Category: Professional Notes

Laura Wilson Talks About Mass Shootings in APA

Laura Wilson talks about mass shootings in an article published in the American Psychological Association this month:“Simply by definition, mass shootings are more likely to trigger difficulties with beliefs that most of us have, including that we live in a just world and that if we make good decisions, we’ll be safe,” says Laura Wilson, […]

Miriam Liss, Holly Schiffrin Interviewed for Podcast

In an interview called “Balancing the Big Stuff” with offtheclockpsych.com, psychology professors and authors Drs. Miriam Liss and Holly Schiffrin talk about their book, Balancing the Big Stuff: Finding Happiness in Work, Family, and Life. You can check out the podcast here: https://www.offtheclockpsych.com/podcast/balancing-big-stuff 

Farnsworth Lectures on US Political Culture to Norwegian Delegation in DC

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently delivered a lecture entitled, “The Competing Visions of the American  Political System: Building Public and Private Spheres,” at the Norwegian Washington Seminar in Washington, DC. The visiting delegation included leading government and business officials in Norway.

Johnson-Young Presents at Conference Hosted by the CDC

Assistant Professor of Communication Elizabeth Johnson-Young presented research at the CDC’s National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media, in Atlanta. The research presented, “Pediatric Residents’ Comfort, Confidence, and Communication in Relation to Anticipatory Guidance about Firearms,” was completed with researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The […]

Julia DeLancey Publishes New Archival Research

This summer saw the publication of a new article by Professor of Art History Julia DeLancey.  The article, entitled “Celebrating citizenship: Titian’s portrait of the color seller Alvise Gradignan della Scala and social status in early modern Venice,” looks at the portrait of della Scala—now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden—by the sixteenth-century Venetian […]