McDaniel faculty and staff in the news for Spring 2021

Matthew Mongiello, assistant professor of Political Science, was featured on WBAL-TV (NBC Baltimore) on Jan. 10 and Feb. 14 to discuss the 25th amendment and provide an analysis of the impeachment trial proceedings. He also was interviewed on Fox 45 Baltimore Morning News on Jan. 14 about what’s next in the impeachment process as it moved to the Senate and on Jan. 20 during special coverage of the inauguration of Joseph Biden, Jr., as the 46th president of the United States.

Chemistry professor Melanie Nilsson with co-author Mona Becker examined gender representation in college general chemistry textbooks and found that gender imbalance was ubiquitous among all publishers examined, which was featured in Chemical & Engineering News.

“I think the story line, if you look through these thousands of pages of text, is that women are undervalued. And that males, particularly White males, are the authority,” Nilsson said in the interview.

McDaniel College Chemistry lecturer Michael Polen was part of the Carnegie Mellon University research team that studied the impact that wildfires may have on cloud formation and climate change, which was published online in the journal “Science Advances."

For Colleges That Change Lives, Associate Vice President of Alumni & Admissions Heidi Reigel ’97 shared expert advice in an article on senior year anxiety and the college admissions process. 

“No one ever said that being a senior in high school is easy,” Reigel said in the article. “You have a lot to manage, and we want you to succeed. Give yourself grace and know that you aren’t alone. You’ve got this!”

Diane Williams, assistant professor of Kinesiology, wrote about the history and legacy of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) in transforming women’s college athletics, which was published April 4 in The Washington Post.

“But the AIAW shows that there is more than one way to make college sports work — for athletes, men and women alike, and schools,” Williams wrote in The Washington Post, Made by History section. “‘The AIAW is a governance organization,’ then-AIAW President Christine Grant declared in 1981, ‘but it is also an idea.’ Grant knew that whatever happened to the AIAW, ‘the idea will never die’ — and advocacy by female athletes and coaches over the past month shows how right she was.”

Kristi Yowell '00, M.S. '05, coordinator of the master’s degree program in Human Resources Management, was featured as an expert on Zippia about current trends seen in the job market during the pandemic.

“With much of the country working remotely during this time, it's a change we can expect to see continue post-pandemic. Employers have found that productivity has remained high, and in many cases, increased,” Yowell said in the article.