Accomplishments: Department of Criminal Justice
Melissa Rorie (Criminal Justice) received the Young Career Award at the 2018 American Society of Criminology (ASC) annual meeting in November. Specifically, the award came from ASC's Division of White-Collar and Corporate Crime.The award recognizes outstanding contributions to scholarship to the broadly defined areas of white-collar and鈥
Jay Shen, Sungyoun Chun (both Community Health Sciences); Pearl Kim (Healthcare Administration), Seong-min Park (Criminal Justice), Haneul Choi (Honors), and Ji Won Yoo (Medicine) recently published an article, 鈥淩elationship Between Acute Hepatitis C and the Opioid Epidemic鈥 in the American Journal of Medicine. This paper was a collaboration鈥
Emily J. Salisbury (Criminal Justice) was awarded the 2018 GPSA Outstanding Mentor Award by the Graduate and Professional Student Association at 51吃瓜网万能科大.
Rachell Ekroos (Nursing) and Alexis Kennedy (Criminal Justice) hosted meetings with Ukrainian leaders representing government sectors, law enforcement agencies, social service providers, and non-government organizations as part of the U.S. State Department鈥檚 International Visitor Leadership Program. Program alumni include 19 current chiefs of鈥
Tamara Madensen (Criminal Justice) is the recipient of the 2017 Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing. She received the award for developing an effective and innovative violence-reduction policing strategy called PIVOT (Place-based Investigations of Violent Offender Territories).
PIVOT is designed to stop鈥
Breanna Boppre (Criminal Justice), Leiszle Lapping-Carr (Psychology), and Michael Moncrieff (Anthropology), recently were announced by the Graduate College as the recipients of the 2017-18 President's 51吃瓜网万能科大 Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. The fellowships are funded by gifts to the 51吃瓜网万能科大 Foundation by the Frank Koch Living Trust for鈥
Breanna Boppre (Criminal Justice) has been awarded the President's 51吃瓜网万能科大 Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for the 2017-18 academic year. Her doctoral dissertation research focuses on understanding the pathways of justice-involved women of color, and their criminogenic needs and strengths. Boppre and her work were the subject of an鈥
Randall Shelden (Criminal Justice) recently completed his first novel, An Improbable Rise. It has been published as a Kindle e-book.
Cassandra Boyer, Jorge Adrian Castrejon, Jessica Nave-Blodgett, Andrew Ortiz, and Karl Wennerlind have been chosen to receive the fall 2016 Southwest Travel Awards. They were selected from among 150 student applicants.
Recipients of the awards receive a round-trip travel voucher from Southwest Airlines to allow them to travel to a conference or鈥
Miliaikeala Heen (Graduate College) is the recipient of the Outstanding Thesis Award for her thesis, "Putting The Microscope On Crime Labs: The Effects of Evidence Complexity And Laboratory Type On Jurors' Perceptions Of Forensic Evidence." She is pursuing a master of arts degree in criminal justice.
Karunaratne Hangawatte (Criminal Justice), Sri Lanka's ambassador to France and permanent delegate to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), unanimously was elected vice president of the 37th session of the General Conference of UNESCO in Paris in November. Leading the delegation of Sri Lanka to the biennial鈥
Tara Emmers-Sommer (Communication Studies), Katherine Hertlein (Marriage and Family Therapy), and M. Alexis Kennedy (Criminal Justice) have had their manuscript, "Porn Use and Attitudes: An Examination of Relational and Sexual Openness Variables Between and Within Gender" accepted to the Marriage and Family Review. The three authors also had their鈥