Katie Edwards, Assistant Professor of Psychology, COLA travels to South Africa and Kenya

Prof. Edwards travelled to Africa to learn more about the innovative sexual violence prevention work happening across the African continent and to discuss similarities and differences in violence prevention in South Africa and the U.S

Predictors of Teachers’ Intentions to Intervene in Student Relationship Abuse and Sexual Assault

We examined data from 505 school personnel to assess relationships between demographic factors and school personnel’s intentions and efficacy to intervene in situations of teen relationship abuse and sexual assault. Correlations and linear regressions will be used to predict this relationship. Implications for this analysis will be discussed

Tolyl-Substituted Siloles: Synthesis, Substituent Effects, and Aggregation-Induced Emission

The syntheses, spectroscopic characteristics, and electrochemical behavior of 1,1-dimethyl-2,5-diphenyl-3,4-bis(p-methylphenyl)silole and 1,1-dimethyl-2,3,4,5-tetra(p-methylphenyl)silole are reported. The compounds are weakly luminescent in dilute fluid solution but exhibit dramatic aggregation-induced emission (AIE). Absorbance, luminescence, and voltammetric characteristics are compared to 1,1-dimethyl-2,3,4,5-tetraphenylsilole and 1,1-dimethyl-3,4-diphenyl-2,5-bis(p-methylphenyl)silole, allowing a comparison of the effects of the position of the substituents on the silole ring. In addition, HOMO and LUMO energies and band gaps, derived from electrochemical, spectroscopic, and computational data, are reported. Substitution of the weakly electron-donating p-methyl groups on the peripheral aryl groups at the 2- and 5-positions of the silole ring results in slight red shifts in absorption and emission maxima, slight enhancement of luminescence quantum yields, slightly longer luminescence lifetimes, and more anodic oxidation potentials