DANA LASCU, professor of marketing, co-chaired the Academy for Global Business Advancement conference. The three-day intensive conference was held in Kenya with attendees from across the world. ERIK LAURSEN, adjunct associate professor of education, is the 2018 recipient of the SPCS Innovations in Teaching Award, which honors an adjunct professor for creativity and innovation in the classroom. LAURANETT LEE, adjunct assistant professor of liberal arts, was awarded the John Jasper Trailblazer Award by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church in Richmond. The award is presented to those who have made significant contributions to the African-American community. ANGELA LEEPER, director of the Curriculum Materials Center, was named by the American Library Association to the Children's Book Council Joint Committee for a two-year term through June 2019. The committee fosters collaboration and communication on the content, format, distribution, and promotion of materials for children and young adults.
MANUELLA MEYER, associate professor of history, received a $30,000 (approximate) Fulbright award for travel to Brazil to research her book project Making Brazilian Children: Child Welfare and the Psychiatry of Childhood, 1922–1954. BRITTANY NELSON, assistant professor of photography, published Monuments to the Conquerors of Space, a book based on her art installation of the same name. ERIK NIELSON, assistant chair and associate professor of liberal arts, recently testified as an expert witness on rap lyrics in the trial of three men accused and later convicted of killing Zaevion Dobson. UR’s OFFICE FOR SUSTAINABILITY won a gold certificate for the Rethink Waste campaign in the Collegiate Advertising Awards category “Total Advertising Campaigns.” Cassandra Collins, sustainability communications coordinator, designed the program. CAROL PARISH, professor of chemistry, received the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia’s 2018 Outstanding Faculty Award.
DAVID LEARY, university professor emeritus and dean of arts and sciences emeritus, published The Routledge Guidebook to James's Principles of Psychology.
WENDY PERDUE, dean of the University of Richmond School of Law, was named president of the Association of American Law Schools. The AALS is a nonprofit association that works to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.
PETER LEVINESS, director of Counseling and Psychological Services, was appointed to the national board of the Association of University and College Counseling Center Directors and serves as the organization’s survey coordinator. He also joined the advisory board for the Center for Collegiate Mental Health.
KIMBERLY ROBINSON, Austin E. Owen Research Scholar and professor of law, was named a senior research fellow at the Learning Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
KEITH “MAC” MCINTOSH, vice president for information services and chief information officer, presented “Enlisted to Executive — How a Senior NCO Became CIO” at a professional development session for approximately 300 airmen at Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. PHIL MELITA, communications coordinator for the School of Professional and Continuing Studies, James Campbell, director of marketing and communications for SPCS, and Daniel Hocutt, web manager and adjunct professor of liberal arts in SPCS, presented “When Inquiries Are Up but Web Visits Are Down: Discovering Different Ways to Report Good News” at the 26th annual University Professional and Continuing Education Association Marketing and Enrollment Management Seminar in Washington, D.C.
Assistant professor of mathematics HEATHER RUSSELL published "Equivalence of Edge Bicolored Graphs on Surfaces" in The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. BILL ROSS, professor of mathematics and chair of the math and computer science department, with an alumnus, published “The Range and Valence of a Real Smirnov Function” in Analysis and Mathematical Physics. MATT SALSBERRY, UR catering sous chef, received a Certified Executive Chef certification from the American Culinary Federation. JACK SINGAL, assistant professor of physics, and colleagues published “The Radio Synchrotron Background: Conference Summary and Report” in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. CHARLYNN SMALL, staff psychologist in Counseling and Psychological Services, was appointed to the advisory board of the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders.
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