Faculty and staff sketches

September 5, 2023 (Volume 47, Number 1)

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Faculty and staff members who have given presentations, were recognized for outstanding contributions or had their research published are detailed below. The campus community can submit a sketch online for future publication. 

In the News
Brett Crawford, associate professor of management, was a co-author of an article, "What Social Change Movements Can Learn from Fly Fishing: The Value of a Care-focused Message," published in The Conversation.

Kimberly McKee, associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, was interviewed for a story about transnational Asian adoption published by Teen Vogue.

Paul Isely, professor of economics and associate dean, Seidman College of Business, was interviewed by WOOD-TV for a story about the post-COVID 19 workforce.

Sketches
Jeanine Beasley, professor of occupational science and therapy, was a co-author of an article, "Identifying Grasp and Pinch Patterns in Ceramic Interventions: Video Analysis of Adults Completing Ceramic Activities," published in the Open Journal of Occupational Therapy. 

Jeanine Beasley, professor of occupational science and therapy, Kirk Anderson, professor of statistics, Theresa Bacon-Baguley, professor of physician assistant studies, and students were co-authors of an article, "Adult Norms for the Corbett Targeted Coin Test," published in the Journal of Hand Therapy.

Abigail Gautreau, assistant professor of history, wrote a book chapter, "The Real Trick Is Holding On to That Energy and Not Collapsing Teaching Undergraduate Public History on the Verge of the Pandemic" in Teaching Public History, published by the University of North Carolina Press.

Thomas Walker, associate professor of political science, and alumnus Kyle Huisman gave a presentation, "Major Power Rivalry, Targeted Alliances and Spirals to War," at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference in Chicago.

Michael P. Lombardo, professor emeritus of biology, was a co-author of an article, "The Effect of Climate Change on Avian Offspring Production: a Global Meta-analysis" published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Engineering faculty members Lindsay Corneal, Shabbir Choudhuri and Sanjivan Manoharan received a $15,000 subaward from the National Science Foundation for a Research on Organizational Partnerships in Education (ROPES) and STEM project, “An Investigation into Development of Sustainable Inter-Institutional Partnerships and Formative Experiences,” led by Virginia Polytechnic University. 

Patrick Colgan, professor of geology, gave presentations, "A Personal Reflection on the Important Contributions of Alan E. Kehew to our Knowledge of the Glacial Geology of Michigan," and "A Comparison of Modern and Ancient Glacial Landforms, Sediments, and Processes of Breiðamerkurjökull, Iceland and the Lake Michigan Lobe in Southwestern Michigan," at the Geological Society of America North-Central Section annual meeting.

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