For the second month in a row, Matthew Miller was chosen as Wallethub.com’s national travel “Expert.” The national communications team solicited commentaries from hospitality professors across the United States about using credit cards in international destinations and chose his commentary to display on the website.
Read more: https://wallethub.com/best-international-credit-cards#expert=Matthew_MillerMarian Brown, director of the Center for Sustainability and the Environment, was named to another 2-year term on the Advisory Council for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). The Advisory Council is the primary mechanism for members to get involved in AASHE governance. Consisting of leaders from higher education, business, nonprofits, and government, the Advisory Council provides advice and guidance on higher-level strategy as well as specific programs and services. Marian has served on the AASHE Advisory Council for several terms.
Read more: https://www.wells.edu/faculty-staff/marian-brown/Assistant Professor of Hospitality Management, Matthew Miller was invited and served as a Faculty Panelist for Iowa State University’s Graduate Hospitality Management Program. Accomplished alumni and past faculty had to provide an informational session speak to current Hospitality Management graduate students. The focus of the panel and conference was to provide valuable insights about the current job market, as a way to prepare graduate students for a future career in hospitality academia.
Associate Professor of English Dan Rosenberg led a generative workshop at the Aurora Free Library. The activity focused on creating collaborative poetry, and both Aurora residents and Wells students were in attendance. The event was coordinated by Jack Yeats ’25 as part of his internship at the Aurora Free Library, which aims to forge more connections between the College and the surrounding community.
On November 4th, 2023, Lindsay Burwell and Tom Jensen took 15 researchers to the Rochester Academy of Sciences Fall Paper Session at RIT. Of the undergraduate researchers who attended, three gave an oral presentation, and six gave a poster presentation of their work. Topics presented by Wells researchers include modeling human diseases in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, building topline in equine athletes, identifying therapeutic properties in medicinal plants, and questions associated with animal reproduction.
Dr. Gehan Dhameeth, Associate Professor of Business, shared his expertise in the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Sales and Marketing with MBA and Ph.D. students at the University of the Cumberlands in Texas on November 3-4, 2023.
Read more: https://www.wells.edu/faculty-staff/gehan-s-dhameeth/Leslie Rogne Schumacher, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, took part in a roundtable on the topic “The Historiography of the Black Sea, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean during the Long 19th Century” at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. He also accepted an invitation to perform a peer review for Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees.
Leslie Rogne Schumacher, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, contributed a chapter to the book, “Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1810s-1940s,” which is forthcoming from Brill. His chapter, based on documents he uncovered at the Maltese National Archives and titled “Seeking securo asilo: Malta’s Italian Refugee Crisis, 1815-1848,” recounts the untold tale of how Britain’s colonial administrators in Malta policed, documented, and managed the flow of Italian political refugees through the island during the era of Italian unification.
Dr. Matthew Miller submitted a commentary to WalletHub.com as a tourism specialist for an article on the best winter holiday destinations for 2023. The Financial Literacy writers reached out to many hospitality management professors around the U.S. and chose his expert commentary for the website.
Read more: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-winter-holiday-destinations/7930#expert=Matthew_MillerIn October 2023, Palgrave Macmillan published Leslie Rogne Schumacher’s book, The Eastern Question in 1870s Britain: Democracy and Diplomacy, Orientalism and Empire. The result of nearly 20 years of research, it is the first monograph focused on the topic in over two generations and arguably the first written not just for a scholarly audience but also for students and the general public.
(1) Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo accepted the invitation by professor Dr Gerhard Wolmarans to serve as an External Examiner on PHD Committee, the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
(2) In October, 2023, Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo was elected as one of three leaders of the African Association of the Methodist Higher Education for a period of three years to oversee the activities of the Association.
(3) In October, 2023 Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo presented a paper on “African Universities in the Era of Transformation;” The Conference was held in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Jannatul Rafia-Tracy, an Assistant Professor of Business, received acceptance for her paper entitled, “Leaders’ Coping Strategies after Abusive Behavior: Through the Perpetrator’s Lens,” has been accepted for publication on Global Business Review.
Associate Professor of English Dan Rosenberg’s poem, “Esau Speaks against His Brother’s Word,” appears in the latest issue of IMAGE. It can be found online here: https://imagejournal.org/article/esau-speaks-against-his-brothers-word/. It’s both an acrostic and a syllabic poem, because Dan likes making things harder for himself.
Christine Elfman, Assistant Professor of Studio Art and Book Arts presented a solo exhibition of her photographic works, “All solid shapes dissolve in light,” in “dust to dust,” at the Houston Center for Photography September 21st through November 19th.
On September 8, 2023, Deb Gagnon, Professor of Psychology and Health Sciences and Lindsay Burwell, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Health Sciences, were invited to attend a luncheon sponsored by Healthy Workforce Now and Area Health Education Centers of New York State. Deb and Lindsay were asked to attend since they are seen as leaders in New York State in developing and implementing Rural Health Immersion Programming. Wells College developed the first Rural Health Immersion Program in New York State, which other undergraduate and medical school programs have now adopted or are working with Lindsay and Deb to develop.
Jannatul Rafia-Tracy, an Assistant Professor of Business, received acceptance for her paper entitled “Leaders’ Irrational Rationalization for their Abusive Conduct towards their Employees” in the journal, Global Business and Management Research-an international journal.
Moreover, in August, Jannatul Rafia-Tracy delivered a presentation on “Leaders’ Neutralization Strategies” at the Global Symposium of Leadership and Project Management hosted by Northeast University.
Professor of Chemistry, Christopher Bailey, reviewed for the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science (NCCSTS) a submission entitled “A Case of Schizophrenia,” which looks at the chemistry of drug design, for possible inclusion in the NCCSTS collection of science-based case studies.
Mary Tasillo curated an exhibition of letterpress and screenprint art focused on social justice issues and created at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ Common Press during her 5 years as Director of their letterpress studio. The exhibit, “Agit-Prop at Common Press,” is on view at the university’s Fisher Fine Arts Library through December 15, 2023, and showcases how the print shop brings visiting artists, students, and community members together to engage with important topics through print.
Read more: https://www.library.upenn.edu/events/agit-prop-common-pressJackie Schnurr, Professor of Biology and Environmental Science, attended the Ecological Society of America meeting in Portland, Oregon in early August. She presented a poster called “Invasion is not a monolith: invasion effects by Vincetoxicum rossicum (Kleopow) Barbar. differ based on background environment” with her coauthors Jeremy Biazzo and Lindsey Milbrath from the USDA.
Dan Rosenberg, Associate Professor of English, spent five weeks this summer teaching a poetry writing course, Ecstatic Ekphrastics, in England. The course was selected in a competitive process by the Advanced Studies in England team, who seemed unafraid of its inscrutable title.