June 2014 Spotlight

June 2, 2014

Fabio Amador spoke at the Dialogue of Civilizations International Symposium held in Turkey.

Donna Betts discussed art therapy, veterans and PTSD at an event benefitting the 296 Project, a nonprofit veteran service organization.

Kavita Daiya was awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship from the Penn Humanities Forum of the University of Pennsylvania to develop her book on secularism, race and gender in India.

Evangeline Downie received a $283,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the International Research Experience for Students, a program that allows U.S. students to work with international physicists in the Mainz Microtron lab at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.

Chuck Fann, MS ’84, was selected as Hutchinson Community College’s 2014 Dragon Educator of the Year.

Tina R. Goel, BA ’05, co-wrote the article "The Post-DOMA Immigration Law Landscape," published in The Federal Lawyer.

Anthropology PhD student Kevin Hatala received a $202,474 fellowship from the National Science Foundation for his work using computer science to study human fossil footprints.

Dave Karpf, Nikki Usher and Silvio Waisbord made presentations and appeared on panels at the International Communications Association Annual Conference. Usher received conference honorable mention honors for her paper, “Open source and journalism: Toward new frameworks for imagining news innovation.”

Thomas Keegan, MFA ’10, appears in a recurring role on the AMC television series “TURN.”

Dean Kessmann's art exhibit A Layered History of Art: From Semitransparent to Opaque appeared at the FURTHERMORE gallery in Washington, D.C.

Daniel E. Martinez co-authored the report “No Action Taken: Lack of CBP Accountability in Responding to Complaints of Abuse” for the American Immigration Council.

Brian Richmond received a $202,466 grant from the National Science Foundation to research the anatomy and development of the knee on early hominin locomotion.

Tricia Robinson, a clinical psychology PhD student, and Katherine Steele, an MA student in educational leadership and administration, were both selected as 2014 Tillman Military Scholars by the Pat Tillman Foundation.

Nikolay Shiklomanov received a $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation in support of a long-term project to observe the effects of a thawing Arctic permafrost.

Nikki Usher was awarded a fellowship from the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute to study for-profit startups in journalism.