Faculty Accomplishments

Was selected as one of ten national ImmunoReach Education Scholars for 2022, an NSF-funded faculty mentoring network for immunology educators.

Was invited to join the inaugural Junior Editorial Board of mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

Co-led a session "Public preprint review as a tool to empower the next generation of socially-conscious peer reviewers" at the 2021 FeedbackASAP meeting on peer review hosted by ASAPbio, HHMI, DORA, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Rebeccah Lijek gave a seminar "Teaching Peer Review with COVID-19 Preprints" and hosted a roundtable discussion "STEM in the Liberal Arts" at the 2021 American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators.

Lijek's research was the subject of an editorial in The Scientist by James L. Sherley, Exorcising Ghostwriting from Peer Review. In an invited response, Lijek published the essay Postdocs as Competent Peer Reviewers also in The Scientist. Her editorial summarizes for a lay audience the policy recommendations that she details in her recent academic manuscript, Practical changes to reduce ghostwriting in peer review.

Interviewed for articles in The Scientist, Inside Higher Ed, Science, Nature, and Physics Today about her recent publication on making the peer review of manuscripts more equitable for early career researchers.

Maciuba, A. (2023) Tributary, Solo Exhibition at the Lawrence Arts Center

WAVE / SURGE / SPIKE, an exhibition by Amanda Maciuba, Jessica Tam & Jen Morris will be open at A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery in Northampton, MA. November 10 – December 4, 2021. Reception: Fri, Nov. 12, 5-8PM and Zoom Panel Discussion: Thurs, Nov. 18, 7:30PM with the artists and moderator Amy Brady.

Has been named Associate Editor of POLIS: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Thought.

Was a Hispanic Heritage Month speaker at San Bernadino Valley College. Matos offered a virtual reading from their book, La familia: And other secret ingredients to Latinx student success.