Denton Details, 06-06-18

06/05/18
  • Need a putter or extra golf balls? The TWU Golf Course Club House will open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, June 12 for one last clearance sale. Available merchandise will include clubs, golf balls, gloves, flags and more. All items will be discounted, and all must go. Golf carts, tractors and other maintenance equipment will not be available for purchase. Questions? Contact Karrie Fletcher at x2933.
  • Allie King and Jeremy King with VALIC Financial Advisors will host three Lunch & Learn sessions Wednesday, June 27. The 45-minute sessions will be at 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. in ACT 501. Sessions will cover how Social Security benefits affect retirement; strategies to maximize your benefits; and ideas for setting up retirement income. Registration is required.
  • Texas Woman’s University, home of the official archive of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP, got a shout out in a May 30 story about Women in Aviation International honoring the WASP over the Memorial Day weekend. The story also appeared in the June 2 General Aviation News.
  • Amanda Hurlbut (teacher education) published “Checking for Understanding” in June/July issue of The Teaching Professor.
  • Luis E. Espinoza (health studies) published “Formal and parental sex education of Hispanic young women by nativity status” in the May 27 issue of Sex Education. In the article, Espinoza sought to examine whether there were differences in formal sex education and parental sex education for Hispanic women aged 18-24.
  • Celia Lo (sociology) has co-authored four papers recently accepted for publication, including: “Risk and protective factors in adult-onset drinking: Multiple disadvantage model” with Tyrone C. Cheng, forthcoming in the International Journal of Health, Wellness and Society; “Racial/Ethnic Differences in HIV Testing: An application of the Health Services Utilization Model” with Cheng and Ratonia Runnels (social work), forthcoming in Sage Open Medicine; and “Client Improvement and Working Alliance: Case-Manager Factors” and “Explaining Restrictive TANF Policies: Group Threat Hypothesis and State Economy Conditions,” both with Cheng and in press in the Journal of Social Service Research.
  • TWU sociology represented at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry May 17-19 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For the third consecutive year, the department hosted a panel on college as method, establishing itself as a leader in this area. Associate professor Jessica Gullion presented her paper, “Clear Creek: Dance as Place/Knowing,” in a session on feminist embodiment in research practice. Graduate teaching assistants presenting included Erin Ellis with an autoethnography, “Pregnancy and Giving Birth in the Ivory Tower;” Jessica Williams and Cody Jackson (English, speech and foreign language), “Refocusing the Discussion on Invisible Illnesses;” Victor Palacios and LaWanna Fant, “Glitterbomb: Challenging Society’s Notions of Ideal Beauty;” and Allison Ray presenting a poster, “Distance Learning: Exploring Challenges, Innovations and Strategies for Online Statistical Education in the Literature (2007-2017).”
  • Ellina Grigorieva (mathematics) was an invited speaker at the international conference on Systems Analysis: Modeling and Control, dedicated to the memory of academician Arkadii Kryazhimskii, May 31-June 1 at Steklov Mathematics Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. She presented "Optimal Strategies of the Psoriasis Treatment by Suppressing the Interactions between T-Lymphocytes, Kerotinocytes and Dendritic Cells" on June 1. The relevant paper is published in the Conference Proceedings MAX Press, Springer.