Faculty-Staff Achievements
Barbara Black, professor of English, has been appointed to the PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association
of America) advisory committee for a three-year term. Members of the committee advise
the editorial board on articles submitted for publication in PMLA and offer guidance
for the PMLA special features 鈥淐riticism in Translation鈥� and 鈥淟ittle-Known Documents.鈥�
Giuseppe Faustini, professor of Italian, published the article 鈥淟uigi Pirandello鈥檚 View of America and His Three American novelle鈥� in Pirandello Studies (Vol. 42). In addition, Faustini has been appointed to the editorial board of the Italian studies journal Italica, a quarterly of the American Association of Teachers of Italian.
Karen Kellogg, associate professor of environmental studies and sciences, has received a second award from the Department of Energy to participate in its
Visiting Faculty Program at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This
award includes research support for her and several environmental studies and sciences
students for work on a project related to barriers to wind energy implementation.
Rebecca McNamara, , and Sara Lagalwar, associate professor of neuroscience, spoke on WAMC's Roundtable on Tuesday, March 29, about art, science, and the exhibition
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Rodrigo Schneider, assistant professor of economics, published 鈥溾�� in Economics & Politics. The paper shows the impact of political polarization in
the U.S. on health risk behavior reporting and how the unexpected election of President
Trump in 2016 increased consumption of alcohol among counties where more than 75%
of the electorate voted for Hilary Clinton. Schneider published the article with collaborator
Isabel Musse.
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