Celebrating our Scholarship

2014-15

Professional Accomplishments of the Central College Faculty

Each spring, Central College recognizes faculty for leadership in teaching, professional development, and service.

The teaching we do is not isolated from our professional development or our service to community, nor is it done in isolation from one another. Therefore, we gather as a community to acknowledge the teaching, scholarship, creativity, and commitment of the faculty at Central College. Many colleagues also gathered at the 3rd Annual Chairs’ Conference last September, another way in which we develop and sustain our commitment to teaching and scholarship within the context of our professional relationships to one another and our shared work with the students we are privileged to teach daily.

At our Annual Faculty Recognition Dinner, we recognize faculty colleagues for their sustained and committed contributions to our community. This year we celebrate the collective 80 years of service of three valued faculty colleagues that will have retired by the end of the academic year. Arthur Johnson (English), Esther Streed (Education), and Joy Prothero (Education) have impacted thousands of students during their time at Central. In addition, Michael Harris (English) is recognized for teaching at Central College for 25 years. I invite you to read their reflections. We also celebrate faculty members who have been recognized by their colleagues for particular achievement and leadership in teaching, professional development, and/or service to our community. The awards presented are noted below.

David Crichton Memorial Teaching Award

Hutch Bearce Community-Building and Faculty Leadership Award

HuffmanAwardforOutstandingSupportofInternationalEducation

Frank W. Moore Faculty Award

Moore Family Faculty Award Marvin L. Hackert Faculty Development Fund for Science and Mathematics

This publication is printed in appreciation of the faculty, staff, and administrators who define Central College through their leadership and dedication to our students and community.

Mary E.M. Strey, Ph.D.Vice President for Academic Affairs andDean of the Faculty Central CollegeApril 2015

2015 Faculty Award Recipients

2015 Recipient of the David Crichton Memorial Teaching Award

Linda Laine, Associate Professor of Communication StudiesThis award recognizes outstanding teaching at Central College that perpetuates the type

of instruction that challenges and shapes the intellectual development of students.

2015 Recipient of the Hutch Bearce Community-Building and Faculty Leadership Award

Jen Diers, Associate Professor of EducationThis award recognizes members of the faculty for their efforts over a sustained period of time

in the category of community building and either mentorship or leadership.

2015 Recipient of the Frank W. Moore Faculty Award

Wendy Weber, Professor of Mathematics

This award acknowledges faculty who have promoted student learning within the natural sciences division through teaching and/or service over time.

2015 Recipient of the Moore Family Faculty Award

Paulina Mena, Assistant Professor of BiologyThis award recognizes and fosters joint faculty-student summer collaborations that promote

a greater depth of student understanding within the Natural Science Division disciplines than would normally occur through regular coursework.

2015RecipientoftheHuffmanAwardforOutstandingSupportofInternationalEducation

MembersoftheInternationalPolicyCommittee:Randall Renstrom, Assistant Professor of Psychology

Shawn Wick, Assistant Professor of SociologyMichael Harris, Professor of EnglishTerry Kleven, Professor of Religion

Anne Petrie, Professor of MusicAmy Young, Assistant Professor of German

This award recognizes the extraordinary contributions made by Donald and Maxine Huffman to the Central College programs in International Education. International Education includes

cross-cultural areas and foreign language courses, with particular emphasis on study abroad.

2015 Recipient of the Marvin L. Hackert Faculty Development Fund for Science and Mathematics

Russ Goodman, Associate Professor of Mathematics This fund enhances the quality of the sciences at Central College through those

activities which promote professional development and research.

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Mark BabcockM. Joan Kuyper Farver Endowed Chair in Music and Associate Professor of Music

Completed his term on the Executive Committee of the American Guild of Organists as councilor for conventions this past summer. Responsible for oversight of the Boston AGO National Convention in June 2014, which hosted nearly 2,000 people attending workshops, scholarly paper presentations and concerts.

Guest conductor for the South Central Iowa Conference Vocal Festival in Eddyville, Iowa, October 6, 2014.

Performed the annual “Hoot and Howl Halloween Organ Extravaganza” at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Des Moines, October 25, 2014.

Performed the dedicatory recital for the Reuter Pipe Organ at First United Methodist Church in Boone, Iowa, November 2, 2014.

Guest conductor for the North Iowa Cedar League Conference Vocal Festival in Waterloo, Iowa, January 19, 2015.

Participated in the DoDDS-E Honors Music Festival as guest choral conductor, Oberwesel, Germany, March 22-26, 2015. About 170 high school students, representing 21 DoDDS-E high schools around Europe, converged on Oberwesel and Wiesbaden for four days of rehearsal and instruction. The annual event culminated with a public performance

in the Friedrich von Thiersch Saal of the Wiesbaden Kurhaus on March 26.

Currently serving on the Iowa Choral Directors Association Board as the Repertoire and Standards Music in Worship Chair and is the Chair of the Annual Summer Symposium, July 2015.

Russ BenedictProfessor of Biology

Presented Impact of Common Planting Techniques on Prairie Reconstruction in Drought Conditions and Winners and Losers: Plant Survival During Prairie Reconstruction in Drought Conditions at the annual meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science in Fort Dodge, April 11, 2014.

Participated in BioBlitz at Whiterock Conservancy near Coon Rapids, Iowa. In a BioBlitz, scientists explore a park to document as many organisms as possible in a 36-hour period. Benedict surveyed for bats with four Central College students.

Attended the North American Congress for Conservation Biology in Missoula, Montana, July 13-16, 2014.

Conducted summer research with four Central College students, funded by the Moore Family Foundation, Arthur J. Bosch Endowment for Student Research and MAC Foundation Grant. Benedict and students spent many hours at the Prairies For Agriculture plots, measuring plant survival, controlling invasive species, observing insect, bird and mammal

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use of the plots, and doing general maintenance.

Presented to the Des Moines Audubon Society on the bats of Iowa, January 20, 2015.

Presented The Lost Landscape: Prairies of Iowa at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden, January 31, 2015.

Assisted Iowa Department of National Resources and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials with cave and mine surveys for white-nose fungus in Iowa, February 2015.

ShelleyBradfieldAssistant Professor of Communication Studies

Presented Trouble in the Magic Kingdom: Observations and Challenges of an LAS Capstone with Ashley Scolaro at the Chairs’ Conference, Central College, September 13, 2014.

Presented Student Assessment using Blackboard with Paul Weihe and Deb Bruxvoort at the Chairs’ Conference, Central College, September 13, 2014.

Three students from Bradfield’s Technology and Human Communication course received the top undergraduate student paper award in the Iowa Communication Association Westphal Competition. They presented Smartphones and Their Effects on Family Cohesion at the ICA convention in Des Moines, September 21, 2014.

Presented Colour TV: Contesting and Claiming Racial Identities on Television in South Africa to National Communication Association, Chicago, November 2014.

Published An Embedded Model: First-Year Student Success in Writing and Research with Sue Pagnac, Cyndi Boertje, Greg Teets ’13 and Beth McMahon, in Praxis: A Writing Center Journal 12.1 (2014).

Reviewed conference submissions for Visual Communication Division of National Communication Association, March 2015.

Delivered three guest lectures at Marista University in Merida, Mexico, March 2015: Telenovelas and Healthcare Messages, Edutainment in South African Television and Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and Class in the Media.

Anya Butt Associate Professor of Biology

Earned a Post-Graduate Certificate in Global Health from the University of Manchester, September 2014.

Invited to review grant proposal by Maine Conservation Corps for AmeriCorps funding.

Walter Cannon Professor of English

Read from his chapbook The Possible World for Poetry with Wine and Cheese event for Central Red Society, October 23, 2014.

Moderated panel session Iconic Women and brought two students to present to Midwest Undergraduate Conference in the Humanities (MUCH) at Simpson College, November 8, 2014.

Presented Abused, Baffled, and Crushed: Epistolary Error in Twelfth Night to Shakespeare

Association of America, Vancouver, April 1-4, 2015.

Published poem Birth in Berryman’s Fate: Centenary Celebration in Verse, Arlen House, 2014.

Published chapter Holistic Partnerships: Sustainability, Learned Lessons and Future Directions with Cheri Doane in Service-Learning and Civic Engagement: A Sourcebook, edited by O. Delano-Orarian et. al, Sage Publications, 2015.

Jennifer Diers Associate Professor of Education

Attended Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome Conference featuring Dr. Temple Grandin, Eustacia Cutler and Dr. Jim Ball in Sioux City, Iowa, October 3, 2014.

Attended 16th International Conference on Autism, Intellectual Disability and Developmental Disabilities in Clearwater Beach, Florida, January 21-23, 2015. Taught Project-Based Learning in the Exploratory Classroom for a full day of professional development for teachers in Sioux City Community School District, March 3, 2015.

JoshuaDoležalAssociate Professor of English

Presented from Down from the Mountaintop at Cover to Cover Book Club at Central College, June 12, 2014 and at Beaverdale Books in Urbandale, July 19, 2014.

Presented Re(con)ceiving Experience: Cognitive Science and Creativity in The Song of the Lark at the Chairs’ Conference, Central College, September 13, 2014

Leslie Duinink Associate Professor of Exercise Science

Served as faculty sponsor for four student poster presentations at

Mid-American Athletic Trainers’ Association Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposia in Des Moines, March 28, 2014: Jill Johnson, Effect of Balance Training on Reduction of Ankle Sprains in Athletes; Reba Jongeling, Treatment Options for Neurogenic Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (NTOS); Katelyn Paul, Frozen Shoulder Syndrome: Conservative Treatment vs. Surgery; Julie Wunder, The Benefits of Arthroscopic Repair for Patients Suffering a Rotator Cuff Tear. Also served as moderator for 411 or 911? Evaluating the Significance of Drug Interactions.

Attended National Athletic Trainers’ Meeting and Clinical Symposia in Indianapolis, June 25-28, 2014.

Ellen Du Pre Professor of Biology

Received a Statement of Accomplishment with Distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for completing the online Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health, April 7, 2014.

Attended National Association for Advisors in the Health Professions in San Francisco, June 2014.

Served as conference chair of poster session and judged posters at 6th Annual Global Health Conference: Climate Change, Nutrition and Health at Drake University, Des Moines, October 15, 2014.

Robert Franks Kenneth J. Weller Distinguished Professorship of the Liberal Arts and Professor of Computer Science

Reviewed papers for 2015 Association for Computer Machinery Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education annual conference.

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Katelin M. Gannon Lecturer of Exercise Science

Presented The Reciprocal Benefits of Service-Learning: An Educational Model in Exercise Science that Provides Effective Community Engagement at International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement in New Orleans, September 29 - October 1, 2014.

Participated in Iowa Campus Compact Engaged Scholar Faculty Fellows Program with five other faculty members from Iowa institutions to network, discuss and develop experiential learning projects for respective campuses and classrooms.

Presented Service-Learning Course Design at Iowa Campus Compact Workshop, Mt. Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, February 24, 2015.

Russ GoodmanAssociate Professor of Mathematics

Participated in workshop Beginner’s Guide to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Mathematics at MathFest in Portland, Oregon, August 6-9, 2014.

Presented Counting Votes: The Paradoxical Math of Elections to Science Center of Iowa at Jasper Winery, January 13, 2015.

Catherine Haustein Professor of Chemistry

Published short story Grave to Cradle, Slink Chunk Press (Australia) and Shade Mountain Press anthology The Female Complaint.

Presented Determination of L-dopa in Velvet Beans Using HPLC: A Green laboratory for Analytical Chemistry with students Hailey Benson and Nathaniel Holte to Iowa Academy of Science, Iowa City, April 17, 2015.

2014 Dana Award finalist for the first 40 pages of an unpublished novel, March 18, 2015 (novel due to be published by Penner Publishing in May 2015).

Stephanie HenningRegistrar

Attended 2014 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers meeting in Denver, March 30-April 2, 2014. Henning is serving a three-year term on the Registration and Advising Program Activities Committee. Selected to teach a Registrar 101 two-day workshop for 2015 AACRAO meeting.

Al Hibbard Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

Attended Board of Governors meetings and general sessions at Mathematical Association of America MathFest in Portland, Oregon, August 5-8, 2014.

Attended Iowa section of the Mathematical Association of America conference in Dubuque, October 24-25, 2014. Attended Mathematical Association of America meetings in San Antonio, Texas, January 9-12, 2015. As Governor of the Iowa Section of the Mathematical Association of America, Hibbard went a day early to attend all-day meeting of the Board of Governors before attending presentations.

Cody HuismanLecturer of Exercise Science

Attended NSCA North Central Regional Conference in Cedar Falls, April 12-13, 2014.

Attended Sanford POWER Clinic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, April 25-26, 2014.

Mark Johnson Ruth & Marvin Denekas Endowed Chair in Science and Humanities and Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

Reviewed paper and panel submissions for 2015 ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education conference.

Reviewed papers with Education Papers International Program Committee for Eurographics 2015, to be held in Zurich.

Attended University of Iowa Computing Conference in Iowa City, February 27-28, 2015.

Keith T. Jones Mark & Kay DeCook Endowed Chair in Character and Leadership Development and Professor of Psychology

Presented Family Environment, Social Support and Suicide Knowledge: Predicting Suicide Ideation and Predicting Emerging Adults’ Compliance and Defiance: Parenting Style and Entitlement at Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 2-3, 2014.

Nicole Kaplan Associate Professor of French Participated in Tête-à-Tête, Workshop for World Language Educators in Iowa, Theater and Carnaval in the World Language Classroom, at the University of Iowa, February 28, 2015.

Attended annual meeting of Iowa Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) at the University of Iowa, February 28, 2015.

Mathew R. Kelly Associate Professor of Art

Facilitator of a nine-member workshop on critical thinking, The Critical Mind, at Unconference: Creating Minds for the Future, Seneca College, Toronto, Ontario, April 30-May 2.

Terence J. Kleven Professor of Philosophy and Religion

Presented Critical Transformation of Canaanite Poetic Motifs in Psalm 29 and The Critical Evaluation of Leadership in Zechariah 11 and the Ongoing Standard of Justice for the Nations at Midwest Society of Biblical Literature Regional Meeting, Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais, Illinois, February 7-9, 2014.

Received a Central College Student Travel Fund for Student-Faculty Collaborative Scholarship grant that supported two Central students to present paper presentations on Old Testament Studies at the Student Religious Studies Conference, Bourbonnais, Illinois, February 7-9, 2014.

Presented A Critical Review of John Walbridge’s God and Logic in Islam: The Caliphate of Reason (Cambridge University Press, 2011) at Upper Midwest American Academy of Religion Regional Meeting, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 4-5, 2014.

Received a Central College Student Travel Fund for Student-Faculty Collaborative Scholarship grant that supported two Central students to present paper presentations on Islamic Studies at the Upper Midwest American Academy of Regional Meeting, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 4-5, 2014.

Attended National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute

Grant for University and College Teachers: Medieval Political Philosophy: Jewish, Islamic and Christian at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, June 16 - July 12, 2014.

Presented Al-Fārābī’s Account of Poetry as a Logical Art at the Chairs’ Conference, Central College, September 12-13, 2014.

Attended Engaging the Other, organized by the Paradosis Center, Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Evangelical Christians in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, September 22-23, 2014.

Presented Al-Fārābī’s Book of Analysis (Kitāb al-Taḥlīl) at IX International Colloquium of the Société Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences et la Philosophie Arabes et Islamic, Institut du Monde Arab et Université de Paris – Diderot, Paris, France, October 8-11, 2014.

Presented a public lecture on Christianity and Zionism for the Pella Chapter of the National Committee for Peace and Justice, October 14, 2014.

Presented two public lectures Oriental Christianity: History, Theology and Political Groups and Islam: History, Theology and Political Groups at St. James’s Episcopal Church, Oskaloosa, October 23 and 30, 2014.

Attended the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, November 21-15, 2014.

Published Al-Farabi’s Introduction to the Five Rational Arts with Reference to The Five Aphorisms (al-Fusul al-Hamza) and Ibn Bajja’s Comments (Ta’aliq) in Melange de l’Universite Saint-Joseph, LXV (2013-1014), Dar el-Machreq, Beyrouth, Liban, pp. 165-194.

Appointed assistant editor for Rochester Studies in Medieval Political Thought: Islamic, Jewish and Christian.

Contributed to the book Rhetoric, Poetics and the Organon in Arabic Philosophy, Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy, edited by Richard C. Taylor and Luis X. López-Farjeat. New York: Routledge, 2014.

Served on the Religious Studies Review Committee for the assessment of Fulbright (Institute of International Education’s Council for the International Exchange of Scholars) applications (thirty-three applications for 2015-2016).

Kathy Korcheck Associate Professor of Spanish

Moderated Armas y rosas panel at Midwest Undergraduate Conference in the Humanities at Simpson College, attending with Walter Cannon and Central College students. Elizabeth Carman, a Spanish and communications studies major, presented Una flor inutil: Sor Juana y su rosa, a paper on a Baroque sonnet by Mexican poet Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, written in Korcheck’s SPAN 323 course spring 2014.

Presented El Fuerte de San Cristóbal: Historical Consciousness and the Future of the Past at a Former Francoist Prison at Kentucky Foreign Language Conference in Lexington, Kentucky, April 10-12, 2014.

Presented A Museum of Doomed Developments: Ruin Photography and the Spanish Economic Crisis at Midwest Modern Languages Conference in Detroit, November 13-16, 2014.

Published Nuestro querido padre Stalin: Letters of War and Exile in Emma Riverola’s Cartas desde la ausencia in Letras Hispanas 10.1 (2014).

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Allison Krogstad Professor of Spanish

Published The cohesive and revitalizing nature of Maya dance, art, and oral history in journal Regions and Cohesion (Vol. 4, Issue 1, Spring 2014).

Presented La pintura poética de Calixta Gabriel Xiquín (The Poetic Painting of Calixta Gabriel Xiquín) at Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica in Antigua, Guatemala, March 4-6, 2015.

Linda LaineAssociate Professor of Communication Studies

Attended Annual Conference of the Higher Learning Commission in Chicago, April 10-14, 2014.

Received Mission Award at Iowa Campus Compact Engaged Campus Awards Ceremony, Des Moines, June 2014, for recognition of the key role played in strengthening an institution’s mission of engagement and strategically furthering this mission.

Attended Iowa Communication Association conference in Ankeny, September 19-20, 2014.

Tom Linton Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

Attended Mathematical Association of America MathFest 2014 in Portland, Oregon, August 7, 2014.

Mitchell Lutch Associate Professor of Music

Attended Iowa Bandmasters Association Conference in Des Moines, May 9-10, 2014.

Served as guest conductor at Northern Plains Music Festival for High School Honor Band, Dickinson

State University, Dickinson, North Dakota, November 7-8, 2014.

Attended Iowa Intercollegiate Honor Band Festival in Nevada, Iowa, November 21-22, 2014.

Attended Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, December 18-20, 2014.

Served as guest conductor at Little Hawkeye Conference Honor Band, Pella, February 9, 2015.

Cynthia MahmoodFrank Moore Chair of Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology

Received Reinhold Neibuhr Award for Social Justice, University of Notre Dame, May 23, 2014.

Presented a keynote address The Sikh Community, Past, Present and Future at Looking Forward in the Sikh Community, Toronto, Canada, June 6, 2014.

Published New Directions in Feminist Politics in Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol. 20, number 3 (2014).

Presented A Passion for Truth lecture at installation as Frank Moore Chair in Anthropology, March 2015.

Melissa McAninch InstructorofEducation

Completed dissertation, A Qualitative Study of Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Questioning, Responses, and Perceived Influences, to fulfill requirements for Ph.D. in mathematics education.

Beth McMahon Director of Geisler Library

Published An Embedded Model: First-Year Student Success in Writing and Research with Sue Pagnac, Cyndi Boertje, Greg Teets ’13

and Shelley Bradfield, in Praxis: A Writing Center Journal 12.1 (2014).

Admitted to the 2014-15 cohort of Association of College & Research Libraries’ New College Library Directors’ Mentor Program.

Awarded an Association of College & Research Libraries Mid-Career Librarian Scholarship to attend the upcoming ACRL 2015 conference in Portland, Oregon.

Paulina Mena Assistant Professor of Biology

Organized workshop Incorporating Active Learning in the Classroom with Brian Peterson and Robert Franks at Central College, June 9-10, 2014.

Attended Iowa Honey Producers Association Annual Meeting in Marshalltown, November 14-15, 2014.

Mark MillsProfessor of Mathematics

Passed actuarial Exam FM (Financial Mathematics), June 20, 2014.

Attended Iowa Section of the Mathematical Association of America meeting at Clarke University, Dubuque, October 24-25, 2014.

Taylor NewtonAssistant Professor of Psychology

Presented roundtable Teaching of Psychology of Religion and Spirituality with Cook, S., Harris, K., Hays, M., Ladd, K., Nissley, G., Paloutzian, R., Rowatt, W. and Wade, N. at the American Psychological Association Convention, Washington, D.C., August 2014.

Celebrating 25 YearsProfessor of English

A trip to Nepal changed everything for Michael Harris. During graduate school, Harris, now professor of English at Central, faced a dissertation he didn’t really want to write. He didn’t have a topic, and he says, “I was kind of burned out.” He wondered if he would ever finish his Ph.D.

Originally from North Carolina, Harris and his family moved to Louisiana when he was six. He attended Tulane University for his undergraduate degree, where he knew he wanted to major in English as a freshman.

When choosing a major, Harris says he “thought back to my high school career.” He had always enjoyed English more than other subjects. After college, Harris pursued his master’s and Ph.D. at Indiana University at Bloomington. He taught freshman composition and literature classes and enjoyed teaching, though at the time, he still wasn’t sure how he wanted to shape his career. And his dissertation loomed.

“I did not have a topic,” he says. Harris had always been interested in the Peace Corps and had in fact applied and been accepted after college, but he

chose grad school instead. Now, he revisited the idea. He was accepted to Nepal, “a country I thought sounded really interesting,” Harris says, and he served as a TEFL teacher from 1979-1981.

He spent the next three years of his life in the Himalayas. As it turned out, he spent a lot of time reading novels, “the kind of stuff you read when you’re an English major,” he says, and his love of English was rejuvenated. When the three years were up, he returned to Indiana and picked up right where he left off. Only this time, he had a topic.

A field in literature called post-colonialism was gaining prominence. The Peace Corps provided Harris a firsthand look into the lives of people in Nepal and India, and the region fascinated him. “I could have written about that forever. That’s how I ended up finishing a dissertation,” he says. That dissertation, “Outsiders & Insiders: Perspectives of Third World Culture in British and Post-Colonial Fiction,” was eventually published and named a 1994 Choice Outstanding Academic Book.

While at Indiana University, Harris also met his wife, Kimberly Koza, associate professor of English at Central. The couple lived and worked in a few different cities before arriving in Iowa, via a one-year position for Harris at Grinnell College in 1989. Then a job opened up at Central. Harris says his time in Pella is “the longest I’ve ever lived in one place.”

During a 25-year career at Central, Harris has enjoyed the opportunity to try new things and continue learning. “As I’ve developed new interests I’ve been able to teach classes in those areas,” he says. For instance, an interest in the Buddhist religion spurred him to create a capstone course on the subject. He was aided by six months spent in northern India and Nepal in 2012-13 on a Fulbright Senior Research grant, where he studied Buddhism. “There’s something about India that really draws me,” he says. He also taught at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in 1998-99.

A number of courses at Central have sprung from Harris’ passion for post-colonial literature. Mary Stark, professor of English, has been a colleague of Harris for more than 20 years, and she says he helped the English department expand its offerings to include American Ethnic Literature, Irish Literature, African/Caribbean Literature and the Literature of India and the Pacific. “Students appreciate the cultural contexts and seeing life from different perspectives,” she says.

Recently, Harris has embarked on a new challenge that is taking him to another part of the world: New York City. He is teaching as part of Central’s social justice internship program, which began in summer 2014. Harris, Koza and students spent a month in the city. “The students that came with us were amazing. It was a lot of fun to spend time with them and hear about their internships,” Harris says.

Being able to identify with his students at Central is part of what makes teaching enjoyable for Harris. “When I see a Central student, I can easily imagine how I felt my first year of college,” he says. He remembers the uncertainty, but also the feelings of possibility. And interacting with students keeps life fresh and exciting. He says, “You learn so much from them.”

Michael HarrisPROFILE

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Nominated 2015 American Psychological Association Program Chair for Division 36, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality program at the American Psychological Association meeting in Toronto.

Chia Ning Professor of History

Published Leadership Role of Mongolian Women to the Noble Title Inheritance in the Qing Banner System: Reading the Manchu Tiben Archives for Four Parts of the Mongol Society in Journal of the Frontier and Nationality Studies, Central University for Nationalities, Beijing, the People’s Republic of China, Issue 8, Fall 2014, pages 1-15

Appointed to Iowa Supreme Court Commission of Continuing Legal Education, term period July 1, 2014-June 30, 2017.

Nicole PalenskeAssistant Professor of Biology

Presented Determination of LC50 and the effect of Triclosan exposure on zebrafish hatchling morphology with Ellen DuPre and students Mycaela Crouse, Amanda Kahl, Shannon Snyder and Rachel Spooner at Iowa Academy of Science, Fort Dodge, April 12, 2014.

Received funds from the Bette Brunsting Student Project Fund with Ellen Du Pre for two students to attend the Iowa Academy of Science Meeting in Fort Dodge, April 11-12, 2014.

Elected to serve as chair for the environmental science and health section of the Iowa Academy of Science for the 2014-15 academic year.

Presented Enhancing Student Learning in Human Physiology at American Physiological Society Institute on Teaching and Learning,

College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, June 23-27, 2014.

Presented Enhancing Student Learning in Human Physiology and Best Practices in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment: Ideas Gained from the Institute on Teaching and Learning in Physiology Summer Workshop at the Chairs’ Conference, Central College, September 13, 2014.

Selected as 2014 LifeSciTRC Vision and Change Scholar by the American Physiological Society, October 2014.

Published Enhancing Student Learning in Human Physiology in The Physiologist, a publication by the American Physiological Society.

Brian Peterson Professor of Economics

Served as External ACBSP Evaluator, Iowa Wesleyan University School of Business, April 2014.

Presented Preconceptions of Principles Students with Bill Goffe, Wayne Geerling, Adam Hoffer, Doug Bice, Solina Lindahl and Mark Maier at AEA Council on Economic Education Conference on Research and Teaching in Economics Education, Washington, D.C., May 28-30, 2014.

Presented Implementing Undergraduate Research into Existing Academic Programs with Keith Jones and Paulina Mena at the Chairs’ Conference, Central College, September 13, 2014.

Presented The Interdisciplinarity of Large-Group Simulations: Or, How to Share the Burden of a Good Thing With Others at the Chairs’ Conference, Central College, September 13, 2014.

Participated in panel discussion Balancing Teaching, Research and Service, Preparing Future Faculty

Workshop, Iowa State University, Ames, October 24, 2014.

Attended 34th Annual Conference on the First Year Experience in Dallas, February 6-10, 2015.

Presented Problem-Based Learning as a Springboard to Critical Thinking and Writing in Central College Teaching and Learning Series, February 2015.

Received Moore Family Foundation Faculty Research and Development Grant to create a faculty development workshop, Incorporating Active Learning into the Classroom with Robert Franks and Paulina Mena, April 2014–March 2015.

Joy Prothero Associate Professor of Education

Elected State of Iowa Chair of the Iowa Area Education Agencies Board of Directors.

Elected President of the Great Prairie Area Education Agency Board of Directors.

Elected member of the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach for Mahaska County.

KeithRatzlaffProfessor of English

Featured poetry reader and Poetry and the Other Arts panelist at Anhinga Press 40th Anniversary conference, Tampa, Florida, October 9-12, 2014.

Nominated for Pushcart Prize, February 2015.

Northwestern University’s New Music Conference, April 2014.

Dawn Reece Associate Professor of Sociology

Presented Utilizing Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process Model to Inform and Intervene in Student

Retired in 2014Associate Professor of English

Arthur Johnson is putting away his red pen. For the past 46 years at Central, the associate professor of English has corrected the prose of undergraduates, urging them to focus on what he sees as the virtues of writing: simplicity, economy, color and freshness.

Johnson started working at Central in 1968 after a six-year stint teaching at Iowa State University, where he completed his undergraduate work. Johnson also earned a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, which he describes as “an enormous factory lacking only the smoke. It was a strange thing to come to Central and have absolute strangers say hello to me.”

During his time at Central, Johnson taught a variety of classes including British Novel, Shakespeare, Short Story Writing and Comedy, a class of his own design. “I’ve always liked comedy better than tragedy,” he says, “being an absurd fellow by nature.”

Yet Johnson did not originally intend to study English. He spent four years as a student of architecture and designed houses for relatives before deciding the client/architect relationship wasn’t one he cared to pursue. “What they wanted, I didn’t want,” he says. So Johnson decided to major in history, but when the history adviser didn’t show up for the appointed meeting, he walked downstairs and became an English major instead.

As an English professor, Johnson specialized in teaching students how to write. He is known for the care he took editing papers, meeting face-to-face with students to go through their writing line by line. Johnson says the tutorial method encouraged students to consider more than a grade at the top of a paper. “I always try to give students their money’s worth, whether they want it or not,” he says.

While some students may have shrunk from having a magnifying glass turned on their work, many blossomed from the experience. “He scared some people to death and he made some people want to be better writers,” says Chad Ray, professor of philosophy. “I know him as a colleague with a heart of gold.” Ray says Johnson is “hugely generous,” helping students in need with tuition and encouraging faculty to set up a fund for students.

Johnson says students have not changed much during his time at Central, saying they are always mixtures of excellent and weaker students. As for himself, Johnson found teaching to be a constant learning experience. “You learn far more by teaching than you do sitting in a classroom,” he says.

Former students — or anyone in need of a refresher course on writing — can consult his book on the subject, “Why Nobody Can’t Write Good,” where Johnson lays out the finer points of writing (“Pomposity is not profundity.”), along with amusing examples from past classes and academia. Johnson has also written two novels, the latest set in Jane Austen’s England but focused on the lives of the lower classes.

When not turning deft phrases, Johnson plays chess, reads and pursues hobbies, such as coin collecting and art. In Central’s Jordan Hall, home to the English department, he hung 115 framed prints of paintings he considers important to the history of art. He hopes students may acquire an appreciation of them “just from the friction of walking by.”

Ray says Johnson “loves to turn a good phrase. He loves the English language. He is fearless.” Johnson is not one to effuse about his accomplishments. “We all write our names in water,” he says. But Johnson’s

name is also written in ink — in the red that decorated students’ papers for 46 years and in the improved prose they learned to create. In the interest of economy, we’ll leave it at that.

Arthur JohnsonPROFILE

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Projects at Lilly Conference on Evidenced-Based Teaching and Learning, Newport Beach, California, February 19, 2015.

Elected Secretary of the Iowa Sociological Association.

Randall A. Renstrom Assistant Professor of Psychology

Presented The Relationship between Personality Characteristics and Sarcasm Use with student Sean Prihoda at Midwestern Psychological Association conference in Chicago, May, 2014.

Presented The Effects of Achievement Attribution When under Stereotype Threat with student Matthew Coyle at Midwestern Psychological Association conference in Chicago, May, 2014.

Presented Exploring the Effect of Interactive Violent Video Games on Aggressive Cognitions with student Kelsie Evans at Midwestern Psychological Association conference in Chicago, May, 2014.

Presented Relationships between Personality and Attitudes toward Guns and Mental Health Services with student Molly Ammerman at Midwestern Psychological Association conference in Chicago, May, 2014.

OscarReynagaLecturer of Spanish

Attended ninth annual Governor’s Conference on LGBTQ Youth with Central College students, April 1, 2014.

Attended Chicago Latino Film Festival, the largest Latino film festival in the United States, April 15-17, 2014.

Reviewed scholarship applications during summer 2014 for Latinos

Unidos of Iowa, a nonprofit organization serving Hispanic and Latino communities in central Iowa.

Presented Pachamama Came and Went: Lessons Learned from an LAS Course with a Short Term Study Abroad Program with Paulina Mena at the Chairs’ Conference, Central College, September 13, 2014.

Pam Richards Associate Professor of Exercise Science

Attended Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 4, 2015.

Brian RobertsAssociate Professor of Art

Attended 48th Annual Conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 19-20, 2014.

Attended 43rd Annual Glass Art Society Conference in Chicago, March 21-22, 2014.

Exhibited two ceramic sculptures in the group exhibition Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Show at Olson-Larsen Gallery in Des Moines, April 11-June 7, 2014.

Exhibited steel sculptures during juried exhibition and sale, 12th Iowa Sculpture Festival, Newton, June 6-8, 2014.

Juried student exhibition Art Inspired at the Iowa State Memorial Union Pioneer Room, January 2015.

Exhibited 16 steel sculptures at Ray Frederick Gallery of Marshalltown Community College, January 21-February 13, 2015.

John Roslien Associate Professor of Exercise Science

Facilitated a program on campus for local providers of high school

football medical coverage related to emergency procedures, August 2014.

Served as Event Coordinator, Director of Player Personnel and Daily Operations for 17th annual Tazon de Estrellas in Puebla, Mexico, December 2014. Group included 45 players and 20 staff. Eight players, two athletic training students and two other staff members were part of the travel party.

Attended Annual National Athletic Trainers Association Annual Meeting & Symposium in Indianapolis, June 2014. Roslien served as moderator for a session on advanced techniques in joint mobilization and coordinated an area alumni event.

Attended Athletic Trainers Educators Conference in Dallas, February 27, 2015.

Contributed to book, Tupande Kilenleni: Let’s Climb to the Summit Together, Tate Publishing.

Inducted into the Mid-America Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame during the Mid-America Athletic Trainers Association Annual Symposium in Omaha, Nebraska, March 20, 2015.

Jessica Schuring Assistant Professor of Economics

Presented The Impact of Maternal Occupation and Pre-Pregnancy Weight Status on Childhood Obesity at Wallace Huffman Festschrift in Ames, August 1, 2014.

Vandy ScoatesAssistant Professor of Theatre

Received Puffin Foundation Grant for Sustainability in summer 2014. The grant was used to create and maintain a new website called The Green Room (the-g-room.com). This website is intended to be a free resource for theatre practitioners and researchers to find sustainable theatre options.

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RetiringAssociate Professor of Education

At first, Joy Prothero’s career choice surprised her. Coming from a family with 16 teachers, she wasn’t interested in teaching. “I was steeped in teacher behaviors and expectations,” she says. “But I realized after my first year in college that of course I wanted to be a teacher!”

Prothero has now taught for 41 years. She surprised herself again after 11 years teaching elementary school, when she was invited to teach at William Penn College. Prothero, a graduate of William Penn, was completing a master’s degree from Drake University but not looking for a new position. “I said no, I’m happy in the classroom,” Prothero says. But when the dean persuaded her to consider it, Prothero decided to take the new opportunity.

At William Penn, Prothero spent nine years strengthening an education program that won several national awards. She secured National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) accreditation for that program, and she started a literacy project in Des Moines that sparked national interest. She has an Ed.D. from Drake and was associate professor of education at Grandview University and curriculum director for Pella Community Schools before coming to Central in 1998. “I’m always amazed at how careers take twists and turns,” she says.

One of Prothero’s strongest contributions to Central is her involvement in education outside the college. She leads Area Education Agencies (AEA) at the local and state levels, serving as governing board president and director for Pella’s district. These connections bring advantages for Central students, such as early access to AEA online resources. Central Teacher Academy also connects students to AEA opportunities, which Prothero says help Central’s future teachers receive the best research-based training available.

Prothero’s broad involvement has also helped her prepare students for changes and challenges in Iowa and throughout the U.S. “That’s important for them, because our graduates go everywhere,” she says. Even within short distances, Prothero says educational settings vary tremendously. “There’s a lot of variation in cultures and languages and learning styles — all of those things that impact how effective teachers are,” she says, “so students need to be exposed to as much of that as possible.” Prothero says graduates face more diverse issues than ever before. “Schools are a reflection of society, and so many things have changed,” she says. “I think it’s become more complicated.”

Mary Stark, professor of English, says Prothero’s knowledge and experience have been invaluable to Central. “She is passionate about education and highly involved in professional groups because she wants to help her students excel in their classrooms,” Stark says. “I really admire her commitment and care for our students.”

On campus, Prothero has also contributed to many influential projects. Through intense discussions, she says she discovered the strong friendships that make Central unique from anywhere she has taught. When faculty members dissect important initiatives and share their thoughts, Prothero says they really get to know each other and form a bond of trust. Stark says she will always remember Prothero’s willingness to help, good cheer and creative problem solving. “I think Joy embodies her name,” Stark says. “She is a delightful person!

Central students also cherish relationships forged on campus, Prothero says, often visiting or writing to her after they graduate. She says it’s rewarding to know education classes are continually proved relevant to graduates’ careers and lives. Prothero’s passion for teaching will also continue beyond Central. She plans to continue participating in other settings she loves, making national presentations and guiding AEA initiatives throughout the state.

Joy Prothero

Attended the United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT) Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 2015.

Ashley Scolaro Assistant Professor of Psychology

Presented To Drink or Not to Drink: College Students’ Motivations to Consume Alcohol with Hillary Stintsman at Midwestern Psychological Association conference in Chicago, May 2014.

Published The ERP Correlates of Target Checking are Dependent upon the Defining Features of the Prospective Memory Cues, International Journal of Psychophysiology, July 2014 (volume 93, pages 298-304).

Presented The Impact of Dementia on the Benefits of Reminiscence with Emily Saville and The Effect of Handedness on Cognitive Control with Alex Savolt at Object Perception Attention and Memory conference in Long Beach, California, November 20, 2014.

Presented The Impact of Rumination on Strategic Monitoring in Prospective Memory at Psychonomics conference in Long Beach, California, November 21, 2014.

Sara Shuger Fox Assistant Professor of Exercise Science

Three Honors Enrichment Projects Fall 2014.

Attended Cardiovascular Today and Iowa Heart Center Fall Conference in West Des Moines, February 1 and November 15, 2014.

Mary Jo Sodd Professor of Theatre

Attended Contemporary Arts Marketing and Intersection of Arts and Economy sessions by Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs at Iowa Arts Summit in Des Moines, June 2014.

Mary Stark John and Anna Poole Endowed Chair in the Humanities and Professor of English

Published three articles with Stephen Johnson, instructor of natural science: Our Magical Mystery Tour in Jefferson County Park, Iowa (Summer 2014, Vol 15 #3), and Hooded Ladies’ Tresses (Fall 2014, Vol 15 #4) for Blazing Star: North American Native American Plant Society; Forest Tent Caterpillar Consumption by Wood and Mink Frogs at Lake Gegoka, Minnesota, in Bulletin: Chicago Herpetological Society 49 (7), 2014.

With Stephen Johnson, consultant for Tiny Bops: Unearth the Secrets of the Green Kingdom, an app about plants.

Esther Streed Professor of Education

Elected to two-year treasurer post as treasurer for Iowa Council for Exceptional Children, March 2014.

Accompanied eight teacher education candidates from Central College to Council for Exceptional Children in Philadelphia, April 8-13, 2014.

Worked with other higher education faculty who prepare future special educators, reaching a compromise to proposed changes in licensure requirements. Testified twice to the Board of Educational Examiners in fall 2014.

Co-hosted Iowa Council of Administrators in Special Education (I-CASE) conference in Des Moines, October 2014.

Susan Wight Swanson Assistant Professor of Art

Presented Jost Amman’s Volatile Commerce at Sixteenth Century Society and Conference in New Orleans, October 16-19, 2014.

Completed Ph.D. in Art History, dissertation successfully defended December 2014, degree conferred February 2015.

David Timmer Professor of Religion

Published Pilgrim Journey in Perspectives: a Journal of Reformed Thought, September/October 2014. The article was part of Like the Wideness of the Sea: 15 Years Later, in which four writers revisited an important article by the late Lewis Smedes published in Perspectives in 1999.

Completed six-year term on Commission on Theology of the Reformed Church in America. The Commission meets twice a year to study and prepare reports for the RCA General Synod on theological and moral issues in the life of the church. Served as Corresponding Delegate of the Commission to the General Synod of 2014.

Christopher Viesselman ClinicalInstructorofExerciseScience

Presented Navigating Outcome Measures in Clinical Practice at 7th Annual Sports Medicine Conference (Prevention: Early & Appropriate Care of Injuries and Functional Limitations in Physical Activity and Sports Performance) in Des Moines, March 7, 2015.

Presented Learning To Lead: Experiences of First Time Program Directors in Undergraduate Athletic Training Programs at 36th Annual MAATA Meeting & Symposium in Omaha, Nebraska, March 20, 2015.

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PROFILE

RetiringProfessor of Education

Esther Streed followed her heart to Central College. After 20 years teaching in northwest Iowa, she says, “It was just time to move to something different.” She started a master’s program at the University of South Dakota and considered becoming a school administrator. Through adjunct teaching, however, Streed discovered she loved working with college students and future teachers. She completed a doctorate from Drake University and came to teach at Central in 1998. “I’ve never looked back,” she says.

Streed wanted to be part of an education program where all graduates would be prepared, at least to some degree, to teach all students, including those needing special education. While a teacher, Streed devoted many years to improving services for children with disabilities — including her daughter, Angi. Because of the passion initiated with the birth of her daughter, she has traveled extensively, founded statewide organizations, backed the Americans with Disabilities Act — even dined in the White House. She served on the state board for a community-based advocacy group, the Arc, for 14 years and the Governor’s Planning Council for Developmental Disabilities for 12 years. Streed also cared for 18 foster children, nearly all with special needs, and adopted two of them. In 1992, she was named Iowa’s Foster Mother of the Year.

Streed has dedicated her career to helping people embrace others who are different. At Central, Streed says her joy has been seeing that dream realized among students and colleagues. Her students know “different equals different” comes first among the “Dr. Estherisms” they collect during Streed’s courses.

Streed’s other career highlights include participating in an international think tank at Oxford University, visiting nearly all of Central’s study abroad sites and going to national conferences for the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) with her students. “We’ve presented at three conferences, which is an unbelievable honor,” Streed says. “The percentage of applicants who get to present is very, very small —and for undergrad programs, even more so.”

Keith Jones, professor of psychology, says Streed is a great teacher because she is genuine and committed to doing what benefits students. Streed sets high standards, but Jones says she doesn’t get hung up on being the best. “She just focuses on doing what is good,” Jones says, “and along the way, she has been one of the best.”

Streed also proves her practical wisdom among Central faculty, Jones says. When they both served as department chairs, Jones says Streed could bring perspective to group discussions in a single sentence, clarifying their purpose. “She’s a good one to sort things out with,” Jones says. “For me, she is a good big sister.” It doesn’t hurt that Streed also knows how to laugh at herself. “She takes the people she serves and the work she does very seriously, but she doesn’t take herself too seriously,” he says. “She’s a good egg.”

During the past 17 years, Streed’s favorite change at Central has been the addition of the Roe Center. “This is an awesome building,” she says. “I felt really, really privileged to be department chair at the time that we were making the transition from our cramped little quarters in the library to this amazing facility.” Plus, Streed says she loves seeing many plaques every time she walks in. “Every one of those plaques represents people who really appreciate what we do in education,” she says. “That’s just really delightful for me.”

When she retires, Streed says she will find new ways to be involved in statewide programs and service. “For me, retirement does not mean not working,” she says. While Streed doesn’t mind abandoning her commute from Des Moines, she says she will miss every piece of teaching at Central. “I love what I do,” Streed says. “I totally enjoy my students, and I enjoy teaching. I’m going to miss it — I really am.”

Esther Streed

Jay Wackerly Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Attended Council on Undergraduate Research’s Dialogues and Proposal Writing Workshop in Arlington, Virginia, February 20-23, 2014.

Presented Synthesis and Applications of Oxaquinonacyclophanes and Stepwise Approach to Writing Lab Reports in the Organic Chemistry Course Sequence at 248th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition in San Francisco, August 10-14, 2014. Three student poster presentations were given at the same conference as well: Synthesis of Oxaquinonacyclophanes from Dichloronaphthoquinone by Andrew Johnson, Progress toward the Synthesis of Carcerands from Chloranil by Carlin Michalek and Synthesis of Oxaquinonacyclophanes from Bromobenzoquinones by Benjamin Palmer.

Wendy Weber Professor of Mathematics

Co-principle investigator with Maryann Huey of Drake University of three-year $600,000 Mathematics and Science Partnership (MSP) grant project, Statistics and Probability, Content and Pedagogy, for Teaching Secondary Students. The grant provides professional development activities for teachers from districts in need of assistance to successfully implement the Iowa Core and improve teacher and student understanding of statistics and probability.

Attended Mathematics and Science Partnership Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., September 30- October 1, 2014.

Presented What Condition Are You In? A High School Probability Unit to Iowa Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Iowa Science Teaching

Section of the Iowa Academy of Science Annual Conference in Ames, October 22, 2014.

Attended M4 (Midwest Meeting of Mathematical Minds) Conference with guest speaker Jo Boaler, Stanford University, in Ankeny, March 6, 2015.

Published Bubbles: Where Geometry & Science Intersect in the Iowa Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual journal.

Published Curve Stitching - Geometric String Art - Optical Illusion with Deidra Baker and Teresa Finken in the Iowa Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual journal.

Paul Weihe Associate Professor of Biology

Presented Student Assessment Using Blackboard at the Chairs’ Conference, Central College, September 13, 2014.

Four groups of students presented posters: Sustainable Agriculture Using Hybrid Hazelnut; Strategies for Ebola Containment; Public Education & Psuedoscience in Anti-Vaccination Campaign; A Proposal to Establish Safe Levels of Dioxin Contamination, 6th Annual Global Health Fall Conference: Climate, Nutrition and Health, Des Moines, October 15, 2014

Shawn Wick Assistant Professor of Sociology

Panel session organizer and presider, Teaching and Learning: Experiential Activities for Sociology, Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Kansas City, March 2014.

Presented Micro-Lending with Good Intentions: A Critical Examination of Student Assumptions Regarding

the Deployment of International Development Assistance at Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Kansas City, March 2014.

Attended Iowa Sociological Association conference at Luther College, Decorah, April 2014.

Elected President of Iowa Sociological Association, Decorah, April 2014.

JimZaffiroProfessor of Political Science

Named 2013 Iowa Local Food Champion, Iowa Food Systems Council and Eat Greater Des Moines, November 2014.

Published In Service of Two Masters: A Political History of Radio in Pre-Independence Botswana, Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Durban, South Africa), Volume 28, Issue 6, 2014, pages 958-976, special issue: Media and Empire in the 20th Century.

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Sabbatical 2014-2015

JeffreyBass Jeff conducted field research to document Latin American immigrants in Des Moines with respect to their health beliefs, utilization of traditional health care practices, and access to and experiences with American health care institutions.

Dennis Doyle Dennis examined the assessment practices used at study abroad sites to measure student development in language proficiency and intercultural maturity while abroad as a case study on assessment in international education.

Kathy Korcheck Kathy studied connections between memory and place as represented by monuments, memorials, and urban landscapes, with an emphasis on those related to the current Spanish economic crisis.

Tom Linton Tom developed two components for statistics instruction: immediate-feedback questions for introductory statistics and research-based projects for MATH 215 Applied Statistics.

Treva Reimer Treva studied installation arts and fiber arts to develop proficiency in weaving. The outcome includes two installation projects and a revised course in mask-making.

Jaclyn Rundle Jaclyn continued her research into the global social enterprise movement by comparing the operations and certification methods of two social enterprise organizations in two countries.

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Research and Development Grants 2014-2015

Dawn Reece was awarded funding for travel to the Lilly Conference on Evidence-Based Learning. February 19 – 22, 2015, in Newport Beach, Calif. Her talk was entitled Utilizing Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process Model to Inform and Intervene in Student Projects.

Allison Krogstad was awarded funding for travel to the XV Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispanica March 4-6, 2015, in Antigua, Guatemala. She presented a paper entitled La pintura poética de Calixta Gabriel Xiquin (The Poetic Painting of Calixta Gabriel Xiquin).

Terry Kleven was awarded funding for travel to the Midwest Political Science Association meeting April 16 – 18, 2015, in Chicago, Ill.

Katelin Gannon was awarded funding for travel to an international conference on “Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement.”

Randy Renstrom and Shawn Wick were awarded funding for travel to the Yucatan peninsula to make preparations for a faculty-led study abroad course entitled Perspectives on Culture and Society: Exploring the Yucatan.

Maggie Schlerman was awarded funding for an exploratory trip to the Yucatan and Central’s Merida program to continue the development of a program that will enhance the education of Central students within the context of a “pathway to CPA.”

Bette Brunsting Awards 2014-2015

Josh Dolezal received funding for transportation to the Marion County Farm Crawl for two classes October 5, 2014.

ShelleyBradfield received funding for two students’ travel expenses to the Iowa Communication Association convention in Ankeny on September 19, 2014, to present their paper, Smartphones and Their Effects on Family Cohesion.

Taylor Newton received funds for student research using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk community for up to 150 participants for a student pursuing an independent research study as a follow-up to her project in Advanced Research in Psychology.

Al Hibbard received funding for student travel to the MAA Iowa Section meeting in Dubuque on October 24-25, 2014.

Walter Cannon and Kathy Korcheck received funding for student travel and registration to attend and present at the Midwest Undergraduate Conference in the Humanities (MUCH) at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa on November 8, 2014.

Esther Streed received funding for student travel costs to attend the Council for Exceptional Children Conference in San Diego, Calif., on April 8-12, 2015.

Shawn Wick received funding for registration and an awards luncheon for 18 students in Sociology 485 Senior Seminar class to attend the Iowa Sociological Association annual meeting in Pella, Iowa May 1, 2015.

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Melissa McAninch & Wendy Weber –Back to School…in Budapest

Writing Council – Designing, Assigning, and Evaluating Writing

Russ Goodman –Discovering Sports Analytics: Enhancing an Honors Seminar with Travel to the Carolinas Sports Analytics Meeting

Leslie Duinink, Russ Goodman & Paulina Mena – Teaching Professor Conference: from Atlanta to Pella

OscarReynaga – Spanish Language and Culture: Teaching Methods and the Art of Teaching

Paulina Mena – Case Studies as a Teaching Tool Conference

Dawn Reece & Shawn Wick– From Death to Life: A Model of Restorative Justice

Glenn Barnett & Paulina Mena – A New Thermo Cycler for Biology and Biochemistry Students

Anya Butt – Teaching Teachers: Teaching GIS in Innovative Ways Across the Curriculum

Terry Kleven – Core Texts in Political Philosophy for the Classroom

Jay Wackerly – Synthesis of Quinone-Based Supramolecular Structures

Student Conference Travel Funding

Leslie Duinink was awarded funds for student travel to attend the Mid-American Athletic Trainers’ Association Annual Meeting and Symposia in Omaha, Neb., March 19-21, 2015.

Psychology Department was awarded funds for student travel to attend the Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Meeting April 30 – May 2, 2015, in Chicago, Ill.

Jay Wackerly was awarded funds for student travel to attend the Joint Great Lakes/Central Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) May 27 – 30, 2015, in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Josh Dolezal was awarded funds for student travel to co-present at the Examined Life Conference: Writing and the Art of Medicine April 16-18, 2015, in Iowa City, IA.

Principal Financial Faculty Development Award

Maggie Schlerman and Sara Dobbin received this award to attend the Accounting Information Systems Educator Association Conference in Colorado Springs, Colo., June 24 – 28, 2015.

Moore Family Foundation Grant Awards

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