AWARDS

AWARDS, PUBLICATIONS, & PRESENTATIONS

Below is a list of awards, recognitions, publications, and presentations.

• Nominated for the Excellence in Teaching Award, Quinnipiac University (2021)
• Named Fellow of Center for Teaching and Learning, Quinnipiac University (2018)

• Quinnipiac University Faculty Service Learning Award (2014)

• Nominated for the Excellence in Teaching Award, Quinnipiac University (2013)

• Connecticut Nurses' Association Media Award (2013)

• Rotarian of the Year, Wallingford, CT Rotary Club (2012)

• Rotary International Worldwide "Service Above Self" Award (2009)

• Inducted into the Wallingford Education Foundation Hall of Fame (2006)

• Rotary Foundation District Service Award (2010)

• State of Connecticut General Assembly Citation (2006)

• State of Connecticut Attorney General Citation (2006)

• Named a Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary International (2005)

• Inducted into Sheehan High School (Wallingford, CT) Hall of Fame (1998)

• Telly & Lamplighter Awards for video production and website design (200-2001)

Scholarly & Professional Presentations

2010 - present

• Presentation: “Mobile Communication's Impact on Social Identity in the Bateyes of the Dominican Republic,” Association for Business Communication Regional Conference (2022)

• Presentation: "University Teaching in the Age of Digital Distraction," Eastern Communication Association Conference (2022)

• Panel Moderator & Presenter: "Researching in Underdeveloped International Settings. An Interdisciplinary Panel," Broadcast Education Association (2021)

• "University Teaching in the Age of Digital Distraction", Center for Teaching and Learning, Quinnipiac University (2019)

• Honors Program Faculty Presentation, "7th annual 60 Second Lectures," Quinnipiac University (2019)

• Reviewer for Radio News Division of the Student Media Festival, Broadcast Education Association (2018-19)

• Public Relations Society of America Educators Academy Poster Presentation, Boston, MA (2017)

• Eastern Communication Association panel presentation, Boston, MA (2017)

• Reviewer, Radio News Division of the Student Media Festival, Broadcast Education Association (2017)

• Broadcast Education Association "Scholar to Scholar" presentation, Las Vegas, NV (2016)

• AEJMC Midwinter Conference "International Division" presentation, Univ. of OK (2016)

• Keynote speaker on communication at regional medical conferences in San Francisco, Dallas, Toronto, Boston, Baton Rouge, Indianapolis, Arkansas, and New York City (2015-2017)

• Keynote speaker, Quinnipiac University's "Big Event" with 2,000+ people in attendance (2016)

• Keynote Speaker, Lamba Pi Eta Communications Honor Society, Quinnipiac University (2012)

• Fairfield University Clean Water Initiative Keynote Speaker (2014)

• Rotary Youth Leadership Seminar Presenter (2005-2015)

• Yale Univesity social media forum (2012)

• Yale Center for International Nursing Scholarship and Education Latin America Panel

Presentation on Dominican Republic (2009)

• Rotary International District Conferences (2004, 2006, 2008, 2009)

2010 - present

Professional Writing/Publications

• Book Chapter, Powers, John, Case Study: Mobile Communication in the Bateyes of the Dominican Republic, In: Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media Around the World, edited by Laskin, A., Rowman & Littlefield, 147-160, 2018.

• Huffington Post, multiple columns on mission work in the Dominican Republic

• Featured professor/communication professional, PR Week, (2015)

• Digital PR Guidebook, "How Non-Profits Can Soothe the Pain of Cutbacks with Digital PR" (2011)

• Yale Nursing Matters, Editor, Yale University

Grants

• Wadsworth Family Foundation - $220,000 for solar power, education, construction of homes, and sustainable nutrition in the Dominican Republic (2015-2022)

• American Baptist Churches "Matthew 25" Grants - $5,000 for solar power, nutrition/hunger issues in DR (2013-2017)

• Rotary International Districti Managed Grants - $5,000 for water filters and food in the DR (2012-2013)

• Rotary International Matching Grants - $29,000 for water filters and food in the Dominican Rep. (2010)

• Stutzman Family Foundation Grant - $10,000 for water filters in Dominican Rep. (2009)

• Rotary International Matching Grant - $21,000 for water filters in the Dominican Rep. (2007)

• Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield - $10,000 for The Children's Home (2005)

• Kellogg's Corporation - $7,500 for The Children's Home (2000)