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SPRING
2010
- Dr. Medora Barnes was selected to be as
an Early Career Scholar by the Work and
Family Researchers Network—an international
and interdisciplinary organization based
at the University of Pennsylvania and supported
by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Dr. Barnes also presented a paper at the
American Sociological Association 2011
annual meetings, in Las Vegas, NV.
- Dr. Richard Clark continues to travel
with students participating in international
immersion experiences as he joined the
group traveling to Kingston, Jamaica in
May, 2008. The group participated in volunteer
work and met with local community leaders
to learn about the culture and challenges
facing the people of Jamaica today.
- Dr. Ernest DeZolt is the co-coordinator
of the Criminology track, and is responsible
for supervising internships that include
Federal, State, and Local opportunities associated
with the Criminal Justice System.
- Dr.
Kenneth N. Eslinger contributed several
entries to the revision of the International
Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2nd
edition) published by Macmillan Reference.
He also presented a research paper on urban
sociology and social stratification at the
meeting of the North Central Sociological
Association in Chicago during the spring
semester.
- Dr. Phyllis Braudy Harris was an invited
speaker and Panel Moderator for the US Administration
on Aging and National Alzheimer’s
Association 2010 Alzheimer’s disease
Supportive Services Program Partnership Program,
Washington D.C. Dr.
Harris received the
2009 Distinguished Faculty Award. The award
was presented at the commencement ceremony
on May 17, 2009. This award is given annually
to a faculty member who has exemplified
a quality classroom performance and a balanced
contribution to scholarship, community
service and to the spirit of Jesuit education.
- Susan Long worked with other faculty in
Sociology and Biology to create the new Population
and Public Health minor. She
published a chapter, “Tension, Dependency,
and Sacrifice in the Relationship of an
Elderly Couple” in Faces of Aging:
The Lived Experiences of the Elderly in
Japan, Yoshiko Matsumoto, ed. (Stanford
University Press, 2011), and conducted
new research in the summer of 2011 on American
interfaith families and funeral decisions. In
spring 2011 she was elected to a 3 year
term on the Northeast Asia Advisory Committee
of the Association for Asian Studies, and
served as a reviewer for faculty research
proposals for the National Endowment for
the Humanities.
- Dr.
Donna K. Rumenik led a two-week summer
research workshop at the
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for
Advanced Holocaust Studies
in July 2009 entitled:"Bringing
the past into the present: Missing
narratives of the Holocaust in Ukraine.” The
international group of scholars presented
their research findings to the public on
July 31, 2009. In June 2008 Dr. Rumenik
was a selected participant in the Silberman
seminar, "Teaching
the Legacy of the Holocaust: Poland, Ukraine,
and Lithuania." This seminar was sponsored
by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
She also was one of 16 international scholars
exploring and conducting research at the
WWII International Tracing Center archives
in Bad Arolsen, Germany in June, 2008.
. Dr.
Rumenik was also a Fulbright Scholar in
2007 teaching and conducting research in
Ukraine. Recently she had a publication in
Psychology and Sociology, Vol. 2(1) titled "A
different view on
prostitution: The world’s oldest trade
or a story of women like you and me.”
- Dr. Gloria Vaquera was awarded a fellowship
to attend the the Association for the Study
of Higher Education (ASHE) Institute on
Equity Research Methods and Critical Policy
Analysis, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 25-28,
2008, sponsored by the Ford Foundation.
As one of seven junior faculty, she presented
a working paper on doctoral student experiences.
This manuscript is currently being revised
for submission to a higher education journal.
In an effort to translate research to action,
she returned to the University of New Mexico
October 13, 2008 to give a talk on doctoral
student persistence and facilitate the
creation of a survey on graduate student
climate sponored by the Raza Graduate Student
Association. Results from the survey will
be used to improve retention among all
graduate students. Dr. Vaquera has been
awarded a Grauel Fellowship for fall, 2009
to examine the social capital acquisition
of Latino families with a parish/college
partnership program, especially for middle-school
children.
- Dr. Wendy Wiedenhoft is currently the
coordinator of the Environmental Studies
Concentration and faculty advisor of the
student environmental group, Generation Green.
She is also involved in an on-going summer
program on peace building and conflict transformation
in Northern Ireland. As a member of the Peace,
War and Conflict group of the American
Sociological Association, Dr. Wiedenhoft
presented a paper "K(no)w Surrender:
Cultural Entrepreneurs and the Ulster-Scots
Movement" in New York City in late
August. She also presented a paper "Touring
the Troubles in West Belfast: Building
Peace or Reproducing Conflict?" in
Galway Ireland at the Political Studies
Association in October, 2008. She had an
article, "An Analytical Framework
for Studying the Politics of Consumption:
The Case of the National Consumers' League",
published in the December, 2008 Social
Movement Studies.
- Dan Winterich received a Distinguished
Law Enforcement Group Achievement Award
in October, 2011 for collaborative work
in November, 2010 in Knox County in Central
Ohio. Here is a link to the article from
the Ohio Attorney General: http://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Briefing-Room/News-Releases/October-2011/Law-Enforcement-from-Knox--Morrow-Counties-and-BCI.
Dan also co-wrote "How to Build
a Superglue Fuming Chamber for a Vehicle" which
was published in Evidence
Technology Magazine. This chamber expands
the use of technology used to process evidence
for fingerprints using cyanoacrylate, aka
superglue. In the October-November 2009 issue
of Forensics Magazine (www.forensicmag.com)another
article "Documenting Bloodstain Patterns
through Roadmapping" Mr. Winterich authored was
published .
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