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Faculty Achievement
Sharon Kanfoush [1] , professor of geology, had a manuscript entitled “Climatic forcing of multidecadal variation in lake sediment characteristics: Teleconnections spanning 1,700 kilometers of North America from Michigan to New York” accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal The Northeastern Geographer .
Sharon Kanfoush , Advisory Committee Member of the Institute for the Study of Integrative Healthcare, taught an all-day continuing education workshop on “Yoga and Yoga Therapy for Healthcare Professionals” for over 30 MVHS physical and occupational therapists.
Meredith Madden [2] , assistant professor of education, recently authored the book Dear Students: 10 Letters to Empower and Transform Your Higher Education Journey - a higher education guide that prepares students to authentically and intentionally “do school.” Available from Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Dear Students uses narratives to illuminate critical topics that will foster the reader’s understanding of valuable matters such as getting noticed and having your experiences centered; building a circle of support; the significance of faculty relationships including building those relationships in spaces like office hours; addressing fears of speaking, disrupting silence, and engaging voice in the classroom; developing deep listening; cultivating community; nurturing belonging; preparing to participate; and keeping hope alive. Readers will engage moments of critical reflection and leave with many diverse “know-how” strategies that will position them to “do school” from a place of empowerment and for the purpose of transformation.
Hava Turkakin [3] , assistant professor of physics, was awarded a $202,312 research grant from the National Science Foundation to support the project Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability and Magnetosonic Wave Emission Along Bursty Bulk Flow Channel Boundaries: Impacts on Near-Earth Plasma Sheet Dynamics During Substorms. The funding will allow Dr. Turkakin to conduct her research as well as hire an undergraduate research assistant and a high school student, providing them with valuable hands-on research and learning experience. The award will also allow Dr. Turkakin and her researchers the ability to travel to the American Geophysical Union yearly conference.
Janice Ceccucci [4] , assistant professor of nursing, has received a $25,000 grant from the International Association of Forensic Nurses that will enable her to travel to Romania and train medical professionals there on how to provide services to victims of sexual assault. Romania has an extremely high rate of sexual violence, assault and human trafficking.
