Faculty and Staff Briefs September 2026

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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 

Bret Keating, M.S., M.S. (Advising First, Pre-Collegiate Advising & Transition Hub) received the Advising Excellence Award – New Advisor Certificate of Merit 2025–26, awarded by Region 4 of the National Academic Advising Association. 

Nick Cota (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) was selected for the 2026 FAM Outstanding New Professional Award by the Florida Association of Museums. 

Steven Palazzo, Ph.D., MN, RN, CNE, ANEF (College of Nursing), has been nominated for the Peg E. Daws NLN Certification Star Award through the National League for Nurses. 

Brittany Taylor, Ph.D., RN (College of Nursing) has received the 2026-27 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award. Taylor will be based at University of São Paulo to investigate how genomic factors and social determinants of health contribute to sickle cell disease outcomes in Brazil. 

Lucinda Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FHFSA, FAAN (College of Nursing) was recently elected as a Fellow in the Heart Failure Society of America, the leading national organization specifically for heart failure clinical practice and science. 

Lucinda Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FHFSA, FAAN (College of Nursing) has been accepted into the 2027 cohort for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s (AACN) Access, Connection, and Engagement (ACE) Leadership Institute.   

Heather Bishop, Ph.D. (Undergraduate Studies) won the Bonita C. Jacobs Transfer Impact Award from the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.  

Robin Haggins (Transfer Student Services) won the Outstanding Transfer Champion Award from the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. 

Lynn Hogan, Ph.D. (Provost’s Office, CoreFSU) was elected to serve a 3-year term on the Association for General and Liberal Studies Council at the Association for General and Liberal Studies Constitute in Charlotte, North Carolina. 

Wallace Teska, Ph.D. (Department of History) earned an honorable mention for the 2026 Article Prize from the French Colonial Historical Society for his article, “Arbitrating Abolition: Women’s Resistance and the Worodugu Slave Exodus of 1907.” 

Kathleen Powers Conti, Ph.D. (Department of History) was awarded a Distinguished Young Alumni Award from Randolph College. 

Bürge Abiral, Ph.D. (Department of Anthropology) earned a 2026–2027 Food, Community, and the Humanities Research and Pedagogy Fellowship from the Association for the Study of Food and Society. The Fellowship includes a $3,500 award and one year of mentorship. 

Anissa Ford (Career Center) was selected to be one of the 2026-2027 Southern Association of Colleges & Employers LEAD Fellows. 

Jeffrey James, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was named a recipient of the Career Achievement Award from The Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology. 

Eric Hartbatkin, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) received the 2026 Early Career Award from the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. 

Amy Huber, Ph.D. (School of Design) received an Honorable Mention for the Polesky Award from the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) for national recognition in healthcare research. 

Kari Lien, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science & Disorders) professional education presentation, developed in collaboration with the Americleft Speech Group, titled “Cleft Palate Speech 101: Simple Strategies for Rating Speech for SLPs and Students,” has been designated as a Meritorious Session by the Convention Program Committee. 

Emily McClellan Lopez (FSU Libraries) is the recipient of the FSU Max Carraway Employee of the Year Award, recognizing her exceptional dedication and contributions to the university community. 

Zhe He, Ph.D., FIAHSI, FAMIA (School of Information) has been elected to the 2026 Class of Fellows at the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI). Election to ACMI is among the highest honors in the field, recognizing sustained excellence, leadership, and contributions to biomedical and health informatics. 

GRANTS 

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) has received $82,941 for Advancing Caregiver-Mediated Speech Intervention for Nonspeaking Autistic Children from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and is acting as the co-sponsor for implementation science.  

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) has received $887,469 for LabGenie: Patient-Engagement Tool to Aid Older Adults’ Understanding of Lab Results from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and is acting as a co-investigator. 

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) has received $775,000 for Strategies to Promote HIV-to-HIV Kidney Transplantation via Organ Donation from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and is acting as a co-investigator. 

Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH (College of Nursing) has received $452,175 for Precision HIV Prevention: Piloting a Youth Learning Health Community from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Mental Health and is a multiple principal investigator with Sylvie Naar, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) and Zhe He, Ph.D. (Center for Translational Behavioral Science).  

Setor “Kofi” Sorkpor, Ph.D., MPH, MSN, RN, NI-BC (College of Nursing) has received $50,000 for Mechanistic Biomarkers of Music-Induced Analgesia in Early-Stage ADRD from the Music & Dementia Research Network, supported through a National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging cooperative agreement. 

Xiaofei Jia, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) was awarded a $3.8 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study how to prevent HIV from evading the body’s immune system. 

Jose R. Pinto, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) was awarded a $2.6 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to uncover the fundamental basis of cardiac muscle contraction, and how changes in the genetic code alter structural components, contributing to cardiomyopathies. 

Erika Loic, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) received a New Foundation for Art History Publication Subvention Grant and an ICMA-Kress Research and Publication Grant for her upcoming book, “The Ripoll Bibles: Medieval Visions of the Ruled Page and the Ruled Life,” from Penn State University Press. 

Jae Hwa Lee, Ph.D., Jim Dawkins, MArch (School of Design) and Subhasree Segupta, Ph.D. (School of Information) received a $7,000 CFA Catalyst Research Grant for the interdisciplinary project “Creative Agency Calibration in Human-AI Enterprises.” 

Zhe He, Ph.D. (School of Information) and Nansu Zong, Ph.D. (Mayo Clinic) received a $3.9 million R01 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NIH/NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health for their project, “HOPE: Advancing HFpEF Management Through Evidence-based Treatment Optimization and Outcome Prediction.”   

Chris Schatschneider, Ph.D. (FSU Psychology), Carla Wood, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science & Disorders), Favenzio Calvo, MS (FSU Libraries), along with colleagues from the University of Waterloo, Utah State University, and Vanderbilt received a 5-year $3,385,806 grant from the National Institutes of Health for their project, Expanding the Power of a Reading and Language Development Data Repository: LDbase.  

BYLINES 

Tom Thurman (College of Motion Picture Arts) had his novel “Their Secret Places” published by Barnes and Noble Press. 

Nadia Banteka, J.D., LL.M., LL.B., (College of Law), recently published, “Cross-Sovereign Policing and Cross-Sovereign Policing and Accountability” in The Yale Law Journal.  

Erika Nyborg-Burch, J.D., (College of Law), recently published “The War on Immigrants” in the UCLA Law Review.   

Jacob Eisler, J.D., Ph.D., (College of Law), recently co-authored the essay, “Disparate (Algorithmic) Advantage” in the Stanford Law Review.    

Frederick Abbott, J.D., LL.M., (College of Law), has a forthcoming publication with World Scientific Publishers. His chapter, “International Intellectual Property and the Pharmaceutical Sector in the Age of Post-Human Technology,” will appear in Global Challenges in Intellectual Property Law: TRIPS Beyond 30.  

Panagiotis Takis Tridimas, LL.M, LL.B., Ph.D., (College of Law), published a chapter in Activating Human and Fundamental Rights Before European Courts titled, “The Preliminary Ruling Procedure and Fundamental Rights: A Tale of Jurisdictional Supremacy.” 

Michael Morley, A.B., J.D., (College of Law), authored “Non-Citizens and the 2026 Election,” an essay for the Democracy Project as part of New York University Law’s written series. 

Steven Palazzo, Ph.D., MN, RN, CNE, ANEF (College of Nursing), co-authored “Creating Healthy Work Environments in Nursing” in Education: An Educational Imperative for Nursing Education Perspectives. Palazzo also acted as co-editor for this issue.  

Michael Killian, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored, “Repeat At-Home Saliva Collection to Measure Cortisol Awakening Response (CAR): Protocol Feasibility Study Among Black Women with Histories of Abuse,” published in the Interactive Journal of Medical Research.  

Carson Outler, Ph.D. and Lenore McWey, Ph.D. (College of Nursing), Melissa Radey, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and Kristine Posada, MSW (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) co-authored, “Informal support as a mediator between material hardship and stress for parents involved with the child welfare system,” in the Journal of Public Child Welfare.  

Kristy Anderson, Ph.D., Michael Killian, Ph.D., and Melissa Radey, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored, “Preventable Hospitalizations During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Patients with Autism and Without Autism,” published in the journal Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.  

John Moore, Ph.D., Tanya Renn, Ph.D., and Michael Killian, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored, “Specific Mental Disorder Comorbidities and MOUD Receipt for Opioid Misuse: Lower Receipt for Persons with Psychotic Disorders,” in the Journal of Dual Diagnosis.  

Ruby Taylor, M.A. (Advising First) authored, “Why Accelerated High School Programs Demand Real College Advising” in the online publication Insights for College Transitions. 

Mark Pietralunga, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) was selected as a fellow and awarded a research grant by the Ragusa Foundation for the Humanities for his book project, “Interpreting America: Amerigo Ruggiero and American Literature and Culture.”  

Dean Falk, Ph.D. (Department of Anthropology) authored, “Locomotor and cognitive evolution in early hominins: An evo-devo perspective,” in Brain, Behavior and Evolution, a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering topics in evolutionary neurobiology.   

Dean Falk, Ph.D. (Department of Anthropology) authored, “Reconsidering whether knuckle-walking gave rise to bipedalism in light of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis,” in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 

S. E. Gontarski, Ph.D. (Department of English) had his book “William S. Burroughs: Thought Control, Aesthetic Weaponry and Dystopian Modernism,” published by the Clemson University and the Liverpool University Press.

S. E. Gontarski, Ph.D. (Department of English)had his essay “Archival Politics, Institutional Bureaucracy: The Neutralization of Scholarly Research,” published on Reality Studio, the premier William S. Burroughs webpage.

S. E. Gontarski, Ph.D. (Department of English) had his book “The Anthem Beckett Studies Reader: Re-Viewing Samuel Beckett,” published by Anthem Press and highlighted on its publishing blog. 

Mark McCoy, Ph.D. (Department of Anthropology) became the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Archeological Studies, in which he published his introductory article, “Archaeological Studies — A Journal for Open Research in Archaeology.”   

Mark McCoy, Ph.D. (Department of Anthropology) had his paper “The Importance of Fit-for-Purpose Evaluation for Computer Vision in Archaeology: A Case Study in Extracting Geospatial Data from Legacy Archaeological Maps,” published in the scientific journal Heritage. 

Eric Shattuck, Ph.D. (Department of Anthropology) had his paper “The Effect of Migration on Perceived Safety and Sleep Quality: An Analysis from Rural and Urban Indigenous Wixárika Communities in Jalisco, Mexico,” published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 

Eric Shattuck, Ph.D. (Department of Anthropology) had his paper “Connectedness to Nature, Ceremonial Participation, and Mental and Physical Health Among Rural and Urban Wixárika in Jalisco, Mexico,” published in the American Journal of Human Biology. 

Aimée Boutin, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) had her chapter “Rewriting the Myth of the Passante: Gender and Mobility in the Poetry of Louise Colet, Louisa Siefert, and Malvina Blanchecotte,” published in “To the Passerby, Before and After Baudelaire,” a special issue of Dix-Neuf, the journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes. 

Juan Carlos Galeano, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) had a series of poems and aphorisms titled, “Poemas y aforismos,” published in Latin American Literature Today. 

Irene Zanini-Cordi, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) had her chapter “Natura, oggetti, miti e relazioni. La voce composita di Maria Lai” published in the book “La voce/le voci delle donne. Dalla cassicità all’era dell’intelligenza artificiale.” 

Darryl Lovett, Ph.D. (Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs) co-authored the feature article “Engaging the Student Affairs Workforce: The Link Between Staff Satisfaction and Student Success” in the Fall 2026 edition of Leadership Exchange magazine. 

Mackenzie Fisher, (Career Center) authored the article “Navigating Parental Involvement in Career Conversations with College Students” in the National Development Association Web Magazine. 

Bonnie Spring, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) co-authored and co-published the paper
“Process evaluation of a digital school-based intervention: lessons learned from the
Health4Life study” in Translational Behavioral Medicine. 

Timothy Baghurst, Ph.D. and Johanna Glaaser (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “The gift of the grind: Reframing extra exercise in sport as opportunity, not punishment,” published in the International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching. 

Timothy Baghurst, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “Beyond Goodwill: Eight Arguments for Mandatory Foundational Training for Volunteer Coaches,” published in Quest. 

Joseph Watso, Ph.D. Joseph Vondrasek, M.S. and Jonathan Hoch (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-authored “Between-visit Reproducibility of Cerebrovascular and Cardiovascular Reactivity During the Cold Pressor Test,” published in the American Journal of Physiology – Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 

Mirine Richey DrPH, IBCLC (Center for Prevention & Early Intervention Policy) authored the article, “Content Validation of the Prenatal Evaluation and Referral for Lactation (PEARL) Tool Using a Delphi Method,” in Healthcare. 

Rachel Bailey, Ph.D. (School of Communication) and Amy Huber, Ph.D. (School of Design) published a study, “First Impressions Matter: The Influence of Provider Photographs on Medical Trust Among Minority Women,” in Health Environments Research & Design Journal. 

Zhe He, Ph.D., Balu Bhasuran, Ph.D., and Mia Lustria, Ph.D. (School of Information), published “Generating Question Prompt Lists from Electronic Health Record Data Using Large Language Models: Iterative Evaluation Study” in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. 

Tricia Montgomery, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science & Disorders), Katherine Dale, Ph.D. and Arienne Ferchaud, Ph.D. (School of Communication), had their paper, “A Social Media Intervention to Increase Caregiver Knowledge of Early Infant Communication: Multiple Methods Intervention Development and Pilot Study,” accepted for publication in the Journal of Medical Internet Research Pediatrics and Parenting.   

Dawn Sowers, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science & Disorders) published “An Individualized Approach to Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Cortical Visual Impairment: One Family’s Progression Toward an Accessible Language System,” a Clinical Focus article in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (AJSLP). 

Eundeok Kim, Ph.D. (College of Entrepreneurship) published her collaborative paper “Sowing seeds for regenerative futures: Transdisciplinary approaches in higher education” in Introducing the UN SDGs in Higher Education Institutions, World Sustainability Series in Springer Nature. 

PRESENTATIONS 

Shannon Hall-Mills, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) presented an invited webinar titled “Strategic and Practical Ways for SLPs to Support Literacy” at the American-Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Language and Literacy for Preschool and School-age Children Online Conference. 

Mimi Graham, EdD, Valerie Dallas, DSW, LCSW, Jill Little, MS and Joseph Ward (Center for Prevention & Early Intervention Policy) presented at the Florida Department of Children and Families 2026 Florida Children and Families Summit. 

Rabieh Razzouk, MBA (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Customizing Standards-Aligned Lessons with AI: The CPALMS Experience” at UNESCO’s Digital Learning Week 2026 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. 

Vivian Ko, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare/College of Social Work), along with community partners, presented “Case Management 2.0, Permanency Primer© Model” at the Department of Children and Families annual Summit in Orlando, Florida. 

Craig Green, J.D., M.A., Ph.D., (College of Law), spoke at the Federal Bar Association’s Annual Meeting & Convention as part of the program titled, “What’s the State of the Administrative State? A Retrospective on the Impacts of the Supreme Court’s October 2023 Term.”  

Delaney La Rosa, Ed.D., MSN Ed, RN (College of Nursing), presented, “Centering Nursing in the AI Era” as the keynote invited speaker at the American Nursing Information Association (ANIA) virtual conference. 

Delaney La Rosa, Ed.D., MSN Ed, RN (College of Nursing) presented “AI at Work: Practical AI for Nursing Leadership and Clinical Workflows. From useful outputs to responsible implementation” virtually during the Indiana University South Region Hospitals and Nurse Leaders Professional Development Workshop. 

Lynn Hogan, Ph.D. (Provost’s Office, CoreFSU) presented “Riding the Rapids: Using Campus Partnership to Smooth the Ride” and “Mo Students, Mo Problems… and Mo Possibilities! Navigating the Unique Challenges and Opportunities of Leading Gen Ed at Large Institutions” at the Association for General and Liberal Studies Constitute in Charlotte, North Carolina. 

Caitlynn Jesse, Galiya Tabulda, Ph.D. (Institutional Performance and Assessment) and Lynn Hogan, Ph.D. (Provost’s Office, CoreFSU) presented “Scaling Quality: A Comprehensive Framework for General Education Assessment” at the Association for General and Liberal Studies Constitute in Charlotte, North Carolina. 

Jim Fadool, Ph.D. (Biological Science), Lynn Hogan, Ph.D. (Provost’s Office, CoreFSU) and Galiya Tabulda, Ph.D. (Institutional Performance and Assessment) presented “The Gen Ed Committee as Peer Reviewers” at the Association for General and Liberal Studies Constitute in Charlotte, North Carolina. 

Oswaldo Medina Ramirez, Ph.D. (Department of Anthropology) presented, “Participation Fatigue within Water Governance Networks,” as an invited speaker at the First International Seminar on Complex Socio-Ecological Systems in Montecillo, Mexico. 

Silvia Valisa, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) presented her paper “Understanding Periodical Culture via the Politics of the Feuilleton: The Reception of Publisher Sonzogno’s Model in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy,” at the annual conference of the European Society for Periodical Research at the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels. 

Matthew Patience, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) presented the paper “An investigation of phonological crosslinguistic influence in bilingual and trilingual learners of an artificial language,” at the 14th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism in Poznań, Poland. 

Karen Cramer, MSW and Karen W. Geletko, MPH (College of Medicine) spoke on “CBT for Nicotine Dependence: Better Behavioral Health and Recovery Outcomes in Clinical Practice” at the 2026 Florida Behavioral Health Conference in Orlando. 

Rebecca Carter, LCSW (College of Medicine) spoke on “Breathe Easy: Tobacco Recovery as a Pathway to Behavioral Health Wellness” at the 2026 National Alliance on Mental Illness Florida Annual Conference in Orlando. 

David Ledbetter, Ph.D. (College of Medicine) delivered the 2026 David B. Flannery, M.D., Clinical Genomics Lecture at Augusta University’s Wellstar Golisano Children’s Hospital of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia. 

Yelena McLane, Ph.D. (School of Design) presented two papers at the Environmental Design Research Association conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. 

Yelena McLane, Ph.D. (School of Design) delivered a lecture at the Third Annual Dignified Design Research Collaborative Convening in Denver, Colorado, supported by a development grant from Bryn Mawr College and Shopworks Architecture. 

Jae Hwa Lee, Ph.D.(School of Design) delivered a lecture, “How Environments Shape Creative Minds: Methods, Evidence, and Future Tools,” at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. 

Marlo Ransdell, Ph.D., (School of Design) taught in Valencia’s study abroad program and presented at two international conferences on digital fabrication and community arts. 

Rachel Duke, Rory Grennan, and Taylor Henning (FSU Libraries) presented on the panel “Documenting Grief, Preserving Remembrance: Case Studies in Memorial Collections” at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting.  

Selena Snowden, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science & Disorders) and the Student Academy of Audiology (SAA) are hosting four, two-hour hands-on experiential learning workshops for FSU USSTRIDE students. Participants will gain hands-on clinical experience and explore the connection between hearing and healthcare. 

Dawn Sowers, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science & Disorders) attended a meeting of the National Exam Committee at ASHA headquarters. This is her third year as a content expert member in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). 

SERVICE 

Ericka Horne, DrPH, MPH, CHES®, CCHW (College of Medicine) currently serves as the Community Engagement Research Administrator in the Department of Family Medicine and Rural Health. Her extensive expertise and commitment to community-engaged research have led to her appointment as Assistant Director of the Community Stakeholder Engagement (CSE) for the CTSA.   

Ola Wlusek, MA (The Ringling) has been named one of four arts professionals to serve as Selection Jurors for the 57th Annual Raymond James Gasparilla Festival of the Arts in 2027. 

Li Pon, (Career Center) was selected to serve on the National Association of Colleges and Employers Honors and Awards Committee for a second year. 

Prashant Singh, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was invited to serve on the Undersecretary Brashears and the Office of Food Safety Scientific Panel. 

Katie Kehoe, MFA (Department of Art) opened her solo exhibition, The Visitor, at the Ryniker-Morrison Gallery at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana. 

Luis Castaneda, M.A. (School of Design) formalized an international healthcare design collaboration with Unité Ariane, Hôpital Relais in Marseille, France, focused on visual identity, environmental communication and patient experience. 

Meghan Mick, MLA (School of Design) completed two murals with former adjunct faculty member and FSU alumna Samantha McCoy at The Stacks off South Monroe Street in Tallahassee. 

Elizabeth McQueen, Ph.D. (School of Theatre) served as the experimental dramaturg for a performance by Michelin-starred artist Minh H. Phan at the historically significant A-Z West High Desert Test Sites. 

NOTABLE 

Rabieh Razzouk, MBA (Learning Systems Institute) completed a National Science Foundation National I-Corps™ Cohort. 

Robert Hanna, Carrie Meyers, and Jim Reynolds (Learning Systems Institute) participated in the AI Educator Series at the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Academy at Google headquarters. 

Laura Gayle Green, MA, MLS (College of Music) has been selected to be a panelist for the Grove Music Oxford University Press panel discussion, “Recovering lost voices: Women and marginalized musicians in music research.”

Kasia Bugaj, Ph.D. (College of Music) was invited to serve as a conductor for Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s 2026 Summer String Institute, VIVO.  

Bernard McDonald, (College of Music) has been appointed Music Director of Lyric Arts France, the international opera residency program of Opéra Bastide, the annual festival in Villefranche-de-Rouergue. 

Paul Niell, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) co-edited “Black Artists in the Atlantic World,” a special issue of Arts. 

Terry Londy, M.A. (School of Design) participated in the week-long Course Design Institute. 

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