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Bahadir Akcam, associate professor of business information systems

Robert Barron, assistant professor of industrial engineering and engineering management

Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical engineering

Jingzhou Zhao, assistant professor of mechanical engineering

Bahadir Akcam, associate professor of business information systems, coauthored an article titled “Research Design and Major Issues in Developing Dynamic Theories by Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data” for the Systems journal (2019: 7, 3: 40).

David Baker, associate professor of pharmacy administration, published and presented, with Izabela Collier, clinical asso-ciate professor of ambulatory care, Courtney Doyle-Camp-bell, clinical associate professor of ambulatory care, Melissa Mattison, clinical associate professor of community care, Katelyn Harrison, clinical associate professor of ambulato-ry care, Quan Wei, instructional designer in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and A. Long, “Evaluation of the Effectiveness of an Active-Learning, Simulation-Based Health-care Communications Course Utilizing the PaCT Assessment.” It was published in the American Journal of Pharmacy Education (2019: 83, 5: 7654: pp. 1038-39) and presented at the 2019 American Association of the Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Annual Meeting in July in Chicago.

Robert Barron, assistant professor of industrial engineering and engineering management, published, with M. Hill, “A Wedge or a Weight? Critically Examining Nuclear Power’s Viability as A Low-carbon Energy Source from an Intergenera-tional Perspective,” in Energy Research and Social Science (2019: 50, pp. 7-17).

Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, published the following;

With Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor of me-chanical engineering, S. Su, and T. Nguyen, “A Novel Biomimet-ic Flapping Fan for Electronics Cooling” in the Proceedings of The Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechani-cal Phenomena in Electronic Systems, Las Vegas, May 2019.

With Jingzhou Zhao, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, “Thermal Analysis of Preform Fabrication for Flow Mold Casting” in the Proceedings of The 4th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, April 2019.

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Janet Bowdan, professor of English Kam Capoccia, clinical professor of commu-nity care

Vedang Chauhan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering

Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor of mechanical engineering

With Vedang Chauhan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechan-ical engineering, and Anthony Santamaria, assistant pro-fessor of mechanical engineering, “Enhanced Water Removal from PEM Fuel Cell Flow Channels by Superimposing Acoustic Wave” in the Proceedings of The 4th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, April 2019.

With Vedang Chauhan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechan-ical engineering, and Anthony Santamaria, assistant profes-sor of mechanical engineering, “Enhanced Water Removal from PEM Fuel Cells Using Acoustic Pressure Waves,” in the Journal of Electrochemical Society (April 2019: 166, 7: F3143-F3153).

With W. Wu, N. Yoon, Z. Tong, Y. Chen, Y. Lv, and T. Aeren-lund, “Diffuse Ceiling Ventilation: a Review on Fundamental Theories and Research Methodologies” in the Journal of Cleaner Production (February 2019: 211, pp. 1600-1619).

With Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, “Numerical Simulation of Droplet Emergence and Growth from Gas Diffusion Layers (GDLS) in Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cell Flow Chan-nels” in Volume 6A: Energy. Proceedings of the International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2018.

Janet Bowdan, professor of English, had her poem “Mugs” recently published in the Coffee Poems Anthology edited by Lor-raine Healy (Concrete World Press, 2019: 22) and her poem

“Team of Goofballs” can be read in the April 24, 2019, archives of the online magazine Hobartpulp.

Kam Capoccia, clinical professor of community care, pub-lished with P. Odegard and J. Danielson, “Biguanides” and

“Thiazolidinediones” in J. White, editor, 2019 Guide to Medica-tions for the Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus (Arlington: American Diabetes Association, 2019, pp. 80-102 and pp. 103-123).

Lauren Carasik, clinical professor of law, published the following:

With J. Bachman, “Cultural Genocide in the United States,” in Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics and Global Manifestations, (2019: London: Routledge, ed. J. Bachman).

“Trump’s Safe Third Country Agreement with Guatemala is a Lie” in Foreign Policy (July 30, 2019).

“The Government is Targeting Immigration Lawyers, Activists, and Reporters,” in the Boston Review (April 24, 2019).

“Trump’s Asylum Ban will Worsen a Crisis the US Helped Create,” in Al Jazeera English (September 19, 2019).

Vedang Chauhan, assistant professor of mechanical engineer-ing, published the following:

With Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical engi-neering, Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, “Enhanced Liquid Water Removal from PEM Fuel Cell Flow Channels by Superimposing Acoustic Pressure Wave on Air Flow” in the Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels (ICNMM 2019), St. John’s Newfoundland, Canada, June 2019.

With K.D. Joshi and B.W. Surgenor, “Image Classification Using Deep Neural Networks: Transfer Learning and the Handling of Unknown Images” in the Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, (EANN 2019), Crete, Greece, May 2019.

With Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical engi-neering, Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, C. Arden, J. Connors, and M. Heidari,

“Effects of PEM Fuel Cells Gas Diffusion Layer Compression on In-Plane Water Percolation” in the Proceedings of the ASME 2019 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE 2019), Utah.

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Beth Cohen, associate dean of academic affairs and director of legal research and writing

Nuwan De Silva, assistant professor of chemistry

Justin Dion, director of bar success program and professor of legal skills

Robert Gettens, associate professor of biomedical engineering

Dawn Holmes, professor of biology

With Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical engi-neering, Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, “Two-Phase Flow Characterization in PEM Fuel Cells Using Machine Learning” in ECS Meeting Abstracts, (May 2019-01 1538).

With K. Joshi and B. Surgenor, “Image Classification Using Deep Neural Networks: Transfer Learning and the Handling of Unknown Images,” in Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (May 2019: Springer CCIS 1000, Chapter 23).

Beth Cohen, associate dean of academic affairs and director of legal research and writing, and Pat Newcombe L’01, associ-ate dean for library and information resources, had an excerpt from their paper, “Mini-Law School: Civic Education Making a Difference in the Community,” featured in Slaw, Canada’s online legal magazine.

Izabela Collier, clinical associate professor of ambulatory care, published, with A. Abbott and K. Zapka, “The Pharmacist’s Role on the Multidisciplinary Diabetes Management Team” in the ACCP Ambulatory Care Survival Guide, 4th edition (2019).

Nuwan De Silva, assistant professor of chemistry, published the following:

With Matthew Adreance ’19, and M. Gordon, “Application of a Semi-Empirical Dispersion Correction for Modeling Water Clusters” in the Journal of Computational Chemistry (Keiji Moro-kuma Festschrift Special Issue; 2019: 40, pp. 310-315).

With Y. Harabuchi, R. Tani, B. Najegic, M. Gordon, and T. Ta-ketsugu, “Anharmonic Vibrational Computations with Quartic Force Field for Curvilinear Vibrational Modes” in the Journal of Chemical Physics (2019: 151, 064104-1 to 064104-9).

Justin Dion, director of Bar Success Program and professor of legal skills, and Nicholas Smith L’19, published “Exploring Private Causes of Action for Victims of Data Breaches” in the Western New England Law Review (2019: 41, 253).

Laura Fisher L’15, director of Law Career Services, and Bryon Harmon L’96, have published an article titled “The Prudence of Passivity: An Argument for Default Passive Manage-ment in Trust Investing,” in The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Law Journal (Spring 2019: 44, 2).

Robert Gettens, associate professor of biomedical engineer-ing, published, with Harlan Spotts, professor of marketing,

“Workshop: Problem Definition and Concept Ideation, an Active-learning Approach in a Multidisciplinary Setting” at the Proceedings of the First Year Engineering Experience Conference, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, July 2018. He also published, with A. Rader, K. Fehn, and C. Thiagarajah,

“Synthetic Tear Duct Drainage System” in the Proceedings of the 45th Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Rutgers University, March 2019.

Dawn Holmes, professor of biology, published, with J. Tian, X. Cheng, S. Deng, J. Liu, B. Qiu, Y. Dang, and T. Waite,

“Inducing in Situ Crystallization of Vivianite in a UCT-MBR System for Enhanced Removal and Possible Recovery of Phos-phorus from Sewage,” in Environmental Science & Technology, (June 2019).

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Devina Jaiswal, assistant professor of biomedical engineering

Daniel Kennedy, associate professor of pharmacology

Andrea Kwaczala, assistant professor of biomedical engineering

Jennifer Levi, professor of law

Devina Jaiswal, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, published the following:

With S. Katebifar, S. Rudraiah, and S. Kumbar, “Chapter 5: Fabrication of Amyloid Nanofibers by Electrospinning” Artificial Protein and Peptide Nanofibers (2019: Elsevier).

With senior bioengineering students Brennen Zolnoski and Emily Fernschild, “Bioreactor for Mechanical Stimulation of 3D Scaffolds for Tendon Tissue Engineering” in the Proceed-ings of the 45th Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Rutgers University, March 2019.

With J. Moskow, B. Ferrigno, N. Mistry, K. Bulsara, S. Rudraiah, and S.G. Kumbar, “Bioengineering Approach for the Repair and Regeneration of Peripheral Nerve” in Bioactive Materials (2018).

With G.J. Soler, M. Bao, H.P. Zaveri, M.L. DiLuna, R.A. Grant, and K. Hoshino, “Focus: Medical Technology: A Review of Cerebral Shunts, Current Technologies, and Future Endeavors” in The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine (2018: 91, 3: 313).

With M.D. Tang-Schomer, D. Sood, D.L. Kaplan, and K. Hoshi-no, “Nondestructive, Label-Free Characterization of Mechanical Microheterogeneity in Biomimetic Materials” in ACS Biomateri-als Science & Engineering (2018: 4, 9: pp. 3259-3267).

Daniel Kennedy, associate professor of pharmacology, pub-lished “Redesigning a Principles of Pharmacology Course to Promote Active Learning” in the American Journal of Pharmaceu-tical Education (2019: 83, 5: Article 6782). He also published, with Joshua Spooner, professor of pharmacy practice, and pharmacy graduates Kylie Josefiak ’19 and Erika Vuernick

’17, “Non-terminal Degree Offerings in US Pharmacy Programs” in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (2019: 83, 7: Article 6917).

Andrea Kwaczala, assistant professor of biomedical engineer-ing, published, with H. Marion, I. Rivas, R. Sitbon, and A. Van Buren, “Design of a Digital Motion Analysis Device to Improve the Markup procedure for Gait Analysis” in the Proceedings of the 45th Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Rutgers University, March 2019. She also published, with P. George, K. Primmer, D. Cohen, and M. Solomito, “Design of an Adaptive Golf Club for a Stroke Patient with Hemiparesis” in Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s PracticePoint “Robotic Solutions for Chronic Limb Impairments” Boston, October 2018.

Chang Hoon Lee, assistant professor of civil & environmental engineering, published the following:

With Moochul Shin, associate professor of civil and envi-ronmental engineering, S. Lee, S. Bhattacharya, and Y. Su,

“Influence of Coarse Aggregate Angularity on the Mechanical Performance of Cement-based Materials” in Construction and Building Materials (April 2019: 204, pp. 184-192).

With Moochul Shin, associate professor of civil and environ-mental engineering Y. Su, S. Bhattacharya, M. and S. Lee, “Al-lometric Description of Granular Materials,” in the Conference Proceedings for the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, TC105 International Sympo-sium, Atlanta, September 2018.

With Moochul Shin, associate professor of civil and environ-mental engineering S. Lee, S. Bhattacharya, and Y. Su, “Micro-scopic Failure Mechanisms of Cemented Granular Materials Driven by Particle Morphology,” in the Conference Proceedings, International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical En-gineering TC105 International Symposium, Atlanta, September 2018.

Jennifer Levi, professor of law, and K. Barry coauthored an article titled “Transgender Tropes and Constitutional Review” which was published in Yale Law and Policy Review (2019: 37, 589).

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Zhaojun Li, associate professor of industrial engineering and engineering management

Bruce Miller, professor of law Sandra Navarro, associate professor of Spanish

Marissa Ostroff, clinical assistant professor of ambulatory care

Zhaojun Li, associate professor of industrial engineering and engineering management, published the following:

With R. Zhou, Y. Liu, E. Brodeur, and J. Guo, “A Reverse-Boot Enabled Embedded Computing System on SoC-FPGA for Prognostics and Health Management: An Application on Li-ion Batteries” in the Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE 9th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, Las Vegas, January 2019.

With J. Guo, “A Spatio-temporal Modeling Approach for Bat-tery Pack Capacity Prognostics” in the Proceedings of the 2019 RAMS, Lake Buena Vista, FL, January 2019.

With L. Li, J. Zhao, and W. Guo, “Lithium-Ion Battery Manage-ment System for Electric Vehicles” in the International Journal of Performability Engineering (December 2018: 14, 12: pp. 3184-3194).

With S. Yang and J. Guo, “A Mean-Covariance Decomposition Method for Battery Capacity Prognostics” in the Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (2018: 34, pp. 3759-3769).

Bruce Miller, professor of law, was a guest columnist for the Daily Hampshire Gazette on July 29, 2019. His article was titled

“After Mueller, a High Crimes and Misdemeanors (But Not Necessarily an Impeachment) Investigation.”

Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechanical engi-neering, published, with Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Seyed Niknam, assistant profes-sor of industrial engineering and engineering management, Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, W. Yameen, N. Piascik, R. Clemente, and A. Miller

“Experimental Characterization of a Manifold Microchannel Heat Exchanger Fabricated Based on Additive Manufacturing” in the Proceedings of the IEEE-ITherm Conference, Las Vegas, May 2019.

Professor Mortazavi also published, with Anthony Santam-aria, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, P. Stolberg, and N. Suchocki, “Two-Phase Flow Pressure Drop in PEM Fuel Cell Flow Channels, Model Comparison and Improvement,” ECS Meeting Abstract, MA 2018-02 1402, October 2018.

Sandra Navarro, associate professor of Spanish, published an entry “Retrato de Teresa,” in A Cuban Cinema Companion (2019: New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers).

Paula Nieman, professional educator of social work, coau-thored an article with B. Kurz, J. Letendre, L. Smith Cohen, and G. Beebe, titled “Group Work is … Powerful! This Stuff Changes … Lives: Training on Group Processes for Facilitators of Curriculum-based Groups,” for Social Work with Groups (September 2019).

Seyed Niknam, assistant professor of industrial engineering and engineering management, with D. Li and G. Das, pub-lished “An Acoustic Emission Study of Anisotropy in Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V” in The International Journal of Ad-vanced Manufacturing Technology (February 2019: 100, pp.5-8: 1731-40).

Marissa Ostroff, clinical assistant professor of ambulatory care, published, with R. Costantino, “Osteoporosis” in Phar-macy Library’s PharmacotherapyFirst: A Multimedia Learning Resource (2019: Washington, DC: American Pharmacists Asso-ciation). She also published, with pharmacy students Olivia Roth and Nicholas Crocetta, and J. Ostroff, “A Review of the 2019 GOLD Guidelines for COPD” in [online] Uspharmacist.com (September 2019).

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René Reich-Graefe, professor of law Matthew Romoser, associate pro-fessor of industrial engineering and engineering management

Mary Schoonmaker, assistant professor of marketing

Natalia Shcherbakova, associate professor of pharmacoeconomics

Wilson Haong , pharmacy student

René Reich-Graefe, professor of law, and Barbara Reich, professor of law, published “Rational Patient Apathy” in the Seton Hall Law Review (2019: 49, 3: pp. 535-628). Professor Reich-Graefe also published a symposium foreword and essay,

“Anthropocenic Disruption, Community Resilience and Law,” in the Western New England Law Review (2019: 41, 3: pp. 411-53).

Matthew Romoser, associate professor of industrial engi-neering and engineering management, published the following:

With A. Katrahmani, “The Effect of a Concussion on the Haz-ard Anticipation Ability in Teen Drivers” in the Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training and Vehicle Design, Santa Fe, June 2019.

With A. Katrahmani, “Implementing the Horizontal Vestib-ular Ocular Reflex Test While Using an Eye-tracker as an Assessment Tool for Concussions Diagnosis,” in H. Ayaz L. Mazur (eds.) Advances in Neuroergonomics and Cognitive Engineering, Proceedings of the AHFE 2018, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series, (2019: 775, p. 189-195, Springer, Cham).

With A. Katrahmani, “Diagnosing a Concussion by Testing Horizontal Saccades Using an Eye-tracker,” in H. Ayaz, L. Mazur (eds.) Advances in Neuroergonomics and Cognitive Engineering. Proceedings of the AHFE 2018, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series (2019: 775, p. 278-283, Springer, Cham).

Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, published the following:

With Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical engi-neering, Vedang Chauhan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, C. Arden, J. Connors, and A. Aziz, “Enhanced Liquid Water Removal from PEM Fuel Cell Flow Channels by Superimpos-ing Acoustic Pressure Wave On Air Flow” in the Proceedings of the ASME 2019 17th International Conference on Nanochannels, Mi-crochannels, and Minichannels, St. John’s, NL, Canada, June 2019.

With Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechan-ical engineering, S. Su, and T. Nguyen, “A Novel Biomimetic Flapping Fan for Electronics Cooling,” in the Proceedings of the IEEE-ITherm Conference, Las Vegas, May 2019.

With Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, “Numerical Simulation of Droplet Emer-gence and Growth from Gas Diffusion Layers (GDLs) in Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cell Flow Channels,” in the Proceedings of the ASME IMECE, Pittsburgh, November 2018.

Mary Schoonmaker, assistant professor of marketing, with Robert Gettens, associate professor of biomedical engineer-ing, and Glenn Vallee, associate professor of mechanical engineering, published “Building the Entrepreneurial Mindset through Cross-functional Innovation Teams” in Entrepreneurial Education and Pedagogy. (October 2019).

Natalia Shcherbakova, associate professor of pharmacoeco-nomics, published and presented the following:

With Mo Y, J. Zeibeq, K. Muzykovsky, P. Thai, W. Li, M. Ahmad, and J. Gasperino “Clinical and Economic Impact of the Use of Dexmedetomidine for Sedation in the Intensive Care Unit” published in Critical Care Medicine (2019: 47, 1: pp. 43), and presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine Annual Meet-ing in February in San Diego.

With pharmacy student Wilson Haong, “Impact of Clinical and Economic Evidence on Cancer Drug Sales,” published in Value in Health (2019: 22, S79), and presented at the Interna-tional Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Annual Meeting in May in New Orleans.

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Moochul Shin, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering

Melissa Mattison, clinical associate professor of community care

Shusen Sun, clinical associate professor of emergency medicine

Edward Wesp, associate professor of English

With D. Osmond and S. Huston, “Prestige & Versatility: Choosing Pharmacy” published in the American Journal for Pharmaceutical Education (2019: 82, 5: 7158), and presented at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting in July in Chicago.

The following were published in the Journal of American Phar-macists Association (2019), and presented at American Pharma-cists Association Annual Meeting in March in Seattle:

With Kylie Josefiak ’19, and Melissa Mattison, clinical associate professor of community care, “Pharmacists’ and Fourth Year Pharmacy Students’ Intention to Counsel on OTC Products and Knowledge of Counseling Points Regarding Sever-al OTC-sensitive Common Conditions including Acne Vulgaris.”

With 2019 PharmD graduates Samuel Kwarteng and Percy Obike, “Web-Presence and Services Offered by Independent Community Pharmacists in Massachusetts.”

With G. Tereso, “If You Break It, They Won’t Come–Impact of Access Restriction on Use of Short-acting Prescription Opioids in a US Health Plan.”

With M. Charbonneau, K. Harrison, and Kam Capoccia, clinical professor of community care, “Sharps Disposal Practices among People with Diabetes in a Community Care Clinic: Identifying Opportunities for Focused Sharps Disposal Education.”

Moochul Shin, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, published with K. Ha, H. Choi, and K. Park, “On Size Effect of Interfacial Fracture between Concrete and Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP)” in Cement and Concrete Composites (October 2018: 93, pp. 99-106). He also published, with H. Yu, “Numerical Evaluation of Splitting Performance of Prestressed Concrete Prisms with Larger Diameter Prestressing Wires” in the Proceedings of the ASME-Joint Rail Conference 2019, Snowbird, UT.

Shusen Sun, clinical associate professor of emergency medicine, published the following:

With S. Zeng, D. Wang, W. Liu, et al. “Overuse of Intravenous Infusions in China: Focusing on Management Platform and Cultural Problems” in International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy (Epub August 2019).

With M. Ma, Q. Peng, X. Gu, et al. “Pharmacist Impact on Adherence of Valproic Acid Therapy in Pediatric Patients with Epilepsy using Active Education Techniques in Epilepsy & Behavior (September 2019: 98, Pt A: pp. 14-18).

With X. Zhou, F. Qiu, D. Wan, et al. “Nutrition Support for Critically Ill Patients in China: Role of the Pharmacist” in Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2019: 28, 2: pp.246-251).

With S. Zeng, D. Wang, Y. Yan, et al. “Single-center Analysis of the Potential Inappropriate Use of Intravenous Medications in Hospitalized Patients in China in Clinical Therapeutics (August 2019: 41, 8: pp. 1631-1637).

With L. Meng, J. Huang, Y. Jia, et al. “Assessing Flouroquino-lone-associated Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection: Data Mining of the Public Version of the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System” in International Journal of Clinical Practice (May 2019: 73, 5: e13331).

Edward Wesp, associate professor of English, had an essay titled “Satire in the Survey” published in the collection Teaching Modern British and American Satire (Spring 2019: Modern Language Association).

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PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Vladimir Wozniuk, professor emeritus Jingzhou Zhao, assistant professor of mechanical engineering

Jonathan Beagle, professor of history

Lynn Bowes-Sperry, professor of management, 2nd from left, at the Naval Academy Summit

Vladimir Wozniuk, professor emeritus, published a book, The Karamazov Correspondence: Letters of Vladimir S. Soloviev (2019: Boston, Academic Studies [Series in Russian and Slavic Litera-tures, Cultures, and History]).

Jingzhou Zhao, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, published with Y. Feng, “Where ThermoMesh meets Thermo Net: A Machine Learning Based Sensor for Heat Source Localization and Peak Temperature Estimation” in Sensors and Actuators A: Physical (June 2019: 292, pp. 30-38).

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Bahadir Akcam, associate professor of business information systems, chaired the Innovative Education session and present-ed an article, “Flipped Classroom Application in an Introduc-tory Business Information Systems Course” at the Green & Digital Cities Conference, Wroclaw, Poland, in June.

David Baker, associate professor of pharmacy administration, presented “Review of New Pharmacy Law, Legal Concepts, and Court Cases of Interest to Pharmacy Practice,” at the Western Massachusetts Pharmacists Association meeting in September in West Springfield, MA.

Robert Barron, assistant professor of industrial engineering and engineering management, presented with M. Hill, “A Wedge or a Weight? Critically Examining Nuclear Power’s Viability as a Low-Carbon Energy Source from an Intergenerational Perspective” at INFORMS Annual in Phoenix, November 2018.

Jonathan Beagle, professor of history, was the opening speaker for the U.S. State Department’s annual Institute on U.S Politi-cal Thought, held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus during the summer of 2019. His workshop engaged the Institute’s international scholars on the topic of American national identity and political culture as it emerged out of the crucible of eighteenth-century imperialism and revolution.

Lynn Bowes-Sperry, professor of management, presented the following at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Boston in August:

“Rebooting Sexual Harassment Prevention Efforts: Recommen-dations from 2016 E.E.O.C. Task Force.”

With B.A. Livingston and S.W. Ryu, “Stranger Harassment: The Spillover of Sexual Harassment from Public Spaces to Work.”

With S. Chappell, “Innovative and Experiential Approaches to Teaching HRM II.”

She also presented the following:

With B. Livingston and S. Chappell, “From Public Spaces to Workplaces: Halting Harassment One Voice at a Time” at the Society for Community Research and Action Conference, in Chicago in June.

“Anti-harassment Training Practices for the Low-wage Workforce. What Works at Work: Evidence-based Practices for Preventing and Responding to Sex Harassment in Low-wage Workplaces” at the National Women’s Law Center and the Urban Institute, Washington, DC.

With S. Chappell, “Transforming Sexual Harassment Prevention Efforts: Enabling Voice” at the National Discussion on Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment at America’s Colleges, Universi-ties and Service Academies at the Naval Academy in Annapolis in April.

With S. DeJanasz, “Fixing What’s Broken: Mentoring as a Strat-egy for Helping Targets of Sexual Harassment Overcome Avoid-ance and Organizational Traps,” at the National Discussion on Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment at America’s Colleges, Universities and Service Academies at the Naval Academy in Annapolis in April.

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Hsiu-Jung Mindy Chang, professor of communication

Courtney Doyle-Campbell, clinical associate professor of ambulatory care

Heidi Ellis, professor of computer science and information technology

Thomas Hull, associate professor of mathematics

Kam Capoccia, clinical professor of community care, present-ed a continuing education program titled “Diabetes Muddy Waters: Is it Type 1 or Type 2?” at the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Annual Meeting in Seattle in March. She also presented online education for APhA Quick Quiz: 2019 Diabetes Standards of Care in April.

Hsiu-Jung Mindy Chang, professor of communication, pre-sented a paper titled “Motivating Students to Reach Out and Develop Self-reflexivity via on-line Teaching” at the Southern States Communication Association (SSCA) Conference in April in Montgomery, AL. She also chaired the top faculty paper pan-el titled “Contemporary Issues in Intercultural Communication: Panel of Scholarly Studies on Finding Solutions to Intercultural Crises” at SSCA.

Vedang Chauhan, assistant professor of mechanical engineer-ing, presented with K. Joshi and B. Surgenor, “Image Classifica-tion Using Deep Neural Networks: Transfer Learning and the Handling of Unknown Images” at Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, May 2019, Crete, Greece. He also presented

“Research Trends in Mechatronics” at the Western New England University’s Industrial Engineering Department, January 2019.

Izabela Collier, clinical associate professor of ambulatory care presented “The Insights on Therapy Management for Patients with Diabetes” at the Annual Preceptor Conference at the University in March. She also presented “Trending Topics in Diabetes–Basics and Beyond,” Continuous Education Program, Local Networking Group (West); AADE in April.

Courtney Doyle-Campbell, clinical associate professor of ambulatory care, presented “Vaccines: The Safest Bet” at the Northeast Pharmacy Service Corporation (NPSC) Expo 2019 at the MGM Springfield, in May. She also gave a panel presenta-tion “Share Your Talent: How to Get Involved in APhA’s Special Interest Groups” at the American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting in Seattle, in March.

Heidi Ellis, professor of computer science and information technology, presented the following:

With L. Postner, D. Burdge, S. Jackson, and G.W. Hislop, “Impact of HFOSS Education on Instructors,” at ACM ITiCSE, Aberdeen, Scotland, in July.

With B. Morgan, and G.W. Hislop, “Student Software Engineer-ing Learning in HFOSS Projects,” at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, in Tampa in June.

“Women in Technology” luncheon, ISO New England, in April.

With B. Morgan, and G. W. Hislop, “Faculty Development for FLOSS Education,” at The 15th International Conference on Open Source Systems, Montreal, CA, in May.

With C. Kussaul, “Faculty Development Workshop on HFOSS and POGIL,” at the Computer Science Department, Eastern Carolina University, in May.

With G.W. Hislop and C. Kussaul, “Professors’ Open Source Software Experience,” a workshop, in New York City in January.

With G.W. Hislop, B. Lunt, and S. Zilora, “Attracting Students to IT Degrees,” at a panel at SIGITE 2018 in Fort Lauderdale in October 2018.

With G.W. Hislop and S. Jackson, “Student Contribution to HFOSS: Challenges and Opportunities,” a poster at SIGITE 2018 in Fort Lauderdale in October 2018.

Thomas Hull, associate professor of mathematics, gave the keynote lecture at Fitchburg State University’s Pi Mu Epsilon Induction Ceremony, Fitchburg, MA in April. He spoke on

“Origami Math and its Increasing applications.”

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PRESENTATIONS

Kelly Klingensmith, associate professor of English

Kenneth Lee, professor of civil and environ-mental engineering

Jerzy Letkowski, professor of business information systems

Neeraj Magotra, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering

Daniel Kennedy, associate professor of pharmacology, presented, with R. Beckett and L. O’Donnell, “Getting Started in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Creating Your Big Break Without Formal Training” at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting in Chicago in July. At the same Annual Meeting, his students presented the following posters:

With pharmacy students Megan Pantos and Christina Verbetsky, S.Nock, L. Holbrook, and J. Gibbins, “Exploring Montelukast as a Potential Broad-Spectrum Thiol Isomerase Inhibitor.”

With pharmacy students Christina Verbetsky and Megan Pantos, L. Holbrook, and J. Gibbins, “Exploring the Effect of PDI Inhibition on Cellular Model of Cancer Induced Thrombo-sis After Chemotherapy.”

With pharmacy students Nicole Ondrush, Emma Thom-as, and Sabrina Gaffney, Joshua Spooner, professor of pharmacy practice, and Courtney Doyle-Campbell, clinical associate professor of ambulatory care, “Immunization Training in Pharmacy Schools in the United States.”

With pharmacy students Mallory Paszkiewicz, Joseph Rubilar, and Deana Rodriguez, and Joshua Spooner, pro-fessor of pharmacy practice, “The Influence of PCAT Require-ments on NAPLEX Pass Rates, On-time Graduation Rates, and USNWR Ratings.”

With pharmacy students Meagan Dias, Kaitlin Armstrong, and Megan Pantos, and Joshua Spooner, professor of pharmacy practice, “Examining Pathophysiology Course Place-ment Within PharmD Curriculum Across the United States.”

Kelly Klingensmith, associate professor of English, presented “Recovery: Photography of the Opioid Epidemic” at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference in Washington, DC, in April.

Kenneth Lee, professor of civil and environmental engineer-ing, presented the following at the New England Water Works Association Annual Spring Conference, Worcester, MA, in April:

With C. Best, P. Rice, and M. Tarini, “An Experimental Study on Water Dripping Rates to Prevent Household Pipes from Freezing During Cold Temperatures.”

With B. Dufek, C. Flynn, B. Greenberg, J. Riley, J. Theriault, and A. Calcagno, “Testing of Supermarket Fruit Juices for Heavy Metals.”

With G. Circosta, G. Friedlander, and A. Roach, “Comparison and Analysis of Water Issues in the Springfield-Holyoke Massa-chusetts Areas from 1960s to Present.”

Jerzy Letkowski, professor of business information systems, was a session chair for “Sustainability 1–Supply Chain Manage-ment,” and presented “A Conceptual Data Model for Manag-ing Relationships Between Program Objectives and Course Objectives in a BSBA Curriculum” at the Green & Digital Cities Conference at the Wroclaw (Poland) University of Economics in June.

Neeraj Magotra, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, gave a presentation at GEAR up MA STEM in Lawrence, MA, 2019.

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Paula Nieman, professional educator of social work

Michael Rust, associate professor of biomedical engineering Harvey Shrage, professor of business law

Sandra Navarro, associate professor of Spanish, presented the following:

“There are Ghosts in this House: Domestic Labor and Repre-sentation in Silva’s ‘La nana’” at Cine-Lit 9, Portland, OR, in March.

“Strangers Among Us: Childhood Representations in Contempo-rary Argentine Fiction,” at Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Boston, in May.

“Post-memory and Disruption in Albertina Carri’s Los Rubios,” Invited talk at Brown University, in November 2018.

Paula Nieman, professional educator of social work, pre-sented a paper titled “Using a Student-initiated Campus Food Insecurity Research Project to Spark Institutional Change” at the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors’ Annual Conference in Jacksonville, FL, in March. Her copre-senter was Vanessa Vaccarino ’18.

René Reich-Graefe, professor of law, presented one of his works in progress, “Bayesian Trust, Trust Intermediation & Boundary Spanning,” at a faculty workshop at the School of Law in March; at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Law and En-trepreneurship Association, held at Boston College Law School in April; and at the 30th Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Research Net-work A: Communitarian Ideals and Civil Society, held at The New School for Social Research in June. At the SASE Annual Conference, he also presented an early paper project, “The Social Ontology of Vulnerability, Resilience & Law,” as part of SASE’s Research Network L: Regulation and Governance. In June, he participated in a panel at the 2019 Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Collaborative Research Network 55: Law and Political Economy, in Washington, DC, presenting a third work in progress titled “Vulnerability Theory & Corpo-rate Sustainability.”

Michael Rust, associate professor of biomedical engineering, presented a workshop titled “Using Disruptive Technologies to Foster the Entrepreneurial Mindset,” at Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath Falls, OR, in April.

Moochul Shin, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, presented, “Next-Generation Railroad Infra-structure: Splitting/Bursting Damage of Prestressed Concrete Crossties” at the Graduate Seminar-Department of Civil, Con-struction and Environmental Engineering, University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in March. He also presented, with H. Yu, “Numerical Study of Splitting/Bursting Performance of Pre-stressed Concrete Prisms Using High Strength Concrete with Reduced Modulus of Elasticity” at the Transportation Research Board, the 98th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, in January.

Harvey Shrage, professor of business law, was a presenter and facilitator for a program sponsored by the American Arbitra-tion Association titled “Witness Preparation and Brief Writing.” It was held in April in Cromwell, CT.

Shusen Sun, clinical associate professor of emergency medicine, presented the following:

“Pharmaceutical Care Theory and Assessment” at Xiangya Pharmacy Conference in Changsha, China in June.

“Establishing Geriatric Medication Management in the Emer-gency Department” at the 2019 International Conference on Emergency Medicine, in Seoul, South Korea in June.

“Medication Reconciliation in the Continuum of Care” at 2019 Preceptor Development Conference at the University in March.

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PRESENTATIONS AND PARTICIPATION IN PANELS, SEMINARS, AND WORKSHOPS

Brendan Kaljulaid, Emily Gaudiana, and Matthew Koslowski with Alison Sawyer, professor of practice in accounting, second from left

Katelyn Harrison, clinical associate professor of ambulatory care

Barbara Reich, professor of law Michael Rust, associate professor of biomedical engineering

Edward Wesp, associate professor of English, presented an essay titled “Backstory Ascendant: the Denigration of Plot in Contemporary Popular Narrative” at the annual national conference of the Popular Culture Association in Washington, DC, in April.

Jingzhou Zhao, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, presented “Fluid Interface Control for Nanomanufacturing” at the Global Scientists Interdisciplinary Forum, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China, in January. He also presented “Fluid Interface Control for Nanomanufacturing” at UMass Dartmouth in March and at UMass Amherst in December 2018.

PARTICIPATION IN PANELS, SEMINARS, AND WORKSHOPS

College of Business seniors, Emily Gaudiana, Brendan Kaljulaid, and Matthew Koslowski served as panelists in April at the 2019 Massachusetts Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference with Alison Sawyer, professor of practice in accounting, who serves as a state advisor to the organization. The panel was titled “What I wish I knew in High School…” The FBLA State Leadership Conference is an annual event for Massachusetts high school members to compete in various business-related events, net-work with students of other schools, and participate in multiple leadership workshops.

Katelyn Harrison, clinical associate professor of ambulatory care, presided over the 2019 National Summer Convention as the Supreme Directorum for Alpha Zeta Omega Pharmaceutical Fraternity in Philadelphia in July.

Thomas Hull, associate professor of mathematics, was invited to participate in the 34th Bellairs Winter Workshop on Com-putational Geometry, held at the Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University in Holetown, Barbados, in March, where he led research groups to work on open problems in the mathe-matics of origami.

Barbara Reich, professor of law, was an invited panelist on the Palliative Sedation panel and the Cardiac Devices panel at a CME conference: At the End of Life: Agency, Role and Responsibilities of the Physician/Advanced Practitioner, at the University of Washington, Seattle, in September.

Michael Rust, associate professor of biomedical engineering, was program chair for the Biomedical Division (BED) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, FL, in June.

Mary Schoonmaker, assistant professor of marketing, was a panelist for “Teaching and Working with Global Entrepreneur-ship and Ecosystem Challenges” at Desphande Symposium, University of Mass Lowell, in June.

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AWARDS

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BlinkTek team members Josie Brown, professor of English Meri Clark, professor of history Cameron Coe, junior sport management major

AWARDS

Bimiitech team members senior Mechanical Engineering major Jarrod Coletta and Eric Shilyuk ’19 were one of six student businesses to be identified as Best Exhibitors at the Grinspoon Entrepreneurship Initiative Annual Banquet in Holyoke, MA in April. They were selected from a pool of 65 companies during a trade show type portion of the evening which featured the 2019 Grinspoon Entrepreneurial Spirit Award winners.

BlinkTek team members: sophomore Entrepreneurship major Grace Buttrick, senior Civil Engineering major William Hroch, junior Civil Engineering major Nicholas Pantorno, junior computer engineering major Autumn Kelly, and junior Civil Engineering major Cole Peterson, were awarded the $500 Innovation Jam award at the Draper Competition for Col-legiate Women Entrepreneurs held at Smith College on April 5. The team has developed a device called Heat Shield that would be attached to a fire helmet to detect a firefighter’s health vitals. Such monitoring can help prevent injuries that occur in firefighters from exhaustion or overheating.

Also in April, this same team was one of six student businesses to be identified as Best Exhibitors at the Grinspoon Entrepre-neurship Initiative Annual Banquet in Holyoke, MA.

Janet Bowdan, professor of English, recently had her poem “Northampton, February” get an Honorable Mention in the Slate Roof Press Broadside Contest.

Josie Brown, professor of English, received the African Amer-ican Female Professor Award in a celebration in September. The goal of the African American Female Professor Award Associa-tion (AAFPAA) is to recognize African American female faculty who are full-time, part-time, or adjunct. “It is our intent that this recognition will help institutions recruit and retain African American female professors, as well as inspire African American female educators to continue their work in the classroom and pursue post-secondary assignments.”

Grace Buttrick, sophomore Entrepreneurship major, won 3rd place in the Sigma Nu Tau (Entrepreneurship Honor Society) 4th Annual Video Pitch Competition. The focus on the pitch is on how has participating in a business plan competition bene-fited your entrepreneurial learning processes.

Meri Clark, professor of history and coordinator of the Global Scholars program for the College of Arts and Sciences, was the recipient of the 2019 Teaching Excellence Award. Winners are nominated by students, faculty, and administra-tors for outstanding contributions as educators and advisors.

Cameron Coe, junior sport management major, was selected as a 2019-20 Stadium Managers Association (SMA) Foundation scholarship recipient. This prestigious scholarship program annually awards a maximum of three scholarships nationwide to undergraduate and/or graduate students pursuing degrees in sport management/administration. Coe serves as president of the Sport Management Association and vice president of the Marketing Association. This award includes a $3,500 tuition scholarship and ex-officio (non-voting) membership on the Foundation Board of Directors. Also as a scholarship recipient, Coe has the opportunity to attend the annual SMA Conference, which will be held in February 2020, in Phoenix.

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AWARDS

Elaina Hoeppner L’19 and Emily Eash L’19

Senior biomedical engineering students Brennen Zolnoski and Emily Fernschild

Cy Ryding ’18/G’19 Sudha Setty, Dean of the School of Law

Samantha (Ellingson) Sullivan, clin-ical assistant professor of internal medicine

Emily Eash L’19 and Elaina Hoeppner L’19 placed second at the 18th Annual Law Student Tax Challenge in New Orleans in January. They were one of only three teams to make it to the second round.

Senior biomedical engineering students Emily Fernschild and Brennen Zolnoski took first place honors in the Senior De-sign Competition at the 45th annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference in March, held at Rutgers University. Their project titled “Bioreactor for Mechanical Stimulation of 3D Scaffolds for Tendon Tissue Engineering” earned the team $150 and a 3D printer.

Daniel Kennedy, associate professor of pharmacology, had his paper, cowritten with D. Calinski, “P & T and Me” noted as the 2nd most read paper in the American Journal of Pharmaceuti-cal Education for 2018.

Jennifer Levi, professor of law, was recognized by the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots this June. The Attorney General’s office selected a handful of LGBTQ lawyers in Massa-chusetts that it believes is at the pioneering forefront of LGBTQ activism and advancement. She also received the Kevin Larkin Community Service Award in May from the Massachusetts LGBTQ Bar Association. And Professor Levi was inducted into Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s Circle of Excellence in November.

The design and writing staff of Marketing and Communica-tions, in collaboration with Spark451, won a Bronze award for the Western New England Magazine from the Advertising Club of Western Massachusetts in May.

Marissa Ostroff, clinical assistant professor of ambulatory care, received the 2019 Faculty Preceptor of the Year, award-ed by the Office of Experiential Education at the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. She also received the 2019 Excellence in Scholarship Award for the Department of Pharmacy Practice, awarded by the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

Cy Ryding ’18/G’19 won third place in the 2019 Student Poster Contest at the Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center (TIDC) Annual Conference, in June. The title of his poster and research topic was “Effect of Indentation Patterns in Prestressed Concrete Prisms Using High Performance Computing.” Sudha Setty, dean of the School of Law, is an honoree of the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s Top Women in the Law for 2019. The Top Women in Law list celebrates outstanding achieve-ments made by exceptional women lawyers.

Samantha (Ellingson) Sullivan, clinical assistant professor of internal medicine, was awarded the Preceptor of the Year Award for the PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program at Mercy Medical Center in June.

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APPEARANCES

Faculty, Staff, Subject Date Media

John Baick Impeachment Inquiry 10/9/19 WGGB-TV Online

Impeachment Announcement 9/24/19 WGGB-TV Online

Third Democratic Primary 9/16/19 Connecting Point/ WGBY 57

Robert Mueller Testimony 7/29/19 Connecting Point/ WGBY 57

Small Town Politics 7/10/19 Connecting Point/ WGBY

American Way of Life 7/4/19 Shreveport Times Online

Trump Reelection Campaign 6/24/19 Connecting Point/ WGBY 57

Tension between U.S. 6/21/19 WGGB-TV Online Iran Grows

History of Special Counsel 6/7/19 Connecting Point/ WGBY 57

Remembering World War II 6/6/19 The Republican Online

Lady Liberty 5/16/19 Daily Magazine Christian Science Monitor

Neal’s Tax Return Request 4/11/19 The Reminder

Mueller Report 3/25/19 Connecting Point/ WGBY

Richard Neal 3/28/19 Commonwealth

Lynn Bowes-Sperry Voice to Values in Era of #MeToo 9/8/19 The Free Library

Erin Buzuvis

Women-only STEM programs 8/28/19 STEMconnector

Colleges Violate Title IX 8/27/19 The College Fix

Women in STEM 8/22/19 WBUR-FM Online Progs & Title IV

Only Women Need Apply 8/21/19 Labor and Employment Blog

Women in STEM 8/20/19 Daily Republic Online Progs Under Attack

Women in STEM 8/20/19 Los Angeles Times

Transgender Policy Complaint 6/21/19 Hartford Courant Online

World Cup Equal Pay 6/12/19 Fox Business Network Online

Tina Cafaro

DA Andrea Harrington 4/12/19 iBerkshires.com

Anthony Caprio

WNE’s Centennial 8/27/19 WWLP.com

Women’s Ice Hockey 6/26/19 USCHO.com

Rob Carmichael, 19

Created T-shirt Promoting 9/23/19 MassLive Self Love

Harris Freeman

Pot Company’s Contract 5/24/19 Daily Hampshire Gazette

Union-busting 5/15/19 Salon

Volkswagen and Union-busting 5/9/19 In These Times

Workers Entitled to 3/15/19 Greenfield Recorder Overtime Pay The Republican Online

Jeffrey Fudin

Statins 6/26/19 Pharmacy Times

Thomas Hull

Origami 4/17/19 Bookofjoe

Debra Latour

New Prosthetics Device 8/10/19 NEWS-Line

New Prosthetics Device 7/29/19 EurekAlert Scienmag

Technology for Better 7/31/19 Worcester Business Prosthetics Journal Online

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Faculty, Staff, Subject Date Media

Deb Latour, assistant professor of practice, with Dr. Ted Clancy, professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (see back page).

APPEARANCES

Jennifer Levi

Transgender Athletes 10/8/19 Morning Consult Face Hurdles

SCOTUS Cases and 10/7/19 Bustle LGBTQ People

Trans Troops Aren’t Giving Up 8/30/19 Science Direct Online

Transgender Prison Inmates 8/25/19 Richmond Times-Dispatch

Nondiscrimination 8/12/19 Targeted News Service in Healthcare

Reversing Military Ban 7/26/19 Advocate.com

House Votes Reverse Ban 7/11/19 Advocate.com

Transgender Rights Win 6/21/19 Rewire.News

Let Transgender Troops Serve 6/19/19 The Republican Online

Reconsider Trumps 6/17/19 Metro Weekly Online Military Ban

Trump Win is Trans Victory 6/15/19 The Washington Blade

Transgender Troops Review 6/14/19 Publicnow

Transgender Troops 6/11/19 Targeted News Service

Military Ban 6/6/19 Politico Online

Trumps Anti-LGBTQ Attacks 5/24/19 Targeted News Service

Transgender Military Service 5/3/19 The Politic

Employment Discrimination 4/22/19 Dallas Voice

Military Ban 4/14/19 Click Lancashire

Military Ban 4/13/19 Conservative Angle

Military Ban 4/12/19 The Hill Online New York Post Online

Amy Murdico

Statins 6/26/19 Pharmacy Times

Amelia Nagoski

Breaking the Burnout Cycle 9/19/19 Blue Ridge Public Radio

Stop Fighting Inner Critic 6/3/19 Body Kindness

Burnout–New Book 3/31/19 Daily Mail

Burnout–New book 3/30/19 Health & Science

Q & A on New Book 3/28/19 Goop

Marissa Ostroff

CBD Popularity on the Rise 5/6/19 Western Mass News

Karl Petrick

What’s MGM Meant 8/23/19 The Republican Online for Springfield

Tariff on Chinese Imports 5/31/19 WGGB-TV Online

New Tariffs on Mexico 5/10/19 Western Mass News

Jason Seacat

Outsourcing Food 10/1-10/9/19 World Online and many others

Outsourcing Food 9/30/19 Associated Press

Campus Free Speech Battles 9/19/19 University Business Online

Silencing Academic Voices 6/11/19 University Business Online

Natalia Shcherbakova

Preventing New 4/24/19 Health New England Opioid Addictions Newsletter

Julie Steiner

Marketing of Cannabis 9/15/19 MassLive

Legal Marijuana 5/1/19 Hudson Valley One Online

Andrea St. James

Negotiating Salary 8/31/19 MSN Career Builder

Diane Testa

Link Between GMOs & Wifi 5/2/19 Before its News

Link Between GMOs & Wifi 5/2/19 World Health Network

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APPEARANCES & GRANTS

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Doug Battema, professor of communication Brenda Garton-Sjoberg, professional educator of communication

Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering

Tim Vercellotti

Joe Kennedy Challenges 9/23/19 Connecticut Poste Markey Online

The Advocate Online

The Washington Post Online

Congressional Corner 8/19/19 WAMC

Congressional Corner 8/15/19 WAMC

16 Year-Olds Voting? 8/13/19 Waltham News Tribune Online

Should 16 Year-olds Vote? 8/12/19 Milford Daily News Online

Should 16 Year-olds Vote? 8/5/19 Medfield Press (90 more)

Congressional Corner-Debates 6/25/19 WAMC

History of Special Counsel 6/7/19 Connecting Point/ WGBY 57

Lowering Voting Age 5/30/19 US Official News

Lowering Voting Age 5/29/19 NEPR

The Republican

New Healthcare Rule 5/3/19 Western Mass News

Congressional Corner 4/23/19 WAMC

Congressional Corner 4/17/19 WAMC

Sharianne Walker

Named Interim Dean 9/3/19 BusinessWest Online of College of Business

Beth Welch

Interprofessional 4/29/19 US Official News Education Day

Arin Whitman

CBD Popularity on the Rise 5/6/19 Western Mass News

GRANTS

Doug Battema, professor of communication, and Brenda Garton-Sjoberg, professional educator of communication, secured $100,000 from the George I. Alden Trust for upgrades to the campus television studio and new video cameras for student use.

Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, received the following grants:

With Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, $9,000 in March from the Envi-ronmental Research and Technology Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory for “Flow Rate Measurement using Perfluorocarbon Tracers and Gas Chromatography.”

A WNE Faculty Grant from Professional Development for $3,000 in May for “Flow Rate Measurement of a Piezoelectric Fan Using Perfluorocarbon Tracers and Gas Chromatography.”

An NSF I-Corps @ UMass Amherst grant for $699.98 (up to $2,500 with receipts), in May for “Customer Discovery Interviews for a Biomimetic Flapping Fan.”

With Vedang Chauhan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechan-ical engineering, and Anthony Santamaria, assistant profes-sor of mechanical engineering, $76,336, June 2019-February 2020, from the Toyota Research Institute of North America, for

“Liquid Water Distribution & Pressure Characterization in an Ex-Situ PEM Fuel Cell Channel.”

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GRANTS

Erin Buzuvis, professor of law Katelyn Harrison, clinical associate professor of ambulatory care

Daniel Kennedy, associate professor of pharmacology

Melissa Knott, associate professor of management

Erin Buzuvis, professor of law, received a $2,500 fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for travel to Australia in May 2019. The purpose of the fellowship was to examine Australian antidiscrimination law and its influence on sport organizations’ policies for inclusion and participation of transgender athletes.

Vedang Chauhan, assistant professor of mechanical engi-neering, received a $15,000 MA Acorn Award through the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC), January 2019-April 2019, for “Design & Control System Optimization Testing of an Electronically Controlled Continuously Variable Transmission (E-CVT) System for Small Engine Applications.”

Meri Clark, professor of history, received a $5,850 fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for travel to Finland to visit museums and archival sites to enhance her teaching of comparative history.

Izabela Collier, clinical associate professor of ambulatory care, was awarded the following two Alumni Association grants, one for $1,250 in Fall 2018 for the Summer Camp program and an-other for $810.50 in Spring 2019. She also received Walgreens Pipeline Initiative Development Grant of $2,000 for 2018-2019 and the Beverage Foundation Grant in Spring 2019 for $1000 for the Summer Camp program.

Robert Gettens, associate professor of biomedical engineer-ing, received $5,000, August 2018-September 2019, from Medtronic for “Duckbill Closure Response Time.”

Katelyn Harrison, clinical associate professor of ambulatory care, Kam Capoccia, clinical professor of community care, and Gladys Ekong, assistant professor of pharmacy adminis-tration, were awarded a $2,000 seed grant through the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences for a project titled, “Effect of Pharmacist-led Interventions on Diabetes Distress among People with Type 2 Diabetes in a Community Care Setting.”

Thomas Hull, associate professor of mathematics, received a 3-year, $220,000 grant from the National Science Founda-tion. The grant is titled “RUI: Configuration Spaces of Rigid Origami.” It’s a standard research grant through the NSF’s Division of Mathematical Sciences and includes funding for undergraduate students to do original research with Dr. Hull.

Devina Jaiswal, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, received $2,000 from the American Society for Quality, April 2019-April 2020, for “Mechanical Stimulation Bioreactor for Tendon Tissue Engineering.”

Daniel Kennedy, associate professor of pharmacology, had an R21 submission to the National Cancer Institute titled

“Exploring the Role of Thiol Isomerases in Cancer Associated Thrombosis” funded for $377,201.

Melissa Knott, associate professor of management, received a fellowship of $4,793 from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for travel to New Zealand and Australia to enhance her global perspective as it relates to her teaching and pedagogy by allowing her to attend the international conference of the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS).

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Chang Hoon Lee, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering

Amer Qouneh, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering

Kourosh Rahnamai, professor of electrical and computer engineering

Christian Salmon, assistant professor of industrial engineering and engineering management

Andrea Kwaczala, assistant professor of biomedical engineer-ing, received $2,000 from KEEN University of New Haven, Au-gust 2018-May 2019, for “Integrated e-Learning Module: The Elevator Pitch” and $3,000, a WNE Faculty Grant, summer 2019, for “Design of a Portable Motion Analysis System.”

Chang Hoon Lee, assistant professor of civil and environmen-tal engineering, with Moochul Shin, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, T. Yu, and S. Faraji, received $85,000 from the University Transportation Center, Federal Department of Transportation, January 2019-January 2020 for “Condition Assessment of Corroded Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders.”

Seyed Niknam, assistant professor of industrial engineering and engineering management, received $1,000 in March as a KEEN Book Club Grant.

Amer Qouneh, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, received a research grant of $50,000 per year, for a total of $200,000 (2019-2023), for “Enhancing Mobile VR/AR User Experience: An Integrated Architecture-System Approach” from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project is a collaboration effort with researchers at the University of Florida and University of Houston. Total amount of the grant is expected to reach $1.1 million.

Kourosh Rahnamai, professor of electrical and computer engineering, received a $57,162 KEEN Grant for “EML @ Western New England University,” Michael Rust (PI), from The Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Family Foundation (KFF) via the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) June 2018-July 2019. He also received $2,000 in stipends for EML Module Development as the EE-422 course content was modified during the academic year.

Christian Salmon, assistant professor of industrial engineer-ing and engineering management, received $3,000 in May as a WNE Faculty Grant for “Development of Standards and Recommended Practices for Online Education.”

Mary Schoonmaker, assistant professor of marketing, secured a PeoplesBank grant of $50,000 that will fund five years of Western Mass Innovation Jam startup weekends and

“seedships” (small grants) for student startups.

Moochul Shin, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, (Institutional Lead) received $312,500, September 2018-August 2023, from The U.S. Department of Transporta-tion, University Transportation Center-Region 1 for “Transpor-tation Infrastructure Durability Center: Extending the Life of Our Transportation Assets.” He also received $41,500, (Co-PI) January 2019-December 2019, the University of Maine from The U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transporta-tion Center-Region 1 for “Condition Assessment of Corroded Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders.”

Jingzhou Zhao, assistant professor of mechanical engineer-ing received $15,000, January 2019-March 2019, from the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center for “Production of Silica-coated Metal Nanoparticles Using Electro Spraying.”

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PATENTS

Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, received a patent, with J. Brown, E. Panides, A. Ruggles, and Y. Zhang, titled “Cleaning Nozzle and Nozzle Assembly for Multi-fiber Connectors”, US20180259720A1, publication date September 2018.

Andrea Kwaczala, assistant professor of biomedical engineer-ing, received a patent with P. George, K. Primmer L. Cavacini, and K. Wood, titled “Upper Body Rotational Assistive Device,” in May.

Michael Rust, associate professor of biomedical engineering, with Joseph Papu ’12 and A. Browne received a patent titled

“Method of Evaluating a Hematocrit,” Patent No.: 10,295,526 B2, published May 21, 2019. Professor Rust also received a patent in February, with B. Dutra, Bart Lipkens, professor of mechanical engineering, and Daniel Kennedy, associate professor of pharma-cology, titled “Acoustophoretic Separation of Lipid Particles from Red Blood Cells.” Patent No. 10,201,652 B2.

Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, received a patent, with P. Mazza, and M. Milenski, titled “Short Run Injection Molding Method and Device for Liquid Silicone Rubber Materials,” draft application submitted, provisional filing in progress.

Christian Salmon, assistant professor of industrial engineer-ing and engineering management, received a provisional patent, with David Greenslade ’14/G’15, titled “Critical Network Method for Project Management.”

APPOINTMENTS

Courtney Doyle-Campbell, clinical associate professor of ambulatory care, became coordinator of the American Pharma-cists Association Medical Home/ACO Special Interest Group (SIG) in March.

Christian Salmon, assistant professor of industrial engineer-ing and engineering management, was on the Transportation Research Board, Subcommittee for Aviation Safety Annual Meeting, and was also a session chair.

Natalia Shcherbakova, associate professor of pharmacoeco-nomics, was appointed as the chair of the Social and Adminis-trative Sciences in Pharmacy Summer Research Exchange Com-mittee of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.

VENTURES

Janet Bowdan, professor of English, read her poems at the Garlic & Arts Festival in Orange, MA, in September. With Western New England MFA students and graduates Megan Granger, Zubia Abbasi, and Erin Ford Martell, she also led an MFA Showcase reading at the Mason Square Branch of the Springfield Public Library in June.

Debra Latour, assistant professor of practice in occupational therapy, has teamed up with Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor Dr. Ted Clancy and local prosthetics company Lib-erating Technologies, Inc. to develop wireless sensors that will improve the performance of prosthetics for people with upper limb amputations.

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