Aziz Inan, engineering, along with undergraduate electrical engineering students Matthew Yuen and Jacob Kirby and UP alumni Peter Perkins and Henry Benitez, presented and published a research paper titled, “Why Do GFCIs Keep Tripping?” in the 2017 IEEE Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering (ISPCE 2017) Proceedings , pp. 15-19, San Jose, California, May 8-10, 2017. The paper is available at https://faculty.up.edu/ainan/publications.html.
Kevin Jones, sociology and social work, presented (with Amy Salazar and Kevin Taggerty) “Using Theater Testing to Assess Intervention Usability Among its Target Population: An Example and Experiential Workshop” at the 4th International Conference on Practice Research, Hong Kong, China. May 2017. He also presented “The Role of Mentors in Promoting Success and Satisfaction for Undergraduate Social Work Students.”
Mallie Kozy, nursing, and Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, received a Terry Misener Innovation in Nursing Grant to produce, deploy, and study the impact of a series of visual contemplation and meditation videos with people living with severe stress or chronic illness. Sources will include secular, spiritual and religious texts and images and harp music composed specifically for this project.
Mark Eifler, history, served as a consultant and was interviewed by Nutopia Productions/History Channel for “America: Promised Land,” January-May 2017.
Ellyn Arwood, education, co-authored Neuro-Education: A translation from theory to practice (with Chris Meredith), an Arwood Neuro-Viconics Publication, Division of APRICOT, Inc., May 2017.
Cara Poor, engineering published “Evaluation of Soil Mixes in Shallow Bioretention Systems” in Proceedings of the ASCE-EWRI World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, Paper ID #237461, Sacramento, CA, May 21-25 2017 (with student coauthor Daniel Wagner).
John Orr, English, presented “One Hundred Years of Humiliation: Henry Adams and the Middle Kingdom” at the American Literature Association Conference , May 26, 2017, Boston, MA.
Deana Julka, psychological sciences, presented “Examining the Capstone Experience,” a poster presented at the annual Western Psychologica Association in Sacramento, CA, April, 2017.
Jeffrey White, international languages & cultures, attended Building Bridges — Connecting Students: Northwest College Reading and Learning Association conference, Portland, OR, May 2017.
Matthew Kuhn, engineering, published Granular Geomechanics, ISTE-Elsevier Press, London, April 2017, ISBN 9781785480713.