ESU Students and Faculty in the News

Pictured from left to right in front of the Longworth House Office Building in Washington, D.C., in late March are: Lindsay Gieseler, a senior from Pottstown, Pa., majoring in recreation services management; Marina Zannino, a junior from Tobyhanna, Pa., majoring in biology; Dominique Washington, a junior from Philadelphia majoring in political science; and Mary Haggerty, a sophomore from Newfoundland, N.J., majoring in political science. All four students are in the racial and ethnic politics class taught by Kimberly S. Adams, Ph.D., an ESU associate professor of political science.

From left to right are Kelly McKenzie, ESU instructor of academic enrichment and learning; Sarai Gutierrez, Women in Action Committee member at Hewlett Packard in Guadalajara, Mexico; Brenda Aguilar, Women in Action Committee member at Hewlett Packard in Guadalajara, Mexico; Lorenza Torres, Women in Action Committee member at Hewlett Packard in Guadalajara, Mexico; and Azucena Castro, who attended ESU in 2010.

LuAnn Batson-Magnuson, Ph.D., an East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania assistant professor of speech-language pathology, published an invited article in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association SIG 15 Perspectives on Gerontology.

The article is titled “Traumatic Brain Injury and Aging,” and focuses on current research on the long-term outcomes for survivors of traumatic brain injury, including the risks of dementia and chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

Twenty-five students from ESU’s racial and ethnic politics (undergraduate) and legislative process (graduate) classes, taught by Kimberly S. Adams, Ph.D., associate professor of political science, spent the day on March 26 on Capitol Hill.

The students and Adams met with Lauren (Edris) Sanchez, a 2011 ESU graduate who is now on Pennsylvania senator Pat Toomey’s staff, and also watched the Senate proceedings from the Senate Gallery where senators John McCain (R-Ariz.), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) discussed America’s role in the Ukraine. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) discussed the Affordable Care Act.

“Our trip to Capitol Hill offered a rare learning experience for students to witness, up close, the day-to-day activities and the inner workings of government,” Adams said. “To meet with a former ESU political science major who now works on Capitol Hill and to view Senate and House proceedings helped them to thoroughly examine the legislative process and allowed them to realize that their dream of one day working in Washington, D.C., can become a reality.”

As part of their participation, the students are expected to write a one-page summary which incorporates their experiences and observations from the trip and talk about how they are related to what they’ve learned in class.

Kelly McKenzie, an ESU instructor in the Department of Academic Enrichment and Learning, recently conducted on-site research on the career life-paths of Mexican women leaders in the global information technology field at a major technology corporation in Guadalajara, Mexico. McKenzie interviewed 15 women leaders at Hewlett Packard (HP) with the assistance of Azucena Castro, who attended ESU in 2010 and is employed at HP in Guadalajara. The three Guadalajara sites that McKenzie visited run several lines of production, carry out research and development, provide IT support and financial support, and provide solutions for global procurement operations. The purpose of McKenzie’s study was to investigate how Latino women become successful leaders in the information technology field in order to contribute to the literature on cross-cultural leadership and to better understand the educational background and career-life paths of women in the field of information technology. Five of the 15 women McKenzie interviewed were elected officers of the Women in Action Committee, which facilitates a talent development program for women that offers training, networking and workshops for future women leaders at HP.

McKenzie and Castro then delivered a presentation at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa in Mazatlán, Mexico. The presentation, Women Leaders in Mexico and the United States and the Status of Women in Higher Education in the United States, was sponsored by the School of Social Sciences and was attended by approximately 150 students, faculty and administrators.

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