Research and Honors, September 2026

Research and Honors is a monthly column of The Redbird Report, celebrating recent Honors, Publications, and Presentations of Illinois State University faculty and staff.

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Honors

Charles F. Thompson, BSC, received the Loye and Alden Miller Research Award for lifetime achievement in ornithological research at the 144th annual meeting of the American Ornithological Society at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Presentations

Tanaporn Supanichrattana, EAF, presented a paper titled "Leading in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Systematic Review of Higher Education Leadership Competencies" at the 5th International Conference on Education (SWUICE), hosted by Srinakharinwirot University in Bangkok, Thailand.

Caitlin M. Mercier, PSY, chaired and presented a symposium titled "Devalued and Sorted: Towards a Study of Gendered Colorist Microaggressions" at the 2026 Annual American Psychological Association Convention.

Publications

Yaman O Erzurumlu, BUS, published an article titled "Managing Biodiversity Disclosure in Global Firms: How Culture, Institutions and Risk Shape Corporate Reporting" in Business Strategy and Environment.

Sally Arnett-Hartwick, FCS, authored an article titled "An Analysis of Professional Development Preferences, Needs, and Engagement Among Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers in Illinois" in Journal of Research in Technical Careers, May 2026.

Catherine Sun, FCS, co-authored an article titled "How to enhance employees' emotional, cognitive, and intentional readiness for retail automation in the fashion retail industry: A mixed PLS-SEM, NCA, and fsQCA study" in Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, July 2026.

David Lane, CJS, authored an article titled "My Gig as a Tattoo Expert, and What It's Taught Me about the Sociology of Expertise" in The American Sociologist in July 2026.

Tahmid Rashid, IT, co-authored an article titled "PrivEdge-VLM: Risk-Adaptive Privacy-Preserving Edge Vision-Language Analytics for UAV-Assisted Cyber-Physical-Social Systems" in Computers Journal, July 2026.

Bin Lizzo, KNR, co-authored an article titled "Parting Thoughts: Dancing on the Edge" in Leisure Sciences, June 2026.

Isaac Chang, TEC, co-authored the following articles:

• "Feasibility of Immersive Virtual Reality for Delivering Semantic Feature Analysis to Adults with Communication Disorders and Normal Cognitive Aging" in International Journal of Telerehabilitation, June 2026; and
• "Navigating the Unseen: Readiness of Hands-on Labs for Visually Impaired Students" in 2026 ASEE Annual Conference, June 2026.

Jin Park, KNR, co-authored an article titled "A qualitative study exploring female graduate assistants in athletics: Gender-oriented career barriers and coping strategies" in Journal of Career Development, August 2026.

Kaitlyn Selman, CJS, co-authored an article titled "'If you think this vilifies the police, then you think the police are villains': Teaching Reparations Won as an antidote to copaganda" in Curriculum & Pedagogy, June 2026.

Ui-Jeen Yu, FCS, co-authored an article titled "Is showrooming driven by consumers' perceived risk of product performance in omnichannel shopping environments?" in International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education, June 2026.

Dave Malone, GEO, co-authored the following papers:

• "Detrital zircon chronofacies and sediment dispersal, Upper Mississippian-middle Permian strata of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains intracratonic orogen, western USA: Implications for orogenic evolution and climatic influence on depositional processes" in Laurentian Tectonics: A Celebration of the Life and Career of William A. Thomas;
• "The End of Paleogene White River Group Deposition in Wyoming and Nebraska, USA: A Distal Record of the Collapse and Emplacement of the Markagunt Gravity Slide at 23 Ma" in Geosciences; and
• "Geologic Map of the Hunter Mesa Quadrangle, Johnson County, Wyoming, Scale 1:24,000" in The Mountain Geologist.

Eric Peterson, GEO, co-authored a paper titled "Elevated Sulfate Concentrations in Groundwaters of Glaciated Terrains-Natural or Anthropogenic?" in Water, Air, & Soil Pollution.

John Blakeman, Kirsten Clerkin, Jessica Sullivan, and Cherrill Stockmann, NUR, co-authored a manuscript titled "Quality trauma-informed care in nurse practitioner (NP) students working with standardized patients presenting with substance use disorder: A qualitative multiple-case study" in the International Journal of Addiction Nursing.

Mary Dyck, Denise Hammer, and John Blakeman, NUR, co-authored a manuscript titled "A policy analysis of mandatory implicit bias training for perinatal nurses" in Nursing for Women's Health.

John Blakeman and MyoungJin Kim, NUR, co-authored a manuscript "Health care workers' conceptions of acute coronary syndrome-related chest pain: A cross-sectional, descriptive study" in the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

Yiming Guo, CAS/GEO, co-authored the following papers:

• "The Ecological Activity Index tool for mapping potential ecosystem exposure to ocean alkalinity enhancement" in Communications Sustainability; and
• "Field notes on public communication and engagement for the LOC-NESS Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement field trial" in ICES Journal of Marine Science.

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