News

Angel Mason, associate director of athletics and associate professor of physical education, was part of a panel on “Staying Relevant - The Who, The What, The Why” at the Minority Opportunities Athletic Association Symposium.

Chinthaka Kuruwita, assistant professor of mathematics, published a paper titled "Non-iterative Estimation and Variable Selection in the Single-Index Quantile Regression Model" in Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation journal.

Professor of Communication Catherine W. Phelan presented a paper last month at the 16th Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association (MEA) in Denver, Colo. Her work explored the varied ways in which our experiences of community are redefined by the digital communication revolution.

Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin gave a research talk titled "Determining and Distinguishing Cartesian Products" at the 8th Slovenian Graph Theory Conference at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, held June 21-27.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a paper titled “Narrativity Without Narrative: Topoi and the Prefiguration of Visual Narrativity in Chinese Pictorial Art” on June 23 during the Association for Asian Studies-in-Asia Conference at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus recently published his first book, Autonomy Platonism and the Indispensability Argument. In it, Marcus examined autonomy platonism and indispensability platonism and then defended a third view – intuition-based autonomy platonism.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, presented a paper titled “Complementarities between employee involvement and financial participation -Evidence from Finland” on June 23 at the Beyster Symposium at the University of California, San Diego.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman read from her recently published novella-in-verse, The Banquet of Donny & Ari: Scenes from the Opera, during a June book tour that took her to Winnipeg, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Courtney Gibbons is spending eight weeks in Salem, Ore., working with the Willamette University Mathematics Consortium, an intensive summer research experience for undergraduates (REU) funded thorough the National Science Foundation.

“Collecting Narrative Data on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk” by Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Azriel Grysman was recently published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology. The article presented the results of Grysman’s study of methods used to collect autobiographical memory narrative data.