Faculty-Staff Achievements, Nov. 12, 2013
Activities
Catherine Golden, professor of English, will give a talk titled 鈥淯ncovering Pride and Prejudice: A Bicentennial Celebration鈥� at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, at Northshire Bookstore on Broadway. Golden will show images of the covers of different editions of the Jane Austen classic from the past 200 years and discuss what they show about the sense and sensibility of the time.
Denise L. Smith, professor of health and exercise sciences, delivered the keynote address at the 14th annual 2013 Pilot Research Project Symposium at the University of Cincinnati鈥檚 Education and Research Center in Cincinnati on Oct. 11. Her lecture was titled 鈥淪udden Cardiac Events: Why are Firefighters at Risk?鈥�
Publications
Rob Hallock, visiting assistant professor of neuroscience, and Yusuke Ota 鈥�13 and Alexander Zanetti 鈥�13, both neuroscience majors, are the authors of a paper titled 鈥淭he Role of Astrocytes in the Regulation of Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Formation鈥� accepted for publication in the journal Neural Plasticity.
Jay Rogoff, visiting assistant professor of English, has two poems, 鈥淭he Daughter鈥� and 鈥淭he Window,鈥� in the current issue of the British journal Poetry Review, Vol. 103, No. 3 (Autumn 2013). Both will appear in his next book, Venera, forthcoming from LSU Press in 2014. His latest dance article, 鈥淏eauties and Beasts: London Dance Spectacles Great and Small,鈥� appears in The Hopkins Review, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Fall 2013), and considers Matthew Bourne鈥檚 Sleeping Beauty: A Gothic Romance, Michael Keegan-Dolan鈥檚 choreographed production of Handel鈥檚 Julius Caesar for the English National Opera, and the world premiere performance of the modern dance troupe HeadSpaceDance. He has also published "Shooting Dancers," a review of Henry Leutwyler鈥檚 book of ballet photographs, Ballet: Photographs of the New York City Ballet, in Ballet Review, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer 2013).
Andrew J. Schneller, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies, is co-author of three articles. Details follow:
- with B.J. Johnson and F. X. Bogner, 鈥淢easuring children's environmental attitudes and values in northwest Mexico: Validating a modified version of measures to test the Model of Ecological Values (2-MEV),鈥� in Environmental Education Research, 2013.
- with A. Irizarry, 鈥淚maging conservation: Sea turtle murals and their effect on community pro-environmental attitudes in Baja California Sur, Mexico,鈥� in Journal of Ocean and Coastal Management (in press).
- with V. Casta帽eda Fern谩ndez de Lara, C.A. Salinas Zavala, and A. Mej铆a Rebollo,鈥淪ocio-economic characteristics of the uncommon jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas) fishery of 2010 near Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur, Mexico,鈥� in Hidrobiologica, (in press).
Denise L. Smith, professor of health and exercise sciences, recently published 鈥淪udden cardiac death
among firefighters 鈮�45 years of age in the United States鈥� in American Journal of Cardiology (published electronically ahead of print on Sept. 27). The article was written in
collaboration with colleagues at Harvard School of Medicine.
In addition, Smith and Pat Fehling, professor and chair of health and exercise sciences, along with members of the First
Responder Health and Safety Laboratory, Jennie Haller and Dave Barr, coauthored a
manuscript titled 鈥淯se of the HR index to predict maximal oxygen uptake during different
exercise protocols鈥� which was published in Physiological Reports, Vol. 1, Issue 5, 2013. This study was conducted as part of a Department Homeland
Security Science and Technology contract to improve health and safety of the nation鈥檚
emergency responders.
In the News
David Karp, associate dean of student affairs and professor of sociology, was a source for 鈥淕oodbye zero tolerance: Program aims to cut 鈥榮chool-to-prison pipeline鈥欌�� on .
The Art of Gravity, the most recent book of poems by Jay Rogoff, visiting professor of English, has received a detailed review by Stephen Kampa in the current issue of The Hopkins Review, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Fall 2013).
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