January 2009

Dr. Deborah Harris-O’Brien, Associate Professor of Psychology, along with Trinity student and chapter president of Psi Chi Nzinga Lawrence,  was honored in being selected by Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology, to attend a Leadership Conference held in Nashville.  An article about the conference and its participants will be published in the quarterly journal Eye on Psi Chi.

Dr. Stephanie Holaday, Director of Nursing Programs and Assistant Professor of Nursing, has had a chapter published in the highly-respected nursing publication Annual Review of Nursing Education, edited by M.H. Oermann and K. Gaberson and published by Springer (2008).  The piece is a review of her clinical evaluation tool kit which is used in nursing programs throughout the country.

Dr. Kerry Luse, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Mathematics, gave a colloquium talk (“Techniques in Knot Theory”) at the Naval Academy in the Fall and presented another talk (“A Transition Polynomial for Signed Feynman Diagrams”) at a special session of the Joint Mathematics Meeting in January.

Assistant Professor of English Wendy Bilen Thorbjornsen has received notification that she will have a teaching tip published in the upcoming revised edition of Remix, published by Catherine Latterell.   Additionally, Professor Thorbjornsen has been selected to be a reader for the AP English examinations.