February 2016 Newsletter
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From the Office of the Provost February 2016 Volume 5 , Issue 2 Academic Affairs Happenings Dear Faculty, I’m pleased to present the spring edition of the Academic Affairs Happenings newsletter. Inside you will find an expanded listing of your colleague’s accomplishments in teaching, research, and service. This work makes possible the vibrant educational experience for our students and the University’s growing contribution to the community. Best, Andy Workman Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Volume 5, Issue 2 1 Research, Grants, Publications and Presentations Jeremy M. Campbell 2015. Confjuring Sonya Cates contributed a chapter to the book, Property: Speculation and Environmental Handbook of Pattern Recognition and Computer Futures in the Brazilian Amazon. Seattle: Vision, 5th Ed, edited by C.H. Chen, World University of Washington Press. Scientific Publishing Co., February 2016. Her chapter is 3.1 (pp 397-413), entitled “Combining The book is based in part on the research funded Representations for Improved Sketch by the RWU Foundation to Promote Scholarship Recognition.” and Teaching. Since the 1960s, when Brazil first encouraged large-scale Amazonian Miller, A., Celik, B. G., Ghanem, A., Hurlburt, colonization, violence and confusion have often C., Hentze, J., Peahl, K., Papadopoulos (2016) accompanied national policies concerning land "Developing a Web Application for Managing a reform, corporate colonization, indigenous land Construction Case Study Database.” Poster rights, environmental protection, and private Presentation at the Associated Schools of homesteading. Conjuring Property shows how, Construction 52nd Annual International in a region that many perceive to be stateless, Conference, Provo, UT, USA, April 13-16, colonists - from highly capitalized ranchers to 2016. Accepted for presentation by A. Miller, landless workers – adopt anticipatory stances CM senior. while they await future governance intervention regarding land tenure. For Amazonian colonists, Snarski, J., Celik, B.G., Papadopoulos, A., property is a dynamic category that becomes Ghanem, A. (2016) "Determining salient in the making: it is conjured through Characteristics in Developing Economies that papers, appeals to state officials, and the Influence Sustainable Construction.” Poster manipulation of landscapes and memories of Presentation at the International Conference of occupation. This timely study will be of interest the Sustainable Built Environment, Hamburg, to development studies scholars and Germany, March 8-11, 2016. Accepted for practitioners, conservation ecologists, presentation by J. Snarski, CM senior. geographers, and anthropologists. Miller, A. , Celik, B. G., Ghanem, A. & Papadopoulos, A. (2016) "Exploring Relations Between Construction Management Student Learning Outcomes and Real World Cases." Poster Presentation at the 16th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organizations, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 19-20, 2016. Accepted for presentation by A. Miller, CM senior. Volume 5, Issue 2 2 Lucas, K.; Thornycroft, P.; Gemmell, B.; Colin, Gentles-Peart’s new book, Romance with S.; Costello, J.; Lauder, G.2015. Effects of non- Voluptuousness: Caribbean Women and Thick uniform stiffness on the swimming performance Bodies in the U.S., will be published by of a passively-flexing, fish-like foil model. University of Nebraska Press in fall 2016. Bioinspir. Biomim. 10: 056019. Gentles-Peart co-chaired the Brank Jamaica Gemmell, B.J., Colin, S.P., Costello, J.H. Symposium at the University of the West Indies, Dabiri, J.O. 2015. Suction-based propulsion as a Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica on July 16- basis for efficient animal swimming. Nature 17, 2015. It was the first conference to explore Comm. Doi: 10.1038/incomms9790. Jamaica’s national image. She also presented a paper there, titled “Voices from the Diaspora: Colin, Sean received a NSF Biological Brand Jamaica and the Lived Realities of Oceanography grant for $250,338: “What’s their Jamaicans Abroad.” She will be presenting a impact?: Quantification of medusa feeding paper titled “Still Searching for Our Mothers’ mechanics as a tool for predicting medusa Gardens,” in a workshop at the Society for predation”. Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Atlanta, Georgia in April 2016. Dr. Gentles-Peart will Colin received a NSF Fluid Dynamics, 2015 chair the Author Celebration Committee of the grant for $114,393 and will serve as P.I. on Carribbean Studies Association for its annual “Fluid mechanical basis of universal natural conference in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, propulsor bending patterns.” Additionally, she is co-organizing a multidisciplinary symposium that seeks to Colin will also serve as PI on a NSF IDBR, support scholarship that engages in research on 2015 grant for $204,754 titled “Collaborative Black women and girls, and develop practical Research: IDBR: Type A: Diver-operated ways to bring the knowledges of Black women imaging platform with complementary systems and girls into the classroom and other critical for quantifying aquatic organism interactions”. spaces. Sargon Donabed was invited to a workshop of Ghanem, A., Celik, B. G. & Papadopoulos, A., Middle Eastern diaspora, titled Lines of Identity "Company’s Road to Success for Newly Hired at the University of Manitoba. His paper was CM Graduates” Proceedings of the Associated titled “Assyria in America: Reflections on Schools of Construction 52nd Annual Micro-Macro-Community Relations”, December International Conference, April 13-16, 2016. 2015. Accepted for presentation and proceedings. Donabed also gave an invited talk, “Ritual Snarski, J., Ghanem, A., Celik, B. G., Peahl, K., landscape and performance” 2 day conference, Hentze, J., Papadopoulos (2016) "Creation of an Department of Near Eastern Languages & International Green Building Accessibility Civilizations (NELC) at Yale University in Index.” Poster Presentation at the Associated September 2016, and will be delivering a talk in Schools of Construction 52nd Annual April 2016 at the University of Chicago’s Center International Conference, Provo, UT, USA, for Middle Eastern Studies, titled, “The Future April 13-16, 2016. of Religious Minorities in the Middle East”. Hydaralli, Saeed 2015. “Chronic Pain and Kamille Gentles-Peart had her paper, titled Human Rights: The Opioid ‘Public Health “West Indian Women, Difference and Cultural Crisis’,” in Righting Humanity: In Our Time?. Citizenship in the U.S.,” selected for publication Merle Jacobs and Livy Visano (eds.). APF in a special issue of the Wadabagai journal Press. pp. 121-141 honoring Dr. Roy Simon Bryce LaPorte, a pioneer in Caribbean immigrant studies. Volume 5, Issue 2 3 Hume Johnson published an article, titled “See feature provocative authors whose views are and Blind, Hear and Deaf: Informerphobia in highly politicized and whose writings and Jamaican Garrisons,” in the Journal of Crime opinions matter because they are forward Prevention and Community Safety (17, pp. 47- leaning scholars of considerable renown, 66). Dr. Johnson co-chaired the Brand Jamaica endowed with the ability to engage readers in Symposium at the University of the West Indies, ways that promote discussion and debate. The Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica on July 16- volume will be comprised of approximately 25 17, 2015. It was the first conference to explore original essays, 8,000-10,000 words each, which Jamaica’s national image. She also presented a have been specially commissioned for inclusion paper titled “The Brank Jamaica Dialectic: in the volume. In short, this original collection Exploring the Duality of the Jamaican National will bring together leading educational Brand.” foundation scholars from around the globe who, together, will provide an authoritative, state-of- Rebecca Karni will be presenting “Translation the-art reference for students, teachers and and World Literature” as part of a panel at the scholars alike. The Handbook also relies on Annual Convention of the American both past and current students at RWU and/or Comparative Literature Association at Harvard their families. For example, three education University in Cambridge, MA on March 17-20, students, each of whom is currently a sophomore 2016. will be working as research assistants on the Handbook as well as contributing substantial Alejandro Leguizamo published an article in the portions of two of the chapters. Two of our flagship journal in the sex offender field with a recent graduates are authors. Mouad Tijani, a former RWU Masters student Seung Lee, who is secondary English education major and now the currently a doctoral student at Carleton principal of a school in Morocco will author a University (Ottawa, CA) and two colleagues chapter about the influence of Islam in the from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice education of students in secular Arab settings; (New York, NY). Ryan Monahan, a 2015 graduate will author a chapter about education in Japan. Mohammed Leguizamo, A., Lee, S.C., Jeglic, E.L., & Ali Maslookh, the General Administrator of a Calkins, C. (2015). Utility of the Static-99 and school in Saudi Arabia, and the parent of an Static 99R with Latino sex offenders. Sexual Education student, will author concerning the Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. tension between religious practice and public Advance online publication. Doi: education. 10.1177/1079063215618377 Philip Marshal participated at the 2015 Change Leguizamo also collaborated with Jennifer AGEnts Conference, Hartford Change AGEnts