Faculty and Staff Briefs March 2025

Florida State University’s faculty and staff are central to its mission and the key to its countless accomplishments.

Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across campus. Faculty and Staff Briefs are produced monthly to recognize accomplishments and provide a space where honors, awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased.

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HONORS AND AWARDS

Kari Lien, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) was accepted into the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Lessons for Success Program, an intensive training program for early career scientists.

Wen Zhu, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) was awarded Best Oral Presentation in the Big Data for Biomedical Research Breakout Session for her invited talk “Conformational Assembly of a Tunnel Gating Residue in Human Asparagine Synthetase,” delivered at the 6th National Big Data Health Science Conference at the University of South Carolina.

Eugenia Flores Millender, Ph.D., RN, MS, PMHNP-BC, FAAN (College of Nursing) has been selected as a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) Class of 2025.

Charles Upchurch, Ph.D. (Department of History) has been awarded a monthlong residency fellowship at the Lewis Walpole Library. His latest project commemorates the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and examines the role of queer and trans inclusion within the ideologies that influenced the revolution.

Katie Redd (Student Union) was honored by the Young Actors Theatre Board of Directors at the Tallahassee Leading Ladies Breakfast in March for her contributions to the performing arts.

Rachel Blakesley, Ed.D. (University Housing) received an Outstanding Contributions to Research Award by the Southeastern Association of Housing Officers for contributing to the advancement of knowledge of the housing profession.

Laurie Abbott, Ph.D., RN, CNE, DipACLM, PHNA-BC, FAAN (College of Nursing) was honored with the DAISY Award for Advancing Health Equity. This award recognizes nurses whose work advances health equity by addressing and mitigating health disparities caused by social determinants of health.

Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FAAN (College of Nursing) received the DAISY Award for Nursing Ethics. Developed with the ANA’s Center for Ethics and Human Rights, the award honors nurses whose leadership and compassion highlight the importance of ethics and human values in care.

LeeAnn H. Barfield, Ph.D., DNP, APRN-BC, CNE, FACHE (College of Nursing) received the DAISY Award for Nurse Leader. This award honors leaders who may not provide direct patient care but create environments where compassionate, skillful care thrives.

Jolynn Greenhalgh, DNP, APRN (College of Nursing) received the DAISY Award for Lifetime Achievement. This award honors nurses who have devoted their life’s work to compassionate care through mentoring, advocacy, and the promotion of a positive image of nursing.

Amy Magnuson, Ph.D., RD, LD/N (University Health Services) received the Charles F. Bohmann Award from the Southern College Health Association in March for her dedication to college health and service to SCHA.

Cameron Beatty, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) received the award for Distinguished Support for Graduate Students from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) faculty council at the NASPA Annual Conference in New Orleans.

Sherry Southerland, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) received the Distinguished Contributions to Science Education through Research Award from the National Association for Research in Science Teaching.

Rima Nathan, JD (College of Law) was selected as a recipient of the 2024-25 University Teaching Award for Community-Engaged Teaching.

Kat Klepfer, JD (College of Law) won the Service to SEAALL Award, which recognizes and honors a member of the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries (SEAALL) who has made special, significant and sustained contributions to the chapter.

Terry Londy, MA (Department of Interior Architecture & Design) received an Emerging Scholar Award from the Design Principles & Practices Research Network.

GRANTS

Candace Ward, Ph.D. (Department of English) received a Curran Fellowship grant of $5,000 from the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals to support research for her project “Printing the Cosmopolis: The Colonial Caribbean Press and the Circulation of Pan-Caribbean Identities.” The award will fund a research trip to the National Library of Jamaica this fall.

Daejin Kim, Ph.D. (Department of Interior Architecture & Design) and his research team have been awarded a research grant from The American Occupational Therapy Foundation for the project “Using Virtual Reality Technology to Increase Acceptance of Home Modifications for People with Multiple Sclerosis: A Pilot Study.” The funded project aims to explore the potential of virtual reality in enhancing the adoption of home modifications for individuals with multiple sclerosis.

BYLINES

Jacob Eisler, Ph.D., JD (College of Law) authored “Discrimination, Private Liberty and Public Accommodation,” published in the Texas A&M Law Review.

Don Compton, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology) published his work “Achievement Goal Profiles and Reading-Related Outcomes in Elementary Students with and without Reading Difficulties” in the Learning and Individual Differences Journal.

Sonia Cabell, Ph.D. and Arzu Güngör Leushuis, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) co-published “The Frequency of Informational Text Read-Alouds in Kindergarten and its Association with Students’ Vocabulary and Knowledge Development” in the Early Childhood Education Journal.

Remy E. Jennings, Ph.D. (College of Business) published “When You Can’t Get Power Off Your Mind: The Countervailing Effects of Workplace Power on At-Home Rumination” in the Personnel Psychology journal.

Amy L. Ai, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and Wenyi Li (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) coauthored an article, “When State Rescuing Systems were Paralyzed: Post-Hurricane Depression, Hope, and Spirituality of Black and White Student Volunteers,” published in the Journal of American College Health.

Christopher Lonigan, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology) and doctoral students Christopher DeCamp and Sarah Alfonso co-published “Performance- and Report-Based Measures of Executive Function as Predictors of Children’s Academic Skills” in the journal Neuropsychology.

Brian Inouye, Ph.D. (Department of Biological Science) authored “Butterfly Populations Flutter Bye,” published in the peer-reviewed journal Science.

Elizabeth Ray, Ph.D., Patrick Merle, Ph.D. (School of Communication) and doctoral student Kaylin Lane published the paper “Generating Credibility in Crisis: Will an AI-Scripted Response Be Accepted?” in the International Journal of Strategic Communication.

Zilong Xie, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) published

“Effects of Age, Stimulus Degradation, and Sentence Context on Auditory Temporal Processing” in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Stephanie Zuilkowski, Ed.D. (Learning Systems Institute) was a contributor to the book “The Bloomsbury Handbook of Method in Comparative and International Education,” launched at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Nathan Line, Ph.D., Lydia Hanks, Ph.D., and Milly Njeri, Ph.D. (Dedman College of Hospitality) coauthored the research article “Expanding the Domain of Hospitality Research: the Hospitality Virtue Scale“ in the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management.

Danielle Park, Ph.D., and Sean McGinley, Ph.D. (Dedman College of Hospitality) coauthored the article “Navigating the Digital Hospitality Frontier: Unravelling the Intricacies Between Technology Adoption Level and Tech-Induced Role Ambiguity,” published in the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research.

Abhinav Sharma, Ph.D. (Dedman College of Hospitality), coauthored the article “Transformative Outcomes of Workcation: Satisfaction, Place Attachment, and Behavioral Intentions” in the Journal of Travel Research.

Tarik Dogru, Ph.D. (Dedman College of Hospitality) coauthored an article titled “Guiding the Path to Sustainable Tourism Development: Investigating the Role of Tour Guides within a Social Exchange Theory Paradigm“ in the scholarly journal Tourism Management.

Woody Kim, Ph.D. (Dedman College of Hospitality) coauthored the research article “Towards a greener bite: unraveling consumer intentions to embrace sustainable online food delivery services” in the Journal of Foodservice Business Research.

Brittany Devies, Ph.D. (Fraternity and Sorority Life) authored “Sound Leadership: Harnessing the Power of Podcasts in Leadership Development” and “Celebrity as Catalyst: Connecting Leadership Development to Pop Culture” in New Directions for Student Leadership.

Timothy Baghurst, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) coauthored “Lived Experiences of Stress and the Coping Mechanisms of Assistant Coaches in the National Basketball Association (NBA),” published in Quest.

Ravinder Nagpal, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) and graduate students Gwoncheol Park, Katelyn Johnson, Katelyn Miller, Saurabh Kadyan, and Cole Patoine coauthored “Almond Snacking Modulates Gut Microbiome and Metabolome in Association with Improved Cardiometabolic and Inflammatory Markers” published in Nature’s The Science of Food.

Jenny Root, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) authored the open-access article “Mixed Methods: Opportunities and Challenges for Special Education Research” in Focus on Research published by the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division for Research. She also coauthored “Prioritizing Preregistration in Special Education,” published in the journal Research in Special Education.

Sabrina L. Dickey, Ph.D., MSN, RN (College of Nursing) Amy L. Ai, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) and doctoral student Ponsiano Ngondwe coauthored “Post-Traumatic Growth Following a Category-5 Hurricane: An Exploratory Study of Black Communities in Florida, United States” published in the journal Applied Research in Quality of Life.

Gashaye Tefera, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) coauthored “Barriers and Facilitators of Access to Healthcare Among Immigrants with Disabilities: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis,” published in the journal Healthcare.

Bruce Thyer, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) authored the article “Introduction: Special Issue on Experimental Social Work Outcomes Studies from China,” published in the journal Research on Social Work Practice. He also authored the article “Mandated Ideologies are Harmful to Social Work Practice and Research,” published in the Journal of Teaching in Social Work.

Monika Gossman, MA (School of Theatre) authored “The Emotional Toll of Performance: Supporting Mental Health in Theater and Film” for World Media Festivals.

Shawn Bayern, JD (College of Law) published his book “Principles and Possibilities in Common Law: Torts, Contracts, and Property.”

Meghan Mick, MLA (Department of Interior Architecture & Design) authored “Designing Ecotones: Engaging Liminal Space in the Built Environment,” published in Ekistics and the New Habitat.

Qiuchang (Katy) Cao, Ph.D. (College of Social Work), Dawn Carr, Ph.D. (Claude Pepper Center) and Miles Taylor, Ph.D. (Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy) coauthored “Education, Occupational Environment, and Cognitive Function in Later Life” published in The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.

Lauren Stanley, Ph.D., Melissa Radey, Ph.D., Lisa Magruder, Ph.D. and Dina Wilke, Ph.D. (Florida Institute for Child Welfare) coauthored the article “Predictor Importance of Organizational Factors of Burnout in Child Welfare Workers” published in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect.

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

Holly Hunt, Ph.D., Yanyu Pan, Ph.D. and Jack Krebs, MS (Academic Center for Excellence) presented “Streamlining Dual Enrollment Processes Using Various Technology Platforms” at the Florida Alliance of Dual Enrollment Partnerships conference in Leesburg, Fla.

Subhasree Sengupta, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Educating an Algorithmic World: Innovation, Ideologies and Curriculum Development” at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education Conference in Orlando.

Justin Kennemur, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) presented an invited talk, “The Juice is Worth the Squeeze: Transforming Stubborn Monomers to Sustainable Materials, Advanced Architectures, Fuel Cell Membranes, and Beyond,” at the University of New Haven’s Department of Chemistry in West Haven, Connecticut.

Fanny Caroline Liu, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) delivered her invited talk “Probing the Conformational Landscape of Monoclonal Antibodies by Tandem-Trapped Ion Mobility Spectrometry” at the Field and Franklin Award session honoring University of California professor of biological chemistry Joseph A. Loo at the American Chemical Society Spring 2025 Meeting in San Diego, Calif., and virtually.

Celia Reddick, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Toward Inclusive Refugee Education? Host Country Teachers, Refugee Students, and the Limits of Global Policy” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Subhasree Sengupta, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) and Yin Yang, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) co-presented “Narratives for Healing: An Exploration of Interactions Within an Online Community on Navigating Bullying Trauma” at iConference 2025.

Matthew Goff, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) gave the presidential address “Apocalypse Now and Then: Biblical Studies, QAnon and Conspiracy Theories” at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) annual conference at Florida Memorial University as the previous president of the AAR southeast regional branch.

Rick Burnette, Ph.D. (Office of the Provost) presented “Evolution of Institutional Research” as part of the plenary panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Florida Association for Institutional Research 2025.

Kate Schell, Ph.D., Brenda Aromu Wawire, Ph.D. and Jai Bum Koo (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Pre-Service Teacher Education Through the Prism: Highlighting Grassroots Perspectives from Malawi and Rwanda” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Shuyuan Ho Metcalfe, Ph.D. (School of Information) and doctoral student Ghazal Hussain co-presented “Managing Anxiety and Uncertainty: The Information-Seeking Behaviors of IT Managers in Turbulent Times” at the Southern Association for Information Systems conference in Tampa, Fla.

Marion Fesmire, Ed.D. and Ana H. Marty, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) co-presented “Can Adding a Fourth Year to Preservice Teacher Education Close the Teacher Training Divide in Rwanda?” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Alda Balthrop-Lewis, Ph.D. (Department of Religion) presented her essay “Simplicity, Simplicity, Simplicity: Henry David Thoreau and the Politics of Solitude” during an invited lecture at Georgia State University.

Nicole Patton Terry, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) presented “Leadership Matters to Implementing Evidence-Based Reading and Literacy Practices in Schools” at the AIM Institute for Learning and Research’s 13th Annual Symposium.

Nilay Özok-Gündoğan, Ph.D. (Department of History) presented “Forging Empire: Mining, State Making, and Ottoman Extractive Colonialism in Kurdistan” at the Ohio State University’s Department of History Lecture Series in Ottoman and Turkish History. She also presented the virtual book talk “Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy, and Privilege” at Koc University’s History Department Talks in Istanbul, Turkey.

Adrienne Barnes-Story, Ph.D., Jennie Robinette, M.Ed. (Learning Systems Institute) presented “How Do We Handle All the Children? Understanding Pedagogies for Overcrowded Classrooms in Malawi” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Heather Bishop, Ph.D., Brandon Saridjo, MSW and Christina Hanna, MS (Transfer Student Services) co-presented “SPEAR: Supporting, Preparing, and Empowering Academic Resilience for Florida State Transfer Students” at the 2025 National Student Success Conference in Orlando, Fla.

Flavia Ramos-Mattoussi, Ed.D. (Learning Systems Institute) presented “Examining Inclusion, School Climate, and Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Decolonial Perspectives” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Emaly Hall, MSW and Olivia Saunders, MS (Advising First) presented a poster session, “Decision Fatigue: A College Student’s Experience,” at the National Academic Advising Association: The Global Community for Academic Advising Region 4 Conference in Jacksonville, Fla.

Lee Howell, MBA, Heather Epstein-Diaz and Andrew Brady (Office of Institutional Research) presented “Bridging Gaps: Data Catalogs as Catalysts for Data Literacy” at the 2025 FAIR Annual Conference.

Zilong Xie, Ph.D. (School of Communication Science and Disorders) delivered the podium presentation “Subcortical Responses to Continuous Speech under Crossmodal Divided Attention” at the 48th Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology in Orlando, Fla. Additionally, Xie and partners from his lab presented two posters: “Neural Tracking of Hierarchical Linguistic Structures in Second Language Acquisition,” in collaboration with Zhiying Qian (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) and “Effects of Binaural Unmasking on Subcortical and Cortical Responses to Continuous Speech.”

Grace Fennema, M.Ed. and Brittany Stover (Department of Student Engagement) presented “Illustrating the Past, Designing the Future: Art as a Tool for Student Empowerment” at the 2025 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Annual Conference.

Rolando Torres, M.S., Corbin Nall, M.A. and Anthony Kurza (Advising First) presented “Transformative Potential of Tabletop Role Playing Games in Higher Education” at the National Academic Advising Association: The Global Community for Academic Advising Region 4 Conference in Jacksonville, Fla.

Kian Mapp, MSCID and Alexa Sikora, M.S. (Advising First) presented “Sailing Through the Office Waves with Your First Mate, Power Automate” at the National Academic Advising Association: The Global Community for Academic Advising Region 4 Conference in Jacksonville, Fla.

Erin Sylvester Philpot, Ed.D. (Center for Leadership and Service) presented as the opening speaker for the statewide senior leaders and managers meeting of the Agency for Persons with Disabilities and presented “The Leadership Toolkit.”

Marrese Whitsett (University Housing) presented “Fusing the Future: Successful Strategies for Thriving in a Multigenerational Housing Department at the Southeastern Association of Housing Officers regional conference.

Alice Maxwell (Division of Student Affairs Marketing and Communications) co-presented “Growing Pains: Is Your Division’s Marketing Strategy and Structure Stuck in the Past?” at the 2025 NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference in New Orleans.

Motoko Akiba, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) presented “Publishing Your Research in AERJ: A Guide for International Scholars,” a webinar as editor-in-chief of the American Educational Research Journal.

Veronica Fleury, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) delivered the spotlight session for the Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities at the 2025 Council for Exceptional Children Annual Convention in Baltimore. Her lecture was titled “Pre-bunking and Debunking Autism Misinformation.”

Dana Auvil, Ed.S., MS (Advising First) presented “Micromessages Matter: Understanding the Small Signals that Speak Volumes” at the National Academic Advising Association: The Global Community for Academic Advising Region 4 Conference in Jacksonville, Fla.

Bret Keating, M.S., Adam Gabrini, M.A. and Shawn Winship, M.S., Ed.S. (Advising First) presented a poster session titled “From Island to Mainland: Redefining the Role of Universities in the 21st Century” at the National Academic Advising Association: The Global Community for Academic Advising Region 4 Conference in Jacksonville, Fla.

Amy Hecht, Ed.D. (Vice President for Student Affairs) and Brittany Devies, Ph.D. (Fraternity and Sorority Life) co-presented “Telling Time: Time Management of Women in Senior Student Affairs Roles” at a pre-conference presentation at the 2025 NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference in New Orleans.

Delaney Sills, MS (Housing) presented “From Boring to Board Games: Enhancing Student Staff Activities through Gamification” at the Southeastern Association of Housing Officers regional conference.

Sarah Butler, MEd and Delaney Sills, MS (Housing) presented “Commitment to Curriculum: Generating Buy In” at the Southeastern Association of Housing Officers regional conference.

Alycia Malicz, Alice Maxwell (Division of Student Affairs Marketing and Communications), Allison B. Peters, Ph.D. (Division of Undergraduate Studies) and David Peters (Campus Recreation) co-presented “Cutting Through the Noise: Collaborative Approaches to Student Communication, Engagement, and Retention” at the 2025 NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference in New Orleans.

Sarah Butler, MEd (Housing) was a panelist for “Empowered Leadership” at the Southeastern Association of Housing Officers regional conference. 

Lauren Gillis, MFA (School of Theatre) presented “An Introduction to Swing Pedagogy” at the Musical Theatre Educators’ Alliance Conference in NYC.

Kristin Dowell, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) presented “Fite Fuaite (Interwoven): Relationality, Land, and Language within Irish Art” at the American Conference for Irish Studies in Savannah, GA.

Michael Buchler, Ph.D. (College of Music) delivered the keynote address “(Non) Semper Idem: Some Challenges to ‘All er Nuthin’’ Approaches to Methodology, Hierarchy, Register, and Cadence” at the 2025 Music Theory Southeast Conference in Greenville, SC.

Freddy Juarez, Jarred Pernier, Brittany Devies, Ph.D. (Fraternity and Sorority Life) and Zduy Chu, Ed.D. (Office of Vice President of Student Affairs) co-presented “Foundational Leadership and Organizational Wellness (FLOW) Model: Designing Leadership Learning for Individuals and Organizations” at the NASPA Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference in New Orleans.

Meghan Mick, MLA (Department of Interior Architecture & Design) co-presented research titled “Rewilding Interiors” at the Biophilia Symposium at Penn State University.

Stephanie Tillman and Danielle Porter (University Housing) co-presented “Innovating First-Year Experience Courses Through Connection and Collaborative Partnership” at the First-Year Experience Conference in New Orleans.

Jessica Bahorski, Ph.D., APRN, PPCNP-BC, WHNP (College of Nursing) presented “A Mixed-Methods Study to Understand Differences in Responsive Infant Feeding” at the Southeast Regional Clinical & Translational Science Conference.

Lucinda J. Graven, Ph.D., APRN, FAHA, FAAN (College of Nursing) presented “Supporting Health in Rural Veterans with Heart Failure: CARE-HF Protocol” at the 39th Annual Southern Nursing Research Society Conference in Memphis, Tennessee. The research team includes co-Investigator Laurie Abbott, Ph.D., RN, DipACLM, CNE, PHNA-BC, FAAN, doctoral student Josef Hodgkins (College of Nursing) and co-Investigator Tom Ledermann, Ph.D., (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences).

PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS

Katie Kehoe, MFA (Department of Art) had her work “Time is of the Essence” featured in “Eyes on the South”, Oxford American’s online series highlighting photography and visual art.

Panayotis (Paddy) League, Ph.D. (College of Music) traveled to Athens, Greece to present a lecture and performance “Crete: Music of Resistance” at the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 

Wellington (Wells) Gordon, MM (College of Music) recorded 26 film cues with an orchestra for the film “Granite Rapids Moon” produced by John Charles Meyer. The movie is being released nationwide this year with a viewing in Tallahassee later in the year.

SERVICE

Celia Reddick, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) chaired a business meeting for Language Issues SIG at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Kate Schell, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) chaired “Can Adding a Fourth Year to Preservice Teacher Education Close the Teacher Training Divide in Rwanda?” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Ana H. Marty, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) chaired “Pre-Service Teacher Education through the Prism: Highlighting Grassroots Perspectives from Malawi and Rwanda” and “Integrated Approaches in ECD” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Shuyuan Ho Metcalfe, Ph.D. (School of Information) served on the panel “Defending Reality: Human-AI Collaboration to Unveil Deepfake Information Manipulation” at the Southern Association for Information Systems conference in Tampa, Fla.

Stephanie Zuilkowski, Ed.D. (Learning Systems Institute) was a panelist on “The Impact of the Trump Administration’s Foreign Policy on International Education” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Flavia Ramos-Mattoussi, Ed.D. (Learning Systems Institute) chaired the workshop “Arts-Based Research for Global Community Engagement: Showcasing the Development and Application of the FotoDialogo Method” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Marcia A. Mardis, Ph.D. (School of Information) led “PLAN Jam,” a workshop designed to empower public library professionals to enhance their disaster preparedness and community engagement strategies during and outside of natural disasters at Wakulla County Public Library.

Lee Howell, MBA, Heather Epstein-Diaz and Eclipse Ramsey, MS (Office of Institutional Research) led the session “HR Compensation Dashboard: A Tool for Pay Equity and Retention” at the 2025 FAIR Annual Conference.

Brenda Aromu Wawire, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) was a discussant on the presentation “How Do We Handle All the Children? Understanding Pedagogies for Overcrowded Classrooms in Malawi” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Grace Ali, MFA (Department of Art) was selected as the Keynote Speaker of RAW 2025, a graduate student conference organized by the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Jai Bum Koo (Learning Systems Institute) chaired “How Do We Handle All the Children? Understanding Pedagogies for Overcrowded Classrooms in Malawi” at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Chicago.

Ebrahim Randeree, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) led a team of student volunteers of the STARS Alliance at the SciGirls at Montford Middle School annual STEM night to provide STEM outreach to K-12 students. The student team included Bella Bozied, Andrea Colon-De-Feria, Ava Downes, Sophia Ferraro, Maggie Martin-McKinnie, Leah Pagan, Orion Qualls, Tanya Raphael, Vedant Satwik, Jennifer Sterling, Khylle Valle, Owen Van Lenten and Elyse Walcott.

Jenny Root, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was named associate editor of Teacher Education and Special Education, the journal of the teacher education division of the Council for Exceptional Children.

Tracey Dowling, Ed.D. (Career Center) was elected to serve as the Executive Vice President/President Elect Cooperative Education & Internship Association (CEIA) Board for 2025-26. Dowling has served on the CEIA Board since 2015, most recently as Vice President for Professional Development.

Daniel Smith, MME (School of Dance) served as an adjudicator for The Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States 2025 National Conference at Purdue University.

Phil Hiver, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was named associate editor of “System.” Doctoral candidate Joseph Yamazaki is also a member of the student editorial board for “System.”

Veronica Fleury, Ph.D. (Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) was appointed associate editor for the Journal of Early Intervention.

 NOTABLE

Brian Graves, Ph.D. (School of Communication) attended the Broadcast Education Association Convention 2025 in Las Vegas.

Carrie Meyers, Jim Reynolds, Ashley French, and Heather French (Learning Systems Institute) conducted a workshop with Florida’s educators to write test items for the Florida Department of Education’s FAST Assessment, which aligns with the Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking Standard.

Kristina Hakansson, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Ryan Rogers (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory) co-organized the 14th North American FT-MS Conference in Tahoe City, Calif.

Michael Shatruk, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Stephen Hill, Ph.D. (Department of Physics) co-organized MAGNA-2025, the 4th Conference on Molecular Magnetism in North America at Florida State University.

Yan Zeng, Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) organized the symposium “S14 AI in Materials Research: from Data Analysis; Autonomous Experimentation to Human AI Cooperation” for the 2025 Electronic Materials and Applications conference in Denver, Colorado.

Donna M. Johnson-Byrd, DNP, RN, NCSN, CNE (College of Nursing) has been selected by the National League for Nursing as a Certified Nurse Educator exam item writer. The CNE examination is a benchmark of excellence, assessing the knowledge and competencies essential for nurse educators.

Nina Davis, MS (College of Nursing) was invited to join the Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society.

Jennifer Gillette, MFA (School of Theatre) was named Associate Costume Designer for Semele at the Atlanta Opera 2025.

Suzan Kurdak (Division of Student Affairs Marketing and Communications) was a panelist presenter on “Memoir Writing: Processes and Pitfalls” at the Tallahassee Writers Association general meeting in March.

Carol Burns (University Health Services) passed the National Certification Exam and is now a Certified Medical Administrative Assistant.

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