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Academics

The College is pleased to announce the seven faculty members who have been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor. Read more
Junior Stephen Moore is the first Muhlenberg College student to win the prestigious Brazil Initiation Scholarship. Click the link to read more details. Read more

Art Studio

Amze Emmons, associate professor of art, will be presenting his work at The Kelly Writers House, Brodsky Gallery at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. His exhibition, "Recent Works on Paper by Amze Emmons" opens Feb 1 at 6 pm in the Arts Cafe It is open to the public.
Carol Heft, part-time lecturer in the art department will have her work displayed as part of an exhibition at the Blue Door Gallery in Yonkers, NY, Jan 12-Feb 18.

Athletics

Senior Spencer Liddic and Alex Chili were named to the Capital One Academic All-District teams, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. As first-team selections, both Liddic and Chili will advance to the national ballot for Academic All-America consideration. Read more

Business Administration

Holmes Miller, professor of business, co-authored the chapter, "Managing Supply Chain Risk in Financial Services," which appeared in the Handbook for Supply Chain Risk Management: Case Studies, Effective Practices and Emerging Trends (Omera Khan and George Zsidisin, editors) published by J. Ross Publishing.

Languages, Literatures, & Cultures

Eduardo Olid Guerrero, assistant professor of Spanish, presented "Cervantes in Twenty-First-Century United States Theater"; to the Cervantes Society of America at the Modern Language Association Convention in Seattle.
Luba Iskold, associate professor of Russian, had a book chapter entitled "Imagined Identities: An Examination of Self-Authorship on Facebook" accepted for publication in the ISLS Volume 3 of "Readings in Language Studies."

Media and Communication

Jeff Pooley, associate professor of media and communication, has been named one of three associate editors for the International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy, to be published by Wiley-Blackwell. Read more
Jeff Pooley, associate professor of media and communication, published a chapter, ";Media and Communications," in the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology, co-authored with John Durham Peters. Read More
Sue Curry Jansen, professor of media and communication, has published a chapter, "Redesigning a Nature: Welcome to E-stonia, 2001-2018" in Branding Post-Communist Nations: Marketizing National Identities in the 'New' Europe edited by Nadia Kaneva (Routledge).

Political Science

Brian Mello, assistant professor of political science, has a chapter, "Islamic Political Mobilization in Turkey," published in an edited volume, History, Politics, and Foreign Policy in Turkey, published by the SETA (Political, Economic, and Social Research) Foundation in Ankara, Turkey.

Psychology

Stefanie Sinno and Samantha Silverberg '10 will present at the Society for Research in Child Development's meeting on Positive Youth Development in Tampa, Fl. The title of the poster is "Who gets what? Adolescents' distribution of school resources."

Staff Activities

Robin Riley-Casey, Director of Multicultural Life, spoke at Episcopal House in Allentown as part of a Martin Luther King Day celebration. The group includes the Episcopal House, St. James UCC, 1st Presbyterian, Allentown Rotary and LV Presbyterian.
Frank Szoke, a member of the grounds crew, has been elected to the Whitehall Athletic Hall of Fame. Szoke is a former minor league pitcher in the New York Mets organization.

Student Activities

Junior Justin Black was selected to win the Morton and Myra Levy Award. Created by the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley, it is awarded to a student on each of the three major campuses in the Valley. He will receive his award April 22 at the Jewish Community Center and be recognized at Honors Convocation

Writing

Jill Stephen and David Rosenwasser, co-directors of the Writing Center and Kate Christein, assistant director of the Writing Center, attended the Small Liberal Arts Colleges Writing Program Administrators Conference at Drew University.