Lisa Burns, assistant professor of occupational therapy
With Nathan “Ben” Herz, presented a paper, “Interprofessional Graduate Healthcare Students’ Perceptions of Identity: A Qualitative Analysis,” October 16, 2015, the American Occupational Therapy Association Educators’ Summit Conference in Denver, CO.
Presented a paper, “Professionalism and Generational Differences: Implications for Education,” October 17, 2015, at the same conference.
Beth Easterling, assistant professor of criminal justice and sociology
Presented a paper, “The Path (Not?) Taken: An Exploratory Study of Adult Children with Incarcerated Parents,” November 19, the American Society of Criminology Annual Meetings in Washington DC.
Katherine Low, assistant professor of religion
Delivered a paper, “A Devilishly Inspired Dream: Pilate’s Wife, Sex, and Reception,” November 22, the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Atlanta, Georgia.
Paul Menzer, professor of Shakespeare and Performance and English
Gave an invited talk, “Every Bad Quarto Deserves a Good Theory,” November 13, the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
Brenci Patino, assistant professor of Spanish
Attended the Virginia Women’s Conference, November 21, Roanoke.
Attended the Ethics of Immigration Conference, November 7, Washington & Lee University.
Colleen Pendry, adjunct faculty member, Art and Art History
A feature cover artist in the 8th Anniversary Artvoices Magazine WINTER Art Basel Miami, issue #43. The magazine will also include a 4-page feature nationally in 5,000 printed issues and internationally online.
Edmund “Rick” Potter, assistant professor of history
Attended a conference on the Ethics of Immigration, early November, at Washington & Lee University.
Paul Ryan, professor of art
Solo exhibition, “the sun that never sets: New Paintings by Paul Ryan,” at The Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. The exhibition opens December 3 and runs through February 7, 2016.
Tamra Willis, associate professor of education
An invited member of an NSF funded three-year project called the Science of Nature-Based Learning Collaborative Research Network. The network, which met in Minneapolis for the first time in early November, involves a partnership among the University of Minnesota, the Children and Nature Network, the North American Association of Environmental Education and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, along with representatives from nine other universities including Mary Baldwin. The network is composed of researchers from across the country, as well as practitioner leaders in the non-profit, professional society, public education, and museum sectors, who have an interest in accelerating the pace of research to understand if, and how, nature-exposure influences children’s learning, cognitive development, and academic performance.