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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.
Jacquelyne Luce and colleagues Kristin Bright at Middlebury College and Sarah Willen at the University of Connecticut have been awarded a $5,000 seed grant from the New England Humanities Consortium for their project, "Feminist Health Futures: Enacting Collaborative Pedagogies in Health Humanities." The grant will support a series of online dialogues about emerging models of collaborative undergraduate research and public scholarship in the health humanities and a workshop at Middlebury College in the late spring of 2023.
Luce, J. (2025). Diagnostic moments in the rare disease life narratives of mitochondrial disease patients in Germany. Medical Anthropology, 44(5), 414–426.
Luce, J. (2025). Mitochondrial replacement techniques: The perspectives of mitochondrial disease specialists in Germany. Social Science & Medicine, 382.
Maciuba, A. Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar, School of Art, Art History & Design, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
Maciuba, A. “Wild Art of the Great Plains”, Invited speaker at the Wild Great Plains 2025 Conference, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
Maciuba, A. “The Print Center's 99th ANNUAL International Competition”, semifinalist, juried by Drew Sawyer and Claudia E. Zapata, Philadelphia, PA,
Maciuba, A. “Watershed”, Invited Elizabeth Rubendall Artist-in-Residence and solo exhibition, curated by Ashley Wilkinson, Great Plains Art Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
Maciuba, A. (2024) Confluence, Solo Exhibition. September 5—October 16, 2024, Oresman Gallery, Smith College, Brown Fine Arts Center.