Spotlights
Faculty & Staff Successes, December 2015
December 07, 2015
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies faculty Danielle DeMuth, Ayana Weekley, and Mary O’Kelly, head of instructional services for University Libraries, gave a presentation, “Integrating and Assessing Information Literacy across the WGS Curriculum: a Faculty/Librarian Collaboration,” at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Gamal Gasim, associate professor of Middle East Studies and political science, wrote an article, “The Battle for Taiz,” published in Al Jazeera.
Danielle Lake, assistant professor of Liberal Studies, was invited to present on “Redefining Success: Lessons from Design Thinking to Meet Real World Needs” at the VentureWell Open Conference, hosted in Portland, Oregon.
Judy Whipps, professor of Liberal Studies and Philosophy, was invited to speak at Highland Community College in Illinois. The title of her talk was: “Jane Addams: Why Her Vision is Vital Today.”
Jonathan White, professor of Honors and executive director of the Homeland Defense Initiative, was interviewed by WXMI-TV for a story about the Syrian refugees and by Wiener Zeitung newspaper in Austria for a story about the Paris terrorist attacks.