{"id":13626,"date":"2024-05-15T09:56:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T13:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/?p=13626"},"modified":"2024-05-29T08:40:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T12:40:28","slug":"spring-2024-faculty-publications-conferences-and-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/news\/2024\/05\/15\/spring-2024-faculty-publications-conferences-and-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2024 Faculty Publications, Conferences, and Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harrington faculty members have continued to conduct cutting-edge research that they have published, presented, and received awards for this semester. Here are some of the highlights from their work:<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13605 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/20210420_Salerno_BettyThayerCotter-0002-1-scaled-e1713543471115-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/20210420_Salerno_BettyThayerCotter-0002-1-scaled-e1713543471115-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/20210420_Salerno_BettyThayerCotter-0002-1-scaled-e1713543471115-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/20210420_Salerno_BettyThayerCotter-0002-1-scaled-e1713543471115-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/20210420_Salerno_BettyThayerCotter-0002-1-scaled-e1713543471115-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/20210420_Salerno_BettyThayerCotter-0002-1-scaled-e1713543471115-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/20210420_Salerno_BettyThayerCotter-0002-1-scaled-e1713543471115-364x364.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/20210420_Salerno_BettyThayerCotter-0002-1-scaled-e1713543471115-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/20210420_Salerno_BettyThayerCotter-0002-1-scaled-e1713543471115-1000x1001.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/20210420_Salerno_BettyThayerCotter-0002-1-scaled-e1713543471115-1280x1281.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/20210420_Salerno_BettyThayerCotter-0002-1-scaled-e1713543471115.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/meet\/betty-cotter\/\"><b>Betty J. Cotter<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, lecturer of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/academics\/journalism-b-a\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">journalism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, published two creative works this year, &#8220;The Red Notebook&#8221; and &#8220;Mrs. Dinsmore. &#8220;The Red Notebook&#8221; is a creative nonfiction story about family heritage and the characters in her family tree. &#8220;Mrs. Dinsmore&#8221; is a short story based on the true story of Bertha Dinsmore, who died in the Hurricane of 1938 at Misquamicut Beach and was listed as &#8220;Mrs. Dnsmore&#8221; in newspaper accounts, living on as a typo, &#8220;a woman without an &#8216;i&#8217;.&#8221; She is mentioned in Cotter&#8217;s mother&#8217;s hurricane diary of that year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Creative Work:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Cotter, Betty J.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8220;The Red Notebook.&#8221; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vincent Brothers Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, issue 25, forthcoming 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Cotter, Betty J.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8220;Mrs. Dinsmore.&#8221; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wild Roof Journal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, issue 26, forthcoming June 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8577 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/Emily-Diamond-v8-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/meet\/emily-diamond\/\"><b>Emily Diamond<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, assistant professor of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/academics\/communication-studies-b-a\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">communication studies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and marine affairs, published an article, gave two presentations, and received a grant from the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank this spring. Her article &#8220;Conservative conservationists: Reconciling conflicting identities to inform climate change policy preferences&#8221; features a qualitative case study of a population of politically conservative environmentalists (birders) and documents how they reconcile potential identity conflicts to form their attitudes and policy preferences around climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diamond presented her paper &#8220;Framing the Wind: Media Coverage of Offshore Wind in the Northeastern U.S. &#8220;at the Social Coast Forum. This paper presents a media content analysis of offshore wind media coverage in the northeastern United States, identifying key trends in framing and sources. She also presented at the Rural Voter Workshop in Waterville, Maine, where she presented a quantitative analysis of a new survey of rural voters in the United States and how their rural identities inform specific perspectives on environmental issues and natural resource conservation.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The grant she received from Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank as a co-PI will support stakeholder engagement activities with coastal stakeholders in the town of Charlestown, Rhode Island. Research and data collection will evaluate perceptions of repairs to the Charlestown Breachway and inform messaging and engagement strategies over two years.<\/p>\n<p><b>Publications:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Diamond, Emily P.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8220;Conservative conservationists: reconciling conflicting identities to inform climate change policy preferences.&#8221; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politics, Groups, and Identities<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, vol. 12, no. 2, 2024, pp. 320-337.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Presentations:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Diamond, Emily<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Nikol Damato, David Bidwell, Tiffany Smythe. \u201cFraming the wind: Media coverage of offshore wind in the Northeastern U.S.\u201d Social Coast Forum, February 14, 2024, Charleston, South Carolina.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Diamond, Emily<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cIs there a \u201crural environmental identity\u201d? Characterizing differences between rural and urban perspectives on environmentalism and environmental policy.\u201d Rural Voter Workshop, March 8, 2024, Waterville, Maine.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Grants:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank, $203,085. &#8220;Engineering, Design, Permitting, and Community Outreach for the Charlestown Breachway and Adjacent Barrier Island Complex Restoration.&#8221; Co-PI with Steve McCandless (PI).&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">University of Rhode Island Committee for Research and Creative Activities, $10,000. \u201cEnvironmental Leadership: How Do Moral Frames and Rhetoric Interact to Foster Pro-Environmental Behavior.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7267 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/bob-herzog-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Herzog\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/bob-herzog-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/bob-herzog-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/bob-herzog-364x364.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/bob-herzog.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/meet\/bob-herzog\/\"><b>Bob Herzog<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, part-time faculty of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/academics\/sports-media-and-communication\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sports media and communication<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, published an article in Newsday in May that celebrated the 50th anniversary of Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth&#8217;s career home run record in 1974 amidst death threats and racist taunts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Publications:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Herzog, Bob<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. &#8220;Hank Aaron stamped his legacy 50 years ago with home run No. 715,&#8221; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Newsday<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, May 27, 2024, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/sports\/baseball\/hank-aaron-715-home-runs-50th-anniversary-kksff8vi?fbclid=IwAR0SnkXXvU1bJ7Wgs0wKmG7WZmfujqu1_if8ObPBMT-pOiBFxNRZP4lJmfc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/sports\/baseball\/hank-aaron-715-home-runs-50th-anniversary<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7702 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/madison-jones-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Madison Jones\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/madison-jones-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/madison-jones-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/madison-jones-364x364.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/madison-jones.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/meet\/madison-jones\/\"><b>Madison Jones<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, assistant professor of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/academics\/writing-b-a\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">professional and public writing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and natural resource science, has a number of publications and creative works published or forthcoming in the next two months, ranging from poems to an edited collection. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rhetorical Ecologies<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, expected to be published in July, is an edited collection that Jones is one of the editors of. He has published two articles in online venues, and one has been published in print. Three of his poems were reprinted in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Poets for Science<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, in addition to two other poems in other venues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jones was awarded the URI Division of Research and Economic Development&#8217;s Early Career Faculty Research and Scholarship Excellence Award in Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities for his contributions to research at URI. He has also received a proposal development grant from URI&#8217;s Office of Research Development with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/meet\/amelia-moore\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Professor Amelia Moore<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, gender and women&#8217;s studies and marine affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Publications:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dobrin, Sidney I. and <\/span><b>Madison Jones<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, editors. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rhetorical Ecologies<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. National Council of Teachers of English Press (CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric), expected July 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Heilig, Leah, Ally Overbay, <\/span><b>Madison Jones<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and Taylor Roberts. \u201cAugmenting for Accessible Environments: Layering Deep Mapping, Deep Accessibility, and Community Literacy.&#8221; Communication Design Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 1., forthcoming June 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Jones, Madison<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. &#8220;Writing Ecotones: Creative-Critical Inquiry in the Middle Voice.&#8221; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Writers: Craft and Context<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, vol. 4, no. 2, forthcoming May 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Jones, Madison<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. &#8220;The Energy of Place in Florida Springs Activism.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by Lisa Philips, Julie Collins Bates and Sarah Warren-Riley, Ohio State University Press, 2024, pp. 128-144. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/directory.doabooks.org\/handle\/20.500.12854\/134349\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/directory.doabooks.org\/handle\/20.500.12854\/134349<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Creative Work:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Jones, Madison<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cGeologists reject the Anthropocene.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Sciku Project<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, forthcoming June 2024, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thescikuproject.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/thescikuproject.com\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Jones, Madison<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cBlackberry\u201d Reprinted in<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Poets for Science<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Ed. Jane Hirshfield, January 2024. Originally Published in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michigan Quarterly Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Fall 2017 vol. 56, no. 4, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/poetsforscience.org\/blackberry\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/poetsforscience.org\/blackberry\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Jones, Madison<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cSunfall with Bat House.\u201d Reprinted in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Poets for Science<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Ed. Jane Hirshfield, January 2024. Originally published in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">North American Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Winter 2019, vol. 304, no. 1, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/poetsforscience.org\/sunfall-with-bat-house\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/poetsforscience.org\/sunfall-with-bat-house\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Jones, Madison.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cSandhill Cranes\u201d Reprinted in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Poets for Science<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Jane Hirshfield, editor, January 2024. Originally Published in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southern Poetry Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Fall 2020 vol. 58, no .1, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/poetsforscience.org\/sandhill-cranes\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/poetsforscience.org\/sandhill-cranes\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Awards:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2024 University of Rhode Island Early Career Faculty Research and Scholarship Excellence Award in Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities. URI Division of Research and Economic Development.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Grants:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Office of Research Development, University of Rhode Island, $20,000. Phase II: &#8220;Development for Augmenting Manissean Public Memory, Sense of Place, and Belonging on Block Island.&#8221; Proposal Development Grants. PI with Amelia Moore.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8753 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/joon-v1-square-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Joon Kim\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/meet\/joon-kim\/\"><b>Joon Kim<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, assistant professor of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/academics\/communication-studies-b-a\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">communication studies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/academics\/public-relations-b-a\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">public relations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, has published one article, delivered three presentations, and received a grant for research since January. His publication, &#8220;The Role of Corporate Social Advocacy Forms in Shaping Young Adults&#8217; Responses,&#8221; seeks to&nbsp; understand whether depicting nonpolitical or political behaviors in CSA messages increases individuals\u2019 positive behavioral intentions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kim presented his research at the International Public Relations Research Conference and twice at the American Academy of Advertising Annual Conference in March. He has also received a $10,000 grant from The Arthur W. Page Center for a project with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/meet\/ammina-kothari\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Professor Ammina Kothari<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/academics\/journalism-b-a\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">journalism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/meet\/bret-werner-93\/\">Bret Werner<\/a> of MikeWorldWide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Publications:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Kim, J. K.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Moon, W-K., &amp; Lee, J. &#8220;The Role of Corporate Social Advocacy Forms in Shaping Young Adults&#8217; Responses.&#8221; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Corporate Communications: An International Journal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,&nbsp; 2024. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/CCIJ-11-2023-0151\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/CCIJ-11-2023-0151<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Presentations:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Kim, J.K.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &amp; Overton, H. &#8220;An Extended Theory of Planned Behavior Model to Predict Corporate Social Advocacy Support.&#8221; International Public Relations Research Conference (IPRRC), March 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Kim, J.K.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Moon, W-K., &amp; Lee, J. &#8220;Corporate Social Advocacy or Corporate Political Activity? The Role of Brand Actions in Consumer Response to Corporate Social Advocacy&#8221;. American Academy of Advertising (AAA) Annual Conference, March 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moon, W.K., Wei, X., Overton, H., &amp; <\/span><b>Kim, J.K. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Between Innovation and Caution: How Risk Perception Shapes Consumers&#8217; AI Product Decisions.&#8221; American Academy of Advertising (AAA) Annual Conference, March 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Grants:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Arthur W. Page Center, $10,000. &#8220;Drivers and Barriers of Artificial Intelligence Technology Adoption in Public Relations: Exploration of Practitioners and Client Perceptions of Ethical Use of AI.&#8221; Co-PI with Ammina Kothari and Bret Werner.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13428 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/Ammina-sq-lores-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/Ammina-sq-lores-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/Ammina-sq-lores-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/Ammina-sq-lores-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/Ammina-sq-lores-364x364.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/Ammina-sq-lores-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/Ammina-sq-lores.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/meet\/ammina-kothari\/\"><b>Ammina Kothari<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, director of the Harrington School of Communication and Media and professor of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/academics\/journalism-b-a\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">journalism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, was an invited speaker at Harvard University&#8217;s Center for the Study of African Societies and Economies at the Journalism and the Politics of African Suffering Conference in April. &#8221; She has also received a $10,000 grant from The Arthur W. Page Center for a project with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/meet\/joon-kim\/\">Professor Joon Kim<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/academics\/communication-studies-b-a\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">communication studies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/academics\/public-relations-b-a\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> public relations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and Bret Werner of MikeWorldWide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Presentations:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Kothari, Ammina<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. &#8220;Journalism and the Politics of Narrating African Suffering.&#8221; Center for the Study of African Societies and Economies, April 25, 2024, Harvard University.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Grants:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Arthur W. Page Center, $10,000. &#8220;Drivers and Barriers of Artificial Intelligence Technology Adoption in Public Relations: Exploration of Practitioners and Client Perceptions of Ethical Use of AI.&#8221; Co-PI with Joon Kim and Bret Werner.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8094 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/norbert-v2-cropped-copy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Norbert Mundorf\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p data-wp-editing=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/meet\/norbert-mundorf\/\"><b>Norbert Mundorf<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, professor and department chair of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/academics\/communication-studies-b-a\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">communication studies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, received the 2024 COIL\/Virtual Education Curriculum Development Award to develop International online activities to raise intercultural awareness and sensitivity and create awareness of social and political topics from the URI Global Initiatives Office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Awards:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2024 COIL\/Virtual Education Curriculum Development Award. URI Global Initiatives Office.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11606 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/HSCM-Head-Shot-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/HSCM-Head-Shot-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/HSCM-Head-Shot-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/HSCM-Head-Shot-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/HSCM-Head-Shot-1-364x364.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/HSCM-Head-Shot-1-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/HSCM-Head-Shot-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/meet\/stephanie-west-puckett\/\"><b>Stephanie West-Puckett<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, assistant professor of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/academics\/writing-b-a\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">professional and public writing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and director of first-year writing, received multiple awards this year and delivered the keynote address at the University of New Hampshire&#8217;s Writing Across the Curriculum Annual Lecture.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">West-Puckett <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">received three awards for her 2023 co-authored monograph, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, at the 2024 Conference on College Composition and Communication. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Failing Sideways<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is an innovative and fresh approach to assessment that intersects writing studies, educational measurement, and queer rhetorics. While valuing and representing the research, theory, and practice of assessment, authors Stephanie West-Puckett, Nicole I. Caswell, and William P. Banks demonstrate the ways that students, teachers, and other interested parties can find joy and justice in the work of assessment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She has also received a Dean\u2019s Excellence Award in the category of Research from the URI College of Arts and Sciences for the 23-24 academic year. West-Puckett&#8217;s scholarship offers new theories and practices for teaching and assessing writing and has made a significant contribution to the field of Writing Studies.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her keynote, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">titled &#8220;Gaming Assessment: Reclaiming Equity and Fairness in Classroom Evaluation,&#8221; shared the ground-breaking assessment framework developed in her co-authored book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Failing Sideways: Queer Approaches to Writing Assessment.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Dr.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">West-Puckett also demonstrated classroom activities for faculty across the disciplines that can more fully represent the whole student writer and parts of the writing construct that are obscured by traditional assessment practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Presentations:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>West-Puckett, Stephanie<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. &#8220;Gaming Assessment: Reclaiming Equity and Fairness in Classroom Evaluation.&#8221; Writing Across the Curriculum Annual Lecture, April 16, 2024, University of New Hampshire. Keynote address.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Awards:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2024 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship\u2019s Book Award for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Utah State University Press, 2023. Conference on College Composition and Communication.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2024 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award, Honorable Mention for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Utah State University Press, 2023. Conference on College Composition and Communication.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2024 CCCC Outstanding Book Award, Honorable Mention in the Monograph category for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Utah State University Press, 2023. Conference on College Composition and Communication.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2024 Arts and Sciences Dean&#8217;s Excellence Award Early Career Faculty Research Award in Research. URI College of Arts and Sciences.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11136 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/Justin_Wyatt-4-scaled-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Wyatt\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/meet\/justin-wyatt\/\"><b>Justin Wyatt<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, associate professor of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/academics\/communication-studies-b-a\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">communication studies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/academics\/journalism-b-a\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">journalism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/academics\/film-media-b-a\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">film\/media<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, published his book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Creating the Viewer: Market Research &amp; the Evolving Media Ecosystem <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in April 2024. 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