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REGGIE GORDON, adjunct assistant professor of nonprofit studies, has been named Richmond’s interim deputy chief administrative officer for human services by Mayor Levar Stoney. ERIC GROLLMAN, assistant professor of sociology, co-edited Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability, and Resistance (Routledge). DIETER GUNKEL, assistant professor of historical linguistics, co-edited Language and Meter (Brill) and contributed the chapter “Phonological Evidence for Pada Cohesion in Rigvedic Versification” to the book.
ALISON HARVEY, senior network specialist, received the Certified ScrumMaster designation from Scrum Alliance. DANIEL HOCUTT, web manager in the School of Professional and Continuing Studies and adjunct professor of liberal arts, presented “Rethinking Users: UX Design for Posthuman Cyborgs” at the 2018 ACM Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) conference in Milwaukee. ATIYA HUSAIN, assistant professor of sociology, published “Are Jews White?” in Slate. INFORMATION SERVICES has been recognized as a National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champion by the National Cyber Security Alliance and the Department of Homeland Security in recognition of its commitment to creating a safer, more secure internet. MILES JOHNSON, assistant professor of chemistry, published “Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of Palladium Proazaphosphatrane Complexes Invoked in C–N Cross-Coupling” in Organometallics. SANDRA F. JOIREMAN, associate provost for faculty and Weinstein Chair of International Studies, and colleagues from other universities received a grant from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for “Appraising Risk, Past and Present: Interrogating Historical Data to Enhance Understanding of Environmental Crises in the Indian Ocean World.” ELIZABETH KISSLING, assistant professor of Spanish and applied linguistics, published “An Exploratory Study of Heritage Spanish Rhotics: Addressing Methodological Challenges of Heritage Language Phonetics Research” in the Heritage Language Journal. Kissling co-published “Reexamining por and para in the Spanish foreign language intermediate classroom: A usage-based, cognitive linguistic approach” in What is Applied Cognitive Linguistics? Answers from Current SLA Research (De Gruyter Mouton).
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2018 Engage for Change! Award Winners These awards, given annually by the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement, celebrate and acknowledge students, faculty, staff, and community leaders working together to make an impact in our communities. FACULTY AND STAFF AWARD RECIPIENTS: Community-Engaged Teaching Award EMILY BOONE, Director of Biological Instruction Recognizes a faculty member who has consistently demonstrated excellence in community-engaged teaching at the University of Richmond Community-Engaged Scholarship Award TODD LOOKINGBILL, Associate Professor of Biology and Associate Professor of Geography and the Environment Recognizes faculty whose scholarly and/or other creative activity emerges from a mutually beneficial partnership with a community and creates new knowledge that contributes to positive social change Contribution to the Institution Award ANDY LITTERAL, Professor of Management RAY SLAUGHTER, Associate Professor of Accounting Recognizes faculty or staff whose community-engaged teaching, scholarship, and/or service made a significant contribution to UR, furthering opportunities for faculty engagement, community collaboration, and the learning and thriving of students Collaboration for Change Award LAURA BROWDER, Tyler and Alice Haynes Professor of American Studies, PATRICIA HERRERA, Associate Professor of Theatre, and colleagues from the Armstrong Leadership Program Honors a collaborative, community-based partnership between campus and community stakeholders For a complete list of award winners, visit engage.richmond.edu/events/ awards.
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