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Fall 2014 Vol. 10, No. 1

Chair NotesFall semester at UCM is always exciting! So many things going on across campus, and this year is no exception. As I take note of these things, it is striking how many of our CJ folks are involved. Thus, the theme for this issue is “involvement.” Faculty, students and alums continue

their active involvement with everything life has to offer. As I assume my new duties as Department Chair, I will be continuing some of the initiatives begun by Dr. Chenault. Under Dr. Chenault’s leadership, an Advisory Board was organized and held its first meetings and there are plans in the works for a CJ computer lab and a new shooting range, just to name a few. As you look through this issue you will see many more examples of the outstanding activities happening every day here in the department. For instance, several faculty are very involved with different student groups. Dr. Ashley Wellman and “MoMen” are active in the community, as are the 13-time regional LAE champs under the leadership of Dr. Gregg Etter. Other student centered projects include Professor Benecia Carmack and her roles as the CJ Internship Coordinator and SHIP Advisor where she has organized several events to get faculty more involved with the residents. And don’t forget the study tour to Europe (this issue) this year lead by Dr. Matusiak and Professor Wallace!

Beyond campus, Dr. Fran Reddington continues to play a key leadership role in the Missouri Corrections Association as Immediate Past President. Professor Miller conducted training with the Missouri Division of Probation and Parole, and Dr. Gene Bonham completed QPR Suicide Prevention workshops with the Missouri Corrections Association. Dr. Jennifer Carson not only continues her involvement with student scholarship as the Coordinator of Undergraduate Research, but we are also proud of the

fact that she was selected as the Fall 2014 Learning to a Greater Degree Award recipient (this issue)! Several CJ faculty participated in the American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting in San Francisco in November. Also, the Missouri Corrections Association Fall Meeting had a very strong CJ faculty and student showing. Congratulations also goes to Professor Don Wallace, who was selected as the Executive Director of the Consortium for Transatlantic Studies and Scholarship.

Obviously, the department continues to grow and change. We welcomed three new faculty this term: Dr. Sherri DioGuardi, Professor Tony Gasaway, and Dr. Melissa Petkovsek. They have completed their first terms here and are already deeply involved with students, service, and research. Be sure to welcome them to campus!

It promises to be another stellar year for the Department and I am excited to be a part of all these excellent pursuits. We want our alums to be part of this too. So, on March 25, 2015, we are inviting you to the 1st Annual “CJ Alumni Showcase.” Come to campus and help us highlight your career, and at the same time network with current students. Watch social media and ucmo.edu/cj for additional details! Please know that you are always welcome here! As you keep up with us, we want to keep up with you!

Looking forward,Lynn S. Urban, Ph.D.

Dr. Chenault All Wet!The Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness and encourage people to donate for research for those with ALS has been sweeping the nation. The challenge goes that the person challenged either gets dumped over the head with ice water or donates $100 to ALS research.

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After completing the challenge, it is customary for the sopping wet victor to challenge three others.

On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 slightly after noon, David Rhodenbaugh, member of LAE, relished his task of dumping ice cold water on Dr. Scott Chenault! Michael Pierson, also an LAE member, challenged Dr. Chenault. Pierson wanted to see the CJ Department get involved in this very worthy cause. Dr. Chenault graciously agreed to the challenge and made it a public affair! We think Rhodenbaugh and Pierson would have gladly dumped ice water on Dr. Chenault even if it were NOT for a worthy cause.

Missouri Court of Appeals 2014

On October 22, for the 16th consecutive year, the University of Central Missouri hosted the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District. Presiding Judge Victor Howard, along with Judge Gary Witt and Judge Mark Pfeiffer heard arguments in five cases. Major planning for the event this year fell to Graduate Assistants Brooke Cooley and Natalie Copeland. Thanks to their outstanding planning and hard work, we experienced an excellent turnout. In addition to students from UCM, high school groups from Blue Springs South, Blue Springs, Chilhowee, Holden, Leeton, Oak Grove, Odessa, Smith Cotton, Warsaw, and Warrensburg High Schools were also in attendance.

During the luncheon, special thanks were extended to Senator David Pearce and Representative Denny Hoskins, both of whom gave opening remarks before the court convened. Hoskins and Pearce also explained the distinctions between the branches of government and the importance of separating the powers of the three branches. Special guests at the luncheon this year included Associate Circuit Judge Sue Dodson, Sheriff Chuck Heiss, Warrensburg Police Chief Bruce Howey, Director of UCM Public Safety

Major Scott Rhoad, Assistant Attorney General Joe Dandurand, Board of Governor’s member Mary Dandurand, Dean Roger Best, University President Chuck Ambrose, and the executive boards of several UCM student organizations.

The luncheon provided those in attendance with the opportunity to visit informally with the members of the court and with other professionals in criminal justice. At the closing of the luncheon event, Professor Miller, who is retiring next May, was presented with a plaque recognizing his many years of service for hosting the Missouri Western District Court of Appeals.

Lambda Alpha Epsilon: LAEThey have done it again, folks! The Gamma Epsilon Delta (GED) chapter of American Criminal Justice Association- Lambda Alpha Epsilon (LAE) has just won its 13th consecutive Regional Conference! UCM’s GED chapter hosted the Region III Conference in Kansas City from October 9 - 12. Under the outstanding guidance of advisors Dr. Gregg Etter and Professor Emeritus, Dr. Roger Pennel, GED has again brought home the Sweepstakes Trophies and 39 individual trophies! GED also hosted a poster competition at the Conference in which seven GED members placed.

Individuals bringing home an award included the following: Cassie Bone, Marissa Blanton, Levi Blue, Mackenzie Carreon, Andrew Chronister, Natalie Copeland, Dr. Gregg Etter, Major Richard Gillespie, Jon Glueckert, Benjamin Gross, Colby Harrison, Michael Hawkins, Sierra Haymes, Ryan Kanoy, Mojdeh Koshnavaz, Mary King, Matthew Lamoureux, Austin Latham, Ian McCann, Samantha McLain, Charlie Meyer, Lucas Neff, Tyler O’Neal, Stacia Pottorff, David Rhodenbaugh, Andrew Schwartz, Lynsey Sciolaro, Desiree Smith, Matthew Suppenbach, Hailey Thomas, and Greg Towe.

GED would like to extend a big thank you to Dr. Melissa Petkovsek and Dr. Sherri DioGuardi for helping with the testing, and to Dr. Lynn Urban for helping with the poster competition.

But LAE is not just about winning trophies. Our local chapter also knows what it means to “give back” to the community via a variety of activities. These projects have ranged from highway and waterway cleanups, to blood and blanket donations and other charitable fund-raising efforts. These endeavors provide a vivid

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example of an organization that is committed to bettering the community in which it finds itself. We are proud of this organization and we give a shout out

Good Luck at Nationals!

LAE-GED ReceivesShooting Grant

The Shooting Team of the Gamma Epsilon Delta Chapter of LAE received a $1,500.00 grant from the UCM Opportunity Grant Program. This grant aims to enhance UCM’s learning environment and broaden student academic experiences. The funds from the grant will enable the LAE shooting team to keep the costs of shooting competitions to a minimum.

UCM’s Criminal Justice program is one of the largest in the nation, providing several learning opportunities for its students. The GED shooting team will be using this money to purchase ammunition for the students shooting in LAE sponsored practices and competitions. Team members receive firearms safety and ballistics training and compete in conferences in which they shoot in an actual police qualification course. With its history of academic and firearms excellence and the help from this grant, we know that our chapter will remain competitive.

Pre-Law Student AssociationThe Pre-Law Student Association (PLSA) of UCM, in meeting their goal of preparing students for the law school application process, has had a busy semester! The members of PLSA received instruction on how to write those personal statements that are so very crucial for getting into law school. The group also received tips about how to ask for letters of recommendation. In addition, the group toured KU and UMKC schools of law, and had the opportunity to hear a KU representative speak about the application process. PLSA’s hard work in bringing in guest speakers and giving free LSAT practice tests helps to ready members for success in law school.

Past PLSA Secretary, Hailey Thomas, also stated that PLSA has been able to get reductions or complete fee waivers from some law schools for the admission process, which can be very helpful with application fees running around $100. With a new executive board led by President Rebecca Nabzdyk, PLSA will be ready for the challenges that await in the spring term. Keep up the good work PLSA!

Alpha Phi Sigma:Criminal Justice Honor Society

Alpha Phi Sigma (APS) is the National Criminal Justice Honor Society. The UCM chapter of APS, as always, is keeping busy on campus and working hard on ideas for next semester. The highlight of this semester was the creation of a book club, in which interested students were led by Professor Benecia Carmack, Dr. Randa Matusiak, and Professor Don Wallace in a discussion of the book “Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and its Private Consequences”, written by Catherine Pelonero. Current plans are to continue the book club program into next semester with the hope of increasing student interest and participation. Although APS is not sure what book will be chosen, if you have an interest in such activities, you are encouraged to come and join in!

The APS Fundraising Committee is also working hard to send four students from APS to attend the ACJS conference in March. The ACJS Conference and other professional conferences give students an opportunity to present their own research and sit in on research presentations from others. Our very own Julie Majerak will be presenting a paper with Professor Wallace entitled “The Duty to Secure Rights Under State Constitutions and Criminal Justice.” Keep up the good work, APS – we are proud of you!!

Alumni CornerWhere Are They Now?

A brief glance at this issue’s Alumni Corner provides vivid proof of the far-reaching impact of UCM’s Criminal Justice Program and the type of “involved” professional it produces. What follows is just a small sample of the level of the professionalism demonstrated by our graduates. Perhaps what is most interesting is the wide array of professional interests represented. From private security to correctional programming to career military to public defender investigator, UCM graduates cover the board and cover it well! We are proud that these professionals chose red and we encourage our alums to stay in touch and keep us posted on their accomplishments!

Heidi Moore (Graduate Class 2003)Heidi Moore received her MS in Criminal Justice

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from UCM in 2003. While here, Heidi was a Graduate Assistant and helped develop the on-line Criminal Justice program. Heidi was very involved in the department and on campus. After graduation, she took a job with the Missouri Department of Corrections as an institutional parole officer at the Potosi Correctional Center. While there, Heidi worked with almost every type of offender imaginable, including the most dangerous.

In 2007 Heidi left MDOC to work for Criminal Justice Ministry, a Catholic non-profit agency in St. Louis, where she coordinated the Release to Rent Program, a program designed to help released offenders get on their feet and establish a stable living arrangement as they look for employment. Heidi is a member of several professional associations and she is a trained facilitator in Moral Reconation Therapy, a program that works with those offenders who are resistive to traditional treatment efforts by re-educating them morally, socially and behaviorally. If this does not sound sufficiently “involved” to you, Moore also serves on the Advisory Boards for the UCM Department of Criminal Justice and the Criminal Justice Program at St. Louis County Community College. She is also the Prisoner Advocate for the Institutional Review Board at St. Louis University.

And in her spare time? Moore is working on her Ph.D. at St. Louis University in Public Policy Analysis. To sum it all up, Moore is the picture of a committed professional and a leader in her field. She is the very epitome of “Moore” involvement.

Kevin Hill (Class of 1995)Kevin Hill graduated from UCM with a major in Criminal Justice in 1995. He was hired by the Missouri Division of Probation and Parole in 1998 and went to work in the Kansas City office. With a whopping case load of over 100, Hill kept plenty busy dealing with offenders who ranged from drug and alcohol offenses to serious assaults. After several years in the Kansas City office, Kevin transferred to the probation and parole office in Warrensburg, again working with offenders on the street. Though he found this line of work interesting, Hill later accepted a position as a Corrections Case Worker with the Missouri Department of Corrections at the Boonville Correctional Center, a position he has held for the past several years.

After the Missouri Department of Corrections changed its classification system, the nature of his work changed. Hill went from working with a variety

of offenders to working with those who qualified for a lower level of security.

Kevin is rightly proud of the role he plays in seeing that offenders are released back into the community with the best chance of success. He attributes his professional success to the caliber of education and training he received while he was a student here at UCM. Hill says that UCM is a great university and without the instructors he would not have had the career of which he is rightfully proud.

It sounds like Kevin is as proud of us as we are of him!

Major Joshua M. Pope (Graduate Class 2005)On-Line – and high caliber! Major Joshua M. Pope graduated from UCM in 2005 with a Master of Science Degree in Criminal Justice. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice as well as his commission through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps at Saint Louis University in 2000. Major Pope has received numerous awards and decorations during his time in the Air Force. He is currently serving as the Commander of the 28th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota. Not the least of his duties is overseeing 700 military and civilian personnel who work on aircraft maintenance. Asked why he “chose red”, Major Pope indicated that he was looking to complete his master’s degree in criminal justice, but with his busy schedule he knew that face-to-face classes would not be possible. Though there were hundreds of on-line programs, Major Pope had heard of UCM’s excellent on-line Criminal Justice Program. The rest is history!

We salute you, Major Pope, and send you a heartfelt thank you for everything you do to keep our nation safe!

Megan Mitchell (Class of 2003)Megan Mitchell is a second generation CJ alum. Her father graduated from the CJ department as well! Though Mitchell started out her college career at Mizzou and Longview, she started attending UCM (then CMSU) in the Fall of 2001 after attending a CJ luncheon with her father, during which she was bombarded with information by our eager faculty. She eventually declared CJ as a major. During her time at UCM, Mitchell did a summer internship

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with the Missouri Division of Probation and Parole in 2003 in downtown Kansas City. She later worked at a private probation company. In 2004 she began working for the Missouri Division of Probation and Parole. Megan has been in the Violator Unit since June 2008, interviewing clients who are in jail for probation violations. She has also been the facilitator for the local Victim Impact Panel for the past 10 years, working on the Regional Planning Committee as well as the Regional Recruitment Team. Megan has been named the Regional Employee of the Month twice! She has also been on the Regional Time Study Committee and involved with the implementation of new programming within the department. If you want to know the secret to Megan’s success, it can be summed up in one word – “involvement!”

Rakefet Gill Clifton (Graduate Class 2006)Rakefet Gill Clifton did her undergraduate degree at Missouri State, graduating there in 2003 with a B.S. in Criminology. She was a graduate student of considerable distinction here at UCM, graduating with her M.S. Degree in Criminal Justice in 2006. Rakefet reports that she is “doing great” and has been working for the Missouri Public Defender system for going on 5 years. Indeed, her 5 year anniversary with the P.D. office was on December 1, 2014. She started out as a legal assistant and started working as an investigator in September 2012. At present Rakefet is helping with indigent defense and she reports that she thoroughly enjoys it. Another thing that keeps Rakefet busy is her 5 year old daughter, Miriam. Though mom reports that Miriam is a bit of a “handful,” Professor Miller, who remembers Rakefet from class, suggested that Miriam “obviously takes after her mother!” Rakefet remembers the CJ Department as being lots of fun when she was here and she promises to stop by the next time she is down this way.

Leah Homfeld (Class of 2006)Is private security for you? When Leah graduated from UCM in the summer of 2006, she was asking herself the same question. Leah had gone through the Central Police Academy here on campus and was intent on finding a job in policing. But, after she obtained a position as Asset Protection Associate at the Wal-Mart in Richmond, another career presented itself. Leah reports that she had several memorable arrests in her original position. Wal-Mart is a smart employer and corporate managers know a good thing when they see one. Thus, it was not long before Leah was offered a promotion to Asset Protection Manager, which has been her title for the last 6 years.

Leah currently oversees a team of Asset Protection Assistants and she now guides them in their investigations, including all internal investigations. Additional responsibilities include the creation of weekly audits and ensuring that proper protocols for investigation are in place. Though Leah hopes that her present line of work is largely uneventful, she also recognizes that it is a necessary part of modern merchandizing. And, says Leah, “when you do your job well and get an apprehension, nothing beats it!”

In her free time, Leah likes to travel, go on cruises, scuba dive, and fish and ride 4-wheelers with her two nephews. She has been on a number of island tours and is planning more for the future. Good luck to you, Leah, and consider this issue your standing invitation to come back to campus for a visit!

Faculty Spotlight – Meet Our New Professors!

Dr. Sherri DioGuardi received her Doctorate in Criminology, Law, and Society from the University

of Florida. A qualitative component of her doctoral thesis was recently published in the Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology. Early in her career she was employed with the state of South Carolina as a court reporter, doing both freelance and official work at the

federal and state levels. She was elected President of the South Carolina Shorthand Reporters Association, and she was assigned by the National Court Reporters Association to be the exam proctor for certification of other reporters. She has conducted numerous training seminars for working court reporters. She recently had a proposal accepted for a book-length manuscript that will be based on findings from a 2011 research project, and she is very busy working toward its completion.

Before joining us at UCM, Dr. DioGuardi taught criminological theory at the University of Florida, and she was a faculty member at Elizabeth City State University from January 2011 to May 2014. In January 2012, she added administrative duties to her already impressive vitae by being appointed as the Criminal Justice Program Coordinator. Perhaps most telling of her classroom skills, however, is the fact that she was chosen by student members of the National Society of Leadership and Success, an

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honor society at Elizabeth City State University, to receive the “Excellence in Teaching” award.

Asked what influenced her to come to UCM, DioGuardi states that she was impressed with the tremendous success that graduates from our CJ program have had in their chosen careers. Obviously, she wanted to be part of a program that offered so much to its students and she was impressed by programs like the Missouri Court of Appeals and the Spring Symposium. An additional plus, said DioGuardi, was the fact that her friend from her doctoral program, Dr. Ashley Wellman, would be her coworker. Dr. DioGuardi hopes to get more involved in campus organizations and also volunteer for nonprofit organizations in the community. She has two pets who consider themselves to be the true leaders of the DioGuardi household – an Australian Shepherd puppy she recently adopted, Renata, and a stray cat, Tom, who adopted her. While her charitable impulses might suggest that Dr. DioGuardi could be an “easy mark” – students beware! It could be that her kinder, gentler side extends only to animals. In any case, we welcome Dr. DioGuardi with open arms and wish her the best of luck in the terms ahead!

Professor Anthony Gasaway received his Bachelors in Criminology from Indiana State University

and his Masters in Criminal Justice from the University of Central Missouri. Professor Gasaway comes to us after a distinguished 31-year career in the U.S. Marshal’s service. Prior to his service as a United States Marshal, he served as a deputy sheriff in Indiana and co-owned

a martial arts academy, where he instructed as a 4th Degree Black Belt. During his years as a U.S. Marshal Gasaway developed intermediate weapon systems for the agency, including the expandable baton, OC spray, and Taser. He also developed and instructed the Instructor/Trainer courses and wrote agency policies for each device. He is a graduate of the Marshal’s Elite Tactical Team, the Special Operations group; and he has served as Chief of the Prisoner Operations Branch and Chief of the Air Operations Branch. Top all of these accomplishments off with the fact that he was also an instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center for six years, and what do you have? You have a teacher who knows how to relate the text book to real-life situations and someone you do NOT want to mess with!

When we asked Professor Gasaway why he decided to join the CJ department, he responded, “Because of the outstanding quality of the faculty and the great students.” He also stated that he wanted to share his law enforcement experiences with his students and give them a practical and experienced view of what it means to be a professional in the field. Professor Gasaway has been married to his wife Debbie for 27 years and has two children, Caitlin and Patrick, both residing in the Kansas City area.

Dr. Melissa Petkovsek received her Doctorate in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University. She has a background in psychology and forensic psychology and her original career plan was to seek a career with the FBI. But sometime life has a way of changing your priorities and taking you in different directions.

Though she was hired by the FBI, she chose instead to pursue a Ph.D. And we are happy she did! She was a gifted graduate student at Sam Houston and she is rightly proud of the fact that she received an ACJS Award for Best Graduate Student Paper during her time there. As she neared the end of her doctoral program, she began looking around for teaching positions and saw the opening here at UCM. She is already establishing a reputation here as an interesting, demanding and dynamic teacher who has high expectations of her students and is willing to help them in any way she can. Dr. Petkovsek is currently working on two research projects, one which examines the relationship between soda consumption in children and aggression later in life. The other research project assesses the relationship between intelligence and self-control in adolescents. Her future plans for research include data collection on bio-social theories of human behavior.

Dr. Petkovsek was motivated to join our department because she heard it was a great place to work and had a great faculty. She also liked the fact that UCM is in the Midwest. The size of the department and the freedom to pursue her research interests were also of paramount importance to her in selecting where she wanted to be. Obviously, Dr. Petkovsek’s research interests will bring something new and different to the department. Though her family lives in Ohio, we think Dr. Petkovsek will be happy here. She is already making great friends and she reports that she is looking to adopt a dog. Perhaps she should

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talk to Professor DioGuardi? In any event, we say – welcome aboard!

Missouri Corrections AssociationThe Missouri Corrections Association held a conference in Lake Ozark, MO in September. The MCA holds conferences to promote and support the corrections profession and practitioners, bringing regional, state, and national members of correctional organizations together. Dr. Scott Chenault and Dr. Fran Reddington, along with students Scott Rosa and Krishonya Greer, were able to sit in on several conference sessions. Reddington and Chenault have excellent ties to MCA. Both were on the executive board and helped to organize this conference. According to Dr. Chenault, about 85 people attended this conference, around 75 of which were practitioners of corrections from all over the state! Dr. Chenault says it was a great conference, and he would like to see more student involvement in the future, especially in the student poster sessions.

ASC in San Francisco!The American Society of Criminology held its 70th annual meeting in November in San Francisco, California, under the theme of “Criminology at the Intersections of Oppression.” ASC strives to get professionals engaged in the research, teaching, and practice in the criminological domain to share their extensive knowledge, staying up to date and networking with other academics. Our very own Drs. Urban, Cho, Carson, Petkovsek, Etter, Chenault, and Matusiak attended the event, along with students Victoria Urban and Kameren Huffman, both of whom presented posters. Once again, UCM was proudly represented on a national stage!

Travel Changes LivesThe world seems to be getting smaller and smaller, and international study experiences are becoming more important to a well-rounded education. The Criminal Justice Department at UCM sets itself apart with the study tours and international experiences it offers. Every semester an opportunity is provided for students to go to a different part of the world to study and explore. Sometime, the opportunity is a “once in a life time” deal. Last year, Dr. Yeok-il Cho supervised a study tour that took students to

Japan. These students were able to meet and study with their student counterparts in Japan and compare the country’s methods of policing and corrections to those employed in the United States.

This year, Professor Wallace and Dr. Matusiak are leading another two-week long study tour, this time to Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland. Visits to Berlin, Nuremberg, The Hague, Amsterdam, and Krakow are currently scheduled. The tour hopes to include visits to the Dachau concentration camp, the Palace of Justice, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, the Anne Frank House, and several museums. This 3 credit-hour study tour will also have plenty of time for students to visit markets and museums on their own and to really sink their teeth into the culture!

Student Praises Internshipby Tommy Hambrough

This summer I had the pleasure of working as an intern with the security department at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in St. Louis. I was able to learn and experience many new things during this internship. Some of these experiences involved working in holding cells, performing “pat-down” searches, patrolling the venue, conducting employee searches, and working with local law enforcement. During these experiences I learned how to safely perform an arrest, how to conduct an investigation, and how to apply the requisite degree of force when force was necessary. Toward the end of the internship, I was appointed acting supervisor for the venue. This appointment helped in building my leadership and problem-solving skills. The entire experience was exciting and gave me a good foundational learning experience. Thanks to this Internship I was able to gain invaluable skills and experiences for my future career in law enforcement.

Editor’s Note: An internship can be an eye-opening and valuable experience when considering careers. UCM’s Criminal Justice Department understands the importance of the internship experience and the faculty encourages students to get involved. If you have any questions about internships, you can contact the Internship Coordinator, Professor Benecia Carmack, in Humphreys 302E or by email at bcarmack@ucmo.edu.

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Carson Gets University AwardThe Learning to a Greater Degree Award is a distinct honor here at UCM. According to Kelsey Harmon with the Office of University Relations, the award recognizes individuals who are living examples of engaged learning, future-focused academics and global

perspectives. Who better fits this description than our own Dr. Jennifer Carson? Certainly that is what Graduate Assistant Brooke Cooley thought when she nominated Dr. Carson for this prestigious award.

Though Dr. Carson’s on-campus assignment as Coordinator of Undergraduate Research and National Scholarships with the Honors College takes her away from the department for a portion of her work load, she nonetheless continues her involvement in numerous international endeavors. Not only has Dr. Carson shared her interest in research on terrorism, policy

evaluation and comparative criminology, but she also is affiliated with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism, a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence. Her research has been published in several journals and she has presented her research at international conferences. Last year, she taught a course for the Consortium for Transatlantic Studies in Alcala, Spain, and she co-supervised a student study group that toured Turkey.

Dr. Carson said that receiving the award was an incredible honor. “I am deeply humbled by the award, especially given all of the faculty and staff on campus that serve our students in such amazing ways.” Just another example of how Criminal Justice faculty are involved!

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