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2025 Publications

2025

  • Alford, Bethany (Director of Military Student Affairs/Special Assistant to the Associate Provost/ Dean of Students)
    • Presented
      • Was a conference panelist for MACAC on March 17 and attended the Veteran and Military Educators Conference on March 13 at Grand
        Valley.
  • Beard-Bohn, Emily (English) Sherrin Frances (English), Tim Kenyon (English) and Warren Fincher (English)
    • Presented
      • “Empowering Student Choice: An Assessment of a Guided Placement Program for Freshman Writing,” at the CCCC Annual Convention, “‘Computer Love’: Extended Play, B-sides, Remix, Collaboration, and Creativity,” Baltimore, MD, April 9-12, 2025.
  • Berry, David (Kinesiology) 
    • Presented
      • “Empowering K-12 Coaches and Physical Educations for Effective Sports Related Concussion Health Literacy” at the National Academy of Health and Physical Literacy Summit in Newport, Rhode Island March 3-6, 2025.
  • Boehm, Lisa Krissoff (Provost & Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs) 
    • Publication
      • “Reassessing the City Beautiful Movement, the Case of Harrisburg, PA”, The Journal of Urban History, First published online 02.26.2025.
      • Submitted further work on the project for presentation at the Urban History Association bi-annual conference in October 2025.
      • Finalized the galley proofs for a new article and changed her affiliation to Saginaw Valley State University on the publication. The new article is ”Reframing the City Beautiful: Environment and Health in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania” to be published in the Journal of Urban
        History.
      • Presented paper “Inspired by Trees: Mira Lloyd Dock and the Influence of Harrisburg, PA’s City Beautiful Parks,” accepted as part of the panel, “Regulating and Redesigning Urban Space in Twentieth Century America” for the Urban History Association Bi-Annual Conference in Los Angeles, California, October 9-12, 2025.
  • Brasseur, Susan (Executive Director of Center for Adult Learning)
    • Presented
      • Presented at the OSHER national conference on Generational Preferences in Community, Learning, and Communication. She also led a tabletop discussion on the same subject.
  • Brehmer, Julie (Teacher Education) 
    • National Presentation
      • West, J. & Brehmer, J. S., (December 2025). Teaching writing in community: Comparative case studies of first-year teachers in a community of practice. Literacy Research Association Conference. Las Vegas, NV.
      • Troia, G., Brehmer, J. S., Glause, K. & Reichmuth, H. (January 2025). The nature of elementary writing teachers’ instructional practices and the effects of teacher characteristics on their practices. Hawaii International Conference on Education. Honolulu, HI.  
    • State Conference Presentation:
      • West, J. & Brehmer, J. S. (March 2025). Get off to the “write” start! Supporting early career teachers’ writing instruction. the Michigan Reading Association Conference. Grand Rapids, MI. 
    • Invited Presentations
      • Brehmer, J.S. (December 2025). Unlocking Potential: Teaching Learners with Learning Disabilities and Autism Across the Lifespan. Virtual presentation at the International Conference on Bridging Employment and Inclusive Education/TVET; Advancing Employment Opportunities for Persons with Autism/Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities through Effective Transition and Inclusive Approaches. Delivered to international participants (China, Australia, United States, Ghana).
      • Brehmer, J.S. (October 2025). What do I need to know about the science of reading? Presented to secondary teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators at Tuscola Intermediate School District professional development. Unionville, MI (paid consultant).
      • Brehmer, J.S. (October 2025). What do I need to know about the science behind reading? Presented to elementary teachers, instructional coaches, speech therapists, and administrators at Tuscola Intermediate School District professional development. Caro, MI (paid consultant).
      • Brehmer, J. S. (March 2025). SVSU teacher preparation for writing instruction. Presented to teachers, instructional coaches, and administrations during Saginaw Intermediate School District professional development on writing instruction. Saginaw, MI. 
  • Bylin, Kyle (Research & Assessment Librarian)
    • Publication
  • Chaytor, Jennifer (Chemistry)
    • Publications
      • Chaytor, J.L. (2025) Understanding Implicit Bias and Student Evaluations of Teaching: Exploring Best Practices for Improving Teaching in Higher Education. The Community College Enterprise, 31 (1): 9-21 
    • Workshops
      • Chaytor, J.L. “Engaging Students” Workshop led/presented at Active Learning in Organic Chemistry 2025 Virtual Workshop, June 10, 2025.
    • Presentations
      • Chaytor, J.L. “Building Community Through OrganicERs Faculty Learning Communities” Oral presentation at 2025 Community of Communities Gathering, Holland, MI, June 30, 2025
      • Chaytor, J.L. “Use of Learning Assessment Techniques, Collaborative Learning Techniques, and Student Engagement Techniques to Enhance Organic Chemistry Courses.” Oral presentation at 2025 Canadian Society for Chemistry conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 16, 2025.
    • Student Presentations
      • Kruczyk, M., Gasiorowski, C., Brouet, S., Chaytor, J., Coote, M. “Sustainable alternative to the standard undergraduate organic chemistry caffeine extraction.” Poster presentation at American Chemical Society Central Regional Meeting, October 17-18, 2025
      • Schram, J., Papajesk, A., Chaytor, J. “Aryl-C-Glycosides: A Potential Treatment for Diabetes Type II.” Poster presentation at SVSU SET Symposium and SVSU Student Showcase, April 25, 2025.
  • Clark, LaCreta (Educational Leadership and Services)
    • Publication
      • Published a new book, Transformational Leadership in Turbulent Times: Navigating Change with Vision, Equity, And Resilience.
  • Commerford, Julie (Geography)
    • Presented
      • “The Proof is in the Paleorecords: How we know what vegetation was like long ago, and why it matters,” colloquium presentation at the University of Richmon's department of Geography in February 2025.
    • Publication
      • Published a new paper, "High stability in an eastern North American temperate forest during the late Holocene", in the journal Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. Her former student and SVSU alum, Haley Mueller, is also
        a co-author on the paper. It is Haley’s first published manuscript! Below is a link to the article:
        https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00334-025-01073-4
  • Delvecchio, Micah (Economics)
    • Presented
      • spoke to MLIVE about the impact of tariffs. Read the story here.
  • Ditmyer, Marcia (Dean of HHS)
    • Presented
      • Presented the “Road to a healthier church community: One church’s community story” (Abstract #565202) [Program Area: Caucus on Public Health and Faith Community] at the American Public Health Association Conference in Washington, D.C., in November. In September, Dean Ditmyer presented “Neurodiversity Meets Cultural Diversity: Unpacking Bias in the Brain” at the Covenant Health Care Foundation Respiratory Care Conference in Saginaw.
  • Ditmyer, Marcia (Dean of HHS), Michael Heron (Social Work), Elizabeth Martin (Social Work) 
    • Presented
      • Life skills coach for the FAST program: "Navigating Life sills support for students aging out of foster care" at the 82nd annual Social Worker program directors conference Las Vegas, NV, March 2025.
      • With the current landscape of higher education accessibility students from diverse and marginalized backgrounds face significant challenges. This panel will share insights from our grant-funded program designed for students aging out of foster care to support their transition into independence and life as a college student. Research focused on foster youth outcomes says 75% would like to attend college, only 3% enroll, and just 1% graduate with a degree. Our focus will be on how targeted life skills support can help to bridge this gap.
  • Dix, Monika (Modern Languages)
    • Presented
      • Gave a talk on Manga at the Saginaw Japanese Teahouse and Cultural Center on October 17th.
  • Donahue, Jesse (Political Science) 
    • Presented
      • “Animal welfare and rights in Disney animated movies”, book chapter for an edited volume in Disney's Menageries (working title). The chapter will be presented at the Popular Culture Association Conference in New Orleans in April 2025.
      • Presented for Women’s History Month, Gender & Politics, on March 26th. Overview of the gender, partisan, and public opinion barriers that prevented the U.S. from electing its first woman president.
  • Drew, Robert (Communication)
    • Publication
      • His book Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable has been awarded a Certificate of Merit in the category of Best Historical Research in Record Labels or General Recording Topics in the 2025 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence.
      • Asked to contribute a “Take Five” column for the Columbia College alumni website: https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/latest/
        take-five/rob-drew-83
  • Dutta, Ranjana (Psychology)
  • Fincher, Warren (Sociology)
    • Presented
      • “Empowering Student Choice: An Assessment of a Guided Placement Program for First Year Writing” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication held in Baltimore, Maryland April 9-11.
  • Frasca, Melanie (Theatre)
    • Performance
      • I was chosen to perform the following one-woman show that I wrote at the SETC Fringe Festival in March. Medusa, The Woman Behind the Monster.
  • Gang, Heyln (Management)
    • Publication
      • Gang, H., Anderson, M. H., & Summers, J. K. (2025). Do women have lower core self-evaluations than men? A meta-analytic review of sex differences across cultures and over time. Personality and Individual Differences, 243, 113121
      • Sun, P. Y., Anderson, M. H., & Gang, H. (2024). Determining the hierarchical structure and nature of servant leadership. Journal of Business and Psychology, 39(3), 715-734. (Three authors contributed equally).
  • Gardner, Eric (English)
    • Publication
      • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Reconstruction, Oxford University Press, 2025. 
    • Presentations
      • “Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Reconstruction.” Presentation in conversation with Sherita Johnson and Derrick Spires, American Antiquarian Society (virtual), November 2025. Broadcast on C-SPAN 2 / American History TV 17 January 2026. 
      • “Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s ‘Bury Me in a Free Land.’” Virtual lecture for the Local Americanists group, University of Maryland, October 2025. 
      • “Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Ohio, and the Importance of the Local.” Keynote Presentation at the Frances E. W. Harper: Looking Back, Moving Forward, 1825-2025 Symposium, Penn State University, September 2025.
      • “Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Right Here, Right Now.” Robert J. Kane Endowed Lecture, Ohio State University, March 2025.
  • Gehrke, Jules P., (History)
    • Publication
      • Canals in a Changing Britain: Construction, Culture, and Environment, 1760-1968, Lexington Books, 2025. 
        • Assesses canals as a major technological system re-shaping Britons’ relationship with their landscape and environment for over 200 years. It offers a sustained narrative addressing canal construction in the late eighteenth century, living and working communities alongside canals in the nineteenth century, canals’ relationship to concerns regarding de-industrialization in the early twentieth century and canals as sites for the experience of nature and rural life in the postwar era between 1945 and 1968. This book makes use of a variety of archival and published material on canals and references academic publications on histories of technology and the environment, as well as scholarship related specifically to canals. It argues contemporary conversations regarding the current and future use of canals as multi-faceted sites of recreation, leisure, heritage, and experience of the natural environment in Britain must be seen in the context of an arc of historical experience between 1760 and 1968.
  • Giesler, Mark (Social Work)
    • Publication
      • Contributed to an edited book entitled Teaching Activities for Social Work: Creative Pedagogies to Engage Students, edited by Jill M. Chonody and published by Springer. Citing the movement away from a “sage on the stage” model of teaching, Chonody makes the case that the changing needs of our students—from the wired Gen Z to later in life returning students—requires compelling ways to excite and challenge them about the content and engage them in the classroom.” The collection contains five activities that I have developed for BSW and MSW students throughout my years of teaching at SVSU.
  • Giroux, Chris (English)
    • Creative Writing
      • “No Service, No Viewing, Just Ashes,” Superpresent (2025)
      • “Discomfort, Green Becoming Red,” Superpresent (2025)
      • “Charade Resumed,” Superpresent (2025)
      • “Yellow, Gratitude Lingering,” Rockvale Review (November 2025)
      • “Every Day Is a Bad B Movie,” ArLiJo (No. 214, 2025)
      • “Yellow, Loss,” San Pedro River Review (2025)
      • “Girl Studying John Biggers’s Family Ark Triptych,” San Pedro River Review (2025)
      • “Signs, Morning Walk,” Connecticut River Review, 2025
      • “Driving in Northern Michigan,” Muleskinner Journal (2025)
      • “Return, Afternoon,” Walloon Writers Review (2025)
    • Presentations and Readings
      • Chapbook Roundtable, Bay City Wirt Library, Bay City, MI, 30 Sept. 2025
      • “An Evening with Walloon Writers Review: A Celebration of Michigan Nature and Writing,” Hoyt Library, Saginaw, MI, 22 Apr. 2025
      • Interview and Writers’ Roundtable, Interlochen Public Radio, Interlochen, MI, 27 Sept. 2024
      • Transformational Reading, Alluvion, Traverse City, MI, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Hillman, Susan (Teacher Education)
    • Presented
      • Kastberg, S.E., Lischka, A. E., & Hillman, S. L. (accepted for 2025). Developing instructional activities to support preservice mathematics teacher curricular reasoning. Roundtable presentation for the SIG-Research in Mathematics Education at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO, April 23-27. 
      • Lischka, A.E.; Kastberg, S.E., & Hillman, S.L. (2025).  Using models of Prospective (accepted for 2025). Teachers’ Curricular Agency to Inform Instructional Activity Design. Research Report presented at  the annual Research Conference for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Atlanta,  Georgia, October 15-18.
      • Lischka, A. E., Kastberg, S.E., & Hillman, S. L. (2025). Encouraging prospective mathematics teachers’ curricular agency. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, Reno, NV, February 6-8.
      • Hillman, S. L., Anand, K., Pasta, V., Dalvi, K., & Chatterjee, S. (2025). Priorities for improving quality of education in schools based on feedback. Roundtable session at the 23rd Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, HI, January 4-7.
      • Hillman, S. L., and Anand, K., and Wheeler, M. (2025). Improving performance in schools using self-review with validation for accountability. Paper presentation at the 23rd Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, HI, January 4-7.
    • Publication
      • Hillman, S.L. and Kastberg, S. and Lischka, A. (Accepted October 2026). Developing as Constructivist Teacher Educators: A Process, Not an Endpoint. This is a book chapter accepted for an edited book, Constructivist Practices in Teacher Education: Theory, Methods, and Challenges to be published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. (Hillman as worked collaboratively with these co-authors as critical friends engaging in selfstudy since 2013, and this work captures the development of their relational constructivist teaching practices as mathematics teacher
        educators.
      • Hillman, S.L. and Anand, K. and Wheeler, S. (Accepted for 2026). School review for improvement: Challenges led to an evolving process. Virtual paper presentation at the annual conference for the Comparative International Education Society (CIES), San Francisco, CA, March 28-April 1. (Hillman has worked with these colleagues in India since 2012 and been the lead on research regarding the impact of the work to improve the quality of education in schools across India.)
  • Hinton, Dawn (Associate Provost)
    • Presented
      • Presented “Rooted in Leadership: Thriving, Inspiring, and Advancing Together,” at the MI-ACE Women’s Network in June. 
  • Hitt, James (Philosophy)
    • Publication
      • Had a paper selected for the upcoming American Literature Association conference in Boston in May. The title of the paper is “Through the Ages: A Précis for Pragmatist Literary Theories” hosted by the William James Society.
  • Holding, Sara (Special Education Compliance Specialist)
    • Presented
      • Presented at United in Strength, TED (Teacher Education Division). “Do we think black students learn in special education settings? What the data tells us….”  November 13, 2025, Kansas City, MO.
  • Hunyadi, Elaine (Director of the Center for Academic Achievement); Rosa Carreon (Professional Tutor); Jenna Bailey (Peer Tutor); Tara Szuper and Grace Harkenrider (Peer Tutors and student-athletes)
    • Presented
      • SVSU’s Center for Academic Achievement (CAA) presented at the 35th annual Teaching Academic Survival and Success Conference in Ft. Lauderdale on March 23-24. The presentations included “Embedded Tutoring 2.0,” which focuses on how tutors develop curriculum-aligned workshops for STEM courses, and “How Collaborating with Athletics Supports Retention, Inclusion, and Student Motivation While Building a Quality Staff of Peer Tutors,” which highlights the outcomes of the CAA’s multi-year partnership with the Athletic Department.
  • Jaber, Mazen (Marketing) 
    • Presented
      • "Temporal reframing and the effect of just below pricing: structed abstract" and "Is she greener than him? How gender and review valence affect green consumers" at the Marketing Science annual conference in Montreal, Canada, May 2025.
  • Jewell, Tiler (Research and Collections Development, Zahnow Library) and Heather Fisher (Head of Access Services, Zahnow Library)
    • Presented
      • “Leveraging Social Media to Build Bridges: Enhancing Student Engagement” at the Michigan Academic Library Association 2025 Annual Conference in Flint Michigan. Description: This presentation explores how the SVSU library used platforms like TikTok and Instagram to promote resources and cultivate a sense of belonging. Participants will gain some insight on how to leverage social media to enhance outreach and strengthen connections.
  • Kastberg, S.E., Hillman, S. L., & Lischka, A. E.
    • Presented
      • Developing instructional activities to support preservice mathematics teacher curricular reasoning. Roundtable presentation for the SIG-Research in Mathematics Education at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO, April 23-27.
      • Using models of Prospective Teachers’ Curricular Agency to Inform Instructional Activity Design. Research Report presented at the annual Research Conference for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Atlanta, Georgia, October 15-18.
      • Presented at the International conference on Green Energy and Applications, March 7-9, 2025 in Singapore.
  • Keil, Julie (Political Science)
    • Presented
      • "Ukraine-War Crimes That Will Never Be Accounted For", at the Southern Political Science Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico on January 11.
  • Keough, Sara Beth (Geography)
    • Publication
      • Keough, Sara Beth, Scott Youngsted, (2019/2025) Water, Life, and Profit: Fluid Economies and Cultures of Niamey, Niger, Berghahn, New York, Oxford.
  • Khan, Mohammad (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
    • Publication
      • M. Ashraf Khan, Mohammad Islam, Taskin Karim, Mahmoud Manzoul, and Rajani Muraleedharan, “Analytical modeling and verification of a design for an optical assistive system,” International Journal of Applied Science, March 2025 (Accepted).
    • Presented
      • M. Ashraf Khan, Gabe Gransden, Zachary D. Franzel, Brian Maricle, and Matthew Vannette, “Solar Energy Harvesting Study Using Solar Cages and Sustainability,” Accepted in 2025 10th International Conference on Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering (ICSREE 2025), May, Nice, France.
      • M. Ashraf Khan, Gabe Gransden, Zachary D. Franzel, Brian Maricle, and Matthew Vannette, “An experimental study of partial energy harvesting by solar cages for sustainability,” accepted and presented in ICGEA conference in Singapore, March 2025 (To be published by IEEE).
      • Mohammad Khan, and Brian Maricle, Associate Professor of Biology, presented “Partial energy harvesting study of solar energy in a microworld by artificial illumination at the International Conference on Sustainable Energy, Smart Cities and Business Intelligence (ICSSB 25) held at Annacis Research and Event Centre, Vancouver, Canada (August 28-29, 2025) organized by Canadian Association for Artificial Intelligence and Future Studies. The paper was presented virtually.
  • Kim, Jaewoo (Management)
    • Presented
      • Attended the Academy of Management Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark to present “Perceptions of Organizational Politics and Work Outcomes: Interactive Effects of Envy and Enactment,” in July.
  • Koperski, Jeffrey (Philosophy)
    • Published
      • Had his book, The Physics of Theism: God, Physics, and the Philosophy of Science (Routledge, 2015), translated into Turkish. The translation was published in May.
      • Physics and Free Will: The Science of Libertarian Freedom. Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003681199
  • Legleitner, Emily (Art)
    • Presented
      • Opened the first gallery show at SVSU on September 4th with pieces from her Printmaking and Drawing classes. The Exhibition was titled, “My Life is the Size of My Room.”
      • Invited to exhibit her work at the 4th International Triennial of Graphic Arts in Livno, Bosnia and Herzogovenia in June 2026. 
  • Long, Holly (Teacher Education)
    • Papers Published in Peer Reviewed Journals
      • Long, H. M., Bouck, E. C., & Brodhead, M. T. (2025). Teacher implementation of the VRA instructional sequence to support elementary students with ASD. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities. https://doi.org/10.1177/10883576251396807
    • Book Chapters
      • Long, H. M., Herrod, J. N., Norton, K., Park, E., & Morlino, R. M. (In Press). Functional curriculum and life skills instruction for students with intellectual disability and extensive support needs. In Bakken, J. P. (Ed.) Handbook for Educating Students with Disabilities. Springer. 
    • National Conference Presentations
      • Long, H. M. (February, 2025) Bridging the Gap: Math Interventions for Students with ASD in Realistic Classroom Settings. Michigan Council for Exceptional Children Conference. Presentation. Grand Rapids, MI
    • International Conference Presentations
      • Long, H. M. (December, 2025) From Escalation to Independence: Proactive Behavior Support for Students with ASD/IDD. Presentation. International Conference on Bridging Employment and Inclusive Education: Advancing Employment Opportunities for Persons with Autism and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities through Effective Transition and Inclusive Approaches. Duperon Learning Center, Ghana. (Also engaged as Panelist)
  • Lorentz II, Kevin (Political Science)
    • Publication
      • Journal Papers in Review
        • Saks, K. and K. Lorentz. “A Republic on Which it Stands: Embedding Democratic Practice in the Constitution’s Next 250 Years.”
          Submitted to special issue on America’s 250th Anniversary in Political Science Review (accepted for publication, September 2025).
      • Other Referred Publications
    • Selected Conference & Workshop Participation
      • Roundtable, “Supreme Court Roundup and Preview 2025,” Michigan Political Science Association Annual Meeting, October 2025 (with K. Saks and K. Stepp).
      • Paper Presentation, “From Poll Workers to Defenders: Student Poll Workers as Catalysts for Change,” APSA Teaching & Learning Conference, February 2025.
    • Invited Presentations, Lectures, and Media Appearances
      • Panelist, “Non-R1 Tenure Track Jobs,” Department of Political Science, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, November 14, 2025.
      • Lecture, “U.S. Supreme Court Roundup & Preview 2025-2026,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute @ Saginaw Valley State University, October 2025 (with A. Hendrickson).
      • Interview, “Michigan 35th State Senate District Special Election,” Michigan Public Radio, September 2025.
      • Lecture, “Constitutional Support, Periodic Conventions, and the Importance of State Constitutions,” Constitution Day 2025 Lecture @ Alma College, September 16, 2025.
      • Lecture, “Originalism and Constitutional Interpretation: An Oxford-style Debate,” Albert J. Beutler Forums for Ethics and Practice @ Saginaw Valley State University, September 18, 2025 (with P. Rose-Barry).
      • Interview, “Trump’s First 100 Days,” The Follow Up on Delta College PBS, April 2025 (with D. Jesuit).
      • Interview, “The Trump Presidency 2.0,” The Follow Up on Delta College PBS, January 2025 (with K. Stepp).
  • Lotfaliei, Babak (Finance)
    • Presentation/Publication
      • Babak Lotfaliei, and Mahmood Mohebshahedin, "Leashed Leverage of Funds" (First version: Dec 2018), Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia seminar, 2021. This is a working paper presented at the Federal Reserve of Philadelphia by invitation. Brief presentation of idea (Video): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K-LwG5y8BSvmsr-g9eAQFrbpDf5Y28hF/view
      • Places presented at:
        • Midwest Finance Association 2020, Seminars at Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Central Washington University, Dickinson College, University of Southern Indiana, Ontario Tech University, Christopher Newport University, University of Northern British Columbia, University of Texas-Permian Basin, San Diego State University, Financial Management Association meeting 2020
  • Liu, Yu (Management)
    • Presented
      • “The Market Value of Credibility: An Event Study on Sustainability Report Assurance.” At the Decision Science Institute Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida in November.
  • Luckett, Terra (Rural Pathways Project Director)
    • Presented
      • “The Impact of Resource Underutilization on Minority Student Success” at the 2025 IDEAL Leadership Conference in Indianapolis,
        Indiana. Her presentation will highlight the factors that significantly impact students’ educational outcomes and importance of institutional support in normalizing help-seeking behaviors and integrating resource education into the curriculum to ensure all students can access the necessary resources for success.
  • Macomber, Cathy (Social Work)
    • Presented
      • Presented a joint paper with Dean Ditmyer, “Rebuilding connection and wellness: A multidimensional approach to workforce wellbeing in higher education” (Abstract #568939) [Program Area: Public Health Education and Health Promotion], at the American Public Health Association Conference in Washington, D.C. in November.
  • Mandle, Layton (Political Science)
    • Presented
      • Took part in two events, both hosted by the Centre for International Studies and Development (CISAD) at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. The first was a writer’s workshop for all contributing authors on the “Handbook of Peace and Security Governance” edited by Professors Marcin Grabowski (Jagiellonian University) and Roberto Dominguez (Suffolk University), set to be published by Edward Elgar publishers in early 2026. Mandle presented the status of his chapter, titled “Evolutionary Arms: Governing Uncrewed,
        Autonomous, and Emerging Technologies.” He also attended a research security workshop hosted by the Stockholm Institute for Security and Development Policy led by the executive director Niklas Swanström.
  • Mazumder, A.K.M. Monayem (Mechanical Engineering)
    • Presented
      • “Characteristics of Flow Operated by a Single Stage EHD Gas Pump,” at the 10th Thermal And Fluids Engineering Conference held at George Washington University in March 2025.
      • Presented “Enhancing Heat Transfer by a Two Stage EHD Gas Pump With One-Inch-Wide Grounded Electrode” at the ASME IMECE
        conference in Memphis, TN on November 19th
  • Muraleedharan, Rajani (Interim Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs)
    • Presented
      • Spoke at the Mentor Panel on April 4th, 2025, discussing Identifying and Overcoming Common Barriers to Success. This panel will offer valuable insights on navigating challenges and achieving success in your career. The ASEE MMP supports women in the early stages of their careers as engineering educators by offering personalized career coaching and professional development. Rajani’s participation in this panel is just one of many ways the program is helping mentees build the skills and confidence needed to thrive.
  • Nadavulakere, Shiva (Management)
    • Presented
      • “Ethical Engagement: Is Meaningful Work an Antidote for Counterproductive Work,” at the Southwest Academy of Management Conference in Tulsa, OK in March 2025.
      • Presented at the 2025 AIB Southeast US Chapter Annual Conference, which took place on a Royal Caribbean Cruise from Miami, Florida to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic at the end of October and beginning of November, 2025.
  • Ofori-Dankwa, Joseph (Management)
    • Publication
      • Ofori-Dankwa, Joseph, Ezenwayi Amaechi Ejiribe, Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey (editors), African Women Entrepreneurs in the Informal Economy: Social Justice Implications of Market Jolts in Ghana, Palgrave MacMillan: London, New York, 2025 (accepted for publication).
    • Presented
      • "Succession Planning in Family-Owned business in Ghana: the influence of ground-rules in succession planning" at the meeting of the United States Association of Small businesses, February 2025.
  • Ojemaye, Mike (Chemistry)
    • Publication
      • IO Daramola, MO Ojemaye, AI Okoh, OO Okoh (2025) α-Fe2O3 co-precipitation synthesis: evaluating the role of hydrogen peroxide as oxidizing agent in the photocatalytic degradation of atrazine, Discover Chemistry 2 (1), 193. 
      • Ifeoluwa O. Daramola, Mike O. Ojemaye, Anthony I. Okoh and Omobola O. Okoh (2025) Photocatalytic degradation of Simazine and Alachlor pesticides in aqueous solution using UV/H2O2/TiO2: Kinetics and cytotoxicity studies, Next Materials 8, 100810.
      • N Mngcutsha, MO Ojemaye, NC Manene, OO Olaniyan, OO Okoh (2025) UV-Iron Oxide Nanocatalyst-Based Photocatalytic Degradation of Endrin Pesticide in Contaminated Water and In-Vitro Cytotoxicity Study on HepG2 Cells, BioNanoScience 15 (4), 1-14.
      • Emile Salomon Massima Mouele, Htet Htet Kyaw, Myo Tay Zar Myint, Mohammed Al-Abri, Mohammed A Al Belushi, Sergey Dobretsov, Jean-Luc Mukaba, Alechine Emmanuel Ameh, Leslie F Petrik, Francis Ntumba Muya, Bernard Bladergroen, Kingsley Ehi Ebomah, Mike Ojemaye, Anthony Ifeanyi Okoh, Omobola O Okoh (2025) Multifunctional metal oxides synthesized via a solvo-hydrothermal process for photocatalytic degradation of organic dye and bacteria in wastewater, Chemical Physics Impact, 10, 100856.  (Journal Impact Factor: 3.8).
  • Orr, Sheila (Teacher Education)
    • Refereed Journal Articles
      • Howell, J. & Orr, S. (2025) Conceptualizing math Ridas in equity-oriented urban classrooms. Journal of Urban Mathematics Education. 
      • Orr, S. (2025). Mathematics teacher educator activism: A framework for making visible mathematics teacher educators’ justice-oriented work. Mathematics Teacher Educator, 13(2), 136–157. https://doi.org/10.5951/MTE.2023-0042
    • Refereed Conference Proceedings
      • Orr, S. & Chong, K. (2025) The racialized discourses in arguments to retrack mathematics. In Zbiek, R. M., Yao, X., McCloskey, A., & Arbaugh, F. (Eds.). Proceedings of the forty-seventh annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Pennsylvania State University. https://doi.org/ 10.51272/pmena.47.2025
      • Wald, S., & Orr, S. (2025) Fostering cultural relevance in secondary mathematics methods courses. In Zbiek, R. M., Yao, X., McCloskey, A., & Arbaugh, F. (Eds.). Proceedings of the forty-seventh annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Pennsylvania State University. https://doi.org/ 10.51272/pmena.47.2025
      • Zelaya, F., Orr, S., Harper, F., Kyle, T., Angarita Laverde, A. (2025) Exploring dominant, critical, and affective dimensions of community mathematics with caregivers. In Zbiek, R. M., Yao, X., McCloskey, A., & Arbaugh, F. (Eds.). Proceedings of the forty-seventh annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Pennsylvania State University. https://doi.org/ 10.51272/pmena.47.2025
    • Book Chapters
      • Orr, S., & Bieda, K. (2025). The “hook method”: Exploring a teacher candidate’s journey to use purposeful questions in an early field experience. In D. Polly & C. S. Martin, Elevating clinical practice in mathematics education: Cases that showcase teaching practices in action (pp. 393–404). Emerald Group Publishing.
    • Public Scholarship
    • National Conference Presentations
      • Orr, S. (2025, October) Mentor teachers’ dilemmas in supporting prospective teachers to enact justice-oriented pedagogies. Poster Presented at Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. State College, PA. 
      • Orr, S. (2025, October) Critically conscious mathematics mentoring: A framework for mentor teachers working for justice. Research Report Presented at National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2025Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA
      • Orr, S. & DiMaria, S. (2025, October) Critically conscious math mentoring: Work with future teachers to advocate for equitable classrooms. Session Presented at National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2025Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA. 
      • Madis, C., DiMaria, S., Orr, S. (2025, October) Project based learning: Enhanced by AI, personalized with teacher expertise. Session Presented at National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2025Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA. 
      • DiMaria, S., Madis, C., Orr, S. (2025, July) A framework for equitable, discipline rich STEM project-based learning. Session Presented at New Tech Annual Conference 2025. Oakland, CA.
      • Orr, S., Madis, C., DiMaria, S. (2025, July) Content storylining: What your STEM PBL project has been missing. Session Presented at New Tech Annual Conference 2025. Oakland, CA.
      • Madis, C., DiMaria, S., Orr, S. (2025, July) Mathematical practices: The pathway to equitable, rigorous PBL projects. Session Presented at New Tech Annual Conference 2025. Oakland, CA.
      • Orr, S., Madis, C., DiMaria, S. (2025, July) Creating discipline-rich end products for project-based learning that draw on students’ communities. Session Presented at New Tech Annual Conference 2025. Oakland, CA.
      • DiMaria, S., Madis, C., Orr, S. (2025, July) Project based learning: Enhanced by AI, personalized with teacher expertise. Session Presented at New Tech Annual Conference 2025. Oakland, CA.
      • Chong, K. & Orr, S. (2025, April) Tracking Sinocentrism: Mathematics education, San Francisco & racialized electoral politics. Session presented at the 2025 American Educational Research Association Annual Conference. Denver, CO.
      • Zarza, S., Orr, S., Herbel-Eisenmann, B., (2025, February) Countering Deficit Discourse: Supporting Preservice Teachers to Notice Student Strengths. Session presented at the 2025 Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Annual Conference. Reno, NV. 
      • Raygoza, M., Orr, S., Soni, D., & King, B. (2025, February) Moving forward: Working to humanize spaces within AMTE. Session presented at the 2025 Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Annual Conference. Reno, NV
    • Regional Conference Presentations
      • Orr, S. (2025 March). Mentoring for justice: A conversation around supporting and sustaining mentor teachers. Session presented at 2025 Michigan Association for Mathematics Teacher Educators Conversations Among Colleagues. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI
      • Orr, S., Madis, C., DiMaria, S., (2025, February). A framework for equitable, discipline-rich project-based learning. Session presented at Math in Action. Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI
    • Virtual Conference Presentations
      • Orr, S. (2025, November) Supporting Prospective Teachers to Design Discipline-Rich Project Based Learning Projects. Session Presented at the 2025 Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Virtual Institute. Virtual Conference
  • Paredes-Montero, Jorge (Biology)
    • Grants
      • 2025    RNAi-based transgenesis in the bean beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus. SVSU Unit Grant. US$ 14000
      • 2025    Enhancing Supercomputing Literacy in Undergraduate Education Through Access-CI Resources. ACCESS Allocations. US$ 2600
  • Pashak, Travis (Psychology)
    • Publications
      • Pashak, T. J. (2025) “Existentially-informed psychotherapy: An interview with Travis J. Pashak,” This Mortal Life: The Ernest Becker Foundation Newsletter. 
    • Presented
      • “Meaningful learning in undergraduate clinical topics through existential-dynamic applications”, Roundtable discussion facilitated at the annual convention of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. (2025).
      • “The transdiagnostic role of existential concerns in psychopathology”. Paper talk presented at the annual convention of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, Alma, MI. (2025).
  • Pongpatipat, Chatt (Marketing)
    • Presented
      • "Temporal reframing and the effect of just below pricing: structured abstract" and "Is she greener than him? How gender and review valence affect green consumers", The Academy of Marketing Science conference in Montreal, Canada, May 2025.
  • Raica-Klotz, Helen (English)
    • Publication
      • Won the 2025 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Chapbook Contest for her collection Superior Stories, in June
  • Ramet, Carlos (Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Behavioral Sciences)
    • Published
      • Offered a book talk on “What Makes the Novel?” as part of National Novel Writing Month on Wednesday, November 5th at 6:30 at Saginaw’s Hoyt Library. He shared examples from unpublished Follett works while discussing the craft of novel writing, as well as his own work, including his recent novel, The Quiet Limit of the World. Ramet was also interviewed by WNEM TV 5 on Monday, November 3rd at 9:15 AM.
  • Ravuri, Evelyn (Geography)
    • Publication
      • Completing her book, Displacing the ‘Ordinary’ City: Gentrification in Medium-sized Cities in the U.S. for Bloomsbury.
  • Reddy, Surender (Management) and Prashanth Anekal (Management)
  • Rich, Elizabeth (English)
    • Publication
      • Published a chapter, entitled “The Impact of Emigration on Narrativizing the Arab Spring,” in a book published by MLA (Teaching Migration in Literature, Film, and Media, Spring 2025).
  • Rigda, Ryan (Communications)
    • Presented
      • Presented a paper on burnout among students in public speaking competitions and served on a panel on public speaking competitions at the National Communication Association’s 2025 . He also chaired a session on debate and public speaking. The conference was held in New Orleans from November 19th to the 22.
  • Sirias, Danilo (Management) 
    • Presented
      • “Cost Management Approach vs Throughput Approach for Decision Making,” at the Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference in Atlanta, February 2025.
      • Presented “A Proposed Standard S&T Tree to Guide Changes in Behavioral Health Clinics” at the TOC Innovation Summit in Las Vegas in October.
  • Sivy, Tami (Chemistry)
    • Oral Presentation
      • Invited Talk: “Using Molecular Methods in an Undergraduate Laboratory to Study Microbial Contamination in Freshwater” Central Regional ACS Meeting. Mt. Pleasant, MI September 18, 2025
      • Invited Talk: “Fecal contamination studies in the Saginaw Bay Watershed” MiNet virtual meeting. September 16, 2025
      • Invited Talk: “Work towards removing the beach closings BUI: Fecal contamination studies in the Saginaw Bay Watershed” Saginaw River and Bay Area of Concern Public Advisory Council Meeting. Bay City State Recreation Area, August 21, 2025
    • Poster Presentation
      • Alaina H. Seman, Logan J. Seyuin, Lewisky P. Zacharia, and Tami L. Sivy. “Using Colilert, qPCR, and ddPCR for bacterial quantification for Bay County beaches” Great Lakes Beach Association Conference, Michigan City, IN, November 3, 2025
      • Alaina H. Seman, Logan J. Seyuin, Lewisky P. Zacharia, and Tami L. Sivy. “A Microbial Source Tracking Survey of Bay County (Michigan) Beaches and Inlets” ” Great Lakes Beach Association Conference, Michigan City, IN, November 3, 2025
  • Spencer, Kal (Study Abroad Coordinator)
    • Presented
      • Served on a selection panel for the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program for the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of
        Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA).
  • Store, Jessie (Teacher Education)
    • Presented
      • Presented a poster titled “Framework for Developing Preservice Teachers’ Diagnostic Math Teaching Competencies” at the PME-NA Conference in October in State College, Pennsylvania
  • Sun, Wei (Accounting, Law and Finance)
  • Szymanska, Izabela (Management)
  • Teed, Paul (History)
    • Published
      • The article, “Allies in Progress: Unitarians, Progressive Friends, and the Meaning of Religious Liberty in Antebellum America,” was published in the December issue of the New England Journal of History.
  • Trebing, Diana (Communication)
    • Presented
      • Chaired the panel “Widening the Scope: Applying Communication Concepts Outside the Classroom,” served as a respondent to an undergraduate honors session and presented on “Widening the IDEA Partnership: Re-Imagining Transnational Scope,” at Widening the Scope, the Annual Conference of the Central States Communication Association on April 1-6, in Cincinnati.
  • Tsay, Lisa (Adjunct Faculty, Philosophy) and James Hitt (Philosophy)
    • Presented
      • Tsay, L. S. & Hitt, J. M. (2025). AI logic space farming: Teaching critical thinking and student agency. Paper presented at the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching & Learning, Traverse City, MI, United States.
    • Peer-Reviewed Articles
      • Hitt, M. E., Cai, S., Nix, G., Patel, S., & Tsay, L. S. (2025). Balancing nutrient content and nitrate levels in space agriculture: Investigating LED light and CO₂ effects on space-grown leafy green vegetables. Gravitational and Space Research, 13(1), 103–120. https://doi.org/10.2478/gsr-2025-0008 
  • West, Joanne (Teacher Education)
    • Teaching a literacy methods course on site at one of our charter school partners, Saginaw Preparatory Academy. This course offers an innovative model for teacher education, 2025.
  • Wood, Colin (Music)
    • Presented
      • "Jazz vs Classical Saxophone: Equipment technique and Pedagogy" at the North American Saxophone Alliance conference in Cincinnati, OH, February 21-23, 2025.
      • "Jazz vs. Classical Saxophone: Equipment, Technique, and Pedagogy" North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, February 22, 2025, Cincinnati, OH.
      • New Works by Colin Wood. Performance by The WoodWork Saxophone Quartet, February 22, 2025, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, OH.
      • Sound Community Music Series. Performance by Colin Wood and Collin Whitfield, March 12, 2025, Creative 360, Midland, MI.
      • Reeds & Keys. Performance by Colin Wood and Collin Whitfield, March 9, 2025, First Presbyterian Church, Fint, MI. 
    • Performance – two original compositions for saxophone quartet:
      • “Reflecting Pool,”
      • “Suite of Twelve”
  • Yang, Alice (Director of International Programs)
  • Youngstedt, Scott (Sociology)
    • Publication
      • Conducted ethnographic research on Hausa communities in The Gambia for one month in July-August 2025 as part of his work on his new book, The Global Hausa Diaspora: Historical and Contemporary Migration Experiences in Africa’s Most Widespread Diaspora. He is the first scholar to document Hausa lives in The Gambia.
    • Presented
      • Presented “Living Between Two Worlds: The Radical Anthropology of Paul Stoller at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans in November.
      • Presented “The Ghosting and Expulsion of Spirits in Niger: Implications for Health and Well-Being” at the 124th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in November in New Orleans November 2025.

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