Faculty Achievements
Stay tuned for our 2022 Updates soon! Meanwhile enjoy our 2021 contributions.
This year, Ursinus faculty published books and peer-reviewed articles, won prestigious fellowships, exhibited and performed creative works, and conducted research that contributed to the development of new knowledge. Just a sampling of that work appears below.
Grants and Fellowships
This year faculty applied for grants and fellowships in a wide range of fields—from Latin American Studies to Education, from Biology and Chemistry to Art and Art History. See a list of faculty grant and fellowship applications here
Publications and Dissemination of Scholarly and Creative Work
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Anthropology and Sociology |
Type | Title | In | Link |
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| Jonathan Clark | Journal article |
Attentional Deviance |
Environmental Humanities | |
| Lauren Wynne | Book |
Predictable Pleasures: Food and Pursuit of Balance in Rural Yucatán |
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| Lauren Wynne | Journal Article | ‘Just Right’: Balance, tranquility, and drunkenness in rural Yucatán | Global Public Health | View |
Art and Art History |
Type | Title | In | Link |
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| David Aipperspach | Magazine Article | Woodmere Annual is your chance to see how Philly artists see the world right this instant |
Philadelphia Inquirer |
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| David Aipperspach | Journal Article | David Aipperspach | Maake Journal, issue 9 | View |
| David Aipperspach | Exhibition | Exhibition announcement and press release for “Slow Burn” | John H. Baker Gallery at West Chester University | |
| Deborah Barkun | Article | Guided Walk Through the Contemporary Sublime: Shannon Leah Collis’s Kiewa,”In Retrospect | Ten Years, Ten Months, Ten Artists, Ten Writers | View |
| Deborah Barkun | Article / Podcast | Contemporary Psyche On View In Venice Art Biennale | Fresh Art Intl. | View |
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Type | Title | In | Link |
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| Anthony Lobo, Mark Ellison | Journal Article |
Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Nanographene Oxide to Overcome Antibiotic Resistance in Tetracycline-Resistant Escherichia coli Student collaborators: Jordan A. Carver, Audrey L. Simpson, Ria P. Rathi, Nerica Normil, Amy G. Lee, Madison D. Force, Katherine A. Fiocca, Christopher E. Maley, Kara M. DiJoseph, Abigail L. Goldstein, Amin A. Attari, Haley L. O’Malley, Jaclyn G. Zaccaro, Noel M. McCampbell, Christina A. Wentz, Jessica E. Long, Steven L. DiStefano, Holly M. Yost, Brandon L. Greyson, Emily A. Cid, Kyumin Lee, Codi J. Yhap, Brittany E. Banks, Regan B. Newman, Jailene Rodriguez, Alix T. Segil, Justin A. Siberski |
CS Applied Nano Materials |
Biology |
Type | Title | In | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rebecca Roberts | Web Content | Evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 proteome in three dimensions (3D) during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic | VIEW | |
| Rebecca Roberts | Journal Article | Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic by the Biochemistry Authentic Scientific Inquiry lab (BASIL) CURE Consortium: Reflections and a Case Study on the Switch to Remote Learning | Journal of Chemical Education | VIEW |
| Rebecca Roberts | Journal Article | Meeting Report: BioMolViz workshops for developing assesments of biomolecular visual literacy | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education | |
| Rebecca Roberts | Web Content |
A biochemistry professor and two students navigate the COVID-19 pandemic Student collaborators: Stephanie Chell, Christine Heren |
ASMB Today | VIEW |
| Rebecca Roberts | Web Content | BASIL – Biochemistry Authentic Scientific Inquiry Lab | Basil Biochem | View |
| Rebecca Roberts | Web Content | Flexible Implementation of the BASIL CURE | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education | |
| Rebecca Roberts | Web Content | CURE Sustainability – Themes of sustainability of Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) | CURE | View |
| Rebecca Roberts | Journal Article | Attending a conference when you don’t have a budget | ASBMB Today | View |
| Rebecca Roberts | Journal Article | The surprising comfort of learning objectives | ASBMB Today | View |
| Carlita Favero | Journal Article |
Moderate prenatal alcohol exposure increases total length of L1-expressing axons in E15.5 mice. Student contributors: Avery Sicher, Shannon Kiss, Paige Springmann, Karen Herrera, Abigail McElroy, Kelsey Blake, Emily Crocker, Christa Jacob, McKayla Lefkove, Myla Cramer, Allysen Henriksen, Josef Novacek, Jenna Severa, Justin Siberski, Emily Thomas. |
Journal of Neurotoxicology and Teratology | |
| Carlita Favero | Journal Article |
White matter abnormalities in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: Focus on axon growth and guidance. Student contributors: Erin Matthews, Kevyn Dewees, Deborah Diaz |
Experimental Biology and Medicine | |
| Jennifer Round | Journal Article |
Identification of MAGUK scaffold proteins as intracellular binding partners of synaptic adhesion protein Slitrk2 Student contributors: Connor Loomis, Aliyah Stephens |
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience | |
| Rebecca Lyczak | Journal Article |
Interaction between the WEE-1.3 kinase and the PAM-1 aminopeptidase in oocute maturation and the early C. elegans embryo Student contributors: Dorothy Benton, Eva Jaegar, Arielle Kilner, Ashley Kimble, Emily Schleicher, Kaiden Power, Danielle Uibel, Carice Eisele |
G3 | |
| Corey Straub | Journal Article | Host Plants resistance promotes a secondary pest population | Ecosphere | View |
Education |
Type | Title | In | Link |
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| Seamus Mulryan | Journal article | Among All Socratics, Is there a Single Socrates? Irony, Aporia, and the Cultivation of Courage | Philosophy of Education | View |
English |
Type | Title | In | Link |
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| Meredith Goldsmith | Book chapter | Wharton’s Wayward Girls | The New Edith Wharton Studies | |
| Kara McShane and Alvin Grissom | Journal article | Gower as Data: Exploring the Application of Machine Learning to Gower’s Middle English Corpus | Gower Shorts |
Environmental Studies |
Type | Title | In | Link |
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| Denise Finney | Journal article | Predicting Cover Crop Nitrogen Content with a Handheld Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Meter | Agricultural & Enivronmental Letters | |
| Patrick Hurley | Book chapter | User-oriented urban open space governance and management | Urban Open Space Governance and Management | |
| Richard Wallace | Journal article | Confronting anxiety and despair in environmental studies and sciences: an analysis and guide for students and faculty | Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences | View |
| Richard Wallace | Journal article | Improving the integration of restoration and conservation in marine and coastal ecosystems: Lessons from the Deepwater Horizon disaster | BioScience | View |
Health and Exercise Physiology |
Type | Title | In | Link |
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| Catherine Van de Ruit | Journal article | Unintended consequences of community health worker programs in South Africa | Qualitative Health Research | View |
| Catherine Van de Ruit | Journal article | Clinical teams’ experiences of crowding in public emergency centres in Cape Town, South Africa | African Journal of Emergency Medicine | View |
History |
Type | Title | In | Link |
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| Johanna Mellis | Journal article | From Defectors to Cooperators: The Impact of 1956 on Athletes, Sport Leaders and Sport Policy in Socialist Hungary | Contemporary European History | View |
| Johanna Mellis | Podcast | Sport in History Podcast 34 | Sport in History Podcast | Listen |
| Edward Onaci | Book | Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State | ||
| Susanna Throop | Book chapter | Not cruelty but piety’: Circumscribing European crusading violence | Chapter 20 in The Cambridge World History of Violence, Vol. II 500-1500 CE | View |
Mathematics and Computer Science |
Type | Title | In | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas Scoville | Book | Discrete Morse Theory | American Mathematical Society | |
| Christopher Sadowski | Journal article | Principal subspaces of twisted modules for certain lattice vertex operator algebras | International Journal of Mathematics | |
| Christopher Sadowski | Journal article | Permutation orbifolds of Virasoro vertex algebras and W-algebras | Journal of Algebra | |
| Christopher Sadowski | Journal article | Principal subspaces of twisted modules for certain lattice vertex operator algebras | International Journal of Mathematics | |
| Christopher Tralie | Research | DA-TACOS: A Dataset For Cover Song Identification And Understanding | View | |
| Christopher Tralie | Conference Publication |
Hyperparameter Optimization of Topological Features for Machine Learning Applications |
18th IEEE International Conference On Machine Learning And Applications (ICMLA). |
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| Kara McShane and Alvin Grissom | Journal article | Gower as Data: Exploring the Application of Machine Learning to Gower’s Middle English Corpus | Gower Shorts |
Modern Languages |
Type | Title | In | Link |
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| Chisu Teresa Ko | Journal article | Self-Orientalism and Inter-imperiality in Anna Kazumi Stahl’s Flores de un solo día | Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies | View |
Physics |
Type | Title | In | Link |
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| Thomas Carroll | Journal article | Time Dependence of Few-Body Förster Interactions among Ultracold Rydberg Atoms | Physical Review Letters 124 | |
| Thomas Carroll | Journal article | Perturbed field ionization for improved state selectivity | Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics | |
| Lewis Riley | Journal article |
UCGretina geant4 Stimulation of the GRETINA Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array Student Contributors: M.L. Agiorgousis, S.D. Gregory, E.B. Haldeman, L.R. Jarvis, E.D. Lawson-John, B. Roberts, B.V. Sadler, C.G. Stine. |
Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A | |
| Casey Schwarz | Journal article |
Advances in femtosecond laser processing of optical material for device applications |
International Journal of Applied Glass Science | |
| Casey Schwarz | Journal article |
Structurally and morphologically engineered chalcogenide materials for optical and photonic devices Student contributor: Quentin Altemose |
Journal of Optical Microsystems | |
| Casey Schwarz | Journal article |
Gentle Method for Removing Metal and Restoring Function after Scanning Electron MIcroscopy |
Journal of Micro/Nanopatterning, Materials, and Metrology | |
| Casey Schwarz | Journal article |
Processing and properties of novel ZnO-Bi2O3-B2O3 glass-ceramic nanocomposites Student contributors: Quentin Altemose, Katrina Raichle, Brittani Schnable, Mia Truman. |
Journal of Alloys and Compounds | |
| Casey Schwarz |
Journal article |
Spatial Tailoring of the Refractive Index in Infrared Glass-Ceramic Films Enabled by Direct Laser Writing Student contributor: Mia Truman |
Psychology |
Type | Title | In | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sue Lawrence | Book | The Grieving Child in the Classroom: A guide for School-Based Professionals | View | |
| Terry Winegar | Research | Social Media Use and Identity During Emerging Adulthood |
Theater and Dance |
Type | Title | In | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meghan Brodie | Journal article | Lysistrata, #MeToo, and Consent: A Case Study | Theatre Topics, Vol. 29 | View |
| Meghan Brodie | Women, Theatre, and the Holocaust Research Handbook | Remember the Women Institute | ||
| Domenick Scudera | Play | 3 Short Plays |