Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Mohler, associate professor of occupational therapy, the newly chosen president-elect of the Faculty Senate. In a statement for Inside A-State, Mohler pledged to collaborate with faculty to support academic freedom and work, advance teaching, support innovative initiatives, and foster a supportive environment for service and research. Calling the faculty the foundation of the university’s success, she looks forward to open and honest conversations to further support their work.

Three articles by Dr. Lucy Barnhouse, assistant professor of history, have recently appeared in public-facing publications related to teaching and research. She has written on teaching with ghost stories for Perspectives on History, the magazine of the American Historical Association; on film and the imagined Middle Ages for an Open Library of Humanities Journal collection; and on hospitals in medieval cities for an article in The Medieval Magazine.

Dr. Catherine Reese, professor of public administration and director of the master’s degree program, is the author of an Apple book, based on one of her research interests. Released earlier this semester, Fair Pay for Women: Time for a Revolution, is an interactive, colorful, info-packed e-book that explains why there is unequal pay in this country, and what can be done to cure the problem. Details are online.

An anthology of short stories and essays, by U.S. authors of South Asian descent and edited by Dr. Khem Aryal, associate professor of English, has been published by Texas Review Press at Sam Houston State University. Details are online. Also, Aryal’s recent article, on autoethnography’s role in substantiating craft talks and writers' self-reports in the field of creative writing, has been published in Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies.

Research by Dr. Lori Neuman-Lee, assistant professor of physiology, along with her graduate student researchers Jen Terry and Emily Field was published recently in General and Comparative Endocrinology. Their article examines the immune and hormone interactions in turtles in the Northeast Arkansas region. The work highlights the influence of reproduction on the physiology of these reptiles. The article is available online.