Florida State University’s distinguished faculty are central to the mission of the university. Faculty excellence in scholarship, research, and creative activity is critical to the quality of student learning and makes a difference in the lives of others.

Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across campus. Faculty and Staff Briefs are produced monthly to recognize accomplishments and provide a space where honors, awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased.

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HONORS AND AWARDS 

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing), was awarded the 2026 Robert H. DuRant Award for Statistical Rigor and Innovation in Adolescent Health Research from the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine.  

Alicia “Ali” Craig-Rodriguez, DNP, MBA, APRN, FNP-BC, DIPACLM (College of Nursing) was selected as a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. 

Allison McHugh, DNP, MHCDS, RN, NE-BC (College of Nursing) was inducted as a member of the National Academies of Practices at their annual conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. 

Olivia Cook, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology) was named the 2026 National Postdoctoral of the Year by the National Postdoctoral Association. 

Zduy Chu, Ed.D. (Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs) was awarded the 2026 Doris Michiko Ching Shattering the Glass Ceiling Award by the NASPA Asian/Pacific Islander Knowledge Community for his work and impact on the student affairs profession through leadership, service and scholarship. 

Hannah Cronic (Department of Student Support and Transitions) received the 2026 Unsung Shero Award at Oasis Center for Women & Girls Trailblazers luncheon in recognition of her mentorship to students and her work as a victim advocate. 

Mark Belfast, Ph.D. (College of Music) was named the 2026–2027 College Music Educator of the Year by the Florida Music Education Association. 

Shenifa Taite, Ed.D. (College of Medicine) received a 2026 Exceptional Mentor Award from the American Medical Women’s Association. 

Ewa (Ava) Bienkiewicz, Ph.D. and Pradeep Bhide, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) were selected as senior members of the National Academy of Inventors. 

Amber Ward, Ph. D. (Department of Art Education) was awarded the 2026 National Art Education Association, Ecology and Environment Interest Group Publication Award for her book “Relational encounters with folk school pedagogies: Craft as creative inquiry.” 

E. Rankin, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) was awarded the 2025 Article of the Year by Corrections: Policy, Practice and Research for her publication “Correctional Officer Stress and Prison Management: Does Stress Alter Rule Enforcement Modus Operandi?”  

GRANTS 

Weikuan Yu, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) was awarded an $85,000 Lawrence Livermore National Lab grant for research on data reduction for efficient checkpoints and restarts of large language model applications. Yu and his team plan to develop a checkpoint/restart library to enable data reduction for the checkpoints of large-scale large language model applications. 

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) secured $400,000 in funding as co-Investigator from the American Heart Association project “Preventing Cardiovascular Collapse in Sepsis through Senolytic Therapy.” 

BYLINES 

Kyle Smith, Ph.D., Joseph Watso, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and doctoral candidates Christin Domeier, Joseph Vondrasek and Thomas Bissen co-authored “Acute Kidney Injury Biomarker Responses in Young and Older Female Adults Following Mild Hypohydration” published in Renal Physiology. 

Carlo Cinaglia, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “Mentoring for Well-Being in (un)caring Institutions: Possibilities and Limitations for Language Teacher Education” published in The Modern Language Journal. He also co-authored “The Principle-practice Gap: A Methodological Synthesis of Discrepancies Between Narrative Inquiry Ethical Ideals and Actual Reporting Practices” published in Language Teaching. 

Christopher Solís, Ph.D. and postdoctoral scholar Helene Tigro, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “In Silico Conformational Dynamics of the α-actinin-2 actin-binding Domain upon Phosphorylation” published in Biophysical Journal. 

Joseph Watso, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and Ph.D. candidate Thomas Bissen co-authored “Obesity and Ventilatory Responses During Exercise in the Fitness Registry and the Importance of Exercise National Database (FRIEND)” published in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. 

Timothy Baghurst, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “10 Steps to Successfully Developing a New University Program in Kinesiology and Sport Science” published in Quest. 

Ibrahim Yigit, Ph.D., MA and Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) co-authored “Association Between HIV Knowledge and Stigma Among HIV Healthcare Workers in the Dominican Republic: The Role of Empathy and Social Distance” published in Stigma and Health. 

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) co-authored “Individual and Interpersonal Barriers to Maternal and Neonatal Care in Cameroon” published at the International Journal of Women’s Health. She also co-authored “I Want to Live: A Qualitative Investigation of Barriers and Facilitators to Maintaining Mental Health and ART Adherence in People with HIV in Philadelphia” published in the Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care. 

Anne Coldiron, Ph.D. (Department of English) authored “Visibility: Contingencies, Ruptures, Kinds” as a chapter in the book “The Translator’s Visibility” published by Routledge. She also authored “Translation and Early Printing: Caxton” in volume three of “A Cultural History of Translation” published by Bloomsbury.  

Lindsey Eckert, Ph.D. (Department of English) authored “’Rather Ridicule than Censure’: Lady Caroline Lamb, Frances Arabella Rowden, and the Art of Respectability” published in volume 23 of the Literature Compass journal. 

Stanley Gontarski, Ph.D. (Department of English) authored “Surrealism Re-Viewed: L’Esprit Surréaliste” published in volume 15 of the Humanities journal.  

Robin Goodman, Ph.D. (Department of English) authored the monograph “Milestones in Critical Feminist Theory” published by Routledge. 

Charlie McMartin, Ph.D. (Department of English) co-edited the book “Next-Gen Perspectives on Leadership: Coalitional Strategies for Launching Careers, Renewing Curricula, and Defending Democracy” published with Utah State University Press. 

Charles Upchurch, Ph.D. (Department of History) authored “Claiming the Revolution: Gender, Sexuality and the Radical Promise of 1776” published in Ms. Magazine, as a part of their FEMINIST 250: Founding Feminists series.       

Stephen Tripodi, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the article “Sex Differences in the Association Between Childhood Cyberbullying Victimization and College Sexual Assault: Moderating Roles of Parental Monitoring and Relationship with Deviant Peers” published in the journal Violence Against Women. 

Michael Killian, Ph.D., Sonnie Mayewski, MSW, Skyler Brumm, MSW (College of Social Work) and Callie Little, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) co-authored the article “Growth Trajectories of Medication Adherence in Pediatric Organ Transplantation and their Relationship to Postransplant Health Outcomes” published in Transplantation Direct. 

Kristy Anderson, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the article “National Profile of Adult SSI Recipients with Autism and Intellectual Disability in Medicaid” published in the journal Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. 

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH and Ibrahim Yigit, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) co-authored “Association Between HIV Knowledge and Stigma Among HIV Healthcare Workers in the Dominican Republic: The Role of Empathy and Social Distance” in the journal Stigma and Health. 

Stephanie Zuilkowski, Ed.D. and Ana Marty, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) authored “Examining the Teaching Practicum in Zambia: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities” in the Global Education Review. 

Anna Romanova, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) authored “Psycho-Emotional Climate and State of Participants in the Educational Process Amidst Crisis in Ukraine” published in Clinical and Preventive Medicine. She also authored “Model for Managing Psychological Safety and Resilience in Educational Institutions During War” published in University Scientific Notes. 

Sladjana Lukic, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) published “The Production of Clitics in Serbian Speakers with Stroke Aphasia,” providing a sensitive linguistic marker for distinguishing aphasia profiles in Brain Sciences. 

Suvranu De, Sc.D., (FAMU-FSU College of Engineering) co-authored the textbook “Quantum Computing for Engineers,” a new guide to translate the principles of quantum mechanics into practical computational tools for engineers, which was published by Springer. 

Qiuchang (Katy) Cao, Ph.D. (College of Social Work), Elizabeth Madden, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) and Lucinda Graven, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) co-authored “Caregiving Burden and Depressive Symptoms in Aphasia Caregivers: The Moderating Role of Friendship Support” in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 

Dawn Carr, Ph.D. (Claude Pepper Center), Qiuchang (Katy) Cao, Ph.D. and Melissa Radey, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored “Sex Differences in the Association Between Occupational Environment Exposures and Cognitive Function Outcomes in Later Life” in The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Social Sciences. 

Laura Vaughn, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and Kyanna Austin (Department of Student Engagement) authored “Understanding, Discussing, and Embodying Leadership Through Graduate Student Government” published in The Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship. 

Michael Killian, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and doctoral candidates Sonnie Mayewski and Zhe Yang co-authored “Mental Health, Nonadherence, and Healthcare Utilization in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation: Evidence from a Multistate Cohort” published in the journal Pediatric Transplantation. 

Katie Berry, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and Emily Davison, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) co-authored “SB 204 Evidence Brief 1: Caregiver Training” which was added to the Child Welfare Information Library and featured in the monthly newsletter. 

Fredrick Abbott, J.D, LL.M (College of Law) authored “The WTO TRIPS Agreement in the Post-WTO World: The Emerging Common Law of International IP” published in the journal Trade, Law and Development. He also published his book “Advanced Introduction to Pharmaceutical Law” published by Edward Elgar. 

Erin Ryan, J.D. (College of Law) authored the book “Law for the Land: The Public Trust Doctrine, Mono Lake, and a Quiet Revolution in Environmental Law” published by Cambridge University Press. 

Michael Carrasco, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) authored “The Spread of Cycad Aulacaspis Scale (CAS): Ecological Collapse and Cultural Erosion of Cycas revoluta in the Amami Islands, Japan” published in the South Pacific Studies journal. 

Grace Aneiza Ali, MA (Department of Art) authored “A Curator’s Annotations” published in the art magazine Burnaway. 

Changhyun (Lyon) Nam, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship) authored “How People Decide to Protect their Health: A Protection Motivation Theory–Theory of Reasoned Action Perspective” published in the Korean Journal of Health Promotion. 

Bani Malhotra, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) co-authored “Disability Level and Visibility: Associations with Unmet Academic Accommodation Needs and Attitudes Toward Requesting Accommodations” published by PLos, “The Disability Identity Development Scale-Short Form: Development and Validation in General and TGNB Disability Samples” published in the journal Rehabilitation Psychology, and “Psychological Adjustment in Inpatient Settings” published in the journal Inpatient Neuropsychology. 

PRESENTATIONS 

Nick Freeman, MBA and Diamond Boston (Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement) presented “Not Just a Bridge, but a Launchpad” at the Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience, hosted by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. 

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) co-presented the poster “Nephrology Care and Poverty Among People Living with HIV and End-Stage Kidney Disease” at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. 

Mirine Richey, DrPH, MPH, IBCLC (Research Faculty, Center for Prevention & Early Intervention Policy) presented the findings from “Breastfeeding Initiation Rate Quality Improvement Project for Tennessee” at the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs Conference in Washington, D.C. 

Charles Upchurch, Ph.D. (Department of History) presented “Claiming the Revolution: Feminists, LGBTQ People, and 1776” at Tallahassee Pridefest. 

JaNiene Peoples, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) presented the posters “Disentangling Daily Between- and Within-Person Dynamics of Racial Discrimination and Alcohol and Cannabis Use Among Black College Students” and “Co-Designing Digital Substance Use Research: Lessons from a Community-Engaged EMA Study with Black College Students” at the American Academy of Health Behavior conference in Austin, Texas. 

Nilay Ozok Gundogan, Ph.D. (Department of History) presented “Noble Descent and Genealogical Claims in Ottoman Kurdistan” during the “Genealogy, Family History, and Life Writing across Early Modern European and Mediterranean Nobilities” panel at the Renaissance Society of America’s Annual Meeting, in San Francisco, California. 

Changhyun (Lyon) Nam, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship), Michael Trammell, Ph.D. (Herbert Wertheim College of Business) and graduate student Cristina Brasfield presented “From Waste into Opportunity: Community-Based Recycling, Upcycling, and Sustainability” at the United States Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship conference. 

Changhyun (Lyon) Nam, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship) and graduate students Cristina Brasfield and Akerke Kuanysh presented “Click, Trust, and Buy: Digital Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Innovation in Secondhand Luxury Platforms,” at the United States Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship conference. 

Changhyun (Lyon) Nam, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship) and graduate student Akerke Kuanysh presented “A Cross-Cultural Study of AI-Driven Feedback for Women’s Empowerment in Entrepreneurship Education” at the United States Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship conference. 

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing), co-presented “Alabama Womb2Heart Pilot Randomized Trial for Postpartum Individuals with Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes” at the Society of Maternal and Fetal Medicine Pregnancy Meeting in Las Vegas, NV. 

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH, Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH (College of Nursing) and Sylvie Naar (College of Medicine) co-presented “HIV Prevention Intervention Pilot Trial: Knowledge, Stigma, and Mistrust” at the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine 2026 Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA.  

Allison McHugh, DNP, MHCDS, RN, NE-BC (College of Nursing) and Manuel A Utset, JD, (College of Law) presented “’Bridging the Gap: Law and Nursing, Reimagined Together’ Empowering Interdisciplinary Health Leaders” at the NAP Annual Meeting & Forum in Indianapolis, IN.  

Laurie Abbott, Ph.D., RN, DipACLM, CNE, PHNA-BC, FAAN (College of Nursing) presented “The Heart of the Matter: Promoting Optimal Cardiovascular Health” at the Southeast Regional Clinical and Translational Science Conference. 

Megan Buning, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) presented mental skills training for 780 dentists, hygienists and office workers serving as the keynote speaker for Family Dental Health’s professional learning day in South Carolina. 

Amanda Tazaz, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Engaging the Next Generation of Geoscientists: Summer Camp Partnership for Hands-On Ocean Science Education” at the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland. 

Sladjana Lukic, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “Neurolinguistic Profiling of Aphasia Across Subtypes Using Naturalistic Language Sampling” at the Southeast Clinical and Translational Science Alliance Conference.   

Subhasree Sengupta, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Analyzing the Interconnections Between the Multi-level Activity Systems of Deepfake-Infused Co-creation” at the 28th Annual SAIS Conference in Asheville, N.C. 

Stephanie Zuilkowski, Ed.D.  (Learning Systems Institute) chaired “Transforming Teacher Education: From Colonial Legacies to Compassionate Pedagogies” and presented “Leveraging Pre-Service Teacher Education to Improve Foundational Learning: Evidence from the Zambia Pre-service Teacher Education Study” at the 2026 CIES Conference in San Francisco. 

Celia Reddick, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Concerted Community Engagement: Refugee Education and Parents’ Daily Acts of Resistance” at the 2026 CIES Conference in San Francisco. 

Kate Schell, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) chaired “Teachers’ and Families’ Perspectives on Language-in-Education Policies” and presented “’Dancing to the Music’ in the Philippines: Local Enactment of Shifting, Ambiguous Language-in-Education Policies” at the 2026 CIES Conference in San Francisco. 

Brenda Wawire, Ph.D., Kate Schell, Ph.D., Celia Reddick, Ph.D., and Adrienne-Barnes-Story, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Multilingual Realities, Monolingual Policies: Translanguaging in Malawi’s Classrooms” at the 2026 CIES Conference in San Francisco. 

Brenda Wawire, Ph.D., Celia Reddick, Ph.D., Adrienne-Barnes-Story, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) and Sana Tibi, Ph.D.(Department of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “Refugee Resettlement Amid Anti-Refugee Rhetoric: How Refugee Families Navigate School in a Southeastern US City” and “Refugee Trajectories, Mobility, Aspirations, and Political Constraints” at the 2026 CIES Conference in San Francisco. 

Brenda Wawire, Ph.D. and Adrienne-Barnes-Story, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Observing Overcrowded Malawian Classrooms Through the Teaching Through Interactions Framework (TTIF) Lens” at the 2026 CIES Conference in San Francisco. 

Melba Marin-Velasquez, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute), Anairis de la Cruz Benito, Ph.D. (FSU Fellows Society), Ayesha Khurshid, Ph.D., Lama Jaber, Ph.D., and Katherine Yaun, MA (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) presented “Maya Muslim Women as Vulnerable Agents: Teaching & Learning of Maya Medicine in Chiapas, Mexico” at the 2026 CIES Conference in San Francisco. 

Stormy McGivern, MA and Emily Porter (Department of Student Engagement, Office of Student Organizations and Involvement) presented “From Pause to Participation: Enhancing Campus Traditions to Meet the Evolving Needs of Our Students” at the 2026 Association of College Unions International Annual Conference in Pittsburgh. 

Diamond Boston (Center for Academic Retention & Enhancement) co‑presented “Not Just a Bridge, but a Launchpad” at The First-Year Experience Annual Conference. She also presented “First Time in College Success” at the National College Fair. 

Erin Morpeth-Provost, Ph.D. (Counseling & Psychological Services) co-presented the pre-conference session “High Stakes, Human Impact: Trauma-Informed and Collaborative Approaches to Psychiatric Hospitalization in University Counseling Centers” and presented the breakout session “EMDR in a University Counseling Center: Client Outcomes and Practical Use in Response to a Campus Crisis” at the American College Counseling Association annual conference. 

Alice Maxwell (Division of Student Affairs Marketing and Communications) co-presented “Using Communications to Support Strategic Problem-Solving and Help Achieve Goals” at 2026 NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference in Kansas City, MO. She also co-presented “Building the Digital Student Affairs Division” at the same conference. 

Amy Hecht, Ed.D. (Vice President for Student Affairs) and Brittany Devies, Ph.D. (Fraternity and Sorority Life) co-presented “Telling Time: Time Management of Women in Senior Student Affairs Roles” at 2026 NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference. 

Brandon Bowden, Ed.D., Zduy Chu, Ed.D. and Carlos Gómez, Ph.D. (Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs) presented “The Written and Unwritten Role of an AVP during Crisis” at 2026 NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference. 

Brittany Devies, Ph.D. (Fraternity and Sorority Life), Kathy Guthrie, Ph.D. (Anne’s College) presented “Applying Content: Integrating Theory, Design, and Student-Centered Learning” at 2026 NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference. 

Darryl Lovett, Ph.D. (Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs) presented “The Evolving Nature of the Profession: Exploring the Value of Students Affairs” and co-presented “Centering the Student Affairs Workforce” and “Leveraging On-Campus Professional Development: How SSAOs Create Impactful On-Campus Learning That Drives Staff and Student Success” at 2026 NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference. 

Jordan Felton, Adarius Simpkins and Kendall Harris (Center for Academic Retention & Enhancement) co-presented “Not Just a Checked Box: Underrepresented Graduate Students as Leaders, Advocates, and Policy Influencers” at 2026 NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference. 

Shelley Ducatt, Ph.D. and Haley Gentile, M.S. (Department of Student Support and Transitions) presented “From ‘Hunger’ to ‘Basic Needs’: Lessons from the Evolution of a Campus Food Pantry” at 2026 NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference. 

Shelley Ducatt, Ph.D. (Department of Student Support and Transitions), Amy Haggard, Ph.D.  (Student Conduct and Community Standards) and Rachel Kirshner, J.D. (Office of Investigations and Assessment, DSST) co-presented “Report to Resolution: Leading Organizational Conduct Processes with Purpose and Impact” at 2026 NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference. 

Stefany Moncada and Xiomara Romero (Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement) presented “Thriving Together: Dual-Impact Wellness for Student and Staff Success” at 2026 NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference. 

Nicole Bentze, D.O. (College of Medicine) and medical student Alachua Madison Flowers presented “Gratitude Notes: A Meaningful Tool Enhancing Both Professional and Personal Development of Medical Students and Faculty” at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Conference on Medical School Education. 

Tana Jean Welch, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) presented “HEAL: The Value of a Literary Journal in Medical Education” at the Festival of Creative Arts Health and Humanities Symposium. 

Sylvie Naar, Ph.D. (Center for Translational Behavioral Science) Jessica De Leon, Ph.D. and Terra Bradley, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) presented “Breaking Barriers and Boosting Efficiency: Accelerating Translational Science in the Creation of a New Academic Health Center” at a poster presentation at the Southeast Regional Clinical and Translational Science Awards Conference. 

Christopher Mulrooney, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) presented the Artifacts of Culture Change pre-conference keynote session titled, “Obstacles & Pathways to Using the Artifacts: A Florida Study of Culture Change Implementation in Real Life” for the 16th Annual Summit of Louisiana Enhancing Aging with Dignity through Empowerment and Respect. 

Rodney Reeves, Ph.D. (Department of Classics) presented “Toxic Waters of Constantinople: A Reassessment of the Sixth Century Demographic Collapse Through Lead Contamination in Civic Hydraulic Infrastructure” at the Archaeological Institute of America & The Society for Classical Studies 2026 Annual Meeting. 

Marissa Hershon, MA (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) presented “Cedar Hill’s Reception Room: An Egyptian Revival Interior in New England” at the Historic Deerfield-Wellesley College annual symposium. 

Michael Carrasco, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) presented “Las Formas Del Dios: Materialidad, Iconografía, y Presencia en el Mundo Mesoamericano” (The Forms of God: Materiality, Iconography and Presence in the Mesoamerican World) at the 8º Ciclo de Conferencias: Etnoarqueología, Cosmovisión e Iconografía de las Divinidades, held at the Museo del Templo Mayor-INAH in Mexico City. He also co-presented “Invasiones Biológicas en el Antropoceno: El Colapso de Patrimonio Biocultural en las Islas Amami, Japón” (Biological Invasions in the Anthropocene: The Collapse of Biocultural Patrimony in the Amami Islands of Japan) at the Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Morelia in Indeco la Huerta, Mexico. 

David Gussak, Ph.D. (Institute for the Arts and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned) presented “Creativity in an Uncreative Space: Arts and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned” after coordinating a 6-week long exhibition of work from incarcerated artists at Madison Correctional Institution. 

Sharanya Jayaraman, Ph.D. and Christopher Mills, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) presented their poster “CS1 in the AI Era: Boundaries, Practice, and Conceptual Mastery,” at the 2026 Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, a leading international conference on computer science education. 

Jean Young, MA, (FSU Museum of Fine Arts) presented “The Simple Secrets of Success: Points to Consider When Applying for an Art Show” at a monthly meeting of the Artists’ League of the Big Bend. 

Terry Londy, MA, (Department of Interior Architecture & Design) presented “How Can a Poster Create a Deeper Connection to the Viewer Through Adding Dimensionality and Materials?” at the Design Principles and Practices Research Conference in Rome, Italy. He also presented “Elective Classes that Can Elevate Student Design Portfolios, Setting Them Apart from the Competition,” “Northstar Center, a Midcentury Exercise in Lessons Learned: A Case Study,” and “Experiential Graphics in Trauma-Informed Design: A Case Study,” at the Interior Design Educators Council Conference at Columbia College, Chicago. 

Nicole Bentze, D.O., FAAFP, FAMWA, Shermeeka Hogans-Mathews M.D., FAAFP (College of Medicine) and medical student Profilia Nord presented “Mental Health Stigma, Help-Seeking Behaviors, and Barriers to Mental Health Care Among Family Medicine Physician Educators” at the 2026 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Conference on Medical Student Education. 

Nicole Bentze, D.O., FAAFP, FAMWA (College of Medicine) participated in a panel discussion on “Supporting Students Through the SOAP Process” at the 2026 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Conference on Medical Student Education. 

Joanne Saxour, M.D., FAAFP (College of Medicine) participated in a roundtable discussion about “Teaching Office Procedures to Medical Students Using Non-Animal Materials” and presented “Impact of Mid-Rotation Formative Assessment on Medical Student Performance in a Family Medicine Clerkship: A Comparative Study” at the 2026 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Conference on Medical Student Education.   

Kehinde Ishangi, MFA (School of Dance) presented “Embodying the Black Dance Legacy” at the International Association of Blacks in Dance Conference, “Soul to Sole” in Atlanta, GA. 

Kehinde Ishangi, MFA (School of Dance) presented “Embodying Functional Anatomy in Ballet Technique” at the American College Dance Association held at Brenau University in Gainesville, GA. 

Flavia Ramos-Mattousi, Ed.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Reimagining Visual Dialogue in Community Health and Education: Integrating Hand-Drawn and Ai-Generated Images in the Fotodialogo Method” and “Re-Imagining Visual Dialogue: Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Arts-Based Research Through the Fotodialogo Method” at the INTED 2026 conference in Valencia, Spain. 

Kaylee Webb, MS (Career Center) participated in a roundtable discussion hosted by RippleMatch, discussed the evolving education-to-employment landscape, critical gaps and transitions from academic institutions to the workforce, and the new definition of “job-ready” in today’s labor market. 

Carrie Ann Baade, MFA, (Department of Art) curated and hosted “Horizons: Women’s Voices”, an International Women’s Day gathering on Vision Train, an online global community for artists.   

Daniel Luedtke, MFA, (Department of Art) presented “MAKERS SPACE: Ceramic Hydrographics” at the 60th Annual National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Conference “Volumes”. 

Bani Malhotra, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) co-presented “From Setbacks to Strengths: Role of Positive Psychology Constructs in Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation” at the Annual Meeting of the APA Division of Rehabilitation Psychology. 

Jen Atkins, Ph.D. (School of Dance) delivered an invited lecture on Mardi Gras history at the Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses Museum in New Orleans. 

EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES 

Daniel Smith, MME (School of Dance) performed Andrew Lloyd Webber’s symphonic suites (The Phantom of the Opera and Sunset Boulevard) with the Panama City Symphony. 

Carrie Ann Baade, MFA (Department of Art) presented a solo exhibition “The Heretical Body” at Gulf Coast State College’s Amelia Center Gallery. 

Jiha Moon (College of Fine Arts) had her work “Blue Face Jug (Daughter of Sea king)” shown at Derek Eller Gallery during Frieze Los Angeles, a leading international contemporary art fair. 

Alena Mehić, MFA (College of Fine Arts) had her work featured in “Heirlooms: Strange Logics of Inheritance” at Wavelength Space in Chattanooga, TN. 

Marty Fielding, MFA, (Department of Art) was featured in “Artstream” at the 60th Annual National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Conference, “Volumes” in Detroit. 

Jonathan Christensen Caballero, MFA, (Department of Art) was featured in three exhibitions as part of the 60th Annual National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Conference: “Volumes” in Detroit. These were ‘A Human Experience’ at Sisson Gallery, Henry Ford College, “Dead Center”, a group exhibition with University of Kansas faculty, alumni, and resident artists and “Turn Up the Volume!” at The Carr Center.   

Lilian Garcia-Roig, MFA, (Department of Art) had her work “Hyphenated Nature: Northern Florida-Cuban Painting Relations (after Carta)” featured in the “Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way” exhibition at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. 

Carrie Ann Baade, MFA, and Katie Kehoe, MFA, (Department of Art) exhibited their work in the College Art Association Parallel Worlds exhibition. 

Meredith Lynn, MFA, (Department of Art) had her work “Bad Outdoorsmen (Jackson’s West)” exhibited at the “Hunter Invitational V” group exhibition at the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, TN. 

SERVICE 

Annie Wofford, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was appointed to the editorial board for Research in Higher Education. 

Kathleen Powers Conti, Ph.D. (Department of History) served on the program committee for the 2026 joint conference between the National Council on Public History and the American Association for State and Local History. 

Abby Cloud Langdon (New Student Family Programs) served as an Attendee Experience Co-Chair at the inaugural 2026 Spring Learning Conference with NODA – Association for Orientation, Transition, and Retention in Higher Education. 

Ransome Eke, M.D., Ph.D. (College of Medicine) is serving as a board member of the Capital Area Healthy Start Coalition. 

Joedrecka Brown Speights, M.D. (College of Medicine) served as Doctor of the Day in the Florida Senate. 

Bill Boyer, DHSc (College of Medicine) was recently appointed to the National Association of Designated Institutional Officials’ Education Committee, further advancing FSU’s national presence in Graduate Medical Education. 

Ben Wicker (University Housing) completed his three-year term within the presidential cycle for the Southeastern Association of Housing Officers (SEAHO). He led agreements with the international governing body for continuing education credits through SEAHO’s annual conferences and brokered an agreement to utilize investment fund returns for its members to attend events for both organizations as the first region to do so. 

Shermeeka Hogans-Mathews, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) graduated from the Leadership Education for Academic Development and Success Fellowship Program and spoke at the Association of Departments of Family Medicine Annual Meeting in Orlando. 

NOTABLE 

Megan Buning, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) completed the national Mental Health First Aid Youth Instructor training and now holds a certification through the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. 

Vilma Fuentes, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) was part of a delegation who met with the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Panama. 

Celia Reddick, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) chaired the business meeting for the Language Issues SIG at the 2026 CIES Conference in San Francisco. 

Annie Booth, MA (Museum of Fine Arts) co-juried the 39th Annual Mahaska Whitley Student Juried Exhibition, at LeMoyne Arts. 

Daniel Smith, MME (School of Dance) accompanied two master classes taught by nia love, MFA (School of Dance) at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA. 

Katie Kehoe, MFA (College of Fine Arts) attended the Partnership for Academic Leadership in Sustainability summit in New York. This summit brought together faculty and staff from across the U.S, Canada and Ireland to share strategies, approaches, and resources for teaching sustainable practices in higher education. 

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Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across campus. Faculty and Staff Briefs are produced monthly to recognize accomplishments and provide a space where honors, awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased.

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HONORS AND AWARDS

Lina Rojas, MAAPP (Office of Governmental Relations) was honored by the News Service of Florida in the digital feature “2025 News Service of Florida 40 Under 40,” which highlights 40 rising stars under the age of 40 in government, business and advocacy.

Michael D. Carrasco, Ph.D. (College of Fine Arts) and FSU alumnus Joshua Englehardt, Ph.D. (Department of Anthropology) had their paper “Threats to Cycad Biocultural Heritage in the Amami Islands, Japan” awarded with the 19th Plant Species Biology Best Paper Award in the Journal Plant Species Biology.

Panayotis League, Ph.D. (College of Music) was recognized with a Bronze Medal from the Global Music Awards for his album “Bedroom Volume,” which was the only album in the Indie category to receive honors in the Winter 2025-2026 cycle.

Laurie Abbott, Ph.D., RN, DipACLM, CNE, PHNA-BC, FAAN (College of Nursing) was nominated and inducted into Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Honor Society) in recognition of scholarly achievements and contributions to the advancement of knowledge.

Alexandra Yeager (Fraternity and Sorority Life) was recognized as Advisor of the Year for the Southern Region by the Order of Omega.

Brittany Devies, Ph.D. (Fraternity and Sorority Life) was awarded the 2026 Outstanding Fraternity/Sorority Advisor Award by Alpha Chi Omega National Headquarters.

Clair Bailey, M.S. (University Housing) with assistance from student Resident Assistants, received the NASPA-FL Program of Distinction Award: Housing, Residence Life, Contracted Services, Student Conduct, for the October program they created on wellness, “Escape the Haunted Habits.”

GRANTS

Christopher Solís, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) is a co-awardee on a Networking Mini-Grant sponsored by the Biophysical Society, which will help organize the FSU networking event “The Exhaustive Chase: Investigation of Striated Muscle Regulation in Health and Disease.”

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing), Sylvie Naar, Ph.D. and Iván Balán, Ph.D. (Center for Translational Behavioral Science) were awarded a three-year R01 grant totaling $616,000 from the National Institutes of Health for their study “Healthy Choices to Reduce Stigma and Improve Self-Management of Alcohol and HIV among Young Adults”.

BYLINES

Joseph Watso, Ph.D. and Jonathan Hoch (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “Can We Protect Our Hearts by Sweating Out Excess Sodium?” published in Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews.

Joseph Watso, Ph.D., Jonathan Hoch, Christin Domeier (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and FSU alumna Pannonica Silvestri co-authored “Prognostic Value of Exercise Blood Pressure: Role of Fitness and Exercise Training,” published in Heart and Circulatory Physiology.

Adrienne-Barnes-Story, Ph.D., Kate Schell, Ph.D. and Brenda Wawire, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) co-authored “Pedagogical Practices in Overcrowded Classrooms: Evidence from Education Stakeholders in Malawi,” published in Current Issues in Comparative Education.

Matt Schmidli, Ph.D. (School of Theatre) published Issue 40.1 of the “Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism,” edited by Aaron Thomas (School of Theatre).

Kristy Anderson, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored “Antipsychotic Drug Prescriptions for Transition-age Youth on the Autism Spectrum,” published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Melissa Radey, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored “Complex Relationships Between Justice and Injustice in Organizations: Reducing Work-Related Burnout Among Child Welfare Workers,” published in Human Service Organizations.

Yaccov Petscher, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored “Peer Assisted Writing Strategies for Kindergarten: An Efficacy Study,” published in Scientific Studies of Reading.

Hugh Catts, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information), Yaacov Petscher, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and Ashley Edwards, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) co-authored “Evaluation of the Consistency of Speech Verification System with Human Raters in Early Literacy Screening Assessment,” published in Frontiers of Education.

Terri Bourus, Ph.D. (Department of English) wrote the article review “Henry IV: Falstaff in Brooklyn,” published in volume 43 of the Shakespeare Bulletin journal by Johns Hopkins University Press. Bourus’ essay reviewing Jonathan Lamb’s book, “How the World Became a Book in Shakespeare’s England” was also published in volume 48 of Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme.

Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FAAN (College of Nursing) co-authored “Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Initial Evidence for Enhancing Problem-Solving in Rural Heart Failure Dyads,” published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. These findings support the potential benefit of dyadic problem-solving interventions in improving problem solving, HF self-care, and depressive symptoms, especially in rural patients.

Lauren Stanley, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored “Patience and Protocol: Advice to Newly Hired Child Welfare Workers from Experienced Colleagues,” published in the Journal of Public Child Welfare.

Nicholas Mazza, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) authored the poems, “Prayer for Ukraine,” published in the Journal of Family Social Work. Mazza also authored “Hand and Heart of Healing” and “Consultation,” both published in Fresh Words: An International Literary Magazine.

Qinchun Rao, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “Pelagic Sargassum as a Sustainable Source of Food-Grade Alginate: Selective Functional Modulation by High-Pressure Processing and Sonication,” published in Food Hydrocolloids; “Quantitative Western Blot Assay for the Detection of Chicken Serum Albumin (Gal d 5),” published in Food Chemistry; and “Immunological and Proteomic Characterization of Food Allergens in Almond Hulls,” published in Sustainable Food Proteins.

Helene Tigro, Ph.D., Michelle Parvatiyar, Ph.D. and Christopher Solís, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “Desensitization of the Cardiac Troponin Complex by TnI Phosphorylation and Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate,” published in ACS Omega and highlighted on the cover of Volume 11, Issue 1.

Tenley Bick, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) published her essay “Armatures of a Different Value, of Boundless Feeling: The Art of Buzz Spector” in the exhibition catalog for “Buzz Spector’s Recto | Verso” at Zolla / Lieberman Gallery in Chicago.

Lorenzo Pericolo, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) published the book “Deleuze’s Modern Baroque: The Fold, Leibniz, the Formless, and the Objectile.”

Allison Menezes, M.D., Nicole Bentze, D.O. (College of Medicine) and alumna Britany Long, M.D. (Class of ’25) co-authored “Quantifying Patient Interest in Plant-Based Diets in Primary and Specialty Medical Practices” published in the International Journal of Disease Regression and Prevention.

Andrew Epstein, Ph.D. (Department of English) had his essay “William James, Attention, and Post-1945 American Poetry” published by the Cambridge University Press in the book, “William James and Literary Studies.”

Laura Greene, Ph.D. (Department of Physics and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory) co-authored a National Science Foundation-funded report on Reproducibility in Condensed Matter Physics.

PRESENTATIONS

Erika Loic, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) presented “Monstrous Conquests in Medieval Iberia: The Aquelarre Tabletop Roleplaying Game and Its Bestiarium Hispaniae” at the Medieval + Monsters Conference, hosted at Dominican University and the Newberry Library in Chicago.

Jack Krebs, MA (Academic Center for Excellence) presented “Navigating Policy and Practice for the ‘Maxed Out’ Dual Enrollment Student” at the Florida Alliance of Dual Enrollment Partnerships conference held at Indian River State College.

Jen Atkins, Ph.D. (School of Dance) spoke in the Gallier Gatherings Series at the Hermann-Grima Gallier Historic Houses Museum in New Orleans.

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) presented “Pilot Implementation of Nurse-Physician Phone Support Intervention for Maternity Health Worker” and “Womb2Heart Pilot Randomized Trial for Postpartum Individuals with Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes” at the Society of Maternal and Fetal Medicine Pregnancy Meeting.

Denise Bookwalter, MFA (Department of Art) presented about the Small Craft Advisory Press at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and the University of Nebraska Omaha.

Jessica Bahorski, Ph.D., APRN, PPCNP-BC, WHNP (College of Nursing) co-presented “Postpartum Depression Screening by Pediatric Clinicians in North-Central Florida” at the 10th annual Perinatal Mental Health Conference, Florida Maternal Mental Health Collaborative.

Adrienne Barnes-Story, Ph.D. and Brenda Wawire, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented research findings on their study on large class sizes in Malawi and how to go about teaching students in these environments. Results were reported on by The Daily Times in Malawi.

Meghan Mick, MLA and Kelley Robinson, MFA (Department of Interior Architecture and Design) presented their paper “Grounded Learning” at the National Conference on the Beginning Design Student.

Lynn Jones, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) presented a section of her book in the paper “Imperial Imagery in the Province: The Case of the ‘White Bearded’ Unknown Saint in Cappadocia” at the 51st Annual Byzantine Studies Conference.

Nicole Bentze, D.O. (College of Medicine) and Giovana Perez-Oliveras (John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) were speakers for “Arts & Healthcare: The Human Side of Healing,” hosted by the Arts & Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County.

Shermeeka Hogans-Mathews, M.D. and Nicole Bentze, D.O. (College of Medicine) were selected to present their lecture “Mental Health Stigma, Help-Seeking Behaviors, & Barriers to Mental Health Care Among Family Medicine Physician Educators” at the 2026 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Conference.

Nell Robinson (University Health Services) presented “REACH Beyond the Office: Expanding Prevention Through Collaborative Partnerships” at the 2026 NASPA Strategies Conference in Chicago.

Amy Magnuson, Ph.D., RD, LD/N, Nell Robinson and Zabe Thompson, MPH (University Health Services) presented a concurrent session “From Listening to Leading: Using Qualitative Data to Re-Envision Campus Health and Wellness” at the 2026 NASPA Strategies Conference in Chicago.

Rachel Blakesley, Ph.D. (Student Conduct and Community Standards) presented her doctoral work, “Turn It Up: Amplifying Historically Marginalized Students’ Experiences with Interpersonal Conflict in the Residence Halls,” at the Association for Student Conduct Administration’s annual conference.

Nina Davis, MS, Lynn Sleeth, RN, BSN, MSN and Warren Oliver, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) co-presented the panel discussion “Implementing Self-Directed Learning Strategies to Bridge the Gap Between Foundational Nursing Knowledge and NCLEX Readiness” at the 39th International Society for Self-Directed Learning Symposium in Cocoa Beach, FL.

Robert Hanna (Learning Systems Institute) presented at the FSU Law School’s AI Day in the Capital.

EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

Jean Shon, MFA, (Department of Art) opened her solo exhibition “Bleed” at Atlanta Contemporary in Atlanta, GA.

Matt Schmidli, MFA (School of Theatre) began producing and directing a narrative short film called “Arizona,” a modern western with principal photography.

Denise Bookwalter, MFA (Department of Art/ Small Craft Advisory Press) exhibited a collection of Small Craft Advisory Press publications at the CODEX International Book Fair and Symposium in San Francisco, CA.

Katie Kehoe, MFA (Department of Art) exhibited her work in “Parallel Works” and participated in the Artists’ Roundtable presentation at the College Art Association Conference in Chicago. Kehoe also exhibited three works in the juried group exhibition “Ancestral Futures,” curated by artist and ceramicist Donté K. Hayes, at ARC Gallery in Chicago, IL.

Carrie Ann Baade, MFA (Department of Art) exhibited work within “Visionary Voices: Echoes of Inner Worlds” on view at the Leonora Carrington Museum in Xilitla, Mexico.

Monika Gossman (School of Theatre) finished principal photography of the feature film “STRIPPED.” She was also a finalist at the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards with short film script “Lemonade.”

Chari Arespacochaga, MFA (School of Theatre) directed “Primary Trust” at the Asolo Repertory Theatre and serves on the organizing committee of Performance Studies International in Jacarta.

Jamie Ho, MFA (Department of Art) participated in a panel and had her work featured in the exhibition “Becoming Sticky: Equatorial Vision” during the Decolonization and Global Justice Conference at the University of Oregon’s Erb Memorial Union.

Meredith Lynn, MFA (Department of Art) was featured in “The Hunter Invitational V” group exhibition at the Hunter Museum of American Art.

Liliya Ugay (College of Music) premiered her one-act opera “Thirty Angels” at the 2026 National Opera Association Conference to a sold-out audience. She was also honored to serve as a keynote speaker for the Composition in Asia Symposium at the University of South Florida. As a part of the symposium, she performed her monodrama “Chhlong Tonle” at Zinober Concert Hall.

Tom Welsh, Ph.D. (School of Dance) completed an editorial review of the manuscript “Interdisciplinary Research on DanceSport and Sports Biomechanics . . .” for the International Journal of Dance Medicine & Science.

nia love, MFA (School of Dance) was selected as a teaching guest artist for Movement Research’s Summer MELT program in New York, NY. She also completed production on the feature documentary “Let the Eagle Scream.”

Iain Quinn, Ph.D. (College of Music) was a Visiting Scholar at the University of St. Andrews and gave a lecture for the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts in addition to teaching and performing an organ recital. He also performed a recital at St. Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh. His most recent CD, “Poulenc, Hindemith, Pinkham: Works for Organ and Orchestra,” recorded with the English Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ken Woods, has been released on ESO Records.

SERVICE

Jen Gillette, MFA (School of Theatre) served as the Costume Designer for Primary Trust at the Asolo Repertory Theatre.

Mora Beauchamp-Byrd, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) served as a panelist at the conference “Why Black Museums: Other Geographies, New Fields” at the University of Texas at Austin.

Christopher Solís, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) served on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant study section “Basic Biology of Blood, Heart, and Vasculature” which scores grants submitted to the NIH for extramural funding of research projects.

Tiffany Rhynard, MFA (School of Dance) attended the Dance on Camera Film Festival at Symphony Space in New York City as Vice President of the Board. She also received an artist residency at the Azule Art Residency Center.

Stephanie Sickler, MFA (Department of Interior Architecture and Design) was inducted into the Council of Fellows of the Interior Design Educators Council.

Felicia Williams, Ph.D. (Department of Student Engagement) was elected as the 2026 chair-elect of the Leadership Education Member Community for International Leadership Association and will transition to hold the chair position in 2027.

Kathleen Powers Conti, Ph.D. (Department of History) was selected to participate in “Whose History, Whose Voice? The Future of Interpreting Enslavement at Historic Sites,” a year long working group with the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture at William & Mary.

Sabrina L. Dickey, Ph.D., MSN, RN (College of Nursing) was selected for the Board of Directors for Big Bend AHEC/Big Bend Rural Health Network.

Lauren Gillis, MFA (School of Theatre) served as Vice President of Conferences for the Musical Theatre Educators’ Alliance, planning and producing the 2026 International Conference in San Diego.

Marlo Ransdell, Ph.D. (Department of Interior Architecture and Design) co-led the event “It’s the Weather” at the Challenger Center of Tallahassee for the 2026 Festival of the Creative Arts.

Christina Parker-Flynn, Ph.D. (Department of English) was elected president of the Literature/Film Association, the largest and most active scholarly organization in the United States dedicated to the study of literature and film.

Julie Decker, M.Ed. (Division of University Advancement) participated in the CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) District III conference. Decker served on the CASE DII Cabinet as a roundtable host for Newcomers to the profession and a session host for Board Recruitment and Management. Additionally, Decker served on the board at the Winter Institute for CAAE (Council of Alumni Association Executives) as the Chair of the Governance Committee.

Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FAAN (College of Nursing) recently participated in an Institute for Successful Longevity sponsored panel discussion, alongside Dawn Carr, Ph.D. (Claude Pepper Center) and special guest speaker, Dr. Ken Langa on “Staying Sharp and Connected: What Science Says About Aging Well” at the Tallahassee Senior Center. The event was moderated by Zhe He, Ph.D. (Institute for Successful Longevity).

NOTABLE

Julianna Baggott, MFA (College of Motion Picture Arts) had her short story “Attachment Parenting” picked up by Amazon MGM with Davis Entertainment producing, for TV adaptation.

Tiffany Rhynard, MFA (School of Dance) had her feature documentary gain new screening licenses in Australia, Ireland, Luxembourg, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States through Kanopy Educational Distribution. Her other feature documentary “Not My Enemy” reached more than 4,600 viewers streaming on KweliTV. She also completed principal photography for the feature documentary “The Mirage.”

Kevin Jones, Ph.D. and Bill Peterson, M.M. (College of Music) have released a new single on all streaming platforms. They have also been invited to perform a recital at the 2026 International Trombone Festival in Riga, Latvia.

Tim Glenn, MFA (School of Dance) created 22 costumes for Days of Dance and finalized a 72-page DanceScript pre-visualization for his new work, “Hammers, Sticks, & Strings.”

Helanius J. Wilkins, MFA (School of Dance) completed his Green Box Residency in Green Mountain Falls, CO, with a performance of his work “The Conversation Series: Stitching the Geopolitical Quilt to Re-Body Belonging.”

Laura Greene, Ph.D. (Department of Physics / National High Magnetic Field Laboratory) was appointed to be a part of the consensus study “On Being a Scientist Panel on Responsible Conduct and Stewardship of the Research Process” with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Jen Atkins, Ph.D. (School of Dance) was appointed Executive Co-Editor of “Dance Research Journal.” Atkins was also named Vice President for Awards for the Popular Culture/American Culture Association.

Casey Dozier, Ph.D. (Career Center) was chosen to participate in the 2026 Career Teaching Academy Cohort at the National Career Development Association Conference for select career practitioners in higher education who teach undergraduate career exploration and planning courses.

Tom Welsh, Ph.D. (School of Dance) assisted a young dance science researcher at Elon University in preparing a competitive proposal for the Leadership Alliance Summer Research-Early Identification Program.

Please send items for Faculty and Staff Briefs to tfordyce@fsu.edu. We publish monthly.

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Florida State University’s distinguished faculty are central to the mission of the university. Faculty excellence in scholarship, research, and creative activity is critical to the quality of student learning and makes a difference in the lives of others.

Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across campus. Faculty and Staff Briefs are produced monthly to recognize accomplishments and provide a space where honors, awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased.

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HONORS AND AWARDS

Sladjana Lukic, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) was awarded the National Institutes  of Health / National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences K12 Multidisciplinary Program Career Development Award for her project “Neurolinguistic Investigations of Aphasia and Typical Language Processing.” The project aims to compare different speech elicitation methods in capturing key linguistic variables across core language processing domains and explore their neural correlates to improve diagnosis in people with post-stroke and primary progressive aphasias.

Alicia Craig-Rodriguez, DNP, MBA, APRN, FNP-BC, DIPACLM (College of Nursing) was awarded Fellow status by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine in recognition of her outstanding achievement in the field of lifestyle medicine and her exceptional dedication to advancing the mission of the college.

Celia Reddick, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) was awarded a 2026-28 Jacobs Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Fellowship. The program supports researchers whose work advances understanding of how children and youth learn and develop across contexts and systems.

Elizabeth McQueen, Ph.D. (School of Theatre) received the Cambridge University Press Prize at the American Society for Theatre Research annual conference in Denver for her plenary paper “Changing Taste: The Performance of Terroir in the Illicit Gin Assemblies.”

Yushun Dong, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) was awarded the BlueSky Track Second Prize at the 2025 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) International Conference on Data Mining for his paper “Navigating Between Explainability and Extractability in Machine Learning as a Service” which identified fundamental tension in modern machine learning systems.

Jamie Ho, MFA (Department of Art) was named this year’s Fellowship International Award Recipient by Silver Eye Center for Photography.

Aaron C. Thomas, Ph.D. (School of Theatre) was recognized with the Publishing Subvention Award for his new book “The Violate Man: Male/Male Rape in the American Imagination” at the American Society for Theatre Research annual conference in Denver.

Charles E. Brewer, Ph.D. (College of Music) is a co-recipient of the American Musicological Society’s  2025 Noah Greenberg Award for the project “ReSounding Habsburg Balletti.”

Shannon Staten, Ph.D. (University Housing) was awarded the 2025 Florida Housing Officers Impact Award by the Florida Housing Officers Association. Staten was also recognized by the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Housing Directors for her 12 years of service and dedication to the athletes of the ACC.

Aimée Boutin, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) received the Modern Language Association -EBSCO Collaboration for Information Literacy Prize for her collaborative work in creating the FSU course, FRT 3503 Paris World Capital, presented at the Modern Language Association convention in Toronto, Canada.

Amber Ward, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) was awarded a full year sabbatical in 2026/27 to advance her craft-oriented research.

GRANTS

Elizabeth Madden, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) is a co-investigator on a newly awarded High Priority, Short Term project (R56) grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders working on the research project “Evidence-Based Modeling Approaches to Customizing Treatments for Acquired Dyslexia.”

Christopher Solís, Ph.D. (Department of Health, Nutrition, and Food Sciences) is a co-awardee in a Networking Mini-Grant sponsored by the Biophysical Society. This grant will help organize the networking event at FSU entitled “The Exhaustive Chase: Investigation of Striated Muscle Regulation in Health and Disease.”

Lisa Hightow-Weidman, M.D., MPH, Casey D. Xavier Hall, Ph.D., MPH, Eugenia Flores Millender, Ph.D., R.N., PMH-APRN, FAAN, FAANP, Frank “Frankie” Y. Wong, Ph.D. and Jean-Marc Wise, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) were awarded a $2,277,208.00 million Food and Drug Administration (FDA) research and development contract for the project “Modernizing and Decentralizing Clinical Trials with AI, Digital Health, and Community-Driven Innovation to Deliver Better Health for All Americans.

BYLINES

Thayumanasamy Somasundaram, Ph.D. (Institute of Molecular Biophysics) and David S. Butcher, Ph.D. (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory) published “Regional and National Shared Research Resources: Challenges and Opportunities” in the Journal of Biomolecular Techniques.

Braidyn Lazenby, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) published “Informal Caregiver Uncertainty: Exploring the Presence of Uncertainty in Eating Disorder Reddit Posts” in the Journal of Eating Disorders.

Shannon Hall-Mills, Ph.D. and Lakeisha Johnson (School of Communication Science and Disorders) co-published a research article based on their seed grant from FSU-CRC titled “The KASE for Telepractice” in the Journal of Communication Disorders.

David E. Landau, J.D., Ph.D. (College of Law) co-authored the article “The Democratic Minimum Core” for the Democracy Project by NYU Law.

Brian G. Slocum, J.D., Ph.D. (College of Law) co-published “Pragmatic Textualism” in the Duke Law Journal.

Melba Marin-Velasquez, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) authored “A Flight of Imagination into Temazcal Relationality: A Journey Into Research as a More Relational Process with Community Knowledge Co-Creators” in Departures in Critical Qualitative Research.

Colleen Ganley, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) co-authored the article “Girls and Boys Solve Math Problems Differently — With Similar Short-Term Results but Different Long-Term Outcome”  published in The Conversation.

Rob Schoen, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) co-authored the article “Effects of a Professional Development Program on Teacher Beliefs about Mathematics Teaching and Learning After One and Two Years: An Experimental Study” published in Teaching and Teacher Education.

Setor K. Sorkpor, Ph.D., MPH, MSN, RN, Ibrahim Yigit, Ph.D. and Yijiong Yang, Ph.D., MHA (College of Nursing) co-authored “Experienced and Anticipated HIV-Related Stigma and Depression Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women Living with HIV in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana: The Role of Internalized HIV Stigma in BMC Public Health Examining HIV-Related Stigma and Depressive Symptoms Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women Living with HIV” in BMC Public Health.

Yang Wang, Ph.D. (Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science) co-authored the paper “Diets and Environments of Late Pleistocene Pygmy and Columbian Mammoths: Isotopic Evidence from Southern California” published in PLOS ONE.

Terri Bourus, Ph.D. (Department of English) authored the chapter “Theatrical Environments” in the book “Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship.”

Jeff Chanton, Ph.D. (Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science) co-authored “Drought-induced Peatland Carbon Loss Exacerbated by Elevated CO2 and Warming” which focuses on peatland carbon cycle changes, published in volume 390 of Science. Chanton also co-authored “A Climatically Significant Abiotic Mechanism Driving Carbon Loss and Nitrogen Limitation in Peat Bogs” which focuses on abiotic carbon loss and nitrogen limitation in peat bogs, published in volume 15 of Scientific Reports.

Gary Taylor, Ph.D. (Department of English) authored the chapter “The Politics of Attribution” in the book “Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship.”

Charles Upchurch, Ph.D. (Department of History) authored “Researching the History of the Southern Conference on British Studies” at the request of the North American Conference on British Studies as a part of the celebrations of the NACBS’s 75th anniversary.

David Newheiser, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) co-authored “Art-Making as Spiritual Practice” and was interviewed on the New Books Network podcast episode “New Books in Secularism.”

Qiuchang (Katy) Cao, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored “Exploring the Implementation Functions of Older Adults’ Participation in Age-Friendly Community Initiatives,” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Stanley Gontarski, Ph.D. (Department of English) had his essay, “Who Wrote Godot?, or Beckett’s Bad Quartos” published in volume 11 of Skenè: Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, “What Is the Word: Late Beckett Throbbing Between Drama and Poetry.” He also had his article “A Theatre of Boredom and Theatrical Distrust (André Gregory, Chekhov and Beckett)” published in The Theatre Times.

Kaela Byers, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the poster “Putting Families First: Early Impact of Family First Prevention Services on Family Well-Being” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Christopher Solís, Ph.D. (Department of Health, Nutrition, and Food Sciences) published “Desensitization of the Cardiac Troponin Complex by TnI Phosphorylation and Epigallocatechin-3-gallate” published by the American Chemical Society.

Sonnie Mayewski, MSW and Michael Killian, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the presentation “Telehealth’s Promise and Limits: Trends and Disparities in Pediatric Preventive Care Access, 2021-2023” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Bruce Thyer, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) authored the article “Using Experimental Research Designs to Evaluate Social Work Practice in China” published in the China Journal of Social Work. Thyer also authored the book chapter “The Intersections of Behavioral Analysis and Social Work” published in the book “Applied Behavior Analysis for Business and Technology Applications.”

Gashaye Malaku Tefera, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored “COVID-19 and Immigrant Status: A Qualitative Study of Malawian Immigrants Living in South Africa” published in the European Journal of Public Health.

Tanya Renn, Ph.D. and Michael Killian, Ph.D. (College of Social Work), Margarita Amado-Blanco, MSW and Savannah Smith, MSW (Stoops Center for Communities, Families, and Children) co-authored the article “Adapting Trauma-Informed Group Therapy Treatment: Applying the ADAPT-ITT Framework” published in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma.

Daejin Kim, Ph.D. (Department of Interior Architecture and Design) published “Evaluating Innovative Design Strategies in a Maternity Unit: A Post-Occupancy Evaluation Approach” in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal.

Gashaye Tefera, Ph.D. and Ponsiano Ngondwe, MSW (College of Social Work) co-authored the article “‘I’d Rather Sit at Home and Suffer in Silence’: Black Women’s Experiences with Weight Stigma” published as an advance online publication in the APA PsycArticles.

Tom Welsh, Ph.D. (School of Dance) received final acceptance for two empirical research studies involving FSU dancers, to be published in the Journal of Dance Medicine & Science. Lead authors are Casey Copeland, MA (School of Dance) (“Mental Resilience Training for Dancers”) and Kaitlin Morgan (“Développé Training for Dancers.”)

Lisa Schelbe, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the poster “Transforming Higher Education to Support Student-Parents” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Katie Berry, Ph.D., Emily Davidson, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) and Lauren Herod, MSW/MBA (College of Social Work) co-authored “How Do Child Welfare Policymakers Use Research in Decision-Making? A Use of Research Evidence Qualitative Study” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Gashaye Malaku Tefera, Ph.D. and Ponsiano Ngondwe, MSW (College of Social Work) co-authored the presentation “”Forget It. I’m Not Going to See Another Provider” the Intersection of Weight Stigma and Healthcare Access for Black Women” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Lisa Schelbe, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the presentation “Exploring the Impact of a Multisite Student Parent Advisory Board across Campus Communities: An Ethnographic Case Study” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Lauren Stanley, Ph.D. and Jiwon Speers, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) co-authored the presentation “Validation of the Belonging Barometer with Child Welfare Workers” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Kaela Byers, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the presentation “Impact Evaluation of the Saint Francis Fatherhood FIRE Program on Father Engagement and Family Outcomes” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Qiuchang (Katy) Cao, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the presentation “Social Networks as an Engagement Strategy in Child Maltreatment Prevention Programs: A Scoping Review” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Gashaye Malaku Tefera, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the presentation “‘I  Would Rather Sit at Home and Suffer in Silence’: Perceptions, Experiences and Impacts of Weight Stigma Among Low-Income Black Women in Missouri” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Tenley Bick, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) published her essay “Armatures of Different Value, of Boundless Feeling: The Art of Buzz Spector” in the exhibition catalog for “Buzz Spector: Recto | Verso,” opening at Zolla/Lieberman’s south location in Chicago. The essay is the sole critical text in the catalog.

Qiuchang (Katy) Cao, Ph.D. and Manjun Kim, MA (College of Social Work) co-authored the poster “Health, Support, and Service Needs of Older Adult Kinship Caregivers in Florida: Preliminary Findings from the Oak Project” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Lauren Herod, MSW, Lauren Stanley, Ph.D. and Emily Davidson, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) co-authored the poster “Self-Care Practices over Time Among Child Welfare Workers: A Longitudinal Growth Curve Analysis” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

John Moore, Ph.D. and Qiuchang (Katy) Cao, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the presentation “Substance Use Screening Among Older Adults: Associations with Substance Type and Healthcare Setting” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

John Moore, Ph.D., JaNiene Peoples, Ph.D. and Tanya Renn, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the presentation “Service Utilization and Screening Among U.S. College Students with Substance Use Disorder” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Chelsea Brass, Ph.D., MPA (Florida Institute for Child Welfare, FSU College of Social Work) co-authored “Exploring the Link Between Relationship Cycling and Aggression in Challenging Romantic Relationships” published in the Journal of Family Violence.

Megan Vogt, MSW, MS and Tanya Renn, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the presentation “Justice in Motion: Potential for Health Interventions and Practice Changes for Young Women with Legal-Involvement” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Melissa Radey, Ph.D. (College of Social Work), Lenore McWey, Ph.D., Qiong Wu, Ph.D. and Ming Cui, PhD (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored the article “Family Safety Nets and Child Outcomes of Families Involved with the U.S. Child Welfare System,” published in the Journal of Social Service Research.

Shelby Varol, MSW, Alisa Gutherie, MSW, Ponsiano Ngondwe, MSW and Gashaye Malaku Tefera, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the poster “Healthcare Experiences of Transgender and Gender Minority Migrants in the US: A Scoping Review” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Trevor Meagher, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) published “College Towns and Creativity: Exploring Potential Interactions Between Educational Institutions and Local Cultural Economies” in “Cities,” vol. 169.

Wen Guo, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) published “Developing Socially Responsive Competencies in Arts Administration Through Teaching Cases: Needs, Barriers, Debates & Possibilities for an Essential Pedagogy” in The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society.

Wen Guo, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) co-authored the chapter “AI Adoption in the Creative Sector: Practices, Perceptions, and Prospects Among Arts and Culture Organizations and Administrators” in “The Art of Digital Governance,” vol. 6.

Karina Donald, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) co-published “Visual Narratives of Resilience: Caribbean Families’ Coping Before and Since COVID-19” with graduate students Ko-Hui (Cole) Lin and Xingyi Li in “Family Sciences.”

Ponsiano Ngondwe, MSW and Gashaye Malaku Tefera, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the presentation “Mental Health Experiences of African Refugees in the United States: A Scoping Review” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Shamra Boel-Studt, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and Darejan Dvalishvili, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) co-authored the posted “Exploring Caregiver Experiences with Navigating and Securing Residential Care for Children with Intensive Needs” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Tanya Renn, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and Margarita Amado-Blanco, MSW (Stoops Center for Communities, Families, and Children) co-authored the poster “The Impact of Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Meta-Analysis” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

David Newheiser, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) had his article “Die Genealogie der Wunder: Bedeutung und Materielle Praxis” published in volume 31 of the Hermeneutische Blätter journal, “Wunder.” Newheiser also had his co-authored paper, “What Kind of Speech Makes for Peace?” published with the Journal of Ethics in Antiquity and Christianity. He also published the essay “There is Power in Negative Political Theology” with the Political Theology Network.

Leah Reilly Sherman, Ph.D. (FSU Libraries) published “Taking the Museum to the People: Cultural Heritage, Community Engagement, and Postwar Poland’s Museobus,” in Museums as Places of People, Time, and Memory: The Intersection of Place and History, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Daejin Kim, Ph.D. (Department of Interior Architecture and Design) published the journal article “Evaluating Innovative Design Strategies in a Maternity Unit: A Post-Occupancy Evaluation Approach” in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal.

Katie Kehoe, MFA (Department of Art) contributed to: PUBLIC 72: (Searching for) Home, an interdisciplinary journal with a core focus on visual art.

Audrey Jacobs, Ph.D., Ashley Williams, Dianna Bradley (FSU Libraries), Minki Jeon, Ph.D. and Sara Shields, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) co-published “Gameful Learning: Reflections on Co-Designing an Art Gallery Board Game” in CoDesign, the International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts.

Wen Guo, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) co-published the article  “Examining AI Adoption Willingness Among Nonprofit and Government Arts Administrators: Perceptions, Barriers, and Sector-Specific Considerations” in the book “The Art of Digital Governance.”

PRESENTATIONS

Hannah Cronic and Sarah Lull (Department of Student Support and Transition) presented two sessions at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Strategies Conference, “We’re All In This Together: A Case Study in Collaboration” and “Lessons Learned: Providing Support for Sexual Violence Victims That Are Minors.” Amy Haggard (Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards) also contributed to the presentation.

Allison B. Peters, Ph.D., Holly Hunt, Ph.D. (Division of Undergraduate Studies) and Samantha Nix, Ph.D. (Institutional Research) co-presented “Re-Envisioning Institutional Care: A Panel on Data-Informed Innovation for Academic Recovery” at the 2026 Undergraduate Education at Research Universities Annual Conference.

Ebe Randeree, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) presented “AI Impacts on Teachers, Career Pathways/Workforce and Students!” at the 2026 Florida Career Pathways Network Symposium.

Delaney La Rosa, Ed.D., MSN Ed., RN, (College of Nursing) presented “AI and Nursing Workforce Centers” at the National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers & Florida Center for Nursing Membership Assembly, leading a workshop on using artificial intelligence to support research and policy development.

Allison McHugh, DNP, MHCDS, RN, NE-BC and LeeAnne Barfield, Ph.D., DNP, APRN-BC, CNE, FACHE (College of Nursing) co-presented “An Innovative, Evidence-Based Graduate Curriculum That Prepares Nurse Executives for the Real World” at the AACN Doctoral Education Conference in Bonita Springs.

Robin Goodman, Ph.D. (Department of English) presented “Gender of the Machine: AI, World Literature, and Reclaiming the Social Brain” at the virtual World Literature Webinar Series.

Tanya Renn, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) presented “Intersecting Justice: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Alaska Native Experiences with the Criminal Legal System” at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Gashaye Malaku Tefera, Ph.D., Shelby Varol, MSW, John Mathias, Ph.D. and Ponsiano Ngondwe, MSW (College of Social Work), Ellen Piekalkiewicz, MA and Carli Lucius, MSW (Stoops Center for Communities, Families, and Children) co-presented “Vulnerability and Resilience During a Natural Disaster: Exploring the Experiences of Foster Children in Florida” at a symposia at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

John Mathias, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) was the discussant of the symposia “Disaster Risk Reduction across the Lifecourse: Social Work Insights and Interventions” at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC. Mathias also convened the special interest group “Creating Social Responses to a Changing Environment (Grand Challenge for Social Work)” at the same conference.

Bart Klika, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) led a symposia on “Paid Family Leave and Infant Maltreatment” at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Erin Ryan, J.D. (College of Law) delivered the keynote lecture “COVID, Federalism, and Pandemonium in Florida: Implications for Multilevel Governance in the U.S. and Beyond” at the international conference Multilevel Governance in the Post-Pandemic Era: New Dynamics, New Challenges.

Yelena McLane, Ph.D. (Department of Interior Architecture and Design) presented “Designing for Dignity: Architectural Strategies for Holistic Resident Care” as part of the Brain and Beyond…Seminar Series.

Qiuchang (Katy) Cao, Ph.D. and Melissa Radey, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and Dawn Carr, Ph.D. (College of Social Sciences  and Public Policy) presented the poster “Sex Differences in Occupational Exposures and Cognitive Function in Later Life” at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Christy Mantzanas, Samantha Hightower and Tiffany Leung (Career Center, Employer Relations) co-presented “The Career Services Power Pack: Smart-data Integration, Bold Frameworks, and UX Design for Sustainable Partnerships” at the Southern Association of Colleges and Employers conference, where they shared methods to develop storytelling  data, formulas and AI techniques to predict career fair outcomes, and how to integrate UX design principles for program sustainability.

Elizabeth Crowley, MSW (Florida Institute for Research and Development), Sanoop Valappanandi, MSW and John Mathias, Ph.D. (College of Social Work), Ellen Piekalkiewciz, MA, Savannah Smith, MSW and Carli Lucius, MSW (Stoops Center for Communities, Families, Children), Tian Tang, Ph.D. (College of Social Science and Public Policy) and Arda Vanli, Ph.D. (College of Engineering) co-authored the presentation of, “Disaster Preparedness of Social Workers in the Southeastern United States: A Survey Focused on Hurricane-Pandemic Co-O ccurrences” at a symposia at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Lindsey Eckert, Ph.D. (Department of English) presented the papers “Lady Caroline Lamb’s Graham Hamilton and the Migratory Possibilities of South America” and “Lady Caroline Lamb, Lima, and the Coastal Disaster of Ada Reis” at the annual Modern Language Association Convention in Toronto, Canada.

Mora Beauchamp-Byrd, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) was a featured speaker at the conference “Why Black Museums: Other Geographies, New Fields” at the University of Texas at Austin.

Lynn Jones, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) presented a section of her forthcoming book in the paper “Imperial Imagery in the Province: The Case of the ‘White Bearded’ Unknown Saint in Cappadocia” at the 51st Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, held at Wayne State and Oakland Universities in Detroit, MI.

Erika Loic, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) presented “Monstrous Conquests in Medieval Iberia: The Aquelarre Tabletop Roleplaying Game and Its Bestiarium Hispaniae” at the Medieval + Monsters Conference, hosted at Dominican University and the Newberry Library in Chicago.

Charles Upchurch, Ph.D. (Department of History) presented “Fitzroy Kelly to Karl Heinrich Ulrichs: Queer Politics Before Identity” in November at the Southern Conference on British Studies in Tampa, Florida. He also presented “Called it Macaroni: Politics, Queer History, and the American Revolution” at the North American Conference on British Studies in Montreal, Canada.

Melissa Radey, Ph.D. (College of Social Work), Lenore McWey, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences ) and Lisa Magruder, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) co-authored the poster “Changes in Parents’ Relationships after Child Protective Services Involvement within the Context of Domestic Violence” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Hannah Schwadron, Ph.D. (School of Dance) was contracted by Bloomsbury Press to review the edited volume “Queering Partner Dance.”

JaNiene Peoples, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the poster “Investigating How Parental Education Moderates the Effects of Depression on Male College Students’ Beliefs Toward Degree Completion” presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Tanya Renn, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) presented “A Call for Research on Criminal Legal Systems Involvement Among American Indian and Alaska Native Populations” at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Kristina Hakansson, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) gave the invited talk “FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry at 21 Tesla: From Isotopic Fine Structure to Unparalleled Top-Down Proteomics” at a workshop on complex mixtures at the Federal University of Goiás in Goiânia, Brazil. Hakansson also gave the invited talk “Tyrosine Sulfation: A Tricky Posttranslational Modification Requiring High End Mass Spectrometry” at the University of Florida.

Daejin Kim, Ph.D. (Department of Interior Architecture and Design) presented “Perceptions and Acceptance of Smart Home Technologies in the U.S. and South Korea” at the Housing Educators Research Association conference.

Gashaye Malaku Tefera, Ph.D., Ponsiano Ngondwe, MSW and Shelby Varol, MSW (College of Social Work) participated in the symposia “‘They Don’t See Us as Humans’: Multilevel Factors Affecting Trust in Healthcare Among African Immigrants in the U.S.’” at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Andrei Malaev-Babel, MFA (School of Theatre) delivered a keynote address and led  a masterclass at the 2025 Stanislavsky Symposium, held at the University of Malta’s Valletta Campus.

Hannah Schwadron, Ph.D., (School of Dance) presented a reading of her co-authored introduction and solo-authored chapter in “Funny Moves: Dance Humor Politics” at the University of Florida Department of Dance in Gainesville, FL. While there Schwadron also facilitated a movement workshop on dance humor in improvisation and choreography for dance majors. She also co-facilitated original research with a School of Dance student group at the Florida Restorative Justice Association conference in partnership with the Tallahassee Bail Fund. Their workshop, “Move and Be Moved: Freedom Dreaming to Direct Action in Dance, Song, Story,” was presented at St. Paul Methodist Church in Tallahassee.

David Gussak, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) presented the paper “Upwardly Intensifying and Reinforcing the Arts and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned” at the 56th Annual American Art Therapy Association Conference in Portland, Oregon.

Katelyn Bittinger, Sarah Butler (University Housing) and Stormy McGivern (Department of Student Engagement) presented “Curriculum in a Crunch” at the Institute on the Curricular Approach which spotlighted how University Housing and affiliated campus partners foster student learning over the short six-week Summer B semester.

Vilma Fuentes, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Introduction to Higher Education in the USA” to a group of Ukrainian officials in Washington DC,  as part of the U.S. Department of State’s International Leadership Visitors Program.

Nancy Gerber, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) presented on the panel “Arting Your Doctorate and Other Stories” at the American Art Therapy Association Conference in Portland, Oregon.

Barbara Parker-Bell, Ph.D.,(Department of Art Education) presented “Art Therapy & Creativity: Resources for Well-being during Times of Challenge and Transition” at “Education Without Stress: A Mental Health Support at Educational Institutions,” an event supported by the Press, Education, and Culture Section of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.

Samoop Valappanandi, MSW (College of Social Work) presented the poster “Perceptions of Forest Resource Change and the Role of Participation: Evidence from Marginalized Communities in India” at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Lisa Schelbe, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-convened the special interest group “Foster Care and Higher Education” at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Pooja Ichlani, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) presented the poster “Unearthing Women’s Lost Narratives: Tracing the Roots of Intimate Partner Violence in the Big Bend Region of Florida” at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Sonnie Mayewski, MSW and Yaacov Petscher, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and Nuria Gutiérrez, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) co-presented at the workshop “Going Beyond the Mean Effect: A Hands-on Introduction to Quantile Regression for Social Work Research” at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Changhyun Nam (Lyon), Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship) presented five conference papers — consisting of one oral presentation and four posters — at the annual International Textile and Apparel Association conference held Nov. 19-22 in St. Louis, Missouri. Nam presented the papers “AI Image Generators in Apparel Design and Product Development: Enhancing Creativity”; “Technological Innovation and Environmental Awareness in the U.S. and the U.K.: Fashion 3D-Printed Accessories”; and “M-Commerce With Luxury Fashion Goods in Pre-Owned Markets.” Additionally, Nam presented collaborative research including “Rethinking Wetsuit Design: Enhancing Comfort, Fit and Sustainability,” co-authored with Florida State University graduate research assistant Lucia Villanustre and undergraduate student Avaree VandeKerkhoff and “Enhancing Young Consumers’ Trust and Engagement in the Secondhand Luxury Goods Market Within M-Commerce: A Qualitative Approach,” co-authored with undergraduate research assistant Evita Ilushenko.

Michael D. Carrasco, Ph.D. (College of Fine Arts) co-presented the paper “Semiotic Rupture and the Emergence of Writing: Toward a Multimodal Model of Representational Innovation” at iTHEMS RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences in Wako, Saitama, Japan.

Kris Salata, Ph.D. (School of Theatre) spoke about his new book “Grotowski’s Process” at the Performance Studies international conference in Fortaleza, Brazil.

Karina Donald, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) co-presented at the National Council on Family Relations conference in Baltimore, Maryland.

Trevor Meagher, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) had two presentations “Moving the Goalposts: Exploring Mission Change and Operational Capacity in Arts and Culture Nonprofits” and “Is the Tide Rising, or Are We Just Rowing Harder? Operational traits in placemaking-engaged nonprofits” at the annual Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action conference in Indianapolis, IN.

Sarah Fahmy, PhD, (School of Theatre) delivered a paper virtually at PSI in Fortaleza, Brazil.

Aaron C. Thomas, Ph.D. (School of Theatre) delivered a talk on his new book published by the Vanderbilt University Press at Villanova University in Villanova, PA.

EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

Clint Sleeper, MFA (Department of Art) co-curated and organized an online exhibition “about not by, for not from,” hosted by The Wrong Biennale.

Katie Kehoe, MFA (Department of Art) had her work “The Visitor in Wildfire Shelterwear, 46.23214N, 113.75486W” included in the Texas Photographic Society’s (TPS) ‘TPS:33 The International Competition’ exhibition at The Center for Contemporary Art in Abilene, Texas.

Meredith Lynn, MFA (Department of Art) was featured with her solo exhibition “Bad Outdoorsmen. The Complete Season” at the Illges Gallery at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia.

Jamie Ho, MFA (Department of Art) opened her solo exhibition “magic mirrors” at Art League Houston.

Daniel Gott, MFA (School of Theatre) performed his Actor-Musician Sessions in the Tallahassee community as part of his research and creative work project.

Daniel Smith, MME (School of Dance) made his debut as Principal Pianist with the Panama City Symphony performing the musical drama “Beasts of the Bayou” in Panama City. He also performed a cabaret concert with Broadway legend Bernadette Peters in Destin.

Denise Bookwalter, MFA (Department of Art) exhibited works from Small Craft Advisory Press and shared student collaborative book work from her letterpress and artists’ book courses at Staple + Stitch Art Book + Print Fair Chicago.

Jiha Moon, MFA (Department of Art) had her exhibition “Purgatory Mutt” at Mindy Solomon Gallery” reviewed by @plasternyc and listed in Galerie magazine in the Art & Culture section article “8 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows in November.”

Jiha Moon, MFA (Department of Art) was announced as a 2026 Arts/Industry Artists-in-Residence at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

Sarah Fahmy, Ph.D.  (School of Theatre) continues her award-supported performance installation project at museums across the US. Including venues such as: The Institute of the Study of Ancient Cultures Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, The Arab American National Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Met, Penn Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard Art Museum, Smithsonian Natural History Museum.

Katie Kehoe, MFA (Department of Art) had her work “Time is of the Essence” featured in ‘PUBLIC! Issue 72’, “(Searching) for Homem,” an interdisciplinary journal with a core focus on visual art.

Mona Bozorgi, Ph.D. (Department of Art) had her project “Threads of Freedom” featured in “see-zeen” issue 18, an independent online magazine curating contemporary photography by international emerging artists.

SERVICE

Michelle Kazmer, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) was elected to the iSchools Organization’s Board of Directors for 2026-2027.

Marisa Sweeny, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) hosted a panel at the closing event of her exhibition “Motherwork”, at the Carlow Gallery in Pittsburgh , PA.

Chelsea Nam, Ph.D. (Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science) was elected to serve on the American Meteorological Society Scientific and Technological Activities Commission Committee on Radar Meteorology.

Christopher Solís, Ph.D.(Department of Health, Nutrition, and Food Sciences) served in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant study section Basic Biology of Blood, Heart and Vasculature (BBHV), which scores grants submitted to the NIH for extramural funding of research projects.

Alice Maxwell (Division of Student Affairs Communications and Marketing) is serving as the Region III Representative in the Knowledge Community leadership team for the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Fundraising and Communications Knowledge Community.

Sarah Fahmy, Ph.D. (School of Theatre) was elected to the American Society for Theatre Research Executive Committee for the 2025–2028 term.

Lisa Schelbe, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) was elected as the director-at-large as a part of the board of directors for the Society for Social Work and Research for a three-year term appointment.

Erin Gallivan, Ph.D. (Counseling & Psychological Services) was invited by the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) to serve on a panel of experts for the AGPA College Counseling and Other Educational Settings Special Interest Group to share her expertise on group training for senior staff in university counseling centers.

Jeff Broome, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) was elected President of the Florida Art Education Association.

Daejin Kim, Ph.D. (Department of Interior Architecture and Design) was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Housing Educators Research Association.

Bruce Thyer, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-convened the special interest group “Heterodox Social Work” at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Michael Killian, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) organized the workshop “Going Beyond the Mean Effect: A Hands-on Introduction to Quantile Regression for Social Work Research” at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Zhe He, Ph.D. (School of Information) organized and chaired a full-day workshop “Open-Source LLM Applications for Health Applications” at the 2025 AMIA Annual Symposium.

Shi-Ling Hsu, J.D., M.S., Ph.D. (College of Law) was elected to the American Law Institute, recognized for his significant contributions to legal scholarship and leadership in shaping the future of the law.

David Gussak, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) co-led the roundtable discussion “University–Prison Partnerships: Facilitating Transformation Through the Arts” at the 61st Annual Conference of the International Council for Arts Deans in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Hannah Schwadron, Ph.D. (School of Dance) taught a Movement and Mindfulness workshop at the Leon County Detention Facility in Tallahassee.

Trevor Meagher, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) was elected to the Board of Directors for Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts.

Daejin Kim, Ph.D. (Department of Interior Architecture and Design) was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Housing Educators Research Association.

Kevin Curry, MFA (Department of Art) has been appointed as an at-large (city) board member for COCA (Council on Culture and Arts).

Daniel Luedtke, MFA (Department of Art) is on the board for Tally Zine Fest at the Challenger Learning Center.

NOTABLE

Susana Santos, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship) led the joint project between the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship and the Learning Systems Institute, which set up the S2I2 Entrepreneurship Center at the Armenian State University of Economics with co-PI Vilma Fuentes, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute).

Marty Fielding, MFA (Department of Art) taught a two-day workshop at Rain City Clay in Seattle, WA.

Malaika Samples, Ed.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) organized a workshop titled “Bridging the Gap Between Coursework and the Field: Faculty Simulation Training for Hands-On, Trauma-Informed Learning.” The session focused on trauma-informed simulation methods to strengthen experiential teaching, with follow-up sessions planned for the spring to support implementation.

Rabieh Razzouk, MBA (Learning Systems Institute) built the CPALMS platform, which hosted The Florida Department of Education’s Civics Seal of Excellence portal.

Vilma Fuentes, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) led FSU’s Ukraine Task Force in hosting Serhiy Kvi, President of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine. FSU Provost Jim Clark and Kyit  signed a memorandum of understanding signifying the university’s commitment to work together on future research projects.

Setor K. Sorkpor, Ph.D., MPH, MSN, RN (College of Nursing) was selected to participate in the Yale School of Nursing Comprehensive Advancement in Research Education Program as part of the 2025–2026 cohort, a competitive national program focused on advancing nursing research capacity in social determinants of health.

Anne Stagg, MFA, Kevin Curry, MFA and Keith Roberson, MFA (Department of Art) were invited by FSU Department of Physics Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Harrison B. Prosper (Department of Physics) to CERN Switzerland to attend a conference, tour the facilities and present talks.

Tiffany Rhynard, MFA (School of Dance) became Vice President of the Board for Dance on Camera (formerly Dance Film Association). She also continued production on her feature documentary “The Mirage” during Fall 2025. Rhynard was also invited to teach “Dance Film” at the Pigmentos International Dance Festival in Puebla, Mexico.

Marissa McClure Sweeny, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) was featured in the second episode of Carlow University’s documentary series “A More Merciful World.”

Andrei Malaev-Babel, MFA (School of Theatre) led a three-day Demidov Masterclass for the International Demidov Association in Athens, Greece. While in Athens, Malaev-Babel also taught a one-day masterclass for Greek actors participating in the Demidov Association’s Acting Certificate Program.

Tom Welsh, Ph.D. (School of Dance) processed injury risk screening results for 27 first-year dancers and facilitated individualized debriefing opportunities. Welsh also re-engineered the Targeted Cross-Training collaborations in which 23 first-year dancers will complete five weeks of training with nine coaches through the Science of Dance Training seminar and practicum.

Pooja Ichplani, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare, College of Social Work) is actively involved in the faith-based task force against domestic violence facilitated by the Florida Partnership to End Domestic Violence (FPEDV). The group constitutes faith leaders, survivor advocates, practitioners and researchers across the state, and meets monthly to brainstorm innovative strategies for prevention of and response to domestic violence.

Andrei Malaev-Babel, MFA (School of Theatre) received approval from the Routledge Editorial Board for his four-volume series “Unlocking Creativity: The Complete Works of Nikolai Demidov’s Acting Pedagogy.”

Hannah Schwadron, Ph.D. (School of Dance) was voted as the next president of Dance Studies Association.

Helanius J. Wilkins, MFA (School of Dance) completed Phase 1 of the Green Box Residency in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado. His residency focused on developing a new stage production premiering in February 2026 and leading community engagement activities. He is a member of the program’s fifth cohort.

Nancy Gerber, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) co-taught a workshop “Storying Statistics” at the American Art Therapy Association Conference in Portland, Oregon.

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Florida State University’s distinguished faculty are central to the mission of the university. Faculty excellence in scholarship, research, and creative activity is critical to the quality of student learning and makes a difference in the lives of others.

Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across campus. Faculty and Staff Briefs are produced monthly to recognize accomplishments and provide a space where honors, awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased.

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HONORS AND AWARDS

Casey Yorks (Division of Undergraduate Studies) and graduate assistant Rebekka Friborg led “Noles Everywhere,” a group of trained student staff selected to support off-campus and out-of-state students, which won the Innovative Retention Program Award at the 2025 NODA: Orientation, Transition and Retention Annual Conference.

Lynn Hobeck-Bates, M.Ed. and Bethany Ritz, MFA (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) received an Award of Distinction for The Ringling’s “Watermelon Regatta” conservation press release at the Florida Public Relations Association’s PR and Comms Summit Golden Image Awards.

Anna Posbergh, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was inducted as a North American Society for the Sociology for Sport (NASSS) research fellow at the annual NASSS conference.

Kathleen P. Wilson, Ph.D., APRN, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, FAANP, FNAP, DipACLM (College of Nursing) was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in Washington, D.C.

GRANTS

Noël Wan, Ph.D. (College of Music) received a Research and Creation Grant from the Canada Council of the Arts for her electroacoustic harp project “The Mother’s Teeth: Feminism, Futurity, and Noise.”

Alexandra Cintron Jimenez, (Center for Global Engagement) received a conference travel grant to NAFSA: Association of International Educators to attend the 2025 Region VII Conference in Mississippi and was recognized with the 2025 New Professional Award.

Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH, Casey D. Xavier Hall, MPH, Ph.D., Eugenia Flores Millender, Ph.D. , RN, PMH-APRN, FAAN, FAANP, Frank “Frankie” Y. Wong, Ph.D. and Jean-Marc Wise, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) were awarded a $2,277,208.00 million Food and Drug Administration (FDA) research and development contract for the project “Modernizing and Decentralizing Clinical Trials with AI, Digital Health, and Community-Driven Innovation to Deliver Better Health for All Americans.” Led by Millender, with Drs. Xavier Hall and Wong as MPIs and Drs. Hightow-Weidman and Wise as key personnel, the team will advance decentralized, at-home clinical trials by identifying participation barriers, co-designing community-based curricula, leveraging AI and digital health tools for secure data transmission, and empowering community organizations in outreach and support. Anticipated outcomes include a practical playbook for at-home clinical trials, a scalable curriculum, and implementation guidance to inform FDA regulatory science and sponsor practices.

BYLINES

Laurie Abbott, Ph.D., RN, DipACLM, CNE, PHNA-BC, FAAN, Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FAAN (College of Nursing) and Michael Killian, Ph.D., MSW (College of Social Work) co-authored “Effects of a Group-based Online Lifestyle Medicine Intervention Among Rural Participants: A Randomized Controlled Trial” in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine.

Carla Wood, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) published “Beyond Definitions: Examining Morphology-Focused Vocabulary Strategies in Second Grade Classrooms” in Literacy Research and Instruction.

Jessica Bahorski, Ph.D., APRN, PPCNP-BC, WHNP (College of Nursing) co-authored “Central Adiposity, Rather Than in Utero Exposure to Maternal Obesity or Gestational Diabetes, Predicts Metabolic Syndrome Risk in Children Aged 4–10 Years,” published in Pediatric Obesity.

Kelly Farquharson, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) published “Identifying and De-Implementing Low-Value Practices in Education: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach for District and School Leaders” in the Journal of School Leadership.

Timothy Baghurst, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “What Are You Thinking When You Coach? An Exploration of Tennis Coaches’ Cognitions Using Stimulated Recall,” published in the International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching. He also co-authored “Salaries of High School Coaches in Florida and the Never-Ending Cycle of Turnover,” published in Quest.

Shannon Hall-Mills, Ph.D. and Lakeisha Johnson, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) published “The KASE for Telepractice,” a research article based on their seed grant from Florida State University’s Council on Research and Creativity, in the Journal of Communication Disorders.

Dawn Sowers, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) published “Short Mobile Training Is Effective and Efficient in Preparing Educational Personnel to Interact With Students With Cerebral Palsy Who Utilize AAC With Eye Tracking” in Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools.

Laura Widman, Ph.D. (Institute on Digital Health and Information) co-authored “A Digital Program to Promote Sexual Communication Between Early Adolescents and Parents: Development and Acceptability Testing Results” published in the Journal of Sex Research. This paper describes the development and initial user testing for a new digital program to help parents and early adolescents talk more openly about puberty and growing up.

Jacob Eisler, JD, Ph.D. (College of Law) had his article “Towards Defensible Judge-Made Democratic Process” featured in the Southern California Law Review. His article “Gerrymandering Is Democratic” was also featured in Compact Magazine.

Kadir Kozan, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) is leading a special issue “The Role of Technology in STEM Education: Opportunities and Challenges” in the journal Education Sciences in collaboration with his colleagues.

Adrienne Barnes-Story, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) authored “Teaching and Managing Large Classes: A Scoping Review of Methods With Primary and Secondary Learners” published in the International Journal of Educational Development.

Rob Schoen, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) authored “Effects of a Professional Development Program on Teacher Beliefs About Mathematics Teaching and Learning After One and Two Years: An Experimental Study” published in Teaching and Teacher Education.

Anthony Nguyen, Ph.D. (Department of Philosophy) authored “Colonial Injustice and Self-Respect” published in Philosophers’ Imprint.

Sonia Hazard, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) authored “Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media” published by Oxford University Press.

Robin Goodman, Ph.D. (Department of English) authored “Film as World Literature” published by Bloomsbury Publishing.

Ibrahim Yigit, Ph.D., MA and Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) co-authored “Demographic Factors and Correlates of Trust in Types of People and Information Sources: Findings From the SAM-KAP Alabama Youth Survey on HIV Prevention.”

Jessica Bahorski, Ph.D., APRN, PPCNP-BC, WHNP (College of Nursing) co-authored “Finding the Best Pregnancy App to Support Your Health” in Society for Behavioral Medicine.

Shermeeka Hogans-Mathews, M.D. (College of Medicine) co-authored two publications, “Doulas Make a Difference: Optimizing Doulas’ Education to Improve Perinatal Mental Health Outcomes” and “A Call to Action: Leveraging Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Medical Education Reform” published in PRiMER Publications.

Jo Brown Speights, M.D. and Jessica De Leon, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) co-authored “Characteristics of Persons With Varying Vaccination Personas: Data From the CDC-funded Pandemic Project” published in Discover Public Health.

Jessica De Leon, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) authored “Impact of Web-Based Lifestyle Medicine Intervention: A Qualitative Study Among Rural Participants” published in Nursing Reports.

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

Malaika Samples, Ed.D., M.P.A., Katerina Manias, M.A. and Kyle Cook, M.A. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) co-presented “Innovations in Child Welfare Education Through Virtual Reality” at the 2025 National Association of Social Workers Virtual Forum, highlighting the Florida Institute for Child Welfare’s Experiential Learning Lab at FSU and demonstrating how immersive technologies are being used to prepare future social workers.

Paul Marty, Ph.D. (School of Information) spoke at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities annual conference.

Casey Yorks, M.S. and Danielle Porter, M.S. (Division of Undergraduate Studies) presented “Bridging the Distance: Supporting Out-of-State Students” at the 2025 NODA: Orientation, Transition and Retention Annual Conference in San Francisco.

Barbara A. Ramsay, MAC (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) co-authored and presented “Just Like the Real Thing: Jules Allard et Fils Reproduction Boiserie Period Rooms at The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art” at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Rick Burnette, Ph.D. (Office of the Provost) with Paul Marty, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) and Bobby Sprinkle, MS (Information Technology Services) presented “Classroom Agentic AI Learning Tools” at the ASU Agentic AI Conference.

Nicole Bentze, DO (College of Medicine), alumni Rebecca Gibons, MD, Benjamin Behers, MD and Julian Melchor, MD co-authored “Stevens-Johnson Syndrome or Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis From Antihypertensive Medications: A Systematic Review of Cases” published in the journal Medicine.

Rick Burnette, Ph.D. and James Hunt, Ph.D. (Office of the Provost) presented “From Insight to Impact: Advancing the Data-Engaged Campus for an AI-Ready Future” at the Educause Annual Meeting.

Rick Burnette, Ph.D. (Office of the Provost) and Paul Marty, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) presented “Innovation in Action: What Members Are Teaching Each Other About Technology in Practice” at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities Annual Meeting.

Ebe Randeree, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) presented “Developing Leaders on Campus” at the Community Leadership Series hosted by the FSU Center for Leadership & Service; “What Skills Are Tech Employers Looking For” at the Florida Technology Student Association Leadership Conference; “In the World of AI, Can Universities Meet Tech Employer Needs” and “Positioning Yourself to Win on LinkedIn — Effective Personal Branding” at the Innovation Technology Entrepreneurship Network Wired Conference.

Dawn Sowers, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) presented “Reimagining AAC: Using Artificial Intelligence to Support Idiosyncratic Communication Gestures” at the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication virtual conference.

Gretchen Stahlman, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) and doctoral candidate Rajesh Das co-presented “The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus as a Platform for LIS Training in Scientific Knowledge Organization” at the Library and Information Services in Astronomy conference.

Kristen Guynes, Ph.D. and Michelle Torres-Chavarro, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) co-presented at the Florida Educators of Students Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing Conference, covering the Morphological Analysis Pathway to Reading project (MAP-R).

Kristen Guynes, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) presented “Evolving Roles and Responsibilities of Educational Sign Language Interpreters” at the Florida Educators of Students Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing Conference.

Carla Wood, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “Elevating Future Pathways: Innovating Interprofessional Education Models to Advance Autism Support and Instruction” and “Morphology Meets Technology: A Digital Approach to Vocabulary Instruction” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention.

Sana Tibi, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “Longitudinal Predictors of Arabic Word Reading” and “Staples of Screening for Dyslexia in University Students” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention.

Michelle Therrien, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) presented “Mapping Play: Using GIS to Capture Playground Experiences of Children Who Use AAC” and “Friendship in Context: Using the Participation Model to Plan Assessment and Support for AAC Users” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention.

Dawn Sowers, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “Paradigm Shift: The Power of Leveraging AI to Pair Unaided AAC With Speech Output,” “Targeted Motion in AAC Displays for Autistic Children: Visual Attention Patterns and Learning” and “Elevating Typical AAC Assessments: Implementing the CVI/AAC Framework for Individuals With Cortical Visual Impairment” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention.

Mollie Romano, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “Speech-Language Pathologists’ Knowledge and Use of Caregiver Coaching Practices Across Work Settings,” “Learning Early Infant Feeding Cues: A Responsive Infant Feeding Intervention” and “The BabyTok Project 3.0: A Preventive, Social-Media Based Intervention for Caregivers of Young Infants” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention.

Eundeok Kim, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship) presented her paper “The Role of Sustainable Fashion Businesses in Promoting Sustainable Consumption Through a Regenerative Economy” at the Sustainable Fashion Consumption Symposium hosted by the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale School of Management in New Haven, Connecticut.

Richard Morris, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “Use of a Training Program to Improve Voice Quality Perception” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention.

Elizabeth Madden, Ph.D. (School of Communication and Disorders) presented “Clinical Considerations for Assessment and Treatment of Reading and Writing Impairment in Post-Stroke Aphasia” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention.

Kari Lien, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “Speech Sound Disorders in Children With Cleft Palate: A Phonological Lens for Assessment and Intervention” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention.

Kaitlin Lansford, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “Ideas and Tips for Publishing Small Datasets: Case Studies, Surveys and Preliminary Data, Oh My!” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention.

John Romig, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and doctoral student Trisha Phillip presented “Using Repeated Teaching to increase the Rate and Variety of Preservice Teachers’ Use of Opportunities to Respond” at the Council for Exceptional Children’s Teacher Education Division Conference in Kansas City, Missouri.

Yunjung Kim, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “Effects of Deep-Brain Simulation on Speech in Parkinson’s Disease: Focusing on Festination” and “The Intersection of Language Variation and Dysarthria: A Speech Science Approach” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention.

Lakeisha Johnson, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “Little Learners, Big Gains: Utilizing SLP Expertise to Transform Pre-K Literacy Practices Through a PLC” and “Exploring the Contributions of Child-Level Factors to the Marking of Regular Past Tense in Writing” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention.

Shannon Hall-Mills, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “Quality Connections: Written Academic Vocabulary Use Among Adolescents With and Without LLD,” “Reimagining Language to Literacy: SLPs Shaping Reading Support for School-Age Children” and “Pathways of Possibility: Strategic and Practical Approaches for SLP Literacy Support” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention.

Kelly Farquharson, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “Developing the Scoring for Expressive Evaluation and Diagnosis (SEED) Paradigm for Speech Sound Disorders,” “Phonological Profiles of Elementary-Aged Children With Speech Sound Disorders: Preliminary Data From a Large-Scale Study” and “Is Dyslexia a Sequencing Disorder? A Systematic Review of Implicit Sequence Learning Across Domains” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention.

Christopher Constantino, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “Subtle Discrimination, Significant Consequences: Exploring Microaggressions and Mental Health in Adults Who Stutter” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention.

Erin Bush, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) and doctoral candidate Shaylyn King-St. Remy co-presented “A Qualitative Exploration of SLPs’ Perspectives on an Adaptive Professional Development Model for Dialogic Reading” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention.

Andrea Barton Hulsey, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “The Communication Bill of Rights, 3rd Edition: Guidance for Advocacy and Practice” and co-presented “Play and Read With Me: Fidelity of a Literacy Intervention for Children With Limited Speech” with doctoral candidate Brianna Coltellino at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention.

Jennifer Lemmer Posey, M.A. (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) presented “A History of the Circus and Folk Art” at Jeanine Taylor Folk Art exhibition Folk Art Under the Big Top.

Jane Harris and Giovana Perez-Oliveras (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) presented “Educating & Engaging Museum Volunteers: Flexible Strategies for Guide Training in Changing Times” at the 2025 Florida Association of Museums.

Jane Harris and Emma Driggers, M.A. (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) co-presented “Volunteerism in a Changing Landscape” at the 2025 Florida Association of Museums.

Jane Harris (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) presented “Advancing Trust Through Museum Guide Programs in the Post-Pandemic Era” at the 2025 American Alliance of Museums Virtual Summit.

Jessica Bahorski, Ph.D., APRN, PPCNP-BC, WHNP (College of Nursing) co-presented “A Mixed-Methods Study to Understand Differences in Use of Responsive Infant Feeding” at the 2025 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Washington, D.C.

Kathleen P. Wilson, Ph.D., APRN, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, FAANP, FNAP, DipACLM (College of Nursing) presented “A Triad of Diseases: A Treatment Strategy for Patients With T2D, CVD and CKD” at NP Associates for Continuing Education Orlando.

Yijiong Yang, Ph.D., MHA and Buna Bhandari, MPH, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) co-presented “Challenges of COVID-19 Vaccination Effectiveness in Individuals With Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias” at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo 2025.

Laurie Abbott, Ph.D., RN, DipACLM, CNE, PHNA-BC, FAAN, Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FAAN (College of Nursing) and Michael Killian, Ph.D., MSW (College of Social Work) co-presented “Lifestyle Medicine Programs Can Impact Determinants of Rural Health Behaviors” at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2025.

Sarah Cartwright, Ph.D. (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) presented on The Ringling’s pre-1915 European print holdings for Vanderbilt University’s symposium “European Prints in Museums in the American South” on the VU Museum of Art’s Fall 2025 exhibition “Paper Backs: Hidden Stories of European Prints From the VUMA Collection.”

Emily Brown, MS and Tara Johnston, M.Sc. (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) co-authored and presented “A Treatment Odyssey: The Preparation of 201 Ancient Cypriot Objects for Permanent Display” at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works.

Brittney Pieper, M.A. (Career Center) led a roundtable discussion “Resumes That Win” offering career readiness strategies for student-athletes entering the job market at the 2025 FloridaACE Annual Conference. It was selected as “Best of Roundtables,” and Pieper was asked to hold a second presentation at the FloridaACE Digital Summit.

Ericka Horne, DrPH (College of Medicine) presented “Community Impact Through Integration of the Translational Science Benefits Model” at the Florida Public Health Association’s Annual Educational Conference in Kissimmee, Florida.

Ericka Horne, DrPH, Jo Brown Speights, M.D., Ransome Eke, M.D. and Jessica De Leon, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) presented “Insurance Coverage and Differences in Unmet Healthcare Needs: Insights From a Florida-Based Study” at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo in Washington, D.C.

Christopher Mulrooney, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) presented the closing keynote session “The Future We Choose” for the national symposium “Empower Your Possible: A Longevity Ready Maryland Initiative” in Linthicum, Maryland.

Taylor Thompson, Ph.D., Cheryl Porter, Ph.D. and Nicki Taylor, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) presented the workshop “Calm Under Pressure: Best Practices in Test Anxiety Intervention for Medical Students” at the Medical Education Learning Specialists Annual Conference.

Delaney La Rosa, Ed.D., MSN Ed, RN (College of Nursing) presented “Supercharge Your Study: AI Tools for Smarter Learning” at the AI Nurse Nexus: Unmasking AI. The session focused on teaching students to use AI tools to improve clinical judgment and critical thinking.

Amy Hecht, Ed.D. (Vice President for Student Affairs) served as a panelist at the Student Success US 2025 conference organized by Times Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed. The session was titled “Anxiety to Agency: Helping Students Take Control of Their Worry.”

Felicia Williams (Student Engagement) presented “Ubuntu in Action: Cultivating Collective Leadership for a Resilient Future” at the 27th Global International Leadership Association conference in Prague, Czechia. Williams also served as a judge for the Undergraduate Poster Presentation.

Amy Baco-Taylor, Ph.D. (Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science) gave a virtual presentation at the “Towards 30×30: Asia’s Contributions to MPA Expansion and Challenges” workshop in Yeosu City, South Korea.

Alda Balthrop-Lewis, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) was an invited speaker for the “Transcendentalism’s Past, Present and Future” workshop hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Aimée Boutin, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) presented “Georges de Peyrebrune’s Burlesque Railway Odyssey” at the 51st annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium in Reno, Nevada. She was also a guest on the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Unbound webinar series “The Stoics: A Bilingual Critical Edition by Louisa Siefert Adrianna Paliyenko in Conversation With Aimée Boutin.”

Erin Bennett and Danny Chiarodit (Career Center) partnered with Chris LaFever (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) to present “Emerging Supervisors Development: Reflective Practice for Growth” at the Association of Counselor Education and Supervision national conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FAAN (College of Nursing) presented “Palliative Care and Advanced Cardiovascular Disease” at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Carmen Zachry, Rob Hanna, Zaida McGinley, Carrie Myers and Jim Reynolds (Learning Systems Institute) presented engineering design lessons during a visit to InSPIREd School Rising Leaders Academy.

EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

Emily Zhukov, MFA (FSU Republic of Panama) collaborated with paleobiologist Erin Dillon, Ph.D., at STRI’s Punta Culebra Nature Center to reconstruct ancient reef shark communities and their responses to human and environmental impacts. Zhukov’s sculpture of an Eastern Pacific nurse shark (Ginglymostoma unami) allows visitors to explore shark resilience and habitat protection through interactive art, including a coral reef base featuring prey and mollusk examples from Panama’s earliest inhabitants. Zhukov is also co-founder of Estudio Nuboso, an organization dedicated to promoting awareness and regenerative practices through art and ecology.

SERVICE

Danielle Porter, MS (Division of Undergraduate Studies) hosted the “Partnering With NODA: Reimagining Support for Retention and Transition Professionals” roundtable at the 2025 NODA: Orientation, Transition and Retention Annual Conference.

Stephanie Zuilkowski, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) and Bhushan Dahal (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) were primary organizers for “Educators Shaping Futures: A Global Knowledge Exchange” in cooperation with the World Bank, UNESCO and the Ministry of Education in Ethiopia. The event took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and drew 341 participants from 41 countries.

Ericka Horne, DrPH (College of Medicine) was elected to two leadership positions within the American Public Health Association’s Public Health and Education Promotion section: Governing Councilor for the 2025-2027 term and Mentoring Committee Chair for the 2025-2026 term.

John Byrnes, PA-C (College of Medicine) participated in a humanitarian trip to Ukraine as part of a team delivering combat medical kits and providing training to Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Liying Wang, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) served as a member of the expert advisory panel for the American Psychological Association to develop guidelines regarding the use of generative AI chatbots and wellness applications for mental health.

Ignacio Messana, Ph.D. (Florida State University Valencia Study Center) serves as treasurer of the European Association of Study Abroad (EUASA) and is a member of the advisory committee of APUNE (Association of American Programs in Spain). He has also been selected to be part of the Forum EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) conference committee in Lisbon.

Renaine Julian (FSU Libraries) participated in the 4th Annual Open Science and Innovation in Ukraine conference as an invited panelist on the topic of open research and reproducibility. Julian shared his work on disciplinary differences in research data-sharing behaviors and applications for university administrators.

Joanne Saxour, MD (College of Medicine) served as guest editor for the Florida Academy of Family Physicians’ summer publication, Diabetes.

Xin Henry Zhang, Ph.D. (Department of Statistics) was invited to serve as an associate editor on the editorial board for the Theory and Methods section of the Journal of the American Statistical Association for three years starting Jan. 1, 2026. JASA is one of the premier journals in statistics and was established in 1888.

NOTABLE

Undra Baldwin, MS CYBR, MBA, CIA, CISA, CDPSE, CFE, CIG (Office of Audit and Advisory Services) attended the Tallahassee Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors meeting, where Tallahassee Mayor John Dailey presented a proclamation recognizing Fraud Awareness Week. As chapter vice president, Baldwin accepted the proclamation on behalf of the chapter alongside the chapter president.

Stephanie Zuilkowski, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) partnered with the World Bank to conduct the LEAP program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The program was titled “Strengthening the Teaching Profession and School Leadership” and took place over three days.

Randolph Clarke, Ph.D. (Department of Philosophy) was named on the top 10 list of “Most Cited Living Philosophers With Google Scholar Pages Working on Free Will & Moral Responsibility.”

Alfred Mele, Ph.D. (Department of Philosophy) was named number one on the top 10 list of “Most Cited Living Philosophers With Google Scholar Pages Working on Free Will & Moral Responsibility.”

Mike Stukel, Ph.D. (Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science) led a National Science Foundation-funded month-long research expedition, “California Current Ecosystem Process Cruise P2510,” in the Pacific Ocean with 30 scientists. The crew focused on understanding the processes driving long-term change in California’s current ecosystem with a specific focus on the impact of recent marine heatwave disturbances.

Yushun Dong, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) had his paper “TyphoFormer” win the Best Short Paper Award at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Spatial Information 2025 international conference.

Alina Dana Weber, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) received the Goethe-Institut/American Association of Teachers of German Certificate of Merit for furthering German teaching in the U.S. at the Celebrating Excellence in German Language Excellence award ceremony.

Carmen Zachry, Rob Hanna, Zaida McGinley, Carrie Myers and Jim Reynolds (Learning Systems Institute) launched the advanced manufacturing virtual tour video series from Maritech and Fort Walton Machining as part of FSU InSPIRE.

Rebecca Carter, MSW, LCSW (College of Medicine) recently completed Training of New Trainers curriculum and has been accepted into the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, enhancing the college’s capacity to provide evidence-based approaches to behavior change.

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Florida State University’s distinguished faculty are central to the mission of the university. Faculty excellence in scholarship, research, and creative activity is critical to the quality of student learning and makes a difference in the lives of others. 

Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across campus. Faculty and Staff Briefs are produced monthly to recognize accomplishments and provide a space where honors, awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased.

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HONORS AND AWARDS

Amy Farnum-Patronis (University Communications) received the 2025 News Service of Florida Above and Beyond Award, hosted by the News Service of Florida. 

Lawrence S. Krieger, J.D. (College of Law) was named the 2025 recipient of the Michael K. Reese Quality of Life Award by The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division at the Florida Bar Annual Convention. The award recognizes his efforts in promoting mental health support and wellness initiatives in the curriculum for legal professionals. 

Veronica Fleury, Ph.D., Lindsay Dennis, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences), Kelly Farquharson, Ph.D. and Erin Bush, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) received a meritorious award for their presentation “A Qualitative Exploration of SLPs’ Perspectives on an Adaptive Professional Development Model for Dialogic Reading” at the American Speech-Language Hearing Association’s annual conference. 

Besiki Stvalia, Ph.D. (School of Information) co-authored “College Students’ Credibility Assessments of GenAI-Generated Information for Academic Tasks: An Interview Study” and received the 2024 Association for Information Science and Technology’s SIG AI Best Published Paper Award. 

Rachel Fendler, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) was awarded the Florida Higher Education Educator of the Year Award by the Florida Art Education Association. 

Jonathan Christensen Caballero, MFA (Department of Art) was awarded first prize for his work “We are Home / Estamos en Casa” in the juried exhibition “Multi-Faceted: Mixed Media & Connected Identities” at the Arts Council of Fayetteville | Cumberland County Gallery in Fayetteville, NC. 

Laura Reid Marks, Ph.D. (College of Medicine Center for Translational Behavioral Science) was elected to Fellow status in the 2026 American Psychological Association, based on her outstanding contributions to the field of psychology. 

Erin Bush, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders), Erika Fundelius, Ph.D. (Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards), Jenny Root, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and doctoral candidate Saurym Quezada have been honored with the Teacher Education Division Publications Award from the Council for Exceptional Children. The article “You Are Just a Life Role Model: A Multiple Case Study of Teachers with Visual Impairment in the Field of Visual Disabilities” was selected as the most outstanding publication of the year in Teacher Education and Special Education. 

Jean Shon, MFA (Department of Art) was chosen to be a Cummings resident at the Griffin Museum of Photography for the 2025/2026 year.

GRANTS

Michael Roper, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) received a $432,800 National Institutes of Health grant for the project “Centrifugal Microfluidic System for Functional Cellular Analysis.” 

Robert Spencer, Ph.D. (Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science) received three grants that combine to $1.1 million in funding from the National Science Foundation and NASA to examine the connectivity of elemental cycles within Arctic ecosystems. 

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) led part of a major funding effort as the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Florida received a $43 million award from the National Institutes of Health to accelerate translating research into real-world health solutions. The award, which includes a seven-year grant plus two training grants, will bolster infrastructure, workforce development and collaborative efforts across the UF-FSU CTSA hub to move discoveries from lab to clinic more quickly. 

Andrea Barton Hulsey, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science & Disorders) received a $2 million Step Up Technology grant award from the Office of Special Education Programs. The project “PATHS to Reading: Promoting Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Based Teaching for High Impact Early Reading Skills” will develop modules for supporting the implementation of literacy and AAC. 

Michael Diamond, Ph.D. (Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science) received a $47,170 Reflective grant for his project “Polar Bear Fasting Season Length as an Ecologically Relevant Metric for Evaluating High-Latitude/Low-Altitude SAI Deployment Outcomes.” 

Oliver Steinbock, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) received a $452,542 National Science Foundation grant for his project “Exploring Diffusiophoretic Micromotors in Self-Organizing Reaction-Diffusion Systems.” His work was highlighted as the “Hot Science” news piece in Discovery magazine. 

Gretchen Stahlman, Ph.D. (School of Information) received an Institute of Museum and Library Services planning grant to establish a sustainable data curation internship program for Library and Information Studies students. 

Marcia Mardis, Ph.D. (School of Information) received a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program National Implementation grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. This grant will support an initiative for disaster resiliency. 

BYLINES

Alexander Tsesis, J.D. (College of Law) authored “The Originalist Framing of Free Speech Doctrine,” which was originally published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review in Summer 2025 and featured on Lawrence B. Solum’s blog, “Legal Theory Blog.” 

Colleen Ganley, Ph.D. and Rob Schoen, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) published “Examining How Grade Level and Teaching Experience Are Related to Math Anxiety and Anxiety about Teaching” in The Elementary School Journal. 

Flavia Ramos-Mattoussi, Ed.D. (Learning Systems Institute) published “The Erosion of Academic Freedom and Global Engagement in U.S. Higher Education under Presidential Executive Orders in 2025” in EDULEARN Proceedings. 

Jie Chen, Ph.D., RN (College of Nursing) co-authored “Mechanistic Insights into a Self-Management Intervention in Young Adults with Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Pilot Multi-Omics Study,” published in the journal Biomedicines. 

Ibrahim Yigit, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) and Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing), co-authored “Development and Validation of an Updated Internalized HIV Stigma Scale Among People Living with HIV,” published in the journal AIDS and Behavior. 

Ibrahim Yigit, Ph.D. and Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) co-authored “Disclosure Concerns Moderate the Association Between Internalized Stigma and Antiretroviral Medication Adherence Among People with HIV in the Dominican Republic,” published in the journal AIDS Care. 

Timothy Baghurst, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “A case for thinking about thinking in sports coaching: Understanding situated cognition as a means to inform coaching practice,” published in the International Sport Coaching Journal. 

Lara Perez-Felkner, Ph.D., and Shouping Hu, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “Does Advanced High School Coursework Enhance Community College Women’s Pathways to Computing Degrees? Evidence from Florida,” published in Review of Higher Education. 

Gashaye Tefera, Ph.D. (College of Social Work), co-authored the article “Improving Quality of Life Among Substance Users in Nigeria: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice” in the Handbook of Addiction, Recovery and Quality of Life. He also co-authored “The Overlooked War in Northern Ethiopia: Examining Psychological Capital, Mental Distress, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Internally Displaced People in Amhara Region,” published in the International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 

Robert Schoen, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “Examining How Grade Level and Teaching Experience Are Related to Math Anxiety and Anxiety about Teaching,” published in The Elementary School Journal. 

Joseph Watso, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “Hypohydration Augments the Acute Increase in Urinary Biomarkers of Kidney Injury Following the 100-mile Western States Endurance Run,” published in the Journal of Applied Physiology. 

Annie Wofford, Ph.D., Lara Perez-Felkner, Ph.D., Bret Staudt Willet, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and doctoral students Anum Fatima and Xinting Wu co-authored “Minority-Serving Institutions’ Role in Enhancing Access to Computing Doctoral Education: A Multi-Method Landscape Analysis,” published in Innovative Higher Education. 

Erin Bush, Ph.D., (College of Communication and Information) Jenny Root, Ph.D., (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) doctoral student Saurym Quezada and FSU alumna Erika Fundelius co-authored “You are Just a Life Role Model: A Multiple Case Study of Teachers with Visual Impairment in the Field of Visual Disabilities” published in Teacher Education in Special Education. 

Roxanne Hughes, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and graduate students Khadija Zogheib and Sharon Ndubuisi co-authored “Instilling a Sense of Belonging in STEM through a Virtual Summer Program for Girls,” published in Connected Science Learning. 

Wen Guo, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) published “Developing Socially Responsive Competencies in Arts Administration through Teaching Cases: Needs, Barriers, Debates & Possibilities for an Essential Pedagogy” in the Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society. 

Dave Gussak, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) published the edited volume of “The Wiley Handbook of Art Therapy-2nd Edition” by Wiley Publishing.  

Rachel Fendler, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) and Sara Shields, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) co-authored an article, “Curricularizing social movements: Intersecting Art, Pedagogy, and Social Change” in the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education. 

Meghan Mick, MLA (Department of Interior Architecture and Design) published the article “Beyond Sustainable: A Responsible Framework for Design” in The International Journal of Design Education. 

Bret Staudt Willet, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and alumnus Hunhui Na, Ph.D., co-authored “Ex-Edchat: Historic Retrospective of X/Twitter #Edchat,” published in the Computers & Education journal. 

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) co-authored the National Research Update on Adolescent Health Research in the United States, published in the October issue of Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine Research Update. 

Melissa Radey, Ph.D., Schyler Brumm, MSW (College of Social Work), Lenore McWey, Ph.D. and Carson Outler, MFT (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored the article “‘It Seems so Simple … the Actual Execution is Difficult”: Self-Defined Needs of Parents Entering the Child Welfare System,” published in the Journal of Public Child Welfare. 

Melissa Radey, Ph.D., Kristy Anderson, Ph.D., Michael Killian, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and Emily Dolce, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) co-authored the article “Young Adulthood Milestones and Supports Within the Context of Autism,” published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 

Sana Tibi, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) published “Transposed-Letter Priming Effects in Arabic-English Bilinguals: Shifting Toward a Default Orthographic Processing Mode” in the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. She also published “Staples of Screening for Dyslexia in University Students” in Dyslexia: An International Journal of Research and Practice. 

Elizabeth Madden, Ph.D. and Michelle Therrien, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) published “’It Was Hard for Him to Deal with my Strokeness’ to ‘I Can’t Ask for No Better Friends than the Ones I Got Now’: Friendship Experiences Throughout Post-Stroke Aphasia Recovery” in Qualitative Research in Communication Differences and Disorders. 

Mark Bauer, Ed.D., Roxann Mouratidis, MSLIS and Martin Wood, Ed.D. (College of Medicine) published “From Startup to Sundown: Exploring the Life Cycle of an Open Access, Patient-Centered Journal” in Case Studies in Library Publishing. 

Nick Sellers, Ph.D. (School of Communication) had his chapter “GAMES FOR GOOD: Exploring the Potential for Traditional Video Game Narratives to Reduce Mental Health Stigma” published in the book Communicating Disability: Expanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Health Communication and Mass Media. 

Amy Hall, Ph.D. and Karen MacDonell, Ph.D. (College of Medicine Center for Translational Behavioral Science) co-authored “Middle-Range Theory of Asthma Self-Management,” published in Sage Journals – Nursing Science Quarterly. 

Sara Green, MSW, and Andrea Cheshure, M.S. (College of Medicine Center for Translational Behavioral Science), co-authored and presented their research, in partnership with youth community members, to identify and pilot tailored strategies for young adults at high risk of HIV in North Florida at the 2025 National Sexual Health Conference. 

Nathan Falk, M.D., Rosa Joseph, M.D. and Marvin Dieujuste, M.D. (College of Medicine) co-authored “Lymphadenopathy: Evaluation and Differential Diagnosis,” published in American Family Physician. 

Adam Tratner, Ph.D. (FSU Republic of Panama Campus) co-authored “Ethical Disclosure of Biomarkers for Alzheimer Risk in Latin American Participants,” published in the journal Frontiers in Dementia. He also co-authored “Association Between Cognitive Function, Socio-Clinical Factors and Biomarkers Among Panamanian Adults Living with and without HIV: A Cross-Sectional Study,” published in the journal Scientific Reports.

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

Rob Hanna, Zaida McGinley, Carrie Meyers, and Jim Reynolds (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Co-Designing with AI: Empowering Science Educators for the Future of Learning” and “AI Savvy Science Classroom: Teaching Critical Thinking in the Age of AI” at the Florida Association of Science Teachers 2025 Conference.  

Subhasree Sengupta, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented “A Context-Aware Q&A Motivational Agent for Project-Based Learning in Computing Education” at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2025 conference. She also presented “Case Studies as a Pedagogical Approach in Responsible Data Literacy: A Conceptual Exploration” at the Association for Library and Information Science Education 2025 conference. 

Flavia Ramos-Mattoussi, Ed.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented “The Erosion of Academic Freedom and Global Engagement in U.S. higher Education Under Presidential Executive Orders in 2025” at the EDULEARN25 Conference in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. 

Andrea De Giorgi, Ph.D. (Department of Classics) presented “Daphne and the Making of Antioch’s Suburbia” at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. 

Cy Weise, Ph.D. (Department of English) presented “How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes: On Crip Wisdom and Crip Critique,” at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 

Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FAAN (College of Nursing) presented the award lecture “Heart Failure Science: Building a Program of Research” at the 30th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Heart Failure Society of America in Minneapolis, MN. 

Gen Ramirez (Center for Leadership and Service) presented “Leading Like Miss Frizzle: Knowing How to Take Leadership Learning into Outer Space as a New Leadership Educator” at the October 2025 International Leadership Association Global Conference. 

Wen Zhu, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) presented “Identifying a Tunnel-Gating Residue in Human Asparagine Synthetase” at the American Chemical Society’s Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition in Palm Harbor. 

Lauren Stanley, Ph.D., LCSW (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) presented “What Drives Burnout in Child Welfare Workers? Understanding the Strongest Predictor” for Practice & Research Together Canada. 

Jenny Root, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) presented “What Does it Take? Evaluating the Feasibility of a Math Curriculum for Students with Autism and Intellectual Disability” at the Association for Behavior Analysis International’s Single Case Conference in Minneapolis. 

Hugh Catts, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) delivered the keynote address “Revisiting the Definition of Dyslexia” at the Danish Dyslexia Association meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. Catts also presented this at the Wisconsin Reading League Conference in Brookfield, WI. 

Ellen Nimmons, MS (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented on FSU’s School of Communication Science and Disorders Intensive Clinical Advancement Program at the Southeastern Universities Clinical Educators annual conference at Auburn University. 

Hugh Catts, Ph.D. (School of Communication Sciences and Disorders) delivered the keynote address “Revisiting the Definition of Dyslexia” at the Danish Dyslexia Association meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Enrique Urrea-Mendoza, M.D. (College of Medicine) spoke at the 6th Annual All-Community Virtual Conference on Multiple System Atrophy, organized by the Defeat MSA Alliance, delivering a lecture on advanced treatments for Multiple System Atrophy and was a featured panelist in the Q&A session for patients and researchers. Urrea-Mendoza also spoke at the first Panhandle Parkinson’s Educational Symposium, presenting “The Plastic Pandemic and Its Potential Link to Parkinson’s Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Conditions.” 

Carrie Ann Baade, MFA (Department of Art) served as the Keynote Speaker of Beyond the Looking Glass: A Colossal Dream, the annual Florida Art Education Association Conference in St. Petersburg, FL. 

Jiha Moon, MFA (Department of Art) served as the Keynote Speaker at the American Ceramic Circle Annual Meeting in Atlanta. 

Rebecca Giguere, MPH (College of Medicine) presented “Mystery Shopping at Free HIV Testing Clinics in Florida: Notes from the Field on Anonymous Testing Policies” at the 2025 National Sexual Health Conference. 

Christopher Mulrooney, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) presented “Experiencing Mutuality: Listening Well to Each Other on the Topic of Person-Directed Living Practices” at the annual Planetree International Global Person-Centered Care Forum in Baltimore, MD. 

Nicole Ennis, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) presented “An Examination of Drug-Drug Interactions in Adults Aged 50 and Older New to Medical Marijuana Use” at the 2025 Cannabis Research Conference.

EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

Camilo Loaiza Bonilla, MFA (John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) had a solo exhibition, “Raíces/Roots: Camilo Loaiza Bonilla,” featured at The University of Tampa’s Scarfone/Hartley Gallery. He also had a companion book published by The University of Tampa Press. 

Denise Bookwalte, MFA (Department of Art) exhibited her collaborative work with partner Tricia Treacy at the New York Art Book Fair in New York City. 

Katie Kehoe, MFA (Department of Art) exhibited her work in the group exhibition: “Imaginary Worlds: Invented Spaces and Places” at the Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center in Solomons, MD. 

Mona Bozorgi, MFA (Department of Art) had her work featured in “from within, so together” with Tokie Rome-Taylor at Swan Coach House in Atlanta and “Fibration III: Anxiety and Hope” at L’Space Gallery in New York. 

Marty Fielding, MFA (Department of Art) exhibited his work in ‘Conveying’ at the Schaller Gallery in Baroda, Michigan, and in a solo show, ‘Intentional Acts’, opening at the Plough Gallery in Tifton, GA. 

Jiha Moon, MFA (Department of Art), exhibited her work in a solo exhibition, “Purgatory Mutt,” at Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, and in “EMILY COLE: Ceramics, Flora & Contemporary Responses” at the Thomas Cole Historic Site in Catskill, NY. 

Ilana Goldman, MFA (School of Dance) staged Trey McIntyre’s ballet Wild Sweet Love for Richmond Ballet’s first program of the season in Richmond, VA.

SERVICE

Mark Zeigler, M.S. (College of Business) served as a faculty member for the Fall Academy of the Florida Association of City Clerks, teaching an advanced public speaking course. He also served as a guest colloquium speaker for the faculty, staff and graduate students in FSU’s Institute for Sports Sciences and Medicine. Zeigler also moderated the Opening Nights event featuring Authors James Patterson and Patrick Leddin that celebrated the release of their new Leadership and Management book, “Disrupt Everything.” 

Rob Hanna and Zaida McGinley (Learning Systems Institute) traveled to Holley-Navarre Intermediate School to work with students as part of FSU InSPIRE’s STEAM Night. 

Amanda Tazaz, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) hosted Hillsborough County students at Riverview Elementary for “Spooky STEAM Nights” to support K-5 math learning goals. 

Jonathan Christensen Caballero, MFA (Department of Art) was announced as a juror for the annual Artaxis Fellowships.  

Jen Atkins, Ph.D. (School of Dance) has been appointed the new co-executive editor of Dance Research Journal.   

Brandon Bowden, Ed.D. (Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs) was selected to serve on the 2026 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Associate Vice President Symposium Committee. 

Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FAAN (College of Nursing) served as a panelist on “Sex Differences in Heart Failure: Ask the Experts” at the 30th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Heart Failure Society of America. 

Kristen Guynes, Ph.D. and Casey Guynes, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) hosted a community gathering at Wakulla Springs State Park for families of children who are deaf or hard of hearing through SCSD’s Deaf and Hard of Hearing/American Sign Language Educational Outreach Program. 

Denise Gonzalez, Ed.D. (College of Medicine) was selected for the inaugural cohort of the Community of Practice for Medical Admissions Reform, a collaborative effort to improve equity and effectiveness in medical school admissions. She is the only representative from a Florida medical school. 

Katie Berry, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) participated on the conference panel “Lived Experts Leading the Way: Co-Creating Care for Child Welfare-Involved Youth” at the Annual Commonwealth of Virginia CSA Conference at Virginia Tech in Roanoke, VA. 

Charles Fleischer, M.D. (College of Medicine) served as co-chair on behalf of the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Global Health Advisory Group at the 2025 Global Health Summit, presenting and leading sessions that advanced discussions on health equity and improving care in resource-limited settings. 

Allison Wing, Ph.D. (Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science), was elected to the Members Nominating Committee, one of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research’s governance committees. 

Kevin Curry, MFA (Department of Art) was selected as a member of the Board of Directors for the Southeastern College Art Conference. During SECAC’s conference in Cincinnati, OH, Curry’s work, “Sausages,” was exhibited at SITE1212. 

NOTABLE

Lakesha Brown, M.S. (Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement) completed the 2025 Spring National TRIO Alumni Association Engagement Ambassador Cohort II Training, a professional development initiative of the Council for Opportunity in Education. 

Kaylee Webb, M.S. (Career Center), provided career guidance through one-on-one advising sessions to help students prepare for professional opportunities in the sports industry at the 2025 Sport Management Conference at FSU. She also obtained the Adult Mental Health First Aid certification from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. Additionally, she completed the Law School Admissions Council, a month-long program to assist professionals who advise pre-law students. 

Stephen McDowell, Ph.D. and Jaejin Lee, Ph.D. (School of Communication) met with the president of Kyungpook National University (KNU) to discuss areas of collaboration and sign a memorandum of understanding between KNU and FSU. 

Rachel Bailey, Ph.D. (School of Communication) became an associate editor at the Journal of Media Psychology. 

Eric Holmes, Ph.D. and Gary Ostrander, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) were issued a patent for their work with the drug Niclosamide in conjunction with specific enhancers to treat viral infections, such as the human coronavirus. 

Malaika Samples, Ed.D., MPA, Kyle Cook, MS and Kristina Finch, MS (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) launched FSU’s first Child Advocacy Studies Badging Program, enrolling its inaugural student cohort in Fall 2025. They are partnering with the Zero Abuse Project and Florida higher education institutions to expand CAST statewide. 

Jamie Ho, MFA (Department of Art) completed a residency at the Bemis Center in Omaha, NE. 

Lilian Garcia-Roig, MFA (Department of Art) completed the Surf Point Residency in York, ME. 

Daniel Smith, MME (School of Dance) is a 2025 quarterfinalist for the GRAMMY Music Educator Award.

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Florida State University’s distinguished faculty are central to the mission of the university. Faculty excellence in scholarship, research, and creative activity is critical to the quality of student learning and makes a difference in the lives of others. 

Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across campus. Faculty and Staff Briefs are produced monthly to recognize accomplishments and provide a space where honors, awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased. 

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HONORS AND AWARDS

Fred E. Karlinsky, J.D. (College of Law) received the Florida Insurance Council’s Mark Trafton Distinguished Service Award at the 2025 Summer Symposium in Fort Lauderdale. The award recognizes exceptional service and leadership in the insurance industry. 

Henry Zhuhao Wang, S.J.D., J.D., LL.M. (College of Law) was named a 2025 Association of American Law Schools Teacher of the Year for Florida State University. 

Nasrin Alamdari, Ph.D., P.E. (FAMU-FSU College of Engineering) was selected to receive the prestigious A. Ivan Johnson Award for Young Professionals from the American Water Resources Association. The national recognition highlights her innovative research combining artificial intelligence with environmental water management solutions. 

Zhe He, Ph.D. (School of Information) was elected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences and Informatics. 

Fraternity and Sorority Life received the 2025 Elevation in Practice — Innovation Award from the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors for their newest program, 5 Senses of Hazing. 

Patrick Merle, Ph.D. (School of Communication) was awarded third place for his research “Public Relations Practitioners’ Expectations for Graduate Education” in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Public Relations Division. 

Carla Wood, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) was named a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. 

Lara Perez-Felkner, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and higher education doctoral program alumnus Ciera Fluker, Ph.D., were awarded Edited Book of the Year by the American Association for Hispanic Higher Education for their 2024 publication of “Latin* Students in Engineering: An Intentional Focus on a Growing Population.” 

Alina Dana Weber, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) received the Goethe-Institut / American Association of Teachers of German Certificate of Merit for furthering German teaching in the U.S. 

Barbara Hamby, M.A. (Department of English) had her poem “Ode on Words for Parties (American Edition)” honored in The New Yorker’s best of the last 100 years anthology book “A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker 1925-2025.” 

Norman (Trip) Wyckoff, MLIS (University Libraries) received the Fred L. Standley Award in recognition of his significant contributions to research librarianship and library development at the campus, state, national and international levels. Named for longtime FSU advocate Fred L. Standley, the award honors a legacy of scholarly excellence and service to the University Libraries. 

Kathleen Kennedy, M.D. (College of Medicine, Sarasota Regional Campus) was honored with the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) Leadership Council Inspire Award.  During Women in Medicine month, AMWA honors the trailblazing women physicians who continue to make a profound difference in health care and beyond. 

Shermeeka Hogans-Mathews, M.D., FAAFP (College of Medicine) received the 2025 Florida Academy of Family Physicians’ Exemplary Full-Time Educator Award. 

Panayotis (Paddy) League, Ph.D. (College of Music) had his new album, a collaboration with Athens, GA-based ensemble Hog-Eyed Man, selected by The Daily as one of the Best Country Records released in July. 

Noel Wan, D.M. (College of Music) received the FAA Emerging Legacy Award, the University of Illinois’ highest honor for early career alumni of the College of Fine and Applied Arts. 

GRANTS

Lara Perez-Felkner, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and doctoral student Holly Henning, M.A., MBA received an $11,447 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a strategic communications project “Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Strategic Communications Project.” 

Lara Perez-Felkner, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) received a $290,356 subaward from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the National Science Foundation’s CREST II Center for their project “Evaluation: CREST Phase II (CREST-CER): Center for Complex Materials Design & Hybrid Materials Processing.” 

Brian Miller, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) received a $616,401 National Institutes of Health grant for his project “Enzyme Recruitment in Metabolic Plasticity and Evolvability.”  

Thomas Needham, Ph.D. and Martin Bauer, Ph.D. (Department of Mathematics) received a $253,888 National Science Foundation grant for their collaborative project “CIF: Small: Generalized Optimal Transport Models: Theory and Computation.” 

Michael Shatruk, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) received a $986,000 Department of Energy grant from the Physical Behavior of Materials program for his project “Multistate Optical Switching with Phase-Change Molecular Materials.” 

Charles Fleischer, M.D. (College of Medicine) received a $192,927 National Science Foundation grant for his collaborative project “C2H2 EAGER Collaborative Research: Explore a Model-Data Framework to Advance Predictions of Red Tide and its Impact on Respiratory Illnesses Under Changing Temperature.” 

Qiuchang (Katy) Cao, Ph.D., MSW, LSW (College of Social Work) received the 2024 Rose Dobrof Runner-Up Award from the editorial board for the Journal of Gerontological Social Work and Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work for her article “‘I’m Part of Something that Matters’: Exploring What Older Adults Value Through Their Engagement in Age-Friendly Community Initiatives” published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work. 

BYLINES

Bret Keating, M.S. (Advising First) authored “From Magic to Meaning” published in NACADA: Academic Advising Today Journal. 

Eric Walker, Ph.D. (Department of English) published “Absent Fathers, Adoption from China, and Kathryn Ma’s The Year She Left Us” in the Adoption & Culture journal. 

Kadir Kozan, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and doctoral student Chaewon Kim, M.A. published their research “First-Year STEM College Students’ Study Strategies: Perceived Effectiveness and Use” in the Education Sciences journal. 

Stephanie Zuilkowski, Ph.D. and Bodunrin Arkinmade, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) published “If I Do Not Bear Such a Burden Today, I Will Bear it in the Future: The Reasons for Private Tutoring and its Perceived Academic Impact on Children in Nigeria” in the International Journal of Educational Development. 

Secil Caskurlu, Ph.D. and Kadir Kozan, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “The Community of Inquiry Framework and Learning Analytics: A Systematic Review of Previous Research” published in Computers & Education Open. 

Kadir Kozan, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and doctoral students Jaesung Hur, MS, Idam Kim, MEd and Alex Barrett, M.A. co-authored “Instructional Designers’ Integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence into their Professional Practice” published in Education Sciences. 

Timothy Baghurst, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and athletic coaching alumna Tessa Taylor co-authored “A Practical Guide to Coaching International Student-Athletes (ISAs) in Interscholastic and Collegiate Sports in the United States of America” published in the International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education. 

Timothy Baghurst, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “Strategies to Positively Affect Retention in Online Kinesiology-Based Collegiate Courses” published in the International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education. 

Thomas Ledermann, Ph.D. and Myriam Rudaz, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “On Partial Versus Full Mediation and the Importance of Effect Sizes” published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 

Lara Perez-Felkner, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences), postdoctoral researcher and higher education alumna Janel Acosta, Ph.D. and human development and family sciences alumna Valentina Iturriaga, Ph.D. co-authored the book chapter “Student Success for Latin* Students” in the Routledge Handbook on Postsecondary Student Success. 

Lara Perez-Felkner, Ph.D., (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and doctoral students Zahra Gholami, M.A. and Xinting Wu, M.A. co-authored “Public Financing of STEM Education: Research Evidence and Policy Recommendations” published in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 

Lara Perez-Felkner, Ph.D., Shouping Hu, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and Yang Li, Ph.D. (FSU Career Center) co-authored “Pathways into Computing Fields by Florida’s Community College Students” published in the Community College Journal of Research and Practice. 

Russell B. Clayton, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) and students Junho Park, Sazzad Mahmud Shuvo, Kristina Simon Sherry Rasul, and Jessica Weinberg, co-published the study “Investigating Psychophysiological and Self-Report Responses to Antioral Nicotine Pouch Social Media Videos” in Health Psychology. 

Kelly Farquharson, Ph.D., Jennifer Westmoreland, MS (College of Communication and Information) and doctoral students Mary Allison Moody and Christy Timm Fulkerson published a research article “Print Referencing Virtual Coaching for Paraeducators: A Single-Case Experimental Design” in the American Journal of Speech Language Pathology. 

Zhe He, Ph.D. and Mia Lustria, Ph.D. (School of Information) published “Introducing the Adherence Promotion with Person-Centered Technology (APPT) Trial: Rationale, Methods, and Baseline Characteristics” in Contemporary Clinical Trials. 

Lakeisha Johnson, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) published an article, “Exploring Oral Language, Spoken Language Variation, and Reading Profiles Among Black Children,” in Seminars in Speech and Language. 

Dillon Pruett, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) was published in Nature Genetics for his “Large-Scale Genome-Wide Analysis of Stuttering” study. 

Sana Tibi, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) and doctoral scholar Holden Allen co-authored an article “Looking Beyond the Lines: Mental Health Co-occurrences and Future Treatment Considerations for Dyslexic Populations” in Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools. 

Shouping Hu, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and Joe O’Shea, Ph.D. (Office of the President) published the comprehensive volume “The Routledge Handbook on Postsecondary Student Success.” 

Lara Perez-Felkner, Ph.D., Shouping Hu, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and higher education doctoral program alumnus Teng Zhao co-authored “The Impact of Merit Aid on STEM Major Choices: A Propensity Score Approach” published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 

Lara Perez-Felkner, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and alumnus Marcus Nicolas co-authored “The (Mis)Education of Black Boys: Exploring the Contributing Factors of Their Accelerated Curricular Decision-Making Process” published in the Journal of African American Males in Education. 

Chelsea Armbrister, Ph.D., Tarik J. Dickens, Ph.D. (FAMU-FSU College of Engineering) and Lara Perez-Felkner, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “Manufacturing Inclusive Excellence: An Intersectional, Mixed Methods Study of Engineering Identity Among Undergraduate Research Students at a Historically Black University” published in the American Society for Engineering Education, PEER Proceedings. 

Anthony Nguyen, Ph.D. (Department of Philosophy) authored “Self-Respect and Justice” published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 

Michelle Bumatay, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) authored “Framing France in the Indian Ocean: Of Shipwrecks and Fertile Women,” published in the book “Graphic Narratives of Resistance: Advocating for Representation and Social Justice in French-language Bandes Dessinées” by Edinburgh University Press.  

Elizabeth Coggeshall, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) authored “A Transmedia Commedia: The View from Dante Today” published in the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. She also published the article, “Building and Maintaining the Crowdsourced Archive Dante Today” in Limina: Intorno al testo 1, and the article, “Into the City of Deep Downpression’: Lorna Goodison’s Tradaptation of Dante’s Inferno,” with Sx Salon. 

Kathleen Powers Conti, Ph.D. (Department of History) authored “Beyond the Absence: Recovering the Architectural Imprints of Slavery at Virginia’s Berkeley Plantation,” published in the book “Architectures of Slavery: Ruins & Reconstructions” by the University of Virginia Press. 

Christina Parker-Flynn, Ph.D. (Department of English) authored “Eyeing Egypt: Transparent Orientalism on the Edge of Cinematic Modernity in ‘The Eyes of Mummy Ma’ (1918)” included in the book “Refocus: The Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch” published by Edinburgh University Press. 

Stanley Gontarski, Ph.D. (Department of English) authored the essay “‘Everything oozes’: Mud and Molebane in Beckett’s Dystopian Landscapes,” published in the book “Beckett and Nature” by Bloomsbury Publishing. His essay “‘Well, Cut My Legs Off and Call Me Shorty’: Flann O’Brien, the American Mythos and Its Argot” was also published in Volume 15 of “Studi Irlandesi: A Journal of Irish Studies.” 

Tarez Graban, Ph.D. (Department of English) co-authored “The Promise(s) and Peril(s) of Big Data: Historiography, Data Feminism, and Tracing Women of Color” published in the book, “Rhetorica Rising: Feminist Rhetorical Methods for Social Change” by the University of South Carolina Press. 

Vincent Joos, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) authored “Ecos de Revoluções Passadas: Arquitetura, Memória e Políticas Espectrais nos Bairros Históricos de Porto Príncipe,” published in “Rotas Caribenhas: etnografia, mobilidade e conhecimento” through Editora da Universidade de São Paulo.  Joos also authored the article “Pathologizing and Controlling Haitian Bodies: The U.S. Border through Discrimination, Incarceration, and Deportation” published in the Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies. 

Ross Moret, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) authored “AI, the Conflicted University, and the Classroom” published in the Journal of Philosophy of Education through Oxford University Press. 

Alina Dana Weber, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) authored “Velvet Eyes and Bowie Knives: Reading Karl May’s Tracks in Thomas Mann’s ‘Der Zauberberg,’” in the journal Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte. 

Cy Jillian Weise, Ph.D. (Department of English) authored the poem “So Your GF wants to Come Out as Bi and Polyamorous to Her Very Conservative Family” published in the anthology “Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall” by Belknap Press, an imprint of Harvard University Press. 

Brittany Devies, Ph.D., Jarred Pernier, MEd and Freddy Juarez, MS (Fraternity and Sorority Life) co-published “Metrics, Outcomes, and Assessment: Creating Data-Driven Decisions in Leadership Programs” in New Directions for Student Leadership. 

Brittany Devies, Ph.D. (Fraternity and Sorority Life) and Kathy Guthrie, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-published “Framing the Use of Context in Leadership Programs” and “Future of Leadership Learning: The Possibility of ILA’s General Principles” in New Directions for Student Leadership. 

Michael Nair-Collins, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) published “Death is Biologically Real; Laws About Death are Social Constructions” in the American Journal of Bioethics. 

Katie Berry, Ph.D. and Emily Davison, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) co-authored a manuscript titled “Developing a Digital Single-Session Intervention to Promote Trauma-Informed Caregiving: Insights from Foster Caregivers and Child Welfare Providers,” published in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 

Bruce Thyer, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) authored “Using Experimental Research Designs to Evaluate Social Work Practice in China,” published in the China Journal of Social Work. 

Gashaye Melaku Tefera, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and doctoral students Ponsiano Ngondwe, MSW and Shelby Varol, MSW co-authored “Trust Matters: A Qualitative Study on Healthcare Access and Utilization Among African Immigrants in the United States,” in the Journal of Community Health. 

Nicole Bentze, D.O., FAAFP, FAMWA and Megan Verdoni, MPAS, PA-C, CAQ-EM (College of Medicine) co-authored “The Impact of Faculty Pin Recognition” published in the Journal of Faculty Development. 

Alexandra Cowan-Pyle, Ph.D. and Regan Bailey, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) co-authored “The Reporting of ‘What We Eat in America’ Nutrient Intake Data in the Scientific Literature: A Scoping Review” published in the Journal of Nutrition. 

Bill Boyer, DHSC, MS, CHSE (College of Medicine) contributed to the recently revised 11th edition of “American College of Surgeons’ Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider and Instructor” course manuals. He is one of four Senior Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) educators in the United States and sits on the 14-person ATLS Senior Educator Advisory Board. 

Bonnie Spring, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) co-authored “Optimizing a Physical Activity Intervention with Mindful Awareness Lessons in Breast Cancer Survivors: Fit2thrivemind Protocol” in Contemporary Clinical Trials. 

Brittany Devies, Ph.D., Jarred Pernier, MEd and Freddy Juarez, MS (Fraternity and Sorority Life) co-authored “Applying Content: Integrating Theory, Design, and Student-Centered Learning” published by New Director Student Leadership. 

Barbara Hamby, Ph.D. (Department of English) published her book of poetry “Burn” with the University of Pittsburgh Press. 

Rodney Jordan, M.M. (College of Music) authored “Your Sound Is Your Calling Card,” published in in the October 2025 issue of DownBeat Magazine and in the magazine’s annual “Best Colleges to Study Jazz” edition. 

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

Jane Harris (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) presented “Educating & Engaging Museum Volunteers: Flexible Strategies for Guide Training in Changing Times” at the American Alliance of Museum’s Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, Calif. The session explored flexible, inclusive training models developed at The Ringling to support volunteer guides during and after the pandemic, with a focus on accessibility, learner-centered design and sustained engagement. 

Subhasree Sengupta, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) was a featured panelist on the “Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Higher Education” Zoom panel, part of the FSU Department of Scientific Computing’s Artificial Intelligence Seminar. 

Rachel Bailey, Ph.D., (School of Communication) doctoral student Sun Young Park, alumna Pooja Ichplani, Ph.D. and graduate teaching assistant Yu Liang presented “Utilizing Competing Biological Motivations: Can We Improve Food Neophobe’s Attitudes toward Lab-grown Meat?” at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference. 

Patrick Merle, Ph.D. (School of Communication) and doctoral students Junho Park, M.A. and Sun Young Park, MS presented “The Effect of Representation of Number and Visual Saliency of Bike Safety Message on Navigation Applications” at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference. 

Ying Yang, Ph.D. (School of Communication) and doctoral student Junho Park, M.A. presented “How AI-generated Labels on Social Media Testimonials Expressing Mental Distress Affect Reader Engagement and Support Provision” at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference. 

Lara Perez-Felkner, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) presented “Shaping Policies and Practices as Researchers and Practitioners: A Focus on Latin* Students in Engineering Education” at the American Society of Engineering Education meetings in Montreal, Canada. 

Stanley Gontarski, Ph.D. (Department of English) presented “Samuel Beckett’s Regimes of Ignorance: Ethico-political Acts of Resistance” at the Associazione Italiana di Anglistica biennial conference at the University of Turin in Italy. He also presented “How to Read Bill’s Brain: A Neuromatic Approach to Reading Burroughs’ Archives” at the European Beat Studies Network Conference at the University of Hildesheim, Germany. 

Chris Constantino, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) and doctoral student Angelica Bernabe co-hosted a Stuttering Affirmative Therapy workshop for the Spanish-speaking community through Centro Especializado en Tartamudez. 

Dillon Pruett, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) was an invited speaker for the inaugural Stuttering Treatment and Research Society (STARS) Research & Education Conference held at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, CA. 

Ebe Randeree, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) co-presented a workshop “Decoding LinkedIn” at the STARS CELEBRATION Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX. 

Tarez Graban, Ph.D. (Department of English) helped lead the international workshop “A Transnational Retrospective 50 Years After the First World Conference on Women” at the Feminisms and Rhetorics 2025 Conference in July at the University of New Hampshire, Durham. She also presented her paper “South Africa’s Black Sash as Theorists of Rhetorical Genre and Resilience, from 1955 to 1995” at the 25th biennial International Society for the History of Rhetoric Society Conference at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Fanny Caroline Liu, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) co-organized the hybrid event “Early Career Researchers Connect” at the 3rd International Top-Down Proteomics Symposium in Hamburg, Germany. 

David Newheiser, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) presented “Awe and the Study of Nonreligion” at Jesus College in Oxford, England. His presentation came from the project, “Awe-some spirituality: A theological and psychological cross-disciplinary exploration of awe underlying spiritual yearning of the nonreligious,” which is funded by the John Templeton Foundation and for which Newheiser serves on an advisory board. 

Robert Romanchuk, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) presented “His Mother is a Jewess: Digenis Akritis and the Septuagint” in August at the International Congress of Slavists in Paris, France. 

Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) presented “Nabokov’s Book Reviews and Writing about the Present” at the International Congress of Slavists in Paris, France. 

Wen Zhu, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) spoke at the seminar “Dissecting the Conformational Dynamics of Enzymes” through the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Florida in Gainesville. 

Ibrahim Yigit, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) co-authored “Development and Validation of the Microaggression Scale for Refugees (MSR): Independent Contributions of Microaggression and Experienced Stigma to Psychological Distress and Somatic Symptoms” in the Journal of Affective Disorders.   

Allison McHugh, DNP, MHCDS, RN, NE-BC (College of Nursing), co-presented “Validating a Healthy Work Environment Assessment Tool in the Academic Workplace” at the Association for Leadership Sciences in Nursing international conference. 

Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH and Kathryn Muessig, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) co-presented a conference poster co-authored by Rahim Miller, MSMS, EMT-B, Zoë Njemanze, MPH, Swetha Mukalel, Judah Dean, MSW, Carissa Crews, MPH, CHC (Institute on Digital Health and Innovation), Jacob Stocks, MSC and Adrian Williams, MPH (College of Nursing) titled “A Community-Centered Approach to Digital Interventions for Underserved Youth,” at the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions Annual Scientific Meeting. 

Delaney La Rosa, EdD, MSN Ed, RN (College of Nursing) presented “Examining AI’s Evolution from Chat-based Assistants to Agentic Systems, the Market Inflection Points of 2024–2025, and Practical Implications for Industry and Workforce Readiness,” at a talk hosted by the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering that covered major developments from 2022 through near-future projections and offered recommendations for technologists, leaders and educators. 

Delaney La Rosa, EdD, MSN Ed, RN (College of Nursing) presented “AI for Industry” at the FSU SC Artificial Intelligence Seminar hosted by the Department of Scientific Computing. 

Christopher Mulrooney, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) presented “Pathways to Culture Change Implementation: What Mobilizers & Administrators Can Learn from Each Other” at the annual conference of AgingIN (formerly known as Center for Innovation & Pioneer Network). 

Katie Berry, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) and doctoral student Lauren Herod, MPA presented “Use of Research Evidence in Florida’s Child Welfare Policymaking” at the Macro United Conference in Washington University in St. Louis. 

Katie Berry, Ph.D. and Emily Davison, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) presented “Co-Adapting an SSI Parenting Intervention with Foster Parents to Fit the Relational Context of the Foster Parent/Youth Relationship” at the 5th International Single Session Intervention Symposium. They also presented “Foster Parents’ Experiences Navigating Complex Needs of Older Youths” at the 2025 Florida Department of Children and Families Summit. 

Karen Geletko, MPH (College of Medicine) presented “From Screening to Cessation: An Equitable and Holistic View of Tobacco and Nicotine Use Interventions at Healthcare Visits” at the National Conference on Tobacco or Health in Chicago, which synthesized research she conducted with Jon Mills, Ph.D., Jeffrey Harman, Ph.D., (Center for Translational Behavioral Science) Katelyn Graves, Ph.D., Shermeeka Hogans-Mathews, M.D. (College of Medicine) and medical students John Acosta-Penaloza and Hanna Lateef. 

Delaney La Rosa, Ed.D., MSN Ed, RN (College of Nursing) presented at the launch summit for the FSU College of Nursing sponsored Nursing AI Innovation Consortium, which was held with the National League for Nursing 2025 Education Summit as part of a panel on “Future Nursing Priorities for Responsible AI.” 

Kathleen P. Wilson, Ph.D., APRN, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, FAANP, FNAP, DipACLM (College of Nursing) authored and presented “Cracking the Code: Billing and Coding Simplified for Nurse Practitioners” at the South Florida Council of Advanced Practice Nurses. She also authored and presented “Cultivating a HAPPY & HEALTHY Future at The Crossroads of NP Practice, Education, Research, and Policy” at the 2025 Florida Nurse Practitioner Network Conference Pharmacology Workshop and “Self-Management through Person-Centered Lifestyle Medicine and Shared Medical Visits” at the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists. 

Delaney La Rosa, Ed.D., MSN Ed, RN and LeeAnn H. Barfield, Ph.D., DNP, APRN-BC, CNE, FACHE (College of Nursing) co-presented at the 2025 Florida Nurses Association’s annual conference: “Elevating Nursing Innovation in a Digital Age.” Dr. La Rosa presented the keynote “Centering AI in Nursing, a Framework for Transformative Leadership” and Dr. Barfield presented the closing plenary “Leading the Charge: Leveraging Healthcare Technology and Innovation to Advance Nursing Practice and Patient Outcomes.” 

Ericka Horne, MPH, CHES® (College of Medicine) presented “Community Impact through Integration of the Translational Science Benefits Model” at the Florida Public Health Association Annual Education Conference. Horne also wrapped up her term as co-chair of the Student Engagement Committee and started her term as secretary on the FPHA board’s executive committee. 

Ransome Eke, M.D., Ph.D. (College of Medicine) presented the poster “Telehealth Use Among U.S. Adults with Chronic Medical Conditions: Findings from the Medical Expenditure Panel (MEPS) Survey” at the American College of Epidemiology Conference. 

Rahim Miller, MSMS, EMT-B, Swetha Mukalel, Judah Dean, MSW, Carissa Crews, MPH, CHC (Institute on Digital Health and Innovation) co-presented and co-authored “From Stakeholders to Co-Researchers: Advancing HIV Research Through the Subject Matter Research Consultant Model” with Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH, Kathryn Muessig, Ph.D., Jacob Stocks, MSC and Adrian Williams, MPH (College of Nursing) at the 2025 Florida HIV CPR Conference. 

Ying Mai Kung, DNP, MPH, APRN, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, CNE, FAAN (College of Nursing) presented the introduction at the Fullbright Taiwan Orientation. 

EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES 

Jonathan Holden, D.M.A., Shannon Thomas, D.M.A., Greg Sauer, D.M.A. and Read Gainsford, D.M.A. (College of Music) performed a Central Florida tour with concerts in Tallahassee, the Historic Asolo Theatre at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and Design in Sarasota and the Blue Bamboo Performing Arts Center in Winter Park. 

Leon Anderson, M.M. (College of Music) released his debut album Live at Snug Harbor on Outside in Music, praised in “The Blade” as “world-class music” and a brilliant tribute to New Orleans’ jazz tradition. 

Amy Fleming, MFA (Department of Art) had her work featured in the exhibition “Gig Posters for Gig Professors” at SMALLS gallery in Tallahassee. 

Jiha Moon, MFA (Department of Art) has the solo exhibition of her artwork “Ten Moon” featured at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. 

Jean Shon, MFA (Department of Art) had her work featured in the exhibition “What Would I Not Give” at the Community Artists’ Collective in Houston. 

SERVICE

Eric Walker, Ph.D. (Department of English) was elected co-chair of the Executive Committee of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture. 

Becky Greenhill, M.Ed. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) established the Langford Family Speech & Hearing Mobile Clinic Fund, thanks to the generosity of the Langford Family. This initiative will help expand FSU health services. 

Lara Perez-Felkner, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) is serving as associate editor of Research in Higher Education. She is also serving as an inaugural vice chair for the Association of the Study of Higher Education’s new fellowship program. 

Freddy Juarez, MS (Fraternity and Sorority Life) was appointed to the 2025 Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors Governance & Nominations Committee. He has also been named the Southeastern Greek Leadership Association’s Associate Executive Director. 

Brittany Devies, Ph.D. (Fraternity and Sorority Life) was appointed to serve on the International Leadership Association’s Committee on the Advancement of Leadership Programs for the 2026-28 term. 

Ericka Horne, MPH, CHES® (College of Medicine) was chosen to serve as a Governing Councilor for the American Public Health Association’s Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section for the 2025-2027 term. 

Josef V. Hodgkins, MTS, BSN, RN (College of Nursing) completed reviewer duties for the Southern Nursing Research Society’s 40th Annual Conference. 

Cyneetha Strong, M.D. (College of Medicine) served as keynote speaker for the opening session at Global Liver Institute’s Liver Health Symposium. She also served as the facilitator of a workgroup of providers titled “Engage & Elevate: Gathering Provider Insights on Screening and Patient Needs in Liver Health.” 

Ericka Horne, MPH, CHES® and Community Outreach Assistants Kai Pinta and Montezza Lee (College of Medicine) shared information about the eight dimensions of wellness at Florida A&M University’s Annual Grape Harvest Festival in Tallahassee. 

Megan Crowe, MS, Ed.S. (Career Center) was selected to serve on the new class of the Law School Admission Council’s Prelaw Advisory Council for a two-year term. 

NOTABLE

Amanda Tazaz, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) is leading the Successful Start Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) project in Hillsborough County, Fla. 120 teachers participated in the project focusing on CGI in math. 

Elizabeth Madden, Ph.D. and Ellen Nimmons M.S. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) launched the Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Program. The program helps stroke survivors with aphasia and their care partners through an innovative, team-based rehabilitation experience. 

Anna Romanova’s, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) Ukrainian translation of Angi Yoder-Maina’s, Ph.D. (FSU Resilience Institute for Strength and Empowerment) book “Healing Is What Makes Peace Work” was launched in Ukraine where 1,000 free copies were distributed. 

Patty Ballantine, MPA (College of Medicine) earned a Master of Public Administration degree with a concentration in Leadership and Strategic Management from the Askew School of Public Administration at FSU. 

Kathleen P. Wilson, Ph.D., ARNP-C, FAANP (College of Nursing) was promoted to Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs in the College of Nursing. 

Katie Berry, Ph.D. and Emily Davison, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) conducted primary research and submitted a report to the Task Force on the Monitoring of Children in Out-of-Home Care, a legislatively mandated task force charged with making recommendations to the Legislature to improve the child welfare system. 

Malaika Samples, Ed.D., MPA, Kyle Cook, MS, and Kristina Finch, MS (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) launched Florida State University’s first Child Advocacy Studies (CAST) Badging Program, enrolling its inaugural student cohort in Fall 2025. As Assistant Director of Academic Innovation, Samples is partnering with the Zero Abuse Project and Florida higher education institutions to expand CAST statewide.  

Josef V. Hodgkins, MTS, BSN, RN (College of Nursing) has been selected to join the research team developing guidelines for behavioral treatment of intrinsic Circadian Rhythm Sleep-Wake Disorders.  

LeeAnn H. Barfield, Ph.D., DNP, APRN-BC, CNE, FACHE (College of Nursing) was accepted into the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Elevating Leaders in Academic Nursing Fellowship. 

Cindy Telfort, MPH and Montezza Lee (College of Medicine) earned a Community Health Worker certification. 

Kerwyn Flowers, D.O. (College of Medicine) was named dean of the Tallahassee Regional Medical School Campus. She has served as the director of Rural Medical Education since 2019. 

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Florida State University’s distinguished faculty are central to the mission of the university. Faculty excellence in scholarship, research, and creative activity is critical to the quality of student learning and makes a difference in the lives of others.

Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across campus. Faculty and Staff Briefs are produced monthly to recognize accomplishments and provide a space where honors, awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased.

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HONORS AND AWARDS

Lisa Spainhour, Ph.D. (FAMU-FSU College of Engineering) received the Florida Engineering Society Outstanding Service to the Engineering Profession Award from the Florida Engineering Society.

Ames Morton-Winter, M.A.Ed., ALM (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) received the 2024 Outstanding New Professional Award from the Florida Association of Museums.

Yue Li (University Libraries) has been honored with the 2025 President’s Recognition Award from the Chinese American Librarians Association.

Brittany L. Lane, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) was selected as a 2025-2026 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fogarty Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH) Global Health Fellow through the UJMT Global Consortium, which includes the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Johns Hopkins University, Morehouse School of Medicine and Tulane University. As a LAUNCH Fellow, Lane will spend a year in Malawi conducting research on relationship dynamics, HIV-related partner communication and use of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP — a preventive treatment for people who are at high risk of contracting HIV — among young couples.

Jerod Hutchinson (University Libraries) received the 2025 Julia Zimmerman Award, which honors a staff member who exemplifies the values of collegiality, trust, teamwork, inclusion, innovation and service.

Mike Drury, Psy.D. (College of Medicine) achieved an  American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) specialty board certification in Behavioral & Cognitive Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology.

Mark Gallagher, M.D. (College of Medicine) was named a Cleveland Clinic Patient Experience Champion for outstanding patient advocacy at Cleveland Clinic Martin Health — continuing contributions to a positive health care environment for patients and staff alike. He was also appointed the TeamHealth Regional Patient Experience Officer.

Noël Wan, Ph.D. (College of Music) was awarded the 2025 FAA Emerging Legacy Award, the University of Illinois’ highest award for early career alumni of the College of Fine and Applied Arts. The award recognizes “individuals who have impacted their fields in transformative ways — catalysts with distinguished service to the arts” in the fields of architecture, music, visual art, dance and theatre.

Panayotis (Paddy) League, Ph.D. (College of Music) had his new album selected by The Daily as one of the best country records released in July. The album is a collaboration with Athens, GA-based ensemble Hog-Eyed Man.

GRANTS

Xian Mallory, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) received a $290,049 National Science Foundation grant for her project “Collaborative Research: CISE Crosscutting Small: SCH: Using Explainable AI and Quantum-inspired Computing to Uncover Genetic Insights.”

Michael Carrasco, Ph.D. (College of Fine Arts) received a grant from the Cycad Society for his project “Documenting and Preserving Cycads and Cycad Culture on Amami Ōshima, Japan in Response to Critical Existential Threats.” 

Sarah A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) is a principal investigator on a multi-PI grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Botanical Dietary Supplements Translational Research Teams program. The project is titled “Examining Gut Microbiome as a Determinant of Blueberry Polyphenol Bioavailability to Optimize Dose and Phytochemical Standardization for Functional Effects in Humans.”

David Newheiser, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) received a Global Philosophy of Religion project grant, a subgrant of the John Templeton Foundation, for the project “Indigenous Spirituality and Human Meaning in the Amazon.”

BYLINES

Erin Morpeth-Provost, Ph.D. (Counseling & Psychological Services) co-authored “Voices of Students in Crisis: Qualitative Interviews with College Students Hospitalized for Psychiatric Distress” published in Psychiatric Quarterly.

Michael Carrasco, Ph.D. (College of Fine Arts) had his article “Threats to Cycad Biocultural Heritage in the Amami Islands, Japan” featured as an Editor’s Choice by the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences.

Erin Ryan, J.D. (College of Law) authored “The Four Horsemen of the New Separation of Powers: The Environmental Law Implications of Loper Bright, West Virginia, Sackett, and Corner Post” published in the Minnesota Law Review.

Kris Salata, Ph.D. (School of Theatre) authored “The Unwritten Grotowski: Theory and Practice of the Encounter,” published by Routledge for the first time in Greek.

Joseph Watso, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) with the contribution of doctoral candidates Joseph Vondrasek, Christin Domeier and Thomas Bissen co-authored “Central Blood Pressure and Arterial Stiffness Among Ultramarathon Runners Across the Lifespan” published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology.

Joseph Watso, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “Cardiac Responses to Environmental Heat Exposure in Young and Older Adults” published in the Journal of Applied Physiology. He also co-authored “Sodium Intake and Biological Sex Influence Urinary Endothelin-1 in Salt-Resistant Adults: A Pilot Study” published in the American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.

Annie Wofford, Ph.D., Lara Perez-Felkner, Ph.D. and Bret Staudt Willet, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored a research note “Geography of Computing Graduate Degree Opportunities: Examining the Characteristics of Minority-Serving Institutions” published in Research in Higher Education.

Eundeok Kim, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship ) co-authored the book “Teaching Sustainability Competencies Across the Disciplines: A Guide for Instructors (2nd Ed.) published by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

Brenda Wawire, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) co-authored “Competence-Based Curriculum Implementation in Africa: A Scoping Review of Pedagogical and Assessment Practices” published in the Journal of Curriculum Studies.

Melba Marin-Velasquez, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) co-authored “Connecting with Land: Knowledge Production and Transfer in a Maya Tzotzil Muslim Community in Chiapas, Mexico” published in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

Jai Bum Koo, Brenda Wawire, Ph.D. and Adrienne Barnes-Story, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) co-authored “Roles, Relationships, and Experiences among the Stakeholders in the Teaching Practice in Malawi” published in Teaching and Teacher Education. They also co-authored “Teacher Educator Knowledge, Skills, and Self-Efficacy: Systemic Impacts on Initial Teacher Education Program” published in Trends in Higher Education.

Sabrina Dickey, Ph.D., MSN, RN (College of Nursing) and Amy L. Ai, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the article “The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Differences in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Resilience, Altruism, and Substance Use among Black and White Student Volunteers” published in the journal Traumatology.

Nicholas Mazza, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) authored “Poetry Therapy and Death: Professional and Personal Experience” in The Italian Journal of Poetry Therapy. He also authored the Foreword for Anna Liudnova’s “Dialogue with Yourself: Recovery Through Writing;” and “Poetry Therapy Across Boundaries: Finding and Promoting Peace in our World” in the book, “When words heal. The silence echoes,” Italy: Mille Gru Edition.

Michael Killian, Ph.D. (College of Social Work), Yaacov Petscher, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and Nuria Gutierrez, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) co-authored “Quantile Regression in Social Work Research” published in the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research.

Carolina Gonzalez, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) authored the blog “Of Invented Languages” published with Cambridge University Press.

David Newheiser, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) co-edited the collection “Art-Making as Spiritual Practice: Rituals of Embodied Understanding” published as an e-book by Bloomsbury Academic.

Adam Tratner, Ph.D. (Republic of Panama Campus) co-authored and published “A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analysis of Cognitive Function and Well-Being of Older Adults in Panama During the COVID-19 Pandemic” in the journal COVID.

Tanya Renn, Ph.D., Lauren Herod, MSW/MPA and Stephen Tripodi, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the article, “Implementing a Trauma-Informed Intervention in a County Jail: Feasibility Study of STAIR” published in the journal Research on Social Work Practice.

Deb Osborn, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and doctoral candidate Jacob Stamm co-authored “Beyond the Game: Exploring the Interplay of Career Thoughts, Career Adaptability, and Athletic Identity in Shaping Postgraduate Paths for Student Athletes” published in the Journal of Postsecondary School Success. Co-authors include Combined Counseling Psychology and School Psychology Ph.D. alumni Ryan Sides, Ivey Walker and Bobbi Villarreal.

Antonio Terracciano, Ph.D., Martina Luchetti, Ph.D., Angelina R. Sutin, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) and post-doctoral students Selin Karakose, Ph.D., Amanda A. Miller, Ph.D. co-authored “Meta-analyses of Personality Change from the Preclinical to the Clinical Stages of Dementia” published online ahead of print in the journal Ageing Research Reviews.

Geraldine Martorella, Ph.D., (Center for Translational Behavioral Science), Adam Hanley, Ph.D. and Kathryn Muessig, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) co-authored “Patients’ Perception of a Brief Web- and Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Pain Following Discharge After Total Joint Arthroplasty: Qualitative Description” published in JMIR Nursing.

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

Nancy Gerber, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) presented “Transforming through Research. The Future of Art Therapy in a Changing World” at the European Federation of Art Therapy conference in London.

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) co-presented her work “Advancing Nursing Through Translational Workforce Development: An Integrated CTSA System-Level Approach” at the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Nursing Research 40th Anniversary Symposium, Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD.

Amy Magnuson, Ph.D. and Hannah Stone (University Health Services) presented “Strategic Planning, Identifying KPIs, and Performing Leadership Rounds” for college health centers at the American College Health Association Conference.

Adam Hanley, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) presented posters featuring the companion articles “Patients’ Perception of a Brief Web- and Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Pain Following Discharge After Total Joint Arthroplasty: Qualitative Description” and “Online Brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Subacute Pain After Total Hip or Knee Replacement: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial” at the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions in San Diego.

Ben Wicker, Ed.D., M.Ed. and Shannon Staten, Ph.D. (University Housing) presented “A Lesson in Self-assessment and its Impact on the Housing Staff” at the June Association of College & University Housing Officers – International annual conference, Campus Home. LIVE!

Alice Maxwell, MA (DSA Marketing and Communications Office) presented on her article “Exploring a Model for Student Success Communications that Welcomes Collaboration Across Higher Education Divisions” at a webinar hosted by Taylor & Francis, publishers of the UK-based journal “Perspectives: Policy & Practice in Higher Education.”

Shannon Staten, Ph.D. (University Housing) presented “Making 20 New Contacts in an Hour: Connecting with Women Leaders” at the June Association of College & University Housing Officers International conference: Campus Home. LIVE!

Megan Buning, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and sport psychology master’s student Eli Zemach conducted a training for the state of South Carolina’s high school football officials. The presentation focused on training the mental aspects of officiating for approximately 500 football referees.

Shelley Ducatt, Ph.D. (Department of Student Support and Transitions) and Shannon Staten, Ph.D. (University Housing) co-presented “A Student Affairs Coordinated Response to Natural Disasters: Best Practices and Lessons Learned” at the NASPA Region III Summer Symposium.

Nicholas Mazza, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) presented “Poetry Therapy Across Boundaries: Finding and Promoting Peace in Our World” at the First International Poetry Therapy Symposium in Italy. He also presented “Promoting Health and Well-being through Language, Symbol, and Story” to the Korean Poetry Therapy Association and gave the virtual presentation “Poetry Therapy and Bibliotherapy in Clinical Practice” to the Israel Bibliotherapy Center. Mazza also gave two virtual presentations to Ukrainian therapists providing therapy for front-line military and educators, including “Healing through Poems: How to Deal with Trauma Using Poetry Therapy” and “Healing Words: Poetry Therapy Techniques for Resilience and Hope.”

Savannah Collier, MSW and Caroline Senkowicz, MSW, RCSWI (Stoops Center for Communities, Families, and Children) presented “Building Resilience: Harm Reduction Strategies for Preventing Teen Substance Misuse” at the National Association of Social Workers, Florida Chapter Annual Conference.

Karen Geletko, MPH (College of Medicine) presented “The Impact of Secondhand Vape Exposure on Adolescents’ Willingness to Try Vapes” at the National Conference on Tobacco or Health in Chicago, based on research conducted with Jon Mills, Ph.D. and Jeffrey Harman, Ph.D. (College of Medicine).

Yushun Dong, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) presented “Fairness-Aware Graph Learning: A Benchmark” at the 2025 Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery in Data conference in Toronto, Canada.

Barry J. Faulk, Ph.D. (Department of English) co-chaired the roundtable discussion “Dylan versus the Professors: A Roundtable of Teaching Bob Dylan” at The World of Bob Dylan 2025 Conference in July at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma.

Dassani Natera, MSW and Kristin Jordan, MSW, MPA (Stoops Center for Communities, Families, and Children) co-presented “Student to Student: Empowering Young Minds via MSW Student Led Training on Clinical Rebound & Recovery” at the National Association of Social Workers, Florida Chapter Annual Conference.

Tai Cole, MSW and Raegan Hamillton, MSW, RCSWI (Stoops Center for Communities, Families, and Children) co-presented “Cracking the Code: Effective Therapies and Tools for Tackling Behavioral and Emotional Challenges in Young Clients” at the National Association of Social Workers, Florida Chapter Annual Conference.

David Newheiser, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) chaired the online panel “The Crisis of the Humanities — and What We can do About it” for the American Academy of Religion’s (AAR) annual meeting in June as Vice Chair of the AAR’s Committee for the Public Understanding of Religion.

Christopher Mulrooney, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) presented “Pathways to Culture Change Implementation: What Mobilizers & Administrators Can Learn from Each Other” at the annual conference of AgingIN (formerly known as Center for Innovation & Pioneer Network), in St. Louis, Missouri.

Karen Geletko, MPH and Rebecca Carter, LCSW (College of Medicine) co-presented “Enhancing Tobacco Treatment Services in Florida’s Behavioral Health Population” at BH CON 2025, a statewide behavioral health conference presented by the Florida Behavioral Health Association in Orlando.

Marissa Hershon, M.A. (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) was invited to represent The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and speak about the Museum’s growing studio glass collection and The Kotler-Coville Glass Pavilion at the first Curatorial Convening at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York. She was also invited to present a lecture on “María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Berengo Studio: Collaborations in Glass” at the Boca Raton Museum of Art for the special exhibition.

Kevin A. Johnson, Ph.D., F. Andrew Kozel, M.D., (College of Medicine), Psychology doctoral student Megan Senda and medical student Austin M. Spitz presented the poster “Preliminary Analysis of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Treatment Outcomes for Veteran Sexual Assault Victims with MDD and PTSD” and scored in District 19’s Top Ten at the American Psychological Association’s 2025 Conference.

Rhiannon Paget, Ph.D. (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) presented “Real Valor: Staging Seppuku in Meiji Photography and Prints” at “Making it ’Real’: Social and Cultural Transformations across Meiji Japan,” hosted by the East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University.

Delaney W. La Rosa, Ed.D., MSN Ed, RN (College of Nursing) was invited to present a six-part series on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare to the Health Equity Influencers Program for Nurse Educators, hosted by Mercy University.

Ben Wicker (University Housing) presented a session on current issues to a cohort of 60 international housing and residence life professionals at the James C. Grimm National Housing Training Institute at the University of Washington.

Sana Tibi, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “Reading Anxiety in Arabic University Students” at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Conference in Calgary, Canada.

EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

Grace Aneiza Ali, MFA (Department of Art) curated “Amazonia Açu,” a landmark exhibition at the Americas Society in New York, which was featured in Hyperallergic’s New York Fall 2025 Guide.

Tenee Hart, MFA (Department of Art) opened a solo exhibition “…no place like home” at the UCF Art Gallery in Orlando.

Kevin Curry, MFA (Department of Art) installed his piece “Quotidian” with assistance from the Master Craftsman Studio in Tallahassee as part of the Council on Culture & Arts / Tallahassee Downtown Improvement Authority’s Sculpture Scape TLH.

Arianne Johnson Quinn, Ph.D. (College of Music) presented “The Art of Making Art: Establishing a College of Music Archives at Florida State University” at the annual meeting of The International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centers in Salzburg, Austria.

Karen McLaughlin Large, DM and Mary Matthews, DM (College of Music) were invited to perform at the 2025 WindWorks Festival in Husavík, Iceland. They presented a recital for two flutes and electronics that featured two works by FSU student composers “I Like Rollercoasters” by Ky Nam Nguyen and “Things You Can Magnetize” by Brian Juntilla. Both works were composed for the 2024 FSU Festival of Creative Arts in collaboration with the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

and the School of Dance. This was the European premiere of both works. Matthews also gave a masterclass on her book, “Beatboxing & Beyond,” at Tónlistarskólinn á Akureyri.

Alexander Jiménez, DM (College of Music) served as conductor of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) Young Artist Orchestra. Working with FSU alumna and BUTI executive director, Nicole Wendl, MM, Jimenez invited the Marcus Roberts Trio members, Marcus Roberts and Rodney Jordan, (College of Music) with Jason Marsalis to perform their renowned take on George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” Joining Marcus on the drum set was Leon Anderson, Jr., M.A. (College of Music). The concert was held in the Seiji Ozawa Concert Hall on the grounds of the Tanglewood Music Festival, and included the “Negro Folk Symphony” of William Dawson, “The Rhyme of Taigu” by Zhou Long and the Gershwin.

SERVICE

Alissa Costabile, MBA (Inspiring the Generation of New Ideas and Translational Excellence, IGNITE) served as a panelist at the Doolittle Institute Innovation Discovery Event.

Erin Morpeth-Provost, Ph.D. (Counseling & Psychological Services) was selected to serve on the National Register of Health Service Psychologist’s new committee for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies.

Kathryn Keene, DNP, RN, PCCN, CNE (College of Nursing) served as a judge for the Sigma Chapter Key Awards for Sigma International Honorary Nursing Society.

Vilma Fuentes, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) traveled to Bata, Equatorial Guinea as part of the U.S. State Department Speakers Series to lead several workshops in Spanish and English to help the host country improve its educational system.

Nicholas Mazza, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) has been serving as a social work and psychological consultant, therapist, and poet for Ukraine. He is currently serving as a member of Florida State University’s Ukraine Task Force.

Marissa Hershon, M.A. (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) serves on the Decorative Arts Society’s Robert C. Smith Award Committee, which met to make an annual award selection for an outstanding article in the field of decorative arts.

Geoffrey Deibel, Ph.D. (College of Music) served as faculty saxophonist, coach and instructor at the Cortona Sessions for New Music, a 12-day long program in Ede, Netherlands, that pairs performers and composers of contemporary music.

NOTABLE

Jamie Ho, MFA (Department of Art) completed an international residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.

Rabieh Razzouk, MBA, Stephanie Zuilkowski, Ph.D., Carrie Meyers, and Heather French (Learning Systems Institute) completed work on the “Coordinated Screening and Progress Monitoring” grant from the Florida Department of Education.

Vilma Fuentes, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) organized a campus visit for a group of nine senior Ukrainian higher education officials as part of the State Department International Leadership Visitors Program.

Angie Cherry, DNP, RN (College of Nursing) became a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator.

Bhushan Dahal, MBS (Learning Systems Institute) met with Former President of Nepal, Dr. Ram Baran Yada.

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Florida State University’s distinguished faculty are central to the mission of the university. Faculty excellence in scholarship, research, and creative activity is critical to the quality of student learning and makes a difference in the lives of others.

Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across campus. Faculty and Staff Briefs are produced monthly to recognize accomplishments and provide a space where honors, awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased.

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HONORS AND AWARDS

Ayyalusamy “Rams” Ramamoorthy, Ph.D. (FAMU-FSU College of Engineering) was awarded the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) fellowship for his groundbreaking research on Alzheimer’s, Type 2 Diabetes and Parkinson’s disease.

Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FAAN (College of Nursing), has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Heart Failure Society of America’s (HFSA) Nursing Research Leadership Award to be presented in September at the HFSA’s annual conference in Minneapolis.

Casey Rust, M.D. (College of Medicine) was honored with a United Hero Award by UnitedHealthcare, based on high scores from patients surveyed after being treated at a faculty clinic run by the college’s Florida Medical Practice Plan.

GRANTS

Shonda Bernadin, Ph.D. (FAMU-FSU College of Engineering) received a $10,000 AMIE Innovation Investment Award from Boeing to further drone research. Bernadin will lead the Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Mentoring Program’s RF Sensor Drone Payload Summer Project.

Bayaner Arigong, Ph.D. (FAMU-FSU College of Engineering) received a $7,000 AMIE Innovation Investment Award from Boeing to further research in wireless communication systems. Arigong’s research focuses on beamforming technology, specifically developing a new type of phased array capable of operating across a wide frequency range from 2 to 18 GHz.

Andrea Barton-Hulsey, Ph.D. and Michelle Therrien, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) received a $5 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to fund the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Augmentative and Alternative Communication.

Kelly Farquharson, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) was awarded a $12,500 grant from the Institute for Pediatric Rare Diseases for her work “Developing the Scoring for Expressive Evaluation and Diagnosis paradigm for pediatric speech disorders.”

Yushun Dong, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) received a $600,000 National Science Foundation grant for the project, “Secure Machine Learning as a Service for Collaborative Scientific Research.”

Choogon Lee, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) was awarded a one-year grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study the genetic basis of circadian rhythms and sleep disorders.

Yang Hou, Ph.D., and Angelina Sutin, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) were awarded a three-year grant by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, endorsed by the Department of Defense, to study daily patterns and predictors of cognitive function in middle-aged and older adults with neurofibromatosis Type 1.

Jarrod Mousa, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) is a co-Principal Investigator (PI) on a grant to study increasing the protective capacity of antibodies by enhancing Fc-mediated responses awarded to the University of Georgia.

Xiaonan Zhang, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) received a $200,000 National Science Foundation grant from the Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace program.

BYLINES

Ravinder Nagpal, Ph.D. and Chester Ray, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “Microbiome-based Therapeutics Towards Healthier Aging and Longevity,” published in Genome Medicine.

Joseph Watso, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and doctoral student Joseph Vondrasek co-authored “Advanced Phenotyping in Patients with a Fontan Circulation Uncovers Effects of Pulmonary Vascular Disease,” published in Heart and Circulatory Physiology.

Annie Wofford, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and doctoral candidate Holly Henning co-authored “We Can Change the Culture through Those Individual Engagements: Social Exchange and Equity-Mindedness in STEMM Doctoral Students’ Roles as Mentors,” published in Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education.

Annie Wofford, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “Building Transfer Student Interest in Computer Science Ph.D.s: Examining an Advising Intervention Using a Staged Innovation Design,” published in Research in Higher Education.

Lakeisha Johnson, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) authored the poster “Educators’ Knowledge of Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorders” and coauthored the poster “Understanding Social Risk and Resilience in Urban and Rural Areas” at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Conference in Calgary, Canada.

Russell Clayton, Ph.D. (School of Communication) authored “’What Can the Heart Tell Us About Thinking?’ A Three-Decade Review of Heart Rate Measurement and Its Future Applications to Advertising Research,” published in the Journal of Advertising.

Changhyun (Lyon) Nam, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship) published “Cradle to Cradle Footwear Design Model: Bio-Based Material Shoes and Wearer’s Perceptions and Acceptance” in the journal in Fashion and Practice.

Mollie Romano, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) and graduate students Diana Abarca and Frances Baehman authored “A Low-Cost, Social Media–Supported Intervention for Caregivers to Enhance Toddlers’ Language Learning: Mixed Methods Feasibility and Acceptability Study,” published in JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting.

Kathleen P. Wilson, Ph.D., APRN, CPNP, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, FAANP, FNAP, DipACLM (College of Nursing), co-authored “Boot Camp: Preparing the Next Generation of Nurse Practitioners,” published in the Journal for Nurse Practitioners.

Freddy Juarez, MS, Jarred Pernier, M.Ed. and Brittany Devies, Ph.D. (Fraternity and Sorority Life) co-authored “Organizational Change Framework: Navigating Change for Individuals and Organizations” in New Directions for Student Leadership.

Nadia Banteka, J.D., LL.M., LL.B. (College of Law) authored “Police Vigilantism” in the Virginia Law Review.

Jake Linford, J.D. (College of Law) co-authored a new Open-Source Contracts Casebook, a major scholarly milestone several years in the making.

Stephanie Zuilkowski, Ph.D. and Adrienne Barnes-Story, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) co-authored “Pre-service Teacher Education – The Linchpin for Embedding Sustainable, Scalable Change in Education Systems,” published by What Works Hub for Global Education.

Eundeok Kim, Ph.D. (College of Entrepreneurship) co-authored “Using Artificial Intelligence in Sustainability Teaching and Learning” published in the journal Environmental Sciences Europe.

Cathy McClive, Ph.D. (Department of History) co-authored the article, “Women at the Centre: Medical Entrepreneurialism and ‘La Grande Médecine’ in Eighteenth-Century Lyon,” which won Nursing Clio’s 2025 Best Article Prize for scholarship on women’s historical contributions to the field of medicine.

Bonnie Spring, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) was the principal investigator (PI) and a co-author of “Effects of a Physical Activity mHealth Intervention (Fit2Thrive) on WCRF/AICR Cancer Prevention Score among Breast Cancer Survivors: A Secondary Data Analysis,” published in Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers. She was also PI and a co-author of “How Community-Based Organizations View and Use Data: Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities,” published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. In addition, she was PI and a co-author of “Speaking of Survival: Oncologists’ Approaches to Risk Behavior Conversations with Cancer Survivors,” published in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship.

Mary Gerend, Ph.D. (College of Medicine), Farnaz Solatikia, Ph.D. (Office of the Vice President for Research) and doctoral student Christina T. Myers authored “Using Cancer Survivor Narratives to Increase Parents’ Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Intentions,” published in Health Psychology.

William Bobo, M.D., MPH (College of Medicine) published “Prenatal Antidepressant Exposure and Risk of Depression and Anxiety Disorders: An Electronic Health Records-Based Cohort Study” in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

Boris Kantor, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) co-authored “SNCA-targeted Epigenome Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease Alleviates Pathological and Behavioral Perturbations in a Mouse Model,” published in bioRXiv. He also co-authored “Trends and Challenges of AAV-delivered Gene Editing Therapeutics for Unmet Needs in CNS Disorders: Implications for Neurodegenerative Disease,” published in Molecular Therapy – Nucleic Acids.

Thesla Berne-Anderson, Ed.D., Aihua Wang, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) and doctoral student Benjamin Linkous co-authored “Shaping the Future Clinical Trial Workforce Through Early Educational Programs,” published in Clinical Researcher.

Cyneetha Strong, M.D., George Whiddon, M.D., Christopher Mulrooney, Ph.D. and Alma Littles, M.D. (College of Medicine) co-authored a letter to the editor in Hepatology Communications in response to “Population Screening for Cirrhosis,” describing the Florida Healthy Liver Program.

Robert Hickner, Ph.D. and Mostafa Ali, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “Creatine Monohydrate Supplementation and NOX Impact Skeletal Muscle Microvascular Blood Flow: A Pilot Study” alongside co-authors, including postdoctoral researcher alumni Paul Baker, Holly Clarke, and Cesar Meza.

Feng Bao, Ph.D. (Department of Mathematics) and Hristo Chipilski, Ph.D. (Department of Scientific Computing) co-authored the article “Nonlinear Ensemble Filtering with Diffusion Models: Application to the Surface Quasigeostrophic Dynamics,” published in the American Meteorological Society’s Monthly Weather Review journal.

Rosemary Kellison, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) co-authored the book, “Solidarity and Power Feminist Approaches to Religious Ethics” published by Bloomsbury.

Judith Pascoe, Ph.D. (Department of English) authored “A Good Mother Is Hard to Find” about American novelist Flannery O’Connor’s mother, published in the summer issue of the Georgia Review.

Tanya Peres, Ph.D. (Department of Anthropology) co-authored the chapter, “Turkey Management and Use in the Eastern Woodlands of North America,” in the book, “Exploring the History of Turkey Management and Domestication: A Transatlantic Perspective” about the history of turkey management and domestication, published by the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

Hugh Catts, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “A Computer Adaptive Measure of Word Reading Ability” at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Conference in Calgary, Canada.

Shannon Hall-Mills, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “The Impact of Educational Supports and Adjustments on Academic Achievement in Students with Developmental Language Disorder” at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Conference in Calgary, Canada.

Kathleen Powers Conti, Ph.D. (Department of History) presented her research on documenting historic vernacular community spaces at the annual Vernacular Architecture Forum conference in Wilmington, Delaware, in May.

Sana Tibi, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “Reading Anxiety in Arabic University Students” at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Conference in Calgary, Canada.

Carla Wood, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “Morphological Analysis Pathway to Reading” at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Conference in Calgary, Canada.

Ebe Randeree, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) presented “What Skills are Tech Employers Looking for?,” “Leadership Development through Student Engagement,” and “Building Effective Advisory Board” at the 59th Annual Florida Association for Career and Technical Education Conference and Trade Show in Orlando, FL.

Frank (“Frankie”) Y. Wong, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) presented “What to and How to Measure” at the XV International Conference in Memory of Dr. Alan Gabster in Santiago, Panamá. He also presented “The ABCs of the Social Determinants of Health” at the same conference.

Tingting Liu, Ph.D., RN, FAAN (College of Nursing) presented “The Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Cerebrovascular Health Among Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes” at the Advent Health Research Institute.

Kathleen P. Wilson, Ph.D., APRN, CPNP, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, FAANP, FNAP, DipACLM and Alicia Craig-Rodriguez, DNP, MBA, APRN, FNP-BC, DipACLM (College of Nursing) co-presented “Happiness for the Health of it!” as a podcast at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Kathleen P. Wilson, Ph.D., APRN, CPNP, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, FAANP, FNAP, DipACLM (College of Nursing) presented “Type 2 DM in CKD: Improving Cardio-Renal Outcomes” at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners National Conference in San Diego, CA. She also presented “Management Considerations of the Elder Diabetes Patient” at the same conference.

Kathleen P. Wilson, Ph.D., APRN, CPNP, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, FAANP, FNAP, DipACLM and Alicia Craig-Rodriguez, DNP, MBA, APRN, FNP-BC, DipACLM (College of Nursing), presented “NP Practice with Vitality: Integrating Positive Psychology into Care” at the Florida Nurse Practitioner Network Statewide quarterly Webinar.

Kathleen P. Wilson, Ph.D., APRN, CPNP, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, FAANP, FNAP, DipACLM (College of Nursing) conducted the boot camp workshop “Preparing the Next Generation of Nurse Practitioners” for the Florida Nursing Practitioner Network Continuing Education Platform.

Anissa Ford, MA (Career Center) was a panelist for the June virtual session “Writing a Strong Conference Proposal” for Southern Association of Colleges & Employers.

Mackenzie Fisher, MS (Career Center) presented “Helping Helicopter Parents Land: Strategies for Navigating Parental Involvement in Career Advising Sessions” at the National Career Development Association Global Conference.

Casey Dozier, Ph.D., Shawn Einarson, MS (Career Center) and graduate assistant Danny Chiarodit co-presented “Revolutionizing Career Development: Leveraging AI in Career Advising, Teaching and Daily Practices” at the National Career Development Association Global Conference.

Casey Dozier, Ph.D. (Career Center) co-presented “Self-Care and Autonomy: Recognizing the Role Each Plays in Career Decision Making” at the National Career Development Association Global Conference.

Alice Maxwell, MA (Division of Student Affairs Marketing and Communications) presented “Strategic Marketing in Student Affairs for Student Success” at the 2025 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators National Conference on Student Success in Higher Education in Denver, Colorado.

Bonnie Spring, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) presented “Research Design and Methods in Behavioral Medicine” at the NIH-sponsored Behavioral and Sleep Medicine Summer Institute held at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She also gave the lecture “Navigating the Gap: Where mHealth Meets Real-World Implementation Challenges” and served as an on-site mentor to faculty selected to join the NIH-sponsored Mobile Health Technology Institute held at UCLA in Los Angeles.

Julie Decker, M.Ed. (Division of University Advancement) co-presented “Rethinking Engagement: Data-Informed Strategies for a Changing Advancement Landscape” at the CASE Summit for Leaders in Advancement in New York City.

Jenny Root, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was the keynote speaker at the 2025 PATTAN Math Conference. Her presentation, “Making Math Meaningful, Accessible, and Joyful,” explored common instructional barriers to mathematical proficiency and their impact on student learning and motivation.

Alda Balthrop-Lewis, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) presented “What Is an Archive and Why Do We Go There?” at the International Thomas Merton Society 19th meeting. He also presented “The Calligraphy of Snow and Rock and Sky” at Regis University in Denver, Colorado.

Hongyuan Cao, Ph.D. (Department of Statistics) presented “Testing Composite Null Hypotheses with High-Dimensional Dependent Data” at the NSF@75: Advancing Statistical Science for a Data‑Driven World conference hosted by the American Statistical Association.

Yushun Dong, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) presented “Harnessing Large Language Models for Disaster Management: A Survey” at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Vienna, Austria. He also presented “CEGA: A Cost-Effective Approach for Graph-Based Model Extraction Attacks” and “Towards Global-level Mechanistic Interpretability: A Perspective of Modular Circuits of Large Language Models” at the Forty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning in Vancouver, Canada, and “ATOM: A Framework of Detecting Query-Based Model Extraction Attacks for Graph Neural Networks” and “A Survey on Model Extraction Attacks and Defenses for Large Language Models” at the same conference as a corresponding author.

Suzanne Sinke, Ph.D. (Department of History) presented “The Framing of U.S. Immigration Policy: A Familiar or Exclusionary Lens?” as a part of the Colloquium for North American History at the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen in Germany. She also gave a guest lecture, “A Family in Flight:  Expressing and Hiding Emotions in the Shadow of Hitler,” at the University of Augsburg in Germany.

Anuj Srivastava, Ph.D. (Department of Statistics) presented “Statistical Analysis of Complex Image Data: Applications in Medicine; Biology; and Beyond” at the NSF@75: Advancing Statistical Science for a Data‑Driven World conference hosted by the American Statistical Association.

Xin Henry Zhang, Ph.D. (Department of Statistics) presented “Tensor and Subspace Learning Methods with Applications to Medical Imaging” at the NSF@75: Advancing Statistical Science for a Data‑Driven World conference hosted by the American Statistical Association.

Rick Burnette, Ph.D. and James Hunt, Ph.D. (Office of the Provost ) presented “Designing Intelligence: Reimagining IR and Analytics for a Data-Engaged Campus” at the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities’ (APLU) Commission on Information, Measurement, and Analysis (CIMA) at their Summer Meeting in Washington, DC.

Paul Marty, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) co-presented “Leading the AI Revolution: Case Studies and Strategies for Campus-Wide Integration of Generative AI in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership” at the APLU’s CIMA at their Summer Meeting in Washington, DC.

Heather Epstein-Diaz (Office of Institutional Research) co-presented ” Cultivating Data Resiliency Through Literacy, Governance, and Collaboration” at the APLU’s CIMA at their Summer Meeting in Washington, DC.

Paul Marty, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) and Rick Burnette, Ph.D. (Office of the Provost) co-led the panel “CIMA Panel: Collaboration Between Traditional Data Offices and Academic Innovation Offices” at the APLU’s CIMA at their Summer Meeting in Washington, DC.

SERVICE

Kelly Farquharson, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) was recently appointed as the chair of the Scientific and Professional Education Board for the American Speech Language Hearing Association.

Michelle Torres-Chavarro, Ph.D. and Carla Wood, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) led a team of graduate students on the Team Enhanced Outcomes grant to a children’s hospital in David, Provincia de Chiriqui, Panama, to engage children with rare diseases in language enrichment activities.

Allison Justice, MMS PA-C (College of Medicine) was elected to the Florida Academy of Physician Assistants Board of Directors as the northwest Florida regional director and to the 2025-2026 American Academy of Physician Assistants House of Delegates.

Julie Decker, M.Ed. (Division of University Advancement) served on the summit planning committee of the CASE Summit for Leaders in Advancement in New York City. She was also elected “President-Elect” of the Council for Alumni Association Executives (CAAE) at their Summer Institute held in conjunction with Summit. She has served as the CAAE winter and summer institute co-chair for two years.

Rachel C. S. Duke, Ph.D. (University Libraries) was selected to serve a two-year term as the Associate Editor for “Case Studies on Teaching with Primary Sources”, a peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Reference, Access, and Outreach Section of the Society of American Archivists (SAA).

Charles McMartin, Ph.D. (Department of English) was selected to participate in the 2025-2027 research seminar “Learning on Location: Place-Based Pedagogies in Higher Education” sponsored by Elon University’s Center for Engaged Learning.

Lauren Haughton Gillis, MFA (School of Theatre) was elected president of the Music Theatre Educators Association and will assume the position in January 2026.

Laurel Harbin, Ph.D., AICP, LEED-AP (Academic Affairs) was selected to serve on the 2025 American Planning Association Education Committee, joining the ranks of certified planning practitioners and university faculty across the U.S. in a strategic initiative to narrow the skills gap in response to emerging trends and technologies.

NOTABLE

Dalisha D. Herring, Ph.D. (College of Business) accepted an invitation to teach three classes at the Florida Bankers Association’s Florida Trust and Wealth Management School, a nationally renowned three-year program that gives students a well-rounded and practical understanding of the trust and wealth management industry.

Mafé Brooks, Michelle Kazmer, Ph.D., Stephen McDowell, Ph.D. and Jaejin Lee, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) hosted an alumni reception in Seoul, South Korea.

Kaylee Webb, MS (Career Center) earned a Certificate in Interpersonal Communication from Tallahassee State College. Additionally, she completed “Tune In to Strive Out Career Wellness Program Facilitator Institute” certification in June from the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions. Kaylee was also recently chosen to join Ascend, A Practitioner Mid-Level Management Program, by the Cooperative Education and Internship Association Academy.

Amanda Tazaz, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) completed the second summer of her project “Bridging the Gap into the Geosciences,” offering pre-college students an exciting opportunity to explore careers in geoscience through a dynamic summer camp at the Boys and Girls Club of the Big Bend. More than 50 teens participated in the program.

Bhushan Dahal, MBS (Learning Systems Institute) led and participated in the “Educational Conference on Enabling Innovations in Education Planning and Implementation” hosted by Kathmandu Metropolitan City Office. 

Celia Reddick, Ph.D., Julie Twomey, M.Ed., and Brenda Wawire, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) completed 36 interviews with refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Syria. Of those interviews, 27 were with refugee children and 9 were with their parents and other caregivers as part of their “Strengthening School Experiences for Refugee Young People, Families and Their Teachers in Tallahassee” project.

Lakesia Dupree, Ph.D., Odalis Tavares, Ed.D., and Amanda Tazaz, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) spent two weeks working with educators in Hillsborough County on the Successful Start: Cognitively Guided Instruction year 2 program.

Vilma Fuentes, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) traveled to Yerevan, Armenia to implement a project promoting STEM and Social Entrepreneurship through a collaboration between LSI, the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship and the Armenian State University of Economics.

Lauren Haughton Gillis, MFA (School of Theatre) organized and participated in a virtual panel “Navigating the Stage: Training Musical Theatre Swings and Understudies” at the Music Theatre Educators Association Summer Symposium.

Kathleen Powers Conti, Ph.D. (Department of History) served on the Bishir Prize Committee for the Vernacular Architecture Forum. The Catherine W. Bishir Prize is awarded to the scholarly article from a juried North American publication that made the most significant contribution to the study of vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes. The committee looks at how the article breaks new ground in interpretation or methodology and contributes to the intellectual vitality of vernacular studies.

Paul Renfro, Ph.D. (Department of History) signed a two-book deal with Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company. The first book, “Those Fearful Days,” is a work of historical true crime focused on the 1979-1981 Atlanta youth murders. The second, “The Passion of Matthew Shepard,” situates Shepard’s life and 1998 murder within the broader history of the LGBTQ+ movement in the United States.

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Florida State University’s distinguished faculty are central to the mission of the university. Faculty excellence in scholarship, research, and creative activity is critical to the quality of student learning and makes a difference in the lives of others.

Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across campus. Faculty and Staff Briefs are produced monthly to recognize accomplishments and provide a space where honors, awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased. 

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HONORS AND AWARDS

Kathleen P. Wilson, Ph.D., APRN, CPNP, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, FAANP, FNAP, DipACLM (College of Nursing) has been selected as part of the Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing’s 2025 class of fellows — the largest and most distinguished cohort in the organization’s history. This prestigious honor recognizes her significant contributions to nursing education, practice and leadership, and her ongoing impact on health care through excellence and innovation.  

Irvin Clark, Ed.D. (FSU Panama City) received the Communication and Leadership Award from Toastmasters International District 77. He was recognized because his “dedication and service to your community exemplify the highest standards of excellence and integrity, aligning perfectly with the Toastmasters mission.” District 77 includes Alabama, Northwest Florida and Southeast Mississippi. 

Nicole Bentze, D.O. (College of Medicine) was honored with a 2025 Exceptional Mentor Award at the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) 110th Annual Meeting, held in conjunction with the Women in Healthcare World Congress in Boston, MA. 

Ericka Horne, DrPH, MPH, CHES (College of Medicine) was named 2025 Outstanding Doctoral Student for the FAMU College of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences’ Institute of Public Health.

GRANTS

Karen Works, Ph.D. (FSU Panama City) was awarded a Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing Curriculum Development and Educational Resources PDC Curriculum Early Adopter Grant, which includes summer training at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. 

Guang Wang, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) was awarded the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot Award, which he will use to conduct research on privacy-preserving generative AI. NAIRR Pilot awards are a joint effort led by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in collaboration with other U.S. federal agencies to provide key AI resources and data. 

BYLINES

Adam Tratner, Ph.D. (FSU Republic of Panama) coauthored and published the article “The Impact of APOE ε4 on Neuropsychological Test Performance in Hispanics: The Panama Aging Research Initiative — Health Disparities Study” in the journal Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders. 

Henry Zhuhao Wang, J.D., LL.M., S.J.D. (College of Law) published “Asynchronous Trials: A New Approach to High-Volume Civil Adjudication” in the Denver Law Review. 

Bodunrin Akinrinmade, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) coauthored “Social Equity and Representative Bureaucracy: The Case of Nigeria’s Federal Character Principle,” published by Public Administration. 

Kathy Trang, Ph.D., Casey D Xavier Hall, Ph.D., MPH, John (“Jack”) P. Barile, Ph.D. (Center of Population Sciences for Health Empowerment) Frank (“Frankie”) Y. Wong, Ph.D., Liying Wang, Ph.D., Eugenia F Millender, Ph.D., RN, MS, PMHNP‑BC, FAAN (College of Nursing) and doctoral candidate Crim Sabuncu (College of Social Work) coauthored “Identifying Subgroups of Intersectional Stigma, Discrimination, and the Association with Mental Health Outcomes Among HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Latent Class Analysis” in the journal AIDS and Behavior. 

Brenda Wawire, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) coauthored volume two of the book “Hujambo! A Standards-Based Approach to Introductory Kiswahili,” released by the Kansas University Resource Language Center. 

Tarez Samra Graban, Ph.D. (Department of English) wrote the chapter “Thinking Different: Exchanging Archival Data across Transnational Time and Space” in the book, “Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric,” published by Routledge.  Graban also authored the essay “Recovering ‘The Commons’ between Diversity Agendas,” published in the Rhetoric Society Quarterly, the official journal of the Rhetoric Society of America. 

Matthew Patience, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) coauthored the article “Assessing L1 Mandarin and L2 English influence on the L3 production of French obstruent coda voicing,” published in Second Language Research. 

Richard Wagner, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology) coauthored “The Home Literacy Environment and Reading Development of Children With and Without Learning Disabilities,” published in Developmental Science. 

Tehila Nugiel, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology) coauthored “Longitudinal Associations Between Birth-to-Six Cortical Growth and Childhood Neurocognitive Function,” published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 

Selin Karakose, Ph.D., Martina Luchetti, Ph.D., Angelina Sutin, Ph.D. and Antonio Terracciano, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) coauthored “Marital Status and Risk of Dementia Over 18 Years: Surprising Findings from the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center,” published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia. 

Timothy Baghurst, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) coauthored “A Case for Thinking About Thinking in Sports Coaching: Understanding Situated Cognition as a Means to Inform Coaching Practice,” published in the International Sport Coaching Journal. 

Robert Reardon, Ph.D., Stephen Leierer, Ph.D., Debra Osborn, Ph.D. and Gary Peterson, Ph.D. (Career Center) coauthored “Using the Career State Inventory to Evaluate Career Interventions,” published in the National Association of Colleges and Employers Journal. 

Artur Queiroz,  Ph.D., BSN, MS, Liying Wang, Ph.D., Frank (“Frankie”) Y. Wong, Ph.D. (College of Nursing), Casey D. Xavier Hall, Ph.D., MPH, Hyeouk “Chris” Hahm, Ph.D., LCSW, John (“Jack”) P. Barile, Ph.D. and research scientist Dong H. Cheung (Center of Population Sciences for Health Empowerment) coauthored “Risk and Resilience Trajectories from Adverse Childhood Experience Among Men who have Sex with Men Living with HIV” published in the journal Behavioral Medicine. 

Alice Maxwell, MA., Suzan Kurdak, Emma Massaglia and Alycia Malicz (Division of Student Affairs Marketing and Communications) coauthored “Creating Connection Through Collaborative, Integrated Communications to Boost Student Engagement Journey,” published in the Journal of Educational Advancement & Marketing and will be included in The Business and Management Collection online database. 

Tingting Liu, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, Hongyu Miao, Ph.D. (College of Nursing), Colm G. Connolly, Ph.D. (College of Medicine), Michael J. Ormsbee, Ph.D., FACSM, FISSN, CSCS (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) coauthored “12-Year Physical Activity Trajectories and Epigenetic Age Acceleration Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults” published in the journal Biological Research for Nursing. 

Laurie Abbott, Ph.D., RN, DipACLM, CNE, PHNA-BC, FAAN, Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FAAN (College of Nursing) and Jessica De Leon, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) coauthored an article “Impact of a Web-Based Lifestyle Medicine Intervention: A Qualitative Study Among Rural Participants,” published in the Nursing Reports journal. 

Adam Hanley, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) co-published a study “Mindful Jazz and Preferred Music Interventions Reduce Pain Among Patients with Chronic Pain and Anxiety: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial” in the journal Cureus. Hanley also recently published the study “242 – Single-Session Group Breathwork Intervention for Adults with Chronic Pain: A proof-of-concept study of Guided Respiration Mindfulness Therapy,” investigating a novel breathwork-based treatment for chronic pain known as Guided Respiration Mindfulness Therapy (GRMT), developed by Dr. Lloyd Lalande of New Zealand. As part of the project, Dr. Lalande and Dr. Steve Pratscher from the University of Florida visited our facility at Innovation Park, where they administered the two-hour, single-session intervention to a pilot group of patients living with chronic pain. 

Frank (“Frankie”) Y. Wong, Ph.D., Eugenia F Millender, Ph.D., RN, MS, PMHNP‑BC, FAAN (College of Nursing), Casey D Xavier Hall, Ph.D., MPH (Center of Population Sciences for Health Empowerment) and doctoral candidate Beth Okantey (College of Social Work) coauthored “How U.S. Social Work Students are Prepared to work with Culturally Diverse Individuals: A Scoping Review of Constructs and Interventions” published in the journal Social Work Education. 

Brittany L. Lane, Ph.D., MPH, Yijiong Yang, Ph.D., MHA, Setor Sorkpor, Ph.D., MPH, MSN, RN-BC, Eugenia F. Millender, Ph.D., RN, MS, PMHNP‑BC, FAAN, Frank (“Frankie”) Y. Wong, Ph.D. (College of Nursing), Casey D Xavier Hall, Ph.D., MPH (Center of Population Sciences for Health Empowerment) and doctoral candidates Crim Sabuncu and Beth Okantey (College of Social Work) coauthored “Discrimination and mental health Among Black and Latino People Living with HIV: Understanding the Role of Religion and Spirituality” published in the journal AIDS and Behavior. 

Brittany L. Lane, Ph.D., MPH, Eugenia F. Millender, Ph.D., RN, MS, PMHNP‑BC, FAAN, Frank (“Frankie”) Y. Wong, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) Casey D. Xavier Hall, Ph.D., MPH (Center of Population Sciences for Health Empowerment) and doctoral candidate Rachel M. Harris (College of Social Work) coauthored “Neighborhood Deprivation, Trauma Profiles, Coping, and Stress Prospectively Predict Depressive Symptoms Among Young African American Mothers in the InterGEN Study: A Latent Class Analysis” published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 

Bruce Thyer, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) coauthored the article “Promoting Policy Practice Among Social Work Students: A Review of Outcome Studies,” published in the Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare. 

Frank (“Frankie”) Y. Wong, Ph.D., Brittany L Lane, Ph.D., MPH, Eugenia F Millender, Ph.D., RN, MS, PMHNP‑BC, FAAN, Artur Queiroz,  Ph.D., BSN, MS (College of Nursing), Casey D. Xavier Hall, Ph.D., MPH, John (“Jack”) P. Barile, Ph.D., Zhuo Meng, Ph.D., and research scientist Dong H. Cheung (Center of Population Sciences for Health Empowerment), Jung H. Kim, Ph.D. and doctoral candidates Beth Okantey and Crim Sabuncu (College of Social Work) coauthored “Mediating Roles of Social Support in Lives of Men Who Have Sex with Men Living with HIV” in the journal Health Psychology. 

Qiuchang (Katy) Cao, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) coauthored the article “Mental Health Help-Seeking Among Asian Older Adults in the United States: A Scoping Review” published in the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Diversity in Social Work. Cao also coauthored the article “Social Network as an Engagement Approach in Child Maltreatment Prevention Programs: A Scoping Review,” published in Research on Social Work Practice.   

Gashaye Tefera, Ph.D., Ponsiano Ngondwe, MSW, MA. and Shelby Varol, MSW (College of Social Work) coauthored the article “Trust Matters: A Qualitative Study on Healthcare Access and Utilization Among African Immigrants in the United States,” published in the Journal of Community Health 

Stanley Gontarski, Ph.D. (Department of English) had his book “Beckett’s Co-Authors: Rewriting Waiting for Godot” published in the “Other Becketts” book series with the Edinburgh University Press. He also published his essay “Looking for Godot” on the Edinburgh University Press publishing blog. Gontarski’s essay on literary theory and contemporary theater, “Multidisciplinary Theory in Theater,” was also published in the book and series “Theory Across Disciplines” with Bloomsbury Publishing. His overview of American publishing house, Grove Press, has been published as “Stanley Gontarski Informs Pat Thomas” in the book “Evergreen Review: Dispatches from the Literary Underground: Covers & Essays 1957-1973.”

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

Whitney Powers and Samantha Keller (Division of University Advancement) presented “From Registration to Reflection: Post-Event Evaluation and Strategic Insights” at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Special Events in Advancement Conference in Nashville. 

Mark Zeigler, MS (College of Business) gave the opening keynote “The Joy of Service” at the Florida City and County Manager’s Association annual convention in Orlando. He also presented “We’ve Been Discussing Emotional Intelligence Since 1995; It’s Time We Used It” at the North American Securities Administrators Broker Training meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. 

Daniel Broxterman, Ph.D., Mariya Letdin, Ph.D., Chongyu Wang, Ph.D. and Tingyu Zhou, Ph.D. (College of Business) demonstrated the depth and impact of FSU’s research at the National Conference of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association in Washington D.C. Collectively, they presented five papers, served as discussants for three others and chaired a conference session. 

Zhe He, Ph.D., Mia A. Lustria, Ph.D., Balu Bhusaran, Ph.D. (School of Information), Dhruv Kale, MS (Institute for Successful Longevity), Zenghao Zhang, MS (Department of Computer Science), Dr. Lisa Granville, M.D. (College of Medicine) and Zhenguang Lu, Ph.D. (Department of Physics) copresented “LabGenie – A Patient-Facing AI-Powered Application for Enhancing Older Adults’ Comprehension of Laboratory Test Results” at the American Medical Informatics Association ® (AMIA) 2025 Informatics Summit in Pittsburgh, PA.  

Rachel Bailey, Ph.D. (College of Communication & Information) presented “‘It’s Just Wrong!’ Can We Decrease People’s Disgust Response to Lab-Grown Meat?” and moderated the session “Eating Disorders and Media Content” at the International Communication Association (ICA) Conference in Denver, Colorado. 

Russell Clayton, Ph.D. (School of Communication) presented “An Examination of Oral Nicotine Pouch Current-Users’ Psychophysiological and Self-Report Responses to Anti-Oral Nicotine Pouch Videos on TikTok” and “Under the ‘Zynfluence:’ A Psychophysiological and Self-Report Investigation of Influencer Promotion of Oral Nicotine Pouches on TikTok” at the ICA Conference in Denver, Colorado. 

Arienne Ferchaud, Ph.D. and Jennifer Proffitt, Ph.D. (School of Communication) presented “Exploring How Actual Play Viewers Navigate PSRs with Players and Characters” at the ICA Conference in Denver, Colorado.   

Yin Yang, Ph.D. (School of Communication) presented “Not All Stories Are Viewed the Same: Examining Perceived Narrativity as a Mediator of Period Poverty Narrative Effects” at the ICA Conference in Denver, Colorado. 

Anel Brandl, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) presented her coauthored book, “Estamos Aquí! Comunidades Bilingües e Identidades Regionales de los Estados Unidos” at the 29th Conference on Spanish in the United States at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Brandl also presented her co-authored book at the 12th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. 

Jessika Valentine, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) presented the paper “Bridges of Meaning: Connecting Through the Familiar” at the Arabic Teachers Council’s Summer Institute webinar in New York. 

Alina Dana Weber, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) presented the paper “No Mousy Politics: E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Novella ‘Nussknacker und Mausekönig’” at the 17th Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland.  

Christian Weber, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) presented the paper “Post-Human Metamorphoses into Insects (Goethe, Nietzsche, Kafka)” at the 17th Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. 

Jessica Clark, Ph.D. (Department of Classics) gave the keynote address “Caesar Knows Best? Frontinus on Preemptive Action and Failing in Advance” at the War in the Ancient World International Conference at the University of Minnesota Duluth. 

Andrea De Giorgi, Ph.D. (Department of Classics) organized and copresented “Ten Seasons of Cosa Excavations” and “The Geoarchaeological and Palaeoenvironmental Project in the Coastal Areas Surrounding Cosa” at the Cosa: Past, Present, and Future – A Conference in Honor of Russell T. Scott in Rome, Italy, at the American Academy in Rome and the German Archaeological Institute.  

Victor Patrangenaru, Ph.D. (Department of Statistics) presented his upcoming book “Nonparametric Statistics on Stratified Spaces with Applications to Object Data Analysis” at the Uncertainty in Multivariate, Non-Euclidean, and Functional Spaces: Theory and Practice Workshop at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, England. 

Karen Works, Ph.D. (FSU Panama City) presented at the Western Academy Support and Training Center’s Educator Workshop: Exploring Real-Time Data Analytics Using MongoDB & Tableau Desktop, describing how she is incorporating MongoDB into a state-approved course elective, COP4064: Application Development with Non-Traditional Databases.  

Jenny Root, Ph.D., BCBA (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) gave the keynote lecture “Making Math Meaningful, Accessible, and Joyful” at the 2025 Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network Math Conference. 

Alice Maxwell, MA. and Cassidy Shaw (Division of Student Affairs Marketing and Communications) presented “Say ‘Hello’ to Collaborative Student Marketing, Engagement and Retention” at the CASE Annual Conference for Marketing and Branding Professionals 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Maxwell also served as faculty for the CASE conference, helping with planning, on-sight session hosting and speaking on the panel discussion: “From the Front Lines: Crisis Communication Lessons.” 

Annika Culver, Ph.D. (Department of History) presented “Otaku Culture: Consuming, Collecting, and Comics in Japan from the 1980s to the Present” to the technology company WP Engine in Austin, Texas. 

Ursula K. Weiss, Ph.D. and Katie McDaniel, MPH (College of Medicine) presented the analysis “Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to Explore the Relationship between Disability Status and Mental Health among Florida Adults” in collaboration with the Florida Department of Health Office of Public Health Research at the 2025 Council for State and Territorial Epidemiologists Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

Timothy Baghurst, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) gave the keynote speech “Widening the Lens: Why Sport Specialization isn’t Just an Athlete Problem” at the biannual conference of the Association Internationale des Écoles Supérieures d’Éducation Physique (AIESEP) in Tampa. Baghurst also gave the keynote speech “How our Family Contributes to and Reduces Stress Based on the Experiences of High-Performance Professional Coaches and What that Means for us” at the International Organization of Health, Sports, and Kinesiology’s annual conference in San Francisco, CA. 

Brittney Pieper, MA. (Career Center) presented two roundtables, “The Game Plan: Career Readiness for Student-Athletes” and “Resumes that Win: Application Material for Student-Athletes,” at the Florida Association of Colleges and Employers Annual Conference in Orlando. 

Christy Mantzanas and Li Pon, MA. (Career Center) presented “Summer Career Readiness: Engaging Students in Their Hometowns” at the National Association of Colleges & Employers conference in Philadelphia, PA. 

Felicia Williams, Ph.D., Kyanna Austin and Tatyana Wilson (Student Engagement) presented “Purpose in Practice: Co-Creating the Future of Student Life with Students Through the Lens of Ubuntu and Experiential Learning” at the 2025 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Region III Summer Symposium held in Savannah, GA. 

Lucinda Graven, PhD, APRN, FAHA, FAAN (College of Nursing) was an invited speaker at the “Supportive Palliative Care for Cardiac Patients and Their Families” international workshop held virtually and sponsored by the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing Council International Committee. This workshop brought together experts in the field of palliative care in cardiovascular disease and explored strategies to enhance palliative care for both patients and their families living with cardiovascular disease. 

Alexandra E. Cowan-Pyle, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) presented “Dietary Modeling of Prenatal Dietary Supplements and Research Gaps Using NHANES Data” and served as a panelist on “Real Talk: Navigating Change in the Workplace – Fresh Perspectives, Panel Discussions, and Networking” at the American Society for Nutrition’s annual meeting in Orlando. Cowan-Pyle also presented her research at the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Dietary Supplements Prenatal Dietary Supplement Workshop in Bethesda, MD. 

Alicia Craig-Rodriguez, DNP, MBA, APRN, FNP-BC, DipACLM (College of Nursing), co-presented “Caring for Caregivers: Enhancing Personal and Professional Wellbeing in Academia” at the 2025 Teaching Professor Conference in Washington, DC and Utilizing Food as Medicine in Clinical Practice at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners Annual Conference. She and her co-presenter offered a compelling case for introducing and implementing nutrition prescriptions in practice as first-line interventions in the treatment of preventable chronic diseases. 

Bruce Thyer, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) presented “The Differences Between Real Evidence-Based Practice and Selecting Empirically Supported Interventions” via video seminar to the Evidence into Practice Special Interest Group of the European Social Work Research Association. 

Stanley Gontarski, Ph.D. (Department of English) had his annual lecture translated into Polish and published as “Sztuka Samuela Becketta – Fuzja Teatru, Literatury i Zarządzania” [“The Art of Samuel Beckett: A Fusion of Theatre, Literature and Management”] for the Samuel Beckett Seminar at the University of Gdańsk, in Poland.

Kathleen P. Wilson, Ph.D., APRN, CPNP, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, FAANP, FNAP, DipACLM and Alicia Craig-Rodriguez, DNP, MBA, APRN, FNP-BC, DipACLM (College of Nursing) co-presented “NP Practice with Vitality: Integrating Positive Psychology into Care” on the science of positive psychology and its unique role in enhancing physical, emotional and mental health. They also offered practical strategies for applying evidence-based positive psychology techniques to promote well-being and vitality in clinical practice and improve patient care outcomes, during a presentation to the Florida Nurse Practitioner Network.

Alicia Craig-Rodriguez, DNP, MBA, APRN, FNP-BC, DipACLM (College of Nursing) co-presented “Caring for Caregivers: Enhancing Personal and Professional Wellbeing in Academia” at the 2025 Teaching Professor Conference in Washington, D.C., and “Utilizing Food as Medicine in Clinical Practice” at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners Annual Conference.

PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS

Katie Kehoe, MFA (Department of Art) has a solo exhibition of her work “Time is of the Essence” on display at Gibbs Street Gallery, VisArts, Rockville, MD through July 13, 2025. 

Madeleine Martin, MFA (School of Theatre) is starring in “Uncle Vodka” a new play written by McAdoo Greer and Rebecca Reynolds in New York City. 

Juan Carlos Galeano, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) presented his documentary film “El Río,” followed with a discussion at the 17th Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland.

SERVICE

Dalisha Herring, Ph.D. (College of Business) has been elected to serve as president of the Tallahassee Regional Estate Planning Council. 

Hannah Chronic (Department of Student Support & Transition) was selected to serve on the Alcohol, Other Drug, and Campus Violence Prevention Planning Committee for the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Strategies Planning Conference. 

Debra M Cole, Ed.D., PA-C (College of Medicine) was elected a member of the Florida delegation to the House of Delegates for the Florida Academy of Physician Assistants (PAs) and the American Academy of PAs for the 2025-2026 year. 

Megan Verdoni, MPAS, PA-C (College of Medicine) served as a panel member for the Accreditation Review Commission on Physician Assistant Education (ARC-PA) Accreditation Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Verdoni also organized the inaugural ARC-PA Self-Study regional conference at the college’s Sarasota Regional Campus.   

Rob Hanna, Zaida McGinley, MS., Carrie Myers and Jim Reynolds (Learning Systems Institute) organized and administered eight free professional learning courses to 190 educators across Coastal NWFL as part of the Florida Center for Research in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (FCR-STEM) role on the InSPIRE project. 

Annika Culver, Ph.D. (Department of History) participated on the panel of experts at the “Cold War 2.0? Power and Prudence: Lessons of the Cold War for the 21st Century” conference hosted by the Clements Center for National Security, the University of Texas at Austin Department of History, and the America in the World Consortium at the University of Texas at Austin. 

Ericka Horne, DrPH (College of Medicine) organized and moderated the Florida Public Health Association’s Second Annual Student Conference in Celebration, Florida. 

Tarez Samra Graban, Ph.D. (Department of English) was elected chair of the Global and Non-Western Rhetorics Standing Group of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. 

Guang Wang, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) joined the editorial board of the journal series “Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies” as an associate editor. 

Frank (“Frankie”) Y. Wong, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) moderated a panel at the “United for Resilience” workshop, where experts explored strategies to enhance trauma-informed care for National AAPI Organizations — a critical initiative funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. He also moderated the 16th AIDS Impact Conference in Morocco, facilitating important discussions on advancing HIV/AIDS care worldwide. 

NOTABLE

Stephanie Zuilkowski, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) led the Southern Province data collection team at Rusangu Primary School in Monze, Zambia, to observe and conduct interviews with student teachers as part of a project funded by The Gates Foundation. 

Vilma Fuentes, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) assembled a group of FSU experts who joined a high-level conference with experts from Ukraine to discuss ways to combat human trafficking. The virtual conference, planned by FSU’s Ukraine Task Force and the National Academy of Internal Affairs in Kyiv, brought together experts from both countries. 

Ebe Randeree, Ph.D. (College of Communication & Information) led nine students on a networking trip to Tampa to help them make connections with tech companies in the area. Students on the trip toured Reliaquest, Citibank, and A-Lign, and also attended the Synapse Summit. He also led a team of students to the table at the 2025 Tech Expo at FSU’s Panama City campus. The students ran six tech-based activities to teach K-12 students about technology and tech careers.  

Stephanie Zuilkowski, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) and doctoral candidate Bhushan Dahal joined with The World Bank, The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and The Gates Foundation to open registrations for the “Educators Shaping Futures: A Global Knowledge Exchange on Teacher Preparation and Development” conference in Ethiopia. 

Rachel Duke, Ph.D. (Special Collections & Archives) was selected to develop and teach the course “Rare Books for Archivists” by the Society of American Archivists. Duke has also been named Associate Editor of the Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Collective publication Notes from the Field, a peer-reviewed blog highlighting practical lessons from the front lines of teaching with primary sources.   

Adrienne Barnes-Story, Ph.D., Rabieh Razzouk, MBA. and Gena St. John, MBA (Learning Systems Institute) led seven webinars as part of the University Administration Support Program implemented by the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX). Ten university administrators from Ghana and Nigeria joined their “Improving University Research Administration in Sub-Saharan Africa” workshop. 

Lakesia Dupree, Ph.D., Odalis Tavares, Ed.D., and Amanda Tazaz, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) worked with 30 educators in Hillsborough County on the Successful Start: Cognitively Guided Instruction year 1 program, providing training and support to teachers serving students in foundational grades.   

Laura Redfern, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC (College of Nursing) earned her certification as a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator, a significant achievement that highlights her expertise in health care simulation. 

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Florida State University’s faculty and staff are central to its mission and the key to its countless accomplishments.

Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across campus. Faculty and Staff Briefs are produced monthly to recognize accomplishments and provide a space where honors, awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased.

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HONORS AND AWARDS

Ebrahim Ahmadisharaf, Ph.D. (FAMU-FSU College of Engineering) has been named to the American Society of Civil Engineers Environmental and Water Resources Institute Fellows class of 2025.

Ryan J. Owens, J.D., Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Governance and Civics) was awarded the C. Herman Pritchett Award for his book “Cognitive Aging and the Federal Circuit Courts: How Senescence Influences the Law and Judges.”

Leonardo Liu, Ph.D. (FAMU-FSU College of Engineering) received the 2024 Eberhard F. Mammen Young Investigator Award, a highly prestigious international recognition in the field of thrombosis and hemostasis, by the editorial board of Seminars in Thrombosis & Hemostasis. This distinction honors emerging global leaders whose work advances the scientific understanding of blood clotting mechanisms.

Ebrahim Randeree, Ph.D. (College of Communication & Information) received a 2025 Aspirations in Computing Educator Award from the National Center for Women & Information Technology.

Kacee Reguera (University Libraries) received the Society of Florida Archivists Award of Excellence. The organization noted her excellence in mentoring library staff, major involvement in transitions and critical projects in Special Collections and Archives and her contributions to Society of Florida Archivists (SFA) governance and the SFA Journal.

Rory Grennan, MLIS (University Libraries) has been selected for the 2025 cohort of the Archives Leadership Institute based on his exceptional leadership skills and a strong commitment to the archival profession.

Rachel Bailey, Ph.D. (School of Communication) received the Editor’s Choice of the Year Award from the Journal of Media Psychology (JMP). This is the first time JMP has used this category of award because they have never had a reviewer chosen for their outstanding work by nearly every single editor at JMP.

Suzanne Sinke, Ph.D. (Department of History) was awarded the 2025 German Residency Award from the Organization of American Historians for this summer to teach at the University of Augsburg in Augsburg, Germany, as well as give guest lectures elsewhere.

The FSU Career Center and Michael Reff (Career Center) received the 2025 Best Practices Award for the Experience Recognition Program from the Cooperative Education & Internship Association.

Garret Hall, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) received the Lightner Witmer Award from Division 16 (School Psychology) of the American Psychological Association, which recognizes early career professional and academic school psychologists who have demonstrated scholarship that merits special recognition.

Joseph Watso, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) had an abstract selected as one of the Walter B. Cannon Lecture Abstracts of Distinction for the 2025 American Physiology Summit (APS) and was also the recipient of the American Journal of Physiology- Regulatory and Integrative Physiology Impact Paper Award presented at APS.

Kyle Smith, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was selected as a 2025 Fellow for the Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer Training Workshop funded by the National Cancer Institute.

Donna M. Johnson-Byrd, DNP, RN, NCSN, CNE (College of Nursing) has been awarded a prestigious fellowship with the Golisano Pediatric Nursing Institute of Developmental Disability. This fellowship marks an essential step forward in raising awareness and promoting access to early intervention strategies for children and families in Florida and nationwide.

Steven J. Palazzo, Ph.D., MN, RN, CNE, ANEF (College of Nursing) has been selected as a reviewer for the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education following a highly competitive review of over 500 applicants nationwide.

Yushun Dong, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) was awarded the International Studies Office Graduate Academic Excellence Honors award in May from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Dong was also awarded the Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award at the Engineering School of the University of Virginia.

Li Pon (Career Center) was recognized as a 2025 Cooperative Education & Internship Association fellow at the International Work-integrated Learning Conference held in April in Arizona.

Cathy McClive, Ph.D. (Department of History) coauthored the article “Women at the Centre: Medical Entrepreneurialism and ‘La Grande Médecine’ in Eighteenth-Century Lyon,” which was selected as an honorable mention for the 2025 Koren Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies.

Christopher Okonkwo, Ph.D. (Department of English) had his piece “Akuko na Egwu: Music, a Critically (Un(der)played Leitmotif in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Storytelling” selected as the lead essay in the Summer 2025 publication of Research in African Literatures.

Grace Aneiza Ali, MFA (Department of Art) received the Distinguished Jubilee Award from the Queen’s College of Guyana Alumni, New York Chapter. The award honors eight outstanding alumnae to celebrate 50 years of co-education at Queen’s College of Guyana.

Jiha Moon, MFA (Department of Art) was awarded the 2025 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art by the Orlando Museum of Art. Her work will be showcased in the eleventh edition of the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art exhibition, which exclusively features the ten artists selected for this honor.

GRANTS

Karen Works, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) was awarded a $3,000 National Science Foundation sponsored Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing Curriculum Development and Educational Resources PDC Curriculum Early Adopter Grant and Summer Training Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Jie Chen, Ph.D., RN (College of Nursing) is co-principal investigator on a cutting-edge National Institutes of Health-funded project focused on using Home-Based Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation for pain and symptom management in young adults with irritable bowel syndrome. This project is in collaboration with colleagues at Yale University.

Michael Gubanov, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) received renewal of a grant from the Casey DeSantis Florida Cancer Innovation Fund, overseen by the Florida Department of Health, for his project, “CancerAlKG: a Web-scale Trustworthy Al-Knowledge Graph-LLM hybrid on Cancer, Constructed and Interrogated for Bias,” using deep learning. Gubanov was also awarded an Outstanding PC Chair Award at the 41st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, held in Hong Kong, China.

Maximilian Scholz, Ph.D. (Department of History) was awarded a Franklin grant from the American Philosophical Society for his project, “The Dubious Conversion of Friedrich Staphylus, or How Western Christianity Fractured.” His project studies the relationship between migration and religious conversion using archives in Berlin, Germany.

BYLINES

Michael Killian, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and doctoral students Sonnie Mayewski and Schyler Brummer coauthored “Inter-Dose Variability of Immunosuppressant Medication Among Adolescent Heart Transplants During Video Directly Observed Therapy” in the journal Pediatric Transplantation.

Burcu Izci, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) coauthored “Aligning Early Childhood Science Teaching Beliefs, Practices, and Children’s Learning Outcomes: The Impact of a Professional Development Program” published in Frontiers in Psychology.

Garret Hall, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology) and Matthew Cooper Borkenhagen, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) coauthored “Parallel Models of Reading and Numerical Cognition” published in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Elizabeth Ray, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information), Karen Oehme, JD, Ann Perko, JD, Lyndi Bradley, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and Angi Yoder-Maina, Ph.D. (Resilience Institute for Strength and Empowerment) coauthored the article “Adapting After Adversity: Application and Outcomes from Resilience-Based Curricula” published in the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma.

Eundeok Kim, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship) coauthored “Climate Justice: The Contribution of Higher Education Institutions” published in Discover Sustainability. Kim also authored the chapter “Certified B Corporations as a Driver for Sustainable Development: An Analysis of Innovative Sustainable Business Models in the US” in the book “North American and European Perspectives on Sustainability in Higher Education” as part of the World Sustainability Series for Springer Nature.

Stephanie Zuilkowski, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) coauthored the journal article “Books That Talk About My Dreams: Understanding Children’s Book Access, Preferences, Motivations, and Support at Home and in Nearby Environments in Rwanda” published by the International Literacy Association.

Brenda Wawire, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) coauthored the book “Hujambo! A Standards-Based Approach to Introductory Kiswahili” published by the Kansas University Resource Language Center.

Tricia Montgomery, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) coauthored an article “Navigating Supervisor Expectations and Securing Clinical Placements: A Guide for Practicum Administrator” in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Journals.

Balu Bhasuran, Ph.D. and Zhe He, Ph.D. (School of Information) published “Preliminary Analysis of the Impact of Lab Results on Large Language Model Generated Differential Diagnoses” in Digital Medicine.

Zhe He, Ph.D. (School of Information) coauthored “Synoptic Reporting by Summarizing Cancer Pathology Reports using Large Language Models” in Health Systems.

Mia A. Lustria, Ph.D., Obianuju Aliche, Ph.D., Zhe He, Ph.D. (School of Information) and Michael Killian, Ph.D. (Social Work) copublished “Enhancing Patient Engagement and Understanding: Is Providing Direct Access to Laboratory Results through Patient Portals Adequate?” in JAMIA Open.

Michelle Therrien, Ph.D. and doctoral students Ashley Sellers (School of Communication Science and Disorders) and Peter Marti (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) published a paper “A systematic review of AAC interventions using speech generating devices for autistic preschoolers” in the journal Augmentative and Alternative Communication.

Hristo Chipilski, Ph.D. (Department of Scientific Computing) published “Exact Nonlinear State Estimation” in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences through the American Meteorological Society.

Elizabeth Coggeshall, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) published “Resonant Texts in Noisy Spaces: Approaching the ‘Publics’ of the Public Humanities” in the publications of the Modern Language Association through Cambridge University Press.

Paul Renfro, Ph.D. (Department of History) had an excerpt from his book “The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America” published in Teen Vogue for the 35th anniversary of Ryan White’s passing. He also had his book “The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America” published as an audiobook.

Ravi Howard, Ph.D. (Department of English) published “Mobile’s Forgotten Banana Docks: An Alabama Hub Once Brought the Caribbean Fruit to the Nation” in the Spring Food issue of Oxford American. The article covers the Gulf Coast history of the global banana trade and combines a global perspective with Howard’s family labor history, which inspired the piece.

Corey Moss-Pech, Ph.D. (Department of Sociology) published a new book “Major Trade-Offs: The Surprising Truths about College Majors and Entry-level Jobs” exploring how college majors influence early-career job prospects and challenges common assumptions about the relationship between higher education and the labor market.

Alice Maxwell (Division of Student Affairs Marketing and Communications) wrote the peer-reviewed article “Exploring a Model for Student Success Communications that Welcomes Collaboration Across Higher Education Divisions” in the journal Perspectives: Policy & Practice in Higher Education, published by Taylor & Francis, United Kingdom.

Bryant Harden, Ph.D. (Center for Global Engagement) coauthored “Teaching Feminist Theories” in The Palgrave Handbook on the Pedagogy of International Relations Theory. He also published “Review of Enlightenment and the Gasping City: Mongolian Buddhism at a Time of Environmental Disarray” in the book Mongolian Studies: The Journal of the Mongolia Society, and “Becoming a Global Citizen: The Transformative Power of Study Abroad” within the book How Studying Abroad Changed My Life: Tips and Strategies for a Transformative Experience.

Timothy Baghurst, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) coauthored “‘You Coach Coaches?’ A Rationale for the Coach Developer Role and Practical Guidelines for Effective Working Relationships with Coaches” published in Quest.

Joseph Watso, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) coauthored “Differential Effects of Female Aging on Sympathetic Blood Pressure Regulation at Rest and During Stress in Humans” published in Physiological Reports. His coauthors include exercise physiology Ph.D. candidates Christin Domeier, Thomas Bissen and Joe Vondrasek.

Annie Wofford, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and doctoral candidate Holly Henning coauthored “’We Can Change the Culture Through Those Individual Engagements’: Social Exchange and Equity-Mindedness in STEMM Doctoral Students’ Roles as Mentors,” published in Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education.

Annie Wofford, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) coauthored “Building Transfer Student Interest in Computer Science PhDs: Examining an Advising Intervention Using a Staged Innovation Design,” published in Research in Higher Education.

Frank Y. Wong, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) is the senior author of the seventh edition book “Community Psychology.” This edition offers a clear and engaging overview of community psychology, from foundational concepts to real-world applications in mental health, education and public health. Featuring updated research, expanded theory and reflects the field’s ongoing growth and relevance.

Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FAAN (College of Nursing) is the lead author for “Palliative Care and Advanced Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: Not Just End-of-Life Care,” a groundbreaking American Heart Association Scientific Statement, recently published in the Circulation.

Jie Chen, Ph.D., RN (College of Nursing) coauthored an article, “Sex-Differences in Mothers’ Own Milk and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Preterm Infants,” published in Frontiers in Pediatrics.

Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FAAN, Laurie Abbott, Ph.D., RN, DipACLM, CNE, PHNA-BC, FAAN (College of Nursing) and doctoral student Josef Hodgkins coauthored an article “Supporting Physical and Mental Health in Rural Veterans Living with Heart Failure: Study Protocol for a Nurse-Led Telehealth Intervention” published in JMIR Research Protocols.

Adam Hanley, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) coauthored an article “Positive Emotion Dysregulation in Opioid Use Disorder and Normalization by Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial” published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Marsha E. Hartline, DNP, RN, CNML, CNE, FACHE (College of Nursing) coauthored an article “Exploring the Nonlinear Impact of Emotional Work Demands and Work Passion on Job Satisfaction” published in the Journal of Managerial Psychology.

Jing Wang, Ph.D., MPH, RN, FAAN, Chengdong Li, Ph.D. and Yijiong Yang, Ph.D., MHA (College of Nursing) coauthored an article “Quantifying environmental waste from diabetes devices in the U.S.” published in Diabetes Care.

James Whyte, ND, Ph.D., FNAP, FAAN, Mia Newlin-Bradner, Ph.D., MSN, RN, CNE (College of Nursing) and doctoral student Josef Hodgkins coauthored an article “A Comparative Analysis of Care Seeking Behaviors in People Living with Congestive Heart Failure During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the U.S. and U.K.” published in the Journal of Nursing Education and Practice.

Tracey Dowling, Anissa Ford (Career Center) and two FSU students were interviewed for an article featuring the FSUshadow program, “Where Experiential Learning Doesn’t Break the Bank,” in the Chronicle of Higher Education Special Report: Hands-On Career Preparation.

Kathleen P. Wilson, Ph.D., APRN, CPNP, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, FAANP, FNAP, DipACLM (College of Nursing) coauthored an article “Boot Camp: Preparing the Next Generation of Nurse Practitioners” published in the Journal for Nurse Practitioners.

Changhyun (Lyon) Nam, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship) published “Stacked Crystalline Nanomembrane GaAs/Si Tunnel Diodes on Polypropylene Substrates Derived from Disposable Masks” in Materials Letters by ELSEVIER.

Ibrahim Yigit, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) coauthored an article titled “Association of experienced stigma in healthcare settings with health outcomes among Black women living with HIV: Mediating roles of internalized stigma, anticipated stigma, and trust in HIV care,” published in the journal Social Science & Medicine.

Barbara Parker-Bell, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) had her coauthored book “Art Therapy and Career Counseling Creative Strategies for Career Development Across the Lifespan” translated into Turkish.

Michael Carrasco, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) coauthored the paper “Citizen Science and the Spread of Aulacaspis yasumatsui Takagi on Amami Oshima, Japan,” presented as part of the symposium “Systematics, Biology, Horticulture, and Conservation of Cycads” at the 13th Latin American Congress of Botany in Havana, Cuba.

Erika Loic, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) coedited “La Edad Media Proyectada: El Pasado Medieval Ibérico en la Creación Audiovisual en Lenguas Portuguesa y Española (The Projected Middle Ages: The Medieval Iberian Past in Luso- and Hispanophone Audiovisual Productions).”

Meredith Lynn, MFA (Department of Art) had her book “Bad Outdoorsmen” featured in “10 Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer” by Hyperallergic magazine, an online art magazine.

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

Perry Wisinger, Ph.D. (College of Business) presented “Kenyan Elephants and United Nations Trade Policy” at the Midwest Political Science Association held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago.

Sonia Cabell, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) presented multiple studies at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference. These presentations included “Investigating Teacher Knowledge and Adaptability: Enhancing Literacy Outcomes in K-3 Students;” “Exploring Determinants of Kindergarten Teachers’ Implementation of a Widely Used Content-Rich Literacy Curriculum;” “Word Learning for All Students: Metalinguistic Awareness and Vocabulary Instruction with Multilingual and Multidialectal Students;” and “Kindergarten Teachers’ Explicit Vocabulary Instruction During Informational Text Read-Alouds and Variation by Classroom Characteristics.” She also presented “Using Strive-for-Five Conversations to Enhance Students’ Language Comprehension” at the 2025 Alaska Science of Reading Symposium.

Leah Sherman, M.A., MLIS, Dianna S. Bradley, M.A., Crystal Mathews, M.A., MLIS, and Laura Pellini, B.A. (University Libraries) co-presented “Infusing Art into the Academic Library Space: Creating Community through Art-Centered Outreach” at the Art Libraries Society of North America 2025 virtual conference.

Rachel C. S. Duke, Ph.D. (University Libraries) presented “Zooming In on Medieval Texts: Three Active-Learning Assignments and Their Outcomes” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Kari Lien, Ph.D. and Yunjung Kim, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) attended the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Lessons for Success program at the association’s national office in Rockville, Maryland.

Balu Bhasuran, Ph.D. and Zhe He, Ph.D. (School of Information) presented “LabQAR: A Curated Dataset for Question Answering on Laboratory Test Reference Ranges and Interpretation” at the AMIA 2025 Informatics Summit, held March 10 to 13 in Pittsburgh.

Sonia Cabell, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) presented “Using Strive-for-Five Conversations to Enhance Students’ Language Comprehension” at the 2025 Alaska Science of Reading Symposium.

Hugh Catts, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) presented “Rethinking Reading and Writing: The Role of Knowledge and Higher-Level Thinking in Literacy Development” at the 2025 Amplify Spring Science of Reading Summit: The Deep Links Between Reading, Writing, and Language.

Michelle Bumatay, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) gave the keynote lecture “Creating Comics: Space-Making and Community-Building” in a workshop on Teaching Comic Books in Language Classes at Pomona College in Claremont, California. She also gave an invited talk at the University of California, Los Angeles, discussing her newest book, “Black Bandes Dessinées.”

Kathleen Powers Conti, Ph.D. (Department of History) presented “Increasing Solidarity in Consulting through Community and Communication” and “Creating a Peer-Review Clearinghouse for Public Historians” at the National Council on Public History’s annual conference in Montreal, Canada. She also led a workshop at the conference on consulting in public history and historic preservation.

Andrew Epstein, Ph.D. (Department of English) delivered the 2025 Richard W. Gunn Memorial Lecture, presenting the paper “William James, Attention, and Post-1945 American Poetry” by the English Department at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.

Tarez Samra Graban, Ph.D. (Department of English) presented “The Need for Re-Alignments: Global Rhetorical Traditions, Linguistic Justice, and Myths of Co-Optation” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Baltimore.

Nilay Özok-Gündoğan, Ph.D. (Department of History) presented “Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy, and Privilege” at Stanford University’s Abbasid Program in Islamic Studies in Stanford, California. She also presented her paper “Beyond the Cautionary Preamble: Decolonizing the History of Ottoman Kurdistan” at the Stanford Humanities Center conference Kî ne em? Kurdish Literature and Its Studies: An Interdisciplinary Conference; presented at Stanford University’s Humanities Center for her research talk, “Forging Empire: Mineral Extraction, State-Making, and the Colonization of Ottoman Kurdistan, 1720 – 1870;” presented “Decolonizing Kurdish Studies,” for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California Berkeley; and presented “The Kurds in a Changing Middle East” at the California Kurdish Community Center in Pacifica, California.

Christopher Okonkwo, Ph.D. (Department of English) gave this year’s first African Literature Association’s Lecture Series talk titled “Tracking Fela’s Cameos in African Fiction.”

Michael Shatruk, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) gave the plenary talk “Two-Dimensional Spin-Crossover Materials and Heterostructures” at the Florida Quantum Summit at the University of Florida.

Silvia Valisa, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) co-organized and spoke at the third symposium of Interdisciplinary Network for Nineteenth-Century Italian Studies at the University of Toronto in Canada and co-sponsored by the University of Toronto’s Department of Italian Studies. Valisa delivered the paper “Un Secolo Dopo L’Altro: Sonzogno Come Case Study.”

Wen Zhu, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) gave a talk titled “Conformational Dynamics Regulate the Accessibility of Ammonia in Human Asparagine Synthetase” at the 15th Annual Southeast Enzyme Conference in Atlanta.

Bryant Harden, Ph.D. (Center for Global Engagement) presented his chapter on “Teaching Feminist Theories” from the recently published The Palgrave Handbook on the Pedagogy of International Relations Theory at the International Studies Association Annual Conference in Chicago.

Grace Fennema, M.Ed. and Brittany Stover (Student Engagement) presented “Illustrating the Past, Designing the Future: Art as a Tool for Student Empowerment” at the 2025 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Annual Conference held in New Orleans.

Bridgid Shannon (Center for Leadership & Service) presented “Pathways to Peace: Storytelling Tools and Global Models to Lead with Curiosity, Boost Collaboration, and Sustain Engagement” at the 19th Florida International Leadership Conference. Shannon also presented a seminar on community entry and critical community engagement for FAMU-FSU Partners United for Research Pathways Oriented to Social Justice in Education (PURPOSE) Research Fellows,  providing community engagement framing for PURPOSE Fellows’ research since 2019. Shannon also facilitated “Healing Harmonies: Using Music to Inspire and Empower Through Life’s Challenges,” a pre-conference session at the Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Through Higher Education held in Tennessee in March. Additionally, she co-facilitated “Place-Based Frameworks for University-Community Engagement.”

Bridgid Shannon (Center for Leadership & Service), Hillary Harbauer (University Housing), and other community partners presented “PeaceJamming: Youth-Centric Coalitions for Positive Peace & Healing-Centered Praxis” at the Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Through Higher Education, held in Tennessee.

Bridgid Shannon, Katelyn Palmer and Paige Rentz (Center for Leadership & Service) presented “Chords & Contexts: Community Embedded Learning & Communities of Practice” at the Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Through Higher Education.

Kaylee Vasquez (University Housing) and Ella Windlan (UGS Academic Engagement) presented the posters: “Service and Sustainable Futures in Morocco and Beyond” and “Algorithmic Law Enforcement: The Community Impact of Predictive Policing” (respectively) at the Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Through Higher Education, which was held in Tennessee.

Tracey Dowling, Ph.D. (Career Center) co-presented the sessions “Breaking Into Work-Integrated Learning: The Essentials Toolkit for New Practitioners” and “Cultivating Talent: The Role of Competencies in Work-Integrated Learning Programs” at the Cooperative Education and Internship Association (CEIA) Annual Conference in Arizona. Dowling is also the CEIA vice president for professional development.

Tracey Dowling, Ph.D. and Li Pon (Career Center) presented “Internships 101: A Toolkit on Increasing Reach of Employer Training” at the Cooperative Education and Internship Association Annual Conference, held in Arizona.

Li Pon (Career Center) presented “CEIA Fellow Presentation: Creating an Oasis of Opportunities for International Students” at the Cooperative Education and Internship Association Annual Conference.

Alicia Craig-Rodriguez, DNP, MBA, APRN, FNP-BC, DipACLM (College of Nursing) was an invited speaker at the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association Annual Symposium. She delivered a podium presentation titled “Lifestyle Medicine: The Six Pillars of Health.” Additionally, Craig-Rodriguez co-presented at Sigma Theta Tau International’s Creating Healthy Work Environments 2025 conference in Phoenix. Their talk, “Caring for the Caregiver: Enhancing Personal and Professional Wellbeing,” focused on practical strategies to build resilience and support the well-being of nursing professionals.

Jessica Bahorski, Ph.D., APRN, PPCNP-BC, WHNP (College of Nursing) presented research in partnership with the UF College of Medicine, focusing on a cross-sectional study exploring mothers’ perceptions of postpartum visit benefits by rural status.

Jie Chen, Ph.D., RN (College of Nursing), was invited to present at the Scholars Research Panel at the US Association Study of Pain (USASP) 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting as a recipient of the USASP-MAYDAY Clinical/Translational Research Award. Chen and doctoral student Meghan Poe (College of Nursing) also presented their research poster, highlighting their impactful work in pain research and the advancement of clinical science.

Savanna Harris-Mazon, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC and Lynn Sleeth, MSN, RN (College of Nursing) attended the National Consortium of Nursing Academic Coaches (NCNAC) conference in Auburn, Alabama. They led discussions on enhancing The National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) outcomes with individualized remediation for the Comprehensive Predictor Exit Exam and shared strategies for Health Education Systems Incorporated remediation.

Yushun Dong, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) presented his papers “ST-FiT: Inductive Spatial-Temporal Forecasting with Limited Training Data” and “BrainMAP: Learning Multiple Activation Pathways in Brain Networks” at the 39th Annual Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference in Philadelphia. Dong also presented his papers “Graph Neural Networks Are More Than Filters: Revisiting and Benchmarking from A Spectral Perspective” and “CEB: Compositional Evaluation Benchmark for Fairness in Large Language Models” at the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations in Tampines, Singapore.

Nicole Patton Terry, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) presented “The Politicization of Teaching Reading, Seeking a Research-Informed Remedy;” “A New Vision for High Quality Preschool Curriculum — A Report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine;” “The Institutional Challenge Grant: Community-Engaged Research to Improve Youth Educational Outcomes;” “University Research Partnerships to Reduce Educational Disparity in College Towns: Building a Model in Tallahassee, FL;” “The 28th Conversations with Senior Scholars on Advancing Research and Professional Development Related to Black Education;” and “Means for Achieving and Thriving in Your Doctoral Program to Graduation” at the annual American Educational Research Association conference.

Clifton Callender, Ph.D, Jane Clendinning, Ph.D. and David Kalhous, DMA(College of Music) presented at the International Musicology Conference, “Virtuosity in the Music of György Ligeti,” as part of the Fifth Ligeti Festival Transylvania. The conference included contributions by many of the foremost scholars of Ligeti’s music, including the composer’s long-time assistant, Dr. Louise Duchesneau; musicologist Wolfgang Marx; composer Manfred Stahnke; curator at the Paul Sacher Foundation (Basel), Heidy Zimmermann, and many others. The festival and conference took place in the city of Ligeti’s youth, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Ann Rowson-Love, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) presented her paper “Feminizing the Outdoorsman: Creating Self-Care Metaphors in 52 Survival Playing Cards” in the symposium “Women who Create 2025: the Feminine and the Arts,” organized by The London Arts-Based Research Centre, Cambridge, England.

Robert Neuman, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) and two graduate students from his fall 2024 Walt Disney seminar — Raigen Sumrall and Valarie Godwin — presented papers at the international Disney, Culture and Society conference.

Paul Niell, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) presented “Roofs of Resilience: Thatching and Urban Life in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico” in The Early Modern Symposium at Yale University.

Erika Loic, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) presented “Winged Women in Medieval Art: Drawing the Lines between Monstrous and Angelomorphic Gender Expressions” at the Centennial Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America at Harvard University.

Paul Niell, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) presented “Dancing to Drum and ‘Shake Shake’ and ‘Congo Upon the Ramparts’: Rhythm and the Urban Landscape in Nineteenth-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico” at the Huntington Library conference Music in the Early Spanish Americas, Performance Spaces and Archives.

Adam Jolles, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) presented a public lecture “Surrealism in Black and White” at the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Tenley Bick, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) gave an invited book talk and signing at Lévy Gorvy Dayan Gallery in New York on “Michelangelo Pistoletto: Figuration and Cultural Politics,” in association with their Pistoletto exhibition. She concluded a 2-year appointment in February as president of the Italian Art Society.

Kaylee Spencer, Ph.D. (Museum of Fine Arts) presented “Text, Image, and Materiality in a Maya Ritual Container” at the Annual Conference for the Society for American Archaeology, in Denver.

PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS

Liliya Ugay, MM, DMA (College of Music) was featured as a guest composer at the Yale School of Music New Music New Haven series with performances of her works “Spread. Flowers.” (commissioned in 2021 by former College of Music Dean, Patricia Flowers) by Yale School of Music students, and the premiere of “Hammers Over the Moon” for which Ugay joined award-winning pianist Clara Yang. “Hammers Over the Moon” has been a part of Yang’s show “Ex Machina” with the visual art of the prominent artist Xuan and contributions from popular math-rock guitarist Yvette Young; the show has just received a double-premiere in Chapel Hill, NC. Additionally, Ugay’s composition for electroacoustic harp “pull no more,” created in collaboration with and performed by the College of Music’s Assistant Professor of Harp and Entrepreneurship, Noël Wan, has been featured at CAMPGround festival (Tampa), MTNA National Conference (Minneapolis), and Chicago Electroacoustic Festival.

SERVICE

Vilma Fuentes, Ph.D. and Amber Wiest (Learning Systems Institute) traveled to South Africa as work continued on the Community College Administrator Program.

Tricia Montgomery, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) will become President of the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Science & Disorders, effective July 1.

April Lovett, Ed.D. (College of Nursing) has been selected as President of Working Well — an organization promoting workplace wellness in Tallahassee. Lovett will help shape strategic goals, champion community well-being and lead meaningful programs that support healthier, more connected workplaces.

Casey Guynes, Ph.D., Kristen Guynes, Ph.D. and Catherine Johnson (School of Communication Science and Disorders) coordinated a student engagement event at the Family Deaf Connect event at Buck Lake Elementary School. This was a free event for families of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children.

Bridgid Shannon (Center for Leadership & Service) served a second year on the Executive Committee for the Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Through Higher Education.

Bryant Harden, Ph.D. (Center for Global Engagement) was elected to serve another year on the executive committee for Theory for the International Studies Association.

Darryl Lovett, Ph.D. (Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs) was selected to serve as the NASPA Chair of the Centering the Student Affairs Workforce Workgroup to help ensure Student Affairs professionals are empowered, supported and equipped to deliver meaningful experiences for students.

Suzan Kurdak (Division of Student Affairs Marketing and Communications) was elected to serve on the Consulting Together Community Outreach Board as director of communications.

Tyrone “TJ” Johnson (Career Center) chaired the technology committee for the annual Cooperative Education International Conference in April, held in Tucson, AZ. He coordinated audiovisual technology for all aspects of the conference with the assistance of Career Center staff: Cheyenne Egstad, Jessica O’Neill and Kaylee Webb.

Lyndsay Jenkins, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was invited to join the Society for the Study of School Psychology.

Carrie Meyers (Learning Systems Institute) led the first workshop for the “Afterschool Math Success: Developing the Vision and Support” project, which is designed to help out-of-school providers and parents foster math success and enjoyment among children in kindergarten through fifth grade.

Rabieh Razzouk, MBA (Learning Systems Institute) led a multi-year partnership with the Learning System Institute and the Education Development Center on the Higher Education Capacity Development program with Lebanon, which recently concluded.

George Williamson, Ph.D. (Department of History) was elected Vice President Elect of the Central European History Society, an affiliated society of the American Historical Association. He will rotate through the officer positions of Vice President, President and Past President in the next four years.

Stephane Zuilkowski, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) led an ELA assessment writing training for Florida educators for the FAST standardized assessments.

NOTABLE

Adam Hanley, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) and the Complementary Health Innovation Lab are launching a new partnership with Beyond Meds and the FSU Lifestyle Medicine Clinic. Together, they will conduct a pilot study evaluating Beyond Meds — a digital platform designed to deliver personalized lifestyle medicine prescriptions. In addition to this partnership, Hanley is launching another pilot study in collaboration with Vivian Rosenthal of Frequency Breathwork and the veterans’ association Heroic Hearts. The study, titled “Breathwork Intervention for Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD),” is a single-site clinical trial exploring how cyclical breathwork may enhance well-being in veterans living with PTSD.

Kathleen Wilson, Ph.D., APRN, CPNP, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, FAANP, FNAP, DipACLM (College of Nursing) has been invited to design and lead a statewide, high-level continuing education master class for Nurse Practitioners through the Florida Nurse Practitioner Network—the state’s leading nurse practitioner organization.

Vilma Fuentes, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) led the Ukraine Task Force in hosting Dmytro Stepanskyi, a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at Emory University and the American Society for Microbiology Ambassador to Ukraine in a weeklong tour of campus as he visited FSU biologists, doctors and scientists.

Elizabeth Madden, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) attended the Aphasia Access Leadership Summit in Pittsburgh. The conference brought together professionals who support people with aphasia.

Selena Snowden and Chelsea Alexander (School of Communication Science and Disorders), along with nine undergraduate students, attended the American Academy of Audiology National Conference and HearTECH Expo in New Orleans.

Lorenzo Pericolo, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) chaired the session “Beyond the Painter-Architect – Exploring Art and Architecture as Integrated Practices III: Roman Ruins” at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Boston.

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Florida State University’s faculty and staff are central to its mission and the key to its countless accomplishments.

Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across campus. Faculty and Staff Briefs are produced monthly to recognize accomplishments and provide a space where honors, awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased.

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HONORS AND AWARDS

Kari Lien, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) was accepted into the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Lessons for Success Program, an intensive training program for early career scientists.

Wen Zhu, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) was awarded Best Oral Presentation in the Big Data for Biomedical Research Breakout Session for her invited talk “Conformational Assembly of a Tunnel Gating Residue in Human Asparagine Synthetase,” delivered at the 6th National Big Data Health Science Conference at the University of South Carolina.

Eugenia Flores Millender, Ph.D., RN, MS, PMHNP-BC, FAAN (College of Nursing) has been selected as a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) Class of 2025.

Charles Upchurch, Ph.D. (Department of History) has been awarded a monthlong residency fellowship at the Lewis Walpole Library. His latest project commemorates the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and examines the role of queer and trans inclusion within the ideologies that influenced the revolution.

Katie Redd (Student Union) was honored by the Young Actors Theatre Board of Directors at the Tallahassee Leading Ladies Breakfast in March for her contributions to the performing arts.

Rachel Blakesley, Ed.D. (University Housing) received an Outstanding Contributions to Research Award by the Southeastern Association of Housing Officers for contributing to the advancement of knowledge of the housing profession.

Laurie Abbott, Ph.D., RN, CNE, DipACLM, PHNA-BC, FAAN (College of Nursing) was honored with the DAISY Award for Advancing Health Equity. This award recognizes nurses whose work advances health equity by addressing and mitigating health disparities caused by social determinants of health.

Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FAAN (College of Nursing) received the DAISY Award for Nursing Ethics. Developed with the ANA’s Center for Ethics and Human Rights, the award honors nurses whose leadership and compassion highlight the importance of ethics and human values in care.

LeeAnn H. Barfield, Ph.D., DNP, APRN-BC, CNE, FACHE (College of Nursing) received the DAISY Award for Nurse Leader. This award honors leaders who may not provide direct patient care but create environments where compassionate, skillful care thrives.

Jolynn Greenhalgh, DNP, APRN (College of Nursing) received the DAISY Award for Lifetime Achievement. This award honors nurses who have devoted their life’s work to compassionate care through mentoring, advocacy, and the promotion of a positive image of nursing.

Amy Magnuson, Ph.D., RD, LD/N (University Health Services) received the Charles F. Bohmann Award from the Southern College Health Association in March for her dedication to college health and service to SCHA.

Cameron Beatty, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) received the award for Distinguished Support for Graduate Students from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) faculty council at the NASPA Annual Conference in New Orleans.

Sherry Southerland, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) received the Distinguished Contributions to Science Education through Research Award from the National Association for Research in Science Teaching.

Rima Nathan, JD (College of Law) was selected as a recipient of the 2024-25 University Teaching Award for Community-Engaged Teaching.

Kat Klepfer, JD (College of Law) won the Service to SEAALL Award, which recognizes and honors a member of the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries (SEAALL) who has made special, significant and sustained contributions to the chapter.

Terry Londy, MA (Department of Interior Architecture & Design) received an Emerging Scholar Award from the Design Principles & Practices Research Network.

GRANTS

Candace Ward, Ph.D. (Department of English) received a Curran Fellowship grant of $5,000 from the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals to support research for her project “Printing the Cosmopolis: The Colonial Caribbean Press and the Circulation of Pan-Caribbean Identities.” The award will fund a research trip to the National Library of Jamaica this fall.

Daejin Kim, Ph.D. (Department of Interior Architecture & Design) and his research team have been awarded a research grant from The American Occupational Therapy Foundation for the project “Using Virtual Reality Technology to Increase Acceptance of Home Modifications for People with Multiple Sclerosis: A Pilot Study.” The funded project aims to explore the potential of virtual reality in enhancing the adoption of home modifications for individuals with multiple sclerosis.

BYLINES

Jacob Eisler, Ph.D., JD (College of Law) authored “Discrimination, Private Liberty and Public Accommodation,” published in the Texas A&M Law Review.

Don Compton, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology) published his work “Achievement Goal Profiles and Reading-Related Outcomes in Elementary Students with and without Reading Difficulties” in the Learning and Individual Differences Journal.

Sonia Cabell, Ph.D. and Arzu Güngör Leushuis, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-published “The Frequency of Informational Text Read-Alouds in Kindergarten and its Association with Students’ Vocabulary and Knowledge Development” in the Early Childhood Education Journal.

Remy E. Jennings, Ph.D. (College of Business) published “When You Can’t Get Power Off Your Mind: The Countervailing Effects of Workplace Power on At-Home Rumination” in the Personnel Psychology journal.

Amy L. Ai, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and Wenyi Li (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) coauthored an article, “When State Rescuing Systems were Paralyzed: Post-Hurricane Depression, Hope, and Spirituality of Black and White Student Volunteers,” published in the Journal of American College Health.

Christopher Lonigan, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology) and doctoral students Christopher DeCamp and Sarah Alfonso co-published “Performance- and Report-Based Measures of Executive Function as Predictors of Children’s Academic Skills” in the journal Neuropsychology.

Brian Inouye, Ph.D. (Department of Biological Science) authored “Butterfly Populations Flutter Bye,” published in the peer-reviewed journal Science.

Elizabeth Ray, Ph.D., Patrick Merle, Ph.D. (School of Communication) and doctoral student Kaylin Lane published the paper “Generating Credibility in Crisis: Will an AI-Scripted Response Be Accepted?” in the International Journal of Strategic Communication.

Zilong Xie, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) published

“Effects of Age, Stimulus Degradation, and Sentence Context on Auditory Temporal Processing” in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Stephanie Zuilkowski, Ed.D. (Learning Systems Institute) was a contributor to the book “The Bloomsbury Handbook of Method in Comparative and International Education,” launched at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Nathan Line, Ph.D., Lydia Hanks, Ph.D., and Milly Njeri, Ph.D. (Dedman College of Hospitality) coauthored the research article “Expanding the Domain of Hospitality Research: the Hospitality Virtue Scale“ in the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management.

Danielle Park, Ph.D., and Sean McGinley, Ph.D. (Dedman College of Hospitality) coauthored the article “Navigating the Digital Hospitality Frontier: Unravelling the Intricacies Between Technology Adoption Level and Tech-Induced Role Ambiguity,” published in the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research.

Abhinav Sharma, Ph.D. (Dedman College of Hospitality), coauthored the article “Transformative Outcomes of Workcation: Satisfaction, Place Attachment, and Behavioral Intentions” in the Journal of Travel Research.

Tarik Dogru, Ph.D. (Dedman College of Hospitality) coauthored an article titled “Guiding the Path to Sustainable Tourism Development: Investigating the Role of Tour Guides within a Social Exchange Theory Paradigm“ in the scholarly journal Tourism Management.

Woody Kim, Ph.D. (Dedman College of Hospitality) coauthored the research article “Towards a greener bite: unraveling consumer intentions to embrace sustainable online food delivery services” in the Journal of Foodservice Business Research.

Brittany Devies, Ph.D. (Fraternity and Sorority Life) authored “Sound Leadership: Harnessing the Power of Podcasts in Leadership Development” and “Celebrity as Catalyst: Connecting Leadership Development to Pop Culture” in New Directions for Student Leadership.

Timothy Baghurst, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) coauthored “Lived Experiences of Stress and the Coping Mechanisms of Assistant Coaches in the National Basketball Association (NBA),” published in Quest.

Ravinder Nagpal, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and graduate students Gwoncheol Park, Katelyn Johnson, Katelyn Miller, Saurabh Kadyan, and Cole Patoine coauthored “Almond Snacking Modulates Gut Microbiome and Metabolome in Association with Improved Cardiometabolic and Inflammatory Markers” published in Nature’s The Science of Food.

Jenny Root, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) authored the open-access article “Mixed Methods: Opportunities and Challenges for Special Education Research” in Focus on Research published by the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division for Research. She also coauthored “Prioritizing Preregistration in Special Education,” published in the journal Research in Special Education.

Gashaye Tefera, Ph.D., Amy L. Ai, Ph.D. (College of Social Work), Sabrina L. Dickey, Ph.D., MSN, RN (College of Nursing)  and College of Social Work doctoral student Ponsiano Ngondwe coauthored “Post-Traumatic Growth Following a Category-5 Hurricane: An Exploratory Study of Black Communities in Florida, United States” published in the journal Applied Research in Quality of Life.

Doctoral student Ponsiano Ngondwe and Gashaye Tefera, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) coauthored “Barriers and Facilitators of Access to Healthcare Among Immigrants with Disabilities: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis,” published in the journal Healthcare.

Bruce Thyer, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) authored the article “Introduction: Special Issue on Experimental Social Work Outcomes Studies from China,” published in the journal Research on Social Work Practice. He also authored the article “Mandated Ideologies are Harmful to Social Work Practice and Research,” published in the Journal of Teaching in Social Work.

Monika Gossman, MA (School of Theatre) authored “The Emotional Toll of Performance: Supporting Mental Health in Theater and Film” for World Media Festivals.

Shawn Bayern, JD (College of Law) published his book “Principles and Possibilities in Common Law: Torts, Contracts, and Property.”

Meghan Mick, MLA (Department of Interior Architecture & Design) authored “Designing Ecotones: Engaging Liminal Space in the Built Environment,” published in Ekistics and the New Habitat.

Qiuchang (Katy) Cao, Ph.D. (College of Social Work), Dawn Carr, Ph.D. (Claude Pepper Center) and Miles Taylor, Ph.D. (Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy) coauthored “Education, Occupational Environment, and Cognitive Function in Later Life” published in The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.

Lauren Stanley, Ph.D., Melissa Radey, Ph.D., Lisa Magruder, Ph.D. and Dina Wilke, Ph.D. (College of Social Work, Florida Institute for Child Welfare) coauthored the article “Predictor Importance of Organizational Factors of Burnout in Child Welfare Workers” published in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect.

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

Holly Hunt, Ph.D., Yanyu Pan, Ph.D. and Jack Krebs, MS (Academic Center for Excellence) presented “Streamlining Dual Enrollment Processes Using Various Technology Platforms” at the Florida Alliance of Dual Enrollment Partnerships conference in Leesburg, Fla.

Subhasree Sengupta, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Educating an Algorithmic World: Innovation, Ideologies and Curriculum Development” at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education Conference in Orlando.

Justin Kennemur, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) presented an invited talk, “The Juice is Worth the Squeeze: Transforming Stubborn Monomers to Sustainable Materials, Advanced Architectures, Fuel Cell Membranes, and Beyond,” at the University of New Haven’s Department of Chemistry in West Haven, Connecticut.

Fanny Caroline Liu, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) delivered her invited talk “Probing the Conformational Landscape of Monoclonal Antibodies by Tandem-Trapped Ion Mobility Spectrometry” at the Field and Franklin Award session honoring University of California professor of biological chemistry Joseph A. Loo at the American Chemical Society Spring 2025 Meeting in San Diego, Calif., and virtually.

Celia Reddick, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Toward Inclusive Refugee Education? Host Country Teachers, Refugee Students, and the Limits of Global Policy” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Subhasree Sengupta, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) and Yin Yang, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) co-presented “Narratives for Healing: An Exploration of Interactions Within an Online Community on Navigating Bullying Trauma” at iConference 2025.

Matthew Goff, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) gave the presidential address “Apocalypse Now and Then: Biblical Studies, QAnon and Conspiracy Theories” at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) annual conference at Florida Memorial University as the previous president of the AAR southeast regional branch.

Rick Burnette, Ph.D. (Office of the Provost) presented “Evolution of Institutional Research” as part of the plenary panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Florida Association for Institutional Research 2025.

Kate Schell, Ph.D., Brenda Aromu Wawire, Ph.D. and Jai Bum Koo (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Pre-Service Teacher Education Through the Prism: Highlighting Grassroots Perspectives from Malawi and Rwanda” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Shuyuan Ho Metcalfe, Ph.D. (School of Information) and doctoral student Ghazal Hussain co-presented “Managing Anxiety and Uncertainty: The Information-Seeking Behaviors of IT Managers in Turbulent Times” at the Southern Association for Information Systems conference in Tampa, Fla.

Marion Fesmire, Ed.D. and Ana H. Marty, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) co-presented “Can Adding a Fourth Year to Preservice Teacher Education Close the Teacher Training Divide in Rwanda?” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Alda Balthrop-Lewis, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) presented her essay “Simplicity, Simplicity, Simplicity: Henry David Thoreau and the Politics of Solitude” during an invited lecture at Georgia State University.

Nicole Patton Terry, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) presented “Leadership Matters to Implementing Evidence-Based Reading and Literacy Practices in Schools” at the AIM Institute for Learning and Research’s 13th Annual Symposium.

Nilay Özok-Gündoğan, Ph.D. (Department of History) presented “Forging Empire: Mining, State Making, and Ottoman Extractive Colonialism in Kurdistan” at the Ohio State University’s Department of History Lecture Series in Ottoman and Turkish History. She also presented the virtual book talk “Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy, and Privilege” at Koc University’s History Department Talks in Istanbul, Turkey.

Adrienne Barnes-Story, Ph.D., Jennie Robinette, M.Ed. (Learning Systems Institute) presented “How Do We Handle All the Children? Understanding Pedagogies for Overcrowded Classrooms in Malawi” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Heather Bishop, Ph.D., Brandon Saridjo, MSW and Christina Hanna, MS (Transfer Student Services) co-presented “SPEAR: Supporting, Preparing, and Empowering Academic Resilience for Florida State Transfer Students” at the 2025 National Student Success Conference in Orlando, Fla.

Flavia Ramos-Mattoussi, Ed.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Examining Inclusion, School Climate, and Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Decolonial Perspectives” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Emaly Hall, MSW and Olivia Saunders, MS (Advising First) presented a poster session, “Decision Fatigue: A College Student’s Experience,” at the National Academic Advising Association: The Global Community for Academic Advising Region 4 Conference in Jacksonville, Fla.

Lee Howell, MBA, Heather Epstein-Diaz and Andrew Brady (Office of Institutional Research) presented “Bridging Gaps: Data Catalogs as Catalysts for Data Literacy” at the 2025 FAIR Annual Conference.

Zilong Xie, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) delivered the podium presentation “Subcortical Responses to Continuous Speech under Crossmodal Divided Attention” at the 48th Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology in Orlando, Fla. Additionally, Xie and partners from his lab presented two posters: “Neural Tracking of Hierarchical Linguistic Structures in Second Language Acquisition,” in collaboration with Zhiying Qian (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) and “Effects of Binaural Unmasking on Subcortical and Cortical Responses to Continuous Speech.”

Grace Fennema, M.Ed. and Brittany Stover (Department of Student Engagement) presented “Illustrating the Past, Designing the Future: Art as a Tool for Student Empowerment” at the 2025 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Annual Conference.

Rolando Torres, M.S., Corbin Nall, M.A. and Anthony Kurza (Advising First) presented “Transformative Potential of Tabletop Role Playing Games in Higher Education” at the National Academic Advising Association: The Global Community for Academic Advising Region 4 Conference in Jacksonville, Fla.

Kian Mapp, MSCID and Alexa Sikora, M.S. (Advising First) presented “Sailing Through the Office Waves with Your First Mate, Power Automate” at the National Academic Advising Association: The Global Community for Academic Advising Region 4 Conference in Jacksonville, Fla.

Erin Sylvester Philpot, Ed.D. (Center for Leadership and Service) presented as the opening speaker for the statewide senior leaders and managers meeting of the Agency for Persons with Disabilities and presented “The Leadership Toolkit.”

Marrese Whitsett (University Housing) presented “Fusing the Future: Successful Strategies for Thriving in a Multigenerational Housing Department at the Southeastern Association of Housing Officers regional conference.

Alice Maxwell (Division of Student Affairs Marketing and Communications) co-presented “Growing Pains: Is Your Division’s Marketing Strategy and Structure Stuck in the Past?” at the 2025 NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference in New Orleans.

Motoko Akiba, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) presented “Publishing Your Research in AERJ: A Guide for International Scholars,” a webinar as editor-in-chief of the American Educational Research Journal.

Veronica Fleury, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) delivered the spotlight session for the Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities at the 2025 Council for Exceptional Children Annual Convention in Baltimore. Her lecture was titled “Pre-bunking and Debunking Autism Misinformation.”

Dana Auvil, Ed.S., MS (Advising First) presented “Micromessages Matter: Understanding the Small Signals that Speak Volumes” at the National Academic Advising Association: The Global Community for Academic Advising Region 4 Conference in Jacksonville, Fla.

Bret Keating, M.S., Adam Gabrini, M.A. and Shawn Winship, M.S., Ed.S. (Advising First) presented a poster session titled “From Island to Mainland: Redefining the Role of Universities in the 21st Century” at the National Academic Advising Association: The Global Community for Academic Advising Region 4 Conference in Jacksonville, Fla.

Amy Hecht, Ed.D. (Vice President for Student Affairs) and Brittany Devies, Ph.D. (Fraternity and Sorority Life) co-presented “Telling Time: Time Management of Women in Senior Student Affairs Roles” at a pre-conference presentation at the 2025 NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference in New Orleans.

Delaney Sills, MS (Housing) presented “From Boring to Board Games: Enhancing Student Staff Activities through Gamification” at the Southeastern Association of Housing Officers regional conference.

Sarah Butler, MEd and Delaney Sills, MS (Housing) presented “Commitment to Curriculum: Generating Buy In” at the Southeastern Association of Housing Officers regional conference.

Alycia Malicz, Alice Maxwell (Division of Student Affairs Marketing and Communications), Allison B. Peters, Ph.D. (Division of Undergraduate Studies) and David Peters (Campus Recreation) co-presented “Cutting Through the Noise: Collaborative Approaches to Student Communication, Engagement, and Retention” at the 2025 NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference in New Orleans.

Sarah Butler, MEd (Housing) was a panelist for “Empowered Leadership” at the Southeastern Association of Housing Officers regional conference. 

Lauren Gillis, MFA (School of Theatre) presented “An Introduction to Swing Pedagogy” at the Musical Theatre Educators’ Alliance Conference in NYC.

Kristin Dowell, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) presented “Fite Fuaite (Interwoven): Relationality, Land, and Language within Irish Art” at the American Conference for Irish Studies in Savannah, GA.

Michael Buchler, Ph.D. (College of Music) delivered the keynote address “(Non) Semper Idem: Some Challenges to ‘All er Nuthin’’ Approaches to Methodology, Hierarchy, Register, and Cadence” at the 2025 Music Theory Southeast Conference in Greenville, SC.

Freddy Juarez, Jarred Pernier, Brittany Devies, Ph.D. (Fraternity and Sorority Life) and Zduy Chu, Ed.D. (Office of Vice President of Student Affairs) co-presented “Foundational Leadership and Organizational Wellness (FLOW) Model: Designing Leadership Learning for Individuals and Organizations” at the NASPA Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference in New Orleans.

Meghan Mick, MLA (Department of Interior Architecture & Design) co-presented research titled “Rewilding Interiors” at the Biophilia Symposium at Penn State University.

Stephanie Tillman and Danielle Porter (University Housing) co-presented “Innovating First-Year Experience Courses Through Connection and Collaborative Partnership” at the First-Year Experience Conference in New Orleans.

Jessica Bahorski, Ph.D., APRN, PPCNP-BC, WHNP (College of Nursing) presented “A Mixed-Methods Study to Understand Differences in Responsive Infant Feeding” at the Southeast Regional Clinical & Translational Science Conference.

Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FAAN (College of Nursing) presented “Supporting Health in Rural Veterans with Heart Failure: CARE-HF Protocol” at the 39th Annual Southern Nursing Research Society Conference in Memphis, Tennessee. The research team includes co-Investigator Laurie Abbott, Ph.D., RN, DipACLM, CNE, PHNA-BC, FAAN, doctoral student Josef Hodgkins (College of Nursing) and co-Investigator Tom Ledermann, Ph.D., (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences).

PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS

Katie Kehoe, MFA (Department of Art) had her work “Time is of the Essence” featured in “Eyes on the South”, Oxford American’s online series highlighting photography and visual art.

Panayotis (Paddy) League, Ph.D. (College of Music) traveled to Athens, Greece to present a lecture and performance “Crete: Music of Resistance” at the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 

Wellington (Wells) Gordon, MM (College of Music) recorded 26 film cues with an orchestra for the film “Granite Rapids Moon” produced by John Charles Meyer. The movie is being released nationwide this year with a viewing in Tallahassee later in the year.

SERVICE

Celia Reddick, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) chaired a business meeting for Language Issues SIG at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Kate Schell, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) chaired “Can Adding a Fourth Year to Preservice Teacher Education Close the Teacher Training Divide in Rwanda?” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Ana H. Marty, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) chaired “Pre-Service Teacher Education through the Prism: Highlighting Grassroots Perspectives from Malawi and Rwanda” and “Integrated Approaches in ECD” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Shuyuan Ho Metcalfe, Ph.D. (School of Information) served on the panel “Defending Reality: Human-AI Collaboration to Unveil Deepfake Information Manipulation” at the Southern Association for Information Systems conference in Tampa, Fla.

Stephanie Zuilkowski, Ed.D. (Learning Systems Institute) was a panelist on “The Impact of the Trump Administration’s Foreign Policy on International Education” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Flavia Ramos-Mattoussi, Ed.D. (Learning Systems Institute) chaired the workshop “Arts-Based Research for Global Community Engagement: Showcasing the Development and Application of the FotoDialogo Method” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Marcia A. Mardis, Ph.D. (School of Information) led “PLAN Jam,” a workshop designed to empower public library professionals to enhance their disaster preparedness and community engagement strategies during and outside of natural disasters at Wakulla County Public Library.

Lee Howell, MBA, Heather Epstein-Diaz and Eclipse Ramsey, MS (Office of Institutional Research) led the session “HR Compensation Dashboard: A Tool for Pay Equity and Retention” at the 2025 FAIR Annual Conference.

Brenda Aromu Wawire, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) was a discussant on the presentation “How Do We Handle All the Children? Understanding Pedagogies for Overcrowded Classrooms in Malawi” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Grace Ali, MFA (Department of Art) was selected as the Keynote Speaker of RAW 2025, a graduate student conference organized by the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Jai Bum Koo (Learning Systems Institute) chaired “How Do We Handle All the Children? Understanding Pedagogies for Overcrowded Classrooms in Malawi” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Ebrahim Randeree, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) led a team of student volunteers of the STARS Alliance at the SciGirls at Montford Middle School annual STEM night to provide STEM outreach to K-12 students. The student team included Bella Bozied, Andrea Colon-De-Feria, Ava Downes, Sophia Ferraro, Maggie Martin-McKinnie, Leah Pagan, Orion Qualls, Tanya Raphael, Vedant Satwik, Jennifer Sterling, Khylle Valle, Owen Van Lenten and Elyse Walcott.

Jenny Root, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was named associate editor of Teacher Education and Special Education, the journal of the teacher education division of the Council for Exceptional Children.

Tracey Dowling, Ed.D. (Career Center) was elected to serve as the Executive Vice President/President Elect Cooperative Education & Internship Association (CEIA) Board for 2025-26. Dowling has served on the CEIA Board since 2015, most recently as Vice President for Professional Development.

Daniel Smith, MME (School of Dance) served as an adjudicator for The Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States 2025 National Conference at Purdue University.

Phil Hiver, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was named associate editor of “System.” Doctoral candidate Joseph Yamazaki is also a member of the student editorial board for “System.”

Veronica Fleury, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was appointed associate editor for the Journal of Early Intervention.

 NOTABLE

Brian Graves, Ph.D. (School of Communication) attended the Broadcast Education Association Convention 2025 in Las Vegas.

Carrie Meyers, Jim Reynolds, Ashley French, and Heather French (Learning Systems Institute) conducted a workshop with Florida’s educators to write test items for the Florida Department of Education’s FAST Assessment, which aligns with the Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking Standard.

Kristina Hakansson, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Ryan Rogers (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory) co-organized the 14th North American FT-MS Conference in Tahoe City, Calif.

Michael Shatruk, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Stephen Hill, Ph.D. (Department of Physics) co-organized MAGNA-2025, the 4th Conference on Molecular Magnetism in North America at Florida State University.

Yan Zeng, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) organized the symposium “S14 AI in Materials Research: from Data Analysis; Autonomous Experimentation to Human AI Cooperation” for the 2025 Electronic Materials and Applications conference in Denver, Colorado.

Donna M. Johnson-Byrd, DNP, RN, NCSN, CNE (College of Nursing) has been selected by the National League for Nursing as a Certified Nurse Educator exam item writer. The CNE examination is a benchmark of excellence, assessing the knowledge and competencies essential for nurse educators.

Nina Davis, MS (College of Nursing) was invited to join the Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society.

Jennifer Gillette, MFA (School of Theatre) was named Associate Costume Designer for Semele at the Atlanta Opera 2025.

Suzan Kurdak (Division of Student Affairs Marketing and Communications) was a panelist presenter on “Memoir Writing: Processes and Pitfalls” at the Tallahassee Writers Association general meeting in March.

Carol Burns (University Health Services) passed the National Certification Exam and is now a Certified Medical Administrative Assistant.

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Florida State University’s faculty and staff are central to its mission and the key to its countless accomplishments.

Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across campus. Faculty and Staff Briefs are produced monthly to recognize accomplishments and provide a space where honors, awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased.

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HONORS AND AWARDS

Colleen Harmeling, Ph.D. (College of Business) was named an MSI Scholar by the Marketing Science Institute, an Advertising Research Foundation division whose academic community engages with member companies and addresses real-world marketing problems.

Judith Pascoe, Ph.D. (Department of English) has earned the 2025 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelly Association of America, one of the leading scholarly associations for the study of British Romanticism.

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) has been named a Fellow of the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine.

The Learning Systems Institute was honored with the Multilingual Education Leadership Award from the University of Maiduguri Language Centre in collaboration with UNICEF. Ana H. Marty, Ph.D. led the project that garnered the award with support from LSI’s Stephanie Simmons Zuilkowski, Ed.D., Adrienne Barnes-Story, Ph.D. and Marion Fesmire, Ed.D.

Damon Andrew, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) has received the 2025 Earle F. Zeigler Lecture Award, the most prestigious award given by the North American Society for Sport Management.

Eugenia Flores Millender, Ph.D., RN, MS, PMHNP-BC, FAAN (College of Nursing) has been named one of TIME’s 2025 The Closers—a prestigious list recognizing 25 leaders for their dedication to outreach and impactful work.

Katelyn Bittinger (University Housing) received the Evelyn A. Wallington Advisor of the Year Award through the South Atlantic Affiliate of College & University Residence Halls in recognition of outstanding service.

Kathleen Powers Conti, Ph.D. (Department of History) won the Ambassador’s Award from the Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF). The award provides funding for a student group and faculty sponsor to attend VAF’s annual conference to increase vernacular architecture work and VAF visibility on campuses.

Bridgid Shannon (Center for Leadership and Service) was selected into the 2025 Cohort of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Practitioner-Scholar Community. She also joined the Bonner Foundation’s Teaching Social Action Initiative that is rooted in fostering students’ experiential leadership for institutional policy change for public purpose.

Joi Phillips, Ph.D., Erin Sylvester Philpot, Ed.D., Bridgid Shannon, Gen Ramirez and Rebecca Sardina (Center for Leadership and Service) received the FSU Service Scholars Program Bronze level recognition for the National NASPA Excellence Award for Service Learning Program of Distinction.

Ian Ploufe (School of Dance) is co-director of the film “Trash Panda,” which has won multiple film festival awards, including Best Documentary Film at the Oregon Documentary Film Festival and Best Southeastern Film at the Lookout Wild Film Festival.

Zhe He, Ph.D. (School of Information) placed third for his paper, “Assessing the Seasonality of Lab Tests Among Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias in OneFlorida Data Trust,” in the American Medical Informatics Association’s (AMIA) Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Innovation Award category at the AMIA 2024 Annual Symposium.

Renisha Gibbs, MS (Office of Human Resources) and FSU alumni John Dailey, MPA, MA, Vincent Long, MPA and Kathy Mears MPA were celebrated at Florida State University’s College of Social Sciences and Public Policy Distinguished Alumni Gala. The annual awards honor accomplished alumni for their professional achievements, contributions to society and support of the college and university.

Lara Perez-Felkner, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored the book “Latin* Students in Engineering: An Intentional Focus on a Growing Population,” which received a 2025 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, Inc. Book of the Year Award within the edited volume category.

Joseph Watso, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) received the 2025 Environmental and Exercise Physiology Section Early-career Research Award from the American Physiological Society.

Kristy Anderson, Ph.D. and Melissa Radey, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) had their article “The Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on Autistic Children and Their Families,” published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, cited as a significant research contribution in the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee’s Summary of Advances.

Paul Renfro, Ph.D. (Department of History) earned an honorable mention from the Florida Book Awards for his work “The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America,” in the general nonfiction category.

GRANTS

Cynthia Wilson, Ph.D. and April Yun, Ph.D. (The Florida Center for Prevention Research) were recently awarded a $6 million, 5-year contract from the Florida Department of Children and Families for their project “The Florida Linked Opioid Response and Epidemiological Network for Comprehensive Evaluation (FLORENCE).”

Karina Donald, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) partnered with the Tampa non-profit organization, Dr. Traci’s House, is receiving an NEA Research Grant in the Arts for $20,000. The grant will support a quasi-experimental research study investigating the impact of online and in-person group art therapy sessions on physical and mental health outcomes for adults with hypertension.

Carolina Sofia Velasquez, Ph.D. (College of Social Sciences and Public Policy) has been awarded an Early Career Faculty Innovator grant by the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

BYLINES

Tenley Bick, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) published her book “Michelangelo Pistoletto: Figuration and Cultural Politics” with the Yale University Press.

Lynn Jones, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) published “Deconstructing an Iconography: Depictions of Constantine and Helena in Middle Byzantine Cappadocia” in the inaugural edition of “Valonia,” published by Koç and Penn Universities.

Yelena McLane, Ph.D. (Department of Interior Architecture and Design) co-authored the 4th edition of “Foundations of Interior Design.”

Jae Hwa Lee, Ph.D. (Department of Interior Architecture and Design) co-authored “Nurturing an Empathic Mindset in Human-Computer Interaction Education: An Integrative Review of Empathy Enhancement Strategies” published in the Journal of Further and Higher Education.

Lindsey Eckert, Ph.D. (Department of English) published her article “Bookbinding and the Look of the Romantic-era Novel” in the journal Studies in the Novel. Her essay argues that novels were marketed as ready-bound objects much earlier than society currently interprets.

Olga Lenczewska, Ph.D. (Department of Philosophy) published her book “Kant on the History and Development of Practical Reason” as a part of the series “Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant” with Cambridge University Press. The book focuses on philosopher Immanuel Kant and his perspective regarding rational and human reason.

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) co-authored “The Association of HIV Criminalization Law and Disparities in Transplant Education among People with HIV” published in the AIDS and Behavior peer-reviewed medical journal.

Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FAAN (College of Nursing) co-authored “Examining Heart Failure Informal Care Partners Using Person and System Levels and Domains: A Meta-Synthesis” published in the Western Journal of Nursing Research.

Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH (College of Nursing) co-authored “HIV Outcomes and Intervention Experiences of Enlaces Por La Salud: A Personal Health Navigation Intervention Informed by the Transnational Framework” published in the AIDS and Behavior medical journal.

Kathleen Wilson, Ph.D., APRN, CPNP, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, FAANP, FNAP, DipACLM (College of Nursing) authored “The Nurse’s Role in Lifestyle Medicine – A Clinical Lens” published in the Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation program.

Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH and Crissi Rainer, MS (College of Nursing) co-authored “Studying the Digital Intervention Engagement-Mediated Relationship Between Intrapersonal Measures and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Adherence in Sexual and Gender Minority Youth: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial” published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Sladjana Lukic, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) published “A Semantic Strength and Neural Correlates in Developmental Dyslexia” in Frontiers of Psychology and “Verbal Short-Term Memory in Developmental Dyslexia: The Role of the Temporoparietal Area” in the Brain and Language journal.

Carla Wood, Ph.D., Sana Tibi, Ph.D., (School of Communication Science and Disorders) Chris Schatschneider, Ph.D., (Department of Psychology) Fengfeng Ke, Ph.D. (Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems) and graduate student Michelle Torres-Chavarro published “Computer-Delivered Morphology-Focused Vocabulary Instruction: A Pilot Study” in the American Journal of Speech Language Pathology.

Sonia Cabell, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences), Yaacov Petscher, Ph.D. (College of Social Work), Rhonda Raines, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) and graduate student Ashley Edwards published, “Impact of a Content-Rich Literacy Curriculum on Kindergarteners’ Vocabulary, Listening Comprehension, and Content Knowledge” in APA. This publication received the APA Editor’s Choice Award.

Gashaye Tefera, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored “Barriers and Facilitators of Access to Healthcare Among Immigrants with Disabilities: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis” published in the journal, Healthcare.

Lenore McWey, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences), Melissa Radey, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) Kristine Posada, MSW (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) and doctoral student Carson Outler co-authored “Informal Support Networks of Parents Involved with the Child Welfare System: Needs and Mental Health Symptoms” published in the journal, Child Maltreatment.

Melissa Radey, Ph.D. and Dina Wilke, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored “Early Career Provider Stigma Trajectories Among Child Protective Services Workers” in the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research.

Gashaye Tefera, Ph.D., Amy L. Ai, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and Sabrina Dickey, Ph.D., RN (College of Nursing) co-authored the article, “Post-Traumatic Growth Following a Cateory-5 Hurricane: An Exploratory Study of Black Communities in Florida, United States” published in the journal, Applied Research in Quality of Life.

Kristy Anderson, Ph.D. and Melissa Radey, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the article “Material Hardship and Sources of Support for Autistic Adolescents and their Families” in the journal, Autism.

Angelina Sutin, Ph.D., Selin Karakose, Ph.D., Antonio Terracciano, Ph.D., and Martina Luchetti, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) co-authored “Loneliness and cognition in older adults: A meta-analysis of harmonized studies from the United States, England, India, China, South Africa, Mexico and Chile” published in Psychological Medicine.

Yaacov Petscher, Ph.D. and Michael Killian, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the article “Clarity is Charity in the Advances of Casual Inquiry” published in the journal, Research on Social Work Practice.

Tanya Renn, Ph.D. and Stephen Tripodi, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the article “Intervention Development of the Resiliency in Stressful Events (RISE) Curriculum: A Trauma-Informed Reentry Approach for Men” published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.

Shamra Boel-Studt, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and Jonathan Huefner, Ph.D. (Institute for Quality Children’s Services) co-authored “Validity of the Quality Standards Assessment for children’s residential care” published in the journal, Residential Treatment for Children and Youth.

Gashaye Tefera, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the book chapters “Khat use and its Impacts on Quality of Life: A Theory Generating Qualitative Meta-Synthesis,” “A Scoping Review of Interventions Focusing on Improving the Quality of Life of Marginalized Women Who Use Substances During Their Pregnancy” and “Improving Quality of Life Among Substance Users in Nigeria: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice” in the Handbook of Addiction, Recovery, and Quality of Life.

Mollie Romano, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) co-authored “Getting to the Point: Examining Associations Between Adult Interactional Strategies and Infant Gestures” published in the journal, Infancy.

Victoria Bartel, Ph.D. (FSU Florence) published “Dressed to Kill: Arms, Armour and Protective Attire in Renaissance Men’s Middle- and Lower-Class Dress” in an edited volume entitled: Refashioning the Renaissance Everyday dress in Europe, 1500-1650 published by Manchester University Press.

Steven Pfeiffer, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) professor emeritus, published a new book “Parenting from the Heart,” an interview regarding the publication appeared in the Journal of Gifted Education and Creativity.

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

Jacey Darrah (Division of Undergraduate Studies) presented “Amplifying Alumni Voices for Student Success” at the CASE District III Annual Conference.

Wayne Hochwarter, Ph.D. (College of Business) gave a colloquium presentation “Health Care Research: What I Learned and What Needs to be Learned” at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Collat School of Business.

Jacey Darrah (Division of Undergraduate Studies) presented “Amplifying Alumni Voices for Student Success” at the CASE District III Annual Conference in Orlando, Fla.

Terry Londy, Ph.D. (Department of Interior Architecture & Design) presented “Enhancing Final Design Drawings: Leveraging Storytelling, Depth, and Materials for a Deeper Connection” at the 19th International Conference on Principles and Practices in Singapore.

Amber Ward, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) presented “Craft as Creative Inquiry: Relational Encounters with Folk School Pedagogies” at the 4th Virtual Conference of the Possibility Studies Network.

Adam Jolles, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) presented “Identity and Self-Representation in the East Harlem Community Resource Center’s Photo Workshop” at the College Art Association Annual Conference in New York.

Kristin Dowell, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) presented the paper “Fite Fuaite (Interwoven): Relationality, Land, and Language within Irish Art” at the American Conference for Irish Studies in Savannah, Ga.

Laura McTighe, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) spoke at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Africana Studies spring colloquium on modern day abolitionism in Philadelphia, Pa.

Flavia Ramos-Mattousi, Ed.D. (Learning Systems Institute) had the opportunity to present two papers at the 2024 International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation in Seville, Spain.

Paul Marty, Ph.D. (School of Information), Vanessa Dennen, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences), Darren Brooks, Ph.D. (College of Business) and Robert Fuselier (Office of Digital Learning) presented “How AI is Driving Innovation in Academia” at the AI2 Summit: Artificial Intelligence and Academic Innovation conference at the University of Florida.

Alice Maxwell, M.A. (Division of Student Affairs Marketing and Communications) presented at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) ToGather online workshop for “Meet the Best of CASE District 3 Grand Gold Winners.” She shared FSU’s student success campaign “Hello FSU!”

Danielle Porter (Division of Undergraduate Studies) and Stephanie Tillman (University Housing) presented “Innovating First-Year Experience Courses Through Connection and Collaborative Partnerships” at the 44th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience in New Orleans, LA.

Bay Bennett (Campus Recreation) presented to the Florida Leadership Outdoor Recreation Association on different rock-climbing, anchor-building methodologies covering correct materials to use and various terrains.

Justin Hultman, Ed.D. (Career Center) presented a workshop on the complexities of undergraduate career decision-making at the 2024 International Association for Educational and Vocational conference held in Finland.

Tingting Liu, Ph.D., RN, FAAN (College of Nursing) presented “The Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Cognitive Function in Middle-Aged and Older Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial” at the 2025 International BrainHealth Symposium, hosted by the AdventHealth Research Institute. This study was co-authored by Jie Chen, Ph.D., RN and Jing Wang, Ph.D., MPH, RN, FAAN (College of Nursing) and published in the Journal of Geriatric Nursing.

Mark Zeigler, M.S. (College of Business) conducted the webinar “Speaking with Influence: Effective Techniques for Communication in Public Governance” for the Florida Association of City Clerks. Zeigler also emceed the SEMINOLE 100 event for the 5th consecutive year, sponsored by FSU Alumni Association and the Jim Moran Institute.

Changhyun (Lyon) Nam, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship) presented four projects at the Annual USASBE conference in Las Vegas, Nev. The projects were “Sustainability-Focused Art and Product Development for Entrepreneurial Learning and Intentions in Higher Education: A Proposed Conceptual Framework,” “AI Image-Generation in Higher Education: Enhancing Creativity and Learning with Gemini and Copilot,” “Optimizing M-Commerce for Young Consumer Engagement with Second-Hand Luxury Goods Websites: Qualitative Approach” and “Bridging Sustainability and Entrepreneurship: From a Kombucha-Based Material to a Green World in Higher Education.”

Jessica Pryce, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) presented “Shifting Child Welfare Culture to Inspire, Strengthen, and Fortify Families” as a part of the 2025 Arthur L. Beely Lecture presented by the University of Utah College of Social Work.

Catherine Johnson, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) was a featured speaker at the 26th annual Southeastern Regional Sertoma Conference emphasizing the connection between hearing, brain health and quality of life as we age.

Zilong Xie, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented at the ARO 48th Annual Midwinter Meeting in Orlando, Fla. His presentations included, “Neural Tracking of Hierarchical Linguistic Structures in Second Language Acquisition,” “Effects of Binaural Unmasking on Subcortical and Cortical Responses to Continuous Speech” and “Subcortical Responses to Continuous Speech under Crossmodal Divided Attention.”

Lauri Lee, Ed.D. and Kevin Smith, Ed.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) presented “Shining Bright with Evidence-Based Literacy Practices in Content Area Instruction” at the 60th Annual Florida Literacy Association Conference.

Kerwyn Flowers, D.O., and Nicole Bentze, D.O. (College of Medicine) presented “Reducing Bias in Assessment and Evaluation: Criterion‐Referenced Assessment in Competency‐Based Medical Education” at the 2025 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Conference on Medical Student Education in San Antonio, Texas.

Nicole Bentze, D.O., FAAFP, FAMWA, Rodica Vasilescu, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) and Katie Nickel, Ed.D. (John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) presented “Visual Arts & Medicine: Using a Museum/School/Hospital Model to Develop Professional Identity Among Medical Students” at the 2025 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Conference on Medical Student Education in San Antonio, Texas.

Joanne Saxour, M.D. (College of Medicine) presented “Innovations in Promoting Family Medicine Across Diverse Academic Settings” and “Training for Success – How Four Different Schools Prepared Their Next Clerkship Director” at the 2025 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Conference on Medical Student Education in San Antonio, Texas.

Sylvie Naar, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) presented “Tailored Motivational Interviewing: Results of a Type 3 Effectiveness Implementation Trial” at the HIV Implementation Science Symposium in Jacksonville.

Christina Carroll, Ed.D. (International Programs), Ignacio Messana, Ph.D. (FSU Valencia), Megan Griffin, M. Litt (FSU London), and Giacomo Sproccati, MA (FSU Florence) presented “From Instagram to BeReal: The Impacts of Social Media on Study Abroad” at The Forum on Education Abroad’s Europe, Middle East, and Africa Conference in Athens, Greece. 

Nicole Patton Terry, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences), Brooke Solz, Ph.D. and Julie Baisden, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) presented “Tools for Effective Reading Instruction” at the 60th Annual Florida Literacy Association Conference.

Veronica Fleury, Ph.D. (College of Education) and doctoral student Peter Marti presented “Using Dialogic Reading to Build Emergent Literacy of Young Children with Disabilities” at the 60th Annual Florida Literacy Association Conference.

Coretta Doss, Ph.D. and Rhonda Raines, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) presented “Unlocking Complex Texts: The Power of Morphology in Content Area Reading for Upper Elementary and Older Students” at the 60th Annual Florida Literacy Association Conference.

Brooke Solz, Ph.D. and Julie Baisden, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) presented “School Literacy Leader’s Walkthrough Tool” at the 60th Annual Florida Literacy Association Conference.

Andrea Barton-Hulsey, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) and graduate student Brianna Coltellino presented “Play and Read with Me: Early Literacy Intervention for Young Children with Limited Speech” at the annual meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children and Division on Autism and other Developmental Disabilities.

Cameron C. Beatty, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) presented the Keynote Address “The Power of Belonging: Reimagining Equity and Leadership in Higher Education” for Luther College’s Black History Month events.

PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS

Kara Wilkes, MFA (School of Dance) premiered a new contemporary ballet piece for Ballet Idaho’s Trainee Program at Boise State University’s Special Events Center as part of a choreographic residency.

Pavel Protsyuk, MFA (College of Fine Arts) exhibited his series of oil paintings “99 Bottles” at The Req Room in Tallahassee.

Rachel S. Hunter, MFA (School of Dance) debuted a new choreographic work at the Atlanta Fringe Festival and new audio work in the Atlanta Audio Fringe.

Tim Glenn, MFA (School of Dance) produced staging notation for the NYC-based José Limón Dance Company, supporting a restaging of Limón’s 1954 work “The Traitor.”

Katie Kehoe, MFA (Department of Art) exhibited in the 2025 International Juried Exhibition at The Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, N.J.

Ilana Goldman, MFA (School of Dance) and Malia Bruker, MFA (College of Communication and Information) have collaborated on Goldman’s second 360-degree dance film “Lychgate.” The film includes performances by former School of Dance chairperson, Anjali Austin, MFA (School of Dance) and fourteen School of Dance students.

SERVICE

Motoko Akiba, Ph.D. (Anne Spence Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was named editor for the American Educational Research Journal and published her introductory letter in the February issue.

Stephanie Walker (Childcare and Early Learning Program) serves as Chairperson of the Communication and Engagement Committee for the National Coalition for Campus Children’s Centers.

Yelena McLane, Ph.D. (Department of Interior Architecture & Design) was selected as a Project Lead for Design Resources for Homelessness, a non-profit organization that shares information about applied research and best practices in designing facilities for persons experiencing homelessness.

Kathleen Wilson, Ph.D., APRN, CPNP, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, FAANP, FNAP, DipACLM (College of Nursing) was invited to serve on the American College of Lifestyle Medicine Expert Consensus Statement Panel for major depressive disorder. Wilson is the APRN/Advanced Practice Provider representative invited to serve on this predominantly physician-led panel.

Wen Guo, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) is a co-principal investigator for a research project in partnership with White Research & Development incorporated, funded by the Wallace Foundation.

Patrick Merle, Ph.D. (School of Communication and Information) organized a discussion with local communication agencies including Moore Agency, Sachs Media, RBOA, SalterMitchell PR, ESPMedia and BowStern to discuss current industry trends and workforce needs to better prepare students for careers in communication.

Selena Snowden, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) led 12 current students and two alumni on the annual Guatemala Hears Trip where they provided hearing health care to 214 patients and fitted 174 hearing aids.

NOTABLE

Zhaohua Wu, Ph.D. (Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science) had his research paper “Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition: A Noise-Assisted Data Analysis Method” surpass 10,000 citations on Google Scholar. Wu’s research paper is now ranked in the top 1,000 most-cited Google Scholar papers across all fields since 1970.

Xin Henry Zhang, Ph.D. (Department of Statistics) was elected President of Florida’s chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASA) for a two-year term. The ASA is the world’s largest community of statisticians.

Sindy Chapa, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) served as moderator on the panel “Communications & Public Affairs Careers” at FSU Careers in Public Service Conference.

Hye Jin Park, Ph.D., RN (College of Nursing) is collaborating with Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare to expand existing TMH telehealth services. This initiative aims to provide targeted support and remote counseling for aging adults in Wakulla, Jefferson and Gadsden counties who may be at risk for substance use disorders.

Tim Glenn, MFA (School of Dance) joined the creative team of the Leon High School Color Guard as a consultant and designer, staging the group’s spring production “A Million Dreams from The Greatest Showman” and choreographing rifle, sabre and flag segments.

Carrie Meyers and Jim Reynolds (Learning Systems Institute) led a Career and Technical Education workshop at the Florida Center for Research in STEM alongside the CPALMS team.

Rabieh Razzouk, MBA, Gena St. John (Learning Systems Institute) and graduate student Bhushan Dahal welcomed Farwa Aamer, the director of South Asia Initiatives at the Asia Society Policy Institute, and Maher Nasser, director of the Outreach Division and Commissioner-General of the United Nations, to the LSI offices to discuss LSI’s impact on learning worldwide.

Robert Hanna, Carrie Meyers and Jim Reynolds (Learning Systems Institute) hosted a 20-hour virtual instruction course “Leveraging AI Prompt Engineering for Engineering Design Pedagogy” as part of FSU’s InSPIRE activity.

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