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Celebration of Faculty Scholarship and Service 2023

Behavioral Sciences

Adam Cilli

Melissa Marks

Russ Phillips

Jonathan Vallano

D.H. Woo

Geoffrey Wood

Paul Adams

Panel: "Brexit Fallout: The Consequences of Leaving the EU?" and Paper: "Reassessing the Impacts of Brexit and the Northern Ireland Protocol on Governance in Northern Ireland," European Union Studies Association (EUSA) Biennial Conference, Miami, FL, May 2022.  

Paper: "Assessing the Achievements and Limitations of Consociational Democracy in Northern Ireland," 28th International Conference of Europeanists, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2022.

William Campbell:

“Books in the Flesh: Teaching an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Course with Medieval Manuscripts," co-presented with Amber McAlister and student Connor Chinoy, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence Fall Virtual Symposium, October 2022.

Adam Cilli:

"Jeannette Washington, Pittsburgh’s First Black Nurse,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Montgomery, AL, September 2022. 

Jeffrey Everly: 

“Assessing Impulsivity Associated with Childhood Trauma using Appetitive and Aversive Delay Discounting” poster presentation with Stephen M. Taylor (student), 2023 Laurel Highlands Undergraduate Research Conference.  

Pilar Herr: 

“Araucanía as Borderlands or Nation?: The Mapuches’ Struggles for Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Chile,” SECOLAS Conference, Antigua, Guatemala, March 2023. 

Tim Holler:

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences 2023 Annual Meeting, National Harbor, MD – Roundtable discussant, “Healthy Boundary Setting for Mid-Career Academics: Scenario-Based Discussion,” and “Enhancements Needed to Improve System Responses to Crimes Caused by Mental Illness and Disability;” co-presenter, “Concepts and Applications of Restorative Justice.” 

"Mentorship in Writing" roundtable chair, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. Atlanta.

Melissa Marks and Jessica (Knepper) McCormick:

"Tell me More: Using Diverse Books and Inquiry to Teach History," National Council for the Social Studies conference.

Jessica (Knepper) McCormick:

Presenter, Teacher Leadership Institute Conference, February 2023.  

Ewa Rudnicka:

“Electric Vehicles’ Batteries Supply Chain and its Ethical and Sustainability Challenges” co-presenter, 29th Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems Conference, March 2023. 

Jonathan Vallano

Presentations at the 2023 American Psychology-Law Society conference in Philadelphia:

  • "Social Media Identifications: A Review and Synthesis of the Research," paper presentation with E. Pica, J. Pozzulo, J.K. Mansour.
  • "Does the Confidence-Accuracy Relationship for Strangers Generalize to Familiar Faces?" paper presentation with J.K. Mansour, N. Fugmann.
  • "Are Interviews or Interrogations Conducted by More Than One Law Enforcement Official?" poster presentation with R. Cortina, J.R. Evans.
  • "The Cognitive Interview and Witness Quantity, Accuracy, and Precision," paper presentation with M. Sparacino, J.R. Evans, D. Sneyd.

"Eyewitness Identification: Using Experts." Online presentation, Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Jan. 2023.

DH Woo:

“The Impact of Environment Concerns on Operations Performance," Decision Sciences Institute annual meeting, Houston, TX, Nov. 2022.

Geoff Wood:

“Changes in Elite Relations and Political and Social Inequality in American Society: Dynamics in Class, Status, Party, and Intersectionality,” North Central Sociological Association Meeting, Grand Rapids, MI, 2023. 

Pilar Herr: Secretary and Executive Board Member, West Overton Village & Museums. 

Tim Holler: Member, Criminal Justice Advisory Board of Westmoreland County.

Melissa Marks: Member of the Board of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh & Tree of Life 

Ron Ott: Member, WCCC Foundation and College Board of Directors; Chair, United Way of Westmoreland County Board of Directors; Member, Westmoreland Chamber of Commerce Government Relations Committee; Member, Mountain View Rotary Board of Directors.

Jonathan Vallano: Member, Criminal Justice Advisory Board of Westmoreland County.

William Campbell: Vice-President, Episcopus: The Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages; Organizer and chair, "Mendicant Friars and the Secular Church II: Controversy, Coexistence, Collaboration"; “Bound but Not Gagged I: The Eloquence of Medieval Book 6 Bindings, Late-Medieval German Bindings”; "Bound but Not Gagged II: The Eloquence of Medieval Book Bindings, Diverse Regional Techniques,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2023.

Adam Cilli: Book Review Editor, Black Perspectives; Conference Panel Chair, “Health Disparities,” annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Sept. 2022.

Jeffrey Everly: Member-at-large for Western Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Association for Behavior Analysis Executive Council. 

Doug Harding: Senior Business Consultant, Small Business Development Center, Duquesne University. 

Tim Holler: Chair, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences - Restorative and Community Justice Section; Editorial Board member, The Prison Journal; Member, Pennsylvania Reentry Council and chair, Data, Metrics, and Information Subcommittee.

Melissa Marks: Advisor, SPSEA State Executive Board.

Jessica (Knepper) McCormick: Journal Reviewer, Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching Pre-K-12, Feb./March 2023.  

Ewa Rudnicka: Chair, Supply Chain Management & Logistics session, and Track Chair, 29th Annual International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems, March 2023.

DH Woo: Article reviewer, International Journal of Production Economics and Kybernetes; Member, Program Committee of Twin Cities ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) The Fourth Colloquium on Analytics, Data Science, and Computing, Metropolitan State University, MN, Nov. 2022. 

Geoff Wood: Editorial Board member, Sociological Focus; President-Elect, North Central Sociological Association (NCSA); Board member, Critical Demography Center and Association; Editorial Board member, Taboo—The Journal of Culture and Education. 

Jonathan Vallano: Member, Courtwatch committee for the Society of Personality and Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), Division 31 of the American Psychological Association.

Adam Cilli: Project Development Grant ($5000), American Council of Learned Societies; Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship ($2500).

Jessica  (Knepper) McCormick: Co-PI for Pennsylvania Department of Education Innovative Teacher Prep to Practice Grant (with Jeanne Burth and Melissa Marks), Paving the Path to the Classroom; University of Pittsburgh Open Educational Resources Grant (2022-2023).