Academics & Research

Associate Professor of Theatre Kevin Otos will appear in the season premier of the television program Necessary Roughness. The episode "Shrink or Swim" will air on the USA Network Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 10 p.m. EST.

Cassandra DiRienzo, associate dean and associate professor of economics, and Tina Das, professor of economics, recently had a paper published on global peace and repression.

Communications assistant professor Vanessa Bravo presented two research papers at the International Communication Association's annual conference May 25-27.

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.