The University held its annual Campus Scholarship Showcase featuring faculty presentations from the eight winners of the showcases from Spring 2020 and Fall 2020.
“Each year, the Faculty Center (FC) calls for nominations and the FC advisory group selects the recipients from the pool of nominations based on the type of work and the significance of the scholarship in relation to the nominee’s field of study,” said Dristi Neog, Ph.D., assistant professor of geography, planning & sustainability (GPS) and FC coordinator. “This year these eight recipients impressed the advisory group with the work they have undertaken.”
The presenters were as follows:
Spring 2020 Showcase recipients:
- Alina Gross, Ph.D., assistant professor of GPS, gave a talk about her introductory textbook, titled Housing in America: An Introduction. Co-authored by GPS Professor Emerita Marijoan Bull, Ph.D., the publication is geared toward undergraduate students.
- Sophia Sarigianides, Ph.D., professor of English, presented from her book titled Letting Go of Literary Whiteness: Antiracist Literature Instruction for White Students.
- Karsten Theis, Ph.D., associate professor of GPS, gave a talk titled “Tutoring to support students who are learning how to solve quantitative problems.”
- Subramanian Vaitheeswaran, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemical and physical sciences, presented a talk about a new computational method to model how chemical reactions occur inside zeolite crystals titled, “On the Rational Design of Zeolite Clusters for Converging Reaction Barriers: Quantum Study of Aldol Kinetics Confined in HZSM‑5.”
Fall 2020 Showcase recipients:
- Robert Bristow, Ph.D., professor of GPS, gave a talk about his piece titled “Liminality in Tourism Geographies.”
- Paul Cacolice, Ph.D., assistant professor of movement science, sport and leisure studies, presented from his research titled “Power as a Cost Effective and Practical Clinical Intervention to ACL Injury.”
- Brian Chen, Ph.D., associate professor of English, talked about his work titled “Teaching Asian American Experience Through Graphic Memoir.”
- Omeed Ilchi, Ph.D., assistant professor of criminal justice, presented from his study titled “Supporting the Message, Not the Messenger: The Correlates of Attitudes towards Black Lives Matter.”
Congratulations to this year’s Campus Scholarship Showcase presenters!