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ACADEMICSPOTLIGHT
ACADEMICSPOTLIGHT
Notable and Noteworthy
• Communication instructor Benson Sexton successfully
defended his dissertation, “Exploring the Influence
of Students’ Perceptions of Instructional
Message Content Relevance and Experienced Cognitive
Load on Students’ Cognitive Learning March.”
His doctorate is in communication the University of
Kentucky.
• Jamie Thorn, adjunct instructor in Sustainability
and Recreation, Tourism & Sports Management, successfully
defended her dissertation, “Sustainability
Education: Parks, Recreation, Tourism & Natural Resource
Management.” Her doctorate is from Prescott
College in Arizona.
• Criminal Justice Instructor Angie Schwendau
successfully defended her dissertation, “The Dangers
and Self-Protective Behaviors of Rideshare Drivers,”
at the American Society of Criminology in New
Orleans and the Southern Criminal Justice Association
in Savannah, Ga. Her doctorate is from the University
of Louisville.
• Assistant Professor of English Karolyn Steffens
was invited to contribute a chapter of original research
to a new volume in the Cambridge Critical
Companions series. Her chapter, "Modernity as the
Cultural Crucible of Trauma," will appear in Cambridge
Critical Concepts: Trauma in Literary Studies,
edited by J. Roger Kurtz.
• Recent publications by Professor of Religion and
Dean of the Chapel Terry Swan include the books A
Faith Called Christianity and Change Your Thoughts
Change Your World. He and Instructor of Religion
Dennis Crump have co-written Your Neighbor’s Religion:
A Christian Perspective on Major World Religions,
which was published in August.
• Associate Professor of Mathematics John La-
Grange published two articles: “Annihilators in Zerodivisor
Graphs of Meet Semilattices” and “Reduced
Commutative Semigroups” in the Journal of Pure and
Applied Algebra. He published an article with D.F. Anderson,
also in the Journal of Algebra. He has several
other papers in the works, including a joint
project with LWC senior Candace Kimball.
• Four home-study courses written by Associate
Professor of Human Services & Counseling
Lawrence Anthony were published by Heisel and
Associates and are available online. He also contributed
to the book The Girl in the Shadows: A Journey
from Darkness to Light.
• Professor of Counseling Patrick Hardesty co-authored
an article in the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology
on the “Psychometric Study of Human Life
History Strategies: State of the science and Evidence
of Two Independent Dimensions.”
• Associate Professor of Human Services & Counseling
Daniel Schnopp-Wyatt and Regional Academic
Director Nicole Schnopp-Wyatt were
involved in the MIT/Soar (Shaping our Appalachian
Region) Health-Hack-a-Thon. Each participated on
teams that won awards for their innovations in addressing
substance abuse concerns in Appalachia.
Daniel’s team won the top award for the substance
abuse category; Nicole’s group, which included
alumni from the LWC School of Professional Counseling,
won second place in that category.
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