Faculty/staff notes archives
Complied through May 24, 2013
Andrew T. Kaczynski, health promotion, education, and behavior, “Beyond the Ribbon Cutting,” Journal of Park and Recreation Administration.
Andrew T. Kaczynski, health promotion, education, and behavior, “Built Environment Associations,” Journal of Physical Activity and Health.
Jim Thrasher, health promotion, education, and behavior, was elected to be the co-chair of the Global Health Network for the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, which is the primary tobacco research organization in the world.
Georgi V. Petkov, John Malysz, pharmacy, E.Rovner, “Single-channel biophysical and pharmacological characterizations of native human large conductance calcium-activated potassium channels in freshly isolated detrusor smooth muscle cells,” Pflϋgers Archive – European Journal of Physiology.
John T. Addison, economics, P. Teixeira, A. Bryson, A. Pahnke, and L. Bellmann, “The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representations: Transitions between States and Their Determinants. A Comparative Analysis of Great Britain and Germany,” Scottish Journal of Political Economy.
John T. Addison, economics, P. Teixeira, K. Evers, and L. Bellmann, “Indicative and Updated Estimates of the Collective Bargaining Premium in Germany,” Industrial Relations Berkeley.
Martin Donougho, comparative literature, philosophy, “Walter Benjamin,” 3rd ed. Routledge Companion to Aesthetics.
Martin Donougho, comparative literature, philosophy, “‘Melt earth to sea’: The New World of Terrence Malick,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy.
Georgi V. Petkov, pharmacy, waselected a member of the American Urological Association.
Annette Golonka, biology, USC Lancaster, Bettie Obi-Johnson, chemistry, USC Lancaster, presented a poster along with former students Jonathan Freeman and Daniel Hinson on the Production of Volatile Organic Compounds by Two Metschnikowia Yeasts Isolated From Silene Caroliniana Nectar at the South Carolina branch of the American Society of Microbiology held at MUSC in Charleston.
Georgi V. Petkov, Wenkuan Xin, John Malysz, pharmacy, A.C. Smith, K.L. Hristov, Q. Cheng, S.P. Parajuli, S. Earley, “Novel role for the transient potential receptor melastatin 4 channel in guinea pig detrusor smooth muscle physiology,” American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology.
Patrick Scott, USC libraries, “Why Rare Books Matter: the Teaching Potential of a Churchill Collection,” Finest Hour: the Journal of Winston Churchill.
Sonya Jones and Ed Frongillo, nutrition, invited by The National Research Council of the National Academies of Science Committee on Statistics Steering Committee for the Workshop, ‘Research Gaps and Opportunities on the Causes and Consequences of Child Hunger’ to set a direction for future child hunger research. The workshop was held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.
Li Cai, chemistry, USC Salkehatchie, Chris Rufty, chemical engineering student, “Solvent-Free Pyridine-Free Peracetylation of Glucose: An Organic Chemistry Experiment,” Chemical Educator.
Stephanie Burgess, associate dean for nursing practice, was featured on ETV's “The Big Picture.”
Jay D. Potts, cell biology and anatomy, R.G. Gourdie, received a patent from the U.S. Patent Office for his work on compositions and methods for tissue engineering, tissue regeneration and wound healing.
Shelly-Ann Bowen, health promotion, education, and behavior, “Effects of social injustice on breast health-seeking behaviors of low-income women,” American Journal of Health Promotion.
Charles J. Finocchiaro, political science, M.H. Crespin, “Elections and the Politics of Pork in the U.S. Senate,” Social Science Quarterly.
Steve Lowe, interim dean, received a plaque for his dedication to the South Carolina History Association serving as co-editor of “The Proceedings,” a journal with a wide variety of historical information presented at SCHA meetings, since 2002.”
Marcos Vieyra, Chief Information Security Officer, “The Growing Trend in Publicly Disclosed Breaches: Potential Causes and Implications for Privacy Professionals,” International Association of Privacy Professionals KnowledgeNet, Charlotte, N.C.
Georgi V. Petkov, Wenkuan Xin, Ning Li, pharmacy, Q. Cheng, “Constitutively active phosphodiesterase type 4 controls large conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channel activity in guinea pig urinary bladder smooth muscle,” FASEB Journal. 2013 Annual Experimental Biology Meeting, Boston, M.A.
Krista Van Fleit Hang, chinese literature, “Literature the People Love: Reading Chinese Texts From the Early Maoist Period (1949-1966),” Palgrave Macmillan, N.Y.
Michelle Thomas, social work, College of Social Work Educator of the Year Award, an annual award given by the graduating class of the College of Social Work.
Georgi V. Petkov, pharmacy, “Integration of Multiple Potassium Channels in Regulation of Bladder Function,” Society for Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine & Urogenital Reconstruction. 2013 Winter Meeting of the Society for Urodynamics.
Amanda J. Fairchild, parenting & family research center, A.C. Gottschall, K.E. Masyn, “Improving our ability to evaluate underlying mechanisms of event occurrence,” 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, San Francisco, Calif.
Kate Flory, parenting & family research center, Kathryn Van Eck, USC graduate student, Patrick S. Malone, psychology, ʺA Longitudinal Assessment of the Associations Among Response Access, Attention Problems, and Aggression during Childhood,ʺ Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.
Kathleen Scharer, nursing, “Using Movie Clips to Enhance Psychiatric Nursing Students’ Planning Of Care,” 15th Annual International Society of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Conference on April 19 in San Antonio, Texas.
Laura Hein, nursing, “Support Groups and the LGBT Sexual Orientations - Together or Separate? The Consumer Perspective,” 15th Annual International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses (ISPN) Conference on April 19 in San Antonio, Texas.
Rita Snyder, nursing, “Effective Healthcare Process Redesign Through an Interdisciplinary Team Approach,” 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics on August 20 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias, nursing, A. Hunter, L. Wilson, M. Stanhope, B. Hatcher, M. Hattar and D. Powell, “Global health diplomacy: An integrative review of the literature and implications for nursing,” Nursing Outlook.
Jeannette Andrews, nursing, Principal Investigator, “A Social Ecological Based Smoking Cessation Intervention in Public Housing,” R01 funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Jeannette Andrews, nursing, Consortium Principal Investigator, Hollywood Smiles, R21 funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Abbas Tavakoli, nursing, has won the Mary Hanna Memorial Journalism Award for “A Quasi-Experimental Study Examining the Safety Profile and Comfort Provided by Two Different Blanket Temperatures,” Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing. Co-authors: Lori T. Sutton, Faye S. Baker, Nan J. Faile.
Grant announcements
Jennifer Pournelle, a research assistant professor in the School of Earth, Ocean and Environment, has received a grant for $42,000 from the National Science Foundation for her study, “Treasure of the Tigris: The Last Great Mystery of Ancient Iraq.” This grant will be used to finance a pilot project where a National Geographic film team will document a USC-lead expedition using remote sensing to map river bottoms and shipwrecks.
Jennifer Pournelle, a research assistant professor in the School of Earth, Ocean and Environment, has received a grant for $176,946 from the National Science Foundation for her study, “Deltaic Resilience and the Genesis of Mesopotamian Cities.” This three-year award will be used to conduct paleoenvironmental and archaeological research investigating the world’s oldest and longest-lived cities.
Angela Liese, a director and professor at the Center for Research in Nutrition and Health Disparities at the Arnold School of Public Health, has received a grant for $100,000 from USC’s VP for Research. This grant for her study, “Positioning USC for National Prominence in Food Security and Food Access Research,” aims to establish USC as a national thought-leader in policy relevant research on childhood food security and food access.
Sarah Rothenberg, an assistant professor at the Center for Research in Nutrition and Health Disparities at the Arnold School of Public Health, has received a grant for $394,974 from the National Institutes of Health for her study, “Maternal Methylmercury Exposure Through Rice Ingestion and Offspring Development.” This grant will fund a study in prenatal methylmercury exposure dealing with rice ingestion, not fish; and results from this study will enable health professionals to establish more protective prenatal guidelines.
Christine Blake, an assistant professor at the Center for Research in Nutrition and Health Disparities at the Arnold School of Public Health, has received a grant for $15,000 from USC’s VP for Research. This grant will allow her team to develop, test, and refine an experimental protocol examining the impact of different FOP nutrition rating systems on a selection of healthier versus less healthy foods.
Brie Turner-McGrievy, an assistant professor at the Center for Research in Nutrition and Health Disparities at the Arnold School of Public Health, has received a grant for $29,625 from the South Carolina Clinical and Translational Research Institute. This grant will fund her study, “Developing and Pilot Testing Agent-Mediated Social Networks for Modeling Healthy Behaviors,” and through innovative research will explore how social networks develop, support and enhance healthy behaviors.
Catherine Castner, a professor in the Languages and Literature department of the College of Arts & Sciences, has received the Patricia H. Labalme Grant for $3,000 from the Renaissance Society of America. This grant will fund travel and residency at the Centro Vittore Branca, a cultural research center in Venice, Italy, to aid in Castner’s book project, “Biondo Flavio on Venice and Crusading”.
Heather Heckman, the Interim Director & Curator in the Moving Image Research Collection at USC Libraries, has received a grant for $230,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities. This grant will fund Phase One of the two-part Fox Movietone Digitization Project, which will dramatically improve access to the Fox Movietone News Collection and will make approximately 14,000 of the 23,000 titles discoverable and viewable through MIRC’s Digital Video Repository website (mirc.sc.edu).
Complied through April 24, 2013
Robert Valois, health promotion, education and behavior, “Safer sex media messages and adolescent sexual behavior: 3-year follow-up results from Project iMPPACS,” Journal of Public Health.
James Thrasher, health promotion, education and behavior, “Advertencias sanitarias en América Latina y el Caribe, Volumen II.”
Allison Marsh, history, “Because Engineers Rule the World,” National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
Bethany A. Bell, educational statistics, “Received the 2013 AERA Division D Early Career Award in Measurement and Research Methodology Quantitative Methods and Statistical Theory.”
Kirstin Dow, Frans Berkhout, Ben Preston, Richard Klein, Guy Midgley and M.Rebecca Shaw, “Limits to Adaptation,” Nature Climate Change.
Shannon A. Bowen, journalism and mass communications, Elina V. Erzikova, Central Michigan University, “The international divide in public relaitons education: Advocacy versus autonomy,” PR Journal 7(1).
Joshua M. Gold, counselor education, "The experiences of child-free and childless couples in a pronatalistic society: Implications for family counselors," The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families.
Peggy O. Hewlett, nursing, "Teaching Students to Work in Interprofessional Teams," American Association of Colleges and Schools Masters Conference on 2/22/13 in Orlando, Florida.
Jennifer Pournelle, environmental science, Carrie Hritz and Jennifer Smith, “Revisiting the Sealands: Report of Preliminary Ground Reconnaissance in ihe Hammar District, Dhi Qar and Basra Governorates,” Iraq.
Jennifer Pournelle, environmental science, “Physical Geography,” The Sumerian World.
Jennifer Pournelle, environmental science, “Excavations,” Seven Strong: Winners of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize.
Jennifer Pournelle, environmental science, “Collaborative Research: University-Level Requirements and Responsibilities,” 2012 Learning By Doing: International Research Approaches, Basra, Iraq.
Jennifer Pournelle, environmental science, “The Sealands Archaeology and Environment Program: First Report on the Archaeological Landscapes of the Basrah Governorate,” 2012 American School of Oriental Research, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Jennifer Pournelle, environmental science, “Embedded Poet,” Air Schooner.
Complied through April 18, 2013
Hal W. French, religious studies, “Swami Vivekananda's Unopened Present: the Gift of Listening,” 150th Celebration of the Birth of Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, India.
R. Sean Norman and Erin B. Fichot, environmental health sciences, “Microbial phylogenetic profiling with the Pacific Biosciences sequencing platform,” Microbiome.
Scott M. Strayer, family preventive medicine, “Improving Smoking Cessation Counseling Using a Point-of-Care Health Intervention Tool (IT): From the Virginia Practice Support and Research Network (VaPSRN),” Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.
Simon Hudson, tourism, “Travel: The New Prescription,” Medical Tourism Magazine.
Simon Hudson, tourism, Louise Hudson, SmartState Center of Economic Excellence in Tourism, “Customer Service for Hospitality and Tourism,” Goodfellow Publishers UK.
Simon Hudson and Robert Li, tourism, “The application of generational theory to tourism consumer behavior: an American perspective,” Tourism Management.
Simon Hudson and Karen Thal, tourism, “The Impact of Social Media on the Consumer Decision Process: Implications for Tourism Marketing,” Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing.
Kaetrena Kendrick, library science, USC Lancaster, “Guiding the Wave: Academic Librarians’ Practical Role in Digital Humanities,” ACRL 2013, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Anna Scheyett, social work, received the 2013 President’s Award recipient from The Action Council for Cross Cultural Mental Health and Human Services. The Action Council is dedicated to enhancing the management, delivery and utilization of human services, by and for people of diverse cultural backgrounds in the State of South Carolina.
Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, library science, USC Lancaster, “Guest lectured to students at the University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Library and Information Science.The lecture covered how academic librarians use social media – Facebook, in particular – to expand professional networks, engage with students, and promote libraries on campus and in surrounding communities.”
Peisheng Xu, pharmacy, Katrina Walsemann, public health, LeAnn Norris, pharmacy, and Mengqian Chen, pharmacy, were recently awarded pilot grants for $30,000 each as part of“SOAR (Supporting Outstanding Academic Research in Oncology) USC”American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant program. The ACS IRG is an institutional award that enables USC to provide small pilot research grants to beginning investigators in cancer research.
Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, library science, USC Lancaster, “Has been invited to guest lecture to students enrolled at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The lecture will cover her forays into the information seeking behaviors of students who use academic libraries during their study abroad. GSLIS at UIUC is currently ranked as the #1 graduate Library and Information Science program in the United States.” (http://www.lis.illinois.edu/articles/2013/03/gslis-ranked-number-one-among-lis-schools).
Robert Kilgore, English, USC Beaufort, “From ‘Employment’ to ‘Grace’: Herbert’s Restructuring of Work,” 2013 George Herbert Conference, Charleston, SC.
Simon Hudson, Tourism, “The Influence of Ethnicity and Self-Construal on Leisure Constraints,” Leisure Sciences, 35(2). 145-166.
Arlene Andrews, Social Work, “Evidence-Based Principles for Choosing Programs To Serve Parents in the Child Welfare System,” Administration in Social Work.
Sarah Barker, Theatre and Dance, “was the inaugural Stage Movement Featured Presenter for the 2013 Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) Convention March 6 – 10 in Louisville, Kentucky. The Stage Movement Featured Presenter is a new program honoring a teaching artist who is top in his or her field. Sarah taught Featured Master Classes for Educators and Professionals and one for students. She also led a workshop of mini-lessons in Alexander Technique with five other Alexander Technique teachers,.”
Caroline Bergeron, doctoral public health student, and Daniela Friedman, health promotion, education and behavior, Caroline Foster, Andrea Tanner, and Sei Hill Kim, journalism and mass communications, “What do people really know and think about clinical trials? A comparison of rural and urban communities in the South,” Journal of Community Health.
Anna Price, health promotion, education and behavior alumna, Daniela Friedman and Sara Corwin, health promotion, education and behavior, “How do older people describe others with cognitive impairment? A multi-ethnic study in the United States,” Ageing & Society.
Edward Frongillo, health promotion, education and behavior, “Confronting myths about household food insecurity and excess weight,” Cadernos de Saúde Pública.
Gina Besenyi, doctoral philosophy student, Andrew Kaczynski, health promotion, education and behavior, “Exploring the distribution of park availability, features, and quality across Kansas City, Missouri by income and race/ethnicity: An environmental justice investigation,” Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
James Thrasher, health promotion, education and behavior, “Impact of Tobacco-Related Health Warning Labels across Socioeconomic, Race and Ethnic Groups: Results from a Randomized Web-Based Experiment,” Plos One.
Gabrielle Turner-McGrievy, Justin Moore, Andrew Kaczynski, health promotion, education and behavior, “Comparison of traditional versus mobile app self-monitoring of physical activity and dietary intake among overweight adults participating in an mHealth weight loss program,” Journal of American Medicine Information Association.
Compiled through March 26, 2013
• ARTICLES
Susan Parlier and Miriam Johnson, social work, “Inspiring passion: Using service learning projects and technology in an advocacy course,” Baccalaureate Program Directors of Schools of Social Work, Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Edward Frongillo, health promotion, education and behavior, “Confronting myths about household food insecurity and excess weight,” Cadernos de Saúde Pública.
John Dawson and Lukasz Lebioda, chemistry and biochemistry, Xiao Huang (USC chemistry alumnus), Chunxue Wang, Lesa Celeste, Leslie Lovelace, and Shenfeng Sun (USC chemistry graduate students), “Complex of Myoglobin with Phenol Bound in a Proximal Cavity,” Acta Cryst Section.
James Thrasher, health promotion, education and behavior, Jennifer Cantrell, Donna Vallone, Rebekah Nagler, Shari Feirman, Larry Muenz, David He and Kasisomayajula Viswanath, “Impact of Tobacco-Related Health Warning Labels across Socioeconomic, Race and Ethnic Groups: Results from a Randomized Web-Based Experiment,” PLOS ONE.
Arlene Andrews, social work, and L. McMillan, "Evidence-Based Principles for Choosing Programs To Serve Parents in the Child Welfare System," Administration in Social Work.
Daniela Friedman, health promotion, education, and behavior, Caroline Foster, Andrea Tanner, and Sei Hill Kim, journalism and mass communications, Caroline Bergeron (USC health promotion, education and behavior student), “What do people really know and think about clinical trials? A comparison of rural and urban communities in the South,” Journal of Community Health.
Daniela Friedman and Sara Corwin, health promotion, education and behavior, Sarah Laditka, James Laditka, Rui Liu, Anna Price (health promotion education, and behavior alumna), Bei Wu, Lucinda Bryant and Susan Ivey, “How do older people describe others with cognitive impairment? A multi-ethnic study in the United States,” Ageing & Society.
Jeannette O. Andrews nursing, M.S.Tingen, J.Heath, A. Turnmire, J. Waller and F. Treiber, “Comparison of Enrollment Rates of African American Families into a School-Based Tobacco Prevention Trial Using Two Recruitment Strategies in Urban and Rural Settings,” American Journal of Health Promotion.
Andrew Kaczynski, health promotion, education, and behavior, Gina Besenyi (health promotion, education, and behavior student), Katherine Vaughan, Sonja Wilhelm Stanis, Ryan Bergstrom and Katie Heinrich. “Exploring the distribution of park availability, features, and quality across Kansas City, Missouri by income and race/ethnicity: An environmental justice investigation,” Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
Robert Valois, health promotion, education and behavior, Michael Hennessy, Daniel Romer, Peter Vanable, Michael Carey, Bonita Stanton, Larry Brown, Ralph DiClemente and Laura Salazar. “Safer sex media messages and adolescent sexual behavior: 3-year follow-up results from Project iMPPACS,” American Journal of Public Health.
James Thrasher, health promotion, education, and behavior, Li-Ling Huang (USC health promotion, education and behavior student),
Yuan Jiang, Qiang Li, Geoffrey Fong and Ann Quah, “Incidence and correlates of receiving cigarettes as gifts and selecting preferred rand because it was gifted: Findings from the ITC China Survey,” BMC Public Health.
Gabrielle Turner-McGrievy, Justin Moore and Andrew Kaczynski, health promotion, education and behavior, Michael Beets, exercise science, Daheia Barr-Anderson and Deborah Tate, “Comparison of traditional versus mobile app self-monitoring of physical activity and dietary intake among overweight adults participating in an mHealth weight loss program,” Journal of American Medicine Information Association.
Hans-Conrad zur Loye, Mark D. Smith, chemistry and biochemistry, and Daniel Bugaris (former USC adjunct faculty member in chemistry), “Hydroflux Crystal Growth of Platinum Group Metal Hydroxides: Sr6NaPd2(OH)17, Li2Pt(OH)6, Na2Pt(OH)6, Sr2Pt(OH)8, and Ba2Pt(OH)8”, Inorganic Chemistry.
• PRESENTATIONS
Susan Parlier, social work, “Low Wage and Low-Income Women’s Spirituality While Struggling with Bill-Paying Hardships,” National Association of Social Workers S.C. Chapter Symposium, Columbia.
Abbas Tavakoli and Sue Heiney, nursing, “Examining Mediator and Indirect Effects of Loneliness in Social Support on Social Well-Being Using the Baron and Kenny Method and a Bootstrapping Method,” SAS® Global Forum 2013 Conference, San Francisco, Calif., and, same conference, with Joan Culley, nursing, J. Craig and E.R. Svendsen, “Using SAS to create code for current triage systems during chemical incidents.”
Lara L. Lomicka, languages, literatures and cultures, and Lamine Agba, "Service Learning in Senegal — Seeing life through different eyes,'" S.C. Foreign Language Teacher Association, Columbia.
Joan Culley and Abbas Tavakoli, nursing, E.R.Svendsen, J. Craig, “Effectiveness of Triage During a Chemical Incident,” Improving Health through Evidence-Based Practice & Policy Joint Scientific Retreat on Implementation Science, Columbia.
• OTHER
Nicholas Guittar, sociology, Lancaster,awarded a Social Sciences internal grant from the USC Office of the Provost for his research project entitled: “What it Means to Be Black and Gay: A Sociological analysis of coming out among African Americans and Caribbean Americans.”
Anna Scheyett, social work, recipient of the President’s Award at the annual conference for the Action Coalition for Cross Cultural Mental Health and Human Services.
Teri Browne, social work, 2013 recipient of the James E. Clyburn Emerging Leader in Public Health and Health Disparities Research Award.
Lara L. Lomicka, languages, literatures and cultures, named associate editor of Language Learning and Technology.
John Dawson, chemistry and biochemistry, named to the International Scientific Advisory Committee for the Twelfth International Symposium on Applied Bio-Inorganic Chemistry to be held in Guangzhou, China, in December.
Compiled through March 13, 2013
• BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
Francisco Blanco-Silva, mathematics, "Learning SciPy for Numerical and Scientific Computing," Packt Publishing, Birmingham, England.
• ARTICLES
Shannon A. Bowen, journalism and mass communications, “What are the best ways to show the C-suite that it is worth investing in measurement?”PR Week.
Lisa Hammond, English, Lancaster,“The Goddess Loads the Dishwasher,” “The Goddess Eats an Apple,” “The Goddess Reads a Legend,” Wicked Alice.
Daniela B. Friedman, health promotion, education and behavior, Eleasa Van Slooten (Honors College and Arnold School of Public Health student) and A. Tanner, “Are we getting the health information we need from the mass media? An assessment of consumers’ perceptions of health and medical news,” Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet.
Andrew T. Kaczynski, health promotion, education, and behavior, Michael W. Beets, exercise science, and Daheia J. Barr-Anderson, department of epidemiology and biostatistics, Gabrielle M. Turner- McGrievy, Justin B. Moore, and “Comparison of traditional versus mobile app self-monitoring of physical activity and dietary intake among overweight adults participating in an mHealth weight loss program” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Ron Brown and Kendra Albright, library and information science, "The Google Online Marketing Challenge and Distributed Learning," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science.
Carl Wells, equal opportunity programs, “The Effects of Work-Related and Boundary-Related Stress on the Emotional and Physical Health Status of Ordained Clergy,” Journal of Pastoral Psychology, and, same publication, “The Moderating Effects of Congregational and Denominational Support on the Impact of Stress on Clerical Emotional and Physical Health Status.”
• PRESENTATIONS
Kirk Foster, social work, T. Shaw, B. Combs, M. Hodge and D. Pedescleaux, “Black Neighborhood Attachments, Social Capital, and Collective Action: Preliminary Study Results,” The Changing Socio-Political Environments of Atlanta’s Black Neighborhoods, Atlanta Studies Symposium, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
Teri Browne, social work, and C. Shaver, C. (USC undergraduate social work student), “Using NIH R15 grants to educate BSW students about health disparities research,” Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors, Myrtle Beach.
Susan T. Parlier and Miriam M. Johnson, social work “Inspiring passion: Using service learning projects and technology in an advocacy coursem,” Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors, Myrtle Beach.
Huong Nguyen, social work, “Taking students abroad to study social work: Practical lessons and theoretical perspectives,” Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors. Myrtle Beach.
Compiled through Feb. 26, 2012
• BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
Patti J. Marinelli and Lizette Laughlin, languages, literatures and cultures, Puentes: Spanish for Intensive and High Beginner Courses, sixth edition, Heinle/Cengage, Boston, Mass.
Karen Heid, art education, and Zach Kelehear, education, “Leadership for the Arts: Staying True to What Matters Most Amidst the Storm,” Standing up for a Change: Voices of Arts Educators, K. Tavin and Christine Ballengee Morris, editors, National Art Education Association, Reston, Va.
Steve Lize and Pippin Whitaker, social work, “Human trafficking in the US: Globalization’s impact on dispossessed, dominated, and discarded populations,” Urban ills: Post recession complexities of urban living in the twenty-first century, in global contexts, C.C. Yeakey, V.L.S. Thompson and A. Wells, editors, Lexington Books, Lanham, Md.
Teri Browne, social work, and S. Gehlert, editors, “Handbook of Health Social Work (Chinese translation),” John Wiley & Sons, New York City.
• ARTICLES
Julia Ball, nursing, and Thayer McGahee, “Dedication of Hands to Nursing: A Ceremony of Caring,” Journal of Nursing Education and Practice.
Huong Nguyen, social work, C.S. Shiu, D. Voisin, M. Hardesty, W.T. Chen and Y. Lo, “A synthesis of 20 years of research on sexual risk-taking among Asian/Pacific Islander men who have sex with men in Western countries,” Journal of Men's Health.
Christina Andrews, social work, J.S. Darnell, T.D. McBride, S. Gehlert, “Social work and implementation of the Affordable Care Act,” Health and Social Work.
Chuanbing Tang, chemistry and biochemistry, Perry A. Wilbon and Fuxiang Chu (USC graduate students in chemistry), “Progress in Renewable Polymers from Natural Terpenes, Terpenoids and Rosin,” Macromolecular Rapid Communications.
Darcy Freedman, social work, Angela Liese, epidemiology and biostatistics, X. Ma, T.L. Barnes, B.A. Bell and N. Colabianchi, “Test-retest reliability of a questionnaire measuring perceptions of neighborhood food environment,” Health & Place, and, with
James R. Hebert, epidemiology and biostatistics, S.K. Choi, T. Hurley, E. Anadu, “A farmers' market at a federally qualified health center improves fruit and vegetable intake among low-income diabetics,” Preventive Medicine.
Mark Berg, chemistry and biochemistry, Haorui Wu (USC graduate student in chemistry) and Kalyanasis Sahu (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati), “Rate Dispersion in the Biexciton Decay of CdSe/ZnS Nanoparticles form Multiple Population-Period Transient Spectroscopy,” Journal of American Chemistry Spotlight.
Pippin Whitaker, social work, “Centrality of control-seeking in men’s intimate partner violence perpetration,” Prevention Science.
Huong Nguyen, social work, C.S. Shiu, D. Voisin, M. Hardesty, W.T. Chen and Y. Lo, “A synthesis of 20 years of research on sexual risk-taking among Asian/Pacific Islander men who have sex with men in Western countries,” Journal of Men's Health.
• PRESENTATIONS
Abbas Tavakoli and Joan Culley, nursing, Jean Craig and Erik Svendsen, “Using SAS to Create Code for Current Triage Systems during Chemical Incidents,” SAS Global Forum, San Francisco, Calif.
Nathan Huynh, civil and environmental engineering, Rita Snyder, nursing, José Vidal, computer science and engineering, Bo Cai, epidemiology and biostatistics, Kevin Bennett, medicine, and Omor Sharif (USC doctoral student in civil engineering), “Unbundled Versus Bundled Nurse Medication Administration Process: Preliminary Findings Of A Pilot Field Study,” IMA Conference on Quantitative Modelling in the Management of Health and Social Care, Woburn House, London, England.
Kathy Mayfield-Smith, Institute for Families in Society, “QTIP practices influencing state performance improvement,” QTIP Learning Collaborative, SC Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Charleston.
• OTHER
Courtney Catledge, nursing, Lancaster, and Laura Hein, nursing, named 2013 Palmetto Gold recipients, which honor 100 nurses each year who have demonstrated excellence in the practice of nursing and commitment to the profession.
Darcy Freedman, social work, elected to the S.C. Food Policy Council (S.C. Department of Agriculture).
Abbas Tavakoli, nursing, appointed section chair and to the executive council at the Southeastern SAS Users Group annual meeting, St. Pete Beach, Fla.
Compiled through Feb. 5, 2013
• BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
Stephanie Gonzalez Guittar, sociology, Lancaster, and Shannon Carter, “Laboring through Pain: Body, Mind, and Emotion Work among Midwifery Clients,” Advances in Medicine and Biology, Lean V. Berhardt, editor, Nova Science Publishers, New York.
• ARTICLES
Joshua N. Cooper, mathematics, "Bioterrorism and the Fermi Paradox", International Journal of Astrobiology.
Nicholas A. Guittar, sociology, Lancaster, “The Queer Apologetic: Explaining the use of bisexuality as a transitional identity,” Journal of Bisexuality, and, with Rachel Rayburn, “‘This is Where you are Supposed to be’: How homeless individuals cope with stigma,” Sociological Spectrum.
Sarah Barker, theatre and dance, “The Challenge of a Common Vocabulary,” The ExChange, journal of Alexander Technique International.
Darcy Freedman, social work, James Hebert, epidemiology and biostatistics, S.K. Choi, T. Hurley, E. Anadu, “A farmers' market at a federally qualified health center improves fruit and vegetable intake among low-income diabetics,” Preventive Medicine, and with X. Ma, T.L. Barnes, B.A. Bell, Natalie Colabianchi and Angela D. Liese, epidemiology and biostatistics, “Test-retest reliability of a questionnaire measuring perceptions of neighborhood food environment,” Health & Place.
Jay Potts, cell biology and anatomy, Keith Moore, Jennifer Amos, Jeffrey Davis and Robert Gourdie, “Characterization of Polymeric Microcapsules Containing a Low Molecular Weight Peptide for Controlled Release,” Microscopy and Microanalysis.
Robert F. Valois, health promotion, education and behavior, Daniel Romer and Michael Hennessy (University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg Public Policy Center), “Safer sex Media Messages and Adolescent Sexual Behavior: 3-Year Follow-Up Results from Project iMPPACS,” American Journal of Public Health.
Sarah Barker, theatre and dance, “Alexander Technique: An Acting Approach, Promoting Alexander Technique in Professional Actor Training Programs,” Freedom to Act Conference, New York City, and, same conference, “Introduction to the Alexander Technique for Actors,” and,
The Power and Plasticity of Touch, Alexander Technique International Conference, Papenburg, Germany, and, “How to Teach the Principles of the Alexander Technique,” Association of Theatre in Higher Education, Washington D.C., and “Using CGI to teach the Alexander Technique,”Association of Theatre Movement Educators, Washington, D.C.
DeAnne K.H. Messias, nursing, Daniela B. Friedman, Heather M. Brandt and Katrina Walsemann, health, promotion, education and behavior, and Alexis Koskan, “Sustainability of Promotora Initiatives: Programs Planners’ Perspectives,” Journal of Public Health Management Practice.
Deborah L. Billings, health promotion, education and behavior, H. Luz McNaughton Reyes, Yolanda Paredes-Gaitan and Karen Padilla Zuniga, “An assessment of health sector guidelines and services for treatment of sexual violence in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua,” Reproductive Health Matters.
Justin B. Moore, health promotion, education, and behavior, Jason Brinkley, Thomas W. Crawford, Kelly R. Evenson, Ross C. Brownson, “Association of the built environment with physical activity and adiposity in rural and urban youth,” Preventive Medicine.
Kendra Albright, library and information science, and S.J. Petrulis, “Information Vaccine: A Graphic Novel for HIV/AIDS Prevention,” Knowledge Quest.
Gabrielle Turner-McGrievy, health promotion, education and behavior, Deborah F. Tate, Dominic Moore and Barry Popkin, “Taking the Bitter with the Sweet: Relationship of Supertasting and Sweet Preference with Metabolic Syndrome and Dietary Intake,” Journal of Food Science.
Sarah Barker, theatre and dance, “The Challenge of a Common Vocabulary,” The ExChange, journal of Alexander Technique International.
Gina M. Besenyi and Andrew T. Kaczynski, health promotion, education and behavior, Sonja A. W. Stanis and Katherine B. Vaughan, ”Demographic variations in observed energy expenditure across park activity areas,” Preventive Medicine.
Steve Blair, exercise science, T.Church, D.L. Swift, C.J. Lavie, N.M. Johannsen, R. Arena, C.P. Earnest, J.H. O’Keefe and R.V. Milani, “Physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and exercise training in primary and secondary coronary prevention,” Circulation Journal, and, with Russ Pate, exercise science, and W. Byuyn, “Objectively measured sedentary behavior in preschool children: comparison between Montessori and traditional preschools,” International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, and, with Xuemei Sui, exercise science, E.G. Artero, D.C. Lee, C.J. Lavie, V. España-Romero and T. Church, “Effects of muscular strength on cardiovascular risk factors and prognosis,” Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, and, with K.S. Heffernan, T.M. Manini, F.C. Hsu, B.J. Nicklas, S.B. Kritchevsky, A.B. Newman, K. Sutton-Tyrrell, T.S. Church, W.L. Haskell and R.A. Fielding, “Relation of pulse pressure to long-distance gait speed in community-dwelling older adults: Findings from the LIFE-P study,” PLoS One.
• PRESENTATIONS
Darcy Freedman, social work, “Social work interventions for addressing social determinants of health,” Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work Research, San Diego, Ca., and, same conference, with J. Greene, E. Anadu, S. Khan, and James Hebert, epidemiology and biostatistics, “Feasibility of operating a FQHC-based farmers’ market in rural context,” and, with Ron Pitner, social work, and B.A. Bell, “Social capital and public housing residents' perception of neighborhood safety,” and, with Ron Pitner, social work, S. Smallwood, P. Sharpe, J.A. Cole, J. Hunter, K. Webb, L. Workman and S. Hastie, “Working with communities to generate community-level and community-engaged interventions to create healthy environments.”
Aidyn Iachini, social work, M. George, R. Schmidt and M. Weist, “Exploring Differences in Reasons for Suicidal Thoughts among Middle and High School Students in a Rural School Mental Health System,” Society for Social Work and Research Conference, San Diego, Ca.
Teri Browne, social work, “The role of the social milieu in health outcomes: Is it who you know, or what who you know knows?” Society for Social Work and Research, San Diego, Ca., and, same conference, with J. Merighi, “Changes in dialysis social workers’ caseloads, job tasks, and salaries since the implementation of Medicare’s 2008 Conditions for Coverage for End Stage Renal Disease facilities.”
Sarah Barker, theatre and dance, “Alexander Technique: An Acting Approach, Promoting Alexander Technique in Professional Actor Training Programs, and Introduction to the Alexander Technique for Actors,” Freedom to Act Conference, New York City, and, “Power and Plasticity of Touch,” Alexander Technique International Conference, Papenburg, Germany, and, “How to Teach the Principles of the Alexander Technique,” Association of Theatre in Higher Education, Washington, D.C., and, “Using CGI to teach the Alexander Technique,” Association of Theatre Movement Educators, Washington, D.C.
Robert Hock, social work, J. Kuntz and B. Ahmedani, “Differentiating treatment responsiveness among subgroups of children with Autism spectrum disorder,” Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference. San Diego, Ca., and, same conference, with T. Cross, I. Kim, A. Kinsman and J. Keller, “Examining relationships between ASD symptom severity family management ability, and parental stress.”
Kirk Foster, social work, C. Coulton, L.A. Hipp, N. Nicotera and J. Teitler, “Neighborhood metrics and measures: Alternative specifications and tools,” Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference. San Diego, Ca.
• OTHER
Fran Gardner, art, Lancaster, had her artwork included in a newly released book, “Textiles: The Art of Mankind by Mary Schoeser,” Thames & Hudson Ltd., London.
Andrea L’Hommedieu, South Caroliniana Library, was recently recognized by the Oral History Association as director of the George J. Mitchell Oral History Project, which has been named the Elizabeth B. Mason Major Project Award winner for 2012.
Compiled through Jan. 10, 2013
• BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
Charles W. Kegley, political science, The Global Future, 5th edition, Wadsworth Publishing, Stamford, Conn.
• ARTICLES
Debra Rae Cohen, English, "Intermediality and the Problem of the Listener," Modernism/modernity.
Terri Browne, social work, and T. Savage, “Dialysis rationing and the just allocation of resources: A historical primer,” Journal of Nephrology Social Work.
Edward A. Frongillo, health promotion, education and behavior, Michael P. Burke, Sonya J. Jones, Maryah S. Fram, “U.S. Households With Children Are Exposed to Non-persistent and Persistent Food Insecurity,” Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition.
Laura C. Hein and Kathrene C. Berger, nursing, “Gender incongruence in children: Let's think this through,” Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing.
Jeremy Lane, School of Music, "Engaging Preservice Music Teachers With Adult Amateur Musicians,” International Journal of Community Music, and, "The Effect of Performance Experience on Vocal Music Major's Perception of Musical Tension,” Journal of Research in Music Performance.
James F Thrasher, health promotion, education and behavior, Nandita Murukutla, Rosaura Perez-Hernandez, Jorge Alday, Edna Arillo-Santillan, Claudia Cedillo and Juan Pablo Gutierre, “Linking mass media campaigns to pictorial warning labels on cigarette packages: a cross-sectional study to evaluate effects among Mexican smokers,” Tobacco Control.
DeAnne K. H. Messias, nursing, Daniela B. Friedman, Heather M. Brandt and Katrina M. Walsemann, health promotion, education and behavior, and Alexis M. Koskan, “Preparing Promotoras to Deliver Health Programs for Hispanic Communities: Training Processes and Curricula,” Health Promotion Practice.
Dana DeHart, social work, S. Lynch, J, Belknap and B. Green, “Women's pathways to jail: The roles & intersections of serious mental illness & trauma,” Bureau of Justice Assistance.
Laura C. Hein and Kathy M. Scharer, nursing, “Who Cares If It’s a Hate Crime? LGBT Hate Crimes - Mental Health Implications,” Perspectives in Psychiatric Care.
Michael Bizimis and Alicia M. Wilson, earth and ocean sciences, Reshmi Das (post-doctoral fellow), "Tracing mercury seawater vs. atmospheric inputs in a pristine SE USA salt marsh system: Mercury isotope evidence", Chemical Geology.
Joshua M. Gold, counselor education, and Oluwatoyin Adeyemi (doctoral candidate in counselor educatio), “Stepfathers and noncustodial fathers: two men, one role,” The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families.
Stephanie E. Burgess, nursing, J. Larry Durstine and Gregory A. Hand, exercise science, Wesley D. Dudgeon, Jason R. Jaggers, Kenneth D. Phillips, George W. Lyerly and John M. Davis, “Moderate-Intensity Exercise Improves Body Composition and Improves Physiological Markers of Stress in HIV-Infected Men,” ISRN AIDS.
Mary R. Boyd, Beverly Baliko, JoAnne Herman and Vera Polyakova-Norwood, nursing, “Redesigning a Graduate Research Course for Evidence-Based Competencies,” Journal of Nursing Education.
• PRESENTATIONS
Melissa Reitmeier and Terry Wolfer, social work, “Sharing Best Practices: Problem Solving Ethical Dilemmas,” National Association of Social Workers S.C. Spring Symposium, Columbia, and, same conference, “Enhancing Social Work Field Education: Decision Cases for Field Instructors,” and, "Developing Field Instructor Competency: Problem Solving with Decision Cases,” Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors, Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Deborah Billings, health promotion, education and behavior, H.L.M. Reyes, Y. Paredes-Gaitan and K Padilla, “An assessment of health sector guidelines and services for treatment of sexual violence in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua,” Reproductive Health Matters.
Swann Arp Adams, nursing, “A New Approach to Cancer Health Disparities: Applications of Geospatial Methods. Cancer Prevention and Control Program Colloquium Series, Columbia.
• OTHER
Mark Berg, chemistry and biochemistry, has been named to the 2013 Journal of Physical Chemistry editorial advisory board.
Charles W. Kegley, political science, serving on the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
Naomi Farber, social work, has been installed as the new president of the Columbia Jewish Federation.
Sue Heiney, nursing, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the South Carolina Cancer Alliance.
Compiled through December 7, 2012
• BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
Huong Nguyen, social work, “Unhappiness is an asset,” Tre Publishing House, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
• ARTICLES
Mark Smith, history, “Styling Sensory History," Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and, “Transcending, othering, detecting: Smell, premodernity, modernity,” Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies.
Scott Strayer, family and preventive medicine, “Evaluation of a Screening and Counseling Tool for Alcohol Misuse: A Virginia Practice Support and Research Network (VaPSRN) Trial,” Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.
Ana Lòpez-De Fede, Institute for Families in Society,Y. Li, S. Raychowdhury, S.H. Tedders, R. Lyn and J. Zhang, “Association between increased BMI and severe school absenteeism among US children and adolescents: findings from a national survey, 2005–2008,” International Journal of Obesity, and, with L. Ekperi, S. Greene, A. Dehal and J. Zhang, “Health Insurance Coverage Among Adults from Three Major Ethnic Groups in the United States,” Ethnicity and Disease.
Huong Nguyen, social work, “When development means political maturity: Adolescents as miniature communists in post-war, pre-reform Vietnam (1975-1986),” Journal of the History of the Family.
James Thrasher, health promotion, education and behavior and K. Michael Cummings, M. Siahpush, H. Yong, G.T. Fong, B. Saenz de Miera and R. Borland, “Cigarette prices, cigarette expenditure and smoking-induced deprivation: findings from the International Tobacco Control Mexico survey,” Tobacco Control, and, with E. Abad-Vivero, E. Sebrie, T. Barrientos-Gutierrez, M. Boado, H. Yong, E. Arillo-Santiullan and E. Bianco, “Tobacco smoke exposure in public places and workplaces after smoke-free policy implementation: a longitudinal analysis of smoker cohorts in Mexico and Uruguay,” Health Policy and Planning.
John Dawson and Massanori Sono, chemistry and biochemistry, S. Sumithran and G.M. Raner, “Single turnover studies of oxidative halophenol dehalogenation by horseradish peroxidase reveal a mechanism involving two consecutive one electron steps: Toward a functional halophenol bioremediation catalyst,” Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry.
Daniela Friedman, health promotion, education, and behavior, Sara Wilcox, exercise science, S. Hooker, E. Burroughs and C. Rheaume, “African American Men’s Perspectives on Promoting Physical Activity: ‘We’re Not That Difficult to Figure Out!’” Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives.
Edward Frongillo, health promotion, education and behavior, P. Kariger, P. Engle, P. Britto, S. Sywulka and P. Menon, “Indicators of Family Care for Development for Use in Multicountry Surveys,” Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition.
Teri Browne, social work, and T. Savage, “Dialysis rationing and the just allocation of resources: A historical primer,” Journal of Nephrology Social Work.
• PRESENTATIONS
Aidyn Iachini, social work, D.Leblanc, L. Webster, M. Beets, E. Monsma and M. Lohman, “A qualitative exploration of the perceived impacts of a physical activity-based youth development intervention for girls,” Women’s Health Research Forum, Columbia, and, with Darcy Freedman, social work, “Using community and economic development approaches to reduce obesity disparities,” Scientific Retreat on Obesity, South Carolina Clinical and Translational Research Institute and Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness, Charleston, S.C., and, with Darcy Freedman, Arlene Andrews, social work, and T. Cross, “Pedagogical approaches to enhance learning in service-learning courses. Oral presentation at the University of South Carolina, Center for Teaching Excellence, Oktoberfest Symposium on Teaching, Columbia.
Walter Collins, French and English, Lancaster, “Through Music and Drama: Escape, Freedom and Redemption in Two Short Stories,” Southern Comparative Literature Association, Las Vegas, Nev.
Christina Andrews, social work, “Social Work and the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act,” Society of Social Work and Research, Congressional Social Work Caucus, Washington, D.C.
John Dawson, chemistry and biochemistry, "Generation and Reactivity of Transient Cytochrome P450 Oxygen-Containing Intermediates," keynote lecture, Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference, Hong Kong, China, and, "A. ornata Dehaloperoxidase: the Mechanism of Oxidative Dehalogenation by Heme-Containing Peroxidases," invited lecture, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga.
Kirk Foster, social work, "Ethics and Diversity in Mental Health Practice" S.C. Mental Health and Law Seminar, Columbia.
• OTHER
Chuanbing Tang, chemistry and biochemistry, and Christopher Hardy, "Advances in square arrays through self-assembly and directed self-assembly of block copolymers" selected as the cover for "Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics.
John Dawson, chemistry and biochemistry, named to the International Scientific Advisory Committee for the Eighteenth International Conference on Cytochrome P450: Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structure to be held at the University of Washington, Seattle, Wash., June 2013.
Compiled through Nov. 19, 2012
• BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
Teri Browne, social work,L. McPhatter, L. Peters and D. Schatell, “The person with kidney failure,” Core Curriculum for the Dialysis Technician, Fifth Edition, Medical Education Institute, Madison, Wisc.
Dennis M. Allen, Baruch Institute, “Zooplankton of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts - A Guide to Their Identification and Ecology, second edition,” John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md.
• ARTICLES
Amy Paxton-Aiken, Suzanne Domel Baxter, Julie A. Royer, Caroline H. Guinn, and Christopher J. Finney, Institute for Families in Society (social work), and Joshua M. Tebbs, statistics, “How accurate are parental responses concerning their fourth-grade children's school-meal participation, and what is the relationship between children's body mass index and school-meal participation based on parental responses?” International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, and, with Christina M. Devlin, “Nonsignificant relationship between participation in school-provided meals and body mass index during the fourth-grade school year,” Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and “Secondary analyses of data from 4 studies with fourth-grade children show that sex, race, amounts eaten of standardized portions, and energy content given in trades explain the positive relationship between body mass index and energy intake at school-provided meals,” Nutrition Research.
Anna Scheyett, social work, A. Jones and L. Zerden, “Finding the leader within: A self-reflective leadership assessment for MSW students,” Council on Higher Education, Washington, D.C.
Nicholas Lawrence, English, Lancaster, “‘I wont tell you you can save yourself because you can't’: The Western Formula and the Removal of the Hero in No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian” Critical Insights: Cormac McCarthy, David Cremean, editor, Salem Press, Pasadena, Calif.
Ana Lòpez-De Fede, Institute for Families in Society, Y. Li, S. Raychowdhury, S.H. Tedders, R. Lyn, R., and J. Zhang, “Association between increased BMI and severe school absenteeism among US children and adolescents: findings from a national survey, 2005–2008,” International Journal of Obesity, and, with L. Ekperi, S. Greene, A. Dehal, and J. Zhang, “Health Insurance Coverage Among Adults from Three Major Ethnic Groups in the United States,” Ethnicity and Disease.
Darcy A. Freedman and Ronald O. Pitner, social work, Meredith C.F. Powers and Tanjenique P. Anderson, “Using Photovoice to Develop a Grounded Theory of Socio-Environmental Attributes Influencing the Health of Community Environments,” British Journal of Social Work.
Arlene Andrews, social work, “Charles Dickens, Social Worker in His Time,” Social Work.
Kirk A. Foster, social work, S.E. Bowland and A.N. Vosler, “Culturally competent and spiritually sensitive therapy with lesbian and gay Christians,” Social Work.
• PRESENTATIONS
Lesly S. Wilson, pediatrics, Center for Disability Resources, “Early Identification of Autism: A Multi-System Approaches to Increase Early Detection Practices,” Association of University Centers on Disabilities, Washington, D.C.
Teri Browne, social work “How can social workers help improve medical patient outcomes?” Medical University of South Carolina Social Work Conference, Charleston, S.C.
Suzanne Domel Baxter, Megan Puryear, Kate Vaadi, Julie Royer, and Caroline University Creative Services