Celebrating our Scholarship Professional Accomplishments of the Central College Faculty 2014-15 Each spring, Central College recognizes faculty for leadership in teaching, professional development, and service.

The teaching we do is not isolated from our professional development or our service to community, nor is it done in isolation from one another. Therefore, we gather as a community to acknowledge the teaching, scholarship, creativity, and commitment of the faculty at Central College. Many colleagues also gathered at the 3rd Annual Chairs’ Conference last September, another way in which we develop and sustain our commitment to teaching and scholarship within the context of our professional relationships to one another and our shared work with the students we are privileged to teach daily.

At our Annual Faculty Recognition Dinner, we recognize faculty colleagues for their sustained and committed contributions to our community. This year we celebrate the collective 80 years of service of three valued faculty colleagues that will have retired by the end of the academic year. Arthur Johnson (English), Esther Streed (Education), and Joy Prothero (Education) have impacted thousands of students during their time at Central. In addition, Michael Harris (English) is recognized for teaching at Central College for 25 years. I invite you to read their reflections. We also celebrate faculty members who have been recognized by their colleagues for particular achievement and leadership in teaching, professional development, and/or service to our community. The awards presented are noted below.

David Crichton Memorial Teaching Award Hutch Bearce Community-Building and Faculty Leadership Award Huffman Award for Outstanding Support of International Education Frank W. Moore Faculty Award Moore Family Faculty Award Marvin L. Hackert Faculty Development Fund for Science and Mathematics

This publication is printed in appreciation of the faculty, staff, and administrators who define Central College through their leadership and dedication to our students and community.

Mary E.M. Strey, Ph.D. Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty Central College April 2015 2015 Faculty Award Recipients

2015 Recipient of the David Crichton Memorial Teaching Award 2015 Recipient of the Huffman Award for Outstanding Support of International Education Linda Laine, Associate Professor of Communication Studies This award recognizes outstanding teaching at Central College that perpetuates the type Members of the International Policy Committee: of instruction that challenges and shapes the intellectual development of students. Randall Renstrom, Assistant Professor of Psychology Shawn Wick, Assistant Professor of Sociology 2015 Recipient of the Hutch Bearce Community-Building Michael Harris, Professor of English and Faculty Leadership Award Terry Kleven, Professor of Religion Anne Petrie, Professor of Music Jen Diers, Associate Professor of Education Amy Young, Assistant Professor of German This award recognizes members of the faculty for their efforts over a sustained period of time in the category of community building and either mentorship or leadership. This award recognizes the extraordinary contributions made by Donald and Maxine Huffman to the Central College programs in International Education. International Education includes cross-cultural areas and foreign language courses, with particular emphasis on study abroad. 2015 Recipient of the Frank W. Moore Faculty Award

Wendy Weber, Professor of Mathematics 2015 Recipient of the Marvin L. Hackert Faculty Development This award acknowledges faculty who have promoted student learning within the Fund for Science and Mathematics natural sciences division through teaching and/or service over time. Russ Goodman, Associate Professor of Mathematics This fund enhances the quality of the sciences at Central College through those 2015 Recipient of the Moore Family Faculty Award activities which promote professional development and research. Paulina Mena, Assistant Professor of Biology This award recognizes and fosters joint faculty-student summer collaborations that promote a greater depth of student understanding within the Natural Science Division disciplines than would normally occur through regular coursework.

2 3 Presented Colour TV: Contesting Association of America, Vancouver, Mid-American Athletic Trainers’ and Claiming Racial Identities April 1-4, 2015. Association Annual Meeting and on Television in South Africa Clinical Symposia in Des Moines, Professional Accomplishments of the to National Communication Published poem Birth in Berryman’s March 28, 2014: Jill Johnson, Effect Association, Chicago, November Fate: Centenary Celebration in of Balance Training on Reduction Central College Faculty 2014 - 15 2014. Verse, Arlen House, 2014. of Ankle Sprains in Athletes; Reba Published chapter Holistic Jongeling, Treatment Options for Published An Embedded Model: Neurogenic Thoracic Outlet Syndrome First-Year Student Success in Partnerships: Sustainability, Learned Lessons and Future (NTOS); Katelyn Paul, Frozen Writing and Research with Sue Shoulder Syndrome: Conservative Pagnac, Cyndi Boertje, Greg Teets Directions with Cheri Doane Mark Babcock in the Friedrich von Thiersch Saal of use of the plots, and doing general in Service-Learning and Civic Treatment vs. Surgery; Julie Wunder, ’13 and Beth McMahon, in Praxis: A The Benefits of Arthroscopic Repair M. Joan Kuyper Farver the Wiesbaden Kurhaus on March 26. maintenance. Engagement: A Sourcebook, edited Writing Center Journal 12.1 (2014). for Patients Suffering a Rotator Cuff Endowed Chair in Music and by O. Delano-Orarian et. al, Sage Currently serving on the Choral Presented to the Des Moines Tear. Also served as moderator for 411 Associate Professor of Music Reviewed conference submissions Publications, 2015. Directors Association Board as the Audubon Society on the bats of Iowa, for Visual Communication Division or 911? Evaluating the Significance of Completed his term on the Executive Repertoire and Standards Music in January 20, 2015. of National Communication Jennifer Diers Drug Interactions. Committee of the American Guild Worship Chair and is the Chair of the Presented The Lost Landscape: Association, March 2015. Associate Professor of Attended National Athletic Trainers’ of Organists as councilor for Annual Summer Symposium, July Education Prairies of Iowa at the Greater Des Meeting and Clinical Symposia in conventions this past summer. 2015. Delivered three guest lectures Moines Botanical Garden, January Indianapolis, June 25-28, 2014. Responsible for oversight of the at Marista University in Merida, Attended Autism and Asperger’s Russ Benedict 31, 2015. Boston AGO National Convention Mexico, March 2015: Telenovelas Syndrome Conference featuring Dr. Professor of Biology Temple Grandin, Eustacia Cutler Ellen Du Pre in June 2014, which hosted nearly Assisted Iowa Department of and Healthcare Messages, Edutainment in South African and Dr. Jim Ball in Sioux City, Iowa, Professor of Biology 2,000 people attending workshops, Presented Impact of Common National Resources and U.S. Fish Television and Race, Ethnicity, October 3, 2014. scholarly paper presentations and Planting Techniques on Prairie and Wildlife Service officials with Received a Statement of Gender, Sexuality and Class in the concerts. Reconstruction in Drought cave and mine surveys for white- Accomplishment with Distinction from Media. Attended 16th International Conditions and Winners and nose fungus in Iowa, February 2015. Guest conductor for the South Central Conference on Autism, Intellectual the University of North Carolina at Losers: Plant Survival During Iowa Conference Vocal Festival in Disability and Developmental Chapel Hill for completing the online Prairie Reconstruction in Drought Anya Butt Eddyville, Iowa, October 6, 2014. Shelley Bradfield Disabilities in Clearwater Beach, Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Conditions at the annual meeting of Associate Professor of Biology Florida, January 21-23, 2015. Public Health, April 7, 2014. the Iowa Academy of Science in Fort Assistant Professor of Performed the annual “Hoot Earned a Post-Graduate Certificate Dodge, April 11, 2014. Communication Studies Attended National Association for and Howl Halloween Organ in Global Health from the University Taught Project-Based Learning in Extravaganza” at Westminster the Exploratory Classroom for a full Advisors in the Health Professions in Participated in BioBlitz at Whiterock Presented Trouble in the Magic of Manchester, September 2014. Presbyterian Church in Des Moines, day of professional development for San Francisco, June 2014. Conservancy near Coon Rapids, Iowa. Kingdom: Observations and October 25, 2014. Invited to review grant proposal teachers in Sioux City Community In a BioBlitz, scientists explore a park Challenges of an LAS Capstone Served as conference chair of poster with Ashley Scolaro at the Chairs’ by Maine Conservation Corps for School District, March 3, 2015. Performed the dedicatory recital for to document as many organisms as session and judged posters at 6th Conference, Central College, AmeriCorps funding. the Reuter Pipe Organ at First United possible in a 36-hour period. Benedict Annual Global Health Conference: September 13, 2014. Joshua Doležal Methodist Church in Boone, Iowa, surveyed for bats with four Central Climate Change, Nutrition and Health Associate Professor of English November 2, 2014. College students. Walter Cannon at , Des Moines, Presented Student Assessment October 15, 2014. using Blackboard with Paul Weihe Professor of English Presented from Down from the Guest conductor for the North Iowa Attended the North American and Deb Bruxvoort at the Chairs’ Mountaintop at Cover to Cover Cedar League Conference Vocal Congress for Conservation Biology in Read from his chapbook The Conference, Central College, Book Club at Central College, June Robert Franks Festival in Waterloo, Iowa, January Missoula, Montana, July 13-16, 2014. Possible World for Poetry with Wine September 13, 2014. 12, 2014 and at Beaverdale Books in Kenneth J. Weller Distinguished 19, 2015. and Cheese event for Central Red Conducted summer research with Urbandale, July 19, 2014. Professorship of the Liberal Three students from Bradfield’s Society, October 23, 2014. Participated in the DoDDS-E Honors four Central College students, Arts and Professor of Computer Technology and Human Presented Re(con)ceiving Music Festival as guest choral funded by the Moore Family Moderated panel session Iconic Science Communication course received the Experience: Cognitive Science and conductor, Oberwesel, Germany, Foundation, Arthur J. Bosch Women and brought two students to top undergraduate student paper Creativity in The Song of the Lark Reviewed papers for 2015 Association March 22-26, 2015. About 170 Endowment for Student Research present to Midwest Undergraduate award in the Iowa Communication at the Chairs’ Conference, Central for Computer Machinery Special high school students, representing and MAC Foundation Grant. Conference in the Humanities Association Westphal Competition. College, September 13, 2014 Interest Group in Computer Science 21 DoDDS-E high schools around Benedict and students spent many (MUCH) at , They presented Smartphones and Education annual conference. Europe, converged on Oberwesel and hours at the Prairies For Agriculture November 8, 2014. Their Effects on Family Cohesion at Leslie Duinink Wiesbaden for four days of rehearsal plots, measuring plant survival, the ICA convention in Des Moines, and instruction. The annual event controlling invasive species, Presented Abused, Baffled, and Associate Professor of Exercise September 21, 2014. culminated with a public performance observing insect, bird and mammal Crushed: Epistolary Error in Science Twelfth Night to Shakespeare Served as faculty sponsor for four 4 5 student poster presentations at Katelin M. Gannon 2014 Dana Award finalist for the Mark Johnson Mathew R. Kelly Grant for University and College Appointed assistant editor for Lecturer of Exercise Science first 40 pages of an unpublished Ruth & Marvin Denekas Associate Professor of Art Teachers: Medieval Political Rochester Studies in Medieval novel, March 18, 2015 (novel due to Endowed Chair in Science and Philosophy: Jewish, Islamic and Political Thought: Islamic, Jewish Presented The Reciprocal Benefits of be published by Penner Publishing Humanities and Professor of Facilitator of a nine-member Christian at Gonzaga University, and Christian. Service-Learning: An Educational in May 2015). workshop on critical thinking, The Spokane, Washington, June 16 - July Mathematics and Computer Contributed to the book Rhetoric, Model in Exercise Science that Science Critical Mind, at Unconference: 12, 2014. Provides Effective Community Stephanie Henning Creating Minds for the Future, Poetics and the Organon in Arabic Engagement at International Registrar Reviewed paper and panel Seneca College, Toronto, Ontario, Presented Al-Fārābī’s Account Philosophy, Routledge Companion Association for Research on submissions for 2015 ACM Special April 30-May 2. of Poetry as a Logical Art at the to Islamic Philosophy, edited by Service-Learning and Community Attended 2014 American Association Interest Group in Computer Science Chairs’ Conference, Central College, Richard C. Taylor and Luis X. López- Engagement in New Orleans, of Collegiate Registrars and Education conference. Terence J. Kleven September 12-13, 2014. Farjeat. New York: Routledge, 2014. September 29 - October 1, 2014. Admissions Officers meeting in Professor of Philosophy and Attended Engaging the Other, Served on the Religious Studies Denver, March 30-April 2, 2014. Reviewed papers with Education Religion Participated in Iowa Campus Henning is serving a three-year term Papers International Program organized by the Paradosis Center, Review Committee for the Compact Engaged Scholar Faculty on the Registration and Advising Committee for Eurographics 2015, to Presented Critical Transformation Orthodox, Roman Catholic and assessment of Fulbright (Institute Fellows Program with five other Program Activities Committee. be held in Zurich. of Canaanite Poetic Motifs in Psalm Evangelical Christians in Siloam of International Education’s Council faculty members from Iowa Selected to teach a Registrar 101 29 and The Critical Evaluation of Springs, Arkansas, September 22-23, for the International Exchange of institutions to network, discuss two-day workshop for 2015 AACRAO Attended Leadership in Zechariah 11 and 2014. Scholars) applications (thirty-three and develop experiential learning Computing Conference in Iowa City, applications for 2015-2016). meeting. the Ongoing Standard of Justice Presented Al-Fārābī’s Book of projects for respective campuses and February 27-28, 2015. for the Nations at Midwest Society Analysis (Kitāb al-Taḥlīl) at IX classrooms. Al Hibbard Kathy Korcheck of Biblical Literature Regional International Colloquium of the Keith T. Jones Associate Professor of Professor of Mathematics and Meeting, Olivet Nazarene University, Société Internationale d’Histoire des Presented Service-Learning Course Mark & Kay DeCook Endowed Spanish Computer Science Bourbonnais, Illinois, February 7-9, Sciences et la Philosophie Arabes et Design at Iowa Campus Compact Chair in Character and 2014. Islamic, Institut du Monde Arab et Workshop, Mt. Mercy University, Attended Board of Governors Leadership Development and Moderated Armas y rosas panel at Université de Paris – Diderot, Paris, Cedar Rapids, February 24, 2015. meetings and general sessions Professor of Psychology Received a Central College Student Midwest Undergraduate Conference at Mathematical Association of Travel Fund for Student-Faculty France, October 8-11, 2014. in the Humanities at Simpson Russ Goodman Presented Family Environment, College, attending with Walter America MathFest in Portland, Collaborative Scholarship grant that Presented a public lecture on Associate Professor of Social Support and Suicide Cannon and Central College students. Oregon, August 5-8, 2014. supported two Central students to Christianity and Zionism for the Pella Mathematics Knowledge: Predicting Suicide Elizabeth Carman, a Spanish and present paper presentations on Old Chapter of the National Committee Attended Iowa section of the Ideation and Predicting Emerging communications studies major, Testament Studies at the Student for Peace and Justice, October 14, Participated in workshop Beginner’s Mathematical Association of Adults’ Compliance and Defiance: presented Una flor inutil: Sor Juana Religious Studies Conference, 2014. Guide to the Scholarship of Teaching America conference in Dubuque, Parenting Style and Entitlement Bourbonnais, Illinois, February 7-9, y su rosa, a paper on a Baroque and Learning in Mathematics at October 24-25, 2014. at Midwestern Psychological 2014. Presented two public lectures sonnet by Mexican poet Sor Juana MathFest in Portland, Oregon, August Association Annual Meeting, Oriental Christianity: History, Ines de la Cruz, written in Korcheck’s 6-9, 2014. Attended Mathematical Association Chicago, May 2-3, 2014. Presented A Critical Review of John Theology and Political Groups SPAN 323 course spring 2014. of America meetings in San Antonio, Walbridge’s God and Logic in Islam: Presented Counting Votes: The and Islam: History, Theology and Texas, January 9-12, 2015. As The Caliphate of Reason (Cambridge Presented El Fuerte de San Paradoxical Math of Elections to Nicole Kaplan Political Groups at St. James’s Governor of the Iowa Section of University Press, 2011) at Upper Cristóbal: Historical Consciousness Science Center of Iowa at Jasper Associate Professor of Episcopal Church, Oskaloosa, the Mathematical Association of Midwest American Academy of and the Future of the Past at a Winery, January 13, 2015. French October 23 and 30, 2014. America, Hibbard went a day early Religion Regional Meeting, Luther Former Francoist Prison at Kentucky to attend all-day meeting of the Participated in Tête-à-Tête, Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, April Attended the American Academy Foreign Language Conference in Catherine Haustein Board of Governors before attending Workshop for World Language 4-5, 2014. of Religion/Society of Biblical Lexington, Kentucky, April 10-12, Professor of Chemistry presentations. Educators in Iowa, Theater and Literature Annual Meeting in San 2014. Carnaval in the World Language Received a Central College Student Diego, California, November 21-15, Published short story Grave to Presented A Museum of Doomed Classroom, at the University of Travel Fund for Student-Faculty 2014. Cody Huisman Developments: Ruin Photography Cradle, Slink Chunk Press (Australia) Iowa, February 28, 2015. Collaborative Scholarship grant and Shade Mountain Press anthology Lecturer of Exercise Science that supported two Central students Published Al-Farabi’s Introduction and the Spanish Economic Crisis The Female Complaint. Attended annual meeting of Iowa to present paper presentations on at Midwest Modern Languages Attended NSCA North Central to the Five Rational Arts with Chapter of the American Association Islamic Studies at the Upper Midwest Reference to The Five Aphorisms Conference in Detroit, November Presented Determination of L-dopa Regional Conference in Cedar Falls, of Teachers of French (AATF) at the American Academy of Regional (al-Fusul al-Hamza) and Ibn Bajja’s 13-16, 2014. in Velvet Beans Using HPLC: A April 12-13, 2014. University of Iowa, February 28, Meeting, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Comments (Ta’aliq) in Melange Green laboratory for Analytical Published Nuestro querido padre Attended Sanford POWER Clinic in 2015. Minnesota, April 4-5, 2014. de l’Universite Saint-Joseph, LXV Chemistry with students Hailey Stalin: Letters of War and Exile in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, April 25- (2013-1014), Dar el-Machreq, Benson and Nathaniel Holte to Iowa Attended National Endowment for Emma Riverola’s Cartas desde la 26, 2014. Beyrouth, Liban, pp. 165-194. Academy of Science, Iowa City, April the Humanities Summer Institute ausencia in Letras Hispanas 10.1 17, 2015. (2014).

6 7 Allison Krogstad State University, Dickinson, North and Shelley Bradfield, in Praxis: A PROFILE Professor of Spanish Dakota, November 7-8, 2014. Writing Center Journal 12.1 (2014). Michael Harris Published The cohesive and Attended Iowa Intercollegiate Honor Admitted to the 2014-15 cohort of Band Festival in Nevada, Iowa, Association of College & Research revitalizing nature of Maya dance, Celebrating 25 Years art, and oral history in journal November 21-22, 2014. Libraries’ New College Library Directors’ Mentor Program. Professor of English Regions and Cohesion (Vol. 4, Issue Attended Mid-West Band and 1, Spring 2014). Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Awarded an Association of College A trip to Nepal changed everything for Michael Harris. During graduate school, Presented La pintura poética December 18-20, 2014. & Research Libraries Mid-Career Harris, now professor of English at Central, faced a dissertation he didn’t really want Librarian Scholarship to attend the to write. He didn’t have a topic, and he says, “I was kind of burned out.” He wondered de Calixta Gabriel Xiquín (The Served as guest conductor at Little Poetic Painting of Calixta Gabriel upcoming ACRL 2015 conference in if he would ever finish his Ph.D. Hawkeye Conference Honor Band, Portland, Oregon. Xiquín) at Congreso Internacional Pella, February 9, 2015. Originally from North Carolina, Harris and his family moved to Louisiana de Literatura Hispánica in Antigua, Paulina Mena when he was six. He attended Tulane University for his undergraduate degree, where Guatemala, March 4-6, 2015. he knew he wanted to major in English as a freshman. Cynthia Mahmood Assistant Professor of Biology Frank Moore Chair of When choosing a major, Harris says he “thought back to my high school Linda Laine Anthropology and Professor of Organized workshop Incorporating career.” He had always enjoyed English more than other subjects. After college, Harris Associate Professor of Anthropology Active Learning in the Classroom pursued his master’s and Ph.D. at Indiana University at Bloomington. He taught Communication Studies with Brian Peterson and Robert freshman composition and literature classes and enjoyed teaching, though at the time, Received Reinhold Neibuhr Award Franks at Central College, June 9-10, he still wasn’t sure how he wanted to shape his career. And his dissertation loomed. Attended Annual Conference of the for Social Justice, University of Notre 2014. “I did not have a topic,” he says. Higher Learning Commission in Dame, May 23, 2014. Chicago, April 10-14, 2014. Attended Iowa Honey Producers Harris had always been interested in the Peace Corps and had in fact applied and been accepted after college, but he Presented a keynote address The Association Annual Meeting in chose grad school instead. Now, he revisited the idea. He was accepted to Nepal, “a country I thought sounded really interesting,” Received Mission Award at Iowa Sikh Community, Past, Present and Marshalltown, November 14-15, Harris says, and he served as a TEFL teacher from 1979-1981. Campus Compact Engaged Campus Future at Looking Forward in the 2014. He spent the next three years of his life in the Himalayas. As it turned out, he spent a lot of time reading novels, “the kind Awards Ceremony, Des Moines, Sikh Community, Toronto, Canada, of stuff you read when you’re an English major,” he says, and his love of English was rejuvenated. When the three years were up, June 2014, for recognition of the June 6, 2014. Mark Mills he returned to Indiana and picked up right where he left off. Only this time, he had a topic. key role played in strengthening an Professor of Mathematics A field in literature called post-colonialism was gaining prominence. The Peace Corps provided Harris a firsthand look institution’s mission of engagement Published New Directions in Feminist Politics in Peace into the lives of people in Nepal and India, and the region fascinated him. “I could have written about that forever. That’s how and strategically furthering this Passed actuarial Exam FM and Conflict: Journal of Peace I ended up finishing a dissertation,” he says. That dissertation, “Outsiders & Insiders: Perspectives of Third World Culture in mission. (Financial Mathematics), June 20, Psychology, Vol. 20, number 3 British and Post-Colonial Fiction,” was eventually published and named a 1994 Choice Outstanding Academic Book. 2014. Attended Iowa Communication (2014). While at Indiana University, Harris also met his wife, Kimberly Koza, associate professor of English at Central. The couple Association conference in Ankeny, Attended Iowa Section of the lived and worked in a few different cities before arriving in Iowa, via a one-year position for Harris at in 1989. Presented A Passion for Truth September 19-20, 2014. Mathematical Association of Then a job opened up at Central. Harris says his time in Pella is “the longest I’ve ever lived in one place.” lecture at installation as Frank Moore America meeting at Clarke During a 25-year career at Central, Harris has enjoyed the opportunity to try new things and continue learning. “As I’ve Chair in Anthropology, March 2015. Tom Linton University, Dubuque, October 24- developed new interests I’ve been able to teach classes in those areas,” he says. For instance, an interest in the Buddhist religion Associate Professor of 25, 2014. spurred him to create a capstone course on the subject. He was aided by six months spent in northern India and Nepal in 2012- Mathematics and Computer Melissa McAninch 13 on a Fulbright Senior Research grant, where he studied Buddhism. “There’s something about India that really draws me,” he Science Instructor of Education Taylor Newton says. He also taught at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in 1998-99. Assistant Professor of Completed dissertation, A A number of courses at Central have sprung from Harris’ passion for post-colonial literature. Mary Stark, professor Attended Mathematical Association Psychology of America MathFest 2014 in Qualitative Study of Secondary of English, has been a colleague of Harris for more than 20 years, and she says he helped the English department expand its Portland, Oregon, August 7, 2014. Mathematics Teachers’ Questioning, Presented roundtable Teaching offerings to include American Ethnic Literature, Irish Literature, African/Caribbean Literature and the Literature of India and Responses, and Perceived Influences, of Psychology of Religion and the Pacific. “Students appreciate the cultural contexts and seeing life from different perspectives,” she says. Mitchell Lutch to fulfill requirements for Ph.D. in Spirituality with Cook, S., Harris, Recently, Harris has embarked on a new challenge that is taking him to another part of the world: . He is mathematics education. Associate Professor of Music K., Hays, M., Ladd, K., Nissley, teaching as part of Central’s social justice internship program, which began in summer 2014. Harris, Koza and students spent a G., Paloutzian, R., Rowatt, W. month in the city. “The students that came with us were amazing. It was a lot of fun to spend time with them and hear about their Attended Iowa Bandmasters Beth McMahon and Wade, N. at the American internships,” Harris says. Association Conference in Des Director of Geisler Library Psychological Association Being able to identify with his students at Central is part of what makes teaching enjoyable for Harris. “When I see a Moines, May 9-10, 2014. Convention, Washington, D.C., Central student, I can easily imagine how I felt my first year of college,” he says. He remembers the uncertainty, but also the Published An Embedded Model: August 2014. Served as guest conductor at First-Year Student Success in feelings of possibility. And interacting with students keeps life fresh and exciting. He says, “You learn so much from them.” Northern Plains Music Festival for Writing and Research with Sue High School Honor Band, Dickinson Pagnac, Cyndi Boertje, Greg Teets ’13

8 9 Nominated 2015 American College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Workshop, , PROFILE Psychological Association Program Maine, June 23-27, 2014. Ames, October 24, 2014. Chair for Division 36, Psychology of Arthur Johnson Religion and Spirituality program Presented Enhancing Student Attended 34th Annual Conference on Learning in Human Physiology the First Year Experience in Dallas, at the American Psychological Retired in 2014 Association meeting in Toronto. and Best Practices in Teaching, February 6-10, 2015. Learning, and Assessment: Associate Professor of English Chia Ning Ideas Gained from the Institute Presented Problem-Based Learning as a Springboard to Critical Arthur Johnson is putting away his red pen. For the past 46 years at Central, the associate professor of English has Professor of History on Teaching and Learning in Physiology Summer Workshop Thinking and Writing in Central corrected the prose of undergraduates, urging them to focus on what he sees as the virtues of writing: simplicity, economy, Published Leadership Role of at the Chairs’ Conference, Central College Teaching and Learning color and freshness. Mongolian Women to the Noble College, September 13, 2014. Series, February 2015. Johnson started working at Central in 1968 after a six-year stint teaching at Iowa State University, where he Title Inheritance in the Qing Banner Received Moore Family Foundation completed his undergraduate work. Johnson also earned a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, which he System: Reading the Manchu Tiben Selected as 2014 LifeSciTRC describes as “an enormous factory lacking only the smoke. It was a strange thing to come to Central and have absolute Vision and Change Scholar by the Faculty Research and Development Archives for Four Parts of the strangers say hello to me.” American Physiological Society, Grant to create a faculty development Mongol Society in Journal of the During his time at Central, Johnson taught a variety of classes including British Novel, Shakespeare, Short Story October 2014. workshop, Incorporating Active Frontier and Nationality Studies, Learning into the Classroom with Writing and Comedy, a class of his own design. “I’ve always liked comedy better than tragedy,” he says, “being an absurd Central University for Nationalities, Published Enhancing Student Robert Franks and Paulina Mena, fellow by nature.” Beijing, the People’s Republic of Learning in Human Physiology April 2014–March 2015. Yet Johnson did not originally intend to study English. He spent four years as a student of architecture and designed China, Issue 8, Fall 2014, pages 1-15 in The Physiologist, a publication houses for relatives before deciding the client/architect relationship wasn’t one he cared to pursue. “What they wanted, Appointed to Iowa Supreme Court by the American Physiological Joy Prothero I didn’t want,” he says. So Johnson decided to major in history, but when the history adviser didn’t show up for the Commission of Continuing Legal Society. Associate Professor of appointed meeting, he walked downstairs and became an English major instead. Education Education, term period July 1, 2014- Brian Peterson As an English professor, Johnson specialized in teaching students how to write. He is known for the care he June 30, 2017. Professor of Economics Elected State of Iowa Chair of the took editing papers, meeting face-to-face with students to go through their writing line by line. Johnson says the tutorial Iowa Area Education Agencies Board method encouraged students to consider more than a grade at the top of a paper. “I always try to give students their Nicole Palenske Served as External ACBSP of Directors. money’s worth, whether they want it or not,” he says. Assistant Professor of Evaluator, Iowa Wesleyan While some students may have shrunk from having a magnifying glass turned on their work, many blossomed Biology University School of Business, April Elected President of the Great Prairie from the experience. “He scared some people to death and he made some people want to be better writers,” says Chad Ray, 2014. Area Education Agency Board of professor of philosophy. “I know him as a colleague with a heart of gold.” Ray says Johnson is “hugely generous,” helping Presented Determination of LC50 Directors. and the effect of Triclosan exposure Presented Preconceptions of students in need with tuition and encouraging faculty to set up a fund for students. on zebrafish hatchling morphology Principles Students with Bill Goffe, Elected member of the Iowa State Johnson says students have not changed much during his time at Central, saying they are always mixtures of with Ellen DuPre and students Wayne Geerling, Adam Hoffer, University Extension and Outreach excellent and weaker students. As for himself, Johnson found teaching to be a constant learning experience. “You learn Mycaela Crouse, Amanda Kahl, Doug Bice, Solina Lindahl and Mark for Mahaska County. far more by teaching than you do sitting in a classroom,” he says. Shannon Snyder and Rachel Spooner Maier at AEA Council on Economic Former students — or anyone in need of a refresher course on writing — can consult his book on the subject, at Iowa Academy of Science, Fort Education Conference on Research Keith Ratzlaff “Why Nobody Can’t Write Good,” where Johnson lays out the finer points of writing (“Pomposity is not profundity.”), Dodge, April 12, 2014. and Teaching in Economics Professor of English along with amusing examples from past classes and academia. Johnson has also written two novels, the latest set in Jane Education, Washington, D.C., May Received funds from the Bette Austen’s England but focused on the lives of the lower classes. 28-30, 2014. Featured poetry reader and Poetry Brunsting Student Project Fund with and the Other Arts panelist at When not turning deft phrases, Johnson plays chess, reads and pursues hobbies, such as coin collecting and art. Ellen Du Pre for two students to Presented Implementing Anhinga Press 40th Anniversary In Central’s Jordan Hall, home to the English department, he hung 115 framed prints of paintings he considers important attend the Iowa Academy of Science Undergraduate Research into conference, Tampa, Florida, October to the history of art. He hopes students may acquire an appreciation of them “just from the friction of walking by.” Meeting in Fort Dodge, April 11-12, Existing Academic Programs with 9-12, 2014. Ray says Johnson “loves to turn a good phrase. He loves the English language. He is fearless.” 2014. Keith Jones and Paulina Mena at Johnson is not one to effuse about his accomplishments. “We all write our names in water,” he says. But Johnson’s the Chairs’ Conference, Central Nominated for Pushcart Prize, name is also written in ink — in the red that decorated students’ papers for 46 years and in the improved prose they Elected to serve as chair for the College, September 13, 2014. February 2015. learned to create. In the interest of economy, we’ll leave it at that. environmental science and health section of the Iowa Academy of Presented The Interdisciplinarity Northwestern University’s New Science for the 2014-15 academic of Large-Group Simulations: Or, Music Conference, April 2014. year. How to Share the Burden of a Good Thing With Others at the Dawn Reece Presented Enhancing Student Chairs’ Conference, Central College, Associate Professor of Learning in Human Physiology September 13, 2014. Sociology at American Physiological Society Institute on Teaching and Learning, Participated in panel discussion Presented Utilizing Kuhlthau’s Balancing Teaching, Research and Information Search Process Model 10 Service, Preparing Future Faculty to Inform and Intervene in Student 11 Projects at Lilly Conference on Unidos of Iowa, a nonprofit football medical coverage related to PROFILE Evidenced-Based Teaching and organization serving Hispanic and emergency procedures, August 2014. Learning, Newport Beach, California, Latino communities in central Iowa. Joy Prothero February 19, 2015. Served as Event Coordinator, Presented Pachamama Came and Director of Player Personnel and Elected Secretary of the Iowa Went: Lessons Learned from an LAS Daily Operations for 17th annual Retiring Sociological Association. Course with a Short Term Study Tazon de Estrellas in Puebla, Mexico, Associate Professor of Education Abroad Program with Paulina Mena December 2014. Group included 45 Randall A. Renstrom at the Chairs’ Conference, Central players and 20 staff. Eight players, At first, Joy Prothero’s career choice surprised her. Coming from a family with 16 Assistant Professor of College, September 13, 2014. two athletic training students and teachers, she wasn’t interested in teaching. “I was steeped in teacher behaviors and Psychology two other staff members were part of expectations,” she says. “But I realized after my first year in college that of course I Pam Richards the travel party. wanted to be a teacher!” Presented The Relationship between Associate Professor of Exercise Personality Characteristics and Science Attended Annual National Athletic Prothero has now taught for 41 years. She surprised herself again after 11 years Sarcasm Use with student Sean Trainers Association Annual Meeting teaching elementary school, when she was invited to teach at William Penn College. Prihoda at Midwestern Psychological Attended Hawaii International & Symposium in Indianapolis, Prothero, a graduate of William Penn, was completing a master’s degree from Drake Association conference in Chicago, Conference on Education, Honolulu, June 2014. Roslien served as University but not looking for a new position. “I said no, I’m happy in the classroom,” May, 2014. Hawaii, January 4, 2015. moderator for a session on advanced Prothero says. But when the dean persuaded her to consider it, Prothero decided to techniques in joint mobilization and take the new opportunity. Presented The Effects of Achievement Brian Roberts coordinated an area alumni event. At William Penn, Prothero spent nine years strengthening an education program Attribution When under Stereotype Associate Professor of Art Threat with student Matthew Attended Athletic Trainers that won several national awards. She secured National Council for Accreditation Coyle at Midwestern Psychological Attended 48th Annual Conference of Educators Conference in Dallas, of Teacher Education (NCATE) accreditation for that program, and she started a literacy project in Des Moines that sparked Association conference in Chicago, the National Council on Education February 27, 2015. national interest. She has an Ed.D. from Drake and was associate professor of education at Grandview University and curriculum May, 2014. for the Ceramic Arts in Milwaukee, director for Pella Community Schools before coming to Central in 1998. “I’m always amazed at how careers take twists and Contributed to book, Tupande Wisconsin, March 19-20, 2014. turns,” she says. Presented Exploring the Effect of Kilenleni: Let’s Climb to the Summit One of Prothero’s strongest contributions to Central is her involvement in education outside the college. She leads Area Interactive Violent Video Games Attended 43rd Annual Glass Art Together, Tate Publishing. Education Agencies (AEA) at the local and state levels, serving as governing board president and director for Pella’s district. on Aggressive Cognitions with Society Conference in Chicago, March student Kelsie Evans at Midwestern 21-22, 2014. Inducted into the Mid-America These connections bring advantages for Central students, such as early access to AEA online resources. Central Teacher Academy Psychological Association conference Athletic Trainers Association Hall also connects students to AEA opportunities, which Prothero says help Central’s future teachers receive the best research-based in Chicago, May, 2014. Exhibited two ceramic sculptures of Fame during the Mid-America training available. in the group exhibition Thirty-Fifth Athletic Trainers Association Annual Prothero’s broad involvement has also helped her prepare students for changes and challenges in Iowa and throughout the Presented Relationships between Anniversary Show at Olson-Larsen Symposium in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. “That’s important for them, because our graduates go everywhere,” she says. Even within short distances, Prothero says Personality and Attitudes toward Gallery in Des Moines, April 11-June March 20, 2015. educational settings vary tremendously. “There’s a lot of variation in cultures and languages and learning styles — all of those Guns and Mental Health Services 7, 2014. things that impact how effective teachers are,” she says, “so students need to be exposed to as much of that as possible.” Prothero with student Molly Ammerman Jessica Schuring says graduates face more diverse issues than ever before. “Schools are a reflection of society, and so many things have changed,” at Midwestern Psychological Exhibited steel sculptures during Assistant Professor of Association conference in Chicago, juried exhibition and sale, 12th Iowa Economics she says. “I think it’s become more complicated.” May, 2014. Sculpture Festival, Newton, June Mary Stark, professor of English, says Prothero’s knowledge and experience have been invaluable to Central. “She is 6-8, 2014. Presented The Impact of Maternal passionate about education and highly involved in professional groups because she wants to help her students excel in their Oscar Reynaga Occupation and Pre-Pregnancy classrooms,” Stark says. “I really admire her commitment and care for our students.” Juried student exhibition Art Lecturer of Spanish Weight Status on Childhood Obesity On campus, Prothero has also contributed to many influential projects. Through intense discussions, she says she discovered Inspired at the Iowa State Memorial at Wallace Huffman Festschrift in the strong friendships that make Central unique from anywhere she has taught. When faculty members dissect important Union Pioneer Room, January 2015. Attended ninth annual Governor’s Ames, August 1, 2014. initiatives and share their thoughts, Prothero says they really get to know each other and form a bond of trust. Stark says she Conference on LGBTQ Youth with Exhibited 16 steel sculptures at Ray will always remember Prothero’s willingness to help, good cheer and creative problem solving. “I think Joy embodies her name,” Central College students, April 1, Vandy Scoates Frederick Gallery of Marshalltown Stark says. “She is a delightful person! 2014. Assistant Professor of Theatre Community College, January Central students also cherish relationships forged on campus, Prothero says, often visiting or writing to her after they Attended Chicago Latino Film 21-February 13, 2015. Received Puffin Foundation Grant graduate. She says it’s rewarding to know education classes are continually proved relevant to graduates’ careers and lives. Festival, the largest Latino film for Sustainability in summer 2014. Prothero’s passion for teaching will also continue beyond Central. She plans to continue participating in other settings she loves, festival in the United States, April John Roslien The grant was used to create and making national presentations and guiding AEA initiatives throughout the state. 15-17, 2014. Associate Professor of Exercise maintain a new website called The Science Green Room (the-g-room.com). Reviewed scholarship applications This website is intended to be a free during summer 2014 for Latinos Facilitated a program on campus resource for theatre practitioners for local providers of high school and researchers to find sustainable theatre options. 12 13 Attended the United States Institute Mary Jo Sodd Susan Wight Swanson PROFILE of Theatre Technology (USITT) Professor of Theatre Assistant Professor of Art Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 2015. Attended Contemporary Arts Presented Jost Amman’s Volatile Esther Streed Marketing and Intersection of Arts Commerce at Sixteenth Century and Economy sessions by Iowa Society and Conference in New Ashley Scolaro Retiring Department of Cultural Affairs at Orleans, October 16-19, 2014. Assistant Professor of Professor of Education Psychology Iowa Arts Summit in Des Moines, June 2014. Completed Ph.D. in Art History, Presented To Drink or Not to Drink: dissertation successfully defended Esther Streed followed her heart to Central College. After 20 years teaching in College Students’ Motivations Mary Stark December 2014, degree conferred northwest Iowa, she says, “It was just time to move to something different.” She started to Consume Alcohol with Hillary John and Anna Poole Endowed February 2015. a master’s program at the University of South Dakota and considered becoming a Chair in the Humanities and school administrator. Through adjunct teaching, however, Streed discovered she Stintsman at Midwestern David Timmer Psychological Association conference Professor of English loved working with college students and future teachers. She completed a doctorate in Chicago, May 2014. Professor of Religion from Drake University and came to teach at Central in 1998. “I’ve never looked back,” Published three articles with Stephen she says. Published The ERP Correlates of Johnson, instructor of natural Published Pilgrim Journey in Streed wanted to be part of an education program where all graduates would Target Checking are Dependent science: Our Magical Mystery Tour Perspectives: a Journal of Reformed be prepared, at least to some degree, to teach all students, including those needing upon the Defining Features in Jefferson County Park, Iowa Thought, September/October 2014. of the Prospective Memory (Summer 2014, Vol 15 #3), and The article was part of Like the special education. While a teacher, Streed devoted many years to improving services Cues, International Journal of Hooded Ladies’ Tresses (Fall 2014, Wideness of the Sea: 15 Years Later, for children with disabilities — including her daughter, Angi. Because of the passion Psychophysiology, July 2014 (volume Vol 15 #4) for Blazing Star: North in which four writers revisited an initiated with the birth of her daughter, she has traveled extensively, founded statewide 93, pages 298-304). American Native American Plant important article by the late Lewis organizations, backed the Americans with Disabilities Act — even dined in the White House. She served on the state board for a Society; Forest Tent Caterpillar Smedes published in Perspectives in community-based advocacy group, the Arc, for 14 years and the Governor’s Planning Council for Developmental Disabilities for Presented The Impact of Dementia Consumption by Wood and Mink 1999. 12 years. Streed also cared for 18 foster children, nearly all with special needs, and adopted two of them. In 1992, she was named on the Benefits of Reminiscence Frogs at Lake Gegoka, Minnesota, Iowa’s Foster Mother of the Year. with Emily Saville and The Effect of Completed six-year term on in Bulletin: Chicago Herpetological Streed has dedicated her career to helping people embrace others who are different. At Central, Streed says her joy has been Handedness on Cognitive Control Commission on Theology of the Society 49 (7), 2014. seeing that dream realized among students and colleagues. Her students know “different equals different” comes first among the with Alex Savolt at Object Perception Reformed Church in America. The Attention and Memory conference in With Stephen Johnson, consultant Commission meets twice a year to “Dr. Estherisms” they collect during Streed’s courses. Long Beach, California, November for Tiny Bops: Unearth the Secrets study and prepare reports for the Streed’s other career highlights include participating in an international think tank at Oxford University, visiting nearly all of 20, 2014. of the Green Kingdom, an app about RCA General Synod on theological Central’s study abroad sites and going to national conferences for the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) with her students. plants. and moral issues in the life of the “We’ve presented at three conferences, which is an unbelievable honor,” Streed says. “The percentage of applicants who get to Presented The Impact of church. Served as Corresponding present is very, very small —and for undergrad programs, even more so.” Rumination on Strategic Monitoring Esther Streed Delegate of the Commission to the Keith Jones, professor of psychology, says Streed is a great teacher because she is genuine and committed to doing what General Synod of 2014. in Prospective Memory at Professor of Education benefits students. Streed sets high standards, but Jones says she doesn’t get hung up on being the best. “She just focuses on doing Psychonomics conference in Long what is good,” Jones says, “and along the way, she has been one of the best.” Beach, California, November 21, Elected to two-year treasurer post Christopher Viesselman Streed also proves her practical wisdom among Central faculty, Jones says. When they both served as department chairs, 2014. as treasurer for Iowa Council for Clinical Instructor of Exercise Exceptional Children, March 2014. Science Jones says Streed could bring perspective to group discussions in a single sentence, clarifying their purpose. “She’s a good one to Sara Shuger Fox sort things out with,” Jones says. “For me, she is a good big sister.” It doesn’t hurt that Streed also knows how to laugh at herself. Accompanied eight teacher education Presented Navigating Outcome “She takes the people she serves and the work she does very seriously, but she doesn’t take herself too seriously,” he says. “She’s Assistant Professor of Exercise candidates from Central College to Measures in Clinical Practice at 7th Science a good egg.” Council for Exceptional Children in Annual Sports Medicine Conference During the past 17 years, Streed’s favorite change at Central has been the addition of the Roe Center. “This is an awesome Three Honors Enrichment Projects Philadelphia, April 8-13, 2014. (Prevention: Early & Appropriate building,” she says. “I felt really, really privileged to be department chair at the time that we were making the transition from Care of Injuries and Functional Fall 2014. our cramped little quarters in the library to this amazing facility.” Plus, Streed says she loves seeing many plaques every time she Worked with other higher education Limitations in Physical Activity and walks in. “Every one of those plaques represents people who really appreciate what we do in education,” she says. “That’s just Attended Cardiovascular Today and faculty who prepare future special Sports Performance) in Des Moines, Iowa Heart Center Fall Conference educators, reaching a compromise March 7, 2015. really delightful for me.” in West Des Moines, February 1 and to proposed changes in licensure When she retires, Streed says she will find new ways to be involved in statewide programs and service. “For me, retirement November 15, 2014. requirements. Testified twice to the Presented Learning To Lead: does not mean not working,” she says. While Streed doesn’t mind abandoning her commute from Des Moines, she says she will Board of Educational Examiners in Experiences of First Time Program miss every piece of teaching at Central. “I love what I do,” Streed says. “I totally enjoy my students, and I enjoy teaching. I’m going fall 2014. Directors in Undergraduate Athletic to miss it — I really am.” Training Programs at 36th Annual Co-hosted Iowa Council of MAATA Meeting & Symposium in Administrators in Special Education Omaha, Nebraska, March 20, 2015. (I-CASE) conference in Des Moines, October 2014. 14 15 Jay Wackerly Section of the Iowa Academy of the Deployment of International Sabbatical 2014-2015 Assistant Professor of Science Annual Conference in Ames, Development Assistance at Midwest Chemistry October 22, 2014. Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Kansas City, March 2014. Attended Council on Undergraduate Attended M4 (Midwest Meeting of Jeffrey Bass  Jeff conducted field research to document Latin American Research’s Dialogues and Proposal Mathematical Minds) Conference Attended Iowa Sociological immigrants in Des Moines with respect to their health beliefs, with guest speaker Jo Boaler, Association conference at Luther Writing Workshop in Arlington, utilization of traditional health care practices, and access to and Virginia, February 20-23, 2014. Stanford University, in Ankeny, College, Decorah, April 2014. March 6, 2015. experiences with American health care institutions. Presented Synthesis Elected President of Iowa and Applications of Published Bubbles: Where Geometry Sociological Association, Decorah, Oxaquinonacyclophanes and & Science Intersect in the Iowa April 2014. Stepwise Approach to Writing Lab Council of Teachers of Mathematics Dennis Doyle Dennis examined the assessment practices used at study abroad Reports in the Organic Chemistry annual journal. Jim Zaffiro sites to measure student development in language proficiency Professor of Political Science Course Sequence at 248th American Published Curve Stitching - and intercultural maturity while abroad as a case study on Chemical Society National Meeting & Geometric String Art - Optical Named 2013 Iowa Local Food assessment in international education. Exposition in San Francisco, August Illusion with Deidra Baker and Champion, Iowa Food Systems 10-14, 2014. Three student poster Teresa Finken in the Iowa Council Council and Eat Greater Des Moines, presentations were given at the of Teachers of Mathematics annual November 2014. same conference as well: Synthesis journal. Kathy Korcheck Kathy studied connections between memory and place as of Oxaquinonacyclophanes from Published In Service of Two Dichloronaphthoquinone by represented by monuments, memorials, and urban landscapes, Paul Weihe Masters: A Political History of Radio with an emphasis on those related to the current Spanish Andrew Johnson, Progress toward Associate Professor of in Pre-Independence Botswana, the Synthesis of Carcerands from Biology Critical Arts: South-North Cultural economic crisis. Chloranil by Carlin Michalek and and Media Studies (Durban, South Synthesis of Oxaquinonacyclophanes Presented Student Assessment Africa), Volume 28, Issue 6, 2014, from Bromobenzoquinones by Using Blackboard at the Chairs’ pages 958-976, special issue: Benjamin Palmer. Conference, Central College, Media and Empire in the 20th Tom Linton Tom developed two components for statistics instruction: September 13, 2014. Century. immediate-feedback questions for introductory statistics and Wendy Weber Four groups of students presented research-based projects for MATH 215 Applied Statistics. Professor of Mathematics posters: Sustainable Agriculture Co-principle investigator with Using Hybrid Hazelnut; Strategies Maryann Huey of Drake University for Ebola Containment; Public Treva Reimer Treva studied installation arts and fiber arts to develop of three-year $600,000 Mathematics Education & Psuedoscience in Anti- and Science Partnership (MSP) grant Vaccination Campaign; A Proposal proficiency in weaving. The outcome includes two installation project, Statistics and Probability, to Establish Safe Levels of Dioxin projects and a revised course in mask-making. Content and Pedagogy, for Teaching Contamination, 6th Annual Global Secondary Students. The grant Health Fall Conference: Climate, provides professional development Nutrition and Health, Des Moines, activities for teachers from districts October 15, 2014 Jaclyn Rundle Jaclyn continued her research into the global social enterprise in need of assistance to successfully movement by comparing the operations and certification implement the Iowa Core and Shawn Wick methods of two social enterprise organizations in two countries. improve teacher and student Assistant Professor of understanding of statistics and Sociology probability. Panel session organizer and Attended Mathematics and Science presider, Teaching and Learning: Partnership Annual Conference, Experiential Activities for Sociology, Washington, D.C., September 30- Midwest Sociological Society Annual October 1, 2014. Meeting, Kansas City, March 2014. Presented What Condition Are Presented Micro-Lending with Good You In? A High School Probability Intentions: A Critical Examination Unit to Iowa Council of Teachers of of Student Assumptions Regarding Mathematics, Iowa Science Teaching

16 17 Research and Development Grants 2014-2015 Bette Brunsting Awards 2014-2015

Dawn Reece was awarded funding for travel to the Lilly Conference on Evidence-Based Learning. Josh Dolezal received funding for transportation to the Marion County Farm Crawl for two classes February 19 – 22, 2015, in Newport Beach, Calif. Her talk was entitled Utilizing Kuhlthau’s October 5, 2014. Information Search Process Model to Inform and Intervene in Student Projects.

Shelley Bradfield received funding for two students’ travel expenses to the Iowa Communication Allison Krogstad was awarded funding for travel to the XV Congreso Internacional de Literatura Association convention in Ankeny on September 19, 2014, to present their paper, Smartphones and Hispanica March 4-6, 2015, in Antigua, Guatemala. She presented a paper entitled La pintura Their Effects on Family Cohesion. poética de Calixta Gabriel Xiquin (The Poetic Painting of Calixta Gabriel Xiquin).

Taylor Newton received funds for student research using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk community Terry Kleven was awarded funding for travel to the Midwest Political Science Association meeting for up to 150 participants for a student pursuing an independent research study as a follow-up to her April 16 – 18, 2015, in Chicago, Ill. project in Advanced Research in Psychology.

Katelin Gannon was awarded funding for travel to an international conference on “Research on Al Hibbard received funding for student travel to the MAA Iowa Section meeting in Dubuque on Service-Learning and Community Engagement.” October 24-25, 2014.

Randy Renstrom and Shawn Wick were awarded funding for travel to the Yucatan peninsula to Walter Cannon and Kathy Korcheck received funding for student travel and registration make preparations for a faculty-led study abroad course entitled Perspectives on Culture and Society: to attend and present at the Midwest Undergraduate Conference in the Humanities (MUCH) at Exploring the Yucatan. Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa on November 8, 2014.

Maggie Schlerman was awarded funding for an exploratory trip to the Yucatan and Central’s Esther Streed received funding for student travel costs to attend the Council for Exceptional Merida program to continue the development of a program that will enhance the education of Children Conference in San Diego, Calif., on April 8-12, 2015. Central students within the context of a “pathway to CPA.”

Shawn Wick received funding for registration and an awards luncheon for 18 students in Sociology 485 Senior Seminar class to attend the Iowa Sociological Association annual meeting in Pella, Iowa May 1, 2015.

18 19 Student Conference Travel Funding Moore Family Foundation Grant Awards

Leslie Duinink was awarded funds for student travel to attend the Mid-American Athletic Trainers’ Melissa McAninch & Wendy Weber –Back to School…in Budapest Association Annual Meeting and Symposia in Omaha, Neb., March 19-21, 2015. Writing Council – Designing, Assigning, and Evaluating Writing

Psychology Department was awarded funds for student travel to attend the Midwestern Russ Goodman –Discovering Sports Analytics: Enhancing an Honors Psychological Association Annual Meeting April 30 – May 2, 2015, in Chicago, Ill. Seminar with Travel to the Carolinas Sports Analytics Meeting

Leslie Duinink, Russ Goodman & Paulina Mena – Teaching Jay Wackerly was awarded funds for student travel to attend the Joint Great Lakes/Central Professor Conference: from Atlanta to Pella Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) May 27 – 30, 2015, in Grand Rapids, Mich. Oscar Reynaga – Spanish Language and Culture: Teaching Methods and the Art of Teaching Josh Dolezal was awarded funds for student travel to co-present at the Examined Life Conference: Writing and the Art of Medicine April 16-18, 2015, in Iowa City, IA. Paulina Mena – Case Studies as a Teaching Tool Conference

Dawn Reece & Shawn Wick– From Death to Life: A Model of Restorative Justice

Glenn Barnett & Paulina Mena – A New Thermo Cycler for Biology and Principal Financial Faculty Development Award Biochemistry Students Anya Butt – Teaching Teachers: Teaching GIS in Innovative Ways Across the Curriculum

Maggie Schlerman and Sara Dobbin received this award to attend the Accounting Information Terry Kleven – Core Texts in Political Philosophy for the Classroom Systems Educator Association Conference in Colorado Springs, Colo., June 24 – 28, 2015. Jay Wackerly – Synthesis of Quinone-Based Supramolecular Structures

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