Lora Looney, international languages & cultures, earned a four-course graduate certificate in Learning Design and Technology from Harvard Extension School in January. Looney also participated in a competitive grant challenge at ShapingEdu hosted by ASU with her team, Emerging Microcredentials Standards, led by Allison Hall, ASU, and David Thomas, U Denver. The team pitched a web-based starter kit to assist higher ed institutions to develop their own microcredentialing programs (such as certificates) or to partner with outside enterprises (such as Coursera) by adopting sustainable curricular standards for stackable credentials. Strategies for students’ career preparedness focused this work. The team won second place and a $7,500 grant.
Erica Bailey, nursing, presented “The Power of Radical Listening & Supporting POC Student Leaders in Higher Education” along with student co-presenter Adeline Paguirigan. February 2022.
Rachel Wheeler, theology, published “The Expansive Table: Food as Formative and Transformative,” Liturgy 36, no. 4 (2021): 34-40. January 2022. Wheeler also published Ecospirituality: An Introduction (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2022). February 2022.
Aziz Inan, engineering, was interviewed in multiple publications for his research on the ubiquitous palindrome date 2-22-22: CNN News (“Happy Twosday! Don’t miss out celebrating the coolest date of the decade” and “Twosday: What to know about February 22, 2022”), CBS News, CTV National News (Canada), Wall Street Journal (WSJ), National Public Radio (NPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB), and New Straits Times (NST) (Malaysia). Inan was also interviewed on the following radio stations: Spirit 105.3 Radio in Seattle, WA, The Morning Beat (TMB) nationally syndicated LGBTQ Talk Radio Show, CBC Radio in Alberta, Canada, Corus/Global News Radio Network in British Columbia, ABC Radio in Melbourne, Australia, CP24 News in Toronto, Canada, and CJAD 800 Radio in Montreal, Canada. Inan also published, “Moore’s birthday brings a dozen numerical curiosities,” in Clackamas Review, Vol. 101, Issue 8, page A6, February 23, 2022; “Odd numerical curiosities in Alexander Bell’s life,” in Portland Tribune, March 3, 2022; and he republished “Conducted Emissions Feedback From VSD-Operated Products,” with four UP Alumni Henry Benitez, Peter Perkins, Joshua Thompson, and Christopher Miles, in Compliance Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 24-33, February 2022. This paper was a result of an undergraduate research project Inan conducted with his former students Thompson and Miles with collaboration and guidance provided by Perkins and Benitez.