“How Coronavirus felled ‘Woke” – for now,” an opinion piece by Lamont Colucci, associate professor of politics and government, was published today on Newsmax.com. He discusses how the stories and news shared with the publicduring the COVID-19 crisis have been shifted “by a segment of the population with a desperate desire to control and manipulate […]
The newly released book Game Changers: How Dark Money and Super PACs are Transforming U.S. Campaigns will be the focus of talk Feb. 26 at Ripon College. The talk is sponsored by the Center for Politics and the People and will begin at 6 p.m. in Room 104 of Todd Wehr Hall. It is free […]
Mary Unger, associate professor of English and chair of the department, has been honored for a recent essay. “The Book Circle: Black Women Readers and Middlebrow Taste in Chicago, 1943-1953,” is the winner of the 2020 David D. Anderson Award for Outstanding Essay in Midwestern Literary Studies from the Society for the Study of Midwestern […]
Rick Coles, professor of exercise science, will speak on three different topics Friday, Feb. 7, at the Glazier Clinic for football coaches in Minneapolis. It is part of a nationwide series of coaching clinics. Coles will speak about Midline Triple Option; Misdirection Off Inside Veer; and Offensive line fundamentals for Triple Option Offenses. Coles has […]
A paper about small biopreservative sugars by Christina Othon, associate professor of physics, Julia Goeks ’21 of Lake Forest, Illinois, and coauthors has been published by ACS Publications. Othon also presented on the work during an invited talk in July at the fifth International Frontiers in Water Biophysics Conference in Erice, Italy. Goeks presented the […]
Dominique Poncelet, professor of French and Francophone studies, is the author of “Le livre comme tombeau litteraire: Franz et Francois de Francois Weyergans et D’autres vies que la mienne d’Emmanuel Carrere” (“The Book as a Literary Tomb in Franz and Francois by Francois Weyergans and Lives Other Than Mine by Emmanuel Carrere”). The article was […]
All of the psychology faculty members — Joe Hatcher, professor and The Pieper Family Chair in Servant Leadership; Ellen Lee, assistant professor; Julia Meyers-Manor, assistant professor; and Kristine A. Kovack-Lesh, associate professor and associate dean for faculty development — attended and presented at the 42nd annual conference of the National Institute of the Teaching of […]
Tom Hamami, assistant professor of business management and the John Barlow Murray ’37 and Nellie Weiss Murray ’37 Professor in Economics, had a paper published in December by Wiley Online Library. “Network Effects, Bargaining Power, and Product Review Bias: Theory and Evidence” can be accessed here.
Julia Meyers-Manor, assistant professor of psychology, and Rebecca Groat ’21 of Combined Locks, Wisconsin, presented at the Association for Professional Dog Trainers’ annual conference Oct. 30 in Portland, Oregon. Groat presented the poster “Observations of Behaviors in Doggy Day Care” and won second place in the poster competition. Meyers-Manor presented a poster done with Micaela […]
Lamont Colucci, associate professor of politics and government, has been named a fellow of the Institute for Corean-American Studies Inc., whose mission is “advancing humanity, liberty, peace and security among all nations and all people.” The institute cites Colucci’s experience as a diplomat with the U.S. Department of State with expertise in United States national […]
Director of Teacher Education Jean Rigden focuses her energy on building future teachers that, in turn, expand the horizons of future generations of students. Her classrooms are enriched with her first-hand experiences with kindergarten through undergraduate education. For nine years, Rigden taught in various Wisconsin school districts. She was then a K-12 Principal at Princeton […]
The book Game Changers: How Dark Money and Super PACs Are Transforming U.S. Campaigns is scheduled to be released March 1, 2020. The authors are Henrik Schatzinger, associate professor of politics and government and co-director of the Center for Politics and the People, and Steven E. Martin, professor of communication. The book is available for […]
The expanding interests of space strategy, national security and great-power conflict in space have been addressed across the country by Lamont Colucci, associate professor of politics and government. Because of articles he has written on the topics, he addressed both the Space Futures Workshop at USAF-Space Command, now United States Space Command, and later Space […]
President Zach Messitte and his co-author Charles Holdon will appear on C-SPAN3’s “American History TV” program to talk about their book Republican Populist: Sprio Agnew and the Origins of Donald Trump’s America. The first airing will be Saturday, Nov. 23, at 7:55 p.m. CST. Written by Messitte; Holdon, professor of history at St. Mary’s College […]
A recent book by Matthew Knoester, associate professor of educational studies, has been recognized by the American Educational Studies Association. Beyond Testing: Seven Assessments of Students and Schools More Effective than Standardized Tests received a Critics’ Choice Book Award. The co-author is Deborah Meier, an educator and a strong advocate of the school reform movement. […]
A collection of touchable art to promote and teach about the creation of art for the visually impaired is being assembled by Travis Nygard, associate professor of art and director of the Caestecker Gallery in C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Funds from a Kohler Foundation grant recently were re-allocated to the art department to […]
Lamont Colucci, associate professor of politics and government, was scheduled during October and November to give four presentations concerning the future of space and the intersection of space, politics, and economics. In October, he addressed the Commercial Spaceflight Conference at the University of Southern California concerning the “Tri-Planetary (Earth/Moon/Mars) economy” and how that relates to […]
Brett Barwick, associate professor of physics and the Harrison E. Farnsworth 1918 Chair in Physics, is co-author of an article published in Nature Materials. “Using a novel approach, EPFL physicists have been able to create ultrafast electron vortex beams, with significant implications for fundamental physics, quantum computing, future data storage, and even certain medical treatments,” […]
“The Influence of Corporate Lobbying on Federal Contracting,” by Henrik Schatzinger, associate professor of politics and government and co-director of the Center for Politics and the People, and coauthors has been published by Social Science Quarterly in both online and print versions. The peer-reviewed study was published in the online version in May 2019, and […]
Republican Populist: Spiro Agnew and the Origins of Donald Trump’s America, a book co-written by President Zach Messitte, will be the focus of talk at Ripon College Oct. 14. The talk will run from 4:30 to 5:45 p.m. in Kresge Little Theatre, East Hall. The other speakers will be coauthors Jerald Podair, professor of history […]
Sarah Frohardt-Lane, assistant professor of history and director of environmental studies, has a chapter in an edited volume of environmental histories of World War II. “Imagined Resilience: U.S. Conservation Campaigns and Fat Salvage” appears in Resilient City: Urban Environmental Histories of World War II, published by Palgrave MacMillan as part of its Palgrave Studies in […]