eInside Recognition

Yosh Hakutani, Department of English, chaired the session “Dreiser, Chicago, and Realist Writers” at the American Literature Association Conference, Boston, Mass., May 23-26, 2013.

Mary Hricko, Kent State University at Geauga, presented “Dreiser, Richard Wright, and the Chicago Renaissance” at the American Literature Association Conference, Boston, Mass., May 23-26, 2013.

Richard Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, was cited in The New York Times on July 21, 2013. Feinberg studies navigational “tool kits” (i.e., winds, waves, stars) used by indigenous Polynesian navigators in the Solomon Islands.

Weblink: www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/opinion/sunday/losing-our-way-in-the-world.html?emc=eta1&_r=0

Ralph Lorenz, School of Music, presented "Health Benefits of Singing: A Perspective from Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chi Kung?" at the Phenomenon of Singing International Symposium IX in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, July 7, 2013.

Richard Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, recently returned from a three-week expedition to the Solomon Islands where he served as an ethnographic consultant in making a documentary film dealing with environmental sustainability on the Polynesian island of Anuta. Anuta is a remote island that is typically visited by outsiders no more than once or twice a year. The film is being created as part of a project titled “1,000 Days for the Planet,” sponsored by the Sedna Foundation (a Canadian non-governmental organization) in collaboration with the United Nations Secretariat for the Convention on Biodiversity and the government of Quebec. See details and photos at www.kent.edu/profiles/data/mraghant/SednaAnutaExpedition2013_07252013_080309.pdf.

Weblink: http://sedna.radio-canada.ca/en/home.

D. Mark Manley, Department of Physics, Hongyu Zhang, John Tulpan, and Manoj Shrestha, authored "Partial-Wave Analysis of Antikaon-Nucleon Scattering Reactions," Physical Review C, Volume 88 (2013): 35204. Web link: http://prc.aps.org/abstract/PRC/v88/i3/e035204

Peter Kratcoski, Department of Sociology, Kent State University at Stark, authored a section of a book, "Foreward" Child and Youth Misbehaviour in South Africa, 3rd ed., (Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa: Van Schaik Publishers) by Christiaan Bezuidenhout, (2013), XV-XVi. Additional comments: The Forward focuses on the similarities of the behavior of children in various countries throughout the world and the need to establish universal standards for juvenile justice.

Chris Groening, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, and Vamsi K. Kanuri, authored "Investor Reaction to Positive and Negative Corporate Societal Events," Journal of Business Research, Vol. 66, Issue 10, (2013): 1852-1860.