Category: Professional Notes

Reynolds Presents Research on Teacher Preparation

Patricia Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Education, presented a research paper at the Conference on Higher Education Teaching and Learning in Paisley, Scotland, on June 28, 2017. The conference was dedicated to the theme of “Creating Inclusion and Diversity in Higher Education” and Dr. Reynolds’ research area looks at the efficacy issues of the non-native English […]

Rabson Publishes Translation of Book about Okinawan Wives

Author Etsuko Takushi Crissey of Okinawa’s G.I. Brides: Their Lives in America (University of Hawaii Press, 2017) traveled throughout the United States conducting interviews and a questionnaire survey of the many Okinawan wives of former American servicemen. With 30,000 U.S. forces still stationed in Okinawa, about 200 marry women there every year. Her interviews of […]

Fallon Presents Research on Cushitic in the Netherlands

Paul D. Fallon, Associate Professor of Linguistics, presented the paper, “A ‘Vector Analysis’ of Bender’s Proto-Cushitic” at the 45th annual meeting of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL), held at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands, on June 11, 2017. He gave an assessment of ten of the late M. Lionel Bender’s […]