NEWSMAKERS
BEADLES’ RESPONSIBILITIES EXPAND BEYOND COUNSELING
the communication studies faculty. Hinck and Utterback have also received a grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Border Trade and Immigration Institute, which asked them to analyze media from Central America, Mexico and the United States regarding migration.
Cindy Beadles has been named director
of counseling and accessibility services, a new College position that combines two previously separated duties. Most recently director of counseling services, Beadles will
BEADLES
now oversee compliance with the regulations of the Americans with Disabilities Act, such as documenting students who require special accommodations in the classroom or while living on campus. Beadles, whose first master’s degree is in special education, specializes in behavior disorders, emotional disturbance and learning disabilities—experience which she believes will also help her set students up for academic success.
CORNELIUS TAKES TOP PRIZE AT MUSEUM’S ART EXHIBITION
Simmons the 2020 Society for Classical
Studies Outreach Prize. Simmons brought
Classics Day to Monmouth from his previous classics faculty position at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro,
a week-long festival, which draws as many as 1,000 students to campus in a given year. Past recipients of the Ouotreach Prize have included producers of documentaries and foundCORNELIUS
about the overwhelming impact of plastic on society. Now in its 12th year, the Davenport, Iowa, museum’s competition featured the work of students from eight area colleges.
COMMUNICATION AND DATA SCIENCE FACULTY COLLABORATE ON RESEARCH
ers of academic journals.
THORNDIKE GAINING RECOGNITION AMONG NEW LATIN AMERICAN GOTHIC WRITERS Jennifer Thorndike, assistant professor of
modern
languages,
literatures
&
cultures, was featured in the leading
Monmouth professors
national Spanish newspaper El Pais as
Robert Utterback and
one of a group of female fiction writers
Robert Hinck collabo-
whose work is styled the “New Latin
rated last fall on a
American Gothic.” According to El Pais,
research article for the
the featured authors have turned “their
non-profit, non-partisan website The Conversation
HINCK
SIMMONS
ulty, it has been held a total of four times and has expanded to
Art Museum’s College Invitational Art Ex-
22
earned Monmouth classics professor Bob
time on campus in 2015 during Simmons’ first year on the fac-
took the top first-place honor at the Figge
color photograph of an outdoor installation
Bringing ancient Greece and Rome to life through his ambitious Classics Day events
where he first held the event in 2011. Presented for the first
Grace Cornelius, a freshman art major,
hibition in February. Her submission was a
SIMMONS EARNS PRESTIGIOUS AWARD FOR CLASSICS DAY
UTTERBACK
THORNDIKE
eye to fantasy. After years of realism and autofiction, the darkest imagination is used to portray social, political and
(theconversation.com) that analyzed how Russian, Iranian and
gender issue.” A Peruvian by birth, Thorndike is part of a
Chinese media covered the U.S. presidential election. Along
growing movement of Latin American authors who live and
with a professor from Oklahoma State University, Hinck
publish their work in the United States and are considered
collected research in part by using algorithms provided by
members of a literary movement called “The New Latino
Utterback, who teaches in Monmouth’s data science program.
Boom.” Her work in the gothic realm includes three novels
The topic had been a focus of research by Hinck, a member of
and several short stories.
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