Fall ’25 magazine publications, honors and creative works
Michael Berg, professor of psychology, co-authored the article, “Social support and resilience as moderators of the relationship between COVID-19 pandemic-related trauma and post-traumatic growth in U.S. adults,” in the Journal of Happiness and Health.
Primrose Boynton, assistant professor of biology, served as the senior author of the article, “Fitness effects of killer virus infection on wild Saccharomyces paradoxus,” in Fungal Ecology.
Delvyn Case, professor of music, delivered the paper “Jesus in Popular Music: A Unique Theological and Spiritual Resource,” as part of the London School of Theology lecture series.
Geoffrey Collins, professor of geology, was awarded a grant by the NASA Cassini Data Analysis Program for “Expanding Measurements and Interpretations of Enceladus’ Regolith Thickness Pole-to-Pole,” a project for which he serves as co-investigator.
Andrew Davinack, assistant professor of biology, co-authored the article “First Report of Proctoeces maculatus Infecting the Ribbed Mussel: Detection of a Unique Haplotype in New England,” with Wheaton College students Emma Russo ’26, Isabel Varetto ’28 and Cam Grosser ’28, which appeared in Acta Parasitologica.
Michael Drout, professor of English, delivered the keynote address, “The Origins of Tolkien’s Fantasy: The Éarendel poem, Beowulf 1208b, Christ I, the synthesizing impulse, and textualization,” at the Inaugural Richard Rankin Russell Honorary Lecture at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Scott Gelber, professor of education, authored the article, “From Compensation to Accommodation: The History of Learning Disabilities in American
Higher Education,” in the History of Education Quarterly.
Michael Gousie, professor of computer science, led the panel discussion entitled, “Software Engineering in the Computer Science Curriculum,” at the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeast Conference.
Lisa Lebduska, professor of English, authored the essay, “Memoir of a Zebrafish,” in The Write Launch.
Kent Shaw, associate professor of English, authored the poems, “What it’s like to have a lot of money” and “Most men want not only to be bad. They want to be bold. They want to be wiser.” They appeared in The Laurel Review.
Kira Treibergs, professor of the practice of biology, co-authored the article “How and why instructors use open access lessons,” in Frontiers in Education.
Joel Relihan, professor of Greek, Latin and ancient Mediterranean studies, discussed “Lucian and Menippean Satire” on the podcast, We Are Being Transformed, hosted by Jason Anderson.
Ganapathy Sriram, visiting assistant professor of chemistry, co-authored the article, “Dysregulated phosphatidylserine externalization as a cell intrinsic immune escape mechanism in cancer,” in Cell Communication and Signaling.
Monica Rey, affilated instructor of film, was featured in The Koinonia Forum keynote panel, “On Amalek, Miracles and Turning Palestine into a Terra Nullius,” at the Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, N.J.
Alessandra Ward, assistant professor of education, authored the book Transformative Social and Emotional Learning: Centering Equity and Social Justice in PreK-6 Classrooms.
Winter Werner, associate professor of English, authored the article, “The Hikayat Abdullah, the Missionary Press, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century ‘World Literature,’” in Comparative Literature.
Aubrey Westfall, professor of political science, authored the article, “The political power of Muslim social capital in Europe and North America,” in Politics, Groups, and Identities.