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Marywood

University

Sunny Sinha, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Social Work and lead author of A Survey of the Mobile Phone-Based Interventions for Violence Prevention Among Women, was recently published in Advances in Social Work. The article addresses Information Communication Technologies, particularly mobile phone technology, and its increase in relationships between individuals by enhancing their ability to frequently communicate with one another through different mediums including text, audio, video and emojis.

Sinha is a Fahs-Beck scholar, a doctoral dissertation grant program that helps support dissertation expenses of students in the U.S. and Canada.

Misericordia

University

Joshua D. Winneker, J.D., associate professor of business, recently co-authored the scholarly article, Higgins V. Kentucky Sports Radio Reframed: Balancing Free Speech and Emotional Distress Liability When Fans Take Things Too Far, in the Charleston Law Review with Sam C. Ehrlich, J.D., a doctoral candidate at Florida State University.

In the research paper, the authors address the intersection of intentional infliction of emotional distress tort liability and the defense of free speech protection under the First Amendment when dealing with abusive and unruly fans during and after sporting events. Ian Silfies of Palmerton, a university student double majoring in philosophy and Government, Law and National Security, served as a research assistant for the scholarly project.

The paper focuses on the controversial college basketball game that pitted the University of Kentucky against the rival North Carolina Tar Heels on March 26, 2017. After the game, Kentucky coach John Calipari expressed his dissatisfaction with the officiating.

The Italian

American Podcast

Stephanie Longo of Dunmore was recently named associate producer and administrative officer of the New York-based podcast, dedicated to helping Italian Americans celebrate their heritage.

A graduate of the University of Scranton (BA, Italian and French; MA, history) and Regent University (MA, journalism), she possesses a Women in Leadership certificate and a Women in Entrepreneurship certificate from Cornell University and is a graduate of the Leadership Lackawanna Core Program.

Longo is also the book reviews editor for Ovunque Siamo: New Italian American Writing. She is the former director of marketing and communications of the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce.

Tobyhanna

Army Depot

Arleen Coates joined as the depots first full-time retirement services officer in January.

Coates and her team provide pre-retirement and retirement services to military members on active duty, veterans and family members in the armed forces of the United States. The staff, among other things, is trained to help clients choose survivor electives for spouses and children, and update information to reflect major changes, such as death or divorce.

The retired United States Army officer leads an all-volunteer force that dedicates more than 5,000 hours a year to helping people in 17 counties throughout Northeast Pennsylvania.

University

of Scranton

Michael E. Kelley, Ph.D., BCBA-D, joined as a faculty member in the Counseling and Human Services Department. He holds a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst-Doctoral degree, which is a doctoral designation for Board Certified Behavior Analysts with doctoral training in behavior analysis.

Kelley will take a leadership role with the universitys Autism Collaborative Centers of Excellence, which is part of a multi-year, multi-million dollar regional initiative led by the AllOne Foundation He will also teach in the universitys post-graduate Applied Behavior Analysis Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study.

Post-pandemic clinical nursing education: The value of academic-practice partnerships, an article written by three university professors of nursing, was published in April by American Nurse. In the article, authors Mary Jane K. DiMattio, Ph.D., professor of nursing and director for the Universitys Office of Educational Assessment; Sharon S. Hudacek, Ed.D., professor of nursing, and Catherine P. Lovecchio, Ph.D., associate professor of nursing, underscored the benefits of academic-practice partnerships in nursing as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The university has had Clinical Liaison Nurse Academic Practice Partnership with Regional Hospital of Scranton, Moses Taylor Hospital and Geisinger Community Medical Center.

Through this partnership model, the university was able to offer support to its clinical partners coping with the COVID-19 pandemic in several ways, including the donation of personal protective equipment supplies from student practical laboratories to partner hospitals and the lending of three ventilators from the universitys nurse anesthetist laboratories. The universitys Nursing Department also produced a video of support and thanks from current students and faculty to Clinical Liaison Nurse partners.

The universitys Clinical Liaison Nurse model, a community-based, academic-practice partnership that began in 2009, pairs expert staff nurses with academic faculty to create an improved learning environment for undergraduate student nurses and an added level of safety for patients.

Weis Markets

The company announced the promotion of Brian Bosworth to senior director of center store merchandising and sales and Ashley Odom to director of center store merchandising.

In his new position, Bosworth will oversee dry grocery, general merchandise, health and beauty care, frozen; dairy, grocery, beer, wine and spirits, and center store field merchandising. He joined the company in 2011 as a category manager and subsequently worked as center store sales manager and most recently as director of center store merchandising. He reports to Richard Gunn, senior vice president, merchandising and sales.

In her new position, Odom oversees the day-to-day management of frozen, dairy and beer, wine and spirits. She joined the company in 2018 as senior category manager for adult beverages. She previously worked in category management positions at Albertsons and Supervalu.

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