The 2024-25 academic year was marked by groundbreaking research, innovative scholarship, and significant contributions to academic knowledge across diverse disciplines. Our faculty advanced their fields through rigorous inquiry, creative work, and scholarly publications that enhanced both their disciplines and student learning.
School of Art and Design
In April of 2025, Professor Mitsatoshi Oba delivered an academic paper for the Art, Architecture, & Design Culture Area of the national conference of Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association held at New Orleans between April 16th and 19th, 2025. His paper was entitled "Still Alive": Metamorphosis of Dutch Baroque Still Life in Akita Ranga and in the American Pre-Raphaelites and Aestheticism.
In 2024, Illustration Professor Steven Hughes exhibited in seven group shows, two at the International level, and earned two prominent awards: The Florence & Ernest Thorne Thompson Memorial Award, Allied Artists of America, and a Bronze Award from Illustration West 62, Society of Illustrators, LA.
Biology Department
Daiek, C.M. and J.B.K. Leonard (2025) Effects of annual thermal regime on growth trajectories of native age-0 brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis). Aquacult Fish Fish. 5:e70053
B Boldgiv, A Lkhagva, S Edwards, N Stenseth, J Bayarsaikhan, D Altangerel, D Usukhjargal, B Dovchin, S Gombobaatar, N Batsaikhan, C Warinner, I Hart, K Galbreath, S Greiman, J Malaney, J Murdoch, B McLean, S DeWitte, E Manzitto-Tripp, K Chin, T Karim, C Simpson, N Stevens, J Dunnum, J Cook, W Taylor. 2025. Global natural history infrastructure requires international solidarity, support and investment in local capacity: lessons from Mongolia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122:e2411232122.
Z Farrand, K Galbreath, K Teeter. 2024. Evidence of intraspecific adaptive variation in the American pika (Ochotona princeps) on a continental scale using a target enrichment and mitochondrial genome skimming approach. Molecular Ecology. e17557.
B Sjodin, D Schmidt, K Galbreath, M Russello. 2024. Putative climate adaptation in American pikas (Ochotona princeps) is associated with copy number variation across environmental gradients. Scientific Reports. 14:8568.
Potticary AL, Belk MC, Creighton JC, Ito M, Kilner R, Komdeur J, Royle NJ, Rubenstein DR, Schrader M, Shen S, Sikes DS, Smiseth PT, Steiger S, Trumbo ST, Moore AJ. 2024. Revisiting the ecology and evolution of burying beetle behavior. Ecology and Evolution 14(8):e70175.
Graves, B.M., and Erickson, F.J. Strategic planning in higher education: perceptions of faculty and administrators at public institutions. Discover Education 2024 volume 3, article number 264.
Woodruff DR, Meinzer FC, McCulloh KA, O'Keefe K, Kerr KL, Ulrich DE, Crandall JG. Drought-related mortality, growth and non-structural carbohydrate dynamics in two conifer species during early stages of development. Trees. 2024 Nov 14:1-8.
Stager, M., Eddy, D.K., Elowe, C.R., Cheviron, Z.A., Carling, M.D. (2024). Haemosporidian infection does not alter aerobic performance in Junco hyemalis (Dark-eyed Junco). Ornithology.
Rogers, E.J., Elowe, C.R., Stager, M., Gerson, A.R. (2025). Arduino allows development of a low-cost, high-resolution metabolic and behavioral phenotyping system for birds. (in press with J. Exp. Biol.).
Gutierrez Ramirez, M., Griego, M.S., DeSimone, J.G., Elowe, C.R., Gerson, A.R. (2025). Lean mass deposition occurs at a greater rate than fat deposition during spring stopover in highly depleted songbirds in the northern Gulf of Mexico. (in press with Conservation Physiology).
McFarlane, S.E., J.P. Jahner, D. Lindtke, C.A. Buerkle, and E.G. Mandeville. Selection leads to remarkable variability in the outcomes of hybridization across replicate hybrid zones. 2024. Molecular Ecology: 33 (11), e17359.
Rosenthal, W.R., E.G. Mandeville, A. Pilkerton; P. Gerrity, J. Skorupski, A.W. Walters, and C.E. Wagner. 2024. Influence of dams on sauger population structure and hybridization with introduced walleye. Ecology and Evolution: 14(7), e11706.
Pyne, C.B., J.N. Campbell, S.E. McFarlane, and E.G. Mandeville. 2025. A novel sex-associated genomic region in Catostomus fish species. In press at Journal of Heredity.
Piñero, J.A., Jansen, H.T., Robbins, C.T., Vincent, E.P. and Lafferty, D.J.R., 2025. Blood cortisol and faecal cortisol metabolite concentrations following an ACTH challenge in unanaesthetized brown bears (Ursus arctos). Conservation Physiology, 13(1), p.coae093.
Rooney, B.….. Lafferty, D.J.R., Whipple L., Good L., Stitzman C., et al. SNAPSHOT USA 2019–2023: The First Five Years of Data from a Coordinated Camera Trap Survey of the United States. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34.1 (2025): e13941.
Lafferty, D.J.R., Trujillo, S.M., Hilderbrand, G.V., Sears, A., Christian, P., Payer, D. and Hake, M., 2024. Bear baiting risks and mitigations: An assessment using expert opinion analyses. PloS one, 19(11), p.e0312192.
Kays, Roland, …. Lafferty, D.J.R., Hubbard, T., et al. Climate, food and humans predict communities of mammals in the United States. Diversity and Distributions (2024): e13900.
Shamon, Hila, et al. Lafferty, D.J.R, Whipple, L, Good L., Stitzman C. SNAPSHOT USA 2021: A third coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States." Ecology 105.6 (2024): e4318.
Fusco, N.A., Lafferty, D.J.R. et al.,, 2024. Population genomic structure of a widespread, urban‐dwelling mammal: The eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). Molecular ecology, 33(3), p.e17230.
A.R. Mason, McKee Zech, H.S., Steadman, D.W., DeBruyn, J. M., (2024). Environmental predictors impact microbial-based postmortem interval (PMI) estimation models within human decomposition soils. Plos one, 19(10), e0311906.
Hayden S. McKee Zech, Owings, C.G., (2024). Protocols for entomotoxicological experiment of Phormia regina (Megnin) development using morphine and lorazepam in the rearing substrate. Protocols.io.
Hayden S. McKee Zech, Erin A. Patrick, Allison R. Mason, Katharina M. Hoeland, Sarah Schwing, Thomas Delgado, Charity G. Owings, Shawn R. Campagna, Jennifer M. DeBruyn, Dawnie W. Steadman. (2024). Tox Project Protocols for the field. Protocols.io.
Kristian A. Choate, Asha E. Rustad, Danny C LeBert. Detection of Environmental Staphylococcus aureus using Colorimetric Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP). (2024).
Christine Pink, Jered Cornelison, Jessica K. Juarez (2025). Standardizing advanced training in forensic anthropology: Defining a clear path to achieve forensic specialization in biological anthropology. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. [Accepted]
Constant T, Dobson F.S, Habold C*, Giroud S*. Trade-offs in dormancy phenology in endotherms and ectotherms. eLife 2024;12:RP89644 *equally contributed authors
Giroud S, Yamaguchi Y, Terrien J, Henning R. Editorial of the Research Topic: Torpor and Hibernation: Metabolic and Physiological Paradigms. Frontiers in Metabolic Physiology - Special Topic "Torpor and Hibernation: Metabolic and Physiological Paradigms" 15:1441872, 2024
Lewis C.T.A, Melhedegaard E.G, Ognjanovic M.M, Olsen M.S, Laitila J, Seaborne R.A.E, Gronset M.N, Zhang C, Iwamoto H, Hessel A.L, Kuehn M.N, Merino C, Amigó N, Frobert O, Giroud S, Staples J.F, Goropashnaya A.V, Fedorov V.B, Barnes B.M, Toien O, Drew K.L, Sprenger R.J, Ochala J. Remodelling of skeletal muscle myosin metabolic states in hibernating mammals. eLife 13:RP94616, 2024
Redon L§, Constant T§, Smith S, Habold C, Giroud S. Understanding seasonal telomere dynamics in hibernating species. Journal of Thermal Biology - Special Issue "Thermoregulatory and Metabolic Adaptations in a Changing World" 123, 2024
Constant T, Dobson F.S, Giroud S*, Habold C*. Safe-periods and safe-activities: two phenological responses to mortality. Ecology and Evolution 15:e70718, 2025 *equally contributed authors
Nowack J, Marshall K, Terrien T, Giroud S. Editorial: Thermoregulatory and Metabolic Adaptations in a Changing World. Journal of Thermal Biology 127, 104062, 2025
Ingelson-Filpula W.A, Kübber-Heiss A, Painer J, Stalder G, Hadj-Moussa H, Bertile F, Habold C, Giroud S*, Storey K.B*. Regulation of metabolism and energy-expensive processes in hibernating dormouse liver may be directed by microRNA. Cryobiology 118: 105191, 2025 *equally contributed authors
Posautz A, Springler G, Kübber-Heiss A, Giroud S. First report of tumors in Garden dormice (Eliomys quercinus). Veterinary Pathology 56(1): 169-174
Mugnier M, Rauch H, Haw A, Jourdan G, Giroud S, Stalder G, Painer-Gigler J, Rocchi A, Pohlin F. Comparison of three sedation protocols in isoflurane anaesthetized garden dormice (Eliomys quercinus) undergoing laparotomy. In Press in Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine
Thiel A, Hertel A.G, Fuchs B, Friebe A, Ahlqvist D, Randi Græsli A, Giroud S, Kindberg J, Arnemo J.M, Evans A.L. Behavioral responses of brown bears to helicopter captures. In Press in Wildlife Biology
Flood MT, Sharp J, Bruggink J, Cormier M, Gomes B, Oldani I, Zimmy L, Rose JB. Understanding the efficacy of wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in two diverse communities. 2023. PLoS One. 2023 Aug 3.
Nishita D'Souza, et al., and the Michigan Network for Environmental Health and Technology (MiNET) consortium. Public health use and lessons learned from a statewide SARS-CoV-2 wastewater monitoring program (MiNET) 2024. 3 NMU students and Josh Sharp are co-authors as part of the MiNET group. Josh Sharp, Molly Cormier, Bailey Gomes, Brigette Landreville. Heliyon. 2024 May.
Griffith, E.V., Mackentley, N., Neri, C.M. and Lindsay, A.R., 2024. Correlation Between Size and Plumage Color of Migrating Male and Female Long-eared Owls (Asio otus). Journal of Raptor Research, 58(1), pp.28-36.
Griffith, E.V., Mackentley, N., Neri, C.M., Canfield, B.M. and Lindsay, A.R., 2025. Fluorescent pigment concentration correlated with age, sex, and size in Long-eared Owl (Asio otus) plumage. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, pp.1-11.
Szarmach, S.J., Teeter, K.C., M'soka, J., Dröge, E., Ndakala, H., Chifunte, C., Becker, M.S. and Lindsay, A.R., in press. Genetic diversity and demographic history of the largest remaining migratory population of blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus taurinus) in southern Africa. PLoS One
Hilderbrand G, Lafferty D, Mangipane. 2025. Ecological Variation: Resilience in Times of Change. In Brown Bears in Alaska's National Parks eds. Hilderbrand, Joly, Gustine, Chambers. University of Chicago Press.
Potticary AL, Morrison ES, Moore AJ. In press. On the composite nature of behavior and variation in its stability. Physiology, Behavior, and Evolution: An Interaction of Classic ideas and New Perspectives, Eds. M. Muñoz and M. Fuxjager, MIT Press.
Goliath, J., Yim, AD., Dwyer. I, Juarez, J., Clemmons, C., A Brief History of Forensic Anthropology in Forensic Anthropology: A Comprehensive Introduction 3rd Edition. eds Tersigni-Tarrant, MA and Langley, NR. In review. Submitted to Taylor & Francis Group, A Division of CRC Press
102 presentations by Biology Department majors or students in other majors who were advised by Biology faculty featured at the recent 2025 Celebration of Student Scholarship.
College of Business
Jaeseung Baek published "A Robust Asymmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Clustering in Transaction Networks" in Annals of Operations Research (2024).
Jaeseung Baek published "Multi-source AdaBoost with Cross-Weight Method for Virtual Metrology in Semiconductor Manufacturing" in International Journal of Production Research (2024).
Jaeseung Baek published "K-Nearest Neighbor Classifier for Uncertain Data in Feature Space" in Industrial Engineering & Management Systems (2023).
Kevin Berry published "An Examination of the Relationship Between Cheating in Online Classes and Technostress: Perceptions of Business Faculty" in International Journal for Business Education (2024).
Kevin Berry published "Committed & Embedded Employees: The Impact of Job Embeddedness on Employees' Commitment and Turnover Intentions" in American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences proceedings (2024).
Stacy Boyer-Davis published "An Examination of the Relationship Between Cheating in Online Classes and Technostress: Perceptions of Business Faculty" in International Journal for Business Education (2024).
Stacy Boyer-Davis had accepted "An Examination of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Initiatives in Large U.S. Public Accounting Firms to Recruit and Retain Women and Minorities in the Workplace" (2024).
Stacy Boyer-Davis published "Committed & Embedded Employees: The Impact of Job Embeddedness on Employees' Commitment and Turnover Intentions" in American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences proceedings (2024).
Stacy Boyer-Davis published "Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives in U.S. accounting firms: Bridging the race and gender gap to attract, retain, and advance the underrepresented talent pool" in American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences proceedings (2024).
Steven Edelson had accepted "Brave New Classroom: Navigating Educational Technology in Management Education" in Journal of Management Education (2024).
Steven Edelson had accepted "Developing Cross-Cultural Communication Skills With the X-Culture Global Virtual Team Project" in Management Teaching Review (2023).
Jim Marquardson published "Embracing Artificial Intelligence to Improve Self-Directed Learning: A Cybersecurity Classroom Study" in Information Systems Education Journal (2024).
Stacy Boyer-Davis presented "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Initiatives in U.S. Accounting Firms: Bridging the Race and Gender Gap to Attract, Retain, and Advance the Underrepresented Talent Pool" at American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences (2024).
Murong Miao presented "Bringing Salesperson Envy Into Focus: Prevention- Versus Promotion-Focused Salespeople On Engagement And Turnover Intention" at Association Of Marketing Theory and Practice Conference (2024).
Murong Miao presented "Perception of consumer envy on social networking sites" at Association Of Marketing Theory and Practice Conference (2024).
Tom Isaacson presented "American soldiers in Rome following liberation during World War II in 1944-1945; propaganda for the accidental tourists" at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 106th Annual Conference (2023).
Jim Marquardson presented "Enhancing Self-Directed Learning with Artificial Intelligence: A Cybersecurity Classroom Study" at ISCAP Conference (2023).
Chemistry Department
In the past twelve months, the department has five peer-reviewed scientific articles published most have student co-authors.
Faculty have submitted multiple well-received grant proposals to organizations such as NSF and NIH. The current funding environment means that they are waiting to hear about funding for some of these proposals.
Faculty have been regular recipients of Faculty Research grants from the university. This year's Peter White Scholar is Maris Cinelli from the department.
School of Clinical Sciences
Matt Jennings is laboratory director for the Upper Michigan Brain Tumor Center (UMBTC) with projects including diagnostic and monitoring assay development, basic cancer biology research, and development of nucleic acid-based techniques for molecular characterization of tumors. (Clinical Molecular Diagnostics)
Development and characterization of the novel tool D2HGlo for diagnosis and monitoring of a specific class of glioma, receiving funding from MTRAC Kickstart grant and verbal communication from NIH UH2/UH3 funding mechanism indicating $1,000,000 over 5 years. (Clinical Molecular Diagnostics)
Collaboration with Servier Pharmaceutical to determine the efficacy of D2HGlo through Investigator Initiated Trials utilizing Servier's biorepository and prospectively collected samples from clinical trials through 2030. (Clinical Molecular Diagnostics)
Three publications within the past 18 months focused on IDH1 mutant glioma and rapid identification of this mutation. (Clinical Molecular Diagnostics)
Two patents: Dr Evan Pratt and Matt Jennings hold the patent for D2HGlo, and Dr. Paul Mann and Matt Jennings have a patent for an AuNP – PNA (gold nanoparticle – peptide nucleic acid) reporter system. (Clinical Molecular Diagnostics)
Dr. Heather Isaacson presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) National Convention, delivering a session titled "Elevate Your Teaching: Stories and Lessons Learned from an Alternative Grading Faculty Learning Community." (Speech-Language Pathology)
Dr. Isaacson is scheduled to present at the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CAPCSD) Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. (Speech-Language Pathology)
Dr. Isaacson published a qualitative research study in the ASHA Perspectives Journal titled "A Case Study on Perspectives of Parents of Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Factors Influencing Quality of Life, an Application of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Framework." (Speech-Language Pathology)
Dr. Isaacson submitted two journal articles based on dissertation research and is awaiting feedback from the peer review process. (Speech-Language Pathology)
Communication and Media Studies Department
Sara Potter earned 2024 Interactivity Foundation Certificate in Collaborative Discussion Facilitation.
Sara Potter presented "Piecing Together Normalcy: (Re-)Producing Motherhood and the Gendered Labor of Motherwork in Post-Disaster Puerto Rico" at the International Association of Maternal Action + Scholarship, Boston, MA, June 2025.
Sara Potter presented "Telling lies: An autoethnographic account of relational transgressions and revelation episodes in the wake of a serious betrayal" at the International Symposium of Autoethnography and Narrative, Remote Conference, February 2025.
Sara Potter co-authored a conference presentation with Lilly Richards (undergrad) titled "The End of Babies: An Intergenerational study of perspectives on mothering," presented at the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender, Kansas City, MO, October 2024.
Sara Potter co-authored a conference presentation with Marissa Maino (undergrad) titled "Brushstrokes of Change: Exploring the Cultural and Historical Significance of Puerto Rico's Murals Through a Cross-Cultural Comparative Perspective," presented at the Michigan Science, Arts and Letters Conference, Lawrence Technological University, MI, 2024.
Sara Potter co-authored a conference presentation with McKenna Sandford (undergrad) titled "Why women choose: A narrative analysis of contemporary perspectives on childbearing," presented at the Michigan Science, Arts and Letters Conference, Lawrence Technological University, MI, 2024.
Sara Potter published "Maternal Resilience After Hurricane Maria: The Foregrounding of Productive Action and Use of Alternative Logics in the Development of Proactive Maternal Agency" in Women & Language, 46(1), 2024.
Sara Potter has an under contract book chapter titled "Rewiring for resilience: Narratives of chosen kinship and communal mothering in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria" in P. Buzzanell (Ed.), The Language of Resilience edited collection, Peter Lang Group, 2025.
Sara Potter attended National Communication Association's Institute for Faculty Development (2025).
Sara Potter attended the Upper Peninsula Teaching and Learning Conference (2025).
Sara Potter attended the Boschner and Ellis Autoethnographic Storytelling in Qualitative Research Workshop (2025).
Sara Potter attended the International Virtual Symposium of Autoethnography and Narrative Research (2025).
Sara Potter attended Barnard Center for Research on Women presentation on Rage, Struggle, Freedom: Unveiling Feminist Perspectives on Global Crises? (2024).
Sara Potter attended the International Virtual Symposium of Autoethnography and Narrative Research (2024).
Sara Potter completed NMU's Vector Training on Effective Crisis Responses (2024).
Sara Potter attended the Inclusivity Foundations workshop on Designing Inclusive Discussions (2024).
Sara Potter attended McMillian Professional Development Series on Sense of Belonging and Metacognition (2024).
Sara Potter attended the presentation Wikipedia & Politics: Improving articles for a more informed public (2024).
Josh Ewalt published "Toward a rhetorical theory of res potentiae: Place, scale, and rhetoric's actualization of living futures" in Western Journal of Communication 89(3), 478-496, 2025.
Josh Ewalt has a book manuscript in progress titled "Rhetoric, Materiality, and Ontologies of Real Potential" (anticipated submission: 2026).
Josh Ewalt served as Rhetorical Criticism Writing Workshop Co-Leader: Writing Workshop Pod 8, Midwest Winter Rhetoric Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2024).
Josh Ewalt co-authored a conference presentation with Ricky Jachlake (undergrad), Claire Sargent (undergrad), and Carol Trotti (undergrad) titled "I can't believe I have to make this video:' A Rhetorical Analysis of Image Restoration and the YouTube Apology," presented at the Michigan Science, Arts and Letters Conference (2025).
Criminal Justice Department
Publication of a chapter in book Policing the Global South
A paper accepted for publication as a chapter in Environmental Crime
A manuscript in progress on visual ethnography that should be complete by fall for presentation at the annual ASC meeting in November
Presented a paper at the American Society of Criminology in San Francisco, CA
Secured a $200,000 one-time funding allocation in 2024 from the Michigan State Police to support the expansion of the cold case program
Initiated a partnership with Mike Flamm and Delta V to allow NMU students to beta test Delta V's 3D crime scene-scanning software.
Earth, Environmental & Geographical Sciences Department
Drs. Sarah Mittlefehldt (PI), Adam T. Naito, and Matthew Van Grinsven (EEGS) are collaborating with Drs. Diana Lafferty (Biology) and April Lindala (CNAS), as well as Kathy Richards (Facilities) on the SISU-supported "The Northern Woodshed Project."
Dr. Adebiyi has been researching how non-certified organic farming contributes to local food and nutrition security using systems methods and participatory approaches, while also developing contextual metrics to measure food security and nutrition outcomes.
Dr. Adebiyi has been using spatial data and interviews to explore threats to prime agricultural lands in the Upper Peninsula, including those posed by solar farms.
Dr. Adebiyi has been collaborating with Dr. Alice Nakiyemba, the Dean, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, at Busitema University to explore gendered roles in wetland rice production in Eastern Uganda.
Dr. Adebiyi has been collaborating with Dr. Epila Jackie at Lira University in Uganda to explore the opportunities that Asystasia gangetica ssp. micrantha, a forgotten, nutritious, drought-tolerant, resilient and indigenous green leafy vegetable that grows in the wild in Uganda, presents for enhancing food security in the country, addressing the questions of whether the consuming public would be willing to embrace and consume the vegetable, whether farmers and others would be willing to cultivate it, the perceived challenges associated with growing the crop, and how best to address those.
Dr. Adebiyi (PI) has been collaborating with Drs. Fatimat Adebiyi, Kari Farkas-Lasich, and Palmer Abbey to explore stakeholders' perceptions of opportunities in aquaponics for driving economic growth and enhancing nutritional security in Northern Michigan, while also investigating the challenges that need to be addressed for these systems to achieve the said objectives.
Dr. Adebiyi is collaborating with NMU Dining on a project that involves auditing, characterizing, and quantifying post-consumer waste at Northern Michigan University, as well as surveying and conducting focus group discussions with students to gather insights into the causes of post-consumer food waste at campus restaurants and their thoughts on how to address the issue.
Dr. Adebiyi is leading a research project seeking to understand consumer plastic consumption, reuse, and recycling behaviors in the Upper Peninsula, exploring residents' awareness of the environmental issues associated with increased plastic use, their interest in transitioning to sustainable alternatives, and how best to support them in making this shift, with the findings being used to propose recommendations for reducing the plastic consumption footprint.
Dr. Adebiyi has been collaborating with Drs. Phillip Yangyuoru and Mathew Van Grinsven to investigate trace heavy metals in produce locally bought in Marquette.
Dr. Adebiyi is conducting applied research on the sustainability challenges threatening the Graveraet School Garden's viability and how to address them.
Dr. Adebiyi is exploring how Lincoln Community Garden and Marquette Community Gardens (MCG) can be sustainably maintained in the long term.
Dr. Adebiyi has been exploring the sustainability challenges of individual gardening in private or public spaces in Marquette County and how to address them.
Dr. Stock has been collaborating with Dr. Benjamin Sovacool (Director, Institute for Global Sustainability, Boston University) investigating the social and ecological injustices of solar development in India at each node of the solar value chain.
Dr. Stock has been collaborating with Dr. Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong(University of Denver) and Dr. Philip Antwi-Agyei (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana) to examine the gender politics of solar development in Ghana.
Dr. Stock has been collaborating with Dr. Dustin Mulvaney (San Jose State University) to investigate the solar waste value chain in India.
Dr. Sarah Mittlefehldt received a competitive grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to research the international development of wood distillation technologies in the early twentieth century.
Dr. Sarah Mittlefehldt received NMU's Peter White Scholar Award to examine the evolution of forest-based energy systems in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
EEGS faculty mentored thirty (30) presentations at the 2025 Celebration for Student Scholarship on April 17, 2025; visiting scholar Dr. Justine Nakintu mentored students on three (3) additional co-authored posters. https://nmu.edu/eegs/celebration-student-scholarship
- Dr. Kusek published a book: Moving UP North. Immigrant Experiences of Professionals in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Springer.
Economics Department
Hugo Eyzaguirre put together a session that was accepted for the Association for Private Enterprise Education 2025 conference: "Teaching Free Market Principles in Hispanic America: Opportunities, Challenges, and Realities," with panelists across Latin America.
Joshua Ingber was published in the European Journal of Political Economy, an A journal in the field.
Joshua Ingber also delivered a chapter, collaborating with the Political Science department, in a book being edited by Petra Hendrickson.
Dr. Hsin-Ling Hsieh did a presentation about virtue-based economics education at the 99th annual conference of Western Economic Association International (WEAI) in 2024 and published a proceeding about a collaborative and interdisciplinary research that she did with faculty and students at the University of California Riverside (UCR), the article is available at the 2024 Frontiers in Education Proceedings website: WIP: Using Stories from Traditional Culture to Teach Virtue-Based Engineering Ethics | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore
School of Education Leadership and Public Service
Faculty member collaborates with colleagues in Clinical Lab Sciences, Nursing, and Business on an interdisciplinary study examining how poverty simulations impact empathy development.
Currently in the 2nd year of a faculty led research group on the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) using large language models.
Faculty member is exploring the potential of using video recordings of teachers demonstrating specific methods and strategies as a rehearsal tool to effectively train and improve the skills of novice teachers.
Faculty member delivered multiple speaking engagements on campus, including as a guest speaker in NMU's IP 190 - Introduction to International Studies course, where they publicly shared with students about the benefits and opportunities of traveling abroad. They delivered two Skill Builder! Workshops entitled Navigating the Path to Teaching Abroad and gave a presentation open to NMU teacher candidates on the same topic.
Faculty member has a strong research interest in the integration of AI for educational purposes, particularly in enhancing curriculum design and instructional methodologies. This focus was central to the 2024 U.P. Teaching and Learning Conference (UPTLC), where they engaged with emerging best practices in AI-driven pedagogy.
Kennedy is guest editing a special issue of The Educational Forum later this year, exploring arts-based approaches to educational research.
Kennedy continues to publish and present qualitative research regarding the new teacher experience, including her recent piece "Here ghost nothing: A novice teacher's letter to the ghosts that haunt them" in Teaching and Teacher Education.
Christi Edge, Bethney Bergh, and Abby Cameron-Standerford were invited to be guest editors for a special issue of a top-tier research journal, Studying Teacher Education.
Christi Edge was invited to be executive editor for a top-tier education journal, Teaching and Teacher Education.
Christi Edge was invited to be co-editor of a top-tier teacher education research journal, Studying Teacher Education.
National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, Michigan Middle School Master Teachers Program (MTP); Implementation Project Team Member. Award Abstract #2345094. $2,700,000; NMU Project Leaders (Joe Lubig and Christi Edge).
TalentFirst and the Michigan Center for Adult College Success grant. Michigan Adults Access to Credentials, "Mighty MAAC"; Co-Writer; Co-PI. Award $905,750 (Christi Edge).
Michigan Department of Education grant, Rural Experiential Credential Hub (RECH), Central Michigan University Consortium for Addressing Rural Education Expansion and Retention (MiCAREER) Resource Hub. Experiential Learning Assessment (ELA) Consultant and NMU Co-Project Leader. Award, $15,000,000; NMU Sub awardee (Joe Lubig and Christi Edge).
Christi Edge was invited to be spotlight speakers for the 2024 Upper Peninsula Teaching and Learning Conference (SELPS, Heather Isaacson, Clinical Lab Sciences, and Matt Smock, Center for Teaching and Learning).
Christi Edge was invited Research Collaboration and Round Table Presentation, Japanese Teaching Society.
Christi Edge is Scholar for Extended Learning and Community Engagement in partnership with Global Campus, Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), and the ELCE Division at NMU.
Christi Edge is Frontiers in Teacher Education journal Associate Editor.
Peer-reviewed national and international conference presentations (SELPS faculty).
Peer-reviewed publications (SELPS faculty).
Kristen White co-authored "Teaching with Literacy Programs," which received the 2025 Gloria J. Ladson-Billings Outstanding Book Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE).
Engineering Technology Department
Dr. Glenn Wrate is the Program Chair of the Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) for the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) and will be running the program at this year's conference in Montreal, Quebec, in June.
Dr. Seth Norberg will present his research titled "Let the students lecture! Programmed peer instruction in foundational engineering courses" at ASEE annual conference in Montreal, Canada, this June.
English Department
Joseph Self presented his research on Hades adaptations throughout modern literature at the SWPACA conference in Albuquerque, NM (February 19th, 2025).
Joseph Self was on a panel titled "Land as Pedagogy" in Leanne Simpson's "As We Have Always Done" for NMU's UNITED conference (March 18th, 2025).
Dr. Amy Hamilton worked with a colleague from Turf Science at the University of Minnesota to research and write a chapter about grass management at Gettysburg Military Park that was accepted to be published in a scholarly anthology about public land management.
Dr. Amy Hamilton presented on three panels at the Western Literature Association conference.
Dr. Kel Sassi received the Julia E. Berry Research Award to Study Careers of English Majors in Fall 2024. This award supports NCTE members in the teaching, learning, and application of literacy learning. It is awarded every other year to one proposal selected from a nation-wide pool of proposals. Her proposal, "Versatility and Resilience in English Alumni from a Rural-Serving Institution," was chosen for this year's recognition, and it includes $1,500 support for the project.
Dr. Kel Sassi presented her work in a roundtable titled "Current Conversations about Young Adult Literature in the Classroom," at the National Council for Teachers of English Annual Convention Boston, MA on November 22, 2024.
Dr. Kel Sassi brought three undergraduate students to the Michigan Council for Teachers of English annual conference in Lansing in October 2024—Ashley Kluting, Erin O'Donnell, and Julia Jacklin—as well as NMU alum Shelby McGlinch. They presented on "Building New Tables: Preservice Teachers Share Rationales for the YAL Texts We Should Be Reading".
Carmen Ollila achieved the Student Technology and Innovation Award at NMU using work from her thesis, "Teaching Video Composition and Digital Rhetoric in the YouTube Era," where she researched how to use innovative and technological ideas and pedagogical approaches for college composition students to convey academic research and information through video essays instead of standard essay writing.
Miranda Williams had fiction and poetry published in Blue Mesa Review, Hunger Mountain, Five on the Fifth, and Pithead Chapel in the 24/25 academic year.
Ari Koontz signed a book deal with a major publisher for her middle-grade debut novel, set to be published in spring 2026, which was written and revised during her time in the MFA program.
Dr. Lesley Larkin published a 100,000-word monograph on contemporary literature and genomics: Reading in the Postgenomic Age: Race, Discipline, and Bionarrativity in Contemporary North American Literature (Ohio UP, April 2025).
Dr. Lesley Larkin presented a chapter from her book at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS): "Tracing Textual Metaphors in Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Gene: An Intimate History.
Dr. Lesley Larkin will present her research on postgenomic literature at the Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) in May 2025.
Matthew Frank's nonfiction book, Submersed: Wonder, Obsession, and Murder in the World of Amateur Submarines will be published in June 2025 by Pantheon Books; Submersed will also be published as a Penguin Random House Audiobook in June 2025.
Matthew Frank's nonfiction book, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers, was optioned for television/film by Bullitt Entertainment, Inc., Eclipse Pictures, Inc., Badabing Pictures.
Dr. David Wood has a forthcoming 9,000 word essay-- "Gifts, Commodities, and Social Customs from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to David Lowery's The Green Knight." Conveying the Renaissance: A Tribute to Charles S. Ross. U of Delaware P. [forthcoming 2025].
Dr. Kia Jane Richmond published an article, "Visual Literacy and Mental Illness: Using Literacy Quadrants with Pre-service Teachers" in English in Education, which was co-authored with Dr. Elsie Lindy Olan (University of Central Florida). Additionally, Dr. Olan and she presented their research related to young adult literature at the annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, and they facilitated a workshop at the annual Conference on English Leadership, focusing on leadership, curriculum, and challenging the literary canon.
Nicolette Visciano presented on a panel at the National Council of Teachers of English 2024 conference in Boston, on the topic of "Young Adult Literature for Hope and Healing.
Nicolette Visciano was awarded first-place for Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival's One-Act Play Contest 2025 for her original play titled Spit, which will also be published in Bayou Magazine.
Nicolette Visciano earned her first publication for her poem "society's pearl necklace" within Flying Ketchup Press's women's anthology titled Of Our Own Accord: Women's Embodied Poetry.
Selah Tay-Song traveled to San Diego to interview climate scientists with the help of the Excellence in Education Grant, and returned with data and ideas to apply to her thesis, a climate-fiction novel.
Dr. Lynn Domina published two books during the past year, Approaches to Teaching Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (MLA, 2024) and Killing Him (poetry, Harvard Square Press, 2025), a bibliographic article "Denise Levertov" in Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature (Oxford University Press, 2025); about a dozen individual poems in anthologies and magazines; and was selected by the City of Marquette as Writer of the Year.
Dr. Z.Z. Lehmberg has one chapter accepted to be published in an OER textbook, Writing Something Worth Reading.
Adam Nesbit presented on a panel at the Michigan Writing Centers Association Ideas Exchange conference in Lansing, MI.
Dr. Ben Wetherbee presented his paper "Ethical Recollection: Joseph Priestley's Topics in the Shadow of Dogmatism" at the International Society for the History of Rhetoric Conference in Vancouver, BC, submitted a draft of the paper "Toward Logological Skepticism: Kenneth Burke and the Question of Atheism" to a special issue of the Journal for the History of Rhetoric, and edited three book review manuscripts for Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture, where he serves as review editor.
Dr. Patricia Killelea's third poetry collection, Solace: Poems from the Northwoods, was selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diane Seuss for the 2025 Summit Series Prize and will be published by Central Michigan University Press in February 2026.
Dr. Patricia Killelea serves as Poetry Editor for the student-run literary journal Passages North, as well as on the Poetry Editorial Board for FENCE Magazine, where she recently judged the 2025 FENCE Modern Poets Series prize, sponsored by the T.S. Eliot Foundation.
Dr. Patricia Killelea is an internationally-awarded video poetry filmmaker and scholar, whose poetry films were recently screened at Weimar Poetryfilmtage – Sonderprogramme/Special Programmes Showcase (Germany, 2024), REELpoetry/HoustonTX: International Poetry Film & Video Festival (Houston, 2024), and received an honorable mention for the Midwest Video Poetry Festival (Madison, 2024).
Dr. Patricia Killelea's poetry recently appeared in the bilingual print anthology Poem Film Imprints Vol. 1, Frame to Frames: Your Eyes Follow II/Cuadro a Cuadros: Tus Ojos Siguen II (ekphrastic poetry + films/cine + poesía ecfrástica), Bilingual Edition, published by Liberated Words, Bath, UK (August 2024).
Dr. Chad Seader co-edited the creative writing section of The Community Literacy Journal, and led a workshop at the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Dr. Robert Whalen transcribed and began work on a hitherto neglected and unpublished Latin poem celebrating the 1619 publication of King James I's Opera regia (or Workes), ascribed in a Harvard manuscript to seventeenth-century author George Herbert.
Dr. Robert Whalen discovered in a manuscript miscellany, at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, a wholly unknown Latin poem celebrating the 1620 publication of Francis Bacon's Novum Organum and very likely to be authored by Herbert.
Dr. Robert Whalen discovered in the archives at Cambridge University Library nine previously unknown letters bearing witness to Herbert's activity as Cambridge Orator in the early 1620s, four of them in Herbert's own hand—the first such discovery in the history of modern Herbert scholarship.
Dr. Robert Whalen secured an agreement in principle with Studies in Philology to document, examine, and publish the above materials as two extensive articles that supplement their appearance in volume two of the Oxford Herbert, for which Whalen serves as lead editor.
Dr. Robert Whalen received a 2024 NMU Research Grant, which funded in part the work described above.
Dr. Robert Whalen received a two-semester NMU sabbatical award.
Dr. Robert Whalen signed a contract with Oxford University Press to publish an article in the The Oxford Handbook of George Herbert.
Dr. Robert Whalen completed the work scheduled for year three of a $300,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant, his fourth NEH award.
Dr. Robert Whalen, with co-editor Christopher Hodgkins (University of North Carolina-Greensboro), published volume one of George Herbert: Complete Works, a 576-page edition of Herbert's English prose, replete with newly established texts based on the earliest manuscripts and early-modern print editions, and alongside extensive textual and critical apparatus (Oxford University Press, April 2025).
Abby LaForest researched, written, and published three articles this academic year on behalf of the Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center's Maamawi-Ozhigi/Together We Grow website; "Charting Northern Stars: NMU's Space Exploration and Education in the U.P.," "Hearts of Champions: Alumni Athletic Coaches and Their U.P. Legacies," and "This Land is Our Land: Yooper Relationships to the Environment and NMU".
Abby LaForest conducted a live poetry reading for the Graduate Writers Association, and participated in radio recordings for National Poetry Month 2025.
Randi Clemens was an invited reader to two community poetry readings including one which was part of the Great Lakes Poetry Festival and submitted her full-length poetry manuscript to several contests and was named a semi-finalist for the Anhinga Press Prize for Poetry, though her work was not selected for publication.
Dr. David Boe gave a presentation titled "Linguistic historiography and 'History of English' pedagogy" at the annual meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (January 2025).
Ronnie Ferguson published three books of poetry (When I Was a Fire, A Good Fight is Hard to Find, and Divorce Comedy) and completed two tours throughout the Midwest in support of their releases.
Alex Watanen was awarded the Excellence in Education grant, which he used to fund a research trip to Newberry, Michigan, where he conducted ethnographic research that was instrumental to the creation of many poems in his MFA thesis manuscript Scrounge, a work exploring rural abjection and post-industrial life in the Midwest.
Barbra Lounsbury wrote no less than 12 letters of recommendation for students applying for internal (NMU Donor Funded, etc.) and external scholarship programs this academic year.
Averi Fier applied for the Excellence in Education grant, which asked that she write about her research in a completely new genre. In turn, this process helped her reframe and rethink what "research" means to her, as an MA student. This has led to a greater appreciation for research, as well as a reframing of her research process.
College of Graduate Studies and Research
The Dean, following the Intellectual Property policy and associated procedures, facilitated successful submission of a patent for "GENETICALLY ENCODED FLUORESCENT INDICATOR OF D-2-HYDROXYGLUTARATE" invented by Dr. Evan Pratt and Dr. Matt Jennings.
The Director of Research Admin and OSP showcased faculty researchers in fall and winter semester Faculty Buzz Sessions.
Research Advisory Council (RAC), in addition to research program application reviews and recommendations, reviewed the one-time Provost Special Travel Funding Award to identify 7 graduate and 14 undergraduate students.
Office of Sponsored Programs held Principal Investigator Workshops to introduce faculty and staff to resources and procedures for seeking internal awards and external grants, a total of 120 employees have received training to date.
47 Proposals were submitted to external sponsors in partnership with NMU faculty and staff a total of 13 Awards were confirmed for funding. (January '24 - April '25) OR report on 41 submitted/9 confirmed (May '24 - April '25).
With Administrative support from the Office of Sponsored Programs, the IRB, 65 reviewed protocols, while the IACUC reviewed 20 new protocols in the Fall and Winter semesters.
The Faculty Grants committee was supported administratively for the review of all Reassigned Time Awards, Faculty Research Grants, Peter White Award for faculty and for students the Excellence In Education, Spooner, and Provost Special Travel Awards. The Magnaghi award was also distributed in this academic year.
School of Health and Human Performance
Dr. Marguerite Moore is the Mark R. and Eileen Lovell Endowed Professor specializing in athletic training, concussion research, and functional neurology, with extensive publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Moore has secured multiple grants for research and directs the Concussion Research Clinic since 2021.
Current research project "The Effects of a 4-Week Brain-Based Hockey Training Program" is a two-year project with plans for undergraduate presentations and team publication.
Research shows improvements in all participants from start to finish of the research program, with every single participant improving their reaction time and peripheral vision and subjectively feeling they improved overall through participation.
Languages, Literatures and International Studies Department
Dr. Maria (Lupe) Arenillas travelled to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, to do a workshop with the "Cátedra Libre de Pueblos Originarios de la Patagonia Austral" in March 2024. As a result, the group published the following: Gerrad Cecilia, Rodríguez, Mariela Eva Rodríguez and María G. Arenillas. "Los Colonos: el western patagónico desde el sur," Latin American Literary Review, vol. 51, n.103, 2024, 70-82.
Dr. Maria (Lupe) Arenillas wrote "Filmmaking, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Resurgences North South" in: "Decolonizing Film Studies Curricula: Approaches Through Latin American Cinemas," In Focus, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, forthcoming.
Dr. Tara Foster continued work on an edition of the 15th-century French Roman de Saladin and attended will attend the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo in May.
Dr. Michael Joy and Dr. Anna Zimmer presented on the history of the Honors Program at the 2024 Sonderegger Symposium.
Dr. Anna Zimmer offered a Humanities perspective on the Science, Scholarship, and Advocacy Panel as part of NMU's Diversity in STEM week - February 27, 2025.
Dr. Anna Zimmer participated as a panelist on the Panel Discussion on "Tackling Tough Topics with Art and Literature" as part of the Coming to See Aunt Sophie programming organized by Dr. Petra Hendrickson in March 2025.
Dr. Rebecca Ulland is in the final editing stages of her article "Teaching The Hate U Give Film in the Gender & Sexuality Studies Classroom" that will be a published chapter in the Modern Language Association Teaching volume dedicated to this novel, edited by Brigitte Fielder.
Dr. Tim Compton's book, Mexico In Its Theatre, will be published by Latin American Theatre Books later this year.
Dr. Tim Compton published "Mexico City's Summer 2024 Theatre Season." Fall 2024 in Latin American Theatre Review. 122-142. (Co-written with Nicholas Sheets.)
Dr. Tim Compton wrote "Homenaje a Ignacio Solares." In Solares, prodigio de lo invisible (Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua). Published in August 2024.
Dr. Tim Compton travels to Mexico every summer to complete research on the Mexico City theater scene.
Timothy Compton published a review of Mexico City's summer 2024 theatre season in the Fall 2024 edition of the journal Latin American Theatre Review.
Library and Instructional Services
Emera Bridger Wilson presented on NMU's OER work at three conferences--UP Regional Library Consortium conference (September), American Colleges and Research Libraries (ACRL) conference (April) and the Conference on College Composition and Communication (4C). She will present with two NMU faculty--ZZ Lehmberg and Nancy Gold--at the 4C conference
Lynne Lambdin presented a poster titled " Conquering imposter syndrome: a systems librarian's journey to a well-rounded skill set" at the 2024 ALA annual conference and a poster titled "National Coming Out Day: Success and Failure" at the 2024 ALA Core Forum in November, highlighting the outcomes and impact of the event.
Rebecca Daly had two presentations at the Upper Peninsula Regional Library Conference (UPRLC) annual Fall conference; "Cataloging: a beautiful mind(field)!" and "Do chatbots dream of electronic libraries?", along with a Protest Poster Art history presentation for a Gender and Sexuality Studies committee sponsored Skillbuilder session.
Music Department
Dr. Erin Colwitz, Dr. Stephen Grugin, and Dr. Dwight Brady(CAMS) collaborated on the creation of instrumental and vocal versions of "Northern Pride" (NMU's new Alma Mater).
Dr. Colwitz was selected by her peers to conduct the Michigan SATB Honor choir in January of 2025.
Patrick Booth was accepted into a month-long residency at The Narrows Artist Retreat to create new works for creative musicians, as well as study materials to help engaged students build frameworks for creative practicing on their instruments.
Patrick Booth was accepted to present at the International Conference on New Music Concepts in Treviso, Italy.
Patrick Booth was the guest artist and clinician for the Lake Geneva High School Jazz Band Spring performance in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Patrick led workshops and masterclasses for all students, and was the featured performer for their end-of-year concert.
Patrick Booth released two albums: Try Your Best in collaboration with Sunken Melody, and Golden Roads in collaboration with Seth Bernard.
Dr. Jeff Vickers received a Faculty Research Grant to commission Dr. Gregory Wanamaker to compose a new classical music piece for tenor saxophone and piano.
Dr. Mark Flaherty published two brass quintet arrangements of works by the English composer Peter Philips (c. 1560-1628).
In April 2024, Dr. Amorette Languell-Pudelka presented two practitioner sessions at the Connecticut Music Educators Association (CMEA) annual state conference in Hartford, CT.
Dr. Amorette Languell's research team published an article entitled "Fostering Literacy Skills Through Authentic Integration in K-8 Music Classrooms" in the Journal of General Music Education.
Physics Department
One faculty member continued to work with collaborators at the Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory with the publication of two research papers in 2024 from previous experiments, the completion of data collection on a novel experimental approach to neutron charge form factor measurements and continued work on installation of the proton charge form factor experiment.
One faculty member has published two peer reviewed publications.
One faculty member has presented six presentations at Physics conferences (both international and domestic) with at least one being an invited talk at an international conference.
One faculty member was involved in an international collaboration experiment performed in the United Kingdom.
One faculty member is a leader of international collaboration in the Semiconductor Community and also in the Muon Spin Research Community.
One faculty member serves on the advisory committee for the 16th International Conference on Muon Spin Rotation, Relaxation, and Resonance.
One faculty member submitted proposals with an economic equivalent of approximately $400,000. of which $300,000. was approved/executed. The remainder was ranked high but not funded yet.
Psychological Science Department
Awards
Grace Albert was recognized for serving 45 years at NMU
Lin Fang awarded the Northern Michigan University Faculty Technology Award
Forrest Toegel awarded APA Division 25 B. F. Skinner Foundation New Researcher Award for Basic Research
Forrest Toegel awarded Northern Michigan University Innovation Award
Scholarship
Amber LaCrosse co-authored a paper in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and later awarded an Editorial Fellowship for this journal.
Wells, M., Hoffmann, J., Stage, A., Enger, I., Pomper, J., Briggs, L., & LaCrosse, A. (2024). Efficacy of Fluoxetine and (R, S) Ketamine in Attenuating Conditioned Fear Behaviors in Male Mice. The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 100028. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/jpet.124.002252
LaCrosse, A. L., May, C. E., Griffin, W. C., & Olive, M. F. (2024). mGluR5 positive allosteric modulation prevents MK-801 induced increases in extracellular glutamate in the rat medial prefrontal cortex. Neuroscience, 555, 83-91. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2024.06.016
Joshua Carlson published journal articles in the area of environmental/climate neuroscience in journals such as the Journal of Environmental Psychology and the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Carlson, J.M., Oja, M.*, & Fang, L. (2025). Intrinsic functional connectivity correlates of pro-environmentalism. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 102512.
Prus AJ, Van Fossen MT, Iannucci AN, Dalton AG, and Prete JN (2024) Discriminative stimulus properties of two training doses of gabapentin in rats: substitution by pregabalin, diazepam, and pentobarbital. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology Advance, 32(4), 485-495. https://doi.org/10.1037/pha0000704 APA Editor's Choice Selection.
Toegel, F., Dumas, A. D., & Perone, M. (2025). Contributions of delay, duration, and intensity of shock on rats' choices involving conflicting-valence consequences. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 123. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70008
Orme. S., Zarkin, G. A., Dunlap, L. J., Luckey, J., Novak, M. D., Toegel, F., Holtyn, A. F., & Silverman, K. (2025). Cost and cost-effectiveness of abstinence-contingent wage supplements for adults experiencing homelessness and alcohol use disorder. Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 169, 209569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.josat.2024.209569
Toegel, F., *Baranski, M., & Toegel, C. (in press, 2025). Effects of alcohol intoxication goggles on undergraduate student performance in field sobriety tests and simulated driving. Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research.
Toegel, F., Eckard, M., Nall, R., & Craig A. (in press). Persistence and Relapse of Problematic Substance Use. In H. S. Roane, J. L. Ringdahl , T. S. Falcomata, & W. Sullivan (Eds.), Clinical and Organizational Applications of Applied Behavior Analysis, Second Edition. Academic Press.
Oral Presentations
Forrest Toegel was the speaker or co-speaker for conferences or events held at Association for Behavior Analysis International, Northern Michigan University, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, Behavior Analysis Association of Michigan, Upper Peninsula Association for Behavior Analysis
Cory Toegel was the speaker or co-speaker for conferences or events held at Association for Behavior Analysis International, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, Behavior Analysis Association of Michigan, Upper Peninsula Association for Behavior Analysis
Grants
Joshua Carlson (PI), Jon Barch, Lin Fang, Cory Toegel, and Forrest Toegel awarded a National Science Foundation grant, titled "MRI: Acquisition of a dual-acquisition high-density EEG with transcranial electrical neuromodulation for psychophysiological research." ($413,282)
Lin Fang received the SISU Innovation Funding (Role: PI), $143,000 in the Fall of 2024.
Lin Fang received 2024-2025 NMU Technology Innovation Award
Adam Prus awarded a grant from the Peter F. McManus Charitable Trust grant, titled "Effects of alcohol on the subjective effects of gabapentin" ($22,214)
Cory Toegel awarded an Northern Michigan University Faculty Research Grant, titled "Investigating Laboratory Arrangements to Study Choice: Impulsivity and Self Control" Northern Michigan University Faculty Research Grant ($7,000)
Cory Toegel awarded and Northern Michigan University Reassigned Time Award, titled "Evaluating Self-Controlled and Impulsive Choice in Animal Models"
Forrest Toegel awarded an RO1 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, titled "Long-Term Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder" ($2,586,988)
Forrest Toegel co-principal investigator on a grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, titled "Contingency Management to Enhance Office-Based Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder." ($2,403,943)