Western Michigan University’s NewslettePRISMr for Academic Affairs Volume 73, Oct. 2013

Haworth College of Business

Upcoming Events

The founder of The Wellness RN will discuss how to eat healthy while maintaining an on-the-go lifestyle during the Keystone Community Bank Breakfast Speaker Series at Haworth College of Business. Heather Ratliff, registered nurse and wellness coach, will speak at 8 a.m. Friday, Nov. 22, at the Haworth College of Business in 2150 Schneider Hall, delivering a presentation titled “Dining Out: Finding a Healthy Place at the Table.” The event is free and open to the public and begins with breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Reservations are required and can be made by calling (269) 387-5050. Free parking is available. With a passion for wellness, Heather Ratliff began her website, The Wellness Heather Ratliff RN, in 2012 to help individuals, families and small businesses achieve health nutritionists, who focus on exercise and Ratliff is an alumna of WMU’s Bronson goals and address issues such as obesity diet, Ratliff takes a holistic approach School of Nursing and received her and stress that can lead to serious to treating both the mind and body. master’s degrees in both environmental problems. Her interest in helping people She meets with her clients regularly science and public policy from Indiana with weight management, lifestyle to establish accountability and focus, University. Prior to her career as a nurse, change and nutrition is what made her goes with them grocery shopping and she worked at Pfizer as an industrial want to start The Wellness RN. Unlike even helps clean out their pantries. microbiologist.

Table of Contents

Center for Academic Success Programs . 5 Enrollment Management. 14

College of Arts and Sciences . 3 Graduate COllege. 15

College of Engineering and Haworth College of Business. 1 Applied Sciences. 7 Haenicke Institute for Global Education. 16 College of Fine Arts. 8 University Libraries. 17 College of Health and Human Services. 11

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growing company in the U.S. in 2008, Research, Vol. 66, No. 11, 2013, p.2153- 2009 and 2010 and was recognized as 2162. one of the 2011 Michigan 50 Companies to Watch. Due to Mueller’s Kelley O’Reilly, assistant professor of entrepreneurial success, he was named marketing, and S. Marx, had their paper, an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the “How Young, Technical Consumers Year finalist in 2011. Interested in Determine Online WOM Credibility” helping people in situations of poverty, selected by Emerald’s literati Network Mueller spends much of his time for its Best Practical Implications Award traveling the world and living in in 2013. different cultures while growing MacUpdate remotely. Sime Curkovic, professor of management, has been invited as a guest speaker for the Kalamazoo, Faculty and Staff Accolades Michigan Southwest APICS (Association of Operations Management) Meeting on the subject of, “Advancement in Supply Joel Mueller Sime Curkovic, professor of Chain Management Curriculums and management; Thomas Scannell, Career Paths” on Nov. 19, 2013. professor of management; and The founder of the second most popular Bret Wagner, associate professor Stacey Fitzsimmons, assistant Mac-only software community on the of management, had their paper, professor of management, had her Internet will be the next presenter in a “ISO 31000 and Supply Chain Risk paper, “Multicultural Employees: A speaker series at Haworth College of Management: A Longitudinal Study” Framework for Understanding How Business focusing on entrepreneurship. accepted for publication and is They Contribute to Organizations” Joel Mueller, founder of MacUpdate, forthcoming in the American Journal of accepted and published in Academy will speak at 8 a.m. Friday, Nov. 8, in Industrial and Business Management, of Management Review, Vol. 38, No. 4, 2150 Schneider Hall, as part of the Vol. 3, No. 6, 2013. 2013, p.525-549. Haworth College of Business Entrepreneurship Forum. The event is Sime Curkovic, professor of Derrick McIver, assistant professor free and open to the public and begins management; Thomas Scannell, of management; Cynthia Lengnick- with breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Reservations professor of management; and Hall; Mark Lengnick-Hall; and Indu are required and can be made by calling Bret Wagner, associate professor Ramachandran, had their paper, (269) 387-5050 or at wmich.edu/ of management, had their paper, “Understanding Work and Knowledge business/e-rsvp. Free parking is “Using FMEA for Supply Chain Risk Management from a Knowledge-in- available in the nearby Fetzer Center Management” accepted for publication Practice Perspective” accepted and parking lot. Mueller’s entrepreneurial and is forthcoming in Modern published in Academy of Management story started in high school when he Management Science & Engineering, Review, Vol. 38, No. 4, 2013, p.597-620. developed companies as a teenager and Vol. 1, No. 2, 2013. grew them into some of the most Andrew Targowski, professor of popular and well-respected companies Sime Curkovic, professor of business information systems, is the in their niches. At the age of 16, Mueller management, and Thomas Scannell, author of a new book: “Harnessing began MacUpdate, a centralized professor of management, had their the Power of Wisdom, From Data location where users can find software, paper, “Identifying the Factors for to Wisdom.” Published in July 2013, reviews, demos and more. Reaching Successfully Managing Supply Chain the book explores and defines the more than seven million visits each Risks” accepted for publication in The interdisciplinary theory of wisdom month, the company sells hundreds of World Financial Review, September/ and uses examples taken from real thousands of copies of third party October, 2013, p.60-63. cases of applied wisdom by prominent applications directly from its nearly people in our society. The review hidden online storefront. While earning Robert Harrison, assistant professor of applied wisdom is provided in his B.B.A. at WMU, Mueller was both a of marketing, had his paper, “Using a historic context as well as in the full-time student and a full-time CEO. Mixed Methods Designs in the Journal interdisciplinary approach. “This book is The company has since been recognized of Business Research, 1990-2010” the first of its kind by defining wisdom by Inc. Magazine as a Top 500 fastest published in the Journal of Business 2 Prism: Western Michigan University’s Newsletter for Academic Affairs

as information and the highest level of the cognition units set, composed of data, information, concept, knowledge and wisdom,” says Targowski. “I consider wisdom the most important civilization resource, and it should be monitored in a way that is similar or even better than the way we monitor the use of energy, the development of population or other resources.” Targowski has founded his theory of wisdom on multiple assumptions, including: wise decisions need not be expert in nature; wisdom is not synonymous with intelligence; wisdom has a range of bandwidth and properties; knowledge on what constitutes wisdom is not the same as the process of becoming a wise person; and many more. Author of 27 books on W.E. Upjohn Center staff members. Left to right, 1st row: Marilyn Johnson, Katy Morharter, information technology, civilization, Margaret Spyker and Caitlin Prior. 2nd row: Kevin Agema, Greg Anderson and professor emeritus Dr. David Dickason. philosophy and political science, this is Targowski’s third book on the interdisciplinary theory of wisdom and Integrated supply management discussion in all issues pertaining to is available from NOVA Publishers, New student, Ashley Moyle, of Mattawan, economics. The series is sponsored by York. Mich., has won the APICS Scholar the College of Arts and Sciences and the Award. As part of the award, Moyle will W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment attend conferences and learn valuable Research. All lectures are open to the Student and Alumni information pertaining to supply chain public. This year’s lecture series opened Accolades operations management, as well as with Dr. Erica Field, associate professor network with supply chain professionals of economics and global health at worldwide. As an APICS scholar, Moyle Duke University. For a full schedule will attend a five-day conference in and descriptions of the remainder of Florida, participating in various program the speakers please visit wmich.edu/ activities and events centered around news/2013/10/10155. learning and improving supply chain and operations management skills. On Friday, Oct. 11, WMU celebrated She will be paired with a professional the W.E. Upjohn Center for the Study APICS mentor, who will share real- of Geographical Change for receiving world experiences and knowledge, and two gold awards from the International will have opportunities to meet and Map Industry Association for its state- network with industry experts. of-the-art digital maps. The Upjohn Center earned the gold award for Best Digital Mapping Product of 2013 and College of Arts and the Overall Winner Award for IMIA Sciences Americas. Attendees were welcomed to the reception by Dr. Ben Ofori-Amoah, Items of Academic Interest director of the Upjohn Center and chair of WMU’s Department of Geography. Professor emeritus of geography and Named for former WMU economics founder of the Upjohn Center, Dr. David Ashley Moyle professor and department chair, the Dickason shared his accolades and Werner Sichel Lecture Series celebrates introduced the Upjohn Center staff. 50 years of open and engaging Continued on next page 3 Prism: Western Michigan University’s Newsletter for Academic Affairs

WMU President John Dunn presented WMU graduate student Michael Swartz and prices skyrocketing. Now, one of the awards to Margaret Spyker and for the paper titled “Tropisetron as the highest-quality potash ore deposits Greg Anderson, and Provost Timothy a Neuroprotective Agent Against in the world has been identified below Greene and CAS Dean Alexander Glutamate-Induced Excitotoxicity and the surface of West Michigan. “This is Enyedi shared their remarks of Mechanisms of Action,” which was conceivably one of Michigan’s most congratulations to all of the students published in Neuropharm. valuable resources,” says Theodore A. and staff who participated in building Pagano, a potash geologist, engineer the hyper-accurately geo-referenced and general manager of Michigan maps. Potash Co. LLC. That firm now controls the rediscovered potassium ore reserve called the Borgen Bed that lies under Faculty and Staff Accolades more than 14,500 acres in the two counties. For more details on this exciting discovery please visit wmich. edu/news/2013/09/9197.

Student and Alumni Accolades

With expertise in legal, scientific and education fields, College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) alumni achievement award winners are bestselling authors, executives, community leaders and artists. They prove that an educational background in liberal arts prepares Dr. Cindy Linn graduates for impact in any industry. Matthew Burian ‘92 (Philosophy), President/Partner, Millennium Rediscovery of a long-forgotten Restaurant Group, Kalamazoo, Mich.; mineral deposit located under two Mary Burke ‘00 (MISE), 7th grade West Michigan counties is set to Instructional Specialist, Vicksburg spark a new multibillion industry in Community Schools, Vicksburg, Mich.; Michigan that will quickly position the George Cooper ‘82 (Chemistry), Christopher Pearl state as the nation’s leading source Principal Investigator, NASA-Ames for a critical agricultural tool that is in Research Center, Mountain View, demand internationally. The discovery Christopher Pearl, assistant professor Calif.; Monique Coyne ‘55 ‘66 was made by using the treasure trove of biological sciences, will be published (French), Educator, Kalamazoo, Mich.; of geologic data that is housed at in the journal Reproductive Biology for Kimberly Crimin ‘93 ‘02 (Statistics), Western Michigan University’s Michigan his manuscript entitled “Lactoferrin Director Statistical Scientist, Novartis, Geological Repository for Research and Expression and Secretion in the Stallion Education. The result of the rediscovery, Continued on next page Epididymis.” say geologists, will be the introduction of a new industry in Michigan worth as Biological Sciences Professor Cindy much as $65 billion, easily surpassing Linn had two papers published this the state’s historical oil and gas summer. She enlisted the help of WMU production revenues and triggering graduate students Kazoo Iwamoto, explosive job growth in Osceola and David Mata and Michael Swartz for Mecosta counties. Potash--potassium the paper titled “Neuroprotection of chloride--is an essential plant nutrient Rat Retinal Ganglion Cells Mediated and critical ingredient in fertilizer. Through Alpha7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Currently mined in only three locations Receptors,” which was published in in the nation, supplies are dwindling CAS Alumni Achievement Award Announcement Neurosci. She enlisted the help of 4 Prism: Western Michigan University’s Newsletter for Academic Affairs

Cambridge, Mass.; Jim Farnsworth Two graduates and one student of Center for Academic ‘80 (Geosciences), Cobalt International Western Michigan University’s Creative Energy, Houston, Texas; Richard Writing Program have pocketed Success Programs Ferguson ‘66 (Mathematics), Chairman, important literary awards that will Items of Academic Interest Higher Education Holdings, Iowa City, result in the publication of their works. Iowa; James Griffioen ‘99 (English), The award winners and their awards freelance writer and photographer, are: Brandon Krieg, who is earning a In late September, the Office of Service- Detroit, Mich.; Hedy Habra ‘84 ‘89 doctoral degree in poetry, has won the Learning had their annual breakfast ‘94 ‘07 (Spanish), Instructor, Western New Rivers Press’ 2012 Many Voices and award celebration. The event is Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Project prize for poetry. The press held to honor the students, faculty/ Mich.; Susanne Homant ‘06 (Public will publish his collection of poems, staff and community partners who Administration), President/CEO, The “Invasives,” in October 2014. Dustin make service-learning grow and Able Trust, Tallahassee, Fla.; Mark M. Hoffman, a recent graduate of the prosper each year. Dr. Diane Anderson, LeSage ‘92 ‘96 (Psychology), Senior fiction doctoral program, won Burning vice president of Student Affairs; Investigator, Department of Medicine, River Press’ chapbook contest for fiction. Randy Ott, director of the Center for Minneapolis Medical Research His collection of linked stories, titled Academic Success Programs; and Bob Foundation, Minneapolis, Minn.; Kate “Secrets of the Wild,” will be published in Miller, vice president of Community McCallum ‘80 (Communication), July 2014. Laura Donnelly, a graduate Outreach all presented at the breakfast Producer, Transmedia Consultant, of the poetry doctoral program, won and acknowledged the importance Writer, Founder, Conscious Creativity, the Cider Press Review 2013 Editor’s of service-learning on Western’s Los Angeles, Calif.; Richelle Mead ‘01 Prize. She will receive a $1,000 cash campus. Carlos Daniels, a senior at (Comparative Religion), Author, Seattle, award and a publishing contract for her WMU and a service-learning student Wash.; Cara Mroczek ‘02 (Environmental manuscript, “Watershed,” which will be scholar also presented and shared his Studies), Trial Attorney, Department available in August 2014. For details on involvement with service-learning of Justice, Washington, DC.; Shirley each award winner please visit wmich. throughout his time at Western. He Ort ‘78 (History), Associate Provost/ edu/news/2013/10/9769. expressed how service-learning has Director, Scholarships and Student Aid, greatly influenced what his aspirations UNC, Chapel Hill, N.C.; Morella Petrozzi are for the future. Presented with the ‘89 (Gender and Women’s Studies) Upcoming Events Excellence in Service-Learning Award Dancer, choreographer, teacher and were Dr. Michael Nassaney, the director, Lima, Peru.; Jon Robinson ‘74 Cheff Therapeutic Riding Center, and Western Michigan University students (Economics), Vice President/Deputy Rasheeda Jenkins. They have each majoring in or who are considering a Counsel, Consumers Energy, Jackson, shown their dedication to service- major within the College of Arts and Mich.; Barbara Romzek ‘72 (Political learning and have engaged and Sciences are invited to dine with Dr. Science), Dean, School of Public Affairs, encouraged others to create positive Alexander Enyedi. Dr. Enyedi enjoys the American University, Washington, DC.; interactions in the community. Dr. chance to speak with arts and sciences Daniel Sayers ‘95 ‘99 (Anthropology), Michael Nassaney is a professor of students about their experiences and Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Anthropology at Western Michigan to answer questions they have about American University, Washington, University and the principal investigator their programs, potential career paths DC.; Major General Richard Stone ‘73 of the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological and even the benefits associated with (Biology) Deputy Surgeon General, Project, a large service-learning project obtaining a liberal arts education. Dine U.S. Army, Arlington, Va.; Hugh Van here at Western. Dr. Nassaney works with the Dean Wednesday, Nov. 13, Brimer ‘52 (Physics), Founder, Trident with anthropology students to excavate, Hoekje-Bigelow (north side of Bernhard Inc., Williamsburg, Va.; and Kris interpret and preserve the material Center), noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Wernstedt ‘80 (Geography), Associate remains of Fort St. Joseph, a trading post Dec. 4, Bistro 4, noon to 1:30 p.m. No Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning, occupied from 1691-1781 by French and sign-up is required. Students attending Virginia Tech, Alexandria, Va. For more later British traders. Cheff Therapeutic must use WMU Dining Dollars, meal information, visit wmich.edu/arts- Riding Center is a horseback riding plans or cash to purchase their meals. sciences/alumni-achievements-2013. center built especially for the purpose

of serving those with special needs. They focus on what individuals can accomplish, not on what they cannot.

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learning projects at various locations in Kalamazoo, creating and maintaining positive relationships. Student scholars also serve as liaisons among service- learning students, site supervisors and the instructors. Scholars gain project management skills from inception of the project to evaluation, leadership practice, professional networking and community involvement.

Upcoming Events

Celebrate Veterans Day with the Western Michigan University Office of Military and Veterans Affairs and the ROTC for the 3rd Annual Veterans Day 5k Run. Join us at the Wesley Foundation on Friday, Nov. 8 at 9 a.m. for our annual Veterans Day Celebration. The celebration will include a White Table Ceremony with guest Excellence in Service-Learning Award Recipients speaker Lieutenant Colonel Haines, a 5k cadence-calling organized run around campus, and a complimentary Cheff works with students from several with students, faculty/staff and breakfast following the run. Please email disciplines, providing opportunities community partners. Leah Alexander, [email protected] for more for Western students to engage with Carlos Daniels, Rasheeda Jenkins information. riders and their families, assist with and Heather Kunath are working the horses, and walk along with the with the office, supervising service- horses to keep riders safe. Rasheeda Jenkins, a senior at Western, has been involved with service-learning since she participated in Spring Staycation. Sheeda instantly felt a connection with service-learning and expanded her involvement by taking part in Building Bikes, Building Community this summer. Sheeda is currently a service-learning student scholar, managing projects for two disciplines. Sheeda contributes her leadership and project management skills while serving a community partner whose philosophy is in direct line with her own.

Beginning this fall, the Office of Service- Learning implemented the Service- Learning Student Scholars Program, selecting four student scholars. Scholars will assist with community engagement and maintain professional connections Veterans Day 5k Run

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Please join the Western Michigan that took place on Sept. 26. The expo University Office of Military and was free and open to the public but Faculty and Staff Accolades Veterans Affairs as we honor our geared for WMU students and recent veterans by attending the Veterans alumni in engineering-related fields. The project being funded by the Appreciation Hockey Game and Football Those who attended were able to Research and Innovative Technology Game. The WMU hockey team faces network with employers as well as Administration (RITA) is titled, Northern Michigan at Lawson Ice Arena discuss current and future employment “Transportation Research Center for on Saturday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. and the opportunities. In addition, some Livable Communities.” The principal WMU football team challenges Central participating employers scheduled investigator is Dr. Jun Oh, two of the Michigan at Waldo Stadium on Saturday, follow-up interviews. Representatives co-principal investigators are Dr. Osama Nov. 16 at noon. from more than 90 companies were on Abudayyeh and Dr. Valerian Kwigizile. hand to promote their organizations All three are from the Department of and recruit for internships and fulltime, Civil and Construction Engineering. part-time and co-op positions. Among College of Dr. Richard Long from blind and them were 2013 sponsor, Gentex Engineering low vision studies, Dr. Christopher Corp., as well as Chrysler, Compuware, Smith from geography, and Dr. Ron and Applied Consumers Energy, Domtar, Georgia Van Houten from psychology are Sciences Pacific, Kellogg, Nissan North America, all co-principal investigators as well. Parker Hannifin, Perrigo, Skanska WMU is the lead institution of the Items of Academic Interest USA, Humphrey Products and Stryker. Transportation Research Center for Networking with potential employers Livable Communities (TRCLC), and is a natural part of career planning. Any The Engineering Expo took place on the following universities are member chance students have to highlight their both floors of the Engineering and institutions of the center: Tennessee course projects, leadership activities Applied Sciences Building on WMU’s State University, University of Texas, and co-op experiences strengthens Parkview Campus. There was a range Arlington, Utah State University, and their job prospects. Employers are of job opportunities for engineers routinely impressed with the quality of showcased during a recruiting event Continued on next page our students and alumni.

Students and alumni took advantage of the opportunity to introduce themselves to the companies that participated in the expo.

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planned to: 1) shift the paradigm of executives who attended and presented transportation systems from public the awards to the students. Dr. Edmund services to quality of lives, 2) provide Tsang, interim dean of CEAS, Dr. benefits of technological advances to Said Abubakr, professor and chair of individuals’ daily travel, 3) promote PCI, and Dr. Richard Edwards, CEAS active transportation for healthier professor, were also present. and safer communities, 4) enhance transportation infrastructure and systems for individuals with disabilities, College of Fine Arts 5) minimize negative impacts of transportation infrastructure, operations Items of Academic Interest and services, and 6) improve public perceptions of livability. Igor Fedotov, professor of music, and students in the viola studio traveled Student and Alumni to St. Petersburg and Moscow to Jun-Seok Oh, Ph.D., PE, PTOE, professor Accolades experience first-hand the many cultural, of civil and construction engineering musical, historical and educational The 2013 Armstrong International aspects of Russia. This study abroad Student Scholarships were awarded Wayne State University. TRCLC will experience was funded by a 2012 to students who are pursuing the focus on three research objectives: College of Fine Arts Faculty Fellowship energy management option within the 1) improving public transit systems grant. The students attended a live chemical engineering program here at and alternative transportation modes, ballet performance of Tchiakovsky’s the College of Engineering and Applied 2) providing better and safer pedestrian Sleeping Beauty at the world renowned Sciences (CEAS). The awards are typically and bicycle networks, and 3) enhancing Mariinsky Theater, toured the Bolshoj given to juniors and seniors and are transportation accessibility for children, Theater, and saw multiple performances given on an annual basis by Armstrong people with disabilities, older adults and at the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg International, which is a multi-national lower income populations. To achieve Conservatory of Music and the Moscow and family-owned company that these goals, TRCLC researchers will place Conservatory. The viola students develops intelligent system solutions for a particular emphasis on identifying visited Red Square, the Kremlin, Nikolai steam, air and hot water. Tom Henry and applicable technologies for livable Tom Hiatt are Armstrong International Continued on next page communities. The Center activities are

Left to right, back row: Nathan Lucas, Jeffrey Timmer, Tom Hiatt, Tom Henry, Sam Dilworth, William Rickert, and Richard Edwards. Front row: Gabby Cole, Trevor Dalton, Shawn Shields, Thomas Green, Jin Woo, Edmund Tsang and Said Abubakr.

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a batik workshop for Frostic School of Art (FSOA) students Friday, Oct. 18 and Saturday, Oct. 19. This extra-curricular opportunity was conceived and facilitated by FSOA faculty Mary-Louise Totton and Cat Crotchett. Nia and Ismoyo’s art has recently been featured in the exhibition Out of Southeast Asia: Art That Sustains (April 12 - Oct. 13) and its related conference, From Village and Court to Global Commodity: Southeast Asian Textiles (Oct. 11-12) at the Textile Museum in Washington, DC. This WMU workshop constitutes a homecoming of sorts for Nia and Ismoyo who taught the tradition of Javanese batik and contemporary responses to it at the FSOA during 2008-09. During that period they exhibited their own work at the Richmond Center for Visual Arts and also organized a large student show of batik work in South Kohrman.

Viola students Kristin Benes, Laura Boekeloo, Jonathan Boyd, Sean Brennan, Rebecca Dube, Katie Herring, Josh Holcomb, Janay Hughes, Amanda Smith, and Lukas Stanley, and Professor Igor Fedotov tour St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Rimsky-Korsakov’s apartment, Peterhof, and the many historical cathedrals Three pieces by Caroline Gore, including St. Issac’s, Kazansky, and assistant professor of art, were included Our Savior On The Spilled Blood. The in Brooklyn Metal Works summer students had the opportunity to meet exhibition Siamese Connection. Gore with Irina Shostakovich, widow of Dmitri received the Jurors Choice award (first Shostakovich. place). Work by Johanna Storm, B.F.A. ’13, was also included in the exhibition. Nia Fliam and Agus Ismoyo, renowned Caroline Gore Faculty and Staff Accolades batik artists from Indonesia, conducted 9 Prism: Western Michigan University’s Newsletter for Academic Affairs

beat out a number of professional is most evident. The exhibition recently and graduate trombone players for opened at Velvet da Vinci Gallery in San the position. It’s phenomenal that Francisco. Clifton won the position while still an undergraduate student. The Western Michigan University Chorale has captured second place in the college and university choral division of the 2013 American Prize competition. The WMU Chorale was announced as runner-up in the national contest after judges spent the summer reviewing recorded performances Loïe Fuller’s “La Mer,” featuring submitted by applicants from across the senior dance student Noelle Price, country. The Iowa State Singers placed choreographed by Assistant Professor of Dance, Megan Slayter. Photo credit: first, while third place went to the Ashley Deran, B.F.A. ’12. Pacific Lutheran University Choir. Judges praised the WMU Chorale, WMU’s flagship choral ensemble, in large part Megan Slayter, assistant professor for its technical expertise. They made of dance, has been named as the comments such as: “a very solid series Evan Clifton, bass trombonist, Lansing of live performances that shows a Cranbrook Schools Bravo Guest Artist Symphony Orchestra for 2013-14. Slayter will work with fine sense of good vocal production, advanced dancers at Cranbrook/ excellent attention to vowel unification Kingswood in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. to and good musical shape.” The chorale stage her reconstruction of Loïe Fuller’s The work of Molly Mitchell, B.F.A. ’12, is conducted by Dr. Kimberly Dunn work “La Mer.” “La Mer” was originally is included in the traveling exhibition Adams, WMU director of choral staged by Fuller in the early 1920s and La Frontera, an international traveling activities and assistant professor of is her grand interpretation of Claude exhibition juried by Lorena Lazard, music. The group performs locally and Debussy’s sweeping musical score by Mike Holmes, and Elizabeth Shypertt tours the nation each year, as well as the same title. In 2011 Slayter and her addressing La Frontera/The Borderlands embarks on an international tour every research partner, Jessica Lindberg Coxe, - the physical space where the four years. worked with WMU dance students to relationship between Mexico and the US reconstruct “La Mer” from historical records obtained through extensive research in library archives in Paris, London, New York and San Francisco. The work was performed as part of the 2012 Winter Gala Dance Concert. Senior dance student Noelle Price, one of the WMU soloists, will accompany Slayter to assist in the staging of the work on Cranbrook/Kingswood students. It will be performed at Cranbrook’s Lerchen Hall on Dec. 18, 2013 and May 2, 2014.

Student and Alumni Accolades

Junior bass trombonist Evan Clifton, from Howell, Mich., won the bass trombone position with the Lansing WMU Chorale, under the direction of Dr. Kimberly Dunn Adams, places second in the 2013 Symphony Orchestra. The audition was American Prize competition. conducted behind a screen, and Clifton 10 Prism: Western Michigan University’s Newsletter for Academic Affairs

Ragtime, Nov. 14-24, Shaw Theatre.

The University Theatre presents the through the occupational therapy Upcoming Events three-time Tony Award-winning musical department teaching clinics. Through it, Ragtime, an epic and nostalgic tale that occupational therapy students working paints a powerful portrait of American under the clinical supervision of Margy Nov. 21 to Dec. 20 in the Monroe- life during the turn of the 20th Century. Hunter, MS, OTRL, provide sensory- Brown Gallery at the Richmond Center Based on the 1975 novel by E.L. motor and social skills interventions for Visual Arts, Frostic School of Art Doctrow, this uplifting musical journey for children on the northeast side of faculty will showcase their newest portrays a young America in its quest Kalamazoo. works produced from recent research for freedom. For ticket information, visit and studio time. This exhibition helps wmich.edu/theatre. Western Michigan University’s students and regional communities Department of Speech Pathology witness the talent of those responsible and Audiology continued its for the education and support of over collaboration with Camp Shout Out 400 students in the Frostic School of College of Health in late August through attendance Art. Several full- and part-time faculty and Human Services of both undergraduate and graduate have created specific works just for the students, as well as adjunct faculty Ron Monroe-Brown Gallery, a two-story Items of Academic Interest Kelly serving as assistant faculty and space designed to let artists create graduate student supervisor. In this role, works in an expansive architectural Dr. Ann Chapleau, assistant professor of he provided leadership for graduate space specifically conceptualized occupational therapy, and Sam Leolofi, students and speech-language for contemporary fine art. Faculty executive director of the Kalamazoo pathologists attending for professional works cover a wide variety of media, Center for Youth and Community development from all over the United from video to sculpture and painting, (KCYC), have been awarded $20,000, States as well as South Korea. Youth who printmaking, ceramics, metals/jewelry for a second year of funding for the stutter attend Camp Shout Out not only photography and digital media. Student Occupations for Academic for experiencing the joy of a summer Readiness (SOAR) program. SOAR camp experience but also for intensive is an after-school program offered Continued on next page 11 Prism: Western Michigan University’s Newsletter for Academic Affairs

services for their speech and an “I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to practice new speaking opportunity to attend and found it to techniques in a supportive environment be a transformative experience. I fully with fellow campers. For graduate support bringing this opportunity to students, the camp provides a unique our students in the form of a course learning opportunity through which and possibly more in-depth exposure they gain clinical competencies through through field placements with the a supervised immersion experience. Chicago Center.” Future plans include developing an experiential learning Six School of Social Work faculty course that may be offered in spring and staff attended a professional 2014. development weekend in Chicago in partnership with the Chicago Center for Urban Life and Culture and faculty at Faculty and Staff Accolades the University of Chicago. The purpose was to develop urban social work Dr. Amy Wagenfeld is lead author cultural competencies particularly as of “Collaborative Design: Outdoor Dr. Amy Wagenfeld they relate to the issues of gender and Environments for Veterans with PTSD.” gender identity and working with LGBT, Devoted to the topic of designing Muslim, African American and Latino therapy practitioners implement environments for the psychiatric communities. Their activities included gardening related activities with clients milieu, she collaborated with landscape attending a Friday Prayer session at the across practice areas. In addition architects, Connie Roy-Fisher and Muslim community Center, tours of the to her publications, Wagenfeld was Carolyn Mitchell, to prepare the article Center on Halstead, Chicago’s South part of a 2012 project team that was that was published in the Facilities Side and the Pilsen neighborhood, recently presented with a national Journal in July of 2013. Wagenfeld and a theater performance of the award by the American Society of also recently published in OT Practice movie Raisin in the Sun. Grand Rapids Landscape Architects (ASLA). The Nikkei a co-feature article titled “Nature: An regional location School of Social Manor Assisted Living Center Ichi-go Environment for Health” that discussed Work Associate Professor Karen Ichi-e (‘a moment in time’) Garden in the merits of having occupational VanDeusen participated and said, the International District in Seattle, Wash. was a collaborative team effort that included Daniel Winterbottom, professor of landscape architecture at the University of Washington (UW) and the UW landscape architecture design/build studio class to integrate therapeutic and universal design features into this garden. The project will be receiving an American Society of Landscape Architects Student Honor Awards in the Community Service category at the 2013 annual ASLA conference in November.

Dolly Daftary, assistant professor in the School of Social Work, is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of African Development. Published by the Center for African Social work faculty and staff touring the Pilsen murals in Chicago with local artist. Left Development Policy Research, the to right: Karen VanDuesen, Dee Ann Sherwood, Toni Latham, Marian Tripplett, Jose journal launches its inaugural issue this Guerrero (artist), Roxanne Duntley-Matos, Mary Ellen Sartoris, Alexandra Cubero-Matos month. Visit the journal at scholarworks. and Daniel Cubero-Matos. wmich.edu/ijad/.

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Gripentrog, Sharon Cole and Kevin Fitzgerald authored “Cultivating Future Nurse Leaders with Student Nurses Associations,” which was published in Nursing for Women’s Health. The article correlated the students’ experiences in mentoring and leading the SNA with preparation for professional nursing. BSON faculty members Kimberly Searing, Patricia Fuehr and Maryann Stark assisted during the editing process.

On Sept. 20, Dr. Debra Lindstrom and four graduate technology students from the Grand Rapids OT program presented “Low Technology is Good Technology” at the Third Annual Assistive Technology Today Conference. The conference was held at the WMU Fetzer Center and was provided by FOCUS, Corporate Education and Training. Left to right: Debra Lindstrom, Nancy Hock and Jaclyn West-Frasier are pictured with their poster on the topic.

On Sept. 13, occupational therapy faculty members Jaclyn West- Frasier, Nancy Hock and Debra Lindstrom presented a poster and oral presentation for the First Teaching Bash at the WMU Fetzer Center. The 30 minute presentation was titled “Lessons Learned From Problem-based, Case- based and Team-based Learning: What Has Worked, What Has Not, and What Is Next?” West-Frasier, Hock and Lindstrom have been conducting this Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) study to assess the Occupational Therapy Department’s current Case-Based Learning program.

Student and Alumni Accolades Left to right: Dr. Lindstrom and students Samantha Milledge, Chelsey Franzel, Rachel Walton and Julie Kindervater. They are pictured in front of some of the assistive technology Student leaders on the executive board devices that they demonstrated and taught caregivers how to use to help people with of the WMU Bronson School of Nursing physical limitations take care of themselves. (BSON) Student Nurses Association (SNA) were recently published. The leadership team of Merlana Akans, Maura Harrington, John McCash, Ashlyn Childs (B.S.N.), Jessica

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Members of the WMU Common Read Committee with Author Raymond Bonner (third from the right).

Enrollment researched and masterful piece of launched the inaugural High School reporting that is a genuine whodunit Counselor Postsecondary Planning Management as well as an indictment of America’s Training Course, where 100 nominated Items of Academic Interest shameful history of racial discrimination Michigan High School Counselors and capital punishment. are gaining new knowledge. School counselors are uniquely positioned to Students, faculty and staff recently change the postsecondary trajectories gathered for a presentation and book Faculty and Staff Accolades for all students, yet many indicate they signing by the author of the 2013 feel underprepared for the process. WMU Common Read: “Anatomy of One of MCAN’s strategic priorities is Mary L. Anderson (Counselor Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong” to provide professional development Education and Counseling Psychology) by Raymond Bonner, which helped free opportunities to those who work and Christopher Tremblay (Enrollment an imprisoned man after 30 years--27 directly with students and families on Management) are two of four statewide of them spent on death row. Bonner, the college-going process -- especially instructor/facilitators in an eight-month, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative school counselors. “School counselors hybrid professional development journalist, was on campus Oct. 14 to are expected to know the ins and outs experience that focuses on the college- share the history of the book and the of college admissions and financial aid, going process. The Michigan College case. Reviewers have consistently yet the vast majority never received Access Network (MCAN) and Michigan described his book as a meticulously Virtual University (MVU) recently Continued on next page

School Counselors gaining college knowledge with the help of a WMU faculty member and administrator.

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formal training on this content. MCAN theses and dissertations. Attendees a.m. to noon. The second workshop will is committed to ensuring all school will learn techniques that facilitate focus on SAS Essentials: A Hands on counselors in Michigan are qualified citation management and scholarly Tutorial Experience for Researchers. to advise students on their college professionalism in citing sources. Please Here participants will gain an overview pathways,” said Brandy Johnson, MCAN visit the Graduate College website to of the SAS system and how to read raw executive director. register at herodotus.walwood.wmich. data files and SAS data sets. They will edu/refworks_102213/. learn how to investigate and summarize data, create SAS variables and recode Graduate College data values. In addition, the workshop will cover subsetting data and Items of Academic Interest combining multiple SAS files as well as how to create summary and graph reports. Registration is required; please Of particular interest to graduate visit the Graduate College webpage at students whose programs require wmich.edu/grad/ to register. For extensive research, the Graduate Center questions, please call or email Dr. for Research and Retention and Waldo Marianne Di Pierro, director of the Library are sponsoring a Refworks Graduate Center for Research and Citation Management Workshop for Retention, at (269) 387-8249 or at Graduate Students and Faculty on [email protected]. Tuesday, Oct. 22. Presented by Maria Perez Stable, librarian and head of Central Reference Services, and Michele Student and Alumni Behr, librarian for Extended University Accolades Programs, the workshop will take place The Graduate College and the Graduate from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Classroom B of Student Advisory Committee (GSAC) are Waldo Library. RefWorks is a web-based Haolai (Lincoln) Jiang, Statistics proud to announce the selection of our citation management and bibliography Workshop Facilitator 2013-14 Graduate Ambassadors. These tool that helps store, organize, and 12 students were selected from among share citations and easily format them 33 applicants and each represents a for papers and bibliographies. It is Coming up this fall the Graduate specific college or area. The role of accessible from any computer that College has two Statistics workshops led the Ambassador is three-fold. They has Internet access, so users do not by Mr. Lincoln Jiang, doctoral student are to support prospective graduate need to download special software. in WMU’s Department of Statistics and students with information about the Participants will learn to organize and doctoral associate, Graduate Center for application process, graduate student create a personal database of references Research and Retention. On Tuesday, life, and the University and surrounding imported directly from online sources or Oct. 15 he will be conducting a community. Also, Ambassadors will citations entered by hand for any type workshop on Statistics Methods: Linear participate in select recruitment of material, including books, articles, Regression Analysis and Non-Parametric activities and will provide peer support recordings, etc. Users can add keywords Methods. This workshop will help to current graduate students by and notes to any citation, which allows attendees understand the assumptions helping them to understand Graduate writers to better structure, organize of linear regression analysis. In addition, College requirements and find support and track textual points relevant to they will learn model diagnostics and services for programmatic success. Each respective sources. Refworks will output implement the process in SPSS. The ambassador also sits on a University- a bibliography in APA, Chicago, MLA, workshop will conclude with an wide council or on the Executive Board and dozens of other styles, including introduction to basic non-parametric (E-Board) of GSAC. This ensures shared those required by specific journals. methods. Registration is required for the governance to help shape policy It will present documents in the workshop which will be held from 9 a.m. and procedures that affect graduate required file format, whether HTML, to noon in the College of Health and students. The new Ambassadors, their MSWord or text. Having all commonly Human Services Computer lab, Room program, college representation and and infrequently cited sources on 1416. Lincoln will be conducting a council or board affiliation follow. hand is a big timesaver for students second statistics workshop in the same who are writing research papers, location on Wednesday, Nov. 13 from 9

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Haenicke Institute for Global Education

Faculty and Staff Accolades

WMU’s English as a Second Language program (CELCIS) was well represented at the fall MITESOL conference held Oct. 4-5 at Michigan State University. The conference provides professional development opportunities for faculty and teachers involved in teaching English to speakers of other languages.

Ninety-six members of the WMU community participated in a Parade of Nations in Waldo Stadium just prior to the kickoff of the Bronco Football Homecoming game on Saturday, Oct. Graduate Ambassadors and Dean Susan R. Stapleton 12. President John Dunn served as the master of ceremony, leading the parade with the WMU flag. The flag bearers, all Kenneth Crocker, M.A. Philosophy, Tiantian Zhang, Ph.D. Biological volunteers, included students, faculty, Arts and Sciences--Humanities, E-Board Sciences, Arts and Sciences--Math and staff and community members. WMU’s Event Chair. Alyssa Eminhizer, Au.D. Sciences, Recruitment. Yu Zhang, M.A. International Programming office Audiology, Health and Human Services, Higher Education and Student Affairs, coordinated the event and extends a E-Board Administrative Chair. Jamie Education and Human Development-- sincere thank you to all the volunteers Gomez, M.A. Anthropology, Arts and Non-teaching. who helped create this brilliant display Sciences--Humanities and College that represents the international of Fine Arts, Campus Planning and diversity of the WMU community. Finance Committee. Denisha Griffey, Ph.D. Geosciences, Arts and Sciences- -Math and Sciences, Graduate Studies Council. Alex Iseri, M.A. International Development Administration, Arts & Sciences--Social Sciences, E-Board Outreach Chair. Edmundo Messina, M.S. Civil Engineering, Engineering and Applied Sciences, Recruitment. Marcial Amaury Pineda Moquete, M.A. Educational Technology, Education and Human Development--Teaching, E-Board Public Relations Chair. Matt Reid, M.A. Sociology, Arts and Sciences--Social Sciences, Research Policies Council. Muthanna Yaqoub, Ph.D. Geosciences, Haenicke Institute, International Education Council. Terren Yost, M.S. Occupational Therapy, Military and Veterans Affairs, Academic Volunteer flag bearers for WMU’s annual Parade of Nations and Information Technology Council. 16 Prism: Western Michigan University’s Newsletter for Academic Affairs

highlighted are: securing resources for reference and drop-by consultations. Student and Alumni your courses, research, departments; Library liaisons by department are here: Accolades WMU ScholarWorks institutional cms.wmich.edu/library/about/subject- Repository, e-publishing, journal librarians or contact associate dean, WMU was the host campus for a publishing, author pages; Mapping Barbara Cockrell at Barbara.cockrell@ student-organization sponsored Service: GIS expert will create maps wmich.edu. celebration of Saudi National Day from your research data, no fee; on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. The event complete Digitization Services done The University Libraries have recently attracted several hundred Saudi to current standards including high added these new resources to the students from Michigan colleges and res. camera work, metadata and Libraries’ collection: ANATOMY.TV is universities, as well as a delegation from hosting with color management; a suite of 3D interactive models of the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission to instructional services, research human anatomy. MRIs, X-rays, live- the U.S. Held in the Bernhard Center, instruction, information literacy, library action movies and animations are also the event featured Saudi food, cultural tutorials and guides; integrating library included. Tools are included to allow performances and displays. President resources and services into online the resources to be manipulated in John Dunn also hosted a luncheon learning; Open Access developments several ways. BROWZINE is an iPad for the delegation, which included the and opportunities; enhancing access and Android app that allows users to following participants: Consul General to course textbooks; interlibrary loan, access WMU’s freely accessible and Essam Almuhanna Dr. Mohammed fast document delivery, course reserves; subscribed academic journals in tablet Aleissa, Cultural Attaché Mr. Rashid expert consultation with department optimized format. With Browzine, you Alsedran, Regional Director Dr. Ahmed library liaisons to access services and can create a bookshelf of your favorite Elhassan, Academic Advisor Ms. resources; Special Collections and Rare journals and share and save articles Julia Ahmed, Student Supervisor Ms. Books collections of children’s books, and citations in your favorite file Taghreed Stokes, Aetna Representative. women’s poetry, WWII propaganda, hosting, citation or social networking medieval manuscripts, and more; WMU application. Visit the iPad App Store or records storage through WMU Archives; Google Play Store to download the free University Libraries large regional history collection in a app. BUSINESSDECISION is a market new facility: Zhang Legacy Collections research tool to support people starting Items of Academic Interest Center; special resources for music and a new business or who have an existing dance disciplines at the Harper Maybee business by providing information On Sept. 26 the Libraries hosted Music and Dance Library; educational about local markets for competitive a services information event for resources at the Education Library along analysis, business plans, marketing recent faculty. Information about with a new computer classroom and plans and sales plans. This information in-depth library services available to group meeting rooms in new Sangren helps students and faculty with faculty, students and departments Hall; and services and events to directly classroom and research projects, and was available. Some of the services help students as in Research Night, chat prepares students for real-world market research. These and other new resources are listed under the “Databases” section on the University Libraries’ web site at wmich.edu/library.

WMU geography education scholar, Dr. Joseph Stoltman, presented a beautiful collection of maps focused on Korea to University Libraries on Oct. 9, 2013. The large format atlas contains many unusual maps of the region drawn throughout the centuries. ‘Land in Old Maps’ is a compilation of depictions of the Korean peninsula published in 2012 by the South Korea House Research Institute, Pusan National New faculty event highlights many services from Libraries Continued on next page 17 Prism: Western Michigan University’s Newsletter for Academic Affairs

Faculty and Staff Accolades

Professor Greg Fitzgerald, librarian and head of the Music and Dance Library, has written a report for the Southwest Michigan Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) about the Region V convention of the Guild, held in Kalamazoo and Battle Creek in July. It will be published in the October issue of the AGO’s national magazine, The American Organist. The AGO, with some 20,000 members, is the national professional organization serving the organ and choral music fields. The highly successful convention, hosted by the chapter, featured internationally- recognized artists and clinicians in recitals, workshops and other events, and drew more than 300 attendees from throughout the US. Stoltman presents atlas to library faculty and staff

History Compilation Committee, and textbook is received, instructors will the Korea Institute of Geography. be notified of the purchase and asked During one of his many trips to Korea to pass this information on to their with middle and high school teachers students. After assessing the results of of social sciences, Stoltman received this pilot project, University Libraries this gift in recognition of his efforts to would like to partner with instructors to foster exchanges among American and place personal copies of textbooks on Korean teachers of geography. The atlas reserve and thus provide alternatives will be housed in the Special Collections to reliance on traditional textbooks. and Rare Book Room of Waldo Library We will work with faculty to mount for ready consultation by students course reserves and make links to open and researchers. University Libraries source digital textbooks, etc. Library would like to thank Dr. Stoltman for this liaisons can assist faculty with locating generous and thoughtful gift. materials. Find the liaison for a specific academic department at cms.wmich. This fall University Libraries began edu/library/about/subject-librarians. For a textbook pilot project to address more information about the “Textbook some of the frustrations expressed by Pilot Project” or to share ideas about this Greg Fitzgerald, head of Music and students and faculty regarding the venture, please contact Julie Hayward, Dance Library rising cost of textbooks. The goal is to University Libraries, Manager, Resource help students succeed and make college Sharing at (269) 387-5173 or Julie. more affordable by maximizing the [email protected]. resources and services of the University Libraries. A taskforce of library liaisons and staff recommended that the library purchase a reserve copy of textbooks for high enrollment classes at the 1000 and 2000 level. When an assigned 18 Prism: Western Michigan University’s Newsletter for Academic Affairs

University Libraries’ Associate Professor Sheila Bair is the guest editor for a Special Issue of the “Journal of Library Metadata: Linked Data, Semantic Web and Libraries.” Year 2013 finds libraries on the threshold of a “new bibliographic universe.” The Semantic Web, Linked Data, and open access all promise to set library metadata free from its historical constraints. In spite of numerous challenges, libraries and their sister institutions, archives, and museums, are exploring ways to prepare and educate Phonathon students and Dean Reish get primed to ‘row the boat’ for the Libraries staff, clean up their data, map schemas and vocabularies, and publish as linked data using a variety of technologies Technical Services Department: known adage: “Great Libraries do stand and innovations. This issue serves to University Libraries has successfully alone (the New York Public Library introduce seven case studies, plus moved the WMU Archives and Regional and the Newberry); however, no great four other papers that aim to increase History Collections into the new Zhang university is without a library.” Then he awareness of and educate on key topics. Legacy Collection Center. Two units referenced the overriding point of pride The papers can generally be divided of the Technical Services Department of his faculty and professional staff: into five different areas of challenges played key roles in preparing materials “University Libraries takes pride in its faced: awareness and preparation, and the library catalog for the transition unique and comprehensive collections, MARC data and schema mapping and to the new location. Under the direction the expertise of motivated professionals, interoperability, non-MARC data and of Associate Professor George Boston, exemplary facilities, customer-focused schema mapping and interoperability, Electronic Resources and Serials Unit, service, and innovative user-center data quality and trust, and legal issues approximately 100,000 bound volumes technology to access these collections.” of data ownership. Adding Linked Data of journals were organized for the Those particular areas of the library to the library catalog will improve the automated retrieval system in the operations where investment dollars capability for discovery and use of data, storage facility. Sheila Bair, associate would be most welcome are: 1) the allowing improved navigation across professor, and her cataloging staff construction of the “Athenaeum” or library and non-library information worked cooperatively with the WMU “Loud-Space” of “The Zhang,” multi- sources. Archives team to complete cataloging purpose space for lectures, workshops, and identification of archival materials. and group activities, which had been Mark Naesset, coordinator for Serial eliminated for lack of sufficient private Holdings and Data, organized a cohort funds before construction began, of over 20 students to re-catalog 2) the Library Student Employees serials for the move. And Scott Smith, Scholarship Program ($500), 3) manager of building services, and his digitization and preservation efforts, 4) student employees sorted and de- library technology fund, and 5) Special accessioned thousands of volumes to Collections: Medieval, Children’s, Music, be recycled. and Maps. Make a gift at securelb. imodules.com/s/1428/gid2/index.aspx?s id=1428&gid=2&pgid=607&cid=2201. Student and Alumni Accolades

Dean Reish spoke to two enthusiastic groups of WMU students in early October. They were to make phone calls to alumni and friends of University Libraries asking for their support in Sheila Bair, metadata cataloging advancing its mission and goals. Reish librarian. focused his audience with the well- 19 Prism: Western Michigan University’s Newsletter for Academic Affairs

were key features in “Anatomy of Injustice,” Bonner also talked about the role of the prosecutor and investigative forensics. After the presentation a book signing was held courtesy of the University Bookstore. If you haven’t read “Anatomy of Injustice” yet, University Libraries has several copies of the book and book group kits available for the WMU community.

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Editor-in-Chief: University Common Read: Raymond Dr. Timothy Greene Bonner, author of “Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong,” the Editors: 2013-14 University Common Read Amy Routhier selection, was on campus Monday, Jessicah Shrack Oct. 14, in the Bernhard Center East Ballroom. The evening opened with a Production: reception for Mr. Bonner followed by a Sandy Wachowski, Husky Graphics presentation and question and answer session. His presentation focused on the trials of Edward L. Elmore, a young Accredited by The Higher Learning man wrongfully convicted of a murder Commission and a member of the North in a South Carolina town. Elmore lived Central Association. on death row until he was released after almost 30 years thanks to Diana www.ncahigherlearningcommission.org Holt, a tenacious young lawyer. Mr. Bonner talked at length about capital 1(800) 621-7440 punishment in the United States, highlighting Michigan’s historical opposition to the death penalty. Since court actions and evidence collection 20