College of Arts and Sciences

Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne Fall 2010

Going Native: New Lecture Series Showcases Fort Wayne Natives | p. 14

Passions Pursued: Involvement and Service Increases Chances for Success | p. 16

Hands-on Politics | p. 18

From Prehistory to Insomnia: The Archaeology Connection | p. 20 Cover Photo: Dinosaur footprints in the dolomudstone bed (Glen Rose Formation, Early Cretaceous) of the Paluxy River, Dinosaur Valley State Park, Glen Rose, Texas, July 2009. Geosciences student Amanda Rose provides the scale. Tracks of both sauropod (big washtub-like depressions) and theropod (three-toed prints) dinosaurs can be seen. For more about the Geosciences field trips, see 2010 International Photo Contest third-place photo in the Most Department Spotlights, p. 7–8. Picturesque or Unusual category: "Machu Picchu from the Clouds" taken in Peru by Christopher Bach (student) Other winning photos are provided throughout the Department Spotlights, p. 2–13.

Collegium is a publication for the alumni of the Features College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University–Purdue University Going Native: New Lecture Series Showcases Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne Natives | p. 14 It is produced by the College of Arts and Sciences in collaboration with Passions Pursued: Involvement and Service University Relations and Communications. Increases Chances for Success | p. 16 Editor and Writer Cathleen M. Carosella Hands-on Politics | p. 18 Contributing Writer Kendra Morris Copy Editor Dane Hawley From Prehistory to Insomnia: Designer Ruth Petitti The Archaeology Connection | p. 20 We’d love to hear from you! Collegium In Every Issue College of Arts and Sciences IPFW Department Spotlights | p. 2 2101 East Coliseum Boulevard Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499 Alumni Updates | p. 24 260-481-0686 [email protected]

IPFW is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access University. 09-10-166 Letter from the Dean

Dear Friend of the College of Arts and Sciences, The College of Arts and Sciences (COAS) year-long national initiative seeks to re- is justifiably proud of its alumni. Your imagine undergraduate education in the contributions to northeast Indiana and our 21st century, collectively address the larger society serve as wonderful examples challenges of increasing expectations of the value and impact of a liberal arts as funding decreases, and leverage the education. I am pleased to provide this third traditions of academic collaboration and annual issue of Collegium, and I sincerely creativity to improve public higher education. hope you will look to COAS as a life-long Secondly, COAS is committed to supporting resource no matter where your career and IPFW’s participation in the American life take you. Association of Colleges and Universities’ ongoing national initiative, Liberal Education In 2009–10, COAS conferred 303 and America’s Promise (LEAP). The LEAP baccalaureate degrees, an increase of project challenges the traditional division 18 percent over 2008–09. The first step between liberal and technical education, to graduation is the admission of new supports general education assessment students to the college. During fall semester and reform, and ultimately hopes to address 2010, COAS had 981 new undergraduate the challenges posed by technology and admissions (up 9 percent from 2009) and globalization. 80 new graduate admissions (up 28 percent from 2009). This fall the college is delivering By every measure, the college is growing. more than 32,000 credit hours, 63.1 The vibrancy, vitality, and centrality of our percent of the IPFW total—an increase of academic programs serve as exemplars 5.4 percent over record levels in 2009. to the rest of the university. As a group of scholars, teachers, alumni, and citizens, The college’s work extends beyond the we are dedicated to the creation of new classroom. During 2009, COAS faculty knowledge, transference of knowledge published 24 books, 30 book chapters, and to our students, and expanding our Chanda Lichtsinn 143 journal articles—an increase of 20 connections to the academic and cultural percent over 2008 levels—which accounts life of northeast Indiana. for 64 percent of all IPFW scholarship. During the 2009–10 fiscal year, COAS Finally, please keep in touch with IPFW, faculty received more than $1.4 million COAS, and your former department. To that dollars in grant and contract funding, which end, you can now follow COAS events via matches the college’s historical high. Major Twitter at twitter.com/coasipfw. awards were received from the Indiana I wish you the best in everything you do. Department of Transportation, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Department of Education.

During the 2010–11 academic year, COAS will play a central role in two important university initiatives. IPFW is participating in Carl N. Drummond the American Association of State Colleges Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Universities’ Red Balloon Project. This

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Anthropology Department chair Rick Sutter (University of Mississippi) research on the site. During worked with five students on discovered what might be the summer 2010, Andres and Student Projects Abound: the analysis of human skeletal largest previously unreported Wrobel took more students, Anthropology faculty remains from the Mt. Auburn Maya center documented in including Jaworskyj as a lab supervised a wide variety of United Methodist Cemetery. Belize in the past generation. director, to Belize to participate student projects, research, Student participants were Juan Andres and Wrobel took 15 in the field school. With the New and presentations. Assistant Carlos Gutierrez-Riano (M.S. field school students to the Frontiers grant, they wanted to Professor Christopher “Kip” ’10), Amy L. Lehman (B.A. ’10), Cayo District of Belize for their gain a better understanding of Andres took two IPFW students, Nancy McVey (B.A. ’10), Nicole research project—the Caves the city’s extent, when it was Leah Jaworskyj (B.S., ’09) Staley, and Adrienne Taylor (B.A. Branch Archaeological Survey. constructed and occupied, and and junior Eric Johnson, to ’10). These students presented Toward the end of the session, the features they believe to be participate in his field school their research at the Midwest Andres and Wrobel ventured fortifications. in Belize. “Out-of-classroom Archaeological Conference in into the jungle with local tour opportunities are not only about 2010; all four undergraduates guides and came across a large Andres and Wrobel believe the learning material to accomplish are working toward a research Maya site that was built on a city combined political, ritual, a career goal, they are also certificate. During summer hill and may have been fortified. and residential functions and opportunities to learn about 2009, Taylor also worked with With permission from the Belize may have been founded late yourself,” Jaworskyj said. Bob McCullough, director of Institute of Archaeology, they in classic Maya history. “Our “Literature and thought can the archaeological survey, on a later named it Tipan Chen Uitz research area is interesting teach people, but when they research project that surveyed (pronounced TEEPAN CHEN because it shows little evidence are completely removed from the extent of one of the ancient WEETZ), which means “Fortress of occupation until just before one’s own reality and placed enclosures in Fort Wayne. Mountain Well” in the Yucatec the Maya ‘collapse,’” Andres into an environment different Mayan language. said. “Due to this fact, we are from their own—this is when Andres received a grant from evaluating the possibility that they truly understand their Major Mayan Discovery: the Indiana University 2010 Tipan Chen Uitz represents a world, their reality, and as a During summer 2009, New Frontiers in the Arts center that sprung up during a result, understand the realities anthropology Assistant Professor and Humanities competition period of political balkanization of others.” Christopher “Kip” Andres and for $42,480 to fund further or fragmentation. The possible colleague Gabriel Wrobel presence of fortifications is significant because it suggests a volatile political climate may have existed at this time in this part of Belize. Our work is timely because political organization is a topic of much interest (and debate) in Maya archaeology.” See photos, left, and more photos at bit.ly/93uGa2.

Biology

NIH Grant: Associate Professor Robert Visalli has been awarded a $220,500 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a research project investigating a series of novel drug candidates that prevent Left: Leah Jaworskyj (B.S. ’09) and University of Mississippi student Brandi Dykes excavate stairs at the Maya infectious herpes virus particles site of Deep Valley in 2009. Right: Assistant Professor Christopher “Kip” Andres explores the area around the from forming in infected cells. newly discovered Maya site of Yaxbe.

2 | IPFW College of Arts and Sciences | Fall 2010 The new NIH grant will provide student researchers with extensive laboratory experience in molecular virology. Visalli’s three-year goals include dissecting how various parts (proteins) of the virus replication machinery pack the viral genetic material (DNA) into a capsid (a protein shell or “the suitcase”) that together form a virus particle capable of infecting new hosts.

“There is a major emphasis nationwide to involve students in independent laboratory research as early as possible in the curriculum,” Visalli said. “Funding from NIH will provide biomedical- 2010 International Photo Contest first place photo in the Most Picturesque or Unusual category: based research opportunities to "Buga Park" taken in Gera, Germany, by Lindsay Sprunger (student) IPFW undergraduate students,” he continued. “Additionally, the IPFW graduate program admits a postdoctoral fellow at the coordinating advising activities students interested in obtaining University of California, Berkeley. throughout COAS; helping with a more in-depth laboratory the Student Orientation, Advising, research experience that is Postdoctoral fellow John Roe and Registration (SOAR) program on par with research at the has accepted a position at the design and activities; and main campuses of Purdue and University of North Carolina at addressing issues of academic Indiana universities. Research Pembroke. We wish him and success, including identifying opportunities in molecular his family the best as they and working with at-risk biology and virology are very commence this next phase in students. limited in this part of Indiana. their lives. Funding from the NIH is essential New Student Research to the training of students in Associate Professor Shree Support: The department northeast Indiana.” Dhawale received a Fulbright fellowship to travel to Manipal is very pleased to announce University in India. Dhawale that Earthcycle Education has Faculty Updates: Biology is will teach a graduate-level contributed money to help excited to add two new faculty biotechnology course and fund research by a student this fall. Jordan Marshall is a conduct collaborative research whose focus is on improving plant ecologist working on exotic to assess the level of civic environmental quality. Earthcycle plant and insect invasions. engagement among students Education is a new foundation He was a postdoctoral fellow at Manipal University, a private started by alumna Patricia Oppor at Michigan Technological institution. (B.S. ’01). University, where he worked on various issues related to invasive Associate Professor Elliott plants and animals. Jennifer Blumenthal is the new assistant Taylor is a physiologist with dean for student advising in the research interests in arthropods College of Arts and Sciences. His and biomechanics. She was new responsibilities will include

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Fellowship Award: Associate Professor Steve Carr was named Chemistry department award recipients, left to right: a Marcus Center Fellow by the Zilka, Fridholm, Keck, Tescula, Lash, Bryson, and Chair Jacob Rader Marcus Center of and Professor Ron Friedman Aranzazu the American Jewish Archives. Pinan-Llamas Carr will conduct extensive research at the American Jewish Chemistry Jessica A. Bryson (B.S. ’10). Archives in Cincinnati during the She plans to attend the National 2010–11 academic year. 2010 Student Awards: College of Natural Medicine in Kali Fridholm was awarded the Portland, Ore. “This fellowship is especially Arthur W. Friedel Scholarship, the important because it provides Freshman Chemistry Award, and Jason Corah was awarded the access to some of the most the ICUC (First Year) Chemistry William F. Erbelding Award in significant historical collections Award. Fridholm also earned Analytical Chemistry. He is a in the world related to American dean’s list and semester honors member of the Chemistry Club, Jewish History,” Carr said. The during fall semester 2009—her aspires to be a middle or high fellowship will require a month- first term at IPFW. school science teacher, and has long residency at the American a bachelor’s degree in chemical Jewish Archives in Cincinnati. Chemistry and pre-med major engineering from Purdue Matthew Lash was awarded the University. The Marcus Center’s Fellowship Faculty/Alumni Scholarship and Program was founded with the Leepoxy Scholarship. He has A Faculty/Alumni Scholarship and intent of creating a forum where earned dean’s list and semester Outstanding Organic Chemistry students and scholars of the honors every term and is a Student Scholarship were American Jewish experience member of the Chemistry Club awarded to Zach Szczepanski. could gather to research, and College Republicans. He is also a Chemistry Club discuss, and study their chosen member, undergraduate research topics. The program provides The David P. Onwood Scholarship in chemistry participant, and fellows with an opportunity to not in Physical Chemistry went Supplemental Instruction tutor. only pursue their own research, to Matthew Tescula, who is but also interact and exchange pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Faculty/Alumni Scholarships ideas with research peers. chemistry with the biochemistry were awarded to the following option. He is a member of both students: Alexander Ahmadi, the Chemistry and Pre-Med who has participated in Roundtable Presentation: clubs and has aspirations to undergraduate chemistry Ann Colbert, IPFW’s journalism attend medical school. research, is a Supplemental program coordinator, was invited Instruction tutor, and is a to the University of Oxford to A Faculty/Alumni Scholarship member of the Chemistry and participate in a roundtable and the Outstanding Student Pre-Med clubs; Lindsay Bowsher, discussion. The theme was Affiliate went to Andzela Zilka, who is vice president of the “Women and the Academy.” president of the Chemistry Chemistry Club, is active in Colbert’s contribution was a Club. Under her leadership, undergraduate research, and discussion on the way the media the club conducted successful took a job with Sherry Labs have portrayed women who have fundraisers, two invited seminars, recently; and Susan Keck, who won Nobel Peace Prizes. While in and membership tripled. enrolled at IPFW after receiving the U.K., she also did additional an associate’s degree in criminal research. The 2010 Outstanding Chemistry justice at Ivy Tech Community Major was, by unanimous College–Northeast. departmental faculty vote,

4 | IPFW College of Arts and Sciences | Fall 2010 Communication Sciences Communication Sciences and members of the deaf community Psi Iota Xi Theta Sigma Chapter and Disorders Disorders (CSD) hosted “Deaf, at each booth. The booths in Syracuse, Ind., purchased her Deaf World” to offer an evening represented different factors textbooks for graduate school Deaf Culture Event: What’s of immersion into deaf culture. of everyday life. Participants as a gift. everyday life like for those could not use spoken language with hearing impairments? The event participants travelled to communicate; they were Senior Megan Bowers was In March, the Department of between booths, interacting with limited to American Sign chosen for the generous Language, other non-sign scholarship awarded by the language gestures, or as a Anne M. Balentine Foundation. last resort, a written message. She will serve as SHC treasurer The deaf community members this fall. Senior Carlee Andress “scored” participants based was awarded the generous on how well the message was Downtown (FW) Sertoma William communicated. At the end of Doctor Scholarship. Andress’ the evening, a guest speaker goal is to provide services to from the deaf community led a infants in the neonatal intensive discussion about the experience units and to toddlers, so she can and prizes were awarded for the help to prevent communication highest scores. disorders. Senior Sarah Herendeen received the Psi Iota Xi Delta Participants from the 2009 IPFW Poss-Abilities Theatre Camp Student Honors and Gamma (FW) Donald Doster Awards: Graduating senior Memorial Scholarship. She will New Children’s Camp: A from Michigan took part in the Elizabeth C. Learnard (B.S. ’10) be the SHC club president in new event, the IPFW Poss- camp. was named the Outstanding the fall. Senior Julia Hein was Abilities Theatre Camp, was CSD Major for 2010. Besides awarded the Psi Iota Xi–Eta “staged” by CSD students While the overall focus being an outstanding student, Rho Chapter (New Haven, Ind.) and faculty during fall break of the camp was social Learnard was elected president Scholarship. She wants to work 2009 and earned kudos from communication, the campers of ASL PAH! and the Speech and in a healthcare setting, serving participants and the media. took part in a “theatre” Hearing Club (SHC), and was pediatric clients. Senior Kirsten production using their a student worker in the CSD Ferrigan received the Psi Iota In conjunction with CSD 405 communication devices on department for three years. The Xi–Theta Theta Chapter (Fort Computer Applications in Sunday evening, followed by Speech/Language Pathology, a reception for the actors. the department hosted a Campers received a T-shirt weekend day camp for and a “Donny” award (IPFW’s Augmentative and Alternative version of the Tony award) Communication (AAC) device at the end of the weekend. users ages 6–20. An article Parents painted sets and made about the camp appeared in the simple costumes. Everyone January 28 issue of ADVANCE, agreed that the camp was a bi-weekly publication for a success. speech-language pathologists and audiologists. The fall 2010 IPFW Poss- Abilities Theatre Camp was The 2009 camp was free, October 8–10, and the Sunday thanks to community donations evening performance, You Are and a $750 grant from the Eta Special, was based on the Rho chapter of Psi Iota Psi. Max Lucado book of the same Front row, left to right: Carlee Andress, Julia Hein, and Megan Bowers. Back row, left to right: Lucy Hess, Kirsten Ferrigan, Elizabeth Learnard, Four young people from Allen name. Sharon Egly, and Jonathon Dalby. Not pictured: Sarah Herendeen. County, two from Ohio, and one

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Award and Honorarium: Assistant Professor Rachel Hile is the first recipient of Disability Studies Quarterly’s Tyler Rigg Award and honorarium for the best annual paper on literature/ literary criticism. The award was for her essay entitled “Disability and the Characterization of Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew.”

According to one judge, the essay is “ground-breaking and a theoretically rigorous work on disability and gender in the early modern period . . . an 2010 International Photo Contest second-place photo in the Most Picturesque or Unusual category: "Eiffel outstanding example of the Tower" taken in Paris, by Matthew Amstutz (student) interpretive power of disability studies for literature, in general, Wayne) annual CSD Textbook The NEH Summer Stipend helped and for Shakespeare, in Award for her scholarship and Bassett expand the database, particular.” for her interest in helping people “At the Circulating Library: A with diverse communication Database of Victorian Fiction, disorders. 1837–1901,” with the goal Modernizing Medieval of eventually including every Mysteries: Students in Victorian novel. Currently, the Faculty Excellence Assistant Professor Damian online database accounts for all Fleming’s fall semester 2009 Award: Sharon Egly (B.S. three-volume novels (totaling Middle English literature class ’90), department alumna 5,300) written between 1835– were able to hone their acting and continuing lecturer, is 97 (see www.victorianresearch. skills when they were challenged the recipient of the 2010 org/atcl). to re-enact and translate a York Leepoxy Award for Excellence mystery play. This medieval in Undergraduate Teaching. “I thought being nominated by play cycle consists of 48 plays Egly received the award for her my peers at IPFW for the grant covering religious history from innovative IPFW Poss-Abilities was a great honor, so winning an the creation to the last judgment Theatre Camp for children who NEH summer stipend is really the that were staged on the feast use AAC devices. For more about icing on the cake,” Bassett said. day of Corpus Christi in the city the camp, see the spotlight entry “I feel tremendously grateful of York. The plays follow orthodox on page 5. to everyone who supported my project, and the grant will make teaching but have a slapstick ‘At the Circulating Library’ even edge to them. “While these plays English and Linguistics more useful to scholars.” are a bit controversial today, the medieval audience wouldn’t have Summer Grant Award: Bassett travelled to London in been offended by them,” Assistant Professor Troy Bassett July to work on the database. Fleming said. was one of only two Indiana- In addition to the NEH grant, based recipients of National he received the Fredson Fleming asked his class to Endowment for the Humanities Bowers Award from the U.K. translate medieval mystery plays (NEH) summer grants in 2010. 6 | IPFW College of Arts and Sciences | Fall 2010 into modern-day language and figures as Salvador Dali. A years old provides important hare, descriptions of carnivore turn those translations into poet as well as a scholar, information about the mid- coprolites, and analyses of stable productions that could help their Kalamaras also read some of his continent climate before the isotope geochemistry of the classmates better understand own poems influenced by the last set of glaciations, and is fossiliferous sediments. Farlow each play’s Middle English and Surrealist movement. consistent with the information was also able to return to work the performance context. “I that Professor Jim Farlow on his Texas dinosaur footprint wanted the students to take the is finding in his research on and related projects, after having same liberties with the material Geosciences contemporaneous frogs and them on the back burner for as the original presenters did. Faculty Research and snakes from the site. so long due to PCS (see cover This assignment was not based News: Professor Anne Argast photo). Graduate student Cory on great theatre, but rather a Farlow continues to plug away Kumagai is working with Farlow has a fairly substantial text about on several research projects, way to get students engaged in a kaolinite/smectite interlayer on shape variability of the feet of material. Presenting the material mostly working in collaboration American crocodiles from clay from the Pipe Creek with IPFW faculty and students in public brought the preparation Sinkhole (PCS) in Grant County, Costa Rica. up a notch.” as well as researchers at Ind., awaiting publication. The other institutions. One project clay is particularly interesting examines the fossils from the Student Presentations: Senior Christopher “C.Ray” because it is formed by PCS. A large site description is in Assistant Professor Benjamin Harvey worked with his group weathering under conditions press with the Indiana Geological Dattilo has been working on the to enact the story of Adam and similar to what would be found Survey, and other recent PCS Ordovician stratigraphy of the Eve’s fall from grace. “Personally, in a Mediterranean climate. The publications, including studies Cincinnati region in Kentucky I found the activity challenging, fact that it came from PCS in on a new species of fossil and southern Indiana with but enjoyable,” Harvey said. “Our sediments about 4–5 million task was to reinvent the York script, a task that requires one to break down the language and the intent in order to repackage it. Going through this process allowed me to gain a better understanding of the concerns, motivations, etc., of the York authors, especially in terms of their religious lives.” A portion of Harvey’s group project, “The Play of Adam and Eve,” is available at bit.ly/82vN3c.

Outstanding Research Award Winner: The IPFW 2009 Outstanding Research Award was given to Professor George Kalamaras. As a part of the award, Kalamaras presented a special lecture, “Surrealism Beyond Dali: Poetry and the Practice of Paradox.” The lecture, an overview of his research during the past several decades, discussed Assistant Professor Benjamin Dattilo and students from GEOL G420 Regional Geology Field Trip collect rock the importance of Surrealist samples for conodonts from the base of the Eureka Sandstone near Ibex, Utah, in May 2009. Foreground, literature and art beyond the left to right: Courtney Libben, Phil Bremer, Amanda Straw, Jeffrey Grimm, Zachary Ramey, and Dattilo. popular depictions by such Background, left to right: Amanda Rose, Holly Friddle, and Justin Smith. | 7 recently in Hawaii. This work is taking an exciting new direction: mobile learning. The thrust of his work is exploring and advancing the usefulness of mobile devices (cell phones, iPods, iPads, etc.) in higher education. Although the work only began during fall semester 2009, he has already been asked to talk about it to other interested parties around the university.

Penelope McLorg, gerontology program director, presents Stacy Refner Gerontology (B.S. ’10, communication sciences and disorders) with the 2010 Gerontology Award for Excellence. Program Growth: The Gerontology Program continues students Michael A. Harrison Raymond Gildner, took GEOL significant growth in the number (B.S. ’08), Nicholas B. Flores (B.A. G420 Regional Geology Field of students pursuing the ’10), and Philip A. Bremer. These Trip students on a whirlwind tour gerontology certificate. Enrollment students presented posters at the through the Colorado Plateau in the introductory gerontology 2009 North Central Section GSA, and Great Basin. They visited course also continues to grow. and this year, Flores presented such sights as the Petrified The Gerontology Program is one on further developments in Forest, Meteor Crater, the Grand of the largest certificate programs stratigraphy. Canyon, Las Vegas, the Arrow in COAS. Recent graduates served Canyon Range (Nev.), Ibex (Utah), their practicums in locations such the Great Salt Lake, and active as nursing homes, audiology Student Trips: During spring Dinosaur digs near Moab, Utah, practices, in-home services, adult semester 2008, Assistant and Florissant, Colo. (See a daycare centers, communication Professor Benjamin Dattilo taught photograph from the field trip on disorders clinics, or community the first section of GEOL G319 the previous page.) centers. Elementary Field Geology, which included a trip to Michigan’s Professor Jim Farlow led trips Upper Peninsula (UP). This was to the famous dinosaur footprint Student Award: The first annual a small group: Rachel C. Nyznyk sites of the Glen Rose Formation Gerontology Award for Excellence (B.S. ’10), Jadda C. Moffett, (Dinosaur Valley State Park, was presented at the 2009 COAS and Wayne Rust. Dattilo took Glen Rose, Texas). The field trips Honors Banquet. The award advantage of the small group by included working on a track site honors accomplishment by a doing a little exploring of the UP. mapping/photomosaic project with graduating gerontology certificate Highlights of the trip included a colleagues from Texas Parks and student in disciplinary courses, visit to Copper Harbor, Marquette, Wildlife and paleontologists from multidisciplinary courses, and a Pictured Rocks, and Whitefish Spain, England, and elsewhere. practicum field experience. The Point. A second trip to the UP, with 2010 award recipient was Stacy a larger group of students, took Refner (B.S. ’10, communication place in May and was conducted New Directions in Learning: sciences and disorders) who is with the help of Assistant Continuing lecturer Raymond now pursuing a master’s degree Professor Aranzazu Pinan-Llamas. Gildner has been working on in speech-language pathology furthering online education. During at the University of Oregon, and During spring semester 2009, the past two years, he has given plans to continue work with Dattilo, with continuing lecturer talks around the country, most geriatric clients.

8 | IPFW College of Arts and Sciences | Fall 2010 Faculty Updates: Penelope expertise to the IPFW community skills and the confidence that study and research plan for their McLorg, gerontology program and northeast Indiana. Every comes with these skills. stay in Germany. director, has written articles for fall, a world-class scholar health and disability publications from outside IPFW is invited The conference was recorded Langle’s research project recently and serves as a public to campus. In the spring, one by CATV (Frontier Channel was a discourse analysis of policy representative for the of IPFW’s exceptional faculty 30, Comcast Channel 5). Freiburg’s efforts on becoming Association for Gerontology in is featured. The Distinguished Check CATV listings for airing the “greenest city in Germany.” Higher Education. Mary Thomas, Lecturer Series events are free details for the first and second He investigated how Freiburg’s limited-term lecturer, is an elder and open to the public. For more conferences. The materials from collective conscience about the law attorney who performs information, see bit.ly/bZkHWM both conferences will be made environment changed and how extensive pro bono work and available by Helmke Library on this was accomplished through serves on a variety of community Opus: Research & Creativity at media. Not only was Langle one boards dealing with issues Second Annual IPFW (opus.ipfw.edu). of the 50 scholarship recipients, related to older adults, such as Undergraduate Conference: he was also one of 10 students Alzheimer’s disease, caregiving, The Department of History asked to write a personal blog and adult daycare. Thomas’ sponsored its second International Language about his or her experiences in upper-level gerontology course, annual History Department and Culture Studies Germany for the DAAD Web site Legal and Economic Aspects of Undergraduate Conference in (daadabroad.wordpress.com/ Aging, has been a well-received Walb Student Union in May. Student Research Award: jansen-langle). During semester addition to the curriculum. The conference featured three Senior German major Jansen break, he traveled extensively in topic panels: Modernity, Gender, Langle spent much of the Germany and around Europe. and Social Engineering; Social 2009–10 academic year in History and Cultural History of the Cold Freiburg, Germany, as one of the War; and America as a Work in 50 DAAD (German Academic French Scholarship: Distinguished Lecturer Progress. Twelve undergraduate Exchange Service) scholarship Junior Cara Landrigan received Series: Chair and Professor students, 11 of them history recipients from the United the prestigious Walter Jensen Bernd Fischer was the spring majors, presented papers based States and Canada. The DAAD Scholarship from the American 2010 COAS Distinguished on the research they conducted scholarship is a very prestigious Association of Teachers of Lecturer. A Balkan scholar and in their upper-level history scholarship awarded once a year French (AATF). She is the only expert on Albania, Fischer gave courses. History faculty members to students with an outstanding student in the United States to a lecture entitled “Albanian Christine Erickson, Ann Livschiz, academic record and who have receive this award. The study Authoritarian Leaders: Have We and David Schuster served as demonstrated a well-defined abroad scholarship will allow Seen the Last of Them?” in April. moderators. Department Chair Bernd Fischer gave the opening In 2006, Fischer was elected remarks. Students, parents of to the Albanian Academy of the participants, history and Science, the country’s most other COAS faculty, and IPFW prestigious intellectual and staff members attended the scientific institution. In 2007, sessions and participated in the he became a special advisor discussions. to the Albanian Royal Court, which requested his help to The conference allowed the best define a role for the royal family students from the department in the context of a republic. He to share their research with is consulted routinely by U.S. a diverse audience. The and other government agencies department faculty see the to analyze the current political conference as an opportunity climate in the Balkan region. for students—some of whom will attend graduate school—to 2010 International Photo Contest first-place photo in the Favorite Cultural The COAS Distinguished experience conference dynamics Interaction category: "After School" taken in Burkina Faso, West Africa, Lecturer Series brings worldwide and to develop public-speaking by Lyndsy Patterson (student)

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Math Alumni Dinner: The annual Math Alumni Dinner was in February (see photo, left). About 20 math alumni attended, along with some faculty members, and they were treated to a sumptuous meal, good fellowship, and an entertaining talk by Alex James (B.A. ’02; M.A. ’04). James is a math alumnus and currently The 2010 annual Math Alumni her to study in Aix-en-Province, Award, given by the department a deputy attorney general for Dinner France, for the 2010–11 to the graduating senior who Indiana. (James is also featured on school year. best demonstrates excellence in page 16 in “Passions Pursued.”) academics and extracurricular The department hopes the new The scholarship is designed activities during his or her Keith Busse Steel Dynamics to help future French teachers four years in the department. Alumni Center will be available for finance a semester or a year Congratulations go out to all our the next Math Alumni Dinner in abroad. “The award means a lot to graduates, as well as best wishes spring 2011. me because I know I am the only for the future. one in the country to receive it,” Landrigan said. “The award will Changes: The department help me in two ways: on a short- Faculty Spotlight: Professor welcomed back Professor Marc term level, I am receiving money Yifei Pan was named a 2010 Lipman, who stepped down after for studying abroad, and on a Pippert Science Research Scholar. serving as the dean of COAS for long-term level, I know I will have He won this award in 2001 as seven years. Also returning to the access to a national association well. This award was established department is Professor Douglas of French teachers. But studying by Professor Emeritus Raymond Townsend, who is stepping down abroad will have both short-term Pippert to support research efforts as the associate vice chancellor and long-term effects for me as in the sciences and mathematics. for academic affairs and director well; the experiences I gain while Pan is one of the most productive of graduate studies. Townsend will abroad will stay with me for the researchers in the math serve as the associate chair of rest of my life.” department. the department again. Associate Professor William Frederick retired Associate Professor Adam after completing five years on early Mathematical Studies Coffman, Assistant Professor partial retirement. Frederick was Yihao Deng, Associate Professor a faculty member in the math and Graduating Class: Twenty-four Peter Dragnev, and Pan hosted computer science departments students received B.S. degrees six visiting Scholars-in-Residence for many years, and excelled in and three students received last year: Professors Debraj teaching, research, and service. M.S. degrees this year—one of Chakrabarti (Notre Dame), He will be missed. Janet Kruse the largest graduating classes Narasinga Chaganty (Old retired as department secretary in mathematics in recent years. Dominion), David Benko (South after 15 years of service. She was Tim Carson (B.S. ’10), Nhat Alabama), Johann Brauchart the consummate professional. She Pham (B.A. ’10), and Corbin (Vanderbilt), Nataly Zorii (the will spend her retirement years Yeager (B.S. ’10) graduated with Ukranian Institute), and Yu Yan in Arizona. Sheila McFarland is distinction. Pham and Yeager also (Huntington). Visiting scholars Kruse’s very able replacement. shared the Maynard J. Mansfield spend a week on campus doing (See photos at bit.ly/cfcrqe.)

10 | IPFW College of Arts and Sciences | Fall 2010 MATHCOUNTS® at IPFW: Senior Blaine Cox built optical Students from six area tweezers that use light to schools participated in the manipulate microscopic particles MATHCOUNTS® Anthony and is using them to study Wayne Chapter Math Contest Brownian motion, the random in February in the Walb motion that all small particles Student Union Ballroom. The undergo. Department of Mathematical Sciences and the College of Junior Eric Tomek has produced Engineering, Technology, and dye-doped aerogels (extremely Computer Science co-hosted low-density solids, mostly air) the competition. The Raytheon and is studying their use as a Corporation is a local sponsor of laser medium and as a MATHCOUNTS®. light detector. IPFW students (clockwise) Joe Menze, Joe Magistri, Leyla Mansour-Cole, Senior Clint Reynolds has been and Amanda McCann, participated in the 2010 National Conference of Mathletes® from Adams Central developing polymeric, solid-state College Leaders at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa. Community School, Canterbury dye-laser systems and a special College Leaders Republican and Democratic School, Edgewood Middle air-bearing system for moving Conference: Associate leaders. School, St. Vincent DePaul the plastic laser medium. School, Summit Middle School, Professor Michael Wolf took Conference participants listened and Woodside Middle School Junior Drew Elliott has been four students to the National to talks on civility in Congress, competed individually and studying theoretical and actual Conference of College Leaders: conflict resolution, incivility as teams in written and fast- “chemical waves” in which a Pathways to Civility at the during the healthcare debate, paced oral matches. Subjects chemical reaction oscillates Center for Political Participation and (by Wolf) how political included algebra, probability, between two states and the at Allegheny College in disagreement in interpersonal statistics, and geometry. Winners reaction propagates through Pennsylvania. communication can actually advanced to the Indiana State the chemicals. The IPFW students—Joe Menze, improve American democracy. MATHCOUNTS® finals at Rose- Joe Magistri, Leyla Mansour- The IPFW group also went on Hulman University in Terre Haute, Cole, and Amanda McCann—did a dinner and boat cruise trip Ind. (See photos at bit.ly/djzXLY.) Political Science extremely well in the workshops. as a team building exercise, How IPFW’s College Republicans and made a presentation that Model United Nations: Each and University Democrats highlighted 10 strategies to February, IPFW’s Model UN Club Physics worked together on a Haiti implement to increase civility participates in the Midwest Model earthquake relief concert, on their campuses, while Student Research: A number UN in St. Louis. Participating student government funding, maintaining their principles and of students in physics are colleges send at least one and Homecoming activities beliefs. working on research with their team of students, each team were frequently referred to as faculty advisors. All students representing one country of the examples of strategies other After the conference, the worked with Professor Mark world (about 800 students from campuses could use to build IPFW students discussed how Masters, with Desiderio Vasquez approximately 45 colleges). The more civility. The students confident they felt in their also advising Drew Elliot. purpose is to simulate debate contributed frequently and academic preparation. They and negotiation in each of the were able to interpret survey Senior Robert T. Dill has been meaningfully to the workshops various UN bodies and pass data, had a firm grasp of political studying Rayleigh scattering and sessions, often leading resolutions that propose solutions institutions and political parties, from Argon microclusters in these national student leaders. to important global problems. and were able to question order to determine the size Allegheny College’s Center for elements of civility against this of the microclusters. He has For the third year in a row, Political Participation invited backdrop in very sophisticated developed a new measurement Associate Professor James campus leaders from around the ways. They did IPFW proud. technique using interferometry Toole has taken a team to country—particularly college in conjunction with the Rayleigh the conference. IPFW team scattering. members included graduate

| 11 students about their work. The first speaker was Jenna Harmeyer In Memoriam: Former chair of political science and dean Shepherd, a clinical psychologist of the then-School of Arts and Sciences, Julius Smulkstys, at a pain management clinic in passed away on April 12. Smulkstys was born in Kaunas, Fort Wayne. The second speaker Lithuania, in 1930 and emigrated to the United States in 1949. was Joan Poulsen, an assistant He and his wife, Isabel, lived in Lakeside, Mich. professor of psychology at Smulkstys came to the Indiana University Extension Center IUPU–Columbus, who gave a in Fort Wayne in 1959 and retired from IPFW in 1995 as presentation in February. Julius Smulkstys associate professor of political science. He received degrees from the University of Illinois (A.B., 1953; A.M., 1955) and Indiana University (Ph.D., 1963). He served as chair of the Sociology Department of Political Science from 1970–78; as acting dean of the School of Arts and Letters from 1978–79 and 1980–81; GRASP: IPFW’s Graduate as dean of the School of Arts and Letters from 1981–87; and Association of Sociological as acting dean of the School of Arts and Sciences from 1987– Practitioners (GRASP), an 89. His area of research interest included Marxist theory and organization for sociology practice and totalitarian systems, with an emphasis on Eastern graduate students, is in its third European countries. He published a book on Karl Marx in 1974 year of operation. In April, the and had numerous research articles published. group sponsored a campus event that featured Elijah Anderson, After he retired from IPFW, Smulkstys became an advisor to a distinguished Yale University the former president of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus, regularly sociology professor and expert travelling between Lithuania and Michigan. on urban inequality, who has authored several books on urban sociology and social problems. GRASP members also attended students Travis Barnes (B.A. researching the issues to be the American Sociological ’10), Staci Bougher (B.A. ’10; debated in the committees, Association conference in Atlanta B.S. ’09, public affairs), and practicing parliamentary in August. GRASP currently Eric Pepperman (B.A. ’10). procedures, and drafting position has 30 active members, which IPFW’s team also included papers. In 2008 and 2009, IPFW includes current and former a large contingency of IPFW represented Singapore and Sri graduate students as well as 2010 International Photo Contest undergraduate students: Zach Lanka, respectively. In 2011, the sociology professors. first-place photo in the Mastodons Cook, Lilly Dragnev, Nathalie team will represent Pakistan. Abroad category: "Don at Garces, Chris Griffin, Chelsea Changdeok Palace" taken in Hatfield, and Mike Peters. Seoul, South Korea, by Sociology Student Association: During fall Sharene King (student) This year, IPFW represented Psychology semester 2009, the Sociology Turkey on the four committees of New Colloquium Series: The Student Association (SSA) the UN General Assembly and, for Department of Psychology, along sponsored another successful the first time, on the UN Security with Psi Chi (the IPFW chapter Sociology Awareness Week. Council. One IPFW student was of the national honor society The 2009 events provided the a Model UN staff member; so of undergraduate psychology IPFW community with valuable instead of representing Turkey, majors) and the Psychology Club, information about the sociology she moderated debate in the began the Psychology Colloquium of health. The SSA also started a General Assembly. Series during fall semester 2009. new lunchtime lecture series— The lecture series brings IPFW IPFW’s team members work the Sociology Student Association psychology alumni who now are for several months to prepare Presents—a successful series professionals in the field back to by learning all they can about that will continue. the campus to speak to current the country they represent,

12 | IPFW College of Arts and Sciences | Fall 2010 Diversity Training Class: Women’s Studies Program, In April, Lehmann, Parker, Students in two sections of SOC Center for Women and Returning Tammi Kerr (B.A. ’10), and S300 Race and Ethnic Relations Adults, Indiana-Purdue Student Alysia Marshall presented their combined class requirements Government Association, and research from women’s studies with service to the IPFW Student Affairs sponsored the courses at the 22nd Annual IU community by offering diversity annual “Take Back the Night” Women’s and Gender Studies training to IPFW students and event. The public was invited to Undergraduate Conference at employees. In April, the students attend the event, which included IU–Southeast. organized two diversity-training a half-mile walk around campus, sessions designed to promote beginning at Cole Commons on anti-racist education. One the Waterfield Campus. Honors and Awards: At the session featured round-table annual COAS Honors Banquet, discussions facilitated by eight The candlelight vigil concluded Amanda Parker received the students; the other featured at Walb Student Union, with Joan Daley Uebelhoer Award presentations from three closing remarks by Deputy for 2009–10, an award that students. Chief Dottie Davis of the Fort recognizes both academic Wayne Police Department, contributions and activism The purpose of the class who discussed creating a related to women’s issues.▼ assignment was to help students community climate where sexual understand the importance and and domestic violence are not value of diversity and further tolerated. promote anti-racist attitudes, as well as to give students hands-on experience to apply Undergraduate Research their knowledge and skills. “I and Travel: Women’s studies asked students to make lesson major Layli Magers presented a plans for diversity training and paper at Southern Connecticut present their plans, so they will State University’s 19th Annual understand that sociological Women’s Studies Conference: knowledge and theory are Women and Girls of Color: relevant and extremely helpful History, Heritage, Heterogeneity. in their lives,” said Mieko Her presentation, “Reclaiming Yamada, assistant professor of the Sacred Sisterhood in 2010 International Photo Contest second-place photo in the Favorite sociology. “I want them to apply Feminine Movement: The Cultural Interaction category: "Mingling Cultures" taken in Cairo, Egypt, their knowledge by educating Dance of Birth,” explored the by Kevin Bathke (student) their friends, families, and art of the belly dance as a tool members of community. I believe for reinforcing communication the best learning takes place between women, strengthening when students can link their kinship, and empowering knowledge and skills from class childbirth. to their own professional fields.” Several women’s studies students—Amy Arehart, Elizabeth Lehmann (B.A. ’10), Women’s Studies Magers, Jennifer Netting (B.G.S. Take Back the Night: ’10), and Amanda Parker— Bringing the community together attended the 2009 National to support the end of violence Women’s Studies Association toward women is what “Take Conference in Atlanta from November 11–15. Back the Night: Shatter the 2010 International Photo Contest first honorable mention in the Favorite Silence, Stop the Violence” is Cultural Interaction category: "Sisters" taken in Mandili, Iraq, by Tiffany all about. In March, the IPFW Krevec-Kelly (student) | 13 Going Native: New Lecture Series Showcases Fort Wayne Natives Quinton Dixie, By Cathleen M. Carosella IPFW Associate Professor When the conversation turns to of Philosophy “brain drain,” IPFW’s Associate Like others, Dixie experienced a racial awakening when he Professor of Philosophy Quinton left Fort Wayne. He said when he was young he felt “no sense of group consciousness on the part of the African American Dixie knows he is an exception to the rule. community,” and he felt that others did not understand the racial history of African Americans in Fort Wayne. However, Many young people who leave Fort Wayne do not return “going away to college heightened my senses about race and permanently even if, like him, they want to. And recently, race relations.” Through the Native Tongue series, Dixie he realized two things about the “brain drainers” he knows: wants the returning “natives” to encourage current students to 1) those who left still feel strong connections to Fort Wayne engage with these topics while they’re still in Fort Wayne. and 2) many work on diversity or race-related issues. The series’ first speaker, Terrence Johnson, echoed many of So when he was thinking about creating a service project that Dixie’s thoughts. He said, “there was so much silence about could help both IPFW and local high school students, Dixie [race] when I was growing up. I don’t remember Jewish combined the “brain drainers’” hometown connections with students or conversations about anti-Semitism. Diversity was their shared interests to create the Native Tongue Lecture Lutherans and Catholics. People only talk about [race] when Series. there’s a problem.”

Starting in spring 2010, twice each year for the next five, Concordia High School graduate and Florida State University Fort Wayne natives will return to the city to engage with the religious studies professor Amy Koehlinger uses Fort Wayne IPFW, their high school, and the local communities. Each as the “metric by which [she] judges other places.” She loves Native Tongue presenter will give a public lecture at IPFW that “people invest in infrastructure and quality of life in Fort on a race- or diversity-focused topic and meet with students at IPFW and his or her former high school to discuss academic development, pathways to professional success, and For more information visit: his or her lecture topic. Students from local high schools and Native Tongue Lecture Series: IPFW, as well as the general public, will also be encouraged ipfw.edu/departments/coas/news-events/native-tongue.html to attend the free evening lectures. IPFW Calendar: ipfw.edu/calendar

14 | IPFW College of Arts and Sciences | Fall 2010 Wayne because they want their children American Teens on the Move (ATOM) Beyond the lecture’s focus on religion to grow up in a safe and enriched that high school student Johnson and self-identity, for Johnson, the event world: the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo, organized through the Urban League. was a special homecoming because the the TinCaps’ new Parkview Field, the ATOM was created for teens who audience included family, friends, and fantastic Allen County Public Library, needed to know more about “the road mentors who came to reconnect with the parks, and such are the result of the to success.” Johnson said, “Culturally, the person he had become, as well as commitment that people in Fort Wayne the time when ATOM was started others who came to meet Johnson and have to this place, to making it the best [late 1980s] represents an interesting his ideas for the first time. place it can be.” moment for African Americans. The Cosby Show and Before the evening lecture, Johnson met Koehlinger, the other shows were and spoke with students at Harding and fall 2010 Native creating a new IPFW. He also gave generously of his Tongue presenter, ••• image for us; there time after the evening lecture to answer loves the “solidity” “…for Johnson, the event was a revival of questions from the audience, further she feels from and African American clarifying his ideas on race, religion, about the city. It was a special homecoming history on TV; politics, and many more topics. is why she brings because the audience and there was the her children back development of rap Significant to Johnson was that, to Fort Wayne for included family, friends, music.” So when although “Harding’s demographics have lengthy visits every and mentors who came to he thought to changed,” the students were interested summer. Koehlinger reconnect with the person himself “What can in his message, opinions, and ideas. attended Concordia I do?,” ATOM was He (and Dixie) also know that getting High School with he had become as well as formed. students, especially minority students, Dixie, and she others who came to meet onto a campus can show them that views his invitation By the time these places aren’t closed to them—so to contribute to Johnson and his ideas for Johnson graduated the series, like the now defunct ATOM the series as her the first time.” from Harding, 100 before it, can help in that way as well. opportunity to “give ••• people were part of back just a little ATOM, and they to the community went on college that shaped and visits, were featured nurtured me as a in publications young person, to share my work including Frost Illustrated, and did all back home.” they could to expand their horizons.

Paul Harding High School graduate This April, Johnson gave the inaugural Johnson is assistant professor of Native Tongue Series lecture, “Crisis religion at Haverford College, a small, of the Soul: Reflections on Death, Quaker-influenced liberal arts school Memory, and Religion in Toni in Pennsylvania. He knew at an early Morrison’s Beloved.” age he wanted to leave Fort Wayne, and his mother, a single parent, encouraged According to Johnson, “The lecture’s him to connect with people who topic is one that someone can deal could help him reach his goal. Johnson with even if he or she has not read the was inspired and helped by family, book—trying to piece together the Paul Harding High School graduate and neighbors, and community leaders with idea of memory and tradition, and a Assistant Professor of Religion at Haverford whom he came in contact through his testing of oppression as a way to open College, Terrence Johnson, was the series’ volunteer and paid work at places like a conversation around how we imagine first speaker. the Urban League and Frost Illustrated ourselves as not only Americans but (where high school student Johnson also those questioning roles such as that Johnson knows it is difficult for anyone met college graduate Dixie). of religion, gathering fragments from to place his or her ideas in other the past to tell that story—religion in peoples’ boxes (especially with regard to Dixie was impressed by Johnson’s public life.” religion and identity). He points drive, especially the success of African Continued on page 30

| 15 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Involvement and Service Increases Chances for Success • By Kendra A. Morris • how to choose and be accepted into a law school, and how •

• to stand out as a lawyer. “It doesn’t matter what your • • From both his Ambassadon mentor and Associate major is, you’ll probably never •

Professor Duston Moore (philosophy), Hubley learned •

get a job in your field.” It’s a that even during law school he had to continue building •

his résumé. “I’m a glutton for punishment,” Hubley shared • depressing statement, but in the current while laughing. “Just non-stop busy all the time. I wanted •

and new college graduates economy, students to really get involved, and if something sounded like a •

alike struggle to find that first job. Four IPFW alumni great idea, I just, well, got involved.” recently shared with Collegium that career readiness Hubley’s motivation and work ethic paid off; besides his involves more than just time spent in the classroom. IPFW accomplishments, he was elected to the student Alex O. James (B.S. ’02, M.S. ’04, mathematics; A.S. bar association at the Valparaiso University School of ’03, computer science), Nathaniel O. Hubley (B.A. ’06, Law, worked for area firms and a judge, and was elected philosophy), Betsy Yankowiak (B.S. ’03, geosciences), and to serve as an editor of the Valparaiso Law Review—an Tina S. Moen (B.S. ’09, mathematics; A.S. ’09, information exceptional accomplishment. An acceptance essay was systems) all agreed that their own efforts, combined with required for consideration as the Review editor; Hubley’s opportunities available through their IPFW programs, were essay, “The Untouchables: Problems with Vocational integral parts of the process. Testimony,” is cited regularly by scholars today. He also organized a symposium, “Torture: Justifiable?,” for the Becoming a lawyer isn’t something one just falls into, Review during his final year. and attorneys James and Hubley said they worked hard during and after classes. Since pre-law students can Since receiving a juris choose from a variety of undergraduate majors, they must doctorate with honors, certainly choose wisely—future lawyers need to learn Hubley moved back to Fort critical thinking and logical reasoning skills as well as gain Wayne, works downtown in writing and research experience. Extracurricular activities a local firm that specializes or volunteer work should be sprinkled in one’s schedule in medical litigation, and during spare time. Don’t have any spare time? Make some. lives with his wife who is expecting their first child, ubley, who now practices law in Fort Wayne, a boy, in October. He also explained, “My first year at IPFW, I was recently joined the College thinking, ‘Okay, get good grades,’ but my of Arts and Sciences’ Hsecond year I said to myself, ‘Build the résumé.’ One (COAS) Community thing led to another, time flew by, and it got me where I Advisory Board. Hubley wanted to go.” hopes to find time to Nathaniel O. Hubley (B.A. ’06, volunteer with IPFW’s philosophy) volunteered as an While pursuing a philosophy degree, Hubley was elected Ambassadon while at IPFW, Ambassadon program, Valparaiso vice president of the IPFW student body and selected as served as an editor of the but only when he finds University Law Review while earning an IPFW Ambassadon, student representatives who help time between teaching at a his J.D. at Valparaiso University, organize campus events. Ambassadons are often mentored nearby community college, and now serves on the COAS Community Advisory Board. by university alumni who are working professionals in serving the public through the region. Hubley said he appreciated meeting with his the Northeast Indiana mentor, a lawyer, who offered tips on passing the LSAT, Volunteer Lawyer Program, and working at his full-time job.

16 | IPFW College of Arts and Sciences | Fall 2010 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • His five-to-ten year plan includes starting • a firm with his with Professors David Legg (mathematics) and Yifei Pan • • wife, a fellow lawyer he met at Valparaiso, and running • for (mathematics) and Associate Professor Robert Sedlmeyer • local political office. “I’ve been so fortunate to receive all• (computer science). He was on a team during his last year

the scholarships and mentoring over the years, and I just • of graduate school that won the intramural tournament. “I • feel obligated to give.” •still have the T-shirt,” James said.

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lso practicing law and committed to helping “For the• most part,” he said, “I spent a great deal of • others is math alumnus Alex James, who is time in the math department either pestering teachers •

currently a with questions • on homework or helping with various

Adeputy attorney general research projects.” “Pestering” is probably not a term that •

for the State of Indiana. James’ former professors • would use, but his success as a

Math is not a common professional is closely • connected to the amount of time he

pre-law field of study, spent with them in and• outside of class.

but James attributes much of his success in James seems to have used each experience to fine-tune law to his education in his skills as a lawyer. Hamburger’s calculus class required math at IPFW. “extensive research projects” as a part of the tests, and he continually expected the best from his students. James said “To be honest, my this course was the sole reason he decided to make math analytical reasoning is his undergraduate major. based in mathematics,” he said. “For instance, Professor Steven Hollander’s (English) writing course mathematical required “almost surgical precision” when it came to Alex O. James (B.S. ’02, M.S. ’04, proofs require you analytical writing—a skill that has been invaluable to him mathematics; A.S. ’03, computer as a lawyer. (Hollander passed away just before James’ to justify each and science) was the keynote speaker at the every conclusion 2010 Math Alumni Dinner. final in this course.) James attributes his public speaking with citation to skills to Professor Douglas Weakley (mathematics) who some theorem or already established principal. The encouraged James to start the master’s degree program and law is the same way… having done so many proofs and become a TA. mathematical arguments, doing this is almost second And James continues to learn about his own strengths nature to me.” and interests. “The longer I have been in government James received a juris doctorate from the University of litigation, the more I have come to realize that there are Notre Dame Law School, but he still describes math as an some parts to litigation that I tend to gravitate toward: “ongoing interest” and wants to teach math and conduct litigations strategy, writing briefs, writing responses to mathematical research in the future. As a law student, motions, and discussing legal theories…. I like the fine James taught pre-calculus classes at a college near South minutia of legal argument. I like new cases and new Bend and worked as a law clerk. Besides his work as areas of law, which is something I often encounter in deputy attorney general, he teaches classes at a community government litigation.” college and researches mathematical algorithms within the James’ passion to never quit learning about himself and medical field in his spare time. All this while also being a the world around him is easily apparent to an outsider, and full-time father and husband. this drive keeps him involved and active, something he At IPFW, before James decided to go to law school, he shared with past and present IPFW students when he was was a teaching assistant (TA) in the math and computer the keynote speaker at the 2010 Math Alumni Dinner. science departments, and he helped both Professor lso a math graduate, Tina S. Moen moved from Emeritus Peter Hamburger (mathematics) and current her home in suburban Olso, Norway, to attend COAS Dean Carl Drummond (geosciences) conduct IPFW and play on the women’s basketball team research. Since that wasn’t enough to keep him busy at A(2005–09). She wasn’t sure of a major when she first IPFW, he also played pick-up basketball during lunch Continued on page 28 | 17 Hands-on WhilePolitics he expects much from them, Downs designs class projects By Cathleen M. Carosella that, in his words, “require students to produce a part of a larger work product. This allows [me] to evaluate each student individually, “I really liked the hands-on approach to [and the] final work product allows students to see what their part learning. I think this class allowed us to was in the larger project, and how it related to other parts of the product.” These group-oriented projects accommodate the complex work our way into an understanding, and work/school schedules that many IPFW students maintain, while also some things…are best learned by trying.” ensuring that students meet the university’s academic expectations. Such is early education major Angela Spuller’s analysis of her Plus, the students learn how to participate in, contribute to, and experience in POLS Y307 Indiana State Government and complete group projects—essential skills in today’s workforce. Politics during spring semester 2010. Because the class focuses on questions From researching the background and predicting hey of politics and policy, students often the fiscal fallout from Indiana’s property tax caps to realized, face a universal dilemma: problems learning how Indiana’s state budget is constructed by “asT often is the with multiple possible solutions. So, trying to pass one as a class, the students in Assistant for example, in their research on and Professor Andrew Downs’s POLS Y307 class studied the case, there is no assessment of the property tax caps, idiosyncrasies of Indiana politics, using both regional and single correct students discovered that each positive national counterparts as points of comparison. answer to a policy result had at least one repercussion that affected another group negatively. They Downs, director of the Mike Downs Center for question, even realized that often there is no single Indiana Politics, regularly teaches POLS Y307, a course though some correct answer to a policy question, even in which students actively examine Indiana’s unique answers are better though some answers are better political landscape. The interdisciplinary than others. focus also helps students refine their abilities to make than others.” connections across disciplinary boundaries and to identify cause-and-effect relationships that extend beyond the topics at hand. Downs wants the class to evolve: “I’m thinking about asking the Downs organizes the class around projects such as an in-class state students involved in the tax- budget exercise or a mock constitutional convention that enables cap project to participate in a students to experience coalition building, passing legislation, and panel discussion that will be working with people who have different viewpoints. Students also recorded for CATV and mDon. The research how the creation of local historical districts can affect a discussion will cover the history community or analyze how property tax caps will affect individuals, of the caps, who the winners and corporations, and communities. Beyond the research and analytical losers will be if the caps [did] skills students employ to complete their assignments, the projects Joseph (Joe) Menze, an IPFW and [did] not become part of the political science major and 2010 teach students the importance of examining all sides of an issue, constitution, and why Hoosier Lugar Scholar, thoroughly enjoyed the experience of drafting a new analyzing how issues are interconnected, and understanding the voters will or will not vote for the article for the Indiana Constitution’s motivations and actions of public officials. state constitutional amendment. Bill of Rights.

18 | IPFW College of Arts and Sciences | Fall 2010 I think this could be a good service to the voters in Indiana. And it Pennsylvania. (See Department Spotlights, page 11 for more about will show off some IPFW students.” (Please note that Collegium was the Pennsylvania conference.) at press when the vote on tax caps occurred.) Other students also learned that making group decisions can be Joseph (Joe) Menze, an IPFW political science major and 2010 more complicated than it seems, and that in order to make decisions Lugar Scholar, thoroughly enjoyed the experience of drafting a new for the state, legislators must put aside their own wants to decide on article for the Indiana Constitution’s Bill of Rights. Menze knows that the needs for all. Spuller, whose words opened this article, said, “I he will benefit personally and professionally by learned that this is not something I would learning Robert’s Rules of Order and mastering want to be a part of, as I have very clear the art of coalition building. n the class (and ideas of what I want or think the state needs, but the class taught me a lot.” He shared how he and a small group at IPFW), don’t of student “delegates” decided to hijack “Ihold back. Dive right Both Menze and Spuller shared that the convention and use their coalition the course was more complex and, at to pass “silly” amendments such as in. Get those questions times, more difficult than they expected. naming themselves as nobility who do out there. You’ll enjoy However, as Menze puts it, “In the class not have to pay taxes. These amendments were class more, the more (and at IPFW), don’t hold back. Dive quickly struck out. Through these (albeit playful) you’re involved. If right in. Get those questions out there. actions, Menze and his classmates learned You’ll enjoy class more, the more you’re how outside moves are used to pass items in you want to make a involved. If you want to make a comment, the legislature, the role of “behind the scenes” comment, throw it out throw it out there or it won’t be heard. agreements, and how/why legislative bodies there or it won’t be Don’t be afraid to throw it out there. Push get bogged down. The class ultimately did for what you want.” pass a new bill of rights that is slightly different heard. Don’t be afraid So, it seems that Downs’ goal to help from the current one—including additions that to throw it out there.” students understand Indiana’s unique allowed anyone 20 years of age or older to political system and structure while carry a firearm and a statement that Indiana’s helping IPFW students learn vital analytical skills works, especially Bill of Rights is not dependent on the U.S. Constitution’s for students who are ready to, as Menze’s words and deeds show, Bill of Rights. “get involved and take all of the opportunities available.” ▼ Menze, president of IPFW’s College Republicans, also enjoyed learning how to work with people who don’t agree with him. He credits POLS Y307 and joint ventures with the IPFW University Democrats with teaching him how to maintain friendships while disagreeing: “Because I plan to go into constitutional law, I will have MIKE DOWNS CENTER FOR INDIANA POLITICS to work well with people from all over the spectrum. I like that I (IPFW Center of Excellence): have learned first-hand that I can disagree with people and still be friends with them.” Menze has already put these ideas into action mikedownscenter.org by working with IPFW’s University Democrats to jointly organize a benefit concert for Haiti and to attend conferences in Chicago and

| 19 From Prehistory to Insomnia: The Archaeology Connection By Cathleen M. Carosella Each year the scope and scale of research done by the College will lead to more discussions between patients and clinicians about of Arts and Sciences’ faculty increases. However, they are not insomnia, and that patients will be frank about their condition and always working alone. In many IPFW departments, like COAS’ clinicians will take patient complaints seriously.” Department of Anthropology, student assistants help faculty expand research horizons. Whether it is discovering Mayan ruins in Belize The research team gathered data through interviews and a (see Department Spotlights, page 2), uncovering Native American questionnaire. Odden trained the students in research interview villages in Indiana, or creating new directions in insomnia research, techniques, so they were prepared to deal with the emotional and anthropology faculty and their students are in the thick of it. ethical issues interviews could raise (interviewees crying, sharing personal medical information about depression or anxiety, revealing Like other COAS faculty, Assistant Professor Hal Odden details about drug use, and so forth). Students progressed from (archaeology) enjoys providing undergraduate students with observing interviews to doing interviews with Odden to (for some) opportunities that, at other universities, are reserved for interviewing on their own. graduate students. As examples, he cites how, through the IPFW Archaeological Survey, student field workers learn how to use The student researchers played many roles. IPFW student cutting-edge geophysical equipment (see page 22) and, in his Kevin Hinton helped early on and performed a few interviews. insomnia study, how student researchers helped implement his Anthropology and psychology major Victoria (Vicki) Salzbrun and project plan, refine the methods, and after some training, conduct Wilson helped with interviews, data assessment, and various interviews. presentations. Anthropology major Emily Wright and French major Amber Osterholt transcribed interviews. Odden designed the coding Insomnia Study: Breaking New Ground system, but as interview data came in, the students helped Odden refine the initial system, and Salzbrun handled portions of the Odden’s research assistants helped him gather data from insomnia quantitative analysis of the data. sufferers about their illness and their treatment regimes. In doing this, Odden and his assistants are breaking new ground in their While Salzbrun did not think she would enjoy the research part discipline and providing information that could help medical professionals better understand insomnia.

As Odden notes, about one-third of the U.S. population reports some sort of insomnia, with about 10 percent suffering from chronic insomnia (sleeplessness more than three times per week). He also explains that the Center for Disease Control’s Healthy Days survey (a health-related quality of life assessment used in a portion of Odden’s study) places insomnia in the same disease range as chronic illnesses such as cancer and depression.

According to Rachel (Pulling) Wilson (B.A. ’09, political science), the study revealed a “complex relationship” between mental distress and insomnia: “Many of our participants expressed discouragement regarding their treatment of insomnia; many have employed Left to right: Jacob Hawkins, Vicki Salzbrun, Rachel Wilson multiple treatment [types] to no avail. It is my hope that our study (students) and Hal Odden (assistant professor).

20 | IPFW College of Arts and Sciences | Fall 2010 of the study, she eventually changed her mind: “I actually enjoyed doing the research and now have better knowledge of what goes on ‘behind the scenes.’” Salzbrun and Wilson also helped design and present a poster for a session at the Society for From Prehistory to Insomnia: Medical Anthropology conference at Yale University. According to Odden, they “were two among very few undergraduates at this The Archaeology Connection conference, and they helped with the poster construction and answered questions during the actual poster presentation.”

Salzbrun also worked with Odden to create a presentation for IPFW’s Health & Wellness program. During this session, Odden presented the data and other information the researchers had gathered on insomnia and stress, and then Salzbrun went through some relaxation techniques and visualization exercises with the audience. Rachel (Pulling) Wilson (B.A. ’09, political science), above, along with Victoria (Vicki) For Salzbrun, working on the study Salzbrun designed and presented this poster for a session at the Society for Medical impacted her professional as well as her Anthropology conference at Yale University. academic life. She owns a yoga studio, and in her work as a massage therapist caught some points of data interpretation he had missed. Odden and yoga instructor, she discovered that insomnia affects a was pleasantly surprised by the students’ ability to manage some surprising number of her clients. Being more aware of what they difficult interview situations to make the interviewees comfortable are facing, Salzbrun says, “has inspired me to work on alternative enough to discuss difficult issues. And, most importantly, he doesn’t methods of treatment, and it also helps me talk with clients think he could have completed the study without his research about their situation, as I understand more about what they may assistants’ help—they did about one-third of the interviews, be experiencing.” While she plans to earn a master’s degree in transcribed most of them, and helped with the data analysis. health psychology and public health, even if she does not go into academia, her work on this project has helped her understand what Odden has finished coding the data and hopes to have an article academia is like and benefitted the clients with whom she works. ready for publication in late 2010. He also hopes that, along with the benefits to insomnia suffers and medical professionals this Wilson entered the medical anthropology program at Southern research could ignite, he has been able to help propel his student Methodist University in Dallas this fall. She says, working on the researchers forward, professionally and academically. insomnia project “solidified my decision to apply to graduate school. Through my participation, I was able to learn and apply hands-on IPFW’s Archaeological Survey: skills, which I couldn’t do just sitting in class. I hope I can take Breaking Old Ground this research experience and use what I have learned throughout this process and apply it to my graduate studies.” Wilson admits “Prehistoric” means dinosaurs, cavemen, ice ages, and mastodon that being a research assistant is not the most glamorous job, bones like those in Kettler Hall, right? Yes, but not always. For but she knows the skills she learned, the participants she met, example, when Bob McCullough, director of the Department of and the connections she made are invaluable. Plus, for students Anthropology’s Archaeological Survey (one of IPFW’s many Centers considering graduate school in anthropology and many other areas, of Excellence), calls something “prehistoric,” he can be referring to research experience is increasingly important. finds from any era that predates the arrival of Europeans in North America. According to Odden, his student assistants provided far more than mere grunt work. Their suggestions, such as recruiting participants Established in 1981, the Archaeological Survey (AS), according to through Facebook, helped propel the study forward, and they its Web site, is a “community service enterprise and instructional support service” that serves “as an umbrella for cultural resource | 21 management and research-based archaeological activities” for this operations, they often write academic papers with AS faculty. As region. The survey is regularly contracted by government agencies Scott Hipskind (B.A. ’06, anthropology and anthropology research or private firms to perform archaeological surveys on new road certificate) explains, “Because funding is a main factor, we learned or building sites, and it regularly receives grants from the Indiana about the business side of archaeology instead of just the topic. We Department of Natural Resources (DNR)—money that helps fund saw how to run an entire dig. The cycle of learning something in many projects including the field school course on which many class and then teaching it to the next group of field school or other students receive their first taste of archaeological work. students helped reinforce learning and helped us learn processes better.” ANTH P405 Archaeological Field School, a 6 credit hour course, is often a student’s introduction to the AS. In this summer course, McCullough says he “tries to get the students fully engaged in the students work at an off-campus dig with McCullough and other AS process by letting them handle all aspects of the projects,” from staff. Many students said their ANTH P405 experience is what drew the writing of grants and proposals to working on the projects that them into the field, literally and professionally. winning those grants or contracts provide.

At present, ANTH P405 and other fieldwork happens at the The Hamilton County Parks Department oversees the land on which Strawtown Koteewi Prairie Park and the Taylor Center for Natural the Strawtown site is located and, according to McCullough, has History (Strawtown) in Hamilton County, Ind., where AS members been a great partner. The parks department has built workspace and teams from three other Indiana universities work regularly. on the site and donated funds to get the AS back every year. As Strawtown has 144 dig sites dating from 12 to 1400 CE, including McCullough points out, “It’s much easier for students to become the remains of an enclosed village in which Native Americans lived. engaged because it is a long-term investment. We return to the As McCullough explains, “the site represents the intersection of site each year, work with artifacts in the lab on campus, and work three cultural groups—a Great Lakes group, a Central Ohio Valley in permanent structures built on the site.” Field school students group, and Oneona Prairie Indians.” McCullough did not realize the and volunteers learn how to organize, gather, and process data. extent of these tribes, which include the first farmers in Indiana, Some students also learn how to write technical reports, handle site until he began doing background research about Strawtown’s photography, use cutting-edge geophysical equipment, and more. former inhabitants. For Colin Graham (B.A. ’06, anthropology), actively using the knowledge and skills he learned in ANTH 405 reaped personal and For more information, visit academic benefits. He Strawtown Koteewi Park and the Taylor Center for said because he went Natural History: out and did something www.hamiltoncounty.in.gov/parks_details.asp?id=2932 with the information and IPFW Archaeological Survey: principles he learned in ipfw.edu/archaeology class, “it all fit together better.” Archaeological Survey Ongoing Research: ipfw.edu/centers/archaeology/research Graham, who switched his major from business to archaeology soon Beyond sites like Strawtown, much of the AS’s work is funded after taking his first through contracts from various sources such as the Indiana DNR, archaeology class Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT), and other grant at IPFW, is currently sources. The money awarded through contracts and grants funds employed by the AS as much of the AS’s research and the field school. Luckily, McCullough a staff archaeologist. and his team can get plenty of help with grant applications, project His specialty is using proposals, and other documents from peers, AS staff, and geophysical survey current students. equipment, which is used to map out village Scott Hipskind (B.A. ’06, anthropology) These contract proposals and grant applications are part of a sites, structure locations, uses geophysical survey equipment learning/teaching cycle that benefits the AS and its students. Not and so forth by “X-raying” to map out village sites and structure only do some students help McCullough and other faculty write the ground. locations by “X-raying” the ground. proposals and perform other tasks on the “business side” of AS

22 | IPFW College of Arts and Sciences | Fall 2010 Graham recently managed an AS contract project for INDOT. He staying with the AS, but he knows that the geophysical expertise wrote up the final report on the geophysical and other surveying of he has gained opens many career doors for him, possibly even a prehistoric site that happens to fall in an area where INDOT will graduate school. The three alumni interviewed for this piece stress be doing some construction. Graham estimates that his AS work is that their experience using high-tech equipment, contributing to split fairly evenly between research, grant, and contract work—a research projects, and working in the field provided them with nice balance between academic and professional work. advantages in their professional and academic careers—an opinion McCullough shares. McCullough, like Odden, stresses that without the assistance of student workers and research assistants, the AS would not be Many AS student workers become co-authors or credited able to do as much. For example, when the survey received some researchers on the AS reports. Sharon Smith (B.A. ’10, new geophysical equipment a few years ago, student Mariah anthropology and psychology) has been working for the AS since Yager (B.A. ’06, anthropology and interpersonal and organizational summer 2008. She credits her AS experiences with providing her communication) developed a more efficient way to use one of the with many academically, professionally, and personally useful skills, machines, meaning that the AS gets better results than those who such as how to pay attention to small details, improved computer showed them how to use the equipment. skills, and the benefit of discovering something “that interests me and that I enjoy doing.” And students who learn how to operate the geophysical equipment are acquiring experiences that many cannot gain until they are Smith’s area of interest is prehistoric ceramic analysis. One graduate students or have jobs in the field. Graham plans on project she worked on involved cataloging, database management, Continued on page 31

Students work at Strawtown Koteewi Prairie Park in Hamilton County, Ind., where AS members and teams from three other Indiana universities work regularly. Strawtown has 144 dig sites dating from 12 to 1400 CE, including the remains of an enclosed village.

| 23 Alumni Updates the Society of Environmental studies at the college level. Anthropology Toxicology and Chemistry Earthcycle has already to present his research at provided IPFW’s biology Scott Hipskind (B.A. ’06) began a master’s degree in the society’s New Orleans department with funding archaeology at the University conference in November to reward a student who of Mississippi in 2009. 2009. His graduate work at is working on research IPFW is being supervised by directed toward improving Sara Miller (B.A. ’09) is Associate Professor Robert environmental quality. pursuing a master’s degree Gillespie. through IPFW’s Department of Mairaj Sami (M.S. ’09) Biology. Michael Derickson (B.S. was accepted into the ’09) has been accepted into Indiana University School Matthew Neu (B.A. ’09) the Indiana University School of Medicine–Indianapolis in was accepted to the graduate of Medicine–Indianapolis. 2009. His IPFW graduate work program in archaeology at the His graduate work at IPFW is was supervised by Professor University of York (U.K.). being supervised by Professor George Mourad. George Mourad. Shelby Putt (B.A. ’09) is Padma Tummala (B.S. attending the University of Amber Hetrick (M.S. ’09) ’08) entered the physician’s Iowa and was excavating was accepted into Des assistant program at the Homo erectus sites in Moines University’s College of University of Findlay in Ohio in Indonesia in summer 2010. Osteopathic Medicine in Iowa January. Her undergraduate in 2009. Her IPFW graduate research was supervised by Misty Wolfe (B.A. ’09; work was supervised by Associate Professors Elliott A.A. ’07, women’s studies) Professor George Mourad. Blumenthal and Ahmed is pursing a master’s degree Mustafa. in public health at Emory Erin Kingsbury (B.S. ’08, University. M.S. ’10) has been accepted into the physician’s assistant program at the University of Communication St. Francis. Her graduate work Biology at IPFW was supervised by Adam Bodnar (B.A. ’09) Associate Professor Robert produces the Out Loud series Brittany Blomberg (B.S. Visalli. of poetry events at downtown ’09) worked with Professor Fort Wayne’s Dash-In, where George Mourad and Associate Tyler Mansfield (M.S. numerous IPFW students, Professor Robert Visalli on ’08) is employed by Dow alumni, and faculty have testing the antimicrobial AgroSciences in Indianapolis, performed. activity of immobilized and was recently promoted to antimicrobial agents for a research scientist position. Stasha Dirrim (B.A. ’10) BioAdvanTek, a company He will develop molecular completed an internship as based in Angola, Ind. markers to map/fingerprint a Northeast Indiana Regional Blomberg was admitted to the Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs) Partnership (NEIRP) marketing doctoral program in coastal for agronomically important associate and in an elected and marine system science at traits in soybeans and other official’s office in 2007 and Texas A&M University–Corpus important crops. His graduate 2008. A businessman starting Christi for fall semester 2009. work was supervised by up a software and design Her doctoral research on the Professor George Mourad. company took note of her effects of climate change and NEIRP efforts and offered land use changes on coastal her a position as marketing ecosystems will be under the Patricia Oppor (B.S. ’01) coordinator. She accepted the supervision of Paul Montagna. has formed a new private position with Aptera Software foundation, Earthcycle and has been working for Daragh Deegan (B.S. ’03) Education, to support there since January 2009. received a travel award from environmental and peace

24 | IPFW College of Arts and Sciences | Fall 2010 Henry J. Graf (M.A. ’06) for Smith International, hospital. Her sons, Matt and Her research involved is serving his vicarage year a Fortune 500 company Michael, are both pursuing analyzing infant crying and at Faith Lutheran Church in in Houston. Her primary post-secondary degrees. the risk for Sudden Infant Vista, Calif. responsibility is the design Death Syndrome (SIDS). and development of technical Melissa Fuller (B.S. ’09) Ryne Hillenberg (M.A. ’10) training resources for is employed with East Noble Nikki (Knight) Laycock accepted a position at audiences in the United School Corporation as a (B.S. ’06) lives in Fort Wayne Texas A&M University as a States, Canada, Mexico, speech assistant, working and works for Southwest compliance coordinator in Brazil, Europe, the Middle with preschool through Allen County Schools. She is the athletics department. East, and North Africa. In fall sixth grade students. She currently working on earning He will monitor recruiting 2010, she gave presentations is applying to master’s a master’s degree online activities such as permissible on technical training at programs for speech- through Nova Southeastern telephone calls, evaluations, conferences in Brisbane, language pathology. University. She married contacts, official visits, Australia, and Florence, Italy. Fuller says she feels very Keegan Laycock on awards, equipment, blessed both personally and April 4, 2009. apparel, and meals. He professionally. also monitors permissible Chanda Lichtsinn (B.S. activities surrounding playing Communication Carley (McCullough) Hower ’96) is the lead pediatric and practice seasons and (B.S. ’07) graduated from therapist for the Turnstone financial aid provided to Sciences Miami University in Ohio in Center for Children and Adults student-athletes. He credits and Disorders 2009 and started a new job in with Disabilities and teaches his master’s degree in June 2010 with Rehabilitative two sections a semester of professional communication Heather Allen (B.S. ’96) Services Inc., where she CSD 11500 Introduction to for having helped him secure lives in Fort Wayne and works enjoys working with adult Communicative Disorders the position. for Fort Wayne Community clients. She and her husband at IPFW. Lichtsinn and Schools. Her professional are currently building a home the preschool director at Samantha Lake (M.A. ’08) interests include autism and in Monroe, Ind., and are very Turnstone presented at the is an instructor for WorkOne, AAC. Allen reports that she is excited to return to their 2010 Abilities Expo in Fort an agency that helps the keeping very busy with her hometown. Wayne on “Collaboration: unemployed find work by children ages 10, 8, and 5. Bridging the Gap between teaching them the skills Mike Jones (B.S. ’07) is Therapy and the Classroom.” they need and helping them Kami (Fiechter) Bear (B.S. currently in the Au.D. program She and her husband, Bill, enroll in higher education. ’05) lives in Bluffton, Ind., and at Ball State and started his who have been married for She has been teaching and has two children. She earned fourth year externship in June 30 years, love to spend every redesigning WorkOne’s an MBA at Ashford University 2010 at a private practice moment possible with their current courses, as well as in Indiana. in downtown Chicago that grandchildren, Kerrigan planning the development of has two satellite offices in and Brayden. Mandy (Davis) DeArmond other courses. Lake is happy the western suburbs. He has lives in Indianapolis to have found an organization (B.S. ’05) helped the practice get its Shelley May (B.S. ’08) and is working for First Steps. that she can impact positively new vestibular and balance graduated with a master’s DeArmond has training in by applying everything she assessment clinic running, as degree from Miami University both the Beckman Oral Motor learned at IPFW (from both well as performing diagnostic in Ohio this May. She Program and the Kaufman teaching and classes). evaluations and hearing completed a thesis titled Speech Praxis methods. She aid fittings. He and his wife “Repeatability of Aerodynamic recently bought a house Molly Link (B.A. ’09) celebrated three years of Measures in Children, Ages majored in media and public in Indianapolis. marriage in June. 4.0–5.11 Years.” May would communication and minored like to find a hospital position Nancy DeNise in public relations. At present, (B.S. ’79) Elizabeth King (B.S. ’09) in the Chicago area and is retired in 2010 after having she is pursuing a master’s completed her first year very excited to begin her taught for 30 years in the degree in professional at Bowling Green State career. Piqua City Schools (Ohio). communication at IPFW. University in Ohio, where She is ready to begin a she enjoyed her coursework Emily McIntosh (B.S. ’06) Sarah Szczepanski- new chapter in her career, and activities as a research lives in Pearland, Texas, possibly a part-time position Wakefield (M.A. ’04) is a assistant for one of the and works for Fort Bend technical training supervisor in a school, nursing home, or professors in the department. Independent School District.

| 25 Her professional interests Sally Winters (B.S.’07) is $40,000 for local women include fluency and assistive working for the Wabash– and children’s charities, and technology. She has two Miami Area Program and averages 1,600-plus crowds children, McKale and Isla. completing a master’s at Memorial Coliseum. She is degree online with Nova also a member of the Roller Erin (Bower) Morill (B.S. Southeastern University. Dome North’s speed-skating ’05) lives in Coldwater, Mich., She loves working with the team, which, like derby, and works for the Branch children at her schools. competes at national levels. Intermediate School District. She and her husband, Bud, She participated in the celebrated their 25th wedding Thomas E. Cool (B.S. statewide Autism Resources anniversary in November ’72) has spent most of his and Training (START). She, 2009. career since 1983 working her husband, and daughter on international projects, welcomed Harper Grace into Ashley Yoder (B.S. ’04) with two resident stints in the family in December 2009. lives in Fort Wayne and London. Since 1992, he has works for Northwest Allen worked in West and North Tiffany Owens (B.S. ’09) is County Schools. Yoder works Africa with a short stint in working as a speech assistant with preschool to fifth grade Brazil. He and his wife have in the Wabash-Miami Area students. She is married and been living and working in Program for Exceptional has three children: Ethan, the Houston area since June Children. She provides Elliot, and Emilia. 2002. Cool’s work focus is services to approximately 60 the development geology children ranging from ages of a field offshore Cabinda, 6–21. She has applied for Angola. He also teaches two graduate school, loves her Geosciences introductory geology classes job, and is anxious to see in the evenings at the local where her professional future Dan Brinkman (B.S. junior college. takes her. ’86) continues his work in collection management at Morgan Disney (B.S. ’04) Mariesa Rang (B.A. ’10) the Yale Peabody Museum of works as a staff scientist for has overcome tremendous Natural History (New Haven, an environmental consulting odds to reach her goals. Conn.). He is working on firm in Indianapolis. Her graduation story was a new Cretaceous Garden published in the Fort Wayne exhibit that will have a Pamela Dugan (B.S. ’00) Journal Gazette. Despite footpath replicating a Texas- has worked at the Carus hearing loss and speech based dinosaur trackway Corporation since graduating issues that resulted from a that Professor Jim Farlow from the Colorado School cleft palate, she is pursuing described back in 1981. In of Mines in 2008 and is the opportunity to study November 2009, he co-led the technical development speech pathology in graduate a geology field trip for the manager for Carus school. She hopes to work general public to an old Remediation Technologies. with children who utilize fossil-producing quarry in Her job allows her to travel (or can learn to utilize) New Haven. He also edited a and present research results augmentative and alternative picture book for the Weekly at conferences all over communication devices. Reader’s Where People Work the world. She also helps series, called What Happens develop and evaluate new Sarah Schmidt (B.S. ’98) at a Museum? by Lisa technologies. The results lives in Cromwell, Ind. She M. Guidone. of her Ph.D. research were graduated in 2009 with a recently patented along with master’s degree from Western Leah Chester (B.S. ’03) is co-authors Robert Siegrist Kentucky University and is working as a geologist for the (advisor) and Michelle Crimi currently working on her IWM Consulting Group. She (committee member). This CFY at Goshen Community is co-captain of Fort Wayne’s summer, a journal article in Schools. Schmidt is married regional roller derby team, which she is a co-author was and has three children, Fort Wayne Derby Girls. The published in Remediation Morgan, Rhys, and Parker. team has raised more than Journal.

26 | IPFW College of Arts and Sciences | Fall 2010 Melissa (Poor) and Nathan his thesis. His thesis, along all fine. His car needs some History Ehrhart (B.S. ’07; B.S. ’02) with work by other Ball work though! have been married for four State graduate students Alex Miller won (B.A. ’09) years and live in Bluffton, Ind. and faculty, is helping Susan Reitz (B.S. ’07) the Verizon Scholarship, went to work for Hansen Melissa is a staff geologist to decode the complex as the top intern for the Aggregates in Fort Wayne. and has worked at Creek geological history of the area Indiana Senate Republican During fall 2007, she Run LLC for four years. She surrounding New Caledonia. Caucus for 2010. Miller accepted a position as a is working toward becoming He was awarded a teaching was an intern for Majority geologist (or environmental a licensed professional assistantship when he Floor Leader Senator Connie consultant) with AECOM, geologist and earning a UST entered the program at Ball Lawson (R-Danville). decommissioning license. State. Upon completion of where she is still employed. This is a position she enjoys a master’s degree in 2011, Cheryl Truesdell (B.A. and plans to continue for David A. Fishbaugh (B.S. he hopes to continue in ’78) was appointed dean of ’76) received a master’s academe for a doctorate quite some time. IPFW’s Helmke Library. degree from Indiana in paleontology. University Bloomington in Richard Rosencrans (B.S. 1980, with a concentration Tina Hill (B.S. ’06) ’81) continues to work in sedimentology. He moved completed a master’s degree for Chesapeake Energy Math to Texas and worked as in geology at the University Corporation in Oklahoma an oil and gas exploration of Wisconsin–Madison in City, near the Oklahoma– Tina Moen (B. S. ’09), a geologist for Mobil until fall 2009. Her thesis was Texas state line, exploring former forward with IPFW’s 1987, when he returned to titled “High-Resolution for oil and gas in the Deep women’s basketball team, graduate school at IU, taking Transmission Electron Anadarko Basin. His family now plays in the first league classes in hydrology and Microscopy Investigation of has grown, as expected. He in Switzerland for the team, environmental law. In 1990, Nano-Crystals of Pyroxene has two daughters in college Sdent Sierre. The team won he and his family moved to and Copper in Oregon at OU (that is, the University the Swiss Cup in the 2009 Billings, Mont., where he Sunstones.” She is currently of Oklahoma) and two sons season, and they expect to has been working in the working on a Ph.D. at UW– following closely behind, a do well this year. Her team environmental consulting Madison. sophomore in high school started playing FIBA Eurocup business ever since. He and a seventh grader. in 2009; they are scheduled is on the boards of the Jen (Parks) Morton (B.S. to compete with teams Montana Geological Society ’03) recently moved back to from France, Hungary, and and Habitat for Humanity in Phoenix, relocating with her Portugal. Read more about Billings, and was appointed husband’s job—this time International Moen in “Passion Pursued” to the Montana Board of to stay, she believes. While Language and on page 16. Environmental Review by in Phoenix previously, she the governor for 2000–04. was a park ranger for the Culture Studies He also works as a part-time City of Phoenix, which was Shontael Wanjema (B.A. professor at Montana State great because she could ’10) received a degree in Political University–Billings, teaching tailor programs that focused on the geology of the area teaching Spanish. She has Science a 400-level environmental been recognized within her hydrology class. while getting paid to enjoy Travis Barnes the outdoors. During her field of study, linguistics, by (B.A. ’10) being accepted for graduate was accepted into the Michael Harrison first stay in Phoenix, she (B.S. studies at Ohio State Indiana University School of is attending Ball organized the first National ’07) University. She will pursue Law–Indianapolis. State University, working River Cleanup for one of master’s and doctoral studies toward a master’s degree in the city’s newest parks, in Columbus, having been Melissa Fisher (B.A. ’10) micropaleontology. During the Rio Salado Habitat granted university funds was accepted in divinity summer 2010, he became Restoration Area. for five full years. Graduate school in Ohio. SCUBA certified and worked programs in linguistics as a teaching assistant for Ralph Phillips (B.S. ’81) Brenda Davis Lutz are highly competitive and the Ball State Field Camp is still working in industry defended her the department where she (B.A. ’99) program. He also traveled analyst relations at Siemens dissertation at the University has been accepted has a to New Caledonia to acquire IT Solutions and Services. of Dundee, Scotland, in June. reputation as the host of top rock samples bearing His wife, two daughters, dog, names in the field. foraminifera to study for cat, and three gerbils are

| 27 Edward Ramsey (B.A. Sociology this fall. She said, “So here I ’06) has been accepted into am...an adult student earning my first bachelor’s degree law school at the University Julia Gorrell (B.A. ’08) has of Cincinnati. He has also been using the skills and just before my 40th birthday; received the College of Law knowledge she obtained at married and raising two Honors Scholarship. IPFW in her position at the school-aged children; and Fort Wayne Metals Research balancing the responsibilities Andrew R. Wolf (B.A. ’99, Products Corporation as its of work, home, school, outstanding political science green initiative coordinator. and family. It’s a constant graduate) was elected as She obtained a part-time struggle, but I have truly the Region Three alternate position as the energy and come to appreciate higher to the Libertarian National environmental services education and encourage my Committee at the party’s coordinator for the City of Fort children as to the benefits of a national convention in May Wayne in May 2009. college education. I have also in St. Louis. Region Three been very active in student consists of Indiana, Michigan, organizations and have served Ohio, and Kentucky. Wolf as an Ambassadon. Many of served as the chair of the the staff and faculty know my Libertarian Party of LaPorte Women’s children and care enough to County from 2007–09 and Studies inquire about my family on a currently sits as the county regular basis. I would not be party’s vice chair. He is a Jennifer Netting (B.G.S. where I am now without the resident of LaPorte County, ’10) started working toward a compassionate administration where he also practices law. master’s degree in at IPFW.” professional communication

Passion continued from page 17 started classes, but she was sure that basketball was a good But Moen accomplished this, so her talents, community way to meet students and professors. She liked that math service, and work ethic paid off. is universally understood and “useful in so many different careers,” and after taking a couple lower-level classes, she After graduating, instead of working in a mathematical was hooked. field, she became a professional basketball player in Sweden for the team, Sdent Sierre. Not many people have Math proved to be a good choice for Moen. “I think the emotional, mental, and physical strength required to my studies in math fit well into my physical activity work as a professional athlete, especially when living in a involvement because, through basketball, I express the different country from their loved ones. “I feel very lucky part of me that likes to work with practical challenges,” she to have reached my goal, and it shows that anything is said. “Math…is where the part of me that likes to think possible if you work hard enough and believe in yourself.” logically and theoretically gets to work on problem solving at a more intellectual level. I would probably go crazy if I Now that Moen has fulfilled her “biggest dream,” she’s didn’t have both aspects in my life, so I think I found the open to whatever the future holds. Though she currently perfect mix for my personality.” doesn’t use her math skills on a daily basis, she does plan to go to graduate school someday. For now, especially since After declaring her major, Moen studied hard to earn an she renewed her contract with Sdent Sierre for another associate degree and a bachelor’s degree while keeping up year, she wants to reach her “full potential” as an athlete. with practices and volunteering her time. She and the rest There’s always the possibility of using her basketball skills of the basketball team were involved in community service to further her scholarly career in the future, and Moen will around the Fort Wayne area, and she said, “One of the be taking an online course so she has “something useful to most memorable things we did was helping Habitat for do between workouts.” Humanity build a house.” Whatever happens in the future regarding school, Anyone who has been a part of a university-level athletic basketball, and other interests, Moen has a positive team, while trying to graduate in four years, knows that attitude about it, knowing she’ll “create new dreams” with adding in volunteer service would seem an impossible feat. each new opportunity. While her future is not defined at

28 | IPFW College of Arts and Sciences | Fall 2010 this point, we can be sure that Moen will stay involved and three employees, two work-study students, and two interns; keep doing what she’s passionate about. I run the office, manage the staff, and have a little bit to do with fundraising.” Delegating, training, inspiring, and etsy Yankowiak’s job as executive director at the leading others is where Yankowiak excels, and the time she Little River Wetlands Project (LRWP) provides spent sharpening these skills at IPFW now helps her save daily opportunities to express her genuine passion the marshes from her office when she’s not out in them. Bfor the marshes she protects and the environment as a whole. She identified her biggest goal as “getting adults and She also attributes much of her professional success children outside!” in environmental affairs to her professors at IPFW, mentioning Professors Carl Drummond (now dean of She always knew she wanted to work outdoors and raise COAS) and Solomon Isiorho (geosciences) specifically. environmental awareness for a living, and she chose In fact, Yankowiak leads a discussion every year in one of IPFW to start preparing for a future career. Yankowiak Isiohro’s courses. She lets students know about the LRWP, seemed to know that the more experience she gained of course, but also tries “to get students to understand that as an undergraduate, the better. She participated in an your professors are your greatest resource. They are the exchange program with Humboldt State University in experts, and they are there for students to glean all they can California,where she worked at the Institute for from participation in lectures, research opportunities, and Redwood Ecology. academic studies.” Out West, Yankowiak had experiences Indiana simply Hubley, James, Moen, and Yankowiak agree that meeting could not offer her, like visiting several Native American with professors before and after class is just as important reservations that were virtually untouched by today’s as involvement with on and off campus opportunities. It invasive culture. All this left her both inspired and is just as appealing for employers to see a high grade-point encouraged. “I realized I was meeting all of these cool average on a résumé as it is to see undergraduate volunteer people,” Yankowiak said, “and everyone was coming out to work, research save this ecosystem. None of these people would ever come experience to Fort Wayne to clean up the water, or care about where outside of soil is for the farmers.” required She knew what her calling was right then. When she came coursework, back to IPFW, Yankowiak and some fellow students started and a mentoring the Geology Club and, because “we wanted more,” Students relationship Creating Respect for the Environment through Action and with an Mitigation (SCREAM) was created. The clubs reinforced alumnus. This is what she already knew to be her passion and also taught her good advice for leadership and delegation skills. recent graduates in a tough job Starting these organizations at IPFW helped Yankowiak market. ▼ prepare for graduation as well as her next two jobs: starting a youth conservation camp and her current position at LRWP. Since she accepted the LRWP directorship, she has been required to spend about 75 percent of her time in the office and 25 percent out in the field, depending on the month. For more information on LRWP, see www.lrwp.org. Though she isn’t able to spend as much time as she would like outdoors, she has more than made up for it in accomplishments for the LRWP. “We’ve acquired a Tina S. Moen (B.S. ’09, mathematics; A.S. ’09, property per year since I’ve been here,” Yankowiak said, and information systems), who also played on the she’s usually “working with the nature preserves on different IPFW women’s basketball team (2005–09), projects, directing property stewards on projects that need liked the balance playing basketball and to be done, and then I organize projects that volunteers can studying mathematics provided. do, which encompasses two different departments. I direct

| 29 Native continued from page 15 out how African Americans often For Koehlinger, navigation is a daily of religious history isn’t lost in the spend time trying to prove they have part of her teaching and research current moment where some voices a role on campus, rather than making interests. Her blending of history are trying to retell history in a way their own boxes. and ethnography is challenging that obscures and even demonizes because, as she puts it, she is standing the long and important history of It’s a point Dixie puts into a more with each foot in a different field. the social justice tradition within localized context: “It is rare that I am But, she explained, “my work ends American Christianity.” still here in Fort Wayne and rarer that I up being a kind of hybrid of both wanted to come back. I spent lots of disciplines … [and] being part of time explaining what Fort Wayne is, both academic fields helps me to see who we are—which helped me develop things in my data that I wouldn’t interest in history.” see using one methodology alone.” This is something fully evident in the In Johnson’s case, his professional directions her research has taken her. history is accentuated by the manner in which he acquired his permanent During her talk at IPFW in October, position at Haverford, a school that Koehlinger shared her research on attracts socially oriented students who how and why Catholic nuns were combine issues such as social justice drawn to act in support of the civil with their academics. Johnson took rights movement even though many a temporary visiting professorship at lay Catholics favored segregation. Haverford. At the end of his visiting This research and her findings are contract, he discovered the department found in Koehlinger’s first book, wanted him to stay on and, more The New Nuns: Racial Justice and significantly, that his (primarily white) Religious Reform in the 1960s. For Concordia High School graduate and students had formally petitioned a forthcoming second book, she is Florida State University religious studies the school to have him remain researching the connection between professor, Amy Koehlinger, was the fall 2010 permanently—something Johnson calls boxing and Catholic Americans. Native Tongue presenter. “humbling and Koehlinger’s research has also spurred incredible.” Attitudes her to connect with students at a ••• toward and historically black college that sits And this need to ideas on social adjacent to FSU, Florida Agricultural share history, give “Koehlinger views Dixie’s justice are a and Mechanical University. back to the people, invitation to contribute to focal point Koehlinger and FAMU’s Sylvester organizations, of each study, Johnson (now at IU) established a and communities the series as her opportunity something class-based intercampus connection: that helped to ‘give back just a little to Koehlinger “He and I worked to bridge our them, interest in the community that shaped feels is still respective universities by visiting diversity issues, relevant today. each other’s classrooms during the and drive to help and nurtured me as a young “I am mystified,” semester. FAMU and FSU have young people person, to share my work Koehlinger surprisingly little contact with each excel represent a back home.’” said, “by how other. Given the ugly history of racial common thread ••• the term social segregation in Tallahassee’s past, we between lecturers justice has thought it was important to create in the Native become a term some kind of academic cooperation Tongue Series. of derision for some people in the between the two schools.” present moment. As a historian, Another common thread is their I want to remind Americans that For Koehlinger, this joint venture emphasis on action—the type that the social justice tradition has been was another way she could let young leads a “non-brain-drainer” like an important and valued part of people see “that individuals can Dixie to organize these lectures American Catholicism, and for most talk about race, and even disagree, by “brain-drainers” to help current other religious groups in the United without yelling at each other (as students better navigate their own States for over a century. I want to often happens on television). They academic and professional choices. make sure that this important piece also need to hear people calmly, and

30 | IPFW College of Arts and Sciences | Fall 2010 with nuance, explain the complexities A tentative list of future speakers Fort Wayne native back each fall and of history. Too often, media talking includes John Aden (South Side spring for a public lecture and other heads reduce very complex patterns High School; assistant professor student-focused events. Young people of historical change to reductive and of history, Wabash College), Joy will have an opportunity to learn hyperbolic screeds. This is very bad for Bostic (Paul Harding; assistant where their ideas and abilities can take democracy, for the nation as a whole.” professor of religious studies, Case them. And each speaker will be able to Western University), Ernest Starks show friends, mentors, teachers, family With a shared focus on diversity (Elmhurst; professor of history, Texas members, and others what, with their or race-related issues, this lecture A&M University), Richard Pierce support, they have accomplished. series will show our community (Concordia; professor of history, the accomplishments of our “native University of Notre Dame); Timothy As Koehlinger explained when tongues.” On March 24, 2011, Lake (Snider; assistant professor of speaking about series organizer Elmhurst graduate and Assistant English, Wabash College); Barry Pyle Dixie: “As different as we were in Professor of Education at Indiana (Concordia; associate professor of high school, he and I ended up as University D. Ted Hall will present political science, Eastern Michigan colleagues in the same profession. the Native Tongue Series lecture in the University); and Dixie (Concordia). The lesson is this: You really are the evening. Hall will also give a daytime author of your own life, and you have lecture on campus as part of So for the next four years, the Native the power to choose a life path and a IPFW’s annual Diversity Showcase. Tongue Lecture Series will bring a profession that you find fulfilling.” ▼

Archaeology Continued from page 23 photographing, and co-authoring a report with McCullough and two several REU projects (one for his research certificate). He left IPFW graduate students on prehistoric ceramics recovered from an AS with multiple publications to his name, many published through the dig site. She is also working with McCullough on the classification AS, including his grant-funded senior research project and portions of ceramic type varieties associated with a prehistoric cultural of reports co-authored with McCullough and others. Part of a grant group that once inhabited central Indiana. report he wrote in 2009 will be published in the Indiana Journal of Archaeology in late 2010. He also presented at the University Another way AS students have gained valuable experience is of Miami (Ohio) on cataloguing and categorizing the arrowheads through the Research Experience for Undergraduates program. from the Strawtown site and, as a part of the REU program, at Since 2005, REU students working on AS projects have produced the Midwest Archaeological Conference on using geophysical 30 professional papers or posters. Some students’ work has equipment to collect data and plan excavations. been published in archaeological academic journals. Some work, like Smith’s analysis of pottery from the Strawtown site, will be Graham, Hipskind, and Smith all mentioned the benefits of working published as an appendix to an AS report. One student, Joe Evans with and gaining perspectives from professionals. Graham spoke (B.A. ’07, anthropology), won a national student competition for a about how much he learned through his REU grant: being trained poster about Strawtown that he created and presented as a part of on and using geophysical equipment, surveying a prehistoric the REU program. village’s layout to map community structures that probably housed 150–200 people, producing and presenting a poster on this at the Hipskind is another field school graduate who benefitted from Midwest Archaeological Conference, and working with everyone the REU program. He came to IPFW after a brief foray studying who helped him along the way. biochemistry in Evansville, Ind. He took the field school course in 2003 and was hired to work on the Strawtown project in 2004 (in Each student worker also mentioned how vital it is for anyone who between he volunteered on AS sites on the weekends and designed has the opportunity to get additional training beyond the classroom. his course schedule to make time to work in the campus lab or the Odden and McCullough agree and are as grateful for the help field). In 2006, he became the AS lab manager and did that until student researchers provide on their projects as the students are he left in summer 2009 for a graduate program at the University of for the experience and opportunities working on these research Mississippi, but he still works on the Strawtown site on breaks. projects provides. Fortunately, many COAS faculty have research opportunities that allow students to move beyond the classroom to Hipskind’s time as a student and employee on the AS provided him learn more and gain valuable experience for professional résumés with many academic and professional opportunities. He graduated or graduate school applications. ▼ with a history minor that he eventually turned into a major and did

| 31 IPFW College of Arts and Sciences Programs Carl N. Drummond, Dean American Studies Carl N. Drummond Elaine Blakemore, Assistant Dean Ethnic and Cultural Studies Carl N. Drummond Elliott Blumenthal, Assistant Dean Film Studies Steve Carr Gerontology Penelope A. McLorg Departments Chairs International Studies Suin Roberts Journalism Ann M. Colbert Anthropology Richard Sutter Liberal Studies Michael E. Kaufmann Biology Bruce Kingsbury Native American Studies Lawrence A. Kuznar Chemistry Ron Friedman Peace and Conflict Studies Patrick J. Ashton Communication Marcia Dixson Women’s Studies Janet Badia Communication Sciences Lucille J. Hess and Disorders English and Linguistics Hardin Aasand Centers of Excellence Geosciences Solomon Isiorho Archaeological Survey History Bernd Fischer Center for Reptile and Amphibian Conservation and Management International Language Laurie L. Corbin (Herp Center) and Culture Studies Center for Social Research Mathematical Sciences David A. Legg Decision Sciences and Theory Institute Philosophy Bernd Buldt Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Physics Mark Masters IPFW Human Rights Institute Political Science James M. Lutz Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics Psychology Carol Lawton Three Rivers Language Center Sociology Peter Iadicola

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