In leading journals and conferences, Roanoke College faculty — along with alumni and students — are distinguishing themselves with their work. Here's a look at a few highlights:
Visiting Assistant Professor Alysse Baker (Communication Studies) was invited to present a paper at the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature Conference in June. Her topic will be: “Parasocial compensation or enrichment? Investigating the relationship between age, loneliness, parasocial relationships, and eudaimonic motivations through the lens of socioemotional selectivity theory.”
Assistant Professor Dan Nasrallah (Chemistry) co-authored an article, “Mechanistic Investigations into the Olefination of Oximes and Hydrazones Support Intermediate Ruthenium Nitrides,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Associate Professor Danielle Findley-van Nostrand (Psychology) and alumnus Ben Campbell ’22, who's now pursuing a master's degree at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, co-authored a new paper, “Goals for, insecurity in, and self-perceptions of peer status: short term longitudinal associations with relational aggression and prosocial behaviors in emerging adults." Their work was published in the journal Frontiers in Developmental Psychology.
Assistant Professor Fatima (Physics) and student Moayad Smaysem '25, a math and physics double major, were invited to present at the American Physical Society's Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, California. Their topic was: "Self-assembled Monolayers of Trimesic Acid on Graphite."
Assistant Professor Lauren Kennedy-Metz (Psychology) co-authored two papers that she was invited to present at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress in San Francisco and the Latin America Cardiovascular Surgery Conference in Buenos Aires, respectively. Her topics were: "Assessing intraoperative cognitive workload by leveraging deep learning networks" and “Stress and cognitive workload during cardiac surgery.” In June, she'll be presenting a third co-authored paper at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics in London. Her topic will be: “Continuous monitoring of perfusionists’ cognitive load and stress and patient oxygen delivery during cardiopulmonary bypass.”
Associate Professor and Assistant Vice President for Curriculum & Advising Leslie Anne Warden (Art History) was invited to present in Cairo at the Workshop on Provincial Towns in the 3rd and 2nd millennia [BC], sponsored by the Austrian Archaeological Institute, KU Leuven, and German Archaeological
Institute. Her topic was: “Investigating Settlement Growth and Change at Kom el-Hisn.” She also authored a paper, “Social Continuity and Change in the First Intermediate Period: Insights from Utilitarian Ceramics,” published in the Journal of Egyptian History.
Visiting Assistant Professor Zane Mullins (Economics) authored a paper, “The Role of Reputational Incentives in an International Currency Union: Greek Monetary Institutions in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods,” published in the Journal of Institutional Economics.