2024 Publications

2024

• Chaytor, Jennifer (Chemistry)
  • Presented
    • Chaytor, J.L. “Using Active Learning Techniques to Foster a Growth Mindset in Organic Chemistry.” Oral presentation at 2024 Biennial Conference on Chemistry Education, Lexington, KY, July 31, 2024.
    • Brouet, S., Chaytor, J.L., Cavanaugh, M.P. “Student Study Plan Reflection Assignment: A Small Intervention to Improve Student Learning.” Oral presentation at 2024 Biennial Conference on Chemistry Education, Lexington, KY, July 29, 2024.
• DelVecchio, Micah (Management)
  • Publication:
    • DelVecchio, M., J. Ofori-Dankwa & A. Darkwaa, Micro-enterprise performance using the Integrated Capital Based Model: Evidence from Ghana, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, (Accepted for Publication 2024) 
• Drake, Veronika (English)
  • Grants
    • “Connecting SVSU with ESL Educators and ESL Learners in the Great Lakes Bay Region” Community Engagement Grant ($4,361.), Winter 2024.
  • Publications
    • Golato, A., Betz, E., Taleghani-Nikazm, C., & Drake, V. (2024). Practices for addressing trouble with an embodied move. In M. Selting & D. Barth-Weingarten (Eds.), New Perspectives of Interactional Linguistic Research (pp. 187-219). Benjamins, LISI series.
  • Presented (* peer reviewed, + invited)
    • * Drake, V., Golato, A., Betz, E., & Taleghani-Nikazm, C. (December 2024). Halting the progressivity of social action: German moment ‘just a moment’ and warte ‘wait.’ Paper presented at the Mannheim Symposium on Uncooperative Behavior, Mannheim, Germany.
• Drew, Robert, (Communication)
  • Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable, Duke University Press, 2024.
    • Well into the new millennium, the analog cassette tape continues to claw its way back from obsolescence. New cassette labels emerge from hipster enclaves while the cassette’s likeness pops up on T-shirts, coffee mugs, belt buckles, and cell phone cases. In Unspooled, Rob Drew traces how a lowly, hissy format that began life in office dictation machines and cheap portable players came to be regarded as a token of intimate expression through music and a source of cultural capital. Drawing on sources ranging from obscure music zines to transcripts of Congressional hearings, Drew examines a moment in the early 1980s when music industry representatives argued that the cassette encouraged piracy. At the same time, 1980s indie rock culture used the cassette as a symbol to define itself as an outsider community. Indie’s love affair with the cassette culminated in the mixtape, which advanced indie’s image as a gift economy. By telling the cassette’s long and winding history, Drew demonstrates that sharing cassettes became an acceptable and meaningful mode of communication that initiated rituals of independent music recording, re-recording, and gifting.
• Giroux, Chris (English)
  • Publications:
    • “In the Garden, in the Zoo: Playing with Roman Catholic Tropes in Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo,” Christianity & Literature 73.4, 2024
    • Analyzes the play by Rajiv Joseph, exploring how it uses Roman Catholic tropes to examine themes of war, redemption, and the human condition.
    • “‘STEP IN STEP IN / HUR-RY! HUR-RY!’: Trauma and Diaspora in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus,” in The Specter and the Speculative: Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora, Eds. Jeanne Sheper, Mae Henderson, and Gene Melton (2024, Rutgers UP)
  • Creative Writing
    • “On the Feast of the Archangels,” Rockvale Review (2024)
      “Quarantine—Day 15: Shelter in Place,” Verse Daily (17 Nov. 2024)
      “Souvenirs,” Thimble Literary Magazine (2024)
      “July’s End,” Superpresent (2024)
      “Midsummer’s Day,” Superpresent (2024)
      “Stopping at the First Bay City Exit,” Superpresent (2024)
      “Grandmas Got Lilies, Maybe Tulips,” 3rd Wednesday (2024)
      “Art History,” Transformational (Michigan Writers Inc., 2024)
      “The Gardener’s Son Learns to Tamp,” Talking River Review (2024)
      “Water, Flight,” Rockvale Review (2024)
• Hillman, Susan (Teacher Education)
  • Publications
    • Kastberg, S., Lischka, A. E., Hillman, S. L. (Accepted 31 October 2024; Published online 04 December 2024). Mathematics teacher educators’ discussion practice. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, (SharedIt link:https://rdcu.be/d2uvf).
    • Kastberg, S. E., Lischka, A. E., & Hillman, S. L. (2024). Mathematics teacher educators development of instructional activities to impact preservice teacher curricular reasoning. In K. W. Kosko, J. Caniglia, S. A. Courtney, M. Zolfaghari, & G. A. Morris (Eds.), Proceedings of the forty-sixth annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 801-807). Kent State University.
  • Presented
    • Kastberg, S.E., Lischka, A. E., & Hillman, S. L. (2024). Mathematics teacher educators development of instructional activities to impact preservice teacher curricular reasoning. Brief Research Report at the forty-sixth annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Cleveland, OH, November 7-10.
    • Kastberg, S., Lischka, A. E., & Hillman, S. L. (2024). Growing our MTE practices through collaborative self-study: Using community, artifacts, and theory. Paper presentation (Strand B: TSG 4.8 Knowledge and practice of mathematics teacher educators) at the 15th International Congress on Mathematics Education (ICME). Sydney, Australia, July 7-14.
    • Kastberg, S., Lischka, A. E., & Hillman, S. L. (2024). Developing instructional activities to impact preservice teacher curricular reasoning. Session at the American Educational Research Association Invisible College for Research on Teaching, April 10.
• Khan, Mohammad (ECE)
  • Presented
    • M. Ashraf Khan, and M. Vannette, Experimental Study of a Solar Cage on Energy Harvest and Unconsumed Energy, 2024 the 8th International Conference on Energy and Environmental Science (ICEES 2024). Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. (2024)
    • Flora Mia Szklenar, Rajani Muraleedharan Sreekumaridevi, Abdullah Almohsin and M. Ashraf Khan, “Circuit Analysis of a Device Combination in an Amplifier,” 2024 IEEE Latin American Electron Devices Conference (LAEDC)Guatemala City, Guatemala, May 8-10, 2024. (Poster)
    • M. Ashraf Khan, “A Study on Partial Energy Harvesting by a Solar Cage,” 2024 IEEE Latin American Electron Devices Conference (LAEDC)Guatemala City, Guatemala, May 8-10, 2024.
      Gabe Gransden, Zachary Franzel and M. Ashraf Khan, “Solar Energy and Partial Harvesting Study by a Solar Cage,” MSGC Fall conference, October 2024, Ann Arbor. 
  • SVSU SE&T symposium poster presentation
    • Flora Mia Szklenar, James Grigg and M. Ashraf Khan, “Circuit design and programming for Hall effect sensor for tactile and non-tactile applications,” UGRP Student showcase, Saginaw Valley State University, 2024.
• Koperski, Jeff (Philosophy)
  • Publications
    • Koperski, J. “Design and the Laws of Nature,” in Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions, Kojonen and Malik, eds. (Routledge, 2024).
• Paredes-Montero, Jorge (Biology)
  • Publications
    • Xuanyu Chen, Guangmin Wang, Lian-Sheng Zang, Asad Ali, Natraj Krishnan, Jorge R Paredes-Montero, Wei Zhang, Nemat O Keyhani, Amr Mohamed. 2024. Transcriptomic insights on impaired survival and enhanced pesticide susceptibility following knockdown of Syntaxin5 in Locusta migratoria. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology 208, 106227.
    • Saberi, Esmaeil, Mosharrof Mondal, JR. Paredes-Montero, Kiran Nawaz, Judith K. Brown, and Jawwad A. Qureshi. 2024. Optimal dsRNA Concentration for RNA Interference in Asian Citrus Psyllid. Insects 15(1): 58.
    • Thakre, N., Carver, M., Paredes‐Montero, J.R., Mondal, M., Hu, J., Saberi E., Ponvert, N., Qureshi, J. A., and Brown, J. K. 2024. UV‐LASER adjuvant‐surfactant facilitated delivery of mobile dsRNA to tomato plant vasculature and evidence of biological activity by gene knockdown in the potato psyllid. Pest Management Science 80 (4), 2141-2153.
  • Grants
    • 2024    Revitalization and Digitization of the Steve Taber Insect Collection for Knowledge and Science (STICKS) at SVSU. Foundation Resource Grant. US$ 8000
    • 2024    Validation of whitefly microbiomes assembled from next generation sequencing data. Undergraduate Research Program. US$ 12000
  • Conference abstracts (bold and underlined names denote undergraduate students)
    • E.M. Randolf, O. Konsdorf, G. Galarza, M.J. Carter, L. Espinoza, J.K. Brown and J.R. Paredes-Montero. 2024. Global Characterization of Endosymbiont Meta-Communities Associated with Whitefly Super-Bug Species. Proceedings of the meeting of the Entomological Society of America. November 11-13, 2024. Phoenix, AZ. Won 2nd place for the best SysEB poster.
    • O.A. Konsdorf and J.R. Paredes-Montero. 2024. An environmental DNA (eDNA) study of pollinator biodiversity along an urban-to-rural gradient. Proceedings of the meeting of the Entomological Society of America. November 11- 13, Phoenix, AZ.
    • Paredes-Montero, J.R. and Brown, J.K. 2024. Molecular evidence shows that intraspecific hybridization has shaped the evolution of cassava Bemisia tabaci Sub-Saharan Africa cryptic species. Proceedings of the meeting of the Entomological Society of America. November 11- 13, Phoenix, AZ.
    • Paredes-Montero, J.R. and Brown, J.K. 2024. Ribosomal protein-15 allele frequencies of cassava mosaic disease associated Bemisia tabaci reveal ancient admixture and ongoing hybridization driving SSA-SG1 origins in sub -Saharan Africa toward knowledge management. Proceedings of the meeting of the Entomological Society of America Southeastern Branch. March 19- 21, Augusta, Georgia, US.
  • Outreach
    • Classroom visits
      • 2024: Visited over 100 first graders at Westdale Elementary school to offer hands-on experience on insect biology. Oversee and trained a group of three undergraduates to showcase insect species.
      • 2023, 2024: Organized Insect-a-palooza, a yearly community engagement event supported by the College of Science, Engineering, and Technology and the Biology Department. Led a student team in managing logistics, promotions, and on-site activities. The event attracted nearly 500 attendees and was featured in SVSU media for fostering public interest in insect biology.
  • Grants
    • Secured $78,000 in grants to mentor six undergraduate researchers.
    • Undergraduate student activities and research support
    • In December 2024, my students presented both a poster and a research talk at the National Entomology Conference, earning second place for best poster in our section—just behind Texas A&M.  
    • In the last two years, my students and I have also established a well-known outreach event, Insect-a-Palooza, which attracts approximately 500 attendees during its three-hour program. 
    • We also launched a school visit initiative where we teach entomology to local first graders, impacting approximately 100 children each year.
• Pashak, Travis (Psychology)
  • Publications
    • Pashak, T. J., Kraly, K., Landis, M. R., Schaub, H., (2024). Career mentorship of aspiring mental health helpers in Michigan: Resource development, professional reflections, and lingering questions. Michigan Academician, 49(1), 63.
    • Pashak, T. J., Faustin, T. J., Kraly, K. J., & Wisniewski, S. N. (2024) How does death anxiety influence our material attachments? Michigan Academician, 49(1), 65.
    • Pashak, T. J., Bradley, S. M., & Trierweiler, E. J. (2024) Confident foxhole atheism, doubtful religious dread, and other death anxiety analyses: A mixed methods exploration of existential concerns, worldview beliefs, and mental health. The Humanistic Psychologist. (Advance online publication). 
    • Pashak, T. J., Waldron, J. S., Zatkin, J. G., & Hammersley, J. J. (2024). Embrace subjectivity: Existentially-informed clinical psychological science, practice, and teaching. Clinical Psychologist, 27(1), 4-21.
  • Presented
    • “Death and distress”, Poster presentation at the annual International Society for the Science of Existential Psychology pre-conference meeting associated with the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Denver, CO.  Pashak, T. J., Waldron, J., Zatkin, J., & Hammersley, J. (2024). 
    • “Career mentorship for applied psychology fields: Challenges, successes, and future directions”, Symposium session presented at the annual convention of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.  Landis, M. R., Head, T.-J. A., Schaub, H. R., Kraley, K. J., & Pashak, T. J. (2024). 
    • “How does death anxiety influence our material attachments?”, Poster presentation at the annual convention of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.  Pashak, T. J. (2024). 
• Roe, Elizabeth (Nursing)
  • Publication
    • Roe, Elizabeth, (2024) Practical strategies for care of individuals impacted by suicide in the emergency department: A narrative review, International Emergency Nursing 74, 101444. 
      • Introduction Suicide is among the leading causes of death and nurses care for survivors of suicide at many points in their grief journey. Every individual who dies by suicide leaves behind multiple affected survivors and how they are cared for immediately following the suicide influences how they cope with the death. The purpose of this article is to make recommendations for the care of survivors of suicide loss in the emergency department. Methods: A narrative review of the current literature was conducted using the databases CINAHL and ProQuest. Articles focused on survivors of suicide loss and their care in the immediate period after the death were utilized. Results: Four hundred and twenty-nine articles were found. Applying established inclusion and exclusion criteria and quality assessment using the SANSA guideline, 29 were included in the review. Discussion: Three themes were identified: 1. Risks for suicide in survivors of suicide loss; 2. Interventions in the immediate period after suicide loss; and 3. Active suicide postvention as suicide prevention. Emergency department nurses need to have the ability to readily assess and recognize the survivors of suicide loss who are at higher risk for complicated grieving and providing rapid and immediate services and resources will help promote coping and positive mental health outcomes in survivors. Keywords: suicide; survivors of suicide loss; suicide prevention; suicide postvention; death notification; grief
• Sivy, Tami (Chemistry)
  • Presented/Invited talks
    • Poster presentation: Ashlyn Smith, Cassidy Cleary, Jannifer Tyrrell, and Tami L. Sivy. “SARS-CoV2 variants analyzed by ddPCR and sequencing from sewage samples collected in mid-Michigan from 2020-2023” New Orleans, LA, March 28, 2024
    • Invited Talk: “Rapid DNA Testing and Microbial Source Tracking in the Report Card” State of the Bay Conference.  Bay City, MI, September 26, 2024
    • Invited Talk: “Rapid DNA Testing and Microbial Source Tracking as Part of Assessing the Health of the Bay” Lake Huron Partnership, the Lakewide Action and Management Plan, virtual, September 18, 2024
    • Presented to the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce 2024 leadership cohort “From beaches to sewage: using molecular methods to measure pathogen levels in our community.” Jack and Alice Wirt Public Library, June 5, 2024
• Youngstedt, Scott (Sociology)
  • Presented
    • The Heat-Cold Illness Complex in Niger: Traditional, Islamic, and Biomedical Perspectives. 67th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Chicago, IL, December 2024.