Staff & Faculty

Angela Leeper, Education Studio director, was appointed by the American Library Association to serve on the 2025 Caldecott Committee, which awards the Caldecott Medal to the illustrator of the most distinguished American picture book.

Patrick Martin, assistant professor of computer science, directed robotics in the live human-robot performance, Together//Apart, demonstrating new human-robot teaming technologies to support dynamic interactions among humans and robots.

Stephen Ferguson, visiting assistant professor of biology published “Among-population variation in telomere regulatory proteins and their potential role as hidden drivers of intraspecific variation in life history” in the  Journal of Animal Ecology.

Carrie Wu, associate professor of biology, was recognized as one of “25 Inspiring Women in Plant Biology” by the American Society of Plant Biologist’s (ASPB’s) Women in Plant Biology Committee.

Andrew Schoeneman, associate professor and chair of nonprofit studies, gave the keynote address, titled Strengthening Communities, Building Movements & Facilitating Change: Independent Schools as Civil Society Organizations, at the Virginia Association of Independent Schools (VAIS) Advancement Institute in Staunton.

Jeremy Drummond, associate professor of art, presented his film “Dark Holler” as part of the exhibition What Does the Land Know?

Jillean McCommons, assistant professor of history and Africana studies, was awarded the 2024-2025 Wilma Dykeman "Faces of Appalachia" Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Appalachian Studies Association to support her book manuscript on Black Appalachian activism in the 1960s and 1970s.

Eric S. Yellin, associate professor of history, published, "Bringing the Constituents Back In: The Politics of Social Security in the 1950s," in the Journal of Policy History.