FACULTY/STAFF
Kristi Arnold, Fine and Performing Arts, and David Bowne, associate professor of biology, co-presented the poster “Turning algae into art: A collaboration between art and ecology students to address eutrophication in a campus lake” at the national conference of the Ecological Society of America in Portland, Oregon, this past August.
Justin Badgerow, associate professor of music, in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, performed a guest artist piano recital at Texas Tech University in Lubbock in September. Badgerow was joined by colleagues Sarah Daughtrey, a mezzo-soprano and music professor from New Mexico State University (NMSU), and David Box, a saxophonist based in Lubbock. They performed a variety of solo, duo and trio literature including a world premiere of a new work by Lon Chaffin, chair of the music department at NMSU, with text by Texas State Poet Laureate Larry Thomas.
Badgerow also presented a lecture at the first Classical Keyboard Improvisation Symposium on the campus of Cedarville (Ohio) University in September. His topic was “Just fake it: Improvisation as a pedagogical tool to improve memory and theoretical understanding in classical keyboard study”.
David Bowne, associate professor of biology, was an invited participant in the panel “Evaluation, Tenure, and Promotion: Role of Mentoring Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities” at the Conference for Undergraduate Research Programs: Undergraduate Research Collaborations of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, in June.
Bowne also had a work of creative nonfiction titled “The Improbability of Me (and You)” accepted for publication in the December 2017 issue of Hippocampus magazine.
Douglas Bomberger, professor of music in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, presented a paper on the Piano Concerto of Amy Beach at a conference devoted to American Women Composers and Pianists held at the University of New Hampshire at Durham in September. The conference was the subject of an Associated Press article that was featured in the New York Times and Washington Post.
Also, this summer, Bomberger edited the book “Very Good for an American: Essays on Edward MacDowell,” published by Pendragon Press. The essays were delivered by an international group of scholars at the MacDowell Festival and Symposium on the Elizabethtown College campus in December 2010. The Festival, supported by a CISP grant, drew on the talents of students and faculty and guest artists to commemorate the 150th birthday of this prominent American composer.
Richard Fellinger, Fellow in the Writing Wing, was feature on Pennlive about “Made To Break Your Heart,” a new novel by Richard Fellinger.
Badiah Haffejee, assistant professor of social work, coauthored a paper, “Asking for Change: Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes of a manualized photovoice intervention with youth experiencing homelessness,” in Children and Youth Services Review. The publication presents Photovoice: a participatory action research method that empowers participants to photograph their everyday lives as a means of documenting and advocating for their needs; it has rarely been utilized with young people experiencing homelessness.
Haffejee also co-authored the journal article “The relationship between ethnocentrism and cultural intelligence” in the International Journal of Intercultural Relations in July. She also co-authored the journal article “Developing cultural intelligence and empathy through diversified mentoring relationships” in the Journal of Management Education in August.
Armenta Early Hinton, equity and Title IX coordinator, was a guest lecturer/trainer on inclusive excellence for the division of Student Life at Lebanon Valley College in August. She explored the principles of social justice leadership and posed the essential questions of how the current political climate informs their practice as scholar practitioners.
Hinton also was keynote speaker for the 15th Annual Cultural Diversity Workshops sponsored by Wellspan Philhaven, Pinnacle Health and Lebanon Valley College. Her talk, “America’s New Reconstruction Era; The Psychology of Self-Correction” looked at Critical Race Theory, Whiteness as Property, Interest Convergence and race-based policies that have impacted any gains and equity of a carefully constructed underclass.
She also contributed a chapter to “Preserving HBCUs’ Billion Dollar Legacy: International Law, Self-Determination and the Right to Institutions.”
Donald B. Kraybill, distinguished professor and senior fellow emeritus, presented an open public session of the Master of Divinity course, Preaching to the Public, in September, at Lancaster Seminary. The course, which considers ministering in human-made tragedies, focused on the Relevance of Amish Grace: Spiritual Considerations and Theological Insights on Forgiveness in an Age of Moral Anger, Social Division, and Spiritual Grief.
Peter Licona, assistant professor of education, was selected to participate in the 2017 Climate Reality Leadership Corps, led by former Vice President Al Gore, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Corps is a global network of activists committed to spreading awareness of the climate crisis and working for solutions to the greatest challenge or our time.
Jeffery D. Long, professor of religion and Asian studies, wrote a short article on a controversial Australian television ad, which has offended many Hindus. The article was picked up by Associated Press and has been featured on Huffington Post, Salon.com and the Los Angeles Times website.
Ian MacFarlane, assistant professor of psychology, co-supervised the master’s thesis of University of Minnesota Genetic Counseling student Katie Plamann, whose research received the best student abstract award at the 2017 National Society of Genetic Counseling Annual Education Conference in Columbus, Ohio.
Theresa Mastrobuono, adjunct instructor in the division of theatre and dance in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, is guest instructor at the Ephrata Area Middle School until November as part of the Pa Council on the Arts Artist in Education program. This is Mastrobuono’s 25th year with the Arts Council program.
Mastrobuono also was part of Albright College’s theater season as a cast member in “The Cemetery Club,” a comedy about three widows whose friendship is threatened when they come to odds about their “job” of honoring their husbands. The Sept. 29, 30, and Oct. 1 play is an independent production of “The Crones” an acting ensemble, which Mastrobuono helped to found. The ensemble is dedicated to identifying and performing theater pieces that illuminate the joys and challenges of “growing vintage.”
Maureen Riley-Behringer, assistant professor of social work, published the peer-reviewed journal article “Parental vaccine acceptance: A logistic regression model using pre visit decisions,” in Clinical Pediatrics.
Riley-Behringer also wrote the book chapter “Child maltreatment in residential care. History, research and current practice” for “Interventions designed for children with histories of institutionalization and placed in foster or adoptive families.”
Curtis Smith, assistant director of academic advising in the Center for Student Success, had short stories published in the latest issues of the Baltimore and South Dakota reviews. His most recent book, “Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five: Bookmarked,” a personal study of Vonnegut’s novel, was featured last month in an article in The Times Literary Supplement.
Suzanne Webster, associate professor of English, has written an essay, titled “Coleridge, Contemplation, and the ‘triple Ichheit’.” Her essay appears in Coleridge and Contemplation, recently published by Oxford University Press.
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