Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, had his article, “Queen Victoria’s 200th birthday adds to royal numbers,” published in the Portland Tribune. See the article here.
Blair Woodard, history, presented his paper “Visual Diplomacy and the U.S. Embassy in Havana, 1951-2018” at the Latin American Studies Association Congress in Boston, MA.
Benjamin Gallegos, education, had his paper, “Students with autism spectrum disorders who participate in FIRST robotics” (with Karin Fisher, Taylor Bousfield) published in Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching and Learning Conference : Vol. 3, Article 5. DOI: 0.20429/stem.2019.030105, April 2019. He also had his paper, “Middle school students in a rural community having conversations with a STEM professional before playing a science video game in their after school program: Students talking to a TeachLivE adult virtual avatar before gaming” in Proceedings of 6th Annual TeachLivE Conference 2018. Virtual Human Interactive Performance (VHIP) , 110-117.
Stephanie Salomone, mathematics, presented “Spreading Evidence-Based Pedagogical Practices: Leveraging Peer Observation for Instructional Change,” a Webinar presentation hosted by the Accelerating Systemic Change Network (ASCN) (with Tara Prestholdt, Valerie Peterson, Eric Anctil, Heather Dillon, Carolyn James) in May 2019.
Amber Vermeesch, nursing, received an $800 grant for “Prevalence of Coping Strategies for Inappropriate Patient Sexual Behavior in Nursing Baccalaureate Education” from Sigma Theta Tau International, with Halina Wyss, March 2019. She also presented “Effect of mindfulness on perceived stress by graduate nursing students,” the 3rd International Integrative Nursing Symposium, Galway, Ireland, May 22-24, 2019 (with Patricia Cox, Pamela Potter).
Martin Cenek, Shiley School of Engineering, wrote “Studying Kenai River Fisheries’ Social-Ecological Drivers Using a Holistic Fisheries Agent-Based Model: Implications for Policy and Adaptive Capacity” (with Jamie Trammell and Maxwell Franklin) in MDPI Fishes 2019, 4(2), 33, May 2019.