Kudos (Fall 2024)
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The latest media mentions, research and accolades for our expert faculty and staff
Featured Faculty
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nadia Alahmed is featured in Literary Hub in a story about James Baldwin and the roots of Black-Palestinian solidarity. She was the featured guest on NPR’s Code Switch, discussing what Baldwin can teach us about Israel and ourselves.
Professor of Biology Scott Boback’s involvement in Project RattleCam was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and in The Washington Post. Additional stories were published in USA Today, Yahoo! News, CBS Radio, FOX Weather, Gizmodo, Newsweek, People magazine and others.
Argentina’s ADN SUR Agencia de Noticias interviewed Professor of History Marcelo Borges for a remembrance of the late Susana Torres, a professor at the National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco.
In January, Professor of Studio Art Anthony Cervino visited Longyearbyen, Norway, for the first part of his Spitsbergen Artists Residency, developing ideas based on the polar nights and the region’s political, cultural and ecological landscape. After six months of reflection, he returned in July to install his exhibition, When You Wish You Were Here. The exhibition includes vintage postcard reproductions of taxidermied polar bears, Cervino’s northern lights photographs and sculptures honoring Norwegian designer Arne Tjomsland.
Associate Professor of Philosophy Jeff Engelhardt published Nonideal Theory and Content Externalism (Oxford University Press, 2024).
Professor of Physics Lars English co-authored “Higher-Order Rogue Waves Due to a Coupled Cubic-Quintic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations in a Nonlinear Electrical Network” in Physics Letters A.
STAT News interviewed Professor of Psychology and Glen E. & Mary Line Todd Chair in the Social Sciences Marie Helweg-Larsen for a piece on raw milk and people’s perceptions of its risks.
Joseph Priestley Professor of Natural Philosophy Marcus Key and Rebecca Rossi ’12 published “Sourcing the Early Colonial Knight’s Black ‘Marble’ Tombstone at Jamestown, Virginia, USA” in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology. Their research was featured in a phys.org article and picked up by Medium, Gizmodo, Newsweek, Archaeology and Ancient Origins as well as the Miami Herald and 30 other outlets.
Visiting Professor of International Security Studies Jeff McCausland, in his role as a CBS News national security consultant, made more than 20 appearances on The John Batchelor Show, which airs on select CBS Radio stations nationwide. McCausland also wrote an op-ed for MSNBC explaining how a second term for Donald Trump could put military officers in “a dangerous bind.” McCausland also joined the program A Little More Conversation With Ben O’Hara-Byrne on Global News Radio to discuss the pager and radio bomb attacks on Hezbollah.
The Sentinel interviewed Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy Windsor Morgan for its “Inside Look” series on the Charles M. Kanev Planetarium and the Michael L. Britton Observatory.
Associate Professor of Political Science Sarah Niebler discussed the race for the PA 10th Congressional District with The Philadelphia Inquirer. Niebler also provided insight into the debate around mail-in ballot date requirements and a case on provisional voting rules for WITF’s Democracy Beat. The stories aired on public radio stations statewide, including WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and WESA-FM in Pittsburgh. Niebler discussed the accuracy of polls and polling response rates with WHTM-TV ABC27.
Associate Professor of French & Francophone and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Mireille Rebeiz appeared four times on BBC News Arabic discussing various issues, including the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and the escalation in conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. She also published pieces in New Lines Magazine, The Conversation, The National and The American Saga.
Melinda Schlitt, professor of art history and William W. Edel Professor of Humanities, published “Affective Poetics as Critical Response: Michelangelo’s Last Judgment and Florentine Literary Strategies of Praise,” in the international journal for art history Artibus et Historiae, no.88 (XLIV).
The Los Angeles Times interviewed Associate Professor of English and Film Studies Greg Steirer in a piece about R-rated Deadpool & Wolverine giving Marvel a box-office boost.
Professor of Creative Writing and Poet-in-Residence Adrienne Su published Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet, a book of essays and interviews, with Paul Dry Books.
Postdoctoral Fellow John Truden published “New Boarding and Residential School Collection Open to TCUs” in Tribal College: The Journal of American Indian Higher Education. The article highlights the work done by Dickinson’s Center for the Futures of Native Peoples.
Administrator Accolades
Director of Academic Technology James D’Annibale is featured in a podcast by EDUCAUSE Review discussing unconventional paths to IT careers.
College Archivist Jim Gerencser ’93 is referenced in stories in Indian Country Today and Sioux Falls Live about the repatriation of the remains of Indigenous people from the cemetery at the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School grounds to their tribes.
President John E. Jones III ’77, P’11, appeared on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 (his 13th appearance) to discuss mounting ethics concerns at the U.S. Supreme Court. He also discussed the presidential immunity ruling with Bloomberg (piece also appears in Yahoo! News) and The Wall Street Journal. He talked about Donald Trump’s rhetoric in pieces in The Guardian and Raw Story. On NewsNation’s Dan Abrams Live, Jones discussed why Trump was still under a gag order even after the conclusion of his hush-money trial. Jones also participated in two question-and-answer pieces on the Trump trial for The Conversation. On WHTM-TV ABC27, he talked about the U.S. Supreme Court hold on Pres. Biden’s SAVE Plan for student loans, and he discussed court rulings on Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots.
Associate Provost and Director of the Center for Sustainability Education Neil Leary is quoted in a Hechinger Report story on how colleges can become living labs for combating climate change. The story also appeared in Grist magazine.
ºìÐÓÖ±²¥app Farm Energy Projects Manager Matt Steiman received the Epstein Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sustainable Energy Fund. The honor is featured in the Central Penn Business Journal and PA Environment Digest.
Kudos as of Sept. 20, 2024.
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Published December 12, 2024