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FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

PUBLICATIONS

Bahadir Akcam, associate professor of Robert Barron, assistant professor of industrial Jingru Benner, assistant professor of Jingzhou Zhao, assistant professor of business information systems engineering and engineering management mechanical engineering mechanical engineering

Bahadir Akcam, associate professor of business information Robert Barron, assistant professor of industrial engineering systems, coauthored an article titled “Research Design and and engineering management, published, with M. Hill, “A Major Issues in Developing Dynamic Theories by Secondary Wedge or a Weight? Critically Examining Nuclear Power’s Analysis of Qualitative Data” for the Systems journal (2019: 7, Viability as A Low-carbon Energy Source from an Intergenera- 3: 40). tional Perspective,” in Energy Research and Social Science (2019: 50, pp. 7-17). David Baker, associate professor of pharmacy administration, published and presented, with Izabela Collier, clinical asso- Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, ciate professor of ambulatory care, Courtney Doyle-Camp- published the following; bell, clinical associate professor of ambulatory care, Melissa With Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechanical Mattison, clinical associate professor of community care, engineering, Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor of me- Katelyn Harrison, clinical associate professor of ambulato- chanical engineering, S. Su, and T. Nguyen, “A Novel Biomimet- ry care, Quan Wei, instructional designer in the College of ic Flapping Fan for Electronics Cooling” in the Proceedings of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and A. Long, “Evaluation of the The Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechani- Effectiveness of an Active-Learning, Simulation-Based Health- cal Phenomena in Electronic Systems, Las Vegas, May 2019. care Communications Course Utilizing the PaCT Assessment.” It was published in the American Journal of Pharmacy Education With Jingzhou Zhao, assistant professor of mechanical (2019: 83, 5: 7654: pp. 1038-39) and presented at the 2019 engineering, “Thermal Analysis of Preform Fabrication for Flow American Association of the Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Mold Casting” in the Proceedings of The 4th Thermal and Annual Meeting in July in Chicago. Fluids Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, April 2019. PUBLICATIONS

Janet Bowdan, professor of English Kam Capoccia, clinical professor of commu- Vedang Chauhan, assistant professor of Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor of nity care mechanical engineering mechanical engineering

With Vedang Chauhan, assistant professor of mechanical Lauren Carasik, clinical professor of law, published the engineering, Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechan- following: ical engineering, and Anthony Santamaria, assistant pro- With J. Bachman, “Cultural Genocide in the United States,” fessor of mechanical engineering, “Enhanced Water Removal in Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics and Global Manifestations, from PEM Fuel Cell Flow Channels by Superimposing Acoustic (2019: London: Routledge, ed. J. Bachman). Wave” in the Proceedings of The 4th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, April 2019. “Trump’s Safe Third Country Agreement with Guatemala is a Lie” in Foreign Policy (July 30, 2019). With Vedang Chauhan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechan- “The Government is Targeting Immigration Lawyers, Activists, ical engineering, and Anthony Santamaria, assistant profes- and Reporters,” in the Boston Review (April 24, 2019). sor of mechanical engineering, “Enhanced Water Removal from “Trump’s Asylum Ban will Worsen a Crisis the US Helped PEM Fuel Cells Using Acoustic Pressure Waves,” in the Journal Create,” in Al Jazeera English (September 19, 2019). of Electrochemical Society (April 2019: 166, 7: F3143-F3153).

With W. Wu, N. Yoon, Z. Tong, Y. Chen, Y. Lv, and T. Aeren- Vedang Chauhan, assistant professor of mechanical engineer- lund, “Diffuse Ceiling Ventilation: a Review on Fundamental ing, published the following: Theories and Research Methodologies” in the Journal of Cleaner With Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical engi- Production (February 2019: 211, pp. 1600-1619). neering, Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechanical With Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor engineering, and Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, “Enhanced Liquid Water Removal of mechanical engineering, “Numerical Simulation of Droplet from PEM Fuel Cell Flow Channels by Superimposing Acoustic Emergence and Growth from Gas Diffusion Layers (GDLS) in Pressure Wave on Air Flow” in the Proceedings of the 17th Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cell Flow Chan- International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, nels” in Volume 6A: Energy. Proceedings of the International and Minichannels (ICNMM 2019), St. John’s Newfoundland, Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Pittsburgh, PA, Canada, June 2019. November 2018. With K.D. Joshi and B.W. Surgenor, “Image Classification Using Deep Neural Networks: Transfer Learning and the Handling Janet Bowdan, professor of English, had her poem “Mugs” of Unknown Images” in the Engineering Applications of Neural recently published in the Coffee Poems Anthology edited by Lor- Networks, (EANN 2019), Crete, Greece, May 2019. raine Healy (Concrete World Press, 2019: 22) and her poem “Team of Goofballs” can be read in the April 24, 2019, archives With Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical engi- of the online magazine Hobartpulp. neering, Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor of Kam Capoccia, clinical professor of community care, pub- mechanical engineering, C. Arden, J. Connors, and M. Heidari, lished with P. Odegard and J. Danielson, “Biguanides” and “Effects of PEM Fuel Cells Gas Diffusion Layer Compression on “Thiazolidinediones” in J. White, editor, 2019 Guide to Medica- In-Plane Water Percolation” in the Proceedings of the ASME tions for the Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus (Arlington: American 2019 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Diabetes Association, 2019, pp. 80-102 and pp. 103-123). Exposition (IMECE 2019), Utah. 2 FALL 2019

Beth Cohen, associate dean of Nuwan De Silva, assistant professor Justin Dion, director of bar success Robert Gettens, associate professor Dawn Holmes, professor of biology academic affairs and director of of chemistry program and professor of legal skills of biomedical engineering legal research and writing

With Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical engi- Justin Dion, director of Bar Success Program and professor of neering, Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechanical legal skills, and Nicholas Smith L’19, published “Exploring engineering, and Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor Private Causes of Action for Victims of Data Breaches” in the of mechanical engineering, “Two-Phase Flow Characterization Western New England Law Review (2019: 41, 253). in PEM Fuel Cells Using Machine Learning” in ECS Meeting Laura Fisher L’15, director of Law Career Services, and Abstracts, (May 2019-01 1538). Bryon Harmon L’96, have published an article titled “The With K. Joshi and B. Surgenor, “Image Classification Using Prudence of Passivity: An Argument for Default Passive Manage- Deep Neural Networks: Transfer Learning and the Handling of ment in Trust Investing,” in The American College of Trust Unknown Images,” in Engineering Applications of Neural and Estate Counsel Law Journal (Spring 2019: 44, 2). Networks (May 2019: Springer CCIS 1000, Chapter 23). Robert Gettens, associate professor of biomedical engineer- Beth Cohen, associate dean of academic affairs and director of ing, published, with Harlan Spotts, professor of marketing, legal research and writing, and Pat Newcombe L’01, associ- “Workshop: Problem Definition and Concept Ideation, an ate dean for library and information resources, had an excerpt Active-learning Approach in a Multidisciplinary Setting” at from their paper, “Mini-Law School: Civic Education Making the Proceedings of the First Year Engineering Experience a Difference in the Community,” featured in Slaw, Canada’s Conference, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, July 2018. He online legal magazine. also published, with A. Rader, K. Fehn, and C. Thiagarajah, “Synthetic Tear Duct Drainage System” in the Proceedings Izabela Collier, clinical associate professor of ambulatory care, of the 45th Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Rutgers published, with A. Abbott and K. Zapka, “The Pharmacist’s University, March 2019. Role on the Multidisciplinary Diabetes Management Team” in the ACCP Ambulatory Care Survival Guide, 4th edition (2019). Dawn Holmes, professor of biology, published, with J. Tian, X. Cheng, S. Deng, J. Liu, B. Qiu, Y. Dang, and T. Waite, Nuwan De Silva, assistant professor of chemistry, published “Inducing in Situ Crystallization of Vivianite in a UCT-MBR the following: System for Enhanced Removal and Possible Recovery of Phos- With Matthew Adreance ’19, and M. Gordon, “Application phorus from Sewage,” in Environmental Science & Technology, of a Semi-Empirical Dispersion Correction for Modeling Water (June 2019). 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).

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Devina Jaiswal, assistant professor of Daniel Kennedy, associate professor of Andrea Kwaczala, assistant professor of Jennifer Levi, professor of law biomedical engineering pharmacology biomedical engineering

Devina Jaiswal, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, Andrea Kwaczala, assistant professor of biomedical engineer- published the following: ing, published, with H. Marion, I. Rivas, R. Sitbon, and A. Van Buren, “Design of a Digital Motion Analysis Device to Improve With S. Katebifar, S. Rudraiah, and S. Kumbar, “Chapter 5: the Markup procedure for Gait Analysis” in the Proceedings Fabrication of Amyloid Nanofibers by Electrospinning”Artificial of the 45th Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Rutgers Protein and Peptide Nanofibers (2019: Elsevier). University, March 2019. She also published, with P. George, K. With senior bioengineering students Brennen Zolnoski and Primmer, D. Cohen, and M. Solomito, “Design of an Adaptive Emily Fernschild, “Bioreactor for Mechanical Stimulation of Golf Club for a Stroke Patient with Hemiparesis” in Worcester 3D Scaffolds for Tendon Tissue Engineering” in the Proceed- Polytechnic Institute’s PracticePoint “Robotic Solutions for ings of the 45th Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Rutgers Chronic Limb Impairments” Boston, October 2018. University, March 2019. Chang Hoon Lee, assistant professor of civil & environmental With J. Moskow, B. Ferrigno, N. Mistry, K. Bulsara, S. Rudraiah, engineering, published the following: and S.G. Kumbar, “Bioengineering Approach for the Repair and Regeneration of Peripheral Nerve” in Bioactive Materials (2018). With Moochul Shin, associate professor of civil and envi- ronmental engineering, S. Lee, S. Bhattacharya, and Y. Su, With G.J. Soler, M. Bao, H.P. Zaveri, M.L. DiLuna, R.A. Grant, “Influence of Coarse Aggregate Angularity on the Mechanical and K. Hoshino, “Focus: Medical Technology: A Review of Performance of Cement-based Materials” in Construction and Cerebral Shunts, Current Technologies, and Future Endeavors” Building Materials (April 2019: 204, pp. 184-192). in The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine (2018: 91, 3: 313). With Moochul Shin, associate professor of civil and environ- With M.D. Tang-Schomer, D. Sood, D.L. Kaplan, and K. Hoshi- mental engineering Y. Su, S. Bhattacharya, M. and S. Lee, “Al- no, “Nondestructive, Label-Free Characterization of Mechanical lometric Description of Granular Materials,” in the Conference Microheterogeneity in Biomimetic Materials” in ACS Biomateri- Proceedings for the International Society for Soil Mechanics als Science & Engineering (2018: 4, 9: pp. 3259-3267). and Geotechnical Engineering, TC105 International Sympo- Daniel Kennedy, associate professor of pharmacology, pub- sium, Atlanta, September 2018. lished “Redesigning a Principles of Pharmacology Course to With Moochul Shin, associate professor of civil and environ- Promote Active Learning” in the American Journal of Pharmaceu- mental engineering S. Lee, S. Bhattacharya, and Y. Su, “Micro- tical Education (2019: 83, 5: Article 6782). He also published, scopic Failure Mechanisms of Cemented Granular Materials with Joshua Spooner, professor of pharmacy practice, and Driven by Particle Morphology,” in the Conference Proceedings, pharmacy graduates Kylie Josefiak’19 and Erika Vuernick International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical En- ’17, “Non-terminal Degree Offerings in US Pharmacy Programs” gineering TC105 International Symposium, Atlanta, September in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (2019: 83, 2018. 7: Article 6917). 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 Bruce Miller, professor of law Sandra Navarro, associate professor of Marissa Ostroff, clinical assistant professor of engineering and engineering management Spanish ambulatory care

Zhaojun Li, associate professor of industrial engineering and Professor Mortazavi also published, with Anthony Santam- engineering management, published the following: aria, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, P. Stolberg, and N. Suchocki, “Two-Phase Flow Pressure Drop in PEM Fuel With R. Zhou, Y. Liu, E. Brodeur, and J. Guo, “A Reverse-Boot Cell Flow Channels, Model Comparison and Improvement,” Enabled Embedded Computing System on SoC-FPGA for ECS Meeting Abstract, MA 2018-02 1402, October 2018. Prognostics and Health Management: An Application on Li-ion Batteries” in the Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE 9th Annual Sandra Navarro, associate professor of Spanish, published Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, an entry “Retrato de Teresa,” in A Cuban Cinema Companion Las Vegas, January 2019. (2019: New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers). With J. Guo, “A Spatio-temporal Modeling Approach for Bat- tery Pack Capacity Prognostics” in the Proceedings of the 2019 Paula Nieman, professional educator of social work, coau- RAMS, Lake Buena Vista, FL, January 2019. thored an article with B. Kurz, J. Letendre, L. Smith Cohen, and G. Beebe, titled “Group Work is … Powerful! This Stuff With L. Li, J. Zhao, and W. Guo, “Lithium-Ion Battery Manage- Changes … Lives: Training on Group Processes for Facilitators ment System for Electric Vehicles” in the International Journal of Curriculum-based Groups,” for Social Work with Groups of Performability Engineering (December 2018: 14, 12: pp. (September 2019). 3184-3194).

With S. Yang and J. Guo, “A Mean-Covariance Decomposition Seyed Niknam, assistant professor of industrial engineering Method for Battery Capacity Prognostics” in the Journal of and engineering management, with D. Li and G. Das, pub- Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (2018: 34, pp. 3759-3769). lished “An Acoustic Emission Study of Anisotropy in Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V” in The International Journal of Ad- Bruce Miller, professor of law, was a guest columnist for the vanced Manufacturing Technology (February 2019: 100, pp.5-8: Daily Hampshire Gazette on July 29, 2019. His article was titled 1731-40). “After Mueller, a High Crimes and Misdemeanors (But Not Necessarily an Impeachment) Investigation.” Marissa Ostroff, clinical assistant professor of ambulatory care, published, with R. Costantino, “Osteoporosis” in Phar- Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechanical engi- macy Library’s PharmacotherapyFirst: A Multimedia Learning neering, published, with Jingru Benner, assistant professor of Resource (2019: Washington, DC: American Pharmacists Asso- mechanical engineering, Seyed Niknam, assistant profes- ciation). She also published, with pharmacy students Olivia sor of industrial engineering and engineering management, Roth and Nicholas Crocetta, and J. Ostroff, “A Review of the Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor of mechanical 2019 GOLD Guidelines for COPD” in [online] Uspharmacist. engineering, W. Yameen, N. Piascik, R. Clemente, and A. Miller com (September 2019). “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.

5 PUBLICATIONS

René Reich-Graefe, professor of law Matthew Romoser, associate pro- Mary Schoonmaker, assistant Natalia Shcherbakova, associate Wilson Haong , pharmacy student fessor of industrial engineering and professor of marketing professor of pharmacoeconomics engineering management

René Reich-Graefe, professor of law, and Barbara Reich, With Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical professor of law, published “Rational Patient Apathy” in the engineering, Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechan- Seton Hall Law Review (2019: 49, 3: pp. 535-628). Professor ical engineering, S. Su, and T. Nguyen, “A Novel Biomimetic Reich-Graefe also published a symposium foreword and essay, Flapping Fan for Electronics Cooling,” in the Proceedings of “Anthropocenic Disruption, Community Resilience and Law,” in the IEEE-ITherm Conference, Las Vegas, May 2019. the Western New England Law Review (2019: 41, 3: pp. 411-53). With Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical Matthew Romoser, associate professor of industrial engi- engineering, and Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of neering and engineering management, published the following: mechanical engineering, “Numerical Simulation of Droplet Emer- gence and Growth from Gas Diffusion Layers (GDLs) in Proton With A. Katrahmani, “The Effect of a Concussion on the Haz- Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cell Flow Channels,” in the ard Anticipation Ability in Teen Drivers” in the Proceedings of Proceedings of the ASME IMECE, Pittsburgh, November 2018. the 10th International Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training and Vehicle Design, Santa Fe, June 2019. Mary Schoonmaker, assistant professor of marketing, with Robert Gettens, associate professor of biomedical engineer- With A. Katrahmani, “Implementing the Horizontal Vestib- ing, and Glenn Vallee, associate professor of mechanical ular Ocular Reflex Test While Using an Eye-tracker as an engineering, published “Building the Entrepreneurial Mindset Assessment Tool for Concussions Diagnosis,” in H. Ayaz through Cross-functional Innovation Teams” in Entrepreneurial L. Mazur (eds.) Advances in Neuroergonomics and Cognitive Education and Pedagogy. (October 2019). Engineering, Proceedings of the AHFE 2018, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series, (2019: 775, Natalia Shcherbakova, associate professor of pharmacoeco- p. 189-195, Springer, Cham). nomics, published and presented the following: With A. Katrahmani, “Diagnosing a Concussion by Testing With Mo Y, J. Zeibeq, K. Muzykovsky, P. Thai, W. Li, M. Ahmad, Horizontal Saccades Using an Eye-tracker,” in H. Ayaz, L. and J. Gasperino “Clinical and Economic Impact of the Use Mazur (eds.) Advances in Neuroergonomics and Cognitive of Dexmedetomidine for Sedation in the Intensive Care Unit” Engineering. Proceedings of the AHFE 2018, Advances in published in Critical Care Medicine (2019: 47, 1: pp. 43), and Intelligent Systems and Computing book series (2019: 775, presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine Annual Meet- p. 278-283, Springer, Cham). ing in February in San Diego.

Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor of mechanical With pharmacy student Wilson Haong, “Impact of Clinical engineering, published the following: and Economic Evidence on Cancer Drug Sales,” published in Value in Health (2019: 22, S79), and presented at the Interna- With Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical engi- tional Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research neering, Vedang Chauhan, assistant professor of mechanical Annual Meeting in May in New Orleans. 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. 6 FALL 2019

Moochul Shin, associate professor of civil and Melissa Mattison, clinical associate professor Shusen Sun, clinical associate professor of Edward Wesp, associate professor of English environmental engineering of community care emergency medicine

With D. Osmond and S. Huston, “Prestige & Versatility: Shusen Sun, clinical associate professor of emergency Choosing Pharmacy” published in the American Journal for medicine, published the following: Pharmaceutical Education (2019: 82, 5: 7158), and presented With S. Zeng, D. Wang, W. Liu, et al. “Overuse of Intravenous at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Infusions in China: Focusing on Management Platform and Meeting in July in Chicago. Cultural Problems” in International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy The following were published in the Journal of American Phar- (Epub August 2019). macists Association (2019), and presented at American Pharma- With M. Ma, Q. Peng, X. Gu, et al. “Pharmacist Impact on cists Association Annual Meeting in March in Seattle: Adherence of Valproic Acid Therapy in Pediatric Patients with With Kylie Josefiak ’19, and Melissa Mattison, clinical Epilepsy using Active Education Techniques in Epilepsy & associate professor of community care, “Pharmacists’ and Behavior (September 2019: 98, Pt A: pp. 14-18). Fourth Year Pharmacy Students’ Intention to Counsel on OTC With X. Zhou, F. Qiu, D. Wan, et al. “Nutrition Support for Products and Knowledge of Counseling Points Regarding Sever- Critically Ill Patients in China: Role of the Pharmacist” in Asia al OTC-sensitive Common Conditions including Acne Vulgaris.” Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2019: 28, 2: pp.246-251). With 2019 PharmD graduates Samuel Kwarteng and Percy With S. Zeng, D. Wang, Y. Yan, et al. “Single-center Analysis of Obike, “Web-Presence and Services Offered by Independent the Potential Inappropriate Use of Intravenous Medications in Community Pharmacists in Massachusetts.” Hospitalized Patients in China in Clinical Therapeutics (August With G. Tereso, “If You Break It, They Won’t Come–Impact of 2019: 41, 8: pp. 1631-1637). Access Restriction on Use of Short-acting Prescription Opioids With L. Meng, J. Huang, Y. Jia, et al. “Assessing Flouroquino- in a US Health Plan.” lone-associated Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection: Data Mining With M. Charbonneau, K. Harrison, and Kam Capoccia, of the Public Version of the FDA Adverse Event Reporting clinical professor of community care, “Sharps Disposal System” in International Journal of Clinical Practice (May 2019: Practices among People with Diabetes in a Community Care 73, 5: e13331). Clinic: Identifying Opportunities for Focused Sharps Disposal Education.” Edward Wesp, associate professor of English, had an essay titled “Satire in the Survey” published in the collection Teaching Moochul Shin, associate professor of civil and environmental Modern British and American Satire (Spring 2019: Modern engineering, published with K. Ha, H. Choi, and K. Park, “On Language Association). 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.

7 PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Vladimir Wozniuk, professor emeritus Jingzhou Zhao, assistant professor Jonathan Beagle, professor of Lynn Bowes-Sperry, professor of management, 2nd from left, at the Naval of mechanical engineering history Academy Summit

Vladimir Wozniuk, professor emeritus, published a book, The Lynn Bowes-Sperry, professor of management, presented Karamazov Correspondence: Letters of Vladimir S. Soloviev (2019: the following at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting Boston, Academic Studies [Series in Russian and Slavic Litera- in Boston in August: tures, Cultures, and History]). “Rebooting Sexual Harassment Prevention Efforts: Recommen- dations from 2016 E.E.O.C. Task Force.” Jingzhou Zhao, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, published with Y. Feng, “Where ThermoMesh meets Thermo With B.A. Livingston and S.W. Ryu, “Stranger Harassment: The Net: A Machine Learning Based Sensor for Heat Source Spillover of Sexual Harassment from Public Spaces to Work.” Localization and Peak Temperature Estimation” in Sensors and With S. Chappell, “Innovative and Experiential Approaches to Actuators A: Physical (June 2019: 292, pp. 30-38). Teaching HRM II.”

She also presented the following: PRESENTATIONS With B. Livingston and S. Chappell, “From Public Spaces Bahadir Akcam, associate professor of business information to Workplaces: Halting Harassment One Voice at a Time” at systems, chaired the Innovative Education session and present- the Society for Community Research and Action Conference, ed an article, “Flipped Classroom Application in an Introduc- in Chicago in June. tory Business Information Systems Course” at the Green & “Anti-harassment Training Practices for the Low-wage Workforce. Digital Cities Conference, Wroclaw, Poland, in June. What Works at Work: Evidence-based Practices for Preventing David Baker, associate professor of pharmacy administration, and Responding to Sex Harassment in Low-wage Workplaces” presented “Review of New Pharmacy Law, Legal Concepts, and at the National Women’s Law Center and the Urban Institute, Court Cases of Interest to Pharmacy Practice,” at the Western Washington, DC. Massachusetts Pharmacists Association meeting in September With S. Chappell, “Transforming Sexual Harassment Prevention in West Springfield, MA. Efforts: Enabling Voice” at the National Discussion on Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment at America’s Colleges, Universi- Robert Barron, assistant professor of industrial engineering ties and Service Academies at the Naval Academy in Annapolis and engineering management, presented with M. Hill, “A Wedge in April. or a Weight? Critically Examining Nuclear Power’s Viability as a Low-Carbon Energy Source from an Intergenerational Perspective” With S. DeJanasz, “Fixing What’s Broken: Mentoring as a Strat- at INFORMS Annual in Phoenix, November 2018. egy for Helping Targets of Sexual Harassment Overcome Avoid- ance and Organizational Traps,” at the National Discussion on Jonathan Beagle, professor of history, was the opening speaker Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment at America’s Colleges, for the U.S. State Department’s annual Institute on U.S Politi- Universities and Service Academies at the Naval Academy in cal Thought, held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Annapolis in April. 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.

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Hsiu-Jung Mindy Chang, professor of Courtney Doyle-Campbell, clinical associate Heidi Ellis, professor of computer science and Thomas Hull, associate professor of communication professor of ambulatory care information technology mathematics

Kam Capoccia, clinical professor of community care, present- Heidi Ellis, professor of computer science and information ed a continuing education program titled “Diabetes Muddy technology, presented the following: Waters: Is it Type 1 or Type 2?” at the American Pharmacists With L. Postner, D. Burdge, S. Jackson, and G.W. Hislop, Association (APhA) Annual Meeting in Seattle in March. She “Impact of HFOSS Education on Instructors,” at ACM also presented online education for APhA Quick Quiz: 2019 ITiCSE, Aberdeen, Scotland, in July. Diabetes Standards of Care in April. With B. Morgan, and G.W. Hislop, “Student Software Engineer- Hsiu-Jung Mindy Chang, professor of communication, pre- ing Learning in HFOSS Projects,” at the 2019 ASEE Annual sented a paper titled “Motivating Students to Reach Out and Conference & Exposition, in Tampa in June. Develop Self-reflexivity via on-line Teaching” at the Southern “Women in Technology” luncheon, ISO New England, in April. States Communication Association (SSCA) Conference in April in Montgomery, AL. She also chaired the top faculty paper pan- With B. Morgan, and G. W. Hislop, “Faculty Development for el titled “Contemporary Issues in Intercultural Communication: FLOSS Education,” at The 15th International Conference on Panel of Scholarly Studies on Finding Solutions to Intercultural Open Source Systems, Montreal, CA, in May. Crises” at SSCA. With C. Kussaul, “Faculty Development Workshop on HFOSS Vedang Chauhan, assistant professor of mechanical engineer- and POGIL,” at the Computer Science Department, Eastern ing, presented with K. Joshi and B. Surgenor, “Image Classifica- Carolina University, in May. tion Using Deep Neural Networks: Transfer Learning and the With G.W. Hislop and C. Kussaul, “Professors’ Open Source Handling of Unknown Images” at Engineering Applications of Software Experience,” a workshop, in New York City in January. Neural Networks, May 2019, Crete, Greece. He also presented With G.W. Hislop, B. Lunt, and S. Zilora, “Attracting Students “Research Trends in Mechatronics” at the Western New England to IT Degrees,” at a panel at SIGITE 2018 in Fort Lauderdale in University’s Industrial Engineering Department, January 2019. October 2018.

Izabela Collier, clinical associate professor of ambulatory care With G.W. Hislop and S. Jackson, “Student Contribution to presented “The Insights on Therapy Management for Patients HFOSS: Challenges and Opportunities,” a poster at SIGITE with Diabetes” at the Annual Preceptor Conference at the 2018 in Fort Lauderdale in October 2018. University in March. She also presented “Trending Topics in Diabetes–Basics and Beyond,” Continuous Education Program, Thomas Hull, associate professor of mathematics, gave the Local Networking Group (West); AADE in April. keynote lecture at Fitchburg State University’s Pi Mu Epsilon Induction Ceremony, Fitchburg, MA in April. He spoke on Courtney Doyle-Campbell, clinical associate professor of “Origami Math and its Increasing applications.” 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.

9 PRESENTATIONS

Kelly Klingensmith, associate professor of Kenneth Lee, professor of civil and environ- Jerzy Letkowski, professor of business Neeraj Magotra, associate professor of English mental engineering information systems electrical and computer engineering

Daniel Kennedy, associate professor of pharmacology, Kenneth Lee, professor of civil and environmental engineer- presented, with R. Beckett and L. O’Donnell, “Getting Started ing, presented the following at the New England Water Works in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Creating Your Big Association Annual Spring Conference, Worcester, MA, in April: Break Without Formal Training” at the American Association With C. Best, P. Rice, and M. Tarini, “An Experimental Study of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting in Chicago in July. At on Water Dripping Rates to Prevent Household Pipes from the same Annual Meeting, his students presented the following Freezing During Cold Temperatures.” posters: With B. Dufek, C. Flynn, B. Greenberg, J. Riley, J. Theriault, With pharmacy students Megan Pantos and Christina and A. Calcagno, “Testing of Supermarket Fruit Juices for Heavy Verbetsky, S.Nock, L. Holbrook, and J. Gibbins, “Exploring Metals.” Montelukast as a Potential Broad-Spectrum Thiol Isomerase Inhibitor.” With G. Circosta, G. Friedlander, and A. Roach, “Comparison and Analysis of Water Issues in the Springfield-Holyoke Massa- With pharmacy students Christina Verbetsky and Megan chusetts Areas from 1960s to Present.” Pantos, L. Holbrook, and J. Gibbins, “Exploring the Effect of PDI Inhibition on Cellular Model of Cancer Induced Thrombo- Jerzy Letkowski, professor of business information systems, sis After Chemotherapy.” was a session chair for “Sustainability 1–Supply Chain Manage- With pharmacy students Nicole Ondrush, Emma Thom- ment,” and presented “A Conceptual Data Model for Manag- as, and Sabrina Gaffney, Joshua Spooner, professor of ing Relationships Between Program Objectives and Course pharmacy practice, and Courtney Doyle-Campbell, clinical Objectives in a BSBA Curriculum” at the Green & Digital Cities associate professor of ambulatory care, “Immunization Training Conference at the Wroclaw (Poland) University of Economics in Pharmacy Schools in the United States.” in June.

With pharmacy students Mallory Paszkiewicz, Joseph Neeraj Magotra, associate professor of electrical and Rubilar, and Deana Rodriguez, and Joshua Spooner, pro- computer engineering, gave a presentation at GEAR up MA fessor of pharmacy practice, “The Influence of PCAT Require- STEM in Lawrence, MA, 2019. 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.

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Paula Nieman, professional educator of Michael Rust, associate professor of biomedical engineering Harvey Shrage, professor of business law social work

Sandra Navarro, associate professor of Spanish, presented Michael Rust, associate professor of biomedical engineering, the following: presented a workshop titled “Using Disruptive Technologies to Foster the Entrepreneurial Mindset,” at Oregon Institute of “There are Ghosts in this House: Domestic Labor and Repre- Technology, Klamath Falls, OR, in April. sentation in Silva’s ‘La nana’” at Cine-Lit 9, Portland, OR, in March. Moochul Shin, associate professor of civil and environmental “Strangers Among Us: Childhood Representations in Contempo- engineering, presented, “Next-Generation Railroad Infra- rary Argentine Fiction,” at Latin American Studies Association structure: Splitting/Bursting Damage of Prestressed Concrete International Congress, Boston, in May. Crossties” at the Graduate Seminar-Department of Civil, Con- struction and Environmental Engineering, University of New “Post-memory and Disruption in Albertina Carri’s Los Rubios,” Mexico in Albuquerque in March. He also presented, with H. Invited talk at Brown University, in November 2018. Yu, “Numerical Study of Splitting/Bursting Performance of Pre- stressed Concrete Prisms Using High Strength Concrete with Paula Nieman, professional educator of social work, pre- Reduced Modulus of Elasticity” at the Transportation Research sented a paper titled “Using a Student-initiated Campus Food Board, the 98th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, in January. Insecurity Research Project to Spark Institutional Change” at the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors’ Harvey Shrage, professor of business law, was a presenter Annual Conference in Jacksonville, FL, in March. Her copre- and facilitator for a program sponsored by the American Arbitra- senter was Vanessa Vaccarino ’18. tion Association titled “Witness Preparation and Brief Writing.” It was held in April in Cromwell, CT. René Reich-Graefe, professor of law, presented one of his works in progress, “Bayesian Trust, Trust Intermediation & Shusen Sun, clinical associate professor of emergency Boundary Spanning,” at a faculty workshop at the School of medicine, presented the following: Law in March; at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Law and En- trepreneurship Association, held at Boston College Law School “Pharmaceutical Care Theory and Assessment” at Xiangya in April; and at the 30th Annual Conference of the Society for Pharmacy Conference in Changsha, China in June. the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Research Net- “Establishing Geriatric Medication Management in the Emer- work A: Communitarian Ideals and Civil Society, held at The gency Department” at the 2019 International Conference on New School for Social Research in June. At the SASE Annual Emergency Medicine, in Seoul, South Korea in June. Conference, he also presented an early paper project, “The Social Ontology of Vulnerability, Resilience & Law,” as part of “Medication Reconciliation in the Continuum of Care” at 2019 SASE’s Research Network L: Regulation and Governance. In Preceptor Development Conference at the University in March. 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.”

11 PRESENTATIONS AND PARTICIPATION IN PANELS, SEMINARS, AND WORKSHOPS

Brendan Kaljulaid, Emily Gaudiana, and Matthew Koslowski with Alison Katelyn Harrison, clinical associate Barbara Reich, professor of law Michael Rust, associate professor of Sawyer, professor of practice in accounting, second from left professor of ambulatory care biomedical engineering

Edward Wesp, associate professor of English, presented Thomas Hull, associate professor of mathematics, was invited an essay titled “Backstory Ascendant: the Denigration of Plot to participate in the 34th Bellairs Winter Workshop on Com- in Contemporary Popular Narrative” at the annual national putational Geometry, held at the Bellairs Research Institute of conference of the Popular Culture Association in Washington, McGill University in Holetown, Barbados, in March, where he DC, in April. led research groups to work on open problems in the mathe- matics of origami. Jingzhou Zhao, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, presented “Fluid Interface Control for Nanomanufacturing” Barbara Reich, professor of law, was an invited panelist on at the Global Scientists Interdisciplinary Forum, Southern the Palliative Sedation panel and the Cardiac Devices panel University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, at a CME conference: At the End of Life: Agency, Role and China, in January. He also presented “Fluid Interface Control Responsibilities of the Physician/Advanced Practitioner, at the for Nanomanufacturing” at UMass Dartmouth in March and at University of Washington, Seattle, in September. UMass Amherst in December 2018. Michael Rust, associate professor of biomedical engineering, was program chair for the Biomedical Division (BED) of the PARTICIPATION IN PANELS, SEMINARS, AND American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) at the WORKSHOPS 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, FL, in June. College of Business seniors, Emily Gaudiana, Brendan Kaljulaid, and Matthew Koslowski served as panelists Mary Schoonmaker, assistant professor of marketing, was a in April at the 2019 Massachusetts Future Business Leaders panelist for “Teaching and Working with Global Entrepreneur- of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference with Alison ship and Ecosystem Challenges” at Desphande Symposium, Sawyer, professor of practice in accounting, who serves as a University of Mass Lowell, in June. 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.

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AWARDS

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

AWARDS Josie Brown, professor of English, received the African Amer- ican Female Professor Award in a celebration in September. The Bimiitech team members senior Mechanical Engineering goal of the African American Female Professor Award Associa- major Jarrod Coletta and Eric Shilyuk ’19 were one of six tion (AAFPAA) is to recognize African American female faculty student businesses to be identified as Best Exhibitors at the who are full-time, part-time, or adjunct. “It is our intent that Grinspoon Entrepreneurship Initiative Annual Banquet in this recognition will help institutions recruit and retain African Holyoke, MA in April. They were selected from a pool of 65 American female professors, as well as inspire African American companies during a trade show type portion of the evening female educators to continue their work in the classroom and which featured the 2019 Grinspoon Entrepreneurial Spirit pursue post-secondary assignments.” Award winners. Grace Buttrick, sophomore Entrepreneurship major, won BlinkTek team members: sophomore Entrepreneurship major 3rd place in the Sigma Nu Tau (Entrepreneurship Honor Society) Grace Buttrick, senior Civil Engineering major William 4th Annual Video Pitch Competition. The focus on the pitch is Hroch, junior Civil Engineering major Nicholas Pantorno, on how has participating in a business plan competition bene- junior computer engineering major Autumn Kelly, and junior fited your entrepreneurial learning processes. Civil Engineering major Cole Peterson, were awarded the $500 Innovation Jam award at the Draper Competition for Col- Meri Clark, professor of history and coordinator of the legiate Women Entrepreneurs held at Smith College on April 5. Global Scholars program for the College of Arts and Sciences, The team has developed a device called Heat Shield that would was the recipient of the 2019 Teaching Excellence Award. be attached to a fire helmet to detect a firefighter’s health Winners are nominated by students, faculty, and administra- vitals. Such monitoring can help prevent injuries that occur in tors for outstanding contributions as educators and advisors. firefighters from exhaustion or overheating. Cameron Coe, junior sport management major, was selected Also in April, this same team was one of six student businesses as a 2019-20 Stadium Managers Association (SMA) Foundation to be identified as Best Exhibitors at the Grinspoon Entrepre- scholarship recipient. This prestigious scholarship program neurship Initiative Annual Banquet in Holyoke, MA. annually awards a maximum of three scholarships nationwide to undergraduate and/or graduate students pursuing degrees Janet Bowdan, professor of English, recently had her poem in sport management/administration. Coe serves as president “Northampton, February” get an Honorable Mention in the of the Sport Management Association and vice president of the Slate Roof Press Broadside Contest. 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.

13 AWARDS

Elaina Hoeppner L’19 and Emily Senior biomedical engineering Cy Ryding ’18/G’19 Sudha Setty, Dean of the School Samantha (Ellingson) Sullivan, clin- Eash L’19 students Brennen Zolnoski and of Law ical assistant professor of internal Emily Fernschild medicine

Emily Eash L’19 and Elaina Hoeppner L’19 placed second The design and writing staff of Marketing and Communica- at the 18th Annual Law Student Tax Challenge in New Orleans tions, in collaboration with Spark451, won a Bronze award for in January. They were one of only three teams to make it to the the Western New England Magazine from the Advertising Club of second round. Western Massachusetts in May.

Senior biomedical engineering students Emily Fernschild and Marissa Ostroff, clinical assistant professor of ambulatory Brennen Zolnoski took first place honors in the Senior De- care, received the 2019 Faculty Preceptor of the Year, award- sign Competition at the 45th annual Northeast Bioengineering ed by the Office of Experiential Education at the College of Conference in March, held at Rutgers University. Their project Pharmacy and Health Sciences. She also received the 2019 titled “Bioreactor for Mechanical Stimulation of 3D Scaffolds Excellence in Scholarship Award for the Department of for Tendon Tissue Engineering” earned the team $150 and a Pharmacy Practice, awarded by the College of Pharmacy 3D printer. and Health Sciences.

Daniel Kennedy, associate professor of pharmacology, had Cy Ryding ’18/G’19 won third place in the 2019 Student his paper, cowritten with D. Calinski, “P & T and Me” noted as Poster Contest at the Transportation Infrastructure Durability the 2nd most read paper in the American Journal of Pharmaceuti- Center (TIDC) Annual Conference, in June. The cal Education for 2018. title of his poster and research topic was “Effect of Indentation Patterns in Prestressed Concrete Prisms Using High Jennifer Levi, professor of law, was recognized by the Performance Computing.” Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office in celebration of the

50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots this June. The Attorney Sudha Setty, dean of the School of Law, is an honoree of the General’s office selected a handful of LGBTQ lawyers in Massa- Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s Top Women in the Law for 2019. chusetts that it believes is at the pioneering forefront of LGBTQ The Top Women in Law list celebrates outstanding achieve- activism and advancement. She also received the Kevin Larkin ments made by exceptional women lawyers. Community Service Award in May from the Massachusetts LGBTQ Bar Association. And Professor Levi was inducted Samantha (Ellingson) Sullivan, clinical assistant professor into Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s Circle of Excellence in of internal medicine, was awarded the Preceptor of the Year November. Award for the PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program at Mercy Medical Center in June.

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APPEARANCES

APPEARANCES Faculty, Staff, Subject Date Media Faculty, Staff, Subject Date Media John Baick Tina Cafaro Impeachment Inquiry 10/9/19 WGGB-TV Online DA Andrea Harrington 4/12/19 iBerkshires.com Impeachment Announcement 9/24/19 WGGB-TV Online Third Democratic Primary 9/16/19 Connecting Point/ Anthony Caprio WGBY 57 WNE’s Centennial 8/27/19 WWLP.com Robert Mueller Testimony 7/29/19 Connecting Point/ Women’s Ice Hockey 6/26/19 USCHO.com WGBY 57 Rob Carmichael, 19 Small Town Politics 7/10/19 Connecting Point/ WGBY Created T-shirt Promoting 9/23/19 MassLive Self Love American Way of Life 7/4/19 Shreveport Times Online Harris Freeman Trump Reelection Campaign 6/24/19 Connecting Point/ WGBY 57 Pot Company’s Contract 5/24/19 Daily Hampshire Gazette Tension between U.S. 6/21/19 WGGB-TV Online Union-busting 5/15/19 Salon Iran Grows Volkswagen and Union-busting 5/9/19 In These Times History of Special Counsel 6/7/19 Connecting Point/ Workers Entitled to 3/15/19 Greenfield Recorder WGBY 57 Overtime Pay The Republican Online Remembering World War II 6/6/19 The Republican Online Jeffrey Fudin Lady Liberty 5/16/19 Daily Magazine Statins 6/26/19 Pharmacy Times Christian Science Monitor Neal’s Tax Return Request 4/11/19 The Reminder Thomas Hull Mueller Report 3/25/19 Connecting Point/ Origami 4/17/19 Bookofjoe WGBY Debra Latour Richard Neal 3/28/19 Commonwealth New Prosthetics Device 8/10/19 NEWS-Line Lynn Bowes-Sperry New Prosthetics Device 7/29/19 EurekAlert Scienmag Voice to Values in Era of #MeToo 9/8/19 The Free Library Technology for Better 7/31/19 Worcester Business Erin Buzuvis Prosthetics Journal Online 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

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

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Faculty, Staff, Subject Date Media Faculty, Staff, Subject Date Media

Jennifer Levi Karl Petrick Transgender Athletes 10/8/19 Morning Consult What’s MGM Meant 8/23/19 The Republican Online Face Hurdles for Springfield SCOTUS Cases and 10/7/19 Bustle Tariff on Chinese Imports 5/31/19 WGGB-TV Online LGBTQ People New Tariffs on Mexico 5/10/19 Western Mass News Trans Troops Aren’t Giving Up 8/30/19 Science Direct Online Jason Seacat Transgender Prison Inmates 8/25/19 Richmond Outsourcing Food 10/1-10/9/19 World Online and Times-Dispatch many others Nondiscrimination 8/12/19 Targeted News Service Outsourcing Food 9/30/19 Associated Press in Healthcare Campus Free Speech Battles 9/19/19 University Business Reversing Military Ban 7/26/19 Advocate.com Online House Votes Reverse Ban 7/11/19 Advocate.com Silencing Academic Voices 6/11/19 University Business Transgender Rights Win 6/21/19 Rewire.News Online Let Transgender Troops Serve 6/19/19 The Republican Online Natalia Shcherbakova Reconsider Trumps 6/17/19 Metro Weekly Online Military Ban Preventing New 4/24/19 Health New England Opioid Addictions Newsletter Trump Win is Trans Victory 6/15/19 The Washington Blade Transgender Troops Review 6/14/19 Publicnow Julie Steiner Transgender Troops 6/11/19 Targeted News Service Marketing of Cannabis 9/15/19 MassLive Military Ban 6/6/19 Politico Online Legal Marijuana 5/1/19 Hudson Valley One Online Trumps Anti-LGBTQ Attacks 5/24/19 Targeted News Service Transgender Military Service 5/3/19 The Politic Andrea St. James Employment Discrimination 4/22/19 Dallas Voice Negotiating Salary 8/31/19 MSN Career Builder Military Ban 4/14/19 Click Lancashire Diane Testa Military Ban 4/13/19 Conservative Angle Link Between GMOs & Wifi 5/2/19 Before its News Military Ban 4/12/19 The Hill Online Link Between GMOs & Wifi 5/2/19 World Health Network 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

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APPEARANCES & GRANTS

Doug Battema, professor of communication Brenda Garton-Sjoberg, professional educator of Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering communication

Faculty, Staff, Subject Date Media GRANTS

Tim Vercellotti Doug Battema, professor of communication, and Brenda Joe Kennedy Challenges 9/23/19 Connecticut Poste Garton-Sjoberg, professional educator of communication, Markey Online secured $100,000 from the George I. Alden Trust for upgrades The Advocate Online to the campus television studio and new video cameras for The Washington Post Online student use. Congressional Corner 8/19/19 WAMC Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Congressional Corner 8/15/19 WAMC received the following grants: 16 Year-Olds Voting? 8/13/19 Waltham News Tribune Online With Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechanical Should 16 Year-olds Vote? 8/12/19 Milford Daily engineering, and Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor News Online of mechanical engineering, $9,000 in March from the Envi- Should 16 Year-olds Vote? 8/5/19 Medfield Press ronmental Research and Technology Division at Brookhaven (90 more) National Laboratory for “Flow Rate Measurement using Congressional Corner-Debates 6/25/19 WAMC Perfluorocarbon Tracers and Gas Chromatography.” History of Special Counsel 6/7/19 Connecting Point/ A WNE Faculty Grant from Professional Development for WGBY 57 $3,000 in May for “Flow Rate Measurement of a Piezoelectric Lowering Voting Age 5/30/19 US Official News Fan Using Perfluorocarbon Tracers and Gas Chromatography.” Lowering Voting Age 5/29/19 NEPR An NSF I-Corps @ UMass Amherst grant for $699.98 (up The Republican to $2,500 with receipts), in May for “Customer Discovery New Healthcare Rule 5/3/19 Western Mass News Interviews for a Biomimetic Flapping Fan.” Congressional Corner 4/23/19 WAMC With Vedang Chauhan, assistant professor of mechanical Congressional Corner 4/17/19 WAMC engineering, Mehdi Mortazavi, assistant professor of mechan- Sharianne Walker ical engineering, and Anthony Santamaria, assistant profes- Named Interim Dean 9/3/19 BusinessWest Online sor of mechanical engineering, $76,336, June 2019-February of College of Business 2020, from the Toyota Research Institute of North America, for Beth Welch “Liquid Water Distribution & Pressure Characterization in an Interprofessional 4/29/19 US Official News Ex-Situ PEM Fuel Cell Channel.” Education Day Arin Whitman CBD Popularity on the Rise 5/6/19 Western Mass News

17 GRANTS

Erin Buzuvis, professor of law Katelyn Harrison, clinical associate professor Daniel Kennedy, associate professor of Melissa Knott, associate professor of of ambulatory care pharmacology management

Erin Buzuvis, professor of law, received a $2,500 fellowship Katelyn Harrison, clinical associate professor of ambulatory from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for travel to care, Kam Capoccia, clinical professor of community care, Australia in May 2019. The purpose of the fellowship was to and Gladys Ekong, assistant professor of pharmacy adminis- examine Australian antidiscrimination law and its influence on tration, were awarded a $2,000 seed grant through the College sport organizations’ policies for inclusion and participation of of Pharmacy and Health Sciences for a project titled, “Effect transgender athletes. of Pharmacist-led Interventions on Diabetes Distress among People with Type 2 Diabetes in a Community Care Setting.” Vedang Chauhan, assistant professor of mechanical engi- neering, received a $15,000 MA Acorn Award through the Thomas Hull, associate professor of mathematics, received Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC), January a 3-year, $220,000 grant from the National Science Founda- 2019-April 2019, for “Design & Control System Optimization tion. The grant is titled “RUI: Configuration Spaces of Rigid Testing of an Electronically Controlled Continuously Variable Origami.” It’s a standard research grant through the NSF’s Transmission (E-CVT) System for Small Engine Applications.” Division of Mathematical Sciences and includes funding for undergraduate students to do original research with Dr. Hull. Meri Clark, professor of history, received a $5,850 fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for travel to Devina Jaiswal, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, Finland to visit museums and archival sites to enhance her received $2,000 from the American Society for Quality, April teaching of comparative history. 2019-April 2020, for “Mechanical Stimulation Bioreactor for Tendon Tissue Engineering.” Izabela Collier, clinical associate professor of ambulatory care, was awarded the following two Alumni Association grants, one Daniel Kennedy, associate professor of pharmacology, had for $1,250 in Fall 2018 for the Summer Camp program and an- an R21 submission to the National Cancer Institute titled other for $810.50 in Spring 2019. She also received Walgreens “Exploring the Role of Thiol Isomerases in Cancer Associated Pipeline Initiative Development Grant of $2,000 for 2018-2019 Thrombosis” funded for $377,201. and the Beverage Foundation Grant in Spring 2019 for $1000 for the Summer Camp program. Melissa Knott, associate professor of management, received a fellowship of $4,793 from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Robert Gettens, associate professor of biomedical engineer- Foundation for travel to New Zealand and Australia to enhance ing, received $5,000, August 2018-September 2019, from her global perspective as it relates to her teaching and pedagogy Medtronic for “Duckbill Closure Response Time.” 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 Amer Qouneh, assistant professor of electrical Kourosh Rahnamai, professor of electrical and Christian Salmon, assistant professor of and environmental engineering and computer engineering computer engineering industrial engineering and engineering management

Andrea Kwaczala, assistant professor of biomedical engineer- Christian Salmon, assistant professor of industrial engineer- ing, received $2,000 from KEEN University of New Haven, Au- ing and engineering management, received $3,000 in May gust 2018-May 2019, for “Integrated e-Learning Module: The as a WNE Faculty Grant for “Development of Standards and Elevator Pitch” and $3,000, a WNE Faculty Grant, summer Recommended Practices for Online Education.” 2019, for “Design of a Portable Motion Analysis System.” Mary Schoonmaker, assistant professor of marketing, Chang Hoon Lee, assistant professor of civil and environmen- secured a PeoplesBank grant of $50,000 that will fund five tal engineering, with Moochul Shin, associate professor of years of Western Mass Innovation Jam startup weekends and civil and environmental engineering, T. Yu, and S. Faraji, “seedships” (small grants) for student startups. received $85,000 from the University Transportation Center, Federal Department of Transportation, January 2019-January Moochul Shin, associate professor of civil and environmental 2020 for “Condition Assessment of Corroded Prestressed engineering, (Institutional Lead) received $312,500, September Concrete Bridge Girders.” 2018-August 2023, from The U.S. Department of Transporta- tion, University Transportation Center-Region 1 for “Transpor- Seyed Niknam, assistant professor of industrial engineering tation Infrastructure Durability Center: Extending the Life of and engineering management, received $1,000 in March as a Our Transportation Assets.” He also received $41,500, (Co-PI) KEEN Book Club Grant. January 2019-December 2019, the University of Maine from The U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transporta- Amer Qouneh, assistant professor of electrical and computer tion Center-Region 1 for “Condition Assessment of Corroded engineering, received a research grant of $50,000 per year, for a Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders.” total of $200,000 (2019-2023), for “Enhancing Mobile VR/AR User Experience: An Integrated Architecture-System Approach” Jingzhou Zhao, assistant professor of mechanical engineer- from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project is a ing received $15,000, January 2019-March 2019, from the collaboration effort with researchers at the University of Florida Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center for “Production of and University of Houston. Total amount of the grant is Silica-coated Metal Nanoparticles Using Electro Spraying.” 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.

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PATENTS APPOINTMENTS

Jingru Benner, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Courtney Doyle-Campbell, clinical associate professor of received a patent, with J. Brown, E. Panides, A. Ruggles, and ambulatory care, became coordinator of the American Pharma- Y. Zhang, titled “Cleaning Nozzle and Nozzle Assembly for cists Association Medical Home/ACO Special Interest Group Multi-fiber Connectors”, US20180259720A1, publication date (SIG) in March. September 2018. Christian Salmon, assistant professor of industrial engineer- Andrea Kwaczala, assistant professor of biomedical engineer- ing and engineering management, was on the Transportation ing, received a patent with P. George, K. Primmer L. Cavacini, Research Board, Subcommittee for Aviation Safety Annual and K. Wood, titled “Upper Body Rotational Assistive Device,” Meeting, and was also a session chair. in May. Natalia Shcherbakova, associate professor of pharmacoeco- Michael Rust, associate professor of biomedical engineering, nomics, was appointed as the chair of the Social and Adminis- with Joseph Papu ’12 and A. Browne received a patent titled trative Sciences in Pharmacy Summer Research Exchange Com- “Method of Evaluating a Hematocrit,” Patent No.: 10,295,526 B2, mittee of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. published May 21, 2019. Professor Rust also received a patent in February, with B. Dutra, Bart Lipkens, professor of mechanical VENTURES engineering, and Daniel Kennedy, associate professor of pharma- cology, titled “Acoustophoretic Separation of Lipid Particles from Janet Bowdan, professor of English, read her poems at the Red Blood Cells.” Patent No. 10,201,652 B2. Garlic & Arts Festival in Orange, MA, in September. With Western New England MFA students and graduates Megan Anthony Santamaria, assistant professor of mechanical Granger, Zubia Abbasi, and Erin Ford Martell, she also engineering, received a patent, with P. Mazza, and M. Milenski, led an MFA Showcase reading at the Mason Square Branch of titled “Short Run Injection Molding Method and Device for the Springfield Public Library in June. Liquid Silicone Rubber Materials,” draft application submitted, provisional filing in progress. Debra Latour, assistant professor of practice in occupational therapy, has teamed up with Worcester Polytechnic Institute Christian Salmon, assistant professor of industrial engineer- - ing and engineering management, received a provisional patent, professor Dr. Ted Clancy and local prosthetics company Lib erating Technologies, Inc. to develop wireless sensors that will with David Greenslade ’14/G’15, titled “Critical Network improve the performance of prosthetics for people with upper Method for Project Management.” limb amputations.