Andrew Nuxoll, engineering, received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Nuxoll is among over 800 U.S. citizens who will conduct research and/or teach abroad for the 2022-2023 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. Nuxull will be located in Georgia.
Deana Julka, psychological sciences, presented “Experimental Attempts to Lower Eco-Anxiety” with student co-presenters Siena Henson, Daniel Smith, Marlu Martens, Maya Sellier, and Scarlett Thomas. April 2022.
Simon Aihiokhai, theology, served in the role of external examiner on the dissertation committee for candidate Abraham M. Addam. Member institution: Graduate Theological Union (GTU). Department: Historical and Cultural Studies of Religion. Concentration: Sociology of Religion. Duration: May 13, 2022–present. Aihiokhai virtually presented “Deconstructing the Myth of Whiteness: A Decolonial Turn to A Eucharistic Humanity.” A Plenary Panel Presentation at the Annual Conference of the College Theology Society. June 2022. Aihiokhai also served as lector at the liturgy, opening liturgy at the annual meeting of the College Theology Society. Aihiokhai also presented “Interrogating Religious Identities in a Culture of Systemic Racism: Reimagining Catholicity as Radical Inclusivity” and “Rethinking the Just War Tradition: A Comparative Theological Engagement with Insights from Igbo Religion and Christianity” at the Annual Conference of the Catholic Theological Society of America. June 2022.
Bob Butler, environmental studies, and Jenda Johnson, IRIS Education and Public Outreach, published a new animation “Africa — Tectonic Setting and Earthquake History.” This animation explains the plate tectonics, seismology, and GPS observations of East African Rift System and Atlas Mountains regions, the major earthquake belts of Earth’s second largest continent.
Valerie Peterson, mathematics, presented “Formative Peer Observation as a Support for Evidence-Based Instructional Changes in STEM” at the Change DIAL conference in Lincoln, NE on May 24. This is part of the REFLECT Project, which is joint work with Eric Anctil, education, Heather Dillon, engineering, UW Tacoma, Carolyn James, mathematics, Tara Prestholdt, biology, and Stephanie Salomone, mathematics, REFLECT Project PI.
Kyle Garcia, athletics communications, is a Stabley Writing Contest District 8 co-winner in the season preview/recap section for his story “Shantay Legans, Pilot Hoops Ready for Fresh Start.”
Genevieve Brassard, english, presented a paper titled “‘Our Own Mental Weather:’ Resentment and Resilience in Women’s Wartime Narratives of Work” at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Space Between Society, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, June 2022.
Rev. Thomas E. Hosinski, theology, recently published an essay entitled “A Process Interpretation of Creatio ex Nihilo” in Process Thought and Roman Catholicism: Challenges and Promises, Marc A. Pugliese and John Becker, eds. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022), pp. 95-109. Over the past months he has also published several book reviews for Theological Studies and Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society, most recently a review of John P. Slattery, ed., T & T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and the Modern Sciences (London/New York: T & T Clark, 2020) for Horizons (forthcoming).