Faculty Pursuits: Week of Oct. 20, 2025

Dr. Pam Faber (Biology) is a member of the Seneca County Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), which is celebrating a new building at the Seneca County Fairgrounds. Pam did most of the fundraising for the building, which will have a ribbon-cutting at 5 p.m. Nov. 24. The new building will provide central housing for the CERT emergency vehicle and supplies, as well as the boats, trailers, and supplies for the Seneca County Water Rescue Team. In January, she will be one of three CERT members taking over the responsibilities of the Coordinator of CERT.  Recently, CERT provided traffic control with HU security for the Homecoming parade, and will do so again for May’s graduation procession to the stadium.

Additionally, Pam is a member of the ARES Ham radio club and Red Cross Disaster Action Team, each providing emergency response services within Seneca and surrounding counties. 

An essay by Dr. Desirae Matherly, (English), In Defense of Navel-Gazing, has been republished in the Fall 2025 issue of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. This piece was originally published in The University of Iowa’s The Essay Review in 2016, which has since gone offline. Karen Babine and the editors at Assay have devoted this issue, and several more to come, toward making these essays available once more. You can find the 12.1 issue of Assay here.  

Dr. Emily Isaacson (English, Honors) presented her paper, Memefying Shakespeare: Contemporary Fads and Anticipatory Sets for Teaching Gen Z and Gen Alpha, at the annual meeting of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference Oct. 16-18.

Dr. Richard Talbert (Communication/Media) presented his work, Cultural Intelligence, Cultural Sensitivity, and Cultural Competence in a Social Media World, at the 85th Pennsylvania Communication Association Conference Sept. 26-27.  Richard completed his two-year term as Member at Large and was elected Publicity Officer for the PCA.