2015 Focus on Faculty Publication
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FOCUS ON FACULTY 2015 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT The book you are holding celebrates the scholarship, service and excellence of our faculty at Bellarmine University. As president, I am profoundly grateful for the time and energy they devote to preparing excellent classroom instruction and to building personal con- nections with their students. But I am also very much aware that our faculty members devote considerable time and energy to pursuits beyond the class- room – conducting significant research, presenting the results of that research at scholarly conferences, publishing in journals and books and on websites, leading study-abroad courses and service-learning trips or creating artistic expressions, for example. These and other accomplishments have helped to elevate Bellarmine Uni- versity to its status as the premier Catholic university in the South and the leading private institution in the Commonwealth and region. We are proud to showcase them in this publication, which is organized around these goals of Bellarmine’s Strategic Plan: • Celebrate our Catholic identity in the inclusive Merton spirit as the founda- tion of our commitment to student fulfillment, global consciousness and environmental sustainability; • Establish and sustain a climate of excellence throughout the university; • Integrate an international focus and sensibility into all curricular and co-curricular programs; and • Enhance our reputation, expand our market and dramatically grow our enrollment. The achievements listed here represent work completed from fall 2013 through summer 2014. They vividly illustrate the way in which Bellarmine’s excellent faculty bring our mission to life, both by educating talented, diverse students of many faiths, ages, nations, and cultures, and, through their scholarship and service, by benefiting the public interest, helping to create the future, and improving the human condition. Please join me in congratulating and thanking our faculty for the tremendous successes described in these pages. In veritatis amore, Dr. Joseph J. McGowan 2 Bellarmine university 4 2013-2014 Faculty Award Winners 6 Enhancing Our Reputation 16 Sustaining a Climate of Excellence 42 Celebrating Our Catholic Identity in the Inclusive Merton Spirit 46 Integrating an International Focus 50 Index 2013-2014 FACULTY AWARD WINNERS Dr. Aaron Hoffman of the Political Science Department and Ms. Caroline Doyle (in the foreground of the photo to the right) of the Biology Department received the Bellar- mine University Student Government Association’s Faculty Member of the Year awards in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Dr. Matisa Wilbon (2013), associate professor of Sociology and director of the Brown Scholars, and Dr. Joan Masters (2014), associate professor of Nursing, won the Bellar- mine University Joseph and Maureen McGowan Prize for Faculty Development. Faculty Development Fellowship Awards 2013 2014 Ms. Tiffany Carbonneau (Art): Between Here Dr. Kristin Cook (Education): Using Photovoice and There: Connecting Communities through to Explore Environmental Sustainability Across International Trade Cultures Dr. Christy Wolfe (Psychology): Baseline-to-Task Dr. Sara Mahoney (Exercise Science): Effect of EEG Power Differences as a Function of Shyness Dietary Patterns on Ultra-Marathon Performance and Executive Function Task Performance and Fatigue Dr. Jennifer Barker (English): Racial Represen- Dr. Joseph Flipper (Theology): Book Project: tation in 1920s and 1930s Hollywood Animation Between Apocalypse and Eschaton: History and Eternity in Henri de Lubac Dr. Mary Pike (Nursing): The Bellarmine Outreach Dr. Amanda J. Krzysiak (Chemistry and Phys- Dr. David Paige (Education): Thinking Schools ics): The Biochemistry of Disease-Related Proteins Academy: An Evaluation of a School Improvement Initiative to Increase Literacy and Mathematics Dr. Martha Carlson Mazur (Environmental Stud- Achievement in the Auxilium Nava Jyoti School ies): Stressors to Ohio River Tributary Ecosystems Dr. Karen Golemboski (Clinical Lab Science): Dr. Courtney Keim (Psychology): Intercultural A Comparison of Hemoglobin A1c and Glycated Competence of Students Studying Abroad: Do Albumin for Assessment of Glycemic Control in Personality and Situational Variables Play a Role? Type 2 Diabetes 4 Bellarmine university Caroline Doyle, right, 2014 Faculty Member of the Year, leads a lab in her Anatomy & Physiology class. PRESIDENTIAL MERIT AWARD WINNERS The President’s Faculty Merit Award is given to faculty members identified as overall Meritorious, based upon their achievements in the three areas of teaching, scholarship and service. 2013 Dr. Frank Raymond Dr. Karen Golemboski Dr. Mike Ackerman Dr. Keith Richardson Dr. Kathy Hager Dr. Tony Brosky Dr. Mike Ryan Dr. Gail Henson Dr. Sarah Bush Dr. Kevin Thomas Dr. Greg Hillis Mr. Carlos Chavarría Dr. Julie Toner Dr. Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty Dr. Sherill Cronin Dr. Ruth Wagoner Dr. Aaron Hoffman Dr. Lizzie Fitzgerald Dr. Jerry Walker Dr. Frank Hutchins Ms. Laura Hartford Dr. Mark Wiegand Dr. Kate Johnson Dr. Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty Dr. Nancy York Dr. Christy Kane Dr. Peri Jacobson Dr. Paul Loprinzi Dr. Christy Kane 2014 Dr. Theresa Magpuri-Lavell Ms. Barbara Lee Dr. David Boyce Dr. Myra McCrickard Dr. Paul Loprinzi Dr. Sarah Bush Dr. David Paige Dr. Theresa Magpuri-Lavell Dr. Tom Byrd Dr. Frank Raymond Dr. Joan Masters Ms. Tiffany Carbonneau Dr. Evanthia Speliotis Dr. Kimberly Parker Dr. Kristin Cook Dr. Matisa Wilbon Dr. Mary Pike Dr. Lizzie Fitzgerald Dr. Lee Williams Dr. Annette Powell Dr. Patty Gillette Dr. Dottie Willis 2013-2014 FaCULTY aWARD WINNERS 5 ENHANCING OUR REPUTATION Art Professor Caren Cunningham, shown right in Bellarmine’s studio, exhibited her own sculptures at a number of venues throughout Metro Louisville and sold one to a private collector. Bellarmine College the Kentucky Collective of Female Sculptors Show. Art Department Professor Cunningham displayed her work at a num- Professor Caren Cunningham had three limestone ber of venues throughout the year including four stone sculptures juried into the 6th Annual Sculpture in the sculptures at Hidden Hill in Utica, Ind., and a sculp- Dell exhibition at Yew Dell Botanical Gardens, Crest- tural bike rack and three permanent outdoor stone wood, Ky. One sculpture was sold to a private collector. sculptures at Glassworks in Louisville. Professor Cunningham was one of the contributing Professor Cunningham was commissioned to paint artists to “Enid: Generations of Women Sculptors” at a 12-by-80-foot mural of trees and shrubs for Cun- the Transylvania University Morlan Gallery in March ningham Overhead Door. 2014. The exhibit featured works by Enid, a Louisville- based collective of female sculptors named for pioneer- Ms. Laura Hartford, associate professor and chair, ing Louisville sculptor Enid Yandell. had an exhibition entitled “Second Life,” curated by Joey Yates, at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft Professor Cunningham was interviewed for a Febru- in June 2014. ary 2014 article in the Lexington Herald-Leader about 6 Bellarmine university Ms. Hartford held an exhibition entitled “Salt” in the McGrath Gallery at Bellarmine University. Ms. Hartford had exhibits in the Louisville Photo Bi- ennial in October 2013. Ms. Hartford was selected as an Artist-in-Residence at Maine’s Acadia National Park Aug. 18-30, 2014. bellarmine by the numbers Biology Department Number of New Dr. Mary Huff, assistant dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and associate professor of Biology, and Degrees/Certificates Dr. Amanda Krzysiak, assistant professor of Chem- istry, hosted 48 AP Biology students from Seneca High Added Since 2005 School on Bellarmine’s campus for a tour of the college, the opportunity to visit a college class, and the chance to perform a college-level laboratory experiment. Dr. Paul Kiser, assistant professor of Biology, was awarded a $2,500 grant by the Kentucky Agency for Substance Abuse Policy, Region 6 Board of Direc- tors, for an air-quality analysis study of hookah bars in Louisville. Dr. Kiser gave an expert comment for a report by The the 2014 CutBank Annual Chapbook Prize for his Courier-Journal regarding the new tobacco-free pol- manuscript, Chthonic. Mr. James received a $1,000 icy for JCPS schools and school functions. cash award. Dr. David Robinson, professor of Biology, spearhead- Dr. Annette Powell, associate professor of English, ed The Ambrosia Project for a seventh year, publish- was elected chair of the National Council of Teach- ing another 114 genes in the GenBank database. The ers of English (NCTE) Scholars for the Dream Selec- project is a collaboration by students in each year’s tion Committee. Plant Diversity course (BIOL 220) to determine the identity of all the genes expressed in Ragweed pollen. History and Political Science Department Several genes have already been found that encode Dr. Eric Roorda, professor of History, was awarded the proteins that cause hay fever. The project also a grant of $165,000 by the National Endowment for involves a collaboration with faculty and students at the Humanities to direct a 2014 Summer Institute Emory and Henry College in Virginia. for college professors. This was his fourth and larg- est NEH Summer Institute award. Chemistry and Physics Department The ATLAS experiment at CERN, to which Bellarmine Dr. Roorda was interviewed by WHAS in November University contributed, was cited in the Nobel Prize 2013 as part of a feature on the 50th anniversary of for the discovery of the Higgs Boson. Bellarmine is President John