Academics & Research

Qian Xu, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, published a co-authored article exploring the bandwagon effect in the context of an activist group on social networking websites in the peer-reviewed journal of Mass Communication and Society.

Evan A. Gatti, assistant professor of art history, presented “From Aquileia to Aosta: An Art of Northern Italy or Bishops at the Borders” at the 47th International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Mich., on May 10.

Communications assistant professor Qian Xu co-authored a book chapter published in “Advertising Theory,” edited by Shelly Rodgers and Esther Thorson and published by Routledge.

Sirena Hargrove-Leak, assistant professor of engineering, published “Experience Engineering: An Engineering Course for Non-Majors” in the April 2012 edition of Journal of STEM Education.

Janna Anderson, associate professor in the School of Communications, was a keynote speaker at the “Human Internet: Technologies Creating a More Human Web” spring research symposium.

Tim Hill ('91 and Adjunct Voice Faculty) will be singing Don Quijote in Manuel de Falla's El retablo de maese Pedro (Master Peter’s Puppet Show) with the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle on Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 3:00 pm at the Carolina Theater, Durham.

Pieces from Samantha DiRosa's body of work Gathering Dust: Sediment/Sentiment were recently included in two exhibitions on environmental art, Biotics Semiotics (Allen Priebe Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin) and Flora/Fauna (The Fine Arts Center of Hot Spring, AR).