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.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Eundeok Kim, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship) received the Minority and Women Entrepreneurship SIG Scholar Award at the 2024 United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Annual Conference in Birmingham, AL. Kim was also selected as a finalist for the 2023 Sustainability Research Award for her paper “Sustainable New Product Development for Ten Thousand Villages, a Fair-Trade Social Enterprise: Empowering Women and Economic Development through Problem-Based Service Learning” by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
Vanessa Dennen, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) received a book award from the Association for Educational Computers and Technology’s Division of Distance Learning for her co-edited volume, “Global Perspectives on Education Innovations for Emergency Situations.”
Fred Abbott, J.D. (College of Law) has been nominated for an Antitrust Writing Award in the Unilateral Conduct subcategory for his article “Prosecuting Excessive Pricing of Pharmaceuticals under Competition Law: Evolutionary Development.”
Anand “Sunny” Narayanan, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) received a travel award to attend NASA’s 2023 Analysis Working Group Workshop.
Laura Reid Marks, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was recently awarded the Rising Star Award from the National Multicultural Conference and Summit which recognizes the achievements of early career professionals who have shown exceptional promise and dedication to advancing multicultural psychology.
Nilay Özok-Gündoğan, Ph.D. (Department of History) was awarded the 2023 Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association Book Prize for her book “The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy, and Privilege.”
Ralm G. Ricarte, Ph.D. (FAMU-FSU College of Engineering) was awarded the 2023 3M Non-Tenure Faculty Award in recognition of his outstanding research on the physical chemistry of dynamic polymer networks and to support his path toward a tenured professorship.
GRANTS
Mollie Romano, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) and her Communication and Early Childhood Research and Practice Center team were awarded three years of funding from the U.S. Department of Health for her work in Early Steps Professional Development.
Ravinder Nagpal, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was awarded a $100,000 research grant from the Florida Department of Health through the Ed & Ethel Moore Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program for his project “Mechanisms of Enteric Infection-mediated Pathobiome in Alzheimer’s Neuropathology.”
Michael Ormsbee, Ph.D., Joseph Watso, Ph.D., Kyle Smith, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and doctoral student Brett Cross were awarded a grant of $77,588 from Compound Solutions® for their project “Tributyrin Supplementation: Time Course and Efficacy to Improve Health and Performance.”
David Pifer, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and his team were selected by the Center for Research in Intercollegiate Athletics (CRIA) and the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) to receive funding for their project “An Analysis of Transfer Portal Movements and Their Effects on the Athletic Performances of ACC Revenue Sports and Student-Athletes.”
Qinchun Rao, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was awarded a three-year, $226,005 grant from Florida A&M University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture for their project “Food Safety and Quality Lab at the Florida State University.”
Prashant Singh, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was awarded a $142,552 grant from Florida Sea Grant’s 2024-2025 Biennial Applied Science Competition for his project “PCR Lateral Flow Assays for the Rapid Onsite Authentication of Economically Impactful Seafood Species.”
Christopher Solis-Ocampo, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was awarded a $747,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for his project “Post-Translational Mechanisms of Cardiac Adaptation During Unloading.”
BYLINES
Hugh Catts, Ph.D., Kelly Farquharson, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information), Nicole Patton Terry, Ph.D. Laura Steacy, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences), Christopher Lonigan, Ph.D., Richard Wagner, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology), and Yaacov Petscher, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored and published “Revisiting the definition of dyslexia” in the Annals of Dyslexia journal.
Diana Sharp, Ph.D. (College of Business) and Nicole Patton Terry, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “No, AI Can’t Teach Children to Read. Yet” in the newspaper Education Week.
Keisey Fumero, Ph.D., Carla Wood, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) and Beth Phillips, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored and published “Supportive Language Strategies for Preschool Dual Language Learners: Associations with Early Language Outcomes” in the Early Childhood Research Quarterly.
Martin Munro, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) co-authored and co-edited “Writing the World with Michaël Ferrier” in a special issue of Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: SITES. He also co-edited “The Broken Mirror: Christine and the Queens and Global Frenchness” and co-authored “Breaking through in 2016: Relation, Hybridity, Tilting” in a special issue of Contemporary French Civilization.
Beth Phillips, Ph.D., Sonia Cabell, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences), Chelsea Funari, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) and doctoral students Sen Wang and Rebecca Vasile co-authored “Shared Book Reading in Early Childhood Classrooms: What Texts Are Teachers Reading and What Role Does Classroom Age Composition Play in Teachers’ Choices?” published by the Journal of Research in Childhood Education.
Andrea Barton-Hulsey, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) co-authored “Emergency and Disaster Preparedness for Individuals Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication: A Pilot Study on Supported Planning Using a Toolkit” published by the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
Yunjung Kim, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) co-authored “Raising Awareness About Language-and-Culture-Specific Considerations in the Management of Dysarthria Associated with Parkinson’s Disease Within the United States” published by the Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research.
Erin Bush, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) co-authored “Students’ Perception of a Virtual Dissection Laboratory in Undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology of Speech and Hearing: A Focus Group Study” published by Seminars in Speech and Language.
Sonia Cabell, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) published the book “Strive-for-Five Conversations: A Framework That Gets Kids Talking to Accelerate their Language Comprehension and Literacy.” She also co-authored “Using Strive-for-Five Conversations to Strengthen Language Comprehension in Preschool Through Grade One” published in The Reading Teacher.
Qinchun Rao, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and graduate students Chunya Tang and Xingyi Jiang co-authored “Effect of Temperature on Structural Configuration and Immunoreactivity of pH-stressed Soybean (Glycine max) Agglutinin” published in Food Chemistry.
Christopher Stanley, Ph.D., Stephanie Al Otaiba, Ph.D., Jeanne Wanzek, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research), Jungyeong Heo, M.A. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and Yaacov Petscher, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored “Direct Impact of Mindset on Reading-Based Outcomes in Upper Elementary Students with Reading Difficulties” published by Frontiers in Education.
Anel Brandl, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) co-authored the article “Future-Time Expression and Generational Status in Spanish-English Heritage Bilingual Speakers: An Online Study” and presented it at the Fourth International Conference on Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone world (BHL) in Puebla, Mexico.
Enrique Alvarez, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) published the article “Los Diarios de Rafael Chirbes, el orgullo gay, y la escritura del dolor homosexual masculino” in the journal Anclajes.
Molly Hand, Ph.D. (Department of English) published the article “‘Sworn to Sweat’: Witchcraft, Labor, and Wicked Consumption in Middleton’s The Witch” in Studies in the Literary Imagination.
S.E. Gontarski, Ph.D. (Department of English) published the articles “A Theatre of Elsewhere” and “The Geography of Theatre Imagination: A New ‘Endgame’ At a New Irish Theatre Festival” in The Theatre Times.
Thomas Joiner, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology) published the book “The Varieties of Suicidal Experience: A New Theory of Suicidal Violence.”
Vanessa Dennen, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and two FSU alumni co-authored “Optional Embedded Microlearning Challenges: Promoting Self-Directed Learning and Extension in a Higher Education Course” published by Educational Technology & Society.
Yeo-eun Kim, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was the lead author on “Situating Cost Perceptions: How General Cost and Motivational Regulation Predict Specific Momentary Cost Dimensions” published by Educational Psychology. She was also the lead author on “An Interdisciplinary Review of Self-Regulation of Learning: Bridging Cognitive and Educational Psychology Perspectives” published by Educational Psychology Review.
Anand “Sunny” Narayanan, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and Charles Fleischer, M.D. (College of Medicine) co-authored “Systematic Review of Existing Literature Regarding the Prevalence of Pediatric Atopic Dermatitis in Honduras” published by JAAD International.
Lara Perez-Felkner, Ph.D., Shouping Hu, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences), FSU alumnus Jinjushang Chen and doctoral candidate Yang Li co-authored “Gender Differences in Motivational and Curricular Pathways Toward Postsecondary Computing Majors” published by Research in Higher Education.
Paul Niell, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) co-published “Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850″ with Routledge.
Christopher Small, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) published the book chapter “Creating Mirrors of Reflection and Doorways of Opportunity: Engaging and Supporting Elementary Black Males in Language Arts” in Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education.
Joseph Watso, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and his team in the Cardiovascular and Applied Physiology Laboratory had their article “Acute Nasal Breathing Lowers Diastolic Blood Pressure and Increases Parasympathetic Contributions to Heart Rate Variability in Young Adults” selected for APSselect, a monthly collection from the American Physiological Society that showcases some of the best recently published articles in physiological research.
Tuba Tuncel, Ph.D. (Department of Economics) co-authored “Monetary values of increasing life expectancy: Sensitivity to shifts of the survival curve” in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.
Laura Perez Felkner, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences), Ladanya Ramirez Surmeier, Ph.D. (Public Health Program), and doctoral candidate Rose Rezaei (FSU’s Center for Health Advocacy and Wellness) co-authored “Gender and Educational Inequality” in The Sage Handbook on Sociology of Education.
Melissa Radey, Ph.D. and Dina Wilke, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the article, ”Trajectories and Predictors of Client Violence Among Child Protection Service Workers,” published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Amy L. Ai, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the articles,” Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Open-Heart Surgery: The Role of Character, Strength, and Hope in a Structure Equation Model” and “Optimism Mitigated the Detrimental Role of Depression and Anxiety in Subjective Well-being after Cardiac Surgery,” published in the journal Innovations in Aging.
Stephen Tripodi, Ph.D., Tanya Renn, Ph.D., and Lisa Schelbe, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the article, “I Feel like I Have ‘Prison’ Tattooed on my Forehead: Women’s Trajectories after Release from Incarceration” in the journal Women & Criminal Justice.
Amy L. Ai, Ph.D. and Beren Crim Sabuncu, MSW (College of Social Work) co-authored the book chapter, “Posttraumatic Growth and Cardiovascular Diseases” in the book The Routledge international Handbook for Posttraumatic Growth.
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Eric Walker, Ph.D. (Department of English) participated in the roundtable “What’s the Father For? Representations of Fatherhood in Narratives of Nontraditional Reproduction” at the Modern Language Association of America’s annual conference in Philadelphia, PA.
Sara Hart, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology) presented “Utilizing Precision Education to Explore Variances in Learning” at the Center for Research on Language and Literacy Acquisition Challenges at Georgia State University.
Rachel L. Bailey, Ph.D., Arienne Ferchaud, Ph.D., Svitlana Jaroszynski, Ph.D. and doctoral candidate Obianuju Aliche (College of Communication and Information) presented “Current Issues in Emotion and Communication Studies,” “Mass Communication Division Meeting,” and “Fighting for Freedom, Centering Ukrainian Voices” at the National Communication Association Annual Convention in National Harbor, Md.
Chris Hinnant, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) gave a keynote presentation “Leading in Interesting Times: Reflections of a New Director” at the Association for Library and Information Science Education Leadership Academy.
Paul Marty, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) led faculty workshops at the Innovation Hub on generative AI in Dec. 2023 and Jan. 2024 where he demonstrated the uses of ChatGPT in the classroom to FSU faculty.
Ebe Randeree (College of Communication and Information) participated in the panels “STARS 101 Workshop” and “Building an Alumni Engagement Ecosystem” at the Students and Technology in Academia, Research and Service Computing Corps Celebration Conference in Dallas, TX. He also presented “What will Career Pathways look like in 2030?” at the Florida Career Pathways Network Annual Symposium.
Faye Jones, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) presented her research “Tracking CS Student Success in Education and Career Pathways with a BPC [Broadening Participation in Computing] Perspective” at the Students and Technology in Academia, Research and Service Computing Corps Celebration Conference in Dallas, TX. Jones also participated in a keynote panel for the Southern Regional Education Board at the 30th Institute on Teaching and Mentoring in Tampa, Fla.
Jennifer Gans, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) presented “Tools for Effective K-5 Literacy Instruction” at the 59th Annual Florida Literacy Conference.
Sonia Cabell, Ph.D. (College of Education) presented “Strengthening Language Comprehension Through Strive-for-Five Conversations (PK-2)” at the 59th Annual Florida Literacy Conference.
Laurie Lee, Ed.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) presented “Helping Content Area Teachers Shine on with Literacy!” at the 59th Annual Florida Literacy Conference.
Wayne Logan, J.D. (College of Law) presented the lecture “Technologically-Assisted Surveillance by Law Enforcement After Carpenter” at the Annual Education Program of the Florida Conference of District Court of Appeal Judges.
Anand “Sunny” Narayanan, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) delivered the presentations “The Effects of Spaceflight on the Mouse Basilar Artery Structure and Biochemistry” and “The Effects of Spaceflight on the Mouse Coronary Artery Structure and Biochemistry” at the 2023 American Society for Gravitational and Space Research Conference in Washington, D.C. He also co-chaired the session “Vertebrates 3: Immune and Nervous System” and was a panelist for “Space Medicine – The Human Body in Space” at the SpaceVision 2023 Conference where he also presented “Long-term Effects of Simulated Deep Space Radiation on the Heart’s Circulatory System.”
Sonia Cabell, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) presented “Best Practices in Literacy: Fostering Early Writing” for the University of Virginia’s STREAMin3 Webinar Series.
Rafe Blaufarb, Ph.D. (Department of History) presented the article “The Price of Liberty: The Fiscal Politics of 1789” for his Newberry Library Fellows’ Seminar.
Carolina González, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) co-presented the article “Emotion and ideology: Tolkien’s Quenya and Le Guin’s Kesh” as part of the Language and Society forum at the Annual Convention of the Modern Languages Association.
James A. Palmer, Ph.D. (Department of History) presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association on the paper “Contemplating the Crusades in the Chronicle of the Anonimo Romano” and served as secretary-treasurer of the Society for Italian Historical Studies at the conference.
Nilay Özok-Gündoğan, Ph.D. (Department of History) presented the article “Forging Empires: Charcoal Production, Deforestation, and Statecraft in Ottoman Kurdistan” at Vanderbilt University.
Christy Mantzanas, Tori Andrews, Abbey Hale, M.S. and Jamie Butler, M.S.W (FSU Career Center) presented “The Business of Employer Relations” at the Southern Association of Colleges and Employers Annual Conference in New Orleans.
Katrina Boone, M.S.W. (College of Social Work), Wenyi, Li (Florida Institute for Child Welfare), Amy L. Ai, Ph.D. (College of Social Work),Sabrina Dickey, Ph.D. (College of Nursing), and Beren Crim Sabuncu, M.S.W. (College of Social Work) presented the poster, “Checking-in with the Volunteers: A Longitudinal Review of the Impact of Traumatization during Disaster Relief Work” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Melissa Radey, Ph.D. and Dina Wilke, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) coauthored and presented the poster, “Complex Relationships between Injustice and Justice in Organizations: Reducing Child Welfare Workers’ Burnout” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Bruce Thyer, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) participated in the “Invited Journals Editors Workshop I” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Hyunji Lee, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) co-presented a poster on, “What Protects Children with Adverse Childhood Experiences from Having Poor Health Outcomes?” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Gashaye Tefera, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-presented, “The Centrality of Trust: Examining Perceptions of African Immigrant Women on Access and Utilization of Primary Healthcare Services in the United States” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Beth Okantey, M.S.W. (College of Social Work) presented the poster, “Global Citizenship through Web-Based Social Work Education” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Hyunji Lee, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) co-presented the poster, “A Pilot Study Evaluating the Preliminary Efficacy of a Psychosocial Program for Asian American Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C
Sonnie Mayewski, M.S.W. and Michael Killian, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-organized the special interest group, Pediatric Health and Social Work at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Bruce Thyer, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) organized the special interest group, Research on Social Work Practice Editorial Board at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Gashaye Tefera, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-presented, “Toward a Structural Approach: Exploring Barriers of Access to Primary Healthcare Services Among African Immigrant Women” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Melissa Radey, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-presented, “State TANF Policies and Postnatal High School Completion Among Women after a Nonmarital Birth: A 15-Year Follow-up Study at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Michaé Cain, M.S.W. (College of Social Work), Michael Henson, PhD (Florida Institute for Child Welfare), Dina Wilke, PhD (College of Social Work), and Melissa Radey, PhD (College of Social Work) co-presented, “What Makes a Case Difficult: Definitions from Child Welfare Workers and Implications for Workload and Caseload Management” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Beth Okantey, M.S.W. (College of Social Work) presented the poster, “Are Universal Basic Income and Guaranteed Basic Income Programs Effective? a Review” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Sanoop Valappanandi, M.S.W. (College of Social Work) presented the poster, Household Environmental Factors: Health Implications Among Women and Children in India” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Michael Killian, PhD (College of Social Work) organized the symposium, “Interpersonal Communication Processes Among Adolescents and Young Adults in Healthcare,” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Michael Killian, Ph.D. (College of Social Work), Lisa Schelbe, Ph.D. (College of Social Work), Mia Lustria, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) co-presented, “In-App Messaging and Engagement of Adolescent Heart Transplant Patients during Mobile App-Based Video Directly Observed Therapy: A Content Analysis” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Kristy Anderson, Ph.D. (College of Social Work), Sonnie Mayewski, M.S.W. (College of Social Work), Michael Killian, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-presented, “Care Coordination Among Healthcare Providers of Autistic Children and Adolescents during COVID-19” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Katrina Boone, M.S.W. (College of Social Work), Amy Ai, Ph.D. (College of Social Work), and Beren Crim Sabuncu, M.S.W. (College of Social Work) presented the poster, “Nurturing Independent Function after Open Heart Surgery: Next Steps for Medical Social Workers at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Sanoop Valappanandi, M.S.W. (College of Social Work) presented the poster, “The Effectiveness of Drinking Water Quality Improvement Programs in India: A Review” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Qiuchang Katy Cao, PhD (College of Social Work) presented the poster, “Mental Health Help-Seeking Among Asian Older Adults in the United States: A Scoping Review” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Sonnie Mayewski, M.S.W. (College of Social Work) presented the poster, “Social Determinants of Health and Parent Burnout,” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Lauren H.K. Stanley, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) moderated oral presentations on “Methodological Approaches to Mental Health” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Lauren H.K. Stanley, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) and Yaacov Petscher, Ph.D. (College of Social Work and Florida Center for Reading Research) presented the poster, “Predictor Importance and Classification Accuracy of Trauma Measures to the Identification of Early Literacy Skills in Kindergarteners” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Lauren Herod, M.S.W., M.P.A. (College of Social Work) presented the poster “Are Cognitive Therapies Effective in Treating Trauma Symptoms in Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation? a Review” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Bruce Thyer, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) presented, “Experimental Research Designs in Social Work: Theory and Applications” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Zhe Yang, M.S.W. (College of Social Work) and Michael Killian, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-presented, “Healthcare Utilization for Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: An Examination from Oneflorida Clinical Research Consortium” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Zhe Yang, M.S.W. (College of Social Work) presented, “Psychosocial or Non-Pharmacological Preoperative Intervention to Reduce Fear of Surgery for Children in Hospital Settings: A Review” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Tanya Renn, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and John Moore, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored the presentation, “Interaction of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Food Insecurity on Youth Delinquency” at the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research conference in Washington, D.C.
PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS
Katie Kehoe, MFA (Department of Art) is currently exhibiting with Atlantika Collective in “Climate for Change” at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. The exhibit focuses on the climate crisis.
SERVICE
Eundeok Kim, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship) served as Chair of the Social Entrepreneurship SIG at the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship for 2024. Kim also served as a panelist for the Around the World in 50 Minutes: Designing Social Entrepreneurship Study Abroad Experiences at the 2024 United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Annual Conference in Birmingham, AL.
Ebe Randeree, (College of Communication and Information) led a volunteer team of FSU students to the Killearn Lakes Elementary School Fall Festival where they taught elementary students and their parents about careers in tech.
Lisa Griffiths, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was appointed chair of FSU’s Department of Health, Nutrition, and Food Sciences. Griffiths previously served as interim chair of the department since 2022.
Yeo-eun Kim, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was invited to serve on the editorial board for two journals: the Journal of Educational Psychology and the Journal of Experimental Education.
Stephanie Walker (FSU Childcare) has been named a board member of the National Coalition for Campus Children’s Centers. This organization supports excellence in programs for young children in communities of higher learning by providing opportunities for leadership, professional development, research, networking and advocacy.
Zduy Chu, Ed.D. (Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs) was selected to Serve on the NASPA Presidential Search Committee. NASPA is the leading association for the advancement, health and sustainability of the student affairs profession.
NOTABLE
Florida State University’s Campus Reimagined Initiative (CRI) has been granted a new patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patented “Video Submission Survey Reviewer System Process” represents a significant addition to CRI’s intellectual property portfolio, with a keen focus on enhancing the university experience for students. This groundbreaking system, a brainchild of CRI inventors Andrew Bucior (Information Technology Services) and William Lindner (Provost’s Office), revolutionizes the way student feedback is collected and analyzed. Utilizing cutting-edge technology, the system invites students to submit video impressions of campus life directly from their mobile devices. Behind the scenes, artificial intelligence processes these insights, employing natural language processing for sentiment analysis, image recognition, and campus safety notifications. The patent team also includes Rick Burnette (Provost’s Office), Yaacov Petscher (Florida Center for Reading Research) and former CRI staff member Pete Butler. This collaborative effort underscores the Initiative’s commitment to leveraging technology for a more responsive and connected campus environment.
Ronald Blazek, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) passed away on December 8, 2023. Blazek joined the faculty in 1971 and served for over 32 years.
Antje Muntendam, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) co-organized the Fourth International Conference on Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone world (BHL) in Puebla, Mexico.
Michael Kofler, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology) has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Attention Disorders.
As part of the USAID-sponsored Rwanda Schools and System Activity, Marion Fesmire, Ed.D. and Ana H. Marty, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) provided an Early Childhood Emergent Literacy Pedagogical Training to 32 teacher educators from colleges across Rwanda. They also provided Literacy Leadership Training to 16 sector-level and 16 district-level stakeholders in Rwanda to support their ability to monitor and mentor teacher educators at colleges across the country.
The Learning Systems Institute’s Strengthening Teacher Education and Practice team in Malawi supported the Ministry of Education in conceptualizing a diploma/degree program for primary school teacher education. The project is funded by USAID and led by Adrienne Barnes-Story, Ph.D.
Paul Marty, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information), Fengfeng Ke, Ph.D. (College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and Jonathan Fozard, Ph.D. (Information Technology Services) participated in a debate on artificial intelligence “Artificial Intelligence and The Academy: How will AI Impact Universities?” coordinated by the FSU Office of Public Policy Events.
Rafe Blaufarb, Ph.D. (Department of History) participated in a one-hour podcast speaking on Napoleon for the series “History Behind News.”
Nilay Özok-Gündoğan, Ph.D. (Department of History) was featured in the Ottoman History Podcast in the episode “Privileges and Nobility in Ottoman Kurdistan” and was featured in Turkey Book Talk in the episode “Nilay Özok-Gündoğan on political authority in Ottoman Kurdistan.”