Randy Hetherington, education, co-presented “Preparing Post-COVID Professionals: Re-imagining Pre-Service Training.” Paper presentation at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) conference. March 2022. “Managing Multiple Environments: Are Post-COVID Professionals Prepared?”Paper presentation at the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges of Teacher Education (AILACTE) conference. March 2022. “Post Pandemic Early Career Teachers: Are They Prepared?” Paper presented at the Oregon Association of Teacher Educators (ORATE) conference. February 2022. Co-presenter: Jacqueline Waggoner.
Simon Aihiokhai, theology, presented “We Need to Decolonize Christianity in Africa” Prof Simon Aihiokhai’s Synodal Proposals for a Church in Africa that Liberates God’s People.” African Catholic Voices: A Podcast Service of the Pan-African Catholic Theology and PastoralNetwork. April 2022.Aihiokhai also presented “How can we re-imagine identity issues that can be more inclusive?” A keynote address given at the Virtual Multi-Faith Round Table. (Virtually). The event was sponsored by Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, and the Institute for Religious Tolerance, Peace, and Justice (IRTPJ). April 2022. Aihiokhai published “Beyond Labels & Exclusion: Multifaith Roundtable Explores Paths to Understanding” in STAND League. April 2022.
Lauren M. Alfrey, sociology, will be publishing “Diversity, Disrupted: A Critique of Neoliberal Difference in Tech Organizations,” in the journal Sociological Perspectives.
Michael Cameron, theology, published “Origen and Augustine,” in The Oxford Handbook of Origen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022): 461-83. April 2022.
Corey Pressman’s, nursing, artwork, “Transitive,” was selected to be in the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences show Works on Paper from April 16–May 30.
Marjorie Attis-Josias, nursing, presented BIPOC Nursing Students’ Experiences with Help-Seeking When Under Stress. Attis-Josias also participated in the Western Institute of Nursing Conference in Portland, Oregon. April 2022.
Chloe Littzen, nursing, co-presented “Working as a nurse during the COVID-19 pandemic: Future Workforce Considerations,” with co-presenters Jessica Rainbow and Claire Bethel and student co-presenters Angie Norton and Hanne Dolan; “Young Adult Nurse Work-related Well-being During the COVID-19 Pandemic, with co-presenters Pamela Reed, Jessica Rainbow, and Cindy Rishel; “It’s Been a Roller Coaster: Experiences of Nurses Working During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” with co-presenters Jessica Rainbow, Claire Bethel, and Hanne Dolan and student co-presenter Angie Norton. Presentations took place at the Western Institute of Nursing Conference. April 2022. Littzen also presented “The Mediterranean Diet as an Adjunctive Therapy for Bipolar Disorder in Adults.” [Conference poster]. Founders Day. April 2022.
Michael Cameron, theology, published “Mystery” [in Greek and Latin Early Christianity], in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception; vol. 20, eds. Thomas Römer and Joel M. Lemon (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter): col. 373-384. April 2022.
Students working with Lauren Berger, psychological sciences, will present their research at the 102nd Annual Western Psychological Association Convention, April 27–May 1, 2022 (Portland, OR) and the 2022 UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference (PURC), May 6, 2022 (Los Angeles, CA). Jennifer Fitz Cortez (PSY & SPN; class of ’22) and Abigail McCarthy (PSY; class of ’22) studied racial and generational differences in self-disclosure tendencies, while Olivia Nomura (PSY; class of ’22) examined racial differences in emotion regulation and coping with psychological distress.
Andrew Lafrenz, nursing, was an invited speaker for “Bridging the Classroom and Community: Training the Next Generation of Health Equity Advocates” at the Society of Public Health Education 23rd Annual Advocacy Summit. January 2022.
Stephanie Salomone, mathematics, presented “Using NASA Data to Analyze Melting Arctic Sea Ice” (with Dr. C. Anhalt (UA)), 2022 Keynote at Oregon STEM Beyond School Spring All-Program Meeting, hosted by the OR SBS Network and Portland Metro STEM Partnership, virtual. April 2022.
Jordy Wolfand, engineering, co-published “Thermal Suitability of the Los Angeles River for Cold Water Resident and Migrating Fish Under Physical Restoration Alternatives” in Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9 (January), 1–14. Co-publishers: Abdi, R., Rust, A., Taniguchi-Quan, K., Irving, K., Philippus, D., Stein, E. D., & Hogue, T. S. January 2022. Wolfand also co-published “Balancing water reuse and ecological support goals in an effluent dominated river” in the Journal of Hydrology X, 15, 100124. Co-publishers: Taniguchi-Quan, K. T., Abdi, R., Gallo, E., Irving, K., Philippus, D., Rogers, J. B., Stein, E. D., & Hogue, T. S. March 2022.