Kathy Merlock Jackson Kathy Merlock Jackson and coauthor Carl H. Sederholm of Brigham Young University published an article titled "Sinister Surveillance: Threatened Youth in Disney's Watcher in the Woods and Something Wicked This Way Comes" in Disney Gothic: Dark Shadows in the House of the Mouse, edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.

Terry Lindvall's chapter "From Gothic to Gags: Disney's Comic Deconstruction of Death" appears in Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Jeffrey Weinstock's eerily edited volume of Disney Gothic: Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse.

Kevin Kittredge published an invited paper in Nanomaterials titled "Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles and Halogen Bonding Interactions Involving Fentanyl and Fentanyl Derivatives". 

Stephen Hock's essay "The Freedom of 'the Endland of the Convergence' or 'the Long Soft Life' in DeLillo's Zero K" was published as a chapter in Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis (Fourth Horseman Press).

President Scott D. Miller serves as executive editor for the President to President thought leadership series, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Chapter eight of the 2023-2024 series is available online now. In “Strategies for Creating a Business Plan for a Sustainable Future,” University of Holy Cross President Stanton F. McNeely III, Ed.D., examines the financial challenges many campuses are facing and offers strategies for overcoming them with a results-oriented plan. He highlights the need for adaptability, leveraging meaningful partnerships, online instruction, niche programs, auxiliary income, and more to ensure long-term success. President Miller's daily blog, Dialogue, can be found at prezscottmiller.blogspot.com.

Kathy Merlock Jackson published a chapter titled George and the Dinosaurs: George Lucas Contributions to The Land Before Time (1988) and Jurassic Park (1993) in Lucas: His Hollywood Legacy, edited by Richard Ravalli for the University Press of Kentucky.

As Co-Chair of the Film Comedy Division for the International Society of Humor Studies, Terry Lindvall hosted a Webinar on Animated Laughter, contributing his presentation on "Making Us Laugh: Exemplary Models and Mimetic Taxonomies of Laughter in Animated Films."

Eric Johnson and his research student John Wampler, presented "Examining the Cellular Expression of BURP domains in Transgenic Moss" at the Virginia Academy of Sciences meeting in Fredricksberg, VA.

Eric Johnson and his student Trinity Bowens presented Steps to characterizing the moss PpBURP5 gene in an Arabidopsis triple mutant at the Virginia Academy of Sciences meeting in Fredericksburg, VA.

Kathy Merlock Jackson participated on an online panel on Mythology, History, and Folklore in Disney for Con-Tinual, a platform devoted to fans of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Mysteries, Paranormal, and other topics.

Denise Wilkinson presented "Virtual TASS: Incorporating Reflections into Your Courses to Support Engagement" at the 34th Annual Teaching Academic Survival and Success Virtual Conference.

Travis Malone serves on the film development and creative development team for Motivate Pictures, an independent film company with offices in Austin, TX and Barcelona, Spain. The company hosted an industry gala for Austin area filmmakers and producers. The gala premiered current and upcoming film projects.

Sara Sewell presented a paper entitled "Emotional Dissimulation during the Holocaust: The Affective Lives of Jewish Girls and Women" at the workshop on Personal Documents and Ephemera as Sources in Interdisciplinary Holocaust Scholarship at Michigan State University. Sewell was awarded a travel grant from the Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel to participate.

April Christman and Benjamin Dobrin facilitated a training entitled, "Intervening with Suicidal Individuals: Impacts of Law Enforcement Experience, Sleep, and THC Consumption" with the Chesapeake Police Department's Crisis Negotiation Team and Peer Support Unit to enhance law enforcement response to community members experiencing suicidal crisis and officers needing mental health peer support.

Led by adjunct instructor Mitchell Pitts, student fundraising projects secured over $3,000 to support the Department's "Send a Kid to Camp" fund. It will assist Maui's Kipahulu Ohana in providing children's programs at the Kapahu Living Farm. Since its inception in 2003 this fund has raised over $102,000 to support the Ohana and YMCA of South Hampton Roads.

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