Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

D Y S O N Y E A R I N R E V I E W • 2 0 1 8 – 2 0 1 9 24 News & Notes Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Kimberly Collica-Cox, PhD, was selected as the first recipient of the Ken Peak Innovations in Teaching Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. New York City Professor Elliot Hearst, English, was honored with a 2019 Outstanding Educator certificate from the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect. Through the Undergraduate Student-Faculty Research Program, he has guided students in research including documenting the stories and identifying photos of one of the families who assisted the Franks in hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Faculty Awards MEDIA SPOTLIGHT Socially Relevant* 5,822 DYSON COLLEGE'S TOTAL FOLLOWERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA 10,301 TOTAL ENGAGEMENTS ACROSS ALL DYSON COLLEGE SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS 89, 773 INSTAGRAM STORY IMPRESSIONS 1,600,000 FACEBOOK VIDEO VIEWS THIS YEAR TWITTER: 60% FEMALE FOLLOWERS 160,000 MINUTES OF DYSON COLLEGE VIDEO WATCHED ON YOUTUBE *From September 1, 2018, to June 14, 2019 40% MALE FOLLOWERS Making Headlines Dyson College Faculty in the Media "The Notes app is the fastest way to bypass the gatekeepers and go directly to the public." — Jennifer Magas, clinical associate professor, Media, Communications, and Visual Arts "Why Sarah Sanders Used the Notes App, Just Like Many Celebrities" NBC News (February 17, 2019) "Mass trauma events like this tend to stitch people together. These people appeared to have been drawn into the fold and showed marked improvements." — Anthony Mancini, PhD, associate professor, Psychology, and founder of the Trauma, Social Processes, and Resilience Lab, Pleasantville "Suicides Highlight the Toll of School Shootings and the Role of 'Complicated Grief'" LA Times (March 27, 2019) "I've always been interested in artwork that is at the edge of the real world, or at the boundaries of the real world, so the idea of art and reality has always been an interesting question." — Will Pappenheimer, professor, Art "Does AR Offer New Realities?" Bloomberg, Art + Technology: Episode 27 (sponsored content) Hawaii: Living on the Edge in Paradise? During the summer of 2018, Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano let loose its largest eruption in 200 years. To some it was a disaster. Others saw it as the goddess Pele's way of creating new ʻāina (land). The Hawaiian people's resilience and cultural unity presented a lesson in the true spirit of aloha, captured in this film, the 2019 documentary by Pace Docs, Pace University's award-winning Media, Communications, and Visual Arts travel documentary production course led by Maria Luskay, EdD. Students traveled on location, and the film premiered at the Jacob Burns Film Center on May 7, 2019.

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