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A NEWSLETTER FOR THE GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY Published by News & Information Services
Center helps companies, gives students experience
A Grand Valley center is working with West is not approved, the design must Michigan companies to develop and test new be altered and tested some more, electrical products entering the marketplace. which can be expensive and time The Electromagnetic Compatibility Center consuming for small- to medium- pairs students with local companies; it’s the sized companies. They can come first of its kind in West Michigan. to the center to continue testing expediently and at an attractive rate,” The center, located at 609 Watson St. near said Adamczyk. the Pew Grand Rapids Campus, provides pre-compliance testing, design support and The lab includes measurement and education. The 4,000-square-foot center diagnostic tools, including three includes a compliance lab and seminar room. chambers that measure radiated emissions and immunity of electronic Bogdan Adamczyk, professor of electrical devices. Two additional chambers engineering, noticed a need for the center are currently being assembled. two years ago. “West Michigan is an area of Adamczyk said the center has helped Photo by Bernadine Carey-Tucker innovation and growth. Many big research several companies already. Engineering Professor Bogdan Adamczyk, right, is pictured at the universities have EMC research centers, EMC. The center helps companies design and test electrical but I’ve never heard of one that offers “Entry-level engineers who specialize products. precompliance testing for local companies and in electromagnetic compatibility provides a practical experience for students,” are in high demand,” he said. “Any and Esther Padnos College of Engineering and he said. company that develops and builds electrical Computing currently has nearly 1,800 enrolled devices needs EMC engineers.” students, a record. About 200-250 students are All electrical devices must be certified for EMC majoring in electrical engineering. compliance, explained Adamczyk. “If a device The School of Engineering in the Seymour
Across Campus University opens date. The store, 140 Front St., is across from 145b). Staff and faculty members from Campus the Bicycle Factory and next to Grand Valley’s Recreation, Movement Science and Student surplus store L. William Seidman Center. Free parking is Life, collaborated to establish the clinic with located next to the store in the Watson and Metro Health Sports Medicine. Grand Valley has opened a surplus store in Front Street parking lots. downtown Grand Rapids to give the general Amy Campbell, assistant director of Wellness public a chance to purchase university Inventory for sale include computers, including in Campus Recreation, and Shari Bartz-Smith, inventory that’s no longer in use. iMacs and laptops, keyboards, printers, TVs, associate professor of movement science and office furniture, clothing, industrial equipment coordinator of the Athletic Training program, The surplus store opened February 8. Future and more. The store was created as an noticed a need for the clinic over the past few hours of operation will be announced at a later avenue to responsibly manage Grand Valley’s years. “Students would come to us with chronic purchased inventory that’s no longer in use. injuries or something that was bothering them and wanted to know if it was serious or not,” For more information contact Aaron Caccamo said Campbell. at x19072. Bartz-Smith said she views the clinic as a Injury Care Clinic point of referral for students seeking advice about injuries. “People who are not students opens to students will also be seen, but the focus of the proposal was students on campus who are currently A new clinic that will provide free sport-related underserved in the area of injury prevention, injury evaluation, treatment and referral recognition and referral,” Bartz-Smith said. services to Grand Valley students opened January 13 on the Allendale Campus. Campbell said the clinic will be especially helpful for students who participate in club Grand Valley has opened a surplus store on the Pew The Injury Care Clinic is located in the Athletic Grand Rapids Campus. Training Teaching Lab (Fieldhouse, room continues on page 2 2 FORUM | FEBRUARY 10, 2014 Across Campus
continued from page 1 Governor establishes state sports and intramural Office for New Americans teams. “Maybe someone who runs as a Gov. Rick Snyder signed into law the Michigan Office for New Americans hobby is experiencing during an event in Grand Rapids on January 31 that was attended by chronic knee pain. several international students from Grand Valley. They can now come to the Injury Care Clinic The office will coordinate all state efforts related to immigration and and a certified athletic recruitment of international students. Kate Stoetzner, director of trainer will provide International an evaluation of the Student and injury, information on Scholar Services, basic treatments and said the potential exercises, and refer Photo by Amanda Pitts impact on them to a physician if Athletic trainer Ethan Cunningham treats a patient in universities is needed,” she said. the Injury Care Clinic; Shari Bartz-Smith is at left. tremendous.
No appointments are “We work hard needed to visit the clinic. Ethan Cunningham, an athletic trainer who at Grand Valley works for Metro Health Sports Medicine, will staff the clinic from 2-6 to educate and p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and 4-8 p.m. on Tuesdays. integrate our Visit www.gvsu.edu/icc for more information. international students,” Bartz-Smith said, looking ahead, that the clinic could serve as a clinical Stoetzner said. rotation site for athletic training majors. “Hopefully, the Pictured behind Gov. Rick Snyder are Grand Valley students new office will be Mohamed Azuz, from Libya; Douwe Driehuis, from the able to educate Netherlands; Abdulwahid Khudhary, from Saudi Arabia, and Research grants available from Devin Streur, from the U.S. employers about LGBT Faculty Staff group the benefits of hiring international students as interns or for co-ops as well as full-time The LGBT Faculty and Staff Association seeks applications for its micro- employees.” research grants, $400-$500. Mohamed Azuz, president of Grand Valley’s International Student The grant program aims to promote LGBT-related scholarship that Organization, said he was honored to attend the event. “The governor’s fosters an inclusive community for LGBT faculty and staff members at interest in immigrants makes me believe that my future maybe in Grand Valley. These grants will be awarded to faculty or staff members Michigan,” Azuz said. “I think this will help to attract more skilled who are doing research that involves people or issues on gender and internationals to be part of the Michigan community.” sexuality that concern the LGBT community. Snyder named Bing Goei the office’s director. Goei said more graduates Information on how to apply is online at www.gvsu.edu/lgbtfacstaff; are needed to fill critical STEM jobs. deadline to apply is March 1.
FORUM Volume 38, Number 20 GVFaces The GVSU Forum is published by the News and Information Services Office. The submission Len O’Kelly, Visiting Professor degree in radio and deadline is Tuesday noon. Send publication items of Communications television from Lewis to Michele Coffill, editor, c/o [email protected] . University in 2004 and Telephone: 616-331-2221. Fax: 616-331-2250. Len O’Kelly said his passion for broadcasting a master’s degree in Web: www.gvsu.edu/forum. communications from Faculty and staff members can find an online began when received his first record player at age 4 and at age 10 when he started his own Grand Valley in 2011. He “Sketches” submission form on the Web at is also currently pursuing www.gvsu.edu/forum . pretend radio station as part of a class project. a doctoral degree in News and Information Services Staff: O’Kelly has spent more than 25 years in journalism from Michigan Mary Eilleen Lyon, associate vice president State University. Sherry Bouwman, NIS assistant radio, serving as a news director, production Dottie Barnes, communications specialist director in Chicago and programmer for a Michele Coffill, associate director of publications number of radio stations, including WGVU in O’Kelly got his start in Len O’Kelly Nate Hoekstra, communications specialist Grand Rapids and an international program in radio while working at Mary Isca Pirkola, communications specialist Gisborne, New Zealand. He has also served as the college radio station Leah Twilley, communications specialist an on-camera meteorologist for WYIN-TV in at Lewis University. He now serves as the Bernadine Carey Tucker, photography manager northwest Indiana, and performed countless faculty advisor for Grand Valley’s student-run Jeremy Knickerbocker, videographer radio station, “The Whale,” and Grand Valley’s Elizabeth Lienau, photography coordinator commercial and industrial voiceovers. Amanda Pitts, photographer student-run television station, GVTV. Jessica Hines, student writer In his current role with the School of Jarrett Weber, student writer Communications, O’Kelly is responsible “Broadcast is one medium that you only get for teaching a range of broadcasting classes better at with practice and the students who Other publications by the News and Information put in the time outside of class to be involved in Services Office include: including Introduction to Radio, Survey of Electronic Media, and Beginning Television student-run programs are the ones that excel in Grand Valley Magazine, which is published the industry,” said O’Kelly. quarterly for the university community. Visit its Studio Production. website at www.gvsu.edu/gvmagazine . “My diverse background in the industry In his spare time, O’Kelly said he enjoys Visit Grand Valley’s online publication, GVNow, at impacts my interactions with students and I building his personal music collection that www.gvsu.edu/gvnow, for daily news updates and think they really appreciate having a real-world currently dates back 100 years. He is also video features . perspective in the classroom,” said O’Kelly. “It’s conducting research on the broadcast history of Grand Rapids. Grand Valley State University is an affirmative action/equal one thing to teach theory but it’s another to opportunity institution. show students how it is actually applied in the Note: The Whale, GVTV and the Lanthorn will be industry.” featured in an article in the winter issue of Grand A Chicago native, O’Kelly earned a bachelor’s Valley Magazine, published in early March. FORUM | FEBRUARY 10, 2014 3 What’s Ahead
Exhibit highlights at the L. William Seidman Building, room 1008. on February 12 with cultural performances by people from the West Michigan Chinese media’s view of beauty Dwight Hamilton, associate vice president for American community. It will take place from Affirmative Action, said three subcommittees 4-5 p.m. in the Cook-DeWitt Center. A student art exhibit by several women and — representing students, faculty, staff — will gender studies and communications majors will report on the climate study survey results and Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural showcase their perception of how social media the action plans each subcommittee created. Affairs, the celebration features activities and reinforces The event will also include a discussion of events through March 22. The events are free popular recommendations provided by the Gender and open to the public. media’s Identification and Expression committee. unrealistic • “Hafu” documentary showing; February 13, views of Reports from each of the committees are 6 p.m., Kirkhof Center women and online for review at www.gvsu.edu/mygvsu. beauty. The documentary is about the journey of multi- Grand Hotel president race Japanese people and their experiences in The modern day Japan. Jeremy Robinson, associate photographs to give presentation professor of Japanese, will facilitate the in the exhibit, conversation with the filmmakers. “Love Your One of the first art exhibitions in the The president of the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Mary Idema Pew Library highlights • Listen; February 18, 6 p.m., Kirkhof Center Body,” were popular media’s views of women and Island is the guest speaker for the Peter F. taken by beauty. Secchia Breakfast Lecture, sponsored by the Carissa Woodwyk, a licensed counselor and Makenna Seidman College of Business. marriage and family therapist, will discuss Brooke Runion as part of her communications R.D. Musser III will talk about “Sustaining a adoption and the feelings and experiences that capstone course. Each woman was Grand Vision Through Three Centuries,” on come with it. photographed twice: once in a natural setting February 12 at 8 a.m. in the L. William Seidman and once in full makeup. The exhibit will run Center. Musser was named president of the • Bread-Loving Japan: Changes Across the February 9-March 9 in the exhibition room historic, 385-room Grand Hotel in 1989. He 20th Century; February 24, 1 p.m., Kirkhof of the Mary Idema Pew Library Learning and represents the third generation of Musser Center Information Commons. family ownership and operation of the Grand Jason Herlands, assistant professor of Japanese, Hotel. Julia Mason, associate professor of women will give a presentation about U.S. involvement and gender studies, said the students hope the Musser is the former chairman of the Michigan in financing the spread of wheat products in exhibit creates conversations about women and Hotel, Motel and Resort Association, and Japan and the cultural ramifications. beauty. former chairman of the Resort Committee of the American Hotel and Lodging Association. R.I.C.E. Conference: Realizing and An opening reception is set for February 18, Addressing Issues in our Culture and 6-8 p.m. The Women’s Center also supported Education; March 22, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., DeVos this project. Hauenstein Center Center will host two events Event will explore For more information, visit www.gvsu.edu/ end-of-life care The Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies oma. will host two events this week, continuing its Talking about the end-of-life can be a tough Wheelhouse Talks and American Conversations GVSU conference conversation. A survey by the California series. on aging well HealthCare Foundation found 56 percent Kelly LeCoy, founder and owner of Uptown of those surveyed said they had not The ninth annual Art & Science of Aging Kitchen in the Eastown neighborhood, is the communicated their end-of-life wishes. Conference is set for Friday, February 14. next speaker at the Wheelhouse Talks. Her The Seidman College of Business is hosting presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, “The Heart & Soul of Aging Well,” sponsored “Quality of Life or Quantity of Life?” to explore February 12, at 12:30 p.m. at the Urban Institute by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and the importance of personal choice in end-of- for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids. The College of Community & Public Service, will life decisions. The event is set for Monday, event is free and open to the public; RSVP run from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in DeVos Center. February 10, from 6-8 p.m. at the L. William online at hauensteincenter.org. Seidman Center. It is free and open to the Leslie Martin will give the keynote address, LeCoy’s Uptown Kitchen is Grand Rapids’ public. “Throw Your Heart Into it, and the Rest will first kitchen incubator, a concept which allows Follow.” Martin is a professor of public health at Panelists include Amy Berman, a nurse and food entrepreneurs to test and manufacture Loma Linda University and research professor senior program officer for the John A. Hartford their own food creations in a certified, licensed at the University of California, Riverside. As Foundation, who was diagnosed at a young age facility without having to jump through the co-author of The Longevity Project, she has with inflammatory breast cancer. She gained legal and financial hoops that often curtail new spent more than 20 years exploring who lives national attention last year when she published food ventures. long, and why. an essay that argued that quality of life was Deborah Mower, an expert on civility and more critical to her than normal treatment The conference includes 15 workshops on a conditions of civil disagreement in politics and protocols, and that she would forgo aggressive wide range of topics including health care education, will present “Civility in Politics and chemotherapy. reform, retirement, healthy eating, exercise Education” on Thursday, February 13, at 7 p.m. and pain management. New this year are three The event is also hosted by Making Choices in the DeVos Center, Loosemore Auditorium. sessions led by Carol Hendershot, a certified Michigan and Priority Health. For information mindfulness-based stress reduction instructor Mower will examine the concept of civility visit www.makingchoicesmichigan.com. with the Grand Rapids Center for Mindfulness. and the conditions of civil disagreement in Town hall set to report politics and education. Mower teaches at More for information visit www.gvsu.edu/ Youngstown State University, including courses gerontology. on climate study findings in philosophy and moral psychology.
The Campus Climate Implementation For information about either event, visit Committee will hold a town hall meeting hauensteincenter.org. to report on the progress made at Grand Valley since the 2011 campus climate study. Celebration presents
The town hall is set for Tuesday, February 11, Chinese dance, music in the Kirkhof Center, Grand River Room, from Grand Valley’s annual Asian American and 10-11:30 a.m. The Pew Grand Rapids Campus Pacific Islander Heritage Celebration continues can be involved by participating via a webcast 4 FORUM | FEBRUARY 10, 2014
General Events Wed., Feb. 12 Mower. Loosemore Auditorium, DEV. Visit hauensteincenter.org for details. 7 a.m.-Noon: Know Your Numbers Screening. Feb. 10-13 123 CHS. Call x12215 for more information. Fri., Feb. 14 LGBT Faculty Staff Association hosts Rainbow 7:30 a.m.: Seidman College of Business Reel Film Festival. 030 MIPL. Visit www. Secchia Lecture by R.D. Musser III. SCB. 8 a.m.-Noon: Know Your Numbers Screening. gvsu.edu/lgbtfacstaff for details. Call x17100 for more information. 225 LMC. Call x12215 for information.
Noon: Allendale Toastmasters. 2259 KC. Visit 11 a.m.: Board of Trustees Meeting. SCB. www.gvsu.edu/toastmasters for more Mon., Feb. 10 information. Noon: Chamber Orchestra Performance. Atrium, MIPL. Call x13484 for more infor- 7 a.m.-Noon: Know Your Numbers Screening. Noon: Arts at Noon Series: Grand Rapids mation. 107C DEV. Call x12215 for information. Symphony. CDC. Call x13484 for more information. Noon: Positive Black Women present “A 3:30 p.m.: Community Reading Project hosts Tribute to Black Women.” 2204 KC. Call Contextual Conversation. 2204 KC. Visit 12:30 p.m.: Hauenstein Center Wheelhouse x12177 for more information. www.gvsu.edu/read for more information. Talk with Kelly LeCoy. UICA, Grand Rapids. Visit hauensteincenter.org for 6 p.m.: World Affairs Council of Western details. Michigan Great Decisions Lecture: “How Sat., Feb. 15 the Three Geos are Rewriting the World 4 p.m.: Asian American and Pacific Islander Map,” by Cleo Paskal. Performing Arts Heritage Celebration Event: Chinese 7 p.m.: Annual High School Honors Band Center, Aquinas College. Call (616) 776-1721 Cultural Performance. CDC. Call x12177 for Concert with the Symphonic Wind to information. more information. Ensemble. LAT, PAC. Call x13484 for more information. 6 p.m.: Seidman College of Business Panel 5 p.m.: International Faculty and Friends: Discussion: “Quality of Life or Quantity of “Gibraltar: Above the Rock,” by David Sports Life?” SCB. Call x17100 for more informa- Alvarez. 2259 KC. Call x13898 for more tion. information. Fri., Feb. 14 6 p.m.: Psychology hosts Projection Film Tues., Feb. 11 Series: “Annie Hall.” 114 LMH. Call x12195 9 a.m.: Track & Field hosts Big Meet. for more information. 7 a.m.-Noon: Know Your Numbers Screening. 107C DEV. Call x12215 for information. 7 p.m.: Symphonic Wind Ensemble & Allendale High School Bands. Ceglarek Sat., Feb. 15 11:30 a.m.: African Diaspora Conversations: Fine Arts Center, Allendale. Call x13484 for “Afro-Futurism: The Other Wes Moore,” by more information. 9 a.m.: Track & Field hosts Big Meet. Rachel Peterson. 030 MIPL. Call x18110 for more information. 6 and 8 p.m.: Women’s and Men’s Basketball Thurs., Feb. 13 host Northwood University. 1-5 p.m.: Winter Career Fair. DeVos Place, Grand Rapids. Call x13311 for information. 7:30 a.m.: Downtown Toastmasters. 107C DEV. Visit www.gvsu.edu/toastmasters for more 3:30 p.m.: Human Resources Excellence information. Series: “Bias Incident Protocol Training,” by TAB members. 1008A SCB. Visit www. 7 p.m.: Hauenstein Center hosts “Civility gvsu.edu/seminar to register. in Politics and Education,” by Deborah
Faculty and Staff Sketches In the News Sketches Undergraduate Research: Opportunities and Challenges,” published in a book, Kyle Barnes, visiting professor of movement Jean Nagelkerk, vice provost for Health, Developing and Maintaining a Successful science, had his research on High-Intensity and Brenda Pawl, director of special Undergraduate Research Program, Warm-up Strategies for Runners featured in projects, received a grant from the Michigan published by Oxford University Press. Runner’s World Magazine and letsrun.com. Department of Community Health for the second year of the Nursing Education, Practice, Christopher Toth, assistant professor Cassonya Carter, senior academic advisor for Quality, and Retention project through the of writing, wrote an article, “Revisiting a Kirkhof College of Nursing, was named a Power Health Resources and Services Administration. Genre: Teaching Infographics in Business Diva in Networking Diva Magazine. and Professional Communication Courses,” Patricia Bloem, professor of English, led a published in Business Communication Quarterly. Paul Isely, professor of economics and interim workshop about teaching poetry to teachers associate dean in the Seidman College of of English in Bremen, Germany. She gave a Darren Walhof, associate professor of Business, was interviewed by several media presentation, “The Emancipated Imagination: political science, wrote a chapter, “Exposure outlets for stories about his West Michigan Democratic Education through American and Disclosure: The Risk of Hermeneutical economic forecast. Literature for Children and Young Adults,” Truth in Democratic Politics,” in a book, Truth at a conference in Hamburg, Germany. Matters: Knowledge, Politics, Ethics, Religion, James Dunn, professor of biology, was published by McGill-Queen’s UniversityPress. interviewed by WOOD-TV about the effects of Felix Ngassa, associate professor of snow and cold temperatures on insects. chemistry, wrote a chapter, “Mentoring