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Students and professors work together well—and
often—at Moravian. Student-faculty research projects
have included a habitat analysis of the nearby Monocacy
Creek, robotic software development, and a study of cognitive
changes following stroke-prevention surgery.
 The text book Quantitative Reasoning: Tools for Today’s Informed Citizen, by Alicia Sevilla and Kay Somers, professors of mathematics at Moravian College, prepares students to save money for a down payment on a home, choose between health insurance alternatives, interpret survey results reported in the media and make other informed decisions in their daily lives (Key College Publishing, 2007).
Khristina Haddad, assistant professor of political science, presented a paper titled "Reading Saint Augustine for New Concepts, Not Old Beliefs: How to Validate Political Time as the Shared Condition of Communities with Apparently Irreconcilable Values, or What We Can Learn about City of God from Red States and Blue States." Her paper was presented on the panel "Strange Bedfellows: Secularism, Fundamentalism and Politics," at the 2006 annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association.
 Assistant professor of history Heikki Lempa’s book, Beyond the Gymnasium: Educating the Middle-Class Bodies in Classical Germany, has been published by Lexington Books. He describes it as the first systematic effort to examine the history of the body in modern Germany. "It reconstructs the ways the middle-class body became a source of political and social autonomy and a medium of social interaction," he notes.
Joseph Shosh, assistant professor of education, and Charlotte Zales, associate professor of education, concluded a five-year study of the Moravian Master of Education program in curriculum and instruction. The study, titled "Graduate Teacher Education as Inquiry: A Case Study of the Moravian M.Ed. Model," appeared in the international journal Teaching Education in early 2007. The study was also presented at annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Educational Research Association in October 2006.
 Dana Dunn is co-editor of the upcoming book Best Practices for Teaching Statistics and Research Methods in the Behavioral Sciences (January 2007, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates). It’s his sixth book in print, and the third he’s edited that deals with new pedagogies in psychology.
Paige Thompson, associate professor of nursing, authored an article titled "The Relationship of Fatigue and Meaning in Life in Breast Cancer Survivors." It’s been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal Oncology Nursing Forum in May 2007.
"Negotiating the Abyss: The Narration of Mourning in Sergio Chejfec’s Los Planetas," by Erica Yozell, assistant professor of Spanish, will appear in the peer-reviewed journal Latin American Literary Review in 2007.
 Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in the Late Medieval England (University of Pennsylvania press, 2006) by Sandy Bardsley, assistant professor of history at Moravian College, documents how deviant speech became increasingly feminized by Medieval moralists who considered the tongue a dangerous weapon.
"Tradition and Transformation in the Cult of St. Guthiac in Early Medieval England," by John Black, assistant professor of English, was published in the peer-reviewed electronic journal The Heroic Age.
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