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For the past 10 years, visitors to MOCA Jacksonville have been gazing upward to view the oversize artworks that have soared above the lobby and graced the 40-foot walls that surround the museum’s central staircase. Known as Project Atrium, the endeavor has challenged commissioned artists to create large-scale artworks that capture the imagination. To add to viewer interest, the artists often installed their work as the public watched, allowing a first-hand look as the artistic process as it evolved over several weeks. Here are a few of the many projects that have shaped Project Atrium.

'Making Great Lives Matter' by artist Carl Joe Williams, 2020
With vibrant geometric patterns inspired by African American quilt patterns embedded with symbols of power, New-Orleans based artist Carl Joe Williams created a historical backdrop for televisions that showed newsreels of injustice including the death of George Floyd in May 2020. The lower tier of video monitors featured community members providing answers to questions posed by the artist.

'The Fragility of the Promise' by Kedgar Volta, 2019
Regional artist Kedgar Volta created "The Fragility of the Promise" using a reactive light installation consisting of over 1,000 LED fixtures. The artwork was the artist's inquiry into the fluctuating interactions between our internal narratives and the external forces of culture and commerce and to serve as a reminder that the external forces that compel us are striking, yet ultimately fleeting and unstable. The fragility of the connection becomes a testament to the elusive promise of prosperity.

'The Greys In-Between' by Anila Quayyum Agha, 2018
Pakistani-American artist Anila Quayyum used light and cast shadows to transform the Atrium Gallery into a place that alluded to Islamic sacred spaces with geometric ornamentation and pattern. Agha used laser-cut steel lanterns to create a space of peace and tranquility, though her shadows also fell on dark colored walls to adress her concerns about U.S. views toward immigration and people of color.

'Cargomobilities' by Joelle Dietrick, 2015
Tallahassee-based painter Joelle Dietrick produced a multilayered mural of paint and adhesive fabric to present a visual commentary about the interconnectedness of macro economies and micro systems. Fascinated with geolocation data for cargo ships and shipping containers, the artist employed a glitch art aesthetic that allowed her to analyze, recode, manipulate, and visualize data into a pulsating scene of cranes, cargo ships and houses. As part of her research, Dietrick toured Jacksonville Port Authority.

Project Atrium by Shaun Thurston, 2014
For the inaugural One Spark festival in 2013, Jacksonville artist Shaun Thurston entered a project called “20 Murals in a Year,” pledging to those who voted for him that he would use the crowdfunding money to cover the city in art. He placed fourth overall and earned about $4,100, which helped pay for materials. His Project Atrium mural is the culmination of that project. For this installation created at MOCA for One Spark in 2014, Thurston chose crystals as his subject, stemming from his love of collecting rocks and stones as a child.

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Milestones
Congratulations to the following employees with a milestone anniversary in May:

15 Years
Willie Hunter, Director, Student Financial Aid Scholarships, Financial Aid Office

10 Years
Asai Asaithambi, Professor, School of Computing
Joanne Berglund, Head Athletic Coach, Golf
Rebecca Easom, Custodial Supervisor, Physical Facilities
Carole Goldberg, Academic Advisor, First-Year Advising

5 Years
Leonardo Campos, Maintenance Mechanic, Maintenance and Energy Management
Patricia Dombroski, Office Manager, Mathematics and Statistics
Kelly Anne Gomes, Coordinator, Academic Support Services, Enrollment Services
Jennifer Jackson, Director, Academic Advising Services, CCB Advising
Sheila Mastriana, Child Development Teacher, ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ×ÊÁÏ Preschool

Welcome
The following employees were either hired by ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ×ÊÁÏ or were promoted from OPS positions recently:

Kerry Eldred, Clinical Research Associate, Psychology
Kevin Kurtz, Clinical Research Associate, Psychology
Micah McKinney, Clinical Research and Phlebotomy Associate, Psychology
Teresa Medrano Montealegre, Academic Support Services, Coordinator, Student Enrollment Communication Center
Marie Myszkier, PTAC Coordinator, Small Business Development Center
Micayla Neal, Admissions Coordinator, Admissions
Stephanie Perry, Coordinator, Academic Support Services, ES Planning and Operations
Angela Pisa, Custodial Worker, Custodial Services
Jana Soto, Student Affairs Specialist, SG Business and Accounting Office
Ricky Watson, Maintenance Mechanic, Shared Cost
Sydney Wissinger, Administrative Assistant, President's Office
Pamela Wong, Clinical Research and Phlebotomy Associate, Psychology
Mary Yuskis, Director, Donor Engagement Steward, University Development/Alumni Engagement

Great Job
The following employees were promoted recently:

Donald Barker, Associate Director, IPTM
Julia Behler, Coordinator, Library Services, Library
Natasha Christie, Interim Associate Dean/Associate Professor, Arts and Sciences
Marice Hague, Associate Director, Small Business Development Center
Gunner Lake, Assistant Director, IT Security
Sabrina Padlan, Grants Specialist, IPTM
Karen Patterson, Provost/Vice President, Academic Affairs
Michael Russo, Assistant Director, Online Learning Support, Distance Learning
Nicholas Seabrook, Chair/Associate Professor, Political Science and Public Administration

Goodbye
Heartfelt wishes in their new endeavors for the following employees who left ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ×ÊÁÏ recently:

Mary Baron, Professor, English
Adam Boyd, Assistant Professor, Nursing
Terry Brown, Maintenance Mechanic, Maintenance and Energy Management
Amy Brownfield, Laboratory Technician, Biology
Felix Caballero, Academic Advisor, CCB Advising
Daniel Cesar, Senior Telecomm Technician, Telephone Services
Kolanda Douglas, Marketing/Publications Coordinator, Music
Ryan Duzon, Associate Director, Academic Support Services, Enrollment Services 
Nathan Edwards, IT Help Desk Manager, User Services
Rachel Given, Coordinator, Athletic Video Production, Video Production
Catherine Godoy, Assistant Professor, Nursing
Daniel Gonzalez, Landscape Grounds Supervisor, Grounds
Franscine Green, Custodial Worker, University Housing
Tess Henderson, Admissions Coordinator, Admissions
Jenna Hensley, Coordinator, Residence Life, Crossings
Channing Hodges, Coordinator, Employment, Human Resources
Cheryl Huffman, Custodial Worker, Custodial Services
Tamara Lumsden, Coordinator, Events Catering, MOCA Jacksonville
Christina McArn, Groundskeeper, Grounds
Carol Moon, Senior Library Services Associate, Library
Mario Pickens, Assistant Professor, Teaching, Learning and Curriculum
Tommy Richardson, Control Systems Technician, Maintenance and Energy Management
Erica Samples, Office Manager, Psychology
Kathryn Shapiro, Academic Support Services Coordinator, One-Stop Center
Amy Sims, Academic Support Services Coord, One-Stop Center
Brittani Smith, Web Specialist, Florida Institute of Education
Charlotte Soto, Senior Custodial Worker, Osprey Fountains

Brooks College of Health
Dr. Kristen Hicks-Roof, nutrition and dietetics assistant professor, discussed how much fruit is too much in Florida Newsline. .

Dr. Tes Tuason, professor in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program of the department of Public Health, with Dr. Güss and Lauren Boyd in psychology, published an article titled, "Thriving during COVID-19: Predictors of psychological well-being and ways of coping” in PLoS ONE. 16(3): e0248591. . Also, with Caitlyn Murtha, an alumna of the CMHC program, Tuason presented "Visibility of Whiteness: Analyzing White Privilege among female counseling trainees" at the 3rd CSI Florida conference. At the same conference, graduate students that Tuason advised presented "Unique Bodies: Unique Stories: Exploring the mental health experience of intersex individuals."

Dr. Helene Vossos, assistant professor of nursing, has been elected "President-Elect" for the Florida chapter of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, and will serve as president next year.

Coggin College of Business
Dr. Courtney Azzari, assistant professor of marketing, has been selected as this year’s AMA Marketing and Society Special Interest Group (MASSIG) Emerging Scholar Award winner. This award recognizes marketing academics in the early stages of their careers who have made significant contributions to research advancing the study of marketing and societal issues. Azzari will be recognized at this year’s Marketing and Public Policy Conference, which will be held virtually June 24. In addition, Azzari was awarded the 2016 Charles C. Slater Award for best article in Journal of Macromarketing as well as received a 2021 AMA-EBSCO Responsible Research in Marketing Award. She also serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Consumer Affairs.

College of Arts and Sciences
Biology
Dr. Laura Habegger, assistant professor, recently coauthored a paper on rapid phenotypic evolution in flatfishes. Learn more

Dr. Candice Tahimic, assistant professor, and her coauthors published a research article “Placenta-Expanded Stromal Cell Therapy in a Rodent Model of Simulated Weightlessness” in the , 10(4), 940 (2021). Tahimic is senior author and corresponding author of the article. Tahimic also is a coauthor in an influential review that discusses the effects of combined spaceflight factors such as microgravity and radiation on organ systems. The review was published on April 27 in the , Part C, 39(2), 129-179 (2021). In addition, Tahimic delivered a public lecture titled “I'm Sending my Mice to Space: an Earth-Bound Scientist's Take on Health Challenges in Microgravity” on April 14 during the Science on Tap public lecture series.

Chemistry
Dr. Stuart Chalk, professor of chemistry, presented several talks at the 256th American Chemical Society Meeting in April.

• Chalk presented “Putting FAIR into practice for chemical data.”
• With Robert Hanisch and Daniel Hutzschenrueter, Chalk presented “Making units of measure FAIR: Current efforts to digitize the SI system of units”
• With Dylan Johnson, and Caleb Weber, Chalk presented "SciFlow: A Django/Python workflow system for processing SciData formatted JSON-LD.”
• With Chalk, Montana Sloan, chemistry undergraduate student, presented "Moving thermodynamic data into the open: Crosswalking NIST TRC data to the SciData framework.”

Dr. Dylan Johnson, postdoctoral faculty, with Dr. Stuart Chalk, presented a talk at the 256th American Chemical Society Meeting in April: "SciDataLib: A python library for generation of SciData framework files in JSON-LD.”

Dr. Medhat Khedr, visiting chemistry faculty, published the chapter “Biobased polyamides” in Physical Sciences Reviews.

Dr. Amy Lane, associate professor of chemistry and director for the Advancement of Women in Natural Sciences, has received a $324,000 award from the National Science Foundation to continue her work to decipher nature’s methods for creating a group of naturally occurring molecules known as diketopiperazines that offer a variety of potentially useful applications in medicine, agriculture, and other commercial enterprises. Learn more about her research grant. 

Criminology and Criminal Justice
Dr. Kristina M. Lopez, assistant professor, and Dr. Holly V. Miller, professor, published the research article "Social Bonds and Latino/A Victimization: An Examination of Mediating and Moderating Effects" in the Victims & Offenders, 1-20, (2021).

English
Dr. James Beasley, associate professor, with co-author Kimberly Eckel Beasley, published the book "Dramatism and Musical Theater: Experiments in Rhetorical Performance" in April.

Dr. Keith Cartwright, chair and professor of English, and Dr. Jillian Smith, associate professor of English and film, premiered their documentary film “Kóokayen ku k’a’ajsik u chiich / Luciérnaga que receurda a su abuela (Firefly that Remembers Its Grandmother)” (co-directed with Dr. Dolores Flores-Silva) at the International Book Fair of Yucatan in April.

Dr. Nicholas de Villiers, professor of English and film, published the chapter “Male Sex Work in Documentary Films: Rhetorical and Ethical Frameworks,” in "The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society,” April.

Dr. Chris Gabbard, professor, presented the paper “‘That Secret Something’: Invisible Mental Disability and the Trope of Exclusion,” at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) annual conference in April.

Dr. Laura Heffernan, associate professor, received a glowing review for her new book, “The Teaching Archive,” in .

Dr. Clark Lunberry, professor, presented the art installation “Haunted Words | Or, Drowning My Library,” at Karpeles Manuscript Library as part of the exhibit “Th3Rivers, A Contemporary Exploration of the St. Johns Lower Basin,” April.

Dr. Maureen McCluskey, visiting instructor, directed the play “J. Caesar” at MOCA Jacksonville in April.

Mr. Marcus Pactor, associate instructor, with Garielle Lutz, published the interview “The Threatening Clarities That a Sentence Can Occasion” in “Heavy Feather Review,” April.

 Dr. Michael Wiley, professor, published the novel "Head Case,” in April. That same month, Wiley also published the story "A Winter Night's Dream." In addition, Wiley presented on the "Crafting Tension" panel at the Orlando Book Festival held in April.

History
Dr. Felicia Bevel, assistant professor, chaired the "Childhood Studies" Panel at the British Association for American Studies Annual Conference, April 9.

Dr. David Courtwright, Emeritus Professor, testified in the national opioid litigation bellwether trial in Charleston, West Virginia. Courtwright was an expert witness for the plaintiffs in their case against the pharmaceutical distributors McKesson, Cardinal Health, and Amerisource Bergen, all accused of oversupplying West Virginia and other states with prescription opioids. 

Dr. Philip Kaplan, associate professor, presented “In the Presence of the King: the Greek Common Peace and Persian Imperial Strategy in the Fourth Century BCE” at the Association of Ancient Historians Annual Meeting of 2021 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on May 7.

Physics
Dr. William B. Lane, visiting instructor, was awarded a $5,000 PICUP mini-grant to support computation-based curricular change. The project title is “Streamlined, Consistent Introductions to Computation for Undergraduate Physics Students,” and will result in startup modules for physics students learning programming for their first time as part of their physics education.

Dr. Devki N. Talwar, visiting instructor, has published a peer-reviewed research paper titled "Assessment of intrinsic and doped defects in Bridgman grown Cd1-xZnxTe alloys." The research was accomplished by Talwar, in collaboration with Prof. P. Becla of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prof. H. H. Lin of National Taiwan University, Taipei and Prof. Z. C. Feng from Guangxi University of China.

Psychology
Dr. Tracy Alloway, psychology professor, discussed her new book “Think Like a Girl” on “River City Live.” Watch the discussion.

Political Science and Public Administration
Dr. Michael Binder, associate professor, discussed .

Dr. Joshua C. Gellers, associate professor, gave a virtual guest lecture on “International Organizations and the Climate Crisis” in an International Organizations course at Ohio Wesleyan University. Gellers also participated in a live discussion titled, “Robot Rights! 4 Guests on Stage Who Work on Robot Rights” on the social media platform Clubhouse in April. In addition, Gellers spoke with Iranian-based NGO Organization for Defending Victims of Violence on “Addressing climate change requires the adoption of a climate justice lens.” . 

Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work
Dr. Mandi N. Barringer, assistant professor of sociology, and her colleague presented their paper “Getting Older in the Bible Belt: Sources of Support for Aging LGBTQ Americans Living in the South” at the Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting in April. At the same meeting, Barringer was an invited panelist for the book discussion on “Conditionally Accepted: Christians’ Perspectives on Sexuality and Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights” and also an invited panelist for the discussion on “Integrating Applied Work into the Classroom.”

Dr. Jacqueline Meier, assistant professor, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Grant to support her project “Animals of a Late Bronze Age Household at Mycenae, Greece.” The endowment grant is a prestigious award that will support Meier’s research and writing of two articles on the use and treatment of animals in Late Bronze Age Mycenae in Greece.

Dr. Jenny Stuber, associate professor of sociology, discussed her new book, “Aspen and the American Dream: How One Town Manages Inequality in the Era of Supergentrification,” . 

College of Computing, Engineering and Construction
Dr. Steve Stagon, associate professor of mechanical engineering, discussed two new engineering programs the school is adding this fall on the Channel 4 Morning Show. . 

College of Education and Human Services
Leadership, School Counseling and Sport Management
Dr. Terry Cavanaugh, professor, and Dr. Luke Cornelius, associate professor, published a last month by Wisdom Builders Press. It is the first practical budget text published for higher education and a major contribution to the field of Education Finance. It is designed to teach students and administrators how to prepare accurate and professional budgets and budget presentations, including practical instructions for using spreadsheet programs. 

Teaching, Learning and Curriculum
Dr. Hope (Bess) Wilson , associate professor, with her coauthor, published the book “ ” 

The COEHS Office of Academic Support and Information Services was selected by the Recognition and Rewards Committee as the winner of the Quality Customer Service award.

Thomas G. Carpenter Library
Maria Atilano, student outreach librarian, published the feature article “How to Make Memes and Influence Students” in the May/June 2021 issue of Marketing Library Services. She also co-presented with Giannina Medell, outreach services associate, the session “Keeping Your Social (Media) Distance: Library Engagement in the Time of COVID” during the Northeast Florida Library Information Network (NEFLIN) Technology Conference on May 6.

Tom Caswell, associate dean, contributed to , a white paper published every two years by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Research Planning and Review Committee documenting developments in higher education that are currently having an impact on academic and research libraries.

Emily Ray, electronic resources librarian, and Daniel E. Feinberg, online learning librarian, published the case study “Deepening Understanding: Adding Privacy into a Library and Information Studies Course” in the refereed journal The Serials Librarian. This article combines a library technical services perspective with a public services instruction perspective and looks at what data privacy and privacy mean to both the world and students. DOI:10.1080/0361526X.2021.1900022

Courtenay McLeland, head of Digital Projects and Preservation, presented a poster session “Art Collection Management in the IR” at the Southern Miss Institutional Repositories Conference on April 29. She also co-presented with Adam Chalmers, systems librarian, and Jenn Bibb, Special Collections coordinator, the session “Establishing an Omeka Digital Exhibits Presence: Collaboration and Customization” at the NEFLIN Technology Conference on May 6.

Susan Swiatosz, head of Special Collections and University Archives, with Clayton McCarl, associate professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities, Carol Lynne Hemmingway, ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ×ÊÁÏ history and Spanish student, and Marisa Pechillo, ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ×ÊÁÏ history graduate student, presented the panel session “Creating Meaningful Hybrid and Virtual Internship Opportunities for Students“ at the Society of Southwest Archivists 2021 Annual Meeting on May 18.

Administrative and Professional Association Gabor/ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ×ÊÁÏ Foundation Award of Employee Excellence
Nancy Miller, assistant athletic director for compliance, won the 2021 Gabor/ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ×ÊÁÏ Foundation Award, presented by the A&P Association to an employee demonstrating excellence in overall job performance, contribution to the University and evidence of current or recent activities outside the normal scope of the position description. The runner up was Tara Rowe, adjunct professor and director of the THRIVE program. The six finalists were Jennifer Nutt, Erin Davis, Michael McGuire, Marla Lewis, Megan Porter and Melonie Handerson. Learn more about the award and see the full list of current and past winners.

LGBTQ Center
Manny Velásquez-Paredes, director of the LGBTQ Center, has been named a 2021 National Latino Leader Award winner by the Council for Latino Workplace Equity, an initiative under the National Diversity Council. Velasquez is honored for his outstanding leadership efforts and record of professional accomplishments. The award will be presented virtually at the on Tuesday, Sept. 14.