Denton Details, 06-12-19

  • TWU Athletics invites you to the TWU Athletics Pioneer Invitational Thursday, June 27, at the Golf Club at Champions Circle, 15801 Championship Pkwy, Fort Worth. Shotgun start is at 9 a.m. Cost is $100 per golfer, and a complimentary lunch is provided. Registration and more information is available through TWU Athletics.
  • Mahesh Raisinghani (business) was invited to serve on the Society for Information Management (SIM) Academic Council and contributed to the SIM Academic Workshop and the Academic-Practitioner Dialogue session at the Society for Information Management Connect Live, held May 15-17 in Orlando, Florida.
  • David Pan (business, adjunct) co-authored “Olympics Duality: Theories, Practices, and Challenges in Multi-Sport Event Preparation,” recently published by American Press. This is the only book that details how to prepare for a multi-sport event from a participating delegation’s perspective, using the U.S. Olympic Committee as a primary example.
  • Ilana Morgan (dance) contributed a chapter to the book, “Dance Education and Responsible Citizenship: Promoting Civic Engagement through Effective Dance Pedagogies.”
  • Celia Lo (sociology) co-authored “What the Group Threat Hypothesis Suggests about States’ Medicaid Spending,” to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
  • Philip Yang (sociology) and Jesse Patrick (sociology, adjunct) published “Heath Insurance Coverage Before and After the Affordable Care Act” in the June 10 issue of Sci magazine.
  • Laura Trujillo-Jenks (teacher education) co-wrote an article, “To Teach to the Test or Not,” published June 5 in Faculty Focus.
  • Elizabeth Neucere has joined TWU as the gallery curator for the Institute for Women’s Leadership’s upcoming digital history exhibit on the contributions and leadership legacy of Texas women in politics and public policy, which will be located in the Old Main Building. Prior to TWU, Neucere served as exhibits and collections manager at the Museum of the Coastal Bend.