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Guide to the Faculty/Staff Scholarship and Creative Achievement

Recognition of Faculty/Staff Scholarship & Creative Achievements

The scholarship and creative achievements accomplished by UW-Whitewater's faculty and staff during the previous academic year are recognized annually by Academic Affairs and the University Libraries. The purpose of the recognition is twofold: Scholarship and Creative Achievement event graphic

  • to promote a free exchange of ideas;
  • to encourage and stimulate further research and creative activity.

The 37th annual Scholarship & Creative Achievement recognition is for achievements accomplished between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024. Questions? Please contact: Elizabeth Psyck.

Criteria & Procedures

Eligibility

  • All University of Wisconsin-Whitewater staff from any department/unit shall be eligible to submit scholarly or creative works for recognition.
  • Recognition may be given for any number of works per person, in any medium.
  • Recognized works for the 37th annual list shall have been published, exhibited, performed, recorded, or presented during the period of January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024.*
  • Accomplishments should be scholarly in nature and contribute to the advancement of knowledge and research in the field.
  • Works resulting from an individual's avocational interests may be recognized if scholarly in nature and approved by the department/unit.
  • Works must have been positively reviewed by peers or authorities in the field, such as passing an editorial review board, presenting a work in a juried show, being publicly reviewed in other than local sources, appearing in a refereed journal, etc.
  • Departments or units may set additional selection standards, and the department chair or unit director should approve submissions. Consult the Standard Classification of Performance Data in the Faculty Personnel Rules (III, G, 4, c “Research & Creative Activity”) for examples of works.

*If works are recognized when accepted or first posted online, then they are not recognized again when they are actually published.

Procedures

  1. Submissions should be provided by the deadline in the call for submissions that will be sent to all Colleges and academic departments.
  2. Submissions should be electronically submitted and include the titles of the works as specified in the call for submissions and the submission form.

We are not creating a full bibliography or seeking physical items for display for this year, but we will recognize the value of the scholarly & creative work you do.

Last revised February 2025

2024 Honoree List

College of Arts & Communication

Communication

Kafiliveyjuyeh, Soheil

Examining Journalists’ Adoption of Social Media Tools in Contexts of Precarity.

Reporting from the Outside While Looking In: Iranian Diaspora Journalists and #WomanLifeFreedom.

Diplomatic webs: the influential figures shaping US policy in Israel, Qatar, and Iraq.

Powers, Courtney, J.

Embracing new workplace technologies: Changing organizational practices for human resources data management and processes.

Translating theory into practical understanding: Tips and tricks for crafting dynamic experiential learning experiences.

Elevating online education through community connection: Leveraging technology for meaningful experiential learning.

Navigating the digital age: Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) for students’ professional development & success.

Best practices & lessons learned: A case study about engaging students through community-based learning in asynchronous, online courses.
 

College of Business & Economics

Finance & Business Law

Jafarinejad, Mohammad

Consumer protection and firm valuation: A study of overdraft protection and US banks.

Premti, Arjan

Consumer protection and firm valuation: A study of overdraft protection and US banks. 

IT & Supply Chain Management

Davazdahemami, Behrooz

 A Bayesian belief network-based analytics methodology for early-stage risk detection of novel diseases.

Predicting and Mitigating Freshmen Student Attrition: A Local-Explainable Machine Learning Framework.

Revitalizing the Scholarly Compass: Harnessing GPT-Powered Automation for Dynamic Aims & Scope Evolution in Academic Journals.

Management

Simha, Aditya

Examining Pay-Performance Links: The Role of Capital Owning and Self-Interest among Board Members in the High-Tech Industry.

 Leader unethical pro-organizational behavior: an implicit encouragement of unethical behavior and development of team unethical climate.

Peer review rings: Manipulated peer reviews and scams.

Pursuit of peace by business leaders: Frontiers of international relations.

The impact of strategic planning best practices on the planning-performance relationship.

The Indelible Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic - How do Leaders and Managers deal with this new reality?

Time for Thymol - Let’s Flush out the Parasites in Peer-Review.

We need to find out where small businesses find information first.

Wang, Yefeng

Family firm, financial constraint, and environmental preparedness: An international study.

Substitutes or complements? Use of trade credit and bank credit by family SMEs.

Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health

Loushine, Todd

Aircrew Members' Perceived Risk to Cancer and Other Adverse Health Conditions from Cosmic Radiation Exposure.

Does OSHA's Injury Tracking Application Data Provide Reliable Representation of U.S. Company Injury and Illness Metrics?

Study of a safer and efficient lifting design for moving exercise equipment.

Nakayama, Shoji

 Verification of IH Documents Created by AI

Olson, John

 Verification of IH Documents Created by AI 

Vosburgh, Donna

 Verification of IH Documents Created by AI

 Wu, Hongyue

A measurement model of trust in construction projects.

Exploring Driving Style Variations When Driving in Work Zone: A Driving Simulation Study.

College of Education & Professional Studies

Counselor Education

Martin, Gina

Eye movements and emotions: Efficacy of novel eye-movement protocol Tholáge.

Communication Sciences & Disorders

Busch, Cody

Hybrid tutorials and targeted follow-up as key elements of a student advice system that is realistic about faculty workload.

Analysis of eportfolio data to inform curriculum review and redesign.

Gilbertson, Lynn

Hybrid tutorials and targeted follow-up as key elements of a student advice system that is realistic about faculty workload.

Analysis of eportfolio data to inform curriculum review and redesign.

Curriculum & Instruction

Becker, Lori

Preparing teacher candidates for inclusive practice: A program overview. 

Fu, Yao

Examining AI use in educational contexts: A scoping meta-review and bibliometric analysis.

Navigating the ethical terrain of AI in education: A systematic review on framing responsible human-centered AI practices.

Heimer, Lucy

Preparing teacher candidates for inclusive practice: A program overview. 

Kartal, Ozgul

Analysis of Imprecise Language in University Students’ Trigonometry Solutions.

Building mathematical micro-identities through supporting productive struggle.

Linzmeier, Kristen

Preparing teacher candidates for inclusive practice: A program overview. 

Roseland, Denise

Designing & Delivering High Quality Online Learning.

Institutional instability: friend or foe for advancing gender equity in STEM?

Shining a Light on Data That is Ignored: How One Higher Ed Institution is Taking on Toxic Institutional Climate to Elevate Belongingness in STEM.

Saeger, Karla

Designing & Delivering High Quality Online Learning.

Soria-Martinez, Veronica

You Are Here: Interactive Public Art Intervention and Sound Design.

You Are Here: Urban sound walks to rediscover our places.

New Ways of Making in the Face of Uncertainty. Approaching Difficult Conversations through Media Arts.

Educational Foundations

Blair, Elizabeth

Teachers survive together: Teacher collegial relationships and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Kinesiology

Sur, Myung Ha (Mason)

Measurement of basic psychological needs for physical activity participation for college students with intellectual disabilities: A validation study.

Special Education

Rahn, Naomi

Preparing teacher candidates for inclusive practice: A program overview. 

Tillett, Anne

Preparing teacher candidates for inclusive practice: A program overview. 

Winchell, Brooke

Preparing teacher candidates for inclusive practice: A program overview. 

 

College of Integrated Studies

Brosky, Ken

Bad River.

Jensen, Kelly

Gradations of Self-Reflexivity: Reckoning with Racial Privilege in Progressive White Parents’ School Choice Discourse.

Moisiadis, Anna

Garden Findings 1 [artwork].

Garden Findings 2 [artwork].

Garden Findings 3 [artwork].

Rees, Trevor

Motion Caption Performer, Stunt Performer, Stunt Coordinator, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

College of Letters & Sciences

Biology

Cormier, Nathaly

SMA20/PMIS2 is a Rapidly Evolving Sperm Membrane Alloantigen with Possible Species-Divergent Function in Fertilization. 

Proteomic Characterization of Functional Amyloid Structures in the Acrosome of Mammalian Spermatozoa.

SMA20/PMIS2 is a Rapidly Evolving Sperm Membrane Alloantigen with Possible Species-Divergent Function in Fertilization.

Curran, Kristen

Time of day dependent changes in embryonic heart rate are detectable after maturation of rhythmic circadian gene expression in the eye, but before the heart in Xenopus laevis tadpoles cultured in LD.

O’Neill, Brian

How African ungulates respond to tourist vehicles in Kruger National Park.

Tadpole shrimp (Branchiopoda: Notostraca: Triospidae: Triops spp.) are seemingly unaffected by chronic exposure to chlortetracycline at ecologically relevant concentrations.

Tippery, Nicholas

Assessing the genetic composition of invasive knotweeds (Reynoutria; Polygonaceae) using data from the first intron and second exon of the nuclear LEAFY gene. 

Native and invaded-range surveys provide mixed support for enemy-release of Nymphoides peltata in the invaded range.

Toward a comprehensive phylogeny of North American bladderworts (Utricularia, Lentibulariaceae). 

Potamogeton wrightii (Potamogetonaceae) naturalized in Ohio, U.S.A. 

Northern hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata subsp. lithuanica): discovery and establishment outside the Connecticut River.

Systematics and biogeography of Bacopa (Plantaginaceae).

Chemistry

Veldkamp, Christopher

Chemokine Receptor N-Terminus Charge Dictates Reliance on Post-Translational Modifications for Effective Ligand Capture and Following Boosting by Defense Peptides.

History

Coons, Jim

​​’A child who implores your clemency from his mother’s womb’: emotion, inclusion, and the unicorn Condé child (1656).

Damian, Michelle

Memory and Whaling: Commemorations of Whale Deaths in Early Modern Japan.

Literature, Writing, & Film

Bennett, Michael

Between the Lines: A Philosophy of Theatre.

Editor, The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature.

Mathematics

Chen, Xueqing

A generalized quantum cluster algebra of Kronecker type.

On a conjecture on transposed Poisson n-Lie algebras.

Some properties of generalized cluster algebras of geometric type.

Nam, Ki-Bong

Enhancing RSA with Random Insertion Method: A New Approach to Secure Cryptography.

Editor, International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics.

Advisory Editor, Journal of Algebra and Applied Mathematics.

Philosophy & Religious Studies

Gatyas, Max

How We Share Emotions.

Mawani, Adil

Reshaping the Biographical Image of Muḥammad: a Translation of Sayyid Aḥmad Ḳhān’s Jilāʾ ul-Qulūb bi-Żikr il-Maḥbūb (1842).

Reinhart, David

Precarity and Disruption

Politics, Government & Law

Adogamhe, Paul G.

Nigeria in the Region and the World: Diplomatic Challenges in a Multipolar World

Psychology

Flack, Caleb

Examining the parent-teacher connection, parenting self-efficacy, and child behavior during the transition to early elementary school.

World Languages & Cultures

de Gregorio, Alicia

Enfermedad, vivienda e higiene en el Madrid de La horda de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.

La muerte en La barraca de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.

El nombre de las cosas.

“Adiós mi amor”: La fuerza de la palabra en dos cuentos de Nayla Chehade.

La diversidad de Madrid en La horda de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez: paralelos con la pintura realista y naturalista de fines del siglo XIX y principios del XX.

Melero, Pilar

Translator, “Rise”, translation of the poem “Surge” by Sara Estela Ram