Faculty kudos

College of Business and Economics

Benjamin Neil, Accounting, is the author of an article, "Concierge Medicine: Should Financial Considerations Prevail Over Ethical and Moral Concerns?" which will be published in the February issue of Journal of Business and Economics Research, 7(2).

College of Education

Gloria Neubert and Montana McCormick, Secondary Education, co-authored “Scaffolding subject-specific literacy instruction for pre-service teacher candidates,” which was published this month in The Reading Professor, 30(2), pp. 19-25.

College of Fine Arts and Communication

Richard Vatz, Mass Communication and Communication Studies, published an article, "NCA's De Facto Ideological Discrimination," in the February issue of Spectra, the newsletter of the National Communication Association (NCA). His article examines the historic political discrimination in the association with applications to academe in general.

College of Health Professions

Donna Wagner, Health Science, has been named a 2009 fellow by the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE), the educational branch of tthe Gerontological Society of America. AGHE confers fellow status to individuals to recognize outstanding leadership in gerontolgocial/geriatric education by established scholars and educators at AGHE member institutions.

College of Liberal Arts

Andrew Reiner, English, is a regular contributor to the Urbanite, a magazine for Baltimore’s curious. His story, “Revolutionary Road,” is the Urbanite’s February feature story. Reiner has had his writing published in The Baltimore Sun and City Paper, among other publications. His essay,“The American Idea,” appeared in the online version of The Atlantic Monthly magazine.

Jane Wolfson, Environmental Science and Studies,
and four of her students appeared in a photo published in The Baltimore Sun's Education Supplement on Feb. 15.
The students, Dan Ciborowski, Rob Flora, Tina Montalvo and Malinda Ross, were testing a photovoltaic system developed by Solaroad Technologies. Wolfson was interviewed for the feature story, "Education for Green Job Growth: Building a sustainable future."

Fisher College of Science and Mathematics

Mark Profili, Chemistry, attended the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Postconviction DNA Case Management Symposium in Palm Harbor, Fla., January 22-23. The NIJ invited him to assist with coordination among prosecutors, defense attorneys, law enforcement agencies and crime laboratories in the development and implementation of a postconviction DNA testing assistance program. He will help to develop an improved evidence tracking program to store and locate evidence that may support an erroneously convicted individual's innocence.