Research and Honors, May 17, 2022 – News

Honors
The script GOOD FENCES by Joe Amato and Kass Fleisher, ENG, was honored as a quarterfinalist in Francis Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition.

Christopher Breu, ENG, has been appointed co-editor of the Cambridge University Press Elements of Crime Fiction Series.    

Presentations 
Yousra Javed, IT, co-presented “User Perceptions of Gmail’s Confidential Mode” for the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS). 

Kristen Lagally, KNR, co-presented “The Relationship among Resting Metabolic Rate, RER, Substrate Utilization, and Step Counts in College Students” for the American College of Sports Medicine. 

Liz Sattler, KNR, presented “Why Sport Ticket Salespeople Leave their jobs: Applying Attribution Theory to Employee Turnover” at the North American Society for Sport Management Conference. 

Steve Mertens, TCH, co-presented the symposium “Building shared knowledge: The health and well-being of middle grades youth” at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Diego. 

Publications 
Anthony Amorose and Scott Pierce, KNR, were co-authors of “Social Skill Transfer from a Sport-Based Positive Youth Development Program to the School Setting: Transferring Self Control to School” for the Sport Social Work Journal. 

Dawn Beichner and Charles Bell, CJS, were co-authors of “Frauengefängnisse abschaffen: Aktuelle international Gesichtspunkte (Abolishing Women’s Prisons: International Perspectives)” in the Forum Strafvollzug: Zeitschrift für Strafvollzug und Straffälligenhilfe.  

Mijin Kim, CJS, co-authored “Identifying Regional Factors Associated with Crime in South Korea: Synthesis of Social Disorganization and Routine Activities Theories” for the International Journal of Criminal Justice. 

Ali Riaz, POL, published The Unending Nightmare, a research report on the impacts of the Digital Security Act in Bangladesh. The research is being conducted under the auspices of the Centre for Governance Studies, a leading think tank of Bangladesh. Riaz also published “Bangladesh’s Quiet Slide into Autocracy” in Foreign Affairs.  

Kyoungwon Suh, IT, co-authored “Tail Time Defense Against Website Fingerprinting Attacks” for the IEEE Access Journal. 

T.Y. Wang, POL, co-authored a commentary on the status of Taiwan studies in contemporary academic research, published in Taiwan Insight, an online blog hosted by the Taiwan Studies Programme at the University of Nottingham. 

Ui-Jeen Yu, FCS, published “Exploring Effects of Self-Evaluative and Motivational Schema in Appearance on Advertising Effectiveness in Fashion Ads” for the Clothing and Textile Research Journal.