Faculty Briefs

Faculty Briefs

Academic Grants

Jill Swirsky, Ph.D. was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Association for Psychological Science for her proposal 鈥淎ssessing Student and Faculty Outcomes of Themed Courses.鈥

Publications

Roger Gee, Ph.D. published the chapter 鈥淪earching for frequent words for pronunciation activities鈥 in Teaching English with Corpora (Routledge) and co-authored the paper Estudiantes chilenos y norteamericanos en un proyecto de entrevistas en el idioma ingl茅s /Chilean and American students in an interview project in English in DUCERE.

Other

Maria Agnew, Ph.D., and the School of Education collaborated with students from Nazareth Academy High School who are interested in careers in education to host a holiday event, a simulated sensory trip to the North Pole, for Alpha House students. The event was funded by a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

Brian Berry, Ph.D., and Tiffany Watson, D鈥17 were honored by the Journal of Special Education Technology for 鈥淯sing Classroom Clickers to Increase Academic Engagement for Elementary School鈥揂ged Students with Disabilities,鈥 which was selected by the publication as its Research Article of the Year for 2022.

Margaret Harkins, DNP, MBE, MSN, GNP-BC, RN-BC, dean of the School of Nursing & Health Sciences, and Michelle Murphy-Rozanski, Ph.D., CRNP-FNP, RN, vice dean for Health Sciences, are serving on the advisory committee for Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education accreditation for the Nurse Residency Program at Jefferson Health NE and Mercy Home Health (Trinity Health at Home System).