Publications + Presentations

The Dittrick Museum of Medical History will host a book launch event for Associate Professor of English T. Kenny Fountain's new book, Rhetoric in the Flesh, a study of cadaver labs and medical ways of seeing. The event will take place on Thursday, Jan. 29, in the Allen Memorial Medical Library. At ...

In November, SAGES teaching fellow Benjamin Sperry traveled to San Francisco to be a panelist at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology. In his presentation, Sperry discussed a SAGES seminar he developed on the theme of race and incarceration. The course involves two groups of s...

Erik Jensen, the Coleman P. Burke Professor of Law, recently published “Student Athletes Revisited” in the fall 2014 edition of Journal of Taxation of Investments. In addition, he had four entries in the second edition of The Heritage Guide to the Constitution: “Article I, Section 2, Clause 3—Thre...

Jessie Hill, professor of law, associate dean for faculty development and research, and Laura B. Chisolm Distinguished Research Scholar, recently gave a number of presentations. Recent talks include: “The Affordable Care Act and the Politics of Reproductive Health Care” at The ACA and Beyond: The...

LaShanda Korley, the Climo Associate Professor and Kavli Fellow in the Case School of Engineering, traveled to Japan this week as a planning group member for the 14th Japanese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium, sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Japan Society for the ...

The new book Nurses Making Policy: From Bedside to Boardroom (Springer Publishing, 2014) implores nurses to speak up and be heard, from the hospital corridors to the floors of Congress. Be the voice for change, advised Rebecca M. Patton, the past two-term president of the American Nurses Associatio...

Paul Giannelli, the Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W. Weatherhead Professor in the School of Law and Distinguished University Professor, recently gave a report on pretrial discovery to the National Commission on Forensic Science at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. In additi...

Praeger Publishers accepted a book manuscript by Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, titled Aging with A Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow. In addition, she presented at three confere...

Women in STEM Careers: International Perspectives on Increasing Workforce Participation, Advancement and Leadership, co-edited by Diana Bilimoria, KeyBank Professor and professor and chair of organizational behavior at Weatherhead School of Management, and Linley Lord, associate professor and direct...

“Hand Made,” an exhibit of work by Christopher Pekoc, part-time lecturer of art education, will be on display at the Akron Art Museum through April 26. There will be a free, public exhibition opening reception Sunday, Nov. 23, at 2 p.m. at the museum. While photographs—his own and from magazines—ar...