Office of Research and Sponsored Programs: Announcements

ABLE Program's GED Graduation Ceremony

Marywood University's Adult Basic Literacy Education (ABLE) program's GED graduation ceremony will take place Thursday, June 13th at 6:00 PM in the Latour Room, Nazareth Center.  the Marywood community is invited to attend.

Gemma Boyd, Clinical Psychology student, will make two presentations at the American Psychological Association's Convention, Honolulu, HI (August 2013). Poster Presentation of 'Examining How Ruminative Processes Relate to State and Trait Moods and Working Memory Abilities', sponsored by Edward J. Crawley, Ph.D. and Round Table Discussion of 'Novel Approaches to Improving Multiculturalism in Supervision', with co-presenter Janet L.Muse-Burke, Ph.D.

Suzanne A. Crockett, Psychology and Counseling student presented research at the Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, New York City (March 2013) titled 'Religiosity and Openness to Experience: Predicting Attitudes Towards Traditional and Nontraditional People' and at the Association for Psychological Sciences , Washington D.C. (May 2013), titled 'Religiosity and Openness to Experience on Attitudes Towards Gender Role Adherence'. Ms. Crockett's research is sponsored by Sr. Gail Cabral, Ph.D.

Colleen Siti, B.A., and Tracie Pasold, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Psychology & Counseling, presented research entitled, Northeastern Pennsylvania Region Pediatricians Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Eating Disorders at the 2013 Academy for Eating Disorder's International Conference held in Canada in May.  The purpose of this Institutional Review Board approved study is to assess pediatricians’ level of training, knowledge, comprehension of, attitudes toward, and ability to identify eating disorders as well as their treatment practices.

TecBridge Funds Four Marywood University Faculty

Congratulation to Deb Hokien, Ph.D. and Lisa Antoniacci, Ph.D., Science, Ahmed A. Gomaa, Ph. D., Business and Managerial Science, and Angela Hillman, Ph. D., Health and Physical Education on recent funding awarded from TecBridge.  Formerly know as GVTA/NPTI, TecBridge supports programs designed to help grow technology and biotechnology within northeastern Pennsylvania.  

Dr. Erkan Acar's Article Discusses Teacher Motivation

Congratulations are extended to Dr. Erkan Acar, Academic Advisor for International Students, on his recent publication, Theoretical Analysis of the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors for Teacher Motivation. Found in the Wulfenia Journal, Vol 20, No. 5; May 2013, Dr. Acar's paper investigates the different types of motivational factors that influence teacher performance and contribute to teacher motivation.

Dr. Joseph Cabrera's Research Included in Housing Policy Debate

New Urbanism and Selection Bias in the Formation of Social Capital, the work of Dr. Joseph F. Cabrera, Assistant Professor, Social Sciences may be found as part of the 2013 Housing Policy Debate, 23 (2), 376-394. The article examines the assertion that new urbanism can help facilitate social capital within communities.

Dr. Cabrera also presented "Measuring Sense of Community Using Social Network Structure" at the Sunbelt Networks Conference in Hamburg, Germany in May and wiill present "How Smoking Affects Individual and Community Level Social Networks" at the American Sociological Association Conference in New York in August! 

Pathways To Science Posts Undergraduate Summer Research Opportunities

Pathways to Science, a project of the Institute for Broadening Participation (IBP) supports the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, with an emphasis  on connecting underrepresented groups with STEM programs and resources.  Undergraduate summer research opportunities are listed within this site. 

The Journal of Student Research has just published its first issue for 2013.

If you are a student researcher aspiring to publish, you may submit your original research and review articles for consideration until July 31, 2013.  Faculty co-author or Advisor are required with submission..

2013 Annual Research Forums a Success

A total of 157 undergraduate and graduate students presented their reserach at the recent Annual Marywood University Research Forums. Check out the Undergraduate and Graduate abstracts