Research and Honors is a monthly column of the Illinois State Report newsletter, celebrating recent Honors, Publications, and Presentations of faculty and staff.

Honors

Anna Smith, TCH, co-authored the article titled, “Tinkering toward teacher learning: A case for critical playful literacies in teacher education,” which was selected as the Emerald Literati Awards 2024 Outstanding Article for the journal, English Teaching: Practice & Critique. The article has now been made freely available for 12 months.

Presentations

Camille Cole and Nathan Kapoor, HIS, presented at the Midwest World History Association Conference on “Narrative Needed: Teaching Content and Skill in World History.”

Christine Varga-Harris, HIS, presented the paper titled, “Cultural Outreach and Soviet Representations of Decolonizing Africa through the Lens of Gender, 1956-1964,” at the Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond) Conference, hosted by the University of Vienna in September.

Timothy D. Lash, CHE, presented “Thirty Years of Carbaporphyrin Chemistry: Recent Advances” invited lecture for the symposium on N-Fused and N-Confused Porphyrinoids, organized by Muniappan Sankar and Hiroyuki Furuta, for 13th International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-13), Niagara Falls and Buffalo, New York, in June.

Stewart Winger, HIS, delivered a paper titled, “‘Stopping a Skift in the Middle of a River’: Abraham Lincoln, I&M Canal Scrip, and Monetary Policy in a Nineteenth-Century Economic Crisis,” at the Conference on Illinois History in Springfield.

Publications

Catherine O’Reilly, GEO, co-authored the article titled, “Environmental and societal consequences of winter ice loss from lakes,” in the Journal: Science.

Fred H. Smith, SOA, co-authored the book titled, Vindija Cave: A Late Neandertal Site in Northern Croatia. FF Press: Zagreb.

John R. Blakeman and MyoungJin Kim, MCN, co-authored “Further Psychometric Testing of the Chest Pain Conception Questionnaire in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample,” in the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

Lydia Kyei-Blankson, EAF, completed APPA’s Center for Facilities Research (CFaR) project titled, “Performance Management through a Service Quality Perspective.” The report has been peer-reviewed, posted to the APPA newsfeed and the CFaR webpages, and will appear in a future issue of Inside APPA.

Timothy D. Lash, CHE, co-authored the following:

• “Linear Extension of Carbaporphyrin Chromophores. Synthesis, Protonation and Metalation of Anthro[2,3-b]carbaporphyrins: Evidence for 30pi-electron Aromatic Circuits in a Palladium(II) Complex,” in The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2024, 89 (1), 124-140.
• “Serendipitous discovery of conjugated dipyrromethene-linked nitronaphthoporphyrins,” in The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2024, 89 (15), 10582-10590.
• “Synthesis, spectroscopic properties and metalation of 3-alkoxy-benziporphyrins,” in Molecules 2024, 29 (8), 1903.

Jay Solomon, AGR, published “Perceptions of Agriculture Teachers and School Administrators Toward Compensation and Extended Contracts,” in Agenda for Social Justice 3: Solutions for 2024.

Dawn Beichner-Thomas, CJS, has published “Rape and Sexual Assault as Crimes.”

Charles Bell, CJS, published “Report of Unfair Discipline at School and Associations with Health Risk Behaviors and Experiences,” for the Center for Disease Control National Publication.

Mijin Kim, CJS, published “Cyber Victimization in the Healthcare Industry: Analyzing Offender Motivations and Target Characteristics through Routine Activities Theory (RAT) and Cyber-Routine Activities Theory (Cyber-RAT).”

Jessie Krienert and Jeffrey A. Walsh, CJS, co-authored “Communicating Sexual Health to the Incarcerated Population: Information Dissemination in a U.S. Sample of Inmate Handbooks.”

Connie Dyar, FCS, published “Multigenerational Living: Designing for Chinese Immigrant Families in the United States.”

Sally Arnett, FCS, co-authored “COVID-19 Global Pandemic Upheaval: CTE Teachers Response in the United States.”

David Lane, CJS, “Social Problems in the Age of Culture Wars,” in Agenda for Social Justice 3: Solutions for 2024.

 Justin Stanek, KNR, published “Comparison of the Immediate Effects of Graston Technique on Subcutaneous Hemodynamics within the Triceps Surae.”

Bin Lizzo, KNR, published “Parting Thoughts XXXIII: Disney Genie+ as a Catalyst of Flow,” in Leisure Sciences.

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