured in The New York Times and other venues. 

Kris CoveyKristofer Covey, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies and sciences, has received a $100,000 grant from the . The grant supports new staff positions to foster student-driven soil carbon inventory research in agricultural landscapes. TomKat Rach is an 1,800-acre ranch in Pescadero, California, founded by Kat Taylor and her husband, Tom Steyer, with a mission to provide healthy food on working lands in a way that regenerates the planet and inspires others to action. 

Stephen IvesStephen Ivesassociate professor of health and human physiological sciences, published a research paper in the Journal of Applied Physiology, titled . This article was a collaboration with the University of Verona and the University of Utah. 

Karen KelloggKaren Kellogg, associate professor of environmental  studies and sciences, has been selected to participate in the Department of Energy's Visiting Faculty Program at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This appointment includes summer 2021 research support for Kellogg and several Environmental Studies and Sciences Program students. Their project will focus on wind energy equity. This work will provide a scaffolding for future research involving 勛圖惇蹋 students and help shape more effective renewable energy installation strategies, market incentives and policies to accelerate the adoption and economic growth of renewables.  

Murray LevithA book by Murray Levith, professor emeritus of English, is set to be republishedRoutledge announced that the 43-year-old onomastic study 兜堯硃喧s in Shakespeares Names will be published in hardback and as an e-book, on March 31, with a possible paper version to follow. The new edition will be volume six of the 14-volume Routledge Library Editions: Study of Shakespeare. The book was originally published in 1978 by Archon in the U.S. and Allen & Unwin in England. 

Jenni MuellerJennifer Mueller, associate professor of sociology and director of the Intergroup Relations Program, recently appeared on , Season 6: The Arc of Justice: From Here to Equality, produced by Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy. Episode 2, , features discussion of teaching and research related to Muellers in-progress book, Inheriting the Gap: Wealth, Capital, and Intergenerational Race-Making" (under contract with NYU Press). 

Joshua NessResearch on the ecology-economy intersections of Cuba by Josh Ness, associate professor of Biology, was   and . The work is an outgrowth of collaborations with colleagues from Cuba and the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium and was recently published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.   

 


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