2025 Publications

2025

• Beard-Bohn, Emily, Sherrin Frances, Tim Kenyon 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 (Academic 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.
• Brehmer, Julie (Teacher Education) 
  • Presented
    • "The nature of elementary writing teacher's instructional practices and the effects of teacher characteristics on their practices," Hawaiian International Conference on Education held in Honolulu, January 2025. Manuscript under review. 
    • Teachers’ years of experience, professional preparation, efficacy for teaching writing, knowledge of writing and writing pedagogy, and writing ability all had significant relationships with aspects of observed writing instruction such as particular teaching tactics, classroom management practices, and use of varied instructional materials. Interestingly, the writing ability of teachers tended to be negatively related to aspects of their instruction. Using latent profile analysis, we found at least two subgroups of teachers. 
    • “Get Off to the “Write” Start!: How to Support Early Career Teachers’ Writing Instruction”
      The Michigan Reading Association, March 2025, together with Dr. JoAnne West of SVSU. Manuscript forthcoming.
    • Although effective writing instructional practices are clearly defined, the uptake of said practices can be challenging for early career teachers. Through the creation of a Community of Practice (CoP) for early career teachers together with more knowledgeable others, effective and even ambitious teaching becomes more achievable. We provide a brief overview of a CoP we created with early career teachers who are also recent graduates of our educator preparation program. Our CoP focused on literacy instruction, particularly effective elementary writing instruction. We share our planning approach with education administrators, mentor teachers, coaches, or other teacher education professionals to facilitate their creation of similar CoPs.
• 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.
• Ditmyer, Marcia (Dean), Michael Heron, Elizabeth Martin (College of Health & Human Services, 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.
• 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. 
• 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.
• Giroux, Chris (English)
  • Creative Writing
    • “Driving in Northern Michigan,” Muleskinner Journal (2025)
    • “Return, Afternoon,” Walloon Writers Review (2025)
• 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). 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., Anand, K., & 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.
• 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.
• 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 (ECE)
  • 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).
• 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, January 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.
• 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.
• Sirias, Danilo (Management) 
  • Presented
    • “Cost Management Approach vs Throughput Approach for Decision Making,” at the Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference in Atlanta, February 2025.
• 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”
• Youngstedt, Scott (Sociology)
  • Publication
    • Youngstedt, Scott, (2025) Negotiating Mistrust: Patients and Healers across Traditional, Islamic, and Biomedical Health Sectors of Niger.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.