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Jacoby, J. W. (2025). Assistant teachers鈥 contributions to classroom quality in Head Start. Early Childhood Education Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-025-02055-x
Jacoby, J.W., & Edlefsen, K. [MHC '16] (2019). .
*Golden, J. and Jacoby, J.W. (2017). Playing princess: Preschool girls' interpretations of gender stereotypes in Disney princess media. Sex Roles.
* denotes Mount Holyoke College student co-author
Jacoby, J.W. (2025, November). Language and literacy instruction in Head Start classrooms with multilingual learners and the role of assistant teachers. Invited talk for University of Delaware, College of Education and Human Development, Literacy Colloquium on Zoom.
Berclaz LH*#, Eicher G*, Wieselquist G#, Frimpong A#, Mallare A#, Lijek RS**, & Fields KA**. (2025). Complete deletion of the Chlamydia muridarum putative cytotoxin locus reveals contributions during invasion in tissue culture and oviduct pathology during murine genital tract infection. Infection and immunity, e00419-25.
*equal contribution
**corresponding author
#MHC undergraduate
R. Lijek with Mount Holyoke student co-authors M. Dresler, E. Webster, L. Berclaz, S. Breen, D. Hardrick, A. Taylor, J. Graham, and K. Seiger, presented research on Chlamydia pathogenesis and vaccines at the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity.
Rebeccah Lijek, with Mount Holyoke student co-authors C. Wang, H. Knapp-Broas, J. Graham, K. W. Seiger, E. Webster, presented research on Chlamydia pathogenesis and vaccines at the 2021 World Microbe Forum and 2021 Boston Bacterial Meeting, where Lijek chaired a session on Host-Microbe Interactions.
Markovits, E. (2023) 鈥淭he Sovereign and the Tyrant: Boundaries and Violation in Oedipus,鈥 in E. Atanassow, T. Bartscherer, and D. Bateman (Eds). When the People Rule: Popular sovereignty in theory and practice (56-81). Cambridge University Press.
McMenamin, M. (2023) New book Chiral Paleeontology (MedTech Science Press, 2023)
Paleontology lab has discovered the first direct evidence for coloration in a Permian vertebrate (approximately 280 million years old). Students from the Spring 2022 Geol 116 Art in Paleontology class contributed to this study.
