Post Tagged with: "research"

Figueroa Authors Collection of Stories about Puerto Rican Traditions

Dr. Melissa Figueroa

Dr. Melissa Figueroa, Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Modern Languages Department, published a collection of short stories titled Nota de duelo (Mourning Note) in ArtePoética Press, a New York-based publishing company that specializes in literature written in Spanish in the United States. The stories are about Puerto Rican traditions […]

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December 3, 2018 at 1:29 pmResearch

Cox Co-Facilitates Workshop for Women and Crime Professional Development Series

Dr. Amanda Cox

by Aissatou Boye ’20 Dr. Amanda Cox, Lecturer of Sociology, participated in the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Women and Crime Professional Development Series at the organization’s annual meeting. With her colleague, Dr. Shelly Clevenger, an Associate Professor at Illinois State University, Cox led a portion of the workshop […]

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November 29, 2018 at 8:59 amResearch

Linguistics Faculty, Students Present Teaching Tips at Second Language Pronunciation Conference

Linguistics faculty and graduate students present at PSLLT

Second-year Linguistics M.A. students Sofía Fernandez and Zoe Zawadzki presented their projects at the 10th annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching conference at Iowa State University from Sept. 6-8, along with Dr. Lara Wallace and Dr. Edna Lima of the English Langauge Improvement Program. Fernandez presented with Wallace, Senior […]

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November 28, 2018 at 1:55 pmResearch

Welser Presents ‘Swipe for Your Right to Party’ for SMART Dialogues

Dr. Ted Welser presenting at Smart Dialogues in October 2018

By Richard Morris Associate Professor of Sociology Dr. Ted Welser presented during an installment of the Scripps College of Communication SMART Dialogue Series, which is dedicated to providing a platform for discourse on social media research. In his lecture, “Swipe for Your Right to Party,” he described the effects which […]

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November 27, 2018 at 3:48 pmResearch

Barrile Completes Scholarly Translation of 16th-Century Manuscript

Matthew Barrile

  Dr. Matthew Barrile, Online Curricular Designer and Lecturer of Modern Languages at Ohio University, recently completed a scholarly translation of a 16th-century manuscript from the Portuguese Inquisition in Brazil. The text is included in the forthcoming anthology, A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First […]

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November 16, 2018 at 8:25 amResearch

Hare-Raising Research: Doctoral Student Uses Rabbits to Study Hearing Loss

Hariprakash Haragopal in his groups lab, where he records electrical responses to sound in Dutch belted rabbits

By Amanda Biederman Rabbits are known by many for their characteristic long, floppy ears. Yet those ears may hold the secret to understanding hearing loss and, ultimately, creating a more effective hearing aid. Hariprakash Haragopal is a doctoral student in the Department of Biological Sciences. With his supervisor, Dr. Mitchell […]

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November 14, 2018 at 3:51 pmResearch

Lein Presents on Sustainable Land Cover, Named to 3 Editorial Boards

Dr. James Lein

Dr. James Lein, Professor of Geography, presented a paper at the 41st Annual Applied Geography Conference in October and was appointed to three editorial boards this year. His paper was on “Exploring Machine Learning Strategies to Predict Sustainable Land Cover Arrangements in an Urban Setting.” Abstract: There have been several […]

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November 9, 2018 at 8:35 amResearch