Wren Bareiss (Communication) presented a two-part workshop to medical researchers at Spartanburg Regional Hospital’s outpatient center on writing and publishing qualitative research in health care. He was also appointed to three boards, Spartanburg Philharmonic Audience Development, Live Healthy Spartanburg Policy, and Spartanburg Shares.
John Barnett (Library) participated in the Harvard University Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians over the summer. He was one of 100 library leaders selected for the competitive program. Barnett also presented the session “On Target? Boosting the Library’s Relevance Through the Academic Program Review” at the Southeastern Library Association Summer Conference in Huntsville, Alabama.
Stephen Bismarck (Education) presented the paper “Concrete-Representational-Abstract (CRA) Approach in an Algebra I Inclusion Class” at the 15th International Congress of Mathematics Education in Sydney, Australia, in July.
Brian Brady (Entrepreneurship) completed the summer course “Negotiation Mastery” at the Harvard Business School. He, Kim Land (Marketing) and Yin-Chi Liao (Management) also all received the USC Upstate Excellence in Community Engaged Education Award.
Ryan Crawford (Nursing) co-authored “A National Qualitative Study of Work-Life Balance in Prelicensure Nursing Faculty” in the journal Nursing Education Perspectives. It was recognized as best article among all feature research articles. She was also selected as a BSN Educator Representative for the South Carolina Advisory Committee on Nursing Education (ACONE).
Shirleatha Dunlap (Nursing) is the project director for a $128,503 Nurse Faculty Loan Program award from the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration. She and Jeannie Chapman, dean of the college of Science and Technology, also secured a $120,000 grant for expediting high school students’ pathway to nursing through dual credit courses in anatomy and physiology.
Araceli Hernández-Laroche (Modern Languages) was invited to give the McMahon Keynote Lecture on El Centro & the Importance of Languages at East Carolina University in North Carolina in April. The Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities invited her to speak on a panel with Maria Francisco Montesó (Spanish) and three student marketing interns, Danna Lopez, Zaray Lopez, and D ’alexander Zegarra, on “Making Our Work Public” at the virtual Swarthmore College Annual Engaged Scholarship Symposium in April.
Tina Herzberg (Visual Impairment) is the recipient of the 2024 Corinne Kirchner Research Award from the American Foundation for the Blind for advancing scholarship in the field of blindness and low vision. She also co-authored the article “Middle and High School Students with Visual Impairments Describe Their Experiences in Learning a New Braille Code for Mathematics and Science” in the May-June issue of the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness.
Colby King (Sociology) co-authored the paper “A Liberal Arts Curriculum that Situates Science While Promoting STEM Graduation” in the journal Science & Education.
Kim Land (Marketing) received the Excellence in Teaching and Advising Award from the Johnson College of Business and Economics. She was also recognized for her 20th year of service as director of the Upstate Regional Spelling Bee.
Tracey Miller (Nursing) became a certified clinical nurse educator after passing the NLN certification exam in July. She also receive a $3,500 Northside Upfit grant for small business owners and Start:ME alumni.
Lee Neibert (Theatre) performed in Warehouse Theatre’s Upstate Shakespeare Festival production of Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 in the roles of Worcester and Fang. He was joined by USC Upstate theatre major Robert Penniger in the role of Poins.
Tammy Pike (History) received the Excellence in Teaching and Advising Award from the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. She also received the University Excellence in Teaching and Advising Award.
Laura Rikard (Theatre) was awarded the Ellen Stewart Award for Scholarship and/or Creative Practice by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. The award is one of the most prestigious in theater education. Rikard also was an invited guest artist at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., to train up-and-coming professional directors in best practices for developing consent-based rehearsal spaces and for staging intimacy.
Mary Sarver, Sung-Hun Byun, Courtney McDonald and Tracey Woodard (Criminal Justice) presented at the American Society of Criminology conference on “The Intersection of Polyvictimization and Health in Intimate Partner Violence: Findings from the NISVS.”
Kimberly Shorter (Biology) received a $517,500 NIH R16 grant to investigate a small gene’s effects on gene expression and epigenetics related to cancer an autism. The grant will provide a stipend for Upstate students assisting in the research.
Nolan Stolz (Popular Music) will have his forthcoming Route 66 Suite for symphony orchestra included as part of the official Route 66 Centennial Project, upon recommendation of the Route 66 Centennial Commission. Two movements from his Lincoln Highway Suite were performed at the College Music Society Northeast Conference in March. His music-films “The Cuckoo’s Song,” “Gravitation,” and “Standing Waves” screened at film festivals in New York, Las Vegas, Orlando, Missouri, England, India, Indonesia and Serbia.
Justin Travis (Psychology) chaired a talk on soft skills for data scientists and was a panelist for a talk on buzzwords in consulting at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in April.
Ginny Webb (Biology) presented at the national American Society for Microbiology conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Her poster was titled "Identifying the predictors of pediatric vaccine uptake during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Carolina Webber (Communication) authored the chapter “A Latina’s Performance of Masculinity/Invincibility: Breast Cancer and Everything Else in the Conjunctural Era of Covid 19” in the forthcoming book “Critical Perspectives on the Intersection of Breast Cancer and Academic Identity.”
Griffin Woodworth (Popular Music) is the author of the forthcoming book “Prince, Musical Genre, and the Construction of Racial Identity.”
The theatre program received raves for their production of Katheryn Schultz Miller’s “The Trail of Tears” at the Fuse: International Youth Arts Festival in London this summer. The audience gave the show a standing ovation and an encore ovation. The play was directed by associate professor Laura Rikard, with design and technical direction by assistant professor Del Delorm, and produced by professor Lee Neibert. The production received three Kennedy Center American College Theatre Awards: Students Dee Slade and Krischan Taylor received Irene Ryan Acting Nominations, and Delorm received a Merit Award for technical direction and design.