SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY Faculty Achievements 2018-2019 Nadia Abgrab Business Studies and Economics/Associate Professor Conferences Attended 29th American Society for Competitiveness in Tysons, Va. Papers Presented “Economic Development for South Africa – Competing in the Global Marketplacee” at 29th American Society for Competitiveness (2018) Tysons, Va. Articles Published Green, Godshalk, & Abgrab Noormohamed (2018). “Economic Development for South Africa – Competing in the Global Marketplace” Competition Forum. Vol.16, Number 1, ISBN 1545-2581, pp. 171-178 [Faculty/student research] Honors Received Canadian Institute of Technology - Tirana, Albania. Invited to speak to marketing classes on international business ethics Other Scholarly Achievements American Marketing Association’s International Collegiate Conference, New Orleans, La. Reviewer of annual reports/chapter plans American Marketing Association - Salve Regina University chapter co-advisor Coordinated Marketing Alumni Networking Event at Salve Regina University American Airlines advisory panel survey participant, Dallas, Texas Nordstrom advisory panel survey participant, Seattle, Wash. Talbots advisory panel survey participant, Hingham, Mass. Thomas Arruda Chemistry/Assistant Professor Conferences Attended 233rd Meeting of the Electrochemical Society (ECS); Seattle, Wash., May 2018 Scholarly Presentations “Redox kinetics of vanadium compounds: promising materials for grid-scale energy storage,” NASA Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium Annual Symposium, Roger Williams University, April 13, 2019 “Workshop on predatory publishers/conferences,” McKillop Library, Salve Regina University, Oct. 30, 2018 Papers Presented “Effect of chemical additives on the V(IV)/V(V) redox couple for vanadium redox flow batteries,” V. Trudel and T.M. Arruda, American Chemical Society Rhode Island Section Annual Meeting, Providence College, April 16, 2019 “Method development for understanding fundamental electrolyte chemistry of vanadium redox flow batteries,” D.J. Donnelly and T.M. Arruda, American Chemical Society Rhode Island Section Annual Meeting, Providence College, April 16, 2019 “Exploring concentration effects on electrochemical reversibility, membrane phenomena and crossover of V(IV) /V(V) electrolyte solutions for vanadium redox flow batteries,” S. Tiano, J.S. Lawton and T.M. Arruda, American Chemical Society Rhode Island Section Annual Meeting, Providence College, April 16, 2019 1 “Exploring concentration effects on electrochemical reversibility, membrane phenomena and crossover of V(IV) /V(V) electrolyte solutions for vanadium redox flow batteries,” S. Tiano, J.S. Lawton and T.M. Arruda, NASA Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium Annual Symposium, Roger Williams University, April 13, 2019 “Effect of chemical additives on the V(IV)/V(V) redox couple for vanadium redox flow batteries,” V. Trudel and T.M. Arruda, SRyou Day oral presentation, Salve Regina University, March 27, 2019 ‘Exploring concentration effects of electrolyte solutions on processes of vanadium redox flow batteries,’ S. Tiano, J.S. Lawton and T.M. Arruda, SRyou Day oral presentation, Salve Regina University, March 27, 2019 “Method development for understanding fundamental electrolyte chemistry of vanadium redox flow batteries,” D.J. Donnelly and T.M. Arruda, SRyou Day oral presentation, Salve Regina University, March 27, 2019 “Exploring concentration effects on electrochemical reversibility, membrane phenomena and crossover of V(IV)/V(V) electrolyte solutions for Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries,” S. Tiano, J.S. Lawton and T.M. Arruda, 11th Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Conference, University of Rhode Island, July 27, 2018 “Porous lithium ion conductive glass ceramics for enhancing bond durability, strength for protective lithium pouches,” D.J. Donnelly; C.J. Patrissi; J. Rizzo; C. Schumacher and T.M. Arruda, 11th Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Conference, University of Rhode Island, July 27, 2018 “Electrochemical and EPR measurements of vanadium redox couples for all vanadium redox flow batteries,” S. Tiano, J. S. Lawton and T. M. Arruda, Symposium on Larger-Scale Energy Storage 9 (A02), # 214, 233rd Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Seattle, Wash., 2018 “Investigation of waste heat accumulation and internal resistance of AA NiMH cells,” D. J. Donnelly, C. J. Patrissi and T. M. Arruda, Symposium on Battery and Energy Technology Joint General Session (A01), # 76, 233rd Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Seattle, Wash., 2018 Articles Published Lawton, J. S.; Tiano, S. M.; Donnelly, D. J.; Flanagan, S. P. and Arruda, T. M., “The Effect of Sulfuric Acid Concentration on Physical and Electrochemical Properties of Vanadyl Solutions,” Batteries, 2018, 4, 40, 1-14 Other Scholarly Achievements Research Grant: $15,000 from NASA EPSCoR for the project: “Understanding the factors that limit the performance of vanadium redox flow batteries” Guest editor: Special issue on “The application of alloys and oxides in electrochemical and electromechanical systems” in the journal Metals 2 Heather Axen Biology and Biomedical Sciences/Assistant Professor Conferences Attended Genomics of Social Insects, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, May 5-8, 2018 Big Data Genomics Workshop for Undergraduate Professors. The Jackson Laboratory, Farmington Conn., May 21-25, 2018 Scholarly Presentations Invited talk: Roger Williams Student Seminar Series, Bristol, R.I., “Understanding and Preventing Epidemics: What Can We Learn from Social Insects?” Nov. 7, 2018 Invited talk: Circle of Scholars at Salve Regina University, “Understanding and Preventing Epidemics: Lessons from Social Insects,” June 20, 2018 Other Scholarly Achievements Grant awarded by National Science Foundation. “From Genome to Phenome in a Stressful World: Epigenetic regulatory mechanisms mediating thermal plasticity in Drosophila,” with Sara Helms Cahan, Brent Lockwood, and Seth Freitze (University of Vermont), Nick Teets (University of Kentucky) and James Waters (Providence College), funded September 1, 2018, $4,771,722 RI-INBRE SURF training award: “A fire ant hybrid system as a unique model to study immune function.” Funded May 31-Oct. 31, 2018, $25,000 Belinda Barbagallo Biology and Biomedical Sciences/Assistant Professor Scholarly Achievements Early Career Award RI-INBRE, National Institutes of Health. Three-year grant to investigate neural circuits underlying physiological response to environmental stress. This award includes funds for student employment, research materials and conference attendance. R01 Subcontract, National Institutes of Health and UMASS-Amherst. Grant from the National Institutes of Health in collaboration with a team from UMASS- Amherst to study the developmental effects of PFOS exposure. This award funds five summer research students and research materials. Elizabeth Bloom Nursing/Assistant Professor Conferences Attended Interprofessional Education Collaborative, Brown University Mental Health First Aid Training Understanding Substance Use Disorder in Nursing How to Teach Thinking MARILN Articles Published Bloom EM. “Horizontal violence among nurses: Experiences, responses, and job performance.” Nurse Forum. 2018; 1-6. doi.org/10.1111/nuf.12300 3 Luigi Bradizza Political Science/Associate Professor Conferences Attended American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Mass., Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 2018 The Association of Private Enterprise Education Annual Meeting, Paradise Island, Bahamas, April 6-8, 2019 Scholarly Presentations “A Progressivism segment on Hegel, Wilson, Goodnow, and Croly,” Montgomery Liberal Arts Foundation Summer Institute, Montgomery College, Germantown, Md., July 31-Aug. 2, 2018 Book Reviews “Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State’s Challenge to Constitutional Government,” by Joseph Postell, online at VoegelinView, voegelinview.com/ bureaucracy-in-america-the-administrative-states-challenge-to-constitutional- government (2018) “Seeing through the Screen: Interpreting American Political Film,” by Bruce E. Altschuler, online at VoegelinView, voegelinview.com/lights-sound-political-action (2018) “Imagining Conservatism: The Letters of Russell Kirk,” ed. James E. Person, Jr., The Independent Review 23, no 4 (Spring 2019) Papers Presented “Extremism, The American Founding, and Russell Kirk’s The Roots of American Order,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Mass., Aug. 30, 2018 “Ladies First: How Progressives Used Women to Harm Economic Freedom,” The Association of Private Enterprise Education Annual Meeting, Paradise Island, Bahamas, April 7, 2019 “Frederick Douglass on Economic Liberty and Cultural Uplift,” The Association of Private Enterprise Education Annual Meeting, Paradise Island, Bahamas, April 7, 2019 Articles Published “The Progressive Critique of Free Markets: A Response,” Heritage Foundation First Principles No. 69, August 1, 2018. Online at The Heritage Foundation, heritage.org/ sites/default/files/2018-08/FP-69_0.pdf (2018) “The Political Role of the University,” Expositions: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities 12, vol. 2 (Fall 2018): 176-90. Online at expositions.journals.villanova.edu Books/Papers Published “Christian Ethics in Measure for Measure,” in “The Soul of Statesmanship: Shakespeare on Nature, Virtue, and Political Wisdom,” ed. Khalil Habib and Joseph Hebert (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2018) Other Scholarly Achievements Discussant and panel chair, “The New Left and Identity Politics” panel, American Political Science