Library News

Dr. Cassie Marnocha, assistant professor of biology & environmental science, presented S(0) cycling in acidic springs dominated by Acidithiobacillus spp, research about the acidic springs at the Iroquois Wildlife Refuge, at the Goldschmidt Conference in Boston on August 13, 2018.Some of... read on →

Dr. Ann Rensel, associate professor of management, and Dr. Tenpao Lee, professor of economics, published Structural Bonus of Factor Productivity in China's High-Tech Industry: A Cross-Sector, Cross-Province, and Cross-Ownership Study in Journal of Applied Business & Economics with colleagues... read on →

The Library has acquired ​Very Good to Despicable: The Impact of the Seven Deadly Sins on Contemporary Leaders, a book by Dr. Walter Polka, professor of education, and alumni from NU's Leadership & Policy PhD program.  read on →

The NU Readers book club will meet on Friday, Sept. 7, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. to discuss Turtles All the Way Down by John Green and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.The NU Readers meet in the Gallagher Center at a table near Tim Hortons (look for the “NU Readers” sign on the table). All students... read on →

Dr. Shannon Hodges, professor of counseling/education and coordinator of the clinical mental health counseling program, published the second edition of 101 Careers in Counseling for Springer Publishing Company.   read on →

Dr. Kathleen McGrath and Dr. Mary Ellen Bardsley, associate professors of education, recently published Becoming a Literacy Leader in the 21st Century: Fieldwork that Facilitates the Process in Literacy Research and Instruction.The article discusses research done as part of the Literacy Coaching... read on →

Dr. John B. Stranges, University Professor, and two former NU students, Matthew Troia and Claudette Walck, have published an article entitled “Limited Victory: Love Canal Reclaimed” in ICON: The Journal of the International Committee For The History of Technology, 23 (2017): 55-82. read on →

Dr. James A. Kling, associate professor of supply chain management, and Professor Jack Ampuja, executive director of NU's Center For Supply Chain Excellence and adjunct professor, co-authored Dimensional Weight Pricing in Transportation and Logistics: US Shipper Knowledge and Best Practice... read on →

Dr. Chandra Foote, Dean of the College of Education, co-authored Exploring the Influence of Accomplished Teachers’ Video and Commentary Pairing on Teacher Candidates’ Noticing and Thinking about Practice in Journal of Technology and Teacher Education. Here is the abstract:"Teacher preparation... read on →

Nanette Harmon, director of ASL and deaf studies and modern languages faculty fellow, published Saying Goodbye to Sound in The Hearing Journal. read on →

Dr. Milen Radell, visiting professor of psychology, co-authored Intolerance of Uncertainty and Conditioned Place Preference in Opioid Addiction in PeerJ with colleagues from other institutions.  read on →

Does the Use of a Person's First Name in a Polygraph Examination Increase the Likelihood of Generating a False Reading?, the dissertation Dr. Steve Ursel wrote for his Ph.D. in NU's Leadership and Policy program, is now indexed in ProQuest's Dissertations & Theses Global database. read on →

The Development of the Teacher Preparation Technology Inventory (TPTI): An Instrument Designed to Measure How Often Teacher Candidates Model and Apply the 2017 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards for Educators in Teacher Preparation Programs, the dissertation Dr.... read on →

Dr. Jamie Carr, associate professor of English, published "Colonel Peter A. Porter and the Emersons" in Western New York Heritage. Here is the abstract:"When Peter A. Porter died in 1864, many suggested an elegy he penned for a close friend could, indeed, be applied to himself. The mention of a... read on →

Dr. Doug Tewksbury, associate professor of communication studies, published  Networking #Ferguson: An Ethnographic Study of Ferguson Protesters’ Online-Offline Community Mobilization in Democratic Communique.Here is the abstract: "This paper presents the results of a qualitative, ethnographic... read on →