Joanne Goldwater, associate dean for retention and student success in the Office of Student Success Services, has been selected to present on a panel for the Maryland Association of Institutional Research at their Spring 2023 Institute Friday, April 28, 2023.

Sue Johnson, professor of art, has been awarded a two-month fellowship in Paris, France at Cité Internationale des Arts in summer 2023. Located in the Marais along the Seine, she will have a live-work studio space in the well-known arts complex that offers fellowships to an international community of artists. Based on archival research in Paris, Johnson will create new artworks that focus on historical images of women and the intersection of commerce, fashion and spectacle.

Professor of Mathematics Sandy Ganzell is co-editor with Eli Goldwyn and Aaron Wootton of “Mathematics Research for the Beginning Student," Volume 1 and Volume 2 (Springer Link, 2022). The textbooks are part of the Foundations for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics series.

Professor of Spanish José R. Ballesteros had several of his poems published in the Summer/Fall 2022 edition of The Journal of the South Central MLA (John Hopkins University Press).

Professor of English Beth Charlebois was recently published in "Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation" (Routledge, 2023), edited by Vanessa I. Corredera, L. Monique Pittman, Geoffrey Way. Her chapter, titled "Prospero in Prison: Adaptation and Appropriation in Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed" analyzes Atwood's fictional adaptation of "The Tempest" entitled "Hag-Seed." 

Inaugural William Seale Professor of Business Silvio Borrero participated in the Colombian Institute of Education Evaluation (ICFES) board of directors meeting on March 15. Borrero has been a member of the ICFES board of directors since 2017, when he was appointed by Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos. ICFES is a government organization responsible for the evaluation of education in Colombia.

Andrew Cognard-Black, assistant professor of sociology, is the recipient of a grant from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) to support his research project titled "Honors and Beyond." The grant covers travel and other expenses associated with accessing restricted-use student data from the College and Beyond II Studies (CBII) housed at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.

Pam Mertz, professor of biochemistry, presented a talk, “The Gen Z Student: Who Do We Teach” in the session “Teaching Gen Z: Challenges and Opportunities” at the ASBMB Discover BMB meeting in Seattle, Washington on March 25.  In addition, on March 27, she helped facilitate a workshop on iCn3D, a web-based molecular modeling program from the National Center for Biotechnology Information.  The creator of the program, Jiyao Wang, helped lead the workshop as well as colleagues from BioMolViz.  Mertz was also a co-author on the presentation “Evaluating Biomolecular Visual Literacy