Alexa Dare, communication studies, presented “’Livestock” and “Wildlife’: The Rhetoric of Rights in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Standoff” (co-authored with Vail Fletcher) and “’Sure, you can touch my belly’: Rethinking bodies, agency, and individuality while ‘teaching when pregnant'”at the National Communication Annual Convention in Philadelphia. She also responded to four papers presented in the session, “Collaboration and Collaborative Challenges,” which was sponsored by the Organizational Communication Division.
Natalie Nelson-Marsh, communication studies, presented her coauthored manuscript, “’Lights Must Stay On’: The Communicative Roles of Boundary Spanning” (with J. Kopczynski) at the National Communication Association conference on Friday, November 11, in Philadelphia, Pa. The paper is from a 3-year National Science Foundation grant studying the role of collaboration in the development of policy to integrate renewable energy into the electricity system.
Jennette Lovejoy, communication studies, published her article, “Three Decades of Reliability in Communication Content Analyses: Reporting of Reliability Statistics and Coefficient Levels in Three Top Journals” in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, winter 2016, with co-authors Brendan Watson and Stephen Lacy, Michigan State University, and Daniel Riffe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Mehmet Inan, engineering, was interviewed on KOIN as well as KATU TV regarding the recent Fukushima earthquake. See the KOIN story at this link.
Maria Echenique and Matthew Warshawsky, international languages and cultures, presented papers at the 114th annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), held November 11-13 in Pasadena, Calif. Echenique’s paper was entitled “Documenting Realities of Oppression: The Latin American Genre of Testimonio in Literature and Film,” and Warshawsky’s was called “Seeing La Reyna Ester of João Pinto Delgado through the Lenses of Spanish Golden Age Poetics and a Converso Worldview.” Echenique also chaired a panel on film and literature.
Michael Andrews, College of Arts and Sciences, contributed “The Ethics of Keeping Secrets: Edith Stein and Philosophy as Autobiography,” a book chapter in Alles Wesentliche Lasst sich nicht schreiben: Leben und Denken Edith Steins im Spiegel ihres Gesamtwerkes, Andreas Speer and Stephan Regh, editors, Verlag Herder Publications: Freiburg, 2016. pp.381-401, November 2016.
Amber Vermeersch, nursing, presented Lessons Learned in Conducting Community-engaged Nursing Research at a Private, Teaching-Intensive Institution (with Mayer, K.), a podium presentation at the 144th Annual Meeting & Exposition of the American Public Health Association, Creating the Healthiest Nation: Ensuring the Right to Health, Denver, CO, November 02, 2016. She also received a Diversity and Inclusion Grant of $500 (with P. Potter) in support of their work to enhance the curriculum of NRS 310 Multicultural Population Health Promotion to include more diverse and inclusive perspectives.