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Melody Su

Publication

Su, Y.H., Sosnovskaya, Y., Hannaford, B., & Huang, K. (2020). Securing Robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery through Perception Complementarities. 2020 Fourth IEEE International Conference On Robotic Computing (IRC). https://doi.org/10.1109/irc.2020.00013  

Su, Y.H., Munawar, A., Deguet, A., Lewis, A., Lindgren, K., & Li, Y. et al. (2020). Collaborative Robotics Toolkit (CRTK): Open Software Framework for Surgical Robotics Research. 2020 Fourth IEEE International Conference On Robotic Computing (IRC). https://doi.org/10.1109/irc.2020.00014 

Honor

Liu, W.; Pickett, A.; Huang, K. & Su, Y.H. (2022). Camera Configuration Models for Machine Vision Based Force Estimation in Robot-Assisted Soft Body Manipulation. 2022 International Symposium On Medical Robotics (ISMR).

Melody Su continues her strong medical robotics research connections with UW, RIT, JHU and Trinity College. With the recent renovation completion of her new Intelligent Medical Robotics (IMeRo) research lab, she recruited eight Mount Holyoke research students to participate in her ongoing medical robotics research projects.

Kushya Sugarman

Publication

Sugarman, K. (2025). “I’m just becoming okay with being incomplete”: how an international, multiracial teacher research group pursued a nonexclusionary whole through storywork. Journal for Multicultural Education.

Schieble, M., Hikida, M., Taylor, L., Vetter, A., Hodnett, K., & Sugarman, K. (2025). A Reconstructive Stance to Analyzing Op-Ed Writing as Resistance to “Divisive Concepts” Legislation. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 23813377251358189.

Sugarman, K. (2024). Picturing Refusal: How a Multimodal, Collaborative Assignment Allowed a Teacher Education Class to Develop Abolitionist Pedagogies, Theory, Research, and Action in Urban Education, 9 (1).

Rifino, M., & Sugarman, K. (2022). Loneliness through the lens of Black feminist love-politics: pedagogical practices amid pandemic online learning. Journal for Multicultural Education, 16(1), 90-101.

Geoffrey S. Sumi

Publication

Sumi, G. S. (2021). Spectatorship, Control, and Collective Groups. In A. Futrell and T. Scanlon (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (pp. 603–13). Oxford University Press.

Sumi, G. S. 2020. “Nero and Britannicus in the pompa circensis. The Circus Procession as Dynastic Ceremony in the Court of Claudius.” Klio 120:617–664.