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 individuals around campus. Our Faculty and Staff Briefs is produced monthly to recognize the accomplishments and provide a space where honors & awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Zhe He, Ph.D., Mia Liza A. Lustria, Ph.D. (School of Information), Neil Charness, Ph.D., Walter R. Boot, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology) and Shayok Chakraborty, Ph.D. (Department of Computer Science) participated on an interdisciplinary research team that was awarded the Best Interdisciplinary Research Award from the 2021 Aging and Health Informatics Conference.
Amy L. Ai, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) received an Innovation Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
Jillian Weise, Ph.D. (The English Department), and Susan Fiorito, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship) won Pinnacle Awards from 850 Magazine which honor highly consequential women in Northwest Florida.
Yiyuan She, Ph.D. (Department of Statistics) and FSU alumnus Jiahui Shen received a joint first prize in an international GHz bandwidth sensing competition called the “Sub-Nyquist Spectrum Sensing and Learning Challenge” hosted by the University of Surrey. The two teams will share the $10,000 award.
Yiyuan She, Ph.D. (Department of Statistics) received the Excellent Editor award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Communications Society for his work on the publication, “IEEE Transactions on Network Science & Engineering”.
Jamel Ali, Ph.D. (College of Engineering) received a 2022 Young Investigator Research Program award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the 2022 American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award.
David Eccles, Ph.D. (College of Education) was recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer of the Year for the journal Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology.
GRANTS
Ebrahim Ahmadisharaf, Ph.D. (College of Engineering) and Michael Killian, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) are conducting research through a National Science Foundation RAPID project to study the impact of flood disasters on health, particularly asthma.
Steven Pepper, MSW (College of Social Work) received a grant from the Indianapolis Public Transportation Foundation to fund bus passes for research participants based in Marion County, Indiana. The bus passes will facilitate research engagement among 5-Key Model for Reentry study participants as well as connecting them to employment, food, healthcare, education and other community services.
Bradley Gordon, Ph.D. (College of Health and Human Sciences) received a 2021 pilot grant from the Oklahoma Nathan Shock Center to support his research project “Identifying Proteomic Changes in the Limb Skeletal Muscle in Response to Aging-Induced Androgen Deprivation.”
Ravinder Nagpal, Ph.D. (College of Health and Human Sciences) received a grant from the Infectious Diseases Society of America Foundation. The $30,000 award is through the 2021 Microbial Pathogenesis in Alzheimer’s Disease grant program and will support Nagpal’s research project “Klebsiella Pneumoniae as a Microbial Trigger for Alzheimer’s Disease: From Microbial Pathogenesis to Neuropathogenesis.”
Nicole Patton Terry, Ph.D. (College of Education) has been named a finalist in the 2022 Institutional Challenge Grant competition.
Samuel Staley, Ph.D. (College of Social Sciences and Public Policy) received a research grant to advance mobility and equity in the U.S. labor market for the project “A Completed Sentence, but Ongoing Punishment: How Past Criminal Convictions Bar Floridians from Occupational Licensing Opportunities.”
Jessica Bahorski, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) was awarded $24,322 through a UF-FSU Pilot Project Award for the project “Identification of Research Priorities During the Fourth Trimester in Maternal-Infant Dyads.”
BYLINES
Jamil Drake, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) published the book “To Know the Soul of a People” with Oxford University Press. Drake also collaborated with a collective of scholars of American religious history to publish “Uncivil Religion,” an online project on the religious dimensions of the Jan. 6, 2021, protest.
Alexandra G. Cockerham, Ph.D. (Department of Political Science) published “Why Term Limits May Mean Leaders are Less Likely to Strike Legislative Deals” based on the paper “Going it Alone: The Adverse Effect of Executive Term Limits on Bargaining” in State and Local Government Review.
Thayumanasamy Somasundaram, Ph.D. (Institute of Molecular Biophysics) published the paper “The Eighth Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of Shared Resources” in the Journal of Biomolecular Techniques.
Azat Gündoğan, Ph.D. (Honors Program) published “The New Left in Turkey’s Long Sixties: The Kurdish ’68ers and the Workers’ Party of Turkey” in the Turkish Historical Review.
Kelly Farquharson (School of Communication Science and Disorders) and FSU student Kaia Stevenson had their article “Which Speech Sound Norms are Used in U.S. Public Schools? A Retrospective Survey Analysis” published in the Seminars in Speech and Language journal.
Shannon Hall-Mills, Ph.D., Lakeisha Johnson, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders), Melissa Gross, Ph.D., Don Latham, Ph.D. and Nancy Everhart, Ph.D. (School of Information) published their research article “Providing Telepractice in Schools During a Pandemic: The Experiences and Perspectives of Speech-Language Pathologists” in the journal Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools.
John Ribó, Ph.D. and Aaron Jaffe, Ph.D. (The English Department) wrote chapters for the anthology “Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism.” Jaffe served as coeditor for the publication.
Jillian Weise, Ph.D. (The English Department) published “My Brain is Already Cyborg” in Wired Magazine.
Molly Hand, Ph.D. (The English Department) published “To Kill Harmless Cattle: Animal Victims and The Witch of Edmonton” in the journal Early Theatre.
Matthew Goff, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) published a co-edited book “Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature.”
S.E. Gontarski, Ph.D. (The English Department) authored a new monograph in Brazil, “Samuel Beckett – Os Grandes Textos Teatrais” published by Giostri.
Carrie Pettus, Ph.D. (Social Work) published the article “Smart Decarceration” in the Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Social Work. She also organized a Special Interest Group session on the “Grand Challenge to Promote Smart Decarceration” at the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research annual conference.
Mary Ziegler, J.D. (College of Law) authored the op-eds “The End of Roe is Coming, and It is Coming Soon” for the New York Times, “Here’s What Should Worry Liberals and Conservatives About the Future of Roe v. Wade” for Politico and “The End of ‘Roe'” for the Atlantic. In addition, she authored “Supreme Court Seems Ready to Launch a Social and Political Earthquake” and “What the Texas Abortion Decision Portends for Reproductive Rights” for CNN as well as “Ginsburg Once Defined the Court’s Vision of Women’s Equality. Now Barrett Does” for The Washington Post.
Jenny Root, Ph.D. (College of Education) published “Teaching Mathematical Word Problem Solving to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Best-Evidence Synthesis” in the journal Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities. She also co-authored a practitioner article “Using the Four Stages of Learning to Assess, Set Goals and Instruct” published in the journal Teaching Exceptional Children.
Megan Buning, CMPC (College of Education) published “Reverse Engineering the Mental Game” and “Get in the Loop: Creating Useful Habits to Improve Performance in Sport Coach America.”
Bret Staudt Willet, Ph.D. (College of Education) published “Black Mirror Pedagogy: Dystopian Stories for Technoskeptical Imaginations” in the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. To supplement this work, Staudt Willet built interactive web applications to help students tap into their creative imaginations through online MadLibs.
Beth Phillips, Ph.D. (College of Education) co-published “Does Preschool Children’s Self-Regulation Moderate the Impacts of Instructional Activities? Evidence From a Randomized Intervention Study” in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
Samuel Staley, Ph.D. (College of Social Sciences and Public Policy) published the book “Megacity Mobility: Integrated Urban Transportation Development and Management” with CRC Press.
Amanda Driscoll, Ph.D. (College of Social Sciences and Public Policy) and Ph.D. student Taylor Kinsley Chewning co-published “Conditional Cash Transfers and Child Labor” in World Development.
Alexandra G. Cockerham, Ph.D. (College of Social Sciences and Public Policy) authored “Why Term Limits May Mean Leaders are Less Likely to Strike Legislative Deals” on the London School of Economics American Politics and Policy blog.
Amal Ibourk, Ph.D. (College of Education) co-authored the book chapter “Toward Equitable Science Instruction: The Current State of Elementary Science Education in the United States and Policy Considerations” in the International Handbook of Research on Multicultural Science Education.
Eunhui Yoon, Ph.D. (College of Education) co-authored the article “Introducing Korean Adolescent Counselling Systems: Implications for Future Directions” which was published online to Counseling and Psychotherapy Research.
Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., Laurie Abbott, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) and Shamra Boel-Studt, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored “Classifying Heart Failure Caregivers as Adequately or Inadequately Resourced to Care: A Latent Class Analysis,” which was accepted for publication in Journal of Palliative Care.
Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) co-authored “The Subjective Component of the Dutch Objective Burden Inventory: A Psychometric Analysis” which was accepted for publication in the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.
PRESENTATIONS, CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITS
Sana Tibi, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented “The Characteristics of the Alphabet in Arabic and its Role in Knowing the Letters” to the Queen Rania Teacher Training Academy.
Ebrahim Randeree, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) presented “Branding and Building Relationships with University STEM Programs” to the Florida Career Pathways Network.
Shannon Hall-Mills, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) presented a two-part, full day presentation for speech language pathologists working with school-age children and adolescents at the 2021 Long Island Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference.
Tanya Renn, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and co-authors presented “The Relationship of Lifetime Traumatic Brain Injury with Drug Use and Delinquency in the Year Prior to Incarceration: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis of Incarcerated Youth in Two States” which was featured at the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research annual conference.
Jeff Broome, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) served as an invited guest speaker for the University of Memphis as a part of the University’s “Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
John Mathias, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) authored the symposium paper “Tornado Shelter in a Red Bow: Giving and Receiving Disaster Aid in Rural Alabama” and organized a Special Interest Group on Anthropology and Social Work for the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research annual conference.
Carrie Pettus, Ph.D. and Stephanie Kennedy, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) organized the symposium “Exploring Reentry Outcomes for Individuals Leaving Prison and Returning Home: Focusing on Behavioral Health Needs, Service Utilization, and the Impact of COVID-19″ held at the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research annual conference.
Lilian Garcia-Roig, MFA (Department of Art) has her work “Hyphenated Nature” exhibited at the Hillsborough Community College-Ybor City Campus Gallery 114.
Lauren Stanley, MSW and Shamra Boel-Studt, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) presented “The Influence of Age, Gender and Complex Trauma on the Relation between Treatment Conditions and the Use of Crisis Response Interventions in Therapeutic Residential Care” at the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research annual conference.
Jessica Pryce, Ph.D. (College of Social Work and Florida Institute for Child Welfare) participated in a doctoral student session on “Abolition: Social Work’s Role in and Response to the Abolitionist Movement” at the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research annual conference.
Melissa Radey, Ph.D. and Lisa Magruder, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) gave the presentation “’True Colors’ of Low-Income Single Mothers Kin Networks during COVID-19″ at the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research annual conference.
Amy L. Ai, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) wrote the symposium papers “Environmental and Racial Justices Issues in Black Communities 2.5 Years after Major Disasters” and “Perceived Spiritual Support Counteracts the Traumatic Impacts of Deadly Hurricanes” which were featured at the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research annual conference.
Katrina Boone, MSW (College of Social Work) authored the symposium paper “Negative Coping, Positive Emotions and Post-Disaster Resilience” which was featured at the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research annual conference.
Shamra Boel-Studt, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and doctoral candidates Taylor Dowdy-Hazlett and Lauren Stanley created the poster “The Association Between Familial Risk Factors and Maltreatment Exposure Among Youth Residing in Psychiatric Residential Treatment,” which was featured at the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research annual conference.
Carrie Pettus, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the symposium paper “Examining Prosecutors’ 2020 Framework on Prosecution and Public Health,” which was featured at the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research annual conference.
Amberly Prykhodko, LCSW (College of Social Work) co-presented “Working Together Better: How Embedded Behavioral Health Teams and Peer Support Teams Can Enhance Each Other’s Mission and Help First Responders Thrive” at the First Responder Conference in Jacksonville, Florida.
Carrie Pettus, Ph.D., Stephanie Kennedy, Ph.D., Tanya Renn, Ph.D. and Stephen Tripodi, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) presented a roundtable titled “Behavioral Health Literacy: Implementing a New Construct to Address Disparities Among Currently and Formerly Incarcerated Populations” at the national meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research.
Stephanie Kennedy, Ph.D., Carrie Pettus, Ph.D. and Tanya Renn, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) presented the paper “Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 for Individuals Leaving Incarceration and Returning Home” at the national meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research.
Tanya Renn, Ph.D., Stephanie Kennedy, Ph.D., Carrie Pettus, Ph.D., Stephen Tripodi, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and doctoral student Megan Vogt presented the paper “Comparing Trauma, Physical and Behavioral Health Needs and Service Utilization Rates of Those Who Died after Release from Prison to Those Who Did Not” at the national meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research.
Tanya Renn, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) presented the paper “Comparing Behavioral Health Outcomes and Treatment Utilization of Justice-Involved and Non-Justice-Involved Native Adults” at the national meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research.
Jeff Broome, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) virtually presented “Homebound: An Arts-Informed Narrative Reflection on COVID-19 and a Departure from Appalachia” at the International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative.
Daniel Van Durme, M.D. and Emily Pritchard, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) participated in a virtual community forum about the COVID-19 Omicron variant on public radio, along with members of Florida A&M University Covid Response Team.
Timothy Baghurst, Ph.D. (College of Education) presented the talk “Specialization Isn’t Just a Problem for Athletes: Rethinking Academics and Administration” at the National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education 2022 Annual Conference.
Jenny Root, Ph.D. (College of Education) presented “Applying the Instructional Hierarchy with Learners with Autism and Intellectual Disability” at the University of British Colombia’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration for Autism.
Amanda Driscoll, Ph.D. (College of Social Sciences and Public Policy) and Ph.D. students Taylor Kinsley Chewning and Martín Gandur published the paper “Too Much, Too Little or Just About Right? Public Evaluations of Executive Influence in Four Constitutional Courts” which was presented at the 2022 Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting. They also submitted a research status report to the Rapoport Family Foundation regarding their research project “Who are the `Curbers’? Public Support for Judicial Independence,” which has been selected for the Rapoport Summer Research Collaboratives Program award.
SERVICE
Erin O’Hara O’Connor, J.D. (College of Law) was recognized by the Florida Supreme Court for her important service as bar registrant advocate—assisting the 3,137 examinees facing unprecedented challenges in taking the 2020 Florida bar exam during the pandemic.
Antonio Cuyler, Ph.D. (Department of Art Education) served as a panelist for the University of Michigan’s discussion “Eileen Southern and The Music of Black Americans: A Celebratory Roundtable.”
NOTABLE
Faye Jones, Ph.D. and Ebrahim Randeree, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) launched Black Men in Tech, a new CCI project that focuses on strengthening the pipeline for young Black men interested in STEM fields.
Becky Greenhill, MA (School of Communication Science and Disorders) led a team of first-year Speech Pathology graduate students to provide a weekly fitness program, called Rock Steady Boxing, that targets the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease.
Avlana K. Eisenberg, J.D. (College of Law) was elected to the American Law Institute.
Shawn Bayern, J.D. (College of Law) was elected to the European Law Institute.
Timothy Baghurst, Ph.D. (College of Education) was promoted to president of the National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Ed.
Michael Ormsbee, Ph.D. (College of Health and Human Sciences) was named the director of the FSU Institute of Science and Sports Medicine.
Mark Chaet, M.D. (College of Medicine) was named dean of the Florida State University College of Medicine’s Orlando Regional Campus.
Tanya Renn, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and co-authors created the poster “Comparing Behavioral Health Outcomes and Treatment Utilization of Justice-Involved and Non-Justice-Involved Native Adults Model” that was featured at the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research annual conference.
John Mathias, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and co-authors created a poster that was presented by doctoral student Brandi Skipalis titled “Rituals of Return: Disaster Aid, Nonprofit Social Service Organizations, and the Transition Back to ‘Normal’ Inequality in the US” at the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research annual conference.
Michael Killian, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and co-authors created the posters, “Anti-Depressant Adherence Among Hispanic Patients in an Integrated Health Care Treatment Model” and “Time to Remission among Hispanic Patients Being Treated in an Integrated Health Care Model,” which were featured at the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research annual conference.
Shamra Boel-Studt, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and doctoral students Savarra Tadeo and Taylor Dowdy-Hazlett created the poster, “Predicting Length of Stay in Residential Care and the Impact on Youth Outcomes Care,” which was featured at the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research annual conference.
Anna Yelick, Ph.D. and Jessica Pryce, Ph.D. (College of Social Work and Florida Institute for Child Welfare) created the poster “Towards an Anti-Racist Framework for Child Welfare Practice” that was featured at the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research annual conference.
Christopher Collins, doctoral candidate (College of Social Work) and co-authors created a poster on “Differential Experiences of Dating Violence and Sexual Violence Among Trans/Gender Diverse Youth” that was featured at the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research annual conference.
Savarra Tadeo, doctoral candidate, Megan Vogt, doctoral candidate, Breanna Kim, doctoral candidate, Michaé Cain, doctoral candidate and Edward Bennett, doctoral candidate (College of Social Work) created the poster, “Effectiveness of Seeking Safety on Reducing PTSD and Substance Use: A Review,” which was featured at the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research annual conference.
Erik Hines, Ph.D. (College of Education) appeared at PITT Community College as a guest speaker for the workshop series “The Undisputed Truth for Black Male Achievement.”
Timothy Baghurst, Ph.D. (College of Education) accepted a position as the National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education’s (NAKHE) next president-elect.
Eugenia Millender, Ph.D. (College of Nursing) was appointed as the new National Advisory Committee Chair for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association.
Laurie Abbott, Ph.D. and Alicia (Ali) Craig-Rodriguez, DNP (College of Nursing) received a national certification as Diplomats by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.