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 “Assessing Student and Faculty Outcomes of Themed Courses.”

Publications

Roger Gee, Ph.D. published the chapter “Searching for frequent words for pronunciation activities” in Teaching English with Corpora (Routledge) and co-authored the paper Estudiantes chilenos y norteamericanos en un proyecto de entrevistas en el idioma inglés /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’17 were honored by the Journal of Special Education Technology for “Using Classroom Clickers to Increase Academic Engagement for Elementary School–Aged Students with Disabilities,” 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).