Recognition recognition FACULTY SCHOLARLY ACHIEVEMENTS Workshops, conferences, research opportunities, publications, and presentations

DR. SANDRA GOLDEN, will be able to work hand-in-hand with our The full text of assistant professor of partners in York. Very exciting things! The PROFESSOR STEFAN teacher education, has faculty and Business School at YSJ have been HALL’S latest Arts and recently presented at great and fully supportive of the program, Entertainment column - two conferences. In and we cannot wait to get it off the ground “Now Playing: the Patriotic October, she presented next summer.” Buchanan is hoping to expand Movie Musical, Starring the the paper “From Morocco the program through IACBE (International United States of America!” to Trinidad: The IREX Assembly for Collegiate Business Education) for the Phi Kappa Phi Connection at Kent State University” at the to offer trips in other parts of the world. Forum magazine was recently published. For Midwest Comparative and International those without a magazine subscription, the Education Society in Kent, . In DR. DOUG KANE, entire text as a PDF, along with a supplement, November, Dr. Golden presented the paper assistant professor of can be found online at http://www. “Words, Words, Words: What Do We Really biology, gave a talk phikappaphi.org/Web/Publications/Forum/ Know About Vocabulary Instruction” at entitled “Western Lake summer09/artsandentertainment. Professor the Association of Literacy Educators and Erie Nuisance Algae: Hall is assistant professor of communication Researchers in Charlotte, N.C. Dr. Golden is Correlations Between and media studies. also co-editing a book with Joanne Kilgour Nutrient Load and Total Dowdy entitled Connecting the Literacy Phytoplankton and DR. SPIRO MAVROIDIS, Puzzle: Linking the Professional, Personal, Cyanobacterial Biomass” at the 52nd Annual associate professor of and Social Perspectives. The book is Conference on Great Lakes Research held biology, Dr. Doug Kane, expected to be published in spring 2010. by the International Association for Great assistant professor of Lakes Research in Toledo earlier this year. biology, and KASEY Through a connection His talk dealt with increased soluble reactive CARLISLE, restoration established by DR. phosphorus coming from the Maumee River ecology major, conducted WAYNE (BUCK) and its impact on stimulating increased an invited workshop in BUCHANAN, associate amounts of algae, including potentially toxic addition to presenting a poster at the Meeting professor of business bluegreen algae in the western basin of Lake the Challenges of Great Lakes Stewardship: administration, Defi ance Erie. Co-authors on this talk were Drs. Joe SENCER (Science Education for New College will partner with Conroy and Dave Culver of the Ohio State Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) York St. John University University and Drs. Pete Richards and Dave Approaches Conference in . in LEAP, Learning Experientially Abroad Baker of the National Center for Water Their workshop was titled “Involving Program, to provide DC students the Quality Research at Heidelberg University. undergraduates in Great Lakes stewardship: opportunity to experience real-time, hands-on The International Association for Great water quality monitoring in the Western business projects with corporations in York, Lakes Research (IAGLR) is a scientifi c Lake Erie Basin - past, present, and future.” England. Students will spend 12 days in June organization made up of researchers studying They also visited both a “green” building, at York St. John’s University where they will the Laurentian Great Lakes, other large lakes the Adam J. Lewis Center for Environmental work with companies to complete projects of the world, and their watersheds, as well Studies, on the campus of , and attend classes taught by YSJ faculty. as those with an interest in such research. To and sampled pond animals and examined the “The really unique part of this program is read Kane’s abstract or any of the other 538 wetlands and surrounding habitats at Mentor the direct connection to York businesses talks from the conference, please visit http:// Marsh with conference attendees and marsh and doing real-time, hands-on projects with www.iaglr.org/. staff and volunteers. them using online courses and the internet as conduits to the projects,” says Buchanan. “By following up with the trip, our students

24 DR. DON KNUEVE, associate academic dean and professor of criminal justice, was recently recognized by the Northwest WEARING MANY HATS Ohio Family Justice Center with the Teri Sowers Memorial Award in appreciation of his Dr. Timothy Rickabaugh begins commitment and advocacy on behalf of survivors of sexual assault and their two-year term as the interim vice families. Making the presentation was Pam president for academic Weaner, executive director of the Family Justice Center. affairs and academic dean

DR. TODD COMER, assistant professor of English, chaired r. Timothy Rickabaugh became the “Posthumanism Today: Science Dinterim vice president for academic and Fiction” at the Midwest affairs and academic dean at Defi ance Modern Language Association’s College on June 15. Appointed for a two- annual convention in St. Louis, year term, Rickabaugh will serve as chief Mo., recently. He also presented academic offi cer while maintaining his the following paper as part existing responsibilities as professor of of one of the panels: “The Sublime Birth of the exercise science. Posthuman in Spielberg’s Artifi cial Intelligence.” President Mark Gordon said of Dr. Rickabaugh, “I am really pleased to be MARY ANN STUDER, working with Tim. He is a distinguished assistant professor of physical member of the faculty and he is proving science and associate dean to be an effective leader as we work of the McMaster School for toward even greater levels of academic Advancing Humanity, was excellence.” invited to write an article Rickabaugh will fi ll the position of for the Fall 2009 edition of chief academic offi cer due to the departure Diversity and Democracy, this past summer of Dr. Catharine O’Connell, provost, who assumed the chief a publication of the Association of American academic offi cer role at Mary Baldwin College in Virginia. Colleges and Universities. Professor Studer wrote Rickabaugh has been an active member of the DC community since an article entitled “Creating Interdisciplinary and coming to the college in 1997 as assistant professor of sport science. In 1998, Global Perspectives through Community-based he took on additional responsibilities as head coach of the women’s soccer Research.” team and was selected as Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 2001. He has been actively involved with student engagement Two Defi ance College students and three and service learning at Defi ance College, traveling with students on service faculty members presented earlier this year at learning trips to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, to Jamaica, the 118th Annual Ohio Academy of Science to Cambodia as an Associate Fellow of the McMaster School for Advancing meeting at . SAMANTHA Humanity and most recently on the Civil Rights alternative spring break tour. STEGEMAN presented on “Detection of Rickabaugh was recently chosen by his colleagues to receive the Distinguished paracetamol in fl y larvae using GS-MS” with Faculty Award for 2009. co-authors Dr. Spiro Mavroidis and Dr. Somnath Rickabaugh received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University, his master’s Dutta. KELSEY HUFF presented on “Using from , and his bachelor’s from Ohio Wesleyan. gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to detect He and his wife, Rosanne, have two children, Andrew and Abby, and acrylamide in potato chips” with co-author Dr. reside in Defi ance. Dutta. Dr. Doug Kane also presented on the Other changes to the academic administration include additional duties “Effects of the Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus for Associate Academic Dean Susan Wajert who will be taking on added planipennis) on the forest community of the Lake responsibilities regarding accreditation matters, and Associate Academic Erie Islands II: South Bass and Gibraltar Islands” Dean Don Knueve who will work with the new president to establish external (co-authors were Amy Miller and Sarah Rose of advisory boards for academic programs. the Ohio State University) and was a co-author with Jamie Viterna (presenter) and Dr. Joe Conroy of OSU on “Diel variation in dissolved oxygen in the Sandusky Subbasin of Lake Erie.” In addition, a number of other DC students traveled with the group and attended their fi rst scientifi c conference. To view their presentation abstracts please visit http://www.ohiosci.org/.

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