Faculty and Staff Highlights: Bruce, Green, Sagovac and Hoover

January 05, 2026

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Webster University faculty and staff highlights offer a roundup of recent Webster faculty and staff activity and achievements.

Madeline Bruce

Webster University Professor Madeline Bruce, PhD, and colleagues at Saint Louis University published "Facets of Conflict in Emerging Adults" in Psychological Reports in Jan. 2026. Their research revealed the deleterious effects of conflict within a family on emerging adults, especially when conflict is needlessly avoided. Bruce and colleagues encourage intervention research to build family conflict resolution skill sets that reduce stress for everyone across the lifespan.

Ted Green

Professor Emerties and Adjunct Faculty member Ted Green, PhD, presented "Impacts of Memory Recall and Transformative Learning Experiences on Self and Others: Utilizing Technology and Creativity," analyzing four years of graduate student outcomes from Webster's Tashkent program. He examined memory recall exercises and transformative learning interview data within an international cohort. Students selected one memorable experience that involved a "disorienting dilemma" (discomfort, dissonance, disorientation or unexpectedness) or critical reflection that led to transformative learning, and analyzed their experiences using several matrices.

Chris Sagovac

Chris Sagovac's animated short "Hypnhadiqa" earned Best International Animated Short at the Golden Ger International Film Festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, received an honorable mention at the Post-Cinema Film Festival in Syracuse, Italy, and was a finalist at the 36th Girona Film Festival in Spain; it was also exhibited at Laumeier Sculpture Park's After Dark 2025 and in the Aronson Gallery alongside companion pieces, and screened widely across the U.S. and in 15 countries in Europe and Asia.

Elizabeth Hoover

Assistant Professor of English Elizabeth Hoover led an ekphrastic poetry workshop with the Evelyn Peeler Peacock Gallery and read at Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca, N.Y., alongside poets Joël Simeu Juegouo and Liza Flum. Hoover was the featured reader for the "Poets in Play" series at the Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes in Corning, N.Y.