December 2, 2018
ARCHITECTURE – The Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing team members delivered eight presentations, a poster presentation and a preconference workshop at the Healthcare Design Conference held Nov. 10-13 in Phoenix. They also staffed a booth where they continued a research study using virtual reality. Presentations included “Testing and Implementing Human-Centered Design Ideas Throughout […]
November 7, 2018
ENGLISH – Susanna Ashton attended the conference “Frederick Douglass Across and Against Times, Places, and Disciplines,” which was hosted by the Université Paris Diderot, the Foundation des États-Unis, the University of Chicago Center in Paris and the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 from Oct. 11-13 in Paris. She presented research in a paper “Black Agitator John Andrew […]
October 8, 2018
ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph, David Allison, Deborah Wingler, doctoral student Herminia Machry and other researchers at the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing published three new manuscripts. “Minor Flow Disruptions, Traffic-Related Factors and Their Effect on Major Flow Disruptions in the Operating Room” was published as an EPUB in BMJ Quality & Safety. “An Observational Study of […]
September 9, 2018
ARCHITECTURE – The 50th anniversary celebration of the Architecture + Health Program was held Aug. 23-25. The program is nationally and internationally recognized as one of the oldest and most comprehensive programs of its kind. The 2018 South Atlantic Regional Conference for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health was held in conjunction with […]
August 5, 2018
ARCHITECTURE – The Center for Health Facilities Design & Testing team of Sara Bayramzadeh, Anjali Joseph, David Allison, Jonas Shultz and James Abernathy published a new paper in Applied Ergonomics, “Using an Integrative Mock-Up Simulation Approach for Evidence-Based Evaluation of Operating Room Design Prototypes.” Bayramzadeh delivered a presentation at the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA […]
May 31, 2018
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Richard Amesbury gave a lecture on “Populist Religion as a Secular Phenomenon” May 25 at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. ENGLISH – Katalin Beck presented “How ESP Pedagogy in Virtual Online Collaboration Contributes to the Authenticity of the Learning Process – A Case Study” May 12 at the International GlobELT Conference in Belgrade, Serbia. […]
May 5, 2018
HISTORY – Civil War History 64 (March 2018), pp. 56-91 featured Vernon Burton in a roundtable discussion of Nate Parker’s controversial 2016 film, “The Birth of a Nation.” Burton critiqued the filmmaker’s depiction of slavery and insurrection regarding Nat Turner’s 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia. On April 7, Burton was featured in the Great Lectures […]
April 8, 2018
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Richard Amesbury published “Political Theology between Reason and Will: Law, Decision, and the Self” in the Journal of Law, Religion and State and “Does Jurisprudence Require a Method to Be Rational?” in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Amesbury also signed a contract with Bloomsbury for an edited volume to be titled “Ethics After Wittgenstein.” He contributed to “Circumscribing the […]
March 6, 2018
ART – Daniel Bare’s solo exhibition “Fused” opened at the Jane Hartsook Gallery of Greenwich House Pottery in New York City on Feb. 23 and will close with an artist talk March 23. A critique on the wastefulness of American consumerism, Bare’s reglazed and fired sculptures are formed with unwanted pottery from thrift stores, landfills and abandoned kilns. The gallery […]
February 5, 2018
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Richard Amesbury participated in a policy dialogue on “The New Populism, the Old Human Rights and the Global Order” at the European University Institute School of Transnational Governance in Florence, Italy, Jan. 9-11. His co-authored piece “Online Resource for Religion and the Law” was published in Religious Studies Review. Amesbury also published two co-authored […]
