Faculty and Staff Accomplishments: Fall 2024
DEBORAH BALDIZAR, MFA, associate professor of art, exhibited her ceramic sculpture, “Introverts,” in the national juried exhibition “Storytellers” at Mudflat Studios in Somerville, Massachusetts.
STEVEN BLOOM, PH.D., professor emeritus of English, presented a virtual talkback in March, alongside playwright Ronan Noone and Professor Beth Wynstra of Babson College, about the Lyric Stage Company’s recent production of Noone’s THIRST.
HEIDI BURGIEL, PH.D., application administrator, was invited to lead a workshop, “Talking to Faculty about AI,” for the NorthEast Regional Computing Program event “Unlocking the Power of Generative AI in Higher Ed” at the College of the Holy Cross in November.
KEN CALHOUN, MFA, assistant provost, published a new short story, “All Laws in Limbo,” in the literary journal The Threepenny Review. The fabulist story was a component of an installation he created for the 2023 ART/Word exhibit at Lasell’s Wedeman Gallery.
CHARLOTTE FRAZIER, PH.D., associate professor of psychology, was appointed the new director of Lasell’s RoseMary B. Fuss Center for Research on Aging and Intergenerational Studies.
ETHAN GILSDORF, MFA, lecturer, appeared as a guest on WGBH’s “The Culture Show” to discuss the 50th anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons. His personal essay on D&D appeared in The Boston Globe’s Ideas section in July.
LISA GRANATA, MFA, lecturer, had her artwork featured this fall at the Attleboro Arts Museum’s exhibit “Here, I’ll Get That For You: Strokes of Kindness In Art, In Life.”
STACI HALT, MFA, lecturer, was named a 2024 Idyllwild Arts Summer Poetry Fellow. Her work is forthcoming in Rattle, december magazine, Southern Humanities Review, and Arnoldia, a magazine of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
ELIZABETH HARTMANN, PH.D. and AMY MAYNARD, ED.D., professors of education, successfully reinstated the Antigua Shoulder to Shoulder program that culminated in travel to Antigua and Barbuda with 12 Lasell undergraduates in May. The students and faculty taught and collaborated with educators and leaders at the country’s Ministry of Education, with a special needs assessment team, and in four public schools.
CRIS HAVERTY, PH.D., assistant vice president of workforce development and global engagement, created and launched a pilot Teacher Professional Learning Certificate Program in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) with professors ELIZABETH HARTMANN, PH.D. and AMY MAYNARD, ED.D. in partnership with Microsoft Ireland and W5 LIFE Northern Ireland.
JOSEPH JANOSKY, DR.PH., MS.C, PT, ATC, assistant professor of athletic training, co-authored the study “Assessment of Sex-Specific Associations Between Athletic Identity and Nutrition Habits in Competitive Youth Athletes” in Nutrients. He also served as a panelist in a National Athletic Trainers’ Association media briefing and was named to the board of directors of the CoachSafely Foundation.
MEG KEARNEY, M.A., founding director of the Solstice Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, published her sonnet “Heart Quartet” in the summer 2024 issue of Under a Warm Green Linden.
ASHMITA KHASNABISH, PH.D., lecturer, delivered “Tagore as a Hindu Mystic Writer: On Love and Sufism” at Oxford University’s Love in Mysticism Symposium. The paperback edition of her book Virtual Diaspora, Postcolonial Literature and Feminism, published by Routledge, came out in August.
JAMES WILLIAM LINCOLN G’12, PH.D., the Nancy Lawson Donahue ’49 Professor of Ethics, presented “Attending to the Ethical Costs of Philosophical Spaces” and served as a plenary panel member for “Amplifying Philosophy” at the 2024 American Association of Philosophy Teachers Conference. He also received a 2024 professional development grant for college teaching from the Council of Independent Colleges.
MARGO LEMIEUX, MFA, professor emerita, won a Juror’s Award for her etching of Plummer House called “Twilight Time” at the Attleboro Arts Museum’s national juried show “Morning, Noon, Night.” She also was invited to exhibit three artist books at the “Pandora’s Book?” exhibit at the Mark Twain Library in Redding, Connecticut.
CLAUDIA RINALDI, PH.D., chair of the undergraduate education program, presented at the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education project director’s meeting in August on grant-funded cross-university personnel preparation programs in special education and autism studies.
EMILY STANLEY, M.A., executive director of admission, presented at the 80th annual National Association for College Admission Counseling conference in Los Angeles in September. The presentation included a case study on Lasell’s Expedited and Personalized (LEAP) application, which prioritizes interviews and campus tours in acknowledgement of a shift in higher education enrollment patterns.
JESSE TAURIAC, PH.D., associate vice president and chief diversity officer, coorganized the Massachusetts Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Education and Advocacy Day in partnership with the MGH Institute of Health Professions and the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts (AICU Mass).
ANH TRAN, PH.D., the Joan Weiler Arnow Professor of Economics and Management, delivered the 2024 Arnow Lecture, “Adam Smith and Economic Freedom,” to the Lasell community. Tran also served as a peer reviewer for the International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy.
NANCY WALDRON, PH.D., assistant provost and professor of business, was named to the advisory board of CyberTrust Massachusetts, a nonprofit committed to building opportunity and security through a consortium of statewide businesses and colleges.
KELLIE WALLACE, PH.D., CAGS, associate professor of criminal justice and queer initiatives facilitator, co-led two national workshops for the 61st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice (ACJS) in Chicago. Over the summer, she organized and chaired three panels at FAN EXPO Boston and participated in two panels and cohosted a podcast at FAN EXPO Chicago.
BRIAN WARDYGA, ED.D., professor of communication and general manager of WLAS, won two awards in the spring. His “Biscuits and Tea” promo won the 2024 Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts’ Best-of competition for audio promo/PSA/commercial. The Video Games Textbook earned a 2024 Textbook & Academic Authors Association Textbook Excellence “Texty” award.
ZANE ZHENG, PH.D., professor of psychology, was awarded two professional society grants: one in teaching and public understanding of psychological science from the Association for Psychological Science, and one for teaching development from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
LINLI ZHOU, PH.D., institutional research analyst, was awarded the Association for Institutional Research’s inaugural Rising Star award. The award recognizes emerging leaders in institutional research for their potential to contribute to the field and is awarded to only one professional per year.
JANICE BARRETT, TESSA LEROUX, and JOANN MONTEPARE, who retired at the end of the 2023–24 academic year, were honored by the Lasell community in May for their contributions to the University.