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Professional Activities

Marianne Martens, School of Library and Information Science, presented "Digital Youth: Towards a New Multidisciplinary Research" at the iConference in Berlin, Germany, on March 4, 2014.

Martens was co-organizer of a pre-conference workshop at the iConference. Co-organizers included an international group of colleagues from the Royal Library School in Copenhagen; University of Technology, Sydney; University of Michigan and the University of Washington.

Meghan Harper, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, presented "Causality: School Libraries and Student Success (CLASS)" at the American Association for School Librarians’ Research Summit in Chicago, Ill., on April 11-12, 2014.

Harper was one of only 50 researchers invited to participate in the American Association for School Librarians’ Research Summit on April 11 and 12 in Chicago. The summit on Causality: School Libraries and Student Success (CLASS), funded by an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant, brought together school library and educational researchers to create a national focus and agenda on causal research and provide empirical evidence that school libraries make positive contributions to student achievement.

Marianne Martens, School of Library and Information Science, moderated a panel on digital youth at the iConference in Berlin, Germany, on March 4, 2014.

Web link: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/workshops/#workshop10

Denise A.D. Bedford, School of Library and Information Science, presented "Topology of Transportation Information Sources and Systems" at the National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C, in January 2014.

The paper led to joint research conducted with Lisa Loyo, manager, Information Services, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences.

Tomas A. Lipinski, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, was invited to guest blog and speak about copyright for the American Library Association during Copyright Week, Jan. 13-18, 2014.

John Hummell, M.Ed., residence hall director with Kent State’s Department of Residence Services, recently completed the Certificate in Occupancy Management through the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International (ACUHO-I), the international professional organization for residence life and housing professionals.

The certificate program took approximately one year to complete and included two courses that focused on interpreting housing and occupancy-related policies and laws, analyzing enrollment and occupancy trends and benchmarks, reviewing strategies to align occupancy management goals with housing demand and inventory, and developing strategies to make sure occupancy goals are met.

The certificate program also included a capstone project, a 50-page report and analysis reviewed by two peers and then by an expert review panel. Hummell successfully completed the capstone project and earned ACUHO-I’s Certificate in Occupancy Management in March 2014.


Publications

Richard Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, wrote the op-ed, “Crimea: Russian Aggression or Realpolitik?” that was published in The Huffington Post (April 9, 2014): www.huffingtonpost.com/american-anthropological-association/crimea-russian-aggression_b_5105991.html

Yosh Hakutani, Department of English, authored “Cy Twombly’s Painting of the Peonies and Haiku Imagery,” Cy Twombly: Bild, Text, Paratext,” ed. Thierry Greub (Paderborn, Germany: Wilhelm Fink, 2014), 279-94.


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