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Over the past several months, the value of a college education has been questioned. Politicians, parents, and potential students all are asking if the investment in a college education is worth it. As tuition at universities, including UNI, has increased, it is reasonable to ask if the cost of attendance is worth it to students. departments Last spring, the Lumina Foundation reported a study concerning this question of the value of a college education. The Lumina Foundation looked to determine if college graduates features 1 Dean’s Message are successful and, if so, what factors led to their success. The Lumina Foundation began by recognizing that financial success is not the only component of a successful life. Their 8 News In Short researchers recognized that having a comfortable income in a position that you find fulfilling Candid: and having a satisfying personal life are the essential attributes of success. We want our 2 Fortepan Iowa 16 CHAS Applause graduates to be successful in their professions, in their communities, and in the personal lives. The Lumina Foundation study found that the key to a successful life was not what school the person attended nor the major the person studied. Instead, the value of a college education was Printing Press 26 found to be in six types of experiences. Those experiences include having a faculty member 10 12 who makes the student excited about learning, having an internship, being extremely Frontline Philosophy: Pressing Forward: 30 Donor Feature: involved in extracurricular activities or organizations, participating in an academic Herrera North American Review Gary Scholten experience that spans more than one semester, and having professors who cared about the student as a person. 35 Transitions Students who have such experiences are nearly 250% likely to be successful. 38 Students in the News Away in the Alpine 22 At UNI and especially within CHAS, we have focused on these five types 42 Dean’s Fund of experiences for years. We have believed that they are critical to the success 28 Donor Listing of our students while in college and to the life-long successes of our alums. Expanding We have emphasized the role of a close relationship between students and Horizons Alumni News 48 our faculty and staff, the importance of student activities and organizations 26 ranging from the Top 10 ranked speech team to our student chapter of Nepal Sigma Pi Sigma. And, we intend to be even more intentional about other news these experiences in the future. In CHAS, our goal is to help our students become alums who are Art + Science = 9 successful professionally, publically, and personally. I look forward to “Big Bang” helping students achieve and celebrate these successes. Please enjoy 19 Book Nook this issue of Communique.

Sincerely, 34 Metal Casting 32 Center Moves National Science 40 John Fritch, Ph.D. Foundation Funding Coding Against Cancer Dean, College of Humanities, Arts 36 Yager Awards and Sciences

The University of Northern Iowa does not discriminate in employment CommUNIqué is published annually by the College of Humanities, John Fritch, Dean Tanner Sandrock, Writer/Copy Editor/Designer communiqué | 2016EDITION 1 or education. Visit uni.edu/policies/1303 for additional information. Arts and Sciences at the University of Northern Iowa. Sarah Pauls, Designer/Editor Rhiannon Rasmussen, Designer HUMANITIES and ARTS ” communiqué | 2016EDITION 3 is partis of own their cultural heritage. We hope that people get that lost hope people theseWe in photos, “ download them liberally and feel like this project

lipping through the images stored onthe Fortepan Iowa digital archive—some portraits, some candid—is similar to browsing family a photo

Launched this past year, Fortepan Iowa is a digital album stretchingalbum generations. back The photos chronicle the subtle and drastic changes of life in Iowa, from fashion to technology; however, the faces feel familiar and as much as places change, they sometimes stay the same. Smiling Iowans peer from the tops of drifting snow banks, or gather around a table to enjoy the company of family and friends. The archive reminds viewers of the humanity in our history, and the past we sometime forget. “This digital archiving project is made for the public and for the public good,” said Bettina Fabos, associate professor of Communication Studies. “It involved a lot of different contributors across Iowa, and allows our students to have understandingricher a of Iowa, and allows for so many people beyond UNI to have a deeper appreciation of our state and what it means to be Iowan. It can be quite thrilling to scroll though particular years and see Iowa unfold through pictures, to see landscapes and fashion styles changing, but to also see core family values represented over and over again. We hope that people get lost in these photos, download them liberally and feel like this project is part of their own cultural heritage.” archiveof photos chronicling over a hundred years of Iowa’s history. Based on the Fortepan Project in Hungary, F

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COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, ARTS & SCIENCES 2 comm communiqué | 2016EDITION 5 Fabos hopes to train more volunteers The directors of the Fortepan Iowa digital studies and computer science (Sergey Golitsynskiy, assistant professor, Communication Studies) and interactive digital studies and visual communication (Fabos). and set up scanning centers across the state. “We aim to work with senior centers around Iowa to collect and personalscan collections people’s before these photographs are lost to the public forever,” said Fabos. “We are particularly interested in glass slides and photo negatives because these generate the highest quality scans, and are the most likely to be thrown away.” They also plan to geospatially locate eachimage on a map of both Iowa and the world, as they also seek photos of places Iowans have visited, either through war, vacation or other means. “We will be building social media features into the interface so people can log in and share comments on any photograph,” she said. This increase of functionality will likely be available by the end of next summer. project plan to promote it as a tool they Eventually, education. further for see the digital archive being utilized by middle and high school teachers across the state as a learning aid when exploring our state’s history. Looking farther down the road, Fabos hopes the project will inspire similar archives across the nation. “We have already presented the project at a number of major conferences, and will continue to do so,” she said. “There is a lot to do, and we’re excited to work on all of initiatives.” these “

. The site is designed for Through the project students our end havingup some of the most valuable insightfuland conversations they‘ve ever with had their grandparents, aunts other and family members. “

. . The project’s name is derived from a once staple uniqué | 2016EDITION Fabos got the idea for the archive after spending time in Hungary on a Fulbright The digital archive is the first of its kind in the U.S., 4 comm the archiveaccepts donated photos from Iowans across the state and then digitizes them before storing them on an interactive timeline at www.fortepan.us visitors to come and browse the growing collection, with the ability to search photos by year. Currently, the collection is home to just shy of 2,000 photos, reaching as far back as the 1860s and all the way up the 2000s. research grant in 2013. There she worked with Miklós Tamási, the co-founder of the original Fortepan project. The Hungarian digital archive currently hosts over 60,000 donated photos at www.fortepan.hu film company in Hungary, Forte, which until 2001 well-known the made negative film Fortepan and similar to its sister project in Hungry, relies on the donation of photographs for content. Housed at UNI, the project is research-based and student- centered. It is a collaboration between three different departments—art, history communication and studies. In doing so, the project stretches across two different colleges on campus and four different disciplines. “I think UNI is the perfect place to build Fortepan Iowa, because most of our students come from Iowa—from towns all across Iowa,” said Fabos. “Through the project, our students end up having some of the most valuable and insightful conversations they’ve ever had with their grandparents, aunts and other family members. They see how valuable Fortepan Iowa is as a public resource.” The team of faculty specializes in public history (Leisl Carr Childers, assistant professor, History), digital photography (Noah Doely, assistant professor, Art), interactive COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, ARTS & SCIENCES communiqué | 2016EDITION 9 Bialik’s lecture was part of the Joy part of the Joy lecture was Bialik’s her lead role for known Bialik is well completed her doctorate in 2007, also in 2007, her doctorate completed at UCLA. ARTS + SCIENCES = SCIENCES + ARTS BANG BIG UNI campus in visited Mayiam Bialik a lecture at where she gave April 2016, Arts Bluedorn Performing the Gallagher + Sciences “Arts titled (GBPAC), Center Bialik, a neuroscientist = Big Bang.” and discussed her life and actor, and the the arts, career in science and education importance of both STEM to as critical components and the arts her life. Leadership Cole Corning Distinguished 2001 by in Series. Established Lecture Joy Lt. Gov. Iowa UNI alumna and former bring Corning, the series’ purpose is to nationally and internationally campus to in such areas as leaders renowned business, education, government arts, with students It provided and judiciary. of what constitutes an understanding across disciplines and helps leadership people become how them discover in their fields. leaders in the early-1990s as Blossom Russo appears Blossom and now sitcom regularly as neurobiologist Amy Farrah on The Big Bang Theory for Fowler three Emmy which she has received nominations. She earned a B.S. in neuroscience and Hebrew and Jewish studies from UCLA in 2000, and

“The University of Northern Iowa THE DEPARTMENT THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS hosted the Iowa Physics UNI'S SCIENCEUNI'S EDUCATION Competition Thursday, on April in the McLeod17, Center. (John Wood Community Wood will (John College) allow students en route to a two-year associate of applied science (AAS) degree to easily transition into a degree bachelor’s applied four-year program. The new transfer agreements take effect spring 2016 and include JWCC, Western Illinois University, Northern University, Illinois Missouri Western State University UNI. and theand Department of Technology are excited about this opportunity to expand regional our connections with Community Wood John College,” Robert Frederick, community UNI college liaison and executive director of student outreach and engagement “Being said. a leader in Iowa in transfer articulation, the University of Northern Iowa is known as a transfer friendly of percent 38 over institution; our overall student body and 69 percent of Industrial our Technology students are transfer students. For nearly 30 years, the Department of Industrial has been Technology partnering with community colleges to welcome students into our fields and manufacturing careers.”

The professional development This additional 2015-16, an year, UNI'S SCIENCE UNI'S EDUCATION program has expanded its three-year grant from the Iowa Department of Mathematics ITB Title Education Scienceand Partnerships program. This extended grant will provide Integrated the of continuation a Crosscutting Concepts Iowa Science in Classrooms (ICCISC) program. program started in the summer of teachers The purpose2014. to help is integrate crosscutting concepts in the development implementation and of standards-based science curricula using research-based instruction, which will prepare students in science other STEM-relatedand fields. Teachers meet virtually once a month and twice in person over the course of the academic year to continue to build networktheir further and support one the implementationanother in of their curriculum. 21 science teacher joined colleagues the original 24 secondary science teachers from across the state of Iowa. the teachers develop, will Together revise implement and instructional units in their science classrooms collaborationin with science UNI Education Area faculty, education Agency science (AEA) consultants and master school teachers. high

The show blends The show The Muppets. SHORT , the Broadway musical that places a unique spin on the musical Q, the Broadway Avenue Since taking the stage at Strayer-Wood, the gang has appeared with Since taking the stage at Strayer-Wood, Jeremy Schraffenberger (Languages and Literatures) This past February, the theatre department staged a production the theatre This past February, fallen, and the UNI cast had taken the final curtain had After to alumni who were scheduled to produce the show themselves. produce the show scheduled to who were alumni to rent the to companies who wanted for also created were Dressing lists in a scaled- those interested along with a condensed list for puppets, back production. under the direction of UNI alumnus Ryan in July Production Trainwreck spend the holiday season at Theatre (B.A. 2012) and is set to Decker 2016. a production coming in February for Cedar Rapids AMERICAN REVIEW THE NORTH (NAR), the oldest literary magazine in North America housed at UNI, celebrated creative bicentennial with their and academic an writing conference. The NAR Bicentennial Creative Writing & Literature Conference was held and June featured 11-13 many remarkable speakers, including Gary Kelly, Steven Schwartz, Patricia Hampl, Judith Harris and Martín Espada. PUPPETS FOR HIRE FOR PUPPETS of Sesame Street and shows children’s and post-college graduate immigration the adult themes of sexuality, puppet cast. Featuring with the cheeky antics of an otherworldly, life It a B.A. in English?,” Do with “Whatmemorable songs like Do You Porn.” Gay” and “The is For Internet Were “If You Be Me,” To Sucks Theatre. houses in Strayer-Wood packed to The musical played retired. Instead,were not puppets the handcrafted their final bow, rent at the National United for up and advertised patched they were in Cincinnati and Conference Theatre Technology for Institute States coordinated this event with help from CHAS, the Department of Languages and Literatures, the Department of Philosophy and World Religions, the Department of Psychology, the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Criminology, and with many others. in NEWS

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Frontline also from San Antonio, who could share a similar base of New York City.” He worked one year with AmeriCorps references and also took film and theater classes, which before working two years as a full-time staff member with Philosophy introduced him to other like-minded individuals. He also City Year, Inc. “I had the opportunity to work with young enjoyed attending No Shame Theatre, which is a student run people from all across the country,” he said, “as well as variety show, held every other Friday in the Communication passionate educators really trying to make a difference in Arts Center. “I’d write essays and read them,” he said. the lives of children.” Herrera was the first of his family to graduate from college. His passion for social work and change has driven Herrera “As I learn more about U.S. history and the marginalization to become a legal aide in New York. Working for an alternative of people of color in this country, first-generation college to incarceration program called ExperanzaNY, Inc., Herrera graduates are a big deal,” he said. “They can be that catalyst acts as a court advocate for teenagers 17 and under. His for changing the status quo in a family, and influence future aim is to get these kids community-based services as an generations.” He hopes his accomplishments will influence alternative to prison sentences. “I wanted to continue other members of his family to pursue further education, and working with at-risk youth,” he said. “Especially because I people who may have a similar background to him. had seen inequality through an educational lens and I wanted hilosophers nowadays, in addition to their research and Growing restless with philosophy, Herrera decided to to see it through criminal justice. Some days can be really writing, should be on the front lines of industry, and push the join AmeriCorps. “I realized I’d hit a wall with my academic tough, but it’s all about maintaining perspective. At the end P public to think and do things in new ways,” said philosophy studies, and I was increasingly interested in social justice of the day, I can go back to my apartment and recuperate. “ and world religions alumnus Daniel Herrera. After graduating, Herrera and being more on the ground and working directly with For a lot of my kids and families, they don’t have anything. has been in the trenches, so to speak, of the fight for social change by vulnerable communities,” he said. Moreover, these are teenagers who are sometimes looking volunteering with AmeriCorps and City Year, Inc. and now working as a With AmeriCorps, he worked with an organization called at up to five years of prison time.” legal aide in New York City (NYC) where he represents at-risk youth, all Meanwhile, Herrera is working towards his graduate degree while working towards his graduate degree in Urban Policy Analysis and “ I didn’t want to be an in Urban Policy Analysis and Management at The New School Management at The New School in NYC. arm-chair philosopher. in New York. “One of my specializations is data science Originally from San Antonio, Texas, Herrera found the move to Iowa ” and data visualization,” he said. “One of my goals is to be a bit of culture shock. Aside from the difference in food and his first City Year, Inc. The group works to bridge the gap between become fluent in the language of all things data and be able glimpse of a snowy winter, Iowa and the Cedar Valley gave him his first students’ needs and what educational systems in place are to present it clearly to various stakeholders who are making experience away from home. “Like any new change, there were some able to provide. Working with high-poverty communities, a positive difference in the world. All of my professional growing pains,” he said. “I had to get used to a new way of life, but after they work to provide students with individualized support. experience has revolved around urban issues and I think a while Iowa and UNI felt like a second home, and the experience gave The group claims that America’s schools are designed to as our cities around the world evolve, policy makers will be me the courage and confidence to live anywhere.” provide extra support to just 15 percent of students, while in needed to ensure equity and social justice.” Herrera came to UNI in pursuit of a merit based scholarship. “I also many high-poverty communities, 50 percent or more require wanted something completely different from what I called home,” additional academic, social or emotional support. And of the he said. “My senior year of high school, I read Jean-Paul Sartre’s one million students who drop out each year, approximately 'Existentialism as a Humanism,' and it was very powerful. I took away half of those students come from 12 percent of the nation's from that reading the message that, you shouldn’t wait for permission schools. It is in these communities that City Year, Inc. works to live your life authentically. That really opened up a lot of intellectual to improve graduation rates. “It was a positive experience,” doors for me, and so I wanted to study philosophy more in-depth.” said Herrera. “I served as a core member in San Antonio, While at UNI, he found many places to fit in and express himself working in at-risk schools, serving middle school students. beyond the classroom. He found a small group of other students I then did similar work for them in Denver and eventually in

10 communiqué | 2016EDITION communiqué | 2016EDITION 11 Whitman—having only published seven essays in the dismissed as ‘socialism’—this country would be another NAR—may have appeared an odd choice compared to country entirely. If we were to embrace Whitman’s the long list of notable names whose works live within sexuality, wholeheartedly, half the preachers would be the magazine: Henry James, Mark Twain, James Russell out of a job and half the politicians would be out of work. Lowell, Amy Lowell, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo What would Whitman say about the people who still wave Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, just to mention the Confederate flag? What would Whitman who wrote a few. However, when compared to Whitman, it’s hard to ‘The Wound-Dresser,’ the Whitman who was a nurse find another author whose work had more influence, and caring for dying soldiers, make of those who romanticize as Schraffenberger says in his introduction to The Great the Confederacy?” When asked what it would take for the Sympathetic, “Walt Whitman feels like the exact right world to become ready, Espada responded, “I don’t know choice as a subject for the celebration of a momentous what has to happen for the world to become ready for milestone like a bicentennial, especially for a magazine Whitman. Maybe we should be reading more Whitman. He Pressing that has from its very beginning been, like the poet wrote: ‘I am he attesting sympathy.’ We could use more himself, intensely interesting in shaping and defining sympathy in this profoundly unsympathetic world. He gave American Literature.” good advice. It’s time to listen.“ Poet Martín Espada, who contributed the forward and a Espada said his experience working with the NAR and pair of poems to the anthology, added to Schraffenberger’s the NAR Press went well. “Jeremy Schraffenberger is an reasoning. “Historically, Whitman had a close relationship intelligent, insightful, patient and energetic editor,” he Forward with the NAR and its editors. Whitman’s influence has said. “I also have nothing but praise for Vince Gotera and gripped the imaginations of those who write for the NAR Rachel Morgan, [other NAR editors].” He finished by saying The North American Review since the first publication of ‘Leaves of Grass.’ Whitman’s he would be willing to work with the press or the magazine spirit is still present in the pages of the NAR. This anthology in the future, “All they have to do is ask.” is proof.” The anthology itself contains the seven original essays by Whitman published in he magazine, along with a staggering amount of scholarship uring the hustle and bustle of printed about Whitman and a score of creative work their 200th birthday celebration, inspired by Whitman. D the editors of the North American In his forward, Espada celebrates the vast reach and Review (NAR) worked to relaunch the manifestation of Whitman’s work throughout Americana, decade-long dormant NAR Press. To calling to light noted voices such as Allen Ginsberg, Carl commemorate the bicentennial, and the Sandburg, Bob Dylan, Marge Piercy and many others. publications history, editor and associate Espada notes how Whitman’s words stretch beyond the professor Jeremy Schraffenberger edited borders of the states, influencing the work of the great and published The Great Sympathetic: Walt Pablo Neruda. However, Espada feels the world remains Whitman and the North American Review, unready for Whitman, “his humanism, his vision an in-depth anthology, examining the great of democracy, his sympathy, especially for the despised, American bard and his work to shape the his vow to speak for ‘the rights of them the others are longest-lived magazine in North America. down upon.’” When asked why he feels this way, Espada said, “Whitman is still an outlaw poet. If we were to adopt the

radical egalitarianism that Whitman expresses in his The Great Sympathetic released in 2015 poetry—a radical egalitarianism that today would be

12 communiqué | 2016EDITION communiqué | 2016EDITION 13 communiqué | 2016EDITION 15 editors Grant Tracey and Shelly But, as Schraffenberger explained, this unique not just looking backat the past, but we are trying to do new things, think about new initiatives andstill they year Next literature.” contemporary celebrate plan to launch a poetry book prize that will eventually publish an entire book of contemporary poetry of a single poet. Also, in the works, a collection of essays edited by fellow NAR Criswell about the craft of fiction. The collection will feature chapters penned by Steven Schwartz, Charles Baxter, Joan Silber, Jackson Rodgers and James Todd Pierce, others. among neither historical a “It’s work contemporary a nor work,” said Schraffenberger. “It rests more in-between, focusing on the craft of writing rather the writing than essence, itself.” In there currently exist three distinct routes the NAR Press is pursuing: historical, contemporary and craft publications. based flexibility is one of the benefits of having the press exist in the form it does. Unlike a typical press at a university, the NAR Press is slightly different. It’s not a peer-reviewed scholarly press, and as such, the editors are allowed more freedom and are, as Schraffenberger put it, “calling our own shots, and creating what we think are interesting books.” Although not like other university presses, Schraffenberger feels UNI only benefits.“Just having a press at a university lends it a little more prestige,” he said. “It also will, down the line, offer us opportunities to collaborate across department lines. Say, someone in political science wants to be involved in a book we are publishing, that opportunity is there. The press and the magazine can be, and have been,” he continued, place “a where people come together, and they come together for all the reasons a university exists: the love of learning, community, critical thinking and creativity.”

Wohlpart said this experience is aligned perfectly Revisiting history their merely avenue is the one The Sacrifice Poems released in 1975 The Sacrifice Currently, there are three undergraduates working working undergraduates three are there Currently, with the NAR who are assigned to the press: Katherine (Kat) Smith, Morgan Pratkelis and Theodora (Teddie) Hyde, along with one graduate assistant: Kathryn (Kat) Wohlpart. with her educational interests. “I’m in the creative writing program so it’s interesting to see a book being put together,” she said. “I’ve always been interested in smaller presses—I’ve worked for an independent newspaper in the past. That’s always been my focus, the small, independent hands-on care. So, this has been a really cool insight into that. I couldn’t have even imagined this would be my graduate assistantship.” press is pursuing, said Schraffenberger. “I think if we just did that, it would be a noble goal that would draw attention heritage. to our But the bicentennial was something we saw as a pivot point too; where we are

, Schraffenberger said “We are collecting all of his essays,” said When the Burroughs book is published in the fall also a naturalist. He was very prolific, and we happened to publish about 20 of his essays, so this book will probably be a bit more robust. There were also some essays about him and some reviews of his book.” Although not read as heavily as others who have appeared in the NAR Burroughs was and is a very important writer. As a prominent writer in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, Burroughs' work was largely non-fiction and centered on themes of nature and philosophy. Today his writing is viewed as a cornerstone to ecocriticism and literary ecology. His legacy is reflected in the John Burroughs Association, which maintains the John Burroughs Sanctuary in Esopus, New York, a 170-acre plot of land containing Slabside—the personal cabin built by Burroughs. The association also awards a medal each year to an author of a distinguished book of natural history. Schraffenberger. “We are also going to annotate them, contextualize them a little bit, and include a preface written by Joan Burroughs, who is John Burroughs great granddaughter.” Joan Burroughs' participation in the project stems from the collaboration Schraffenberger has sought with the John Burroughs Association, which highlights another invaluable asset of the press, as outlined by Schraffenberger, “The NAR and the NAR Press are good for creating relationships with other people. [The Whitmanbook] was blurbed by Ed Folsom, the premier Whitman scholar who works just down the road at the University of Iowa, and Karen Carabiner who is also a very well known Whitman scholar. We reached out to them, and they were kind enough to write blurbs for our book. Now we have a relationship with them, and they know us and what we do, and they’ll get in touch with us regarding things they might be doing, and we will reach out to them with future projects.” of next year, the plan is to hold a release event at the cabin, Slabside, in partnership with the John Burroughs Association. Schraffenberger said this event would be open to the NAR and the NAR Press’ student staff. ’s is an idea , which NAR is a larger entity than just the uniqué | 2016EDITION The Whitman anthology wasn’t simply a single Continuing in that same vein of exploring the NAR spark for the NAR Press. Instead, the editors hoped it would be the beginnings of a roaring blaze. “What the press can do for us as editors is remind us conversation,” larger a in participating are we that said Schraffenberger. “With the press we can see ourselves as having multiple avenues for expression and articulation, multiple avenues for us to promote literature, art and culture. The NAR Press is a good thatreminder the magazine. That the North American Review about spreading the word about literature, about celebrating literature, celebrating about and many the diverse voices we find in American literature. The NAR Press compels us and pushes us out there.” literary history, the press is moving forward with a new book, tentatively titled John Nature: Manifold NorthBurroughs the and American Review holds unique ties to the previous release. “There is a Burrough’s essay in the Whitman book as he was a friend of Whitman’s,” said Schraffenberger. “He was released in 1997 Speak released to Learning

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She will also be a senior lecturer there. College of Natural Science, the College Theron (TJ) Hitchman (Mathematics) The Fulbright Program is a highly of Humanities and Fine Arts and was recently interviewed by The competitive, merit-based grants and eventually the College of Humanities, Chronicle of Higher Education CHASAPPLAUSE international educational exchange Arts and Sciences. He completed a total about his work with inquiry-based program for students, scholars, of 20 years in administration at UNI, learning (IBL) in his university-level teachers, professionals, scientists having served nine years a head of the mathematics courses. Humanities efforts to reconstruct, literally page by documentary explores the histories and and artists. Founded in 1946 by United Department of Mathematics prior to and Fine Arts page, the late 13th- to early 14th- experiences of the Jewish community States Senator J. William Fulbright, becoming Dean. Ben Schafer (Computer Science) has century processional from the women’s in Waterloo, Iowa, from the early the program helps promote mutual been recognized at the Code.org annual Melinda Boyd (School of Music) understanding between the people of has summit for training 570 teachers in Iowa. received a commission from the Royal Benedictine house of Wilton Abbey in immigrants seeking new opportunities Sadik Kucuksari (Technology) the United States and other countries been awarded $280,897 from the Carver Schafer ranked No. 2 in the “500 Club,” Swedish Academy of Music (RSAM) to England that disappeared around 1860. and freedom from persecution to the through the exchange of persons, which is a Code.org affiliate of trainers write an article on Swedish-German Altstatt has assembled 34 single leaves present day. Foundation to acquire training systems knowledge and skills. Schnabel is who trained more than 500 teachers in composer Ingeborg von Bronsart. The of the original manuscript, which were The award was presented by for the Electrical Engineering Technology among roughly 8,000 students and article will be published (in English and strewn throughout various libraries. Governor Terry Branstad and Lt. (EET) program. The new training systems the first year of the program. faculty to receive a Fulbright for the Swedish) in the RSAM’s online resource, “The manuscript is a primary source Governor Kim Reynolds during the will provide students with experience “I love my time conducting training “Swedish Musical Heritage.” that tells us much about the ritual, annual Awards for Excellence in next academic year. regarding both wind and solar energy. workshops with teachers,” said Schafer. music and poetic tradition of the History held by the State Historical Kucuksari has also been awarded “The excitement and energy around

Jeff Byrd (Art) has exhibited his works women of Wilton Abbey,” said Altstatt. Society of Iowa at the State Capital. Sciences $18,945 from the National Science this curriculum and computer science of performance art in Berlin, London, “It significantly adds to our knowledge The Loren Horton Community Kyle Gray (Earth Science) has been Foundation-EPSCoR UNI Capacity in general has been fantastic. I have Boston and Kalisz, Poland in the past of religious women in medieval England, History award is named in honor of awarded the Donald and Carolyn Biggs Building Grant for a real-time simulator already started conducting workshops year. His works are titled “Longing,” and the beginning of the Gregorian Loren Horton, who represented the Award for innovative and effective earth of power systems. The simulator will for this school year and hope to once “Bleeding Heart,” “Security” and chant revival at Solesmes Abbey. This State Historical Society of Iowa in science teaching among early career bring a new avenue for students to better again be in the ‘500 Club.’” “Enough Stuff.” manuscript also serves as a case many capacities from 1973 until faculty in geoscience education. The analyze future power-system networks. Launched in 2013, Code.org is a study in the emerging field of digital her retirement in 1996. This award Donald and Carolyn Biggs Award for nonprofit dedicated to expanding

Roxanne Heimann (Communication fragmentology.” recognizes the best project that innovative and effective earth science Aleksandar Poleksic (Computer Science) access to computer science and Studies) in her eleventh year increases awareness and participation teaching among early career faculty. The has been awarded an Outstanding Paper increasing participation by women teaching has been awarded the Jeffrey Copeland (Languages & in Iowa history on a local level. award is sponsored by the Geoscience award at the 2015 IEEE (Institute of and underrepresented students. The Iowa Communication Association’s Literatures) has been awarded the Education Division of the Geological Electrical and Electronics Engineers) organization’s vision is every student in Outstanding Adjunct Teacher Award Regents Excellence Award for Faculty Jesse Swan (Languages & Literatures) Society of American, and is one of the International Conference on Electro/ every school should have the opportunity for 2015. in recognition for his excellence in was recently selected to participate Geoscience Education Division’s Named Information Technology Conference to learn computer science, and that teaching and scholarship. in the National Endowment of the Awards. in Naperville, Ill. His paper was titled computer science should be part of the Angela Burda (Communication Humanities Collaborative Research “Towards a Better Measure of Protein core curriculum. Sciences and Disorders) has been Jean McDonald (School of Music) has project on Shakespeare and Biography. Joel Haack (Mathematics) was selected 3D Model Quality.” awarded the Regents Excellence been awarded the Regents Excellence Centered at the Folger Shakespeare by United Faculty as the first recipient of Steve O’Kane (Biology) has been Award for Faculty in recognition for her Award for Faculty in recognition for her Library in Washington, D.C., the the “Faculty Administrator of the Year” Sarah Diesburg and Ben Schafer awarded the Regents Excellence excellence in teaching and scholarship. excellence in teaching and scholarship. Project brings together the best award. The award recognizes UNI faculty (Computer Science) have received an Award for Faculty in recognition for his Shakespeareans and biographers. administrators who uphold the American NCWIT (National Center for Women and excellence in teaching and scholarship. Alison Altstatt (School of Music) Francesca Soans (Communication Association of University Professors Information Technology) EngageCSEdu presented a lecture as part of the Studies) and Robert Neymeyer, student JoAnn Schnabel (Art) has been (AAUP) principles of academic freedom, Engagement Excellence Award for their Andrew Stollenwerk (Physics) has “Musically Speaking” series, titled supervisor, Grout Museum District, selected to receive a Fulbright grant tenure and faculty governance. Haack work designing engaging laboratory been awarded the 2014-15 Dean’s “Re-membering the Wilton received the 2014 Loren Horton to teach abroad. Schnabel will teach returned to teaching in the Department exercises for CS 1510 Introduction Award for Teaching Excellence in Processional: A Manuscript Lost and Community History Award for “Sons ceramics in the spring of 2016 at the of Mathematics in the fall of 2015 to Computing. Departmental Programs. Found.” The lecture highlights Altstatt’s of Jacob Synagogue.” The pioneering Anadolu University in Eskisehir, Turkey. after serving 11 years as Dean of the

16 communiqué | 2016EDITION communiqué | 2016EDITION 17 , Copeland uniqué | 2016EDITION 19 NOOK comm BOOK BOOK . John Fairfield was one of the most gifted is the "behind-the-scenes" story of the writing of Ain't No Harm to Kill the Devil: The Life and Legend of John , 2nd Edition offers a powerful, Finding Fairfield Jeffrey S. Copeland Finding Fairfield Copeland's Hire for Abolitionist Fairfield, and notorious abolitionists fighting for freedom for all in the decade before the American Civil In the War. pages of Finding Fairfield recounts his adventures in gathering the details and information needed to write Fairfield's tale. These adventures took him to historic homes, important landmarks of the pre-Civil War era, Underground Railroad depots/museums, and other sites frequented by Fairfield and others who proudly carried the torch of abolitionism. Finding Fairfield is both the story of a writer's craft and an engaging travelogue. Final Stanzas Final Tracey Grant In these eleven short stories by a true master of the form, Grant Tracey guides us across a wide expanse of time and place but always deep into the interior lives of the characters we encounter. From 1918 New York to 1971 Toronto to contemporary Cedar Falls, Iowa—instantly we become involved the complex in relationships of movie actors, college professors, school custodians, teenagers, housewives . . . always firmly and richly enmeshed in their cultures via copious allusions to history, literature, cinema, TV, and theslang that punctuates their spot-on dialogue. Final Stanzas is a tour de force by a writer who is always mindful ofhis craft and attentive to the minutest of details. Lamentations on the Rwandan Genocide Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure Lamentations the Rwandan on Genocide poetic response to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath. This edition of the collection by Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure adds three new poems and additional explanatory notes to his original 2006 collection. Ishmael Reed lauded that 2006 release, stating that Mvuyekure, one of our best critics, uses his rich, eloquent poetic voice to insure that the memories of one of the Twentieth Century's most horrific Holocausts won t be buried as unsung as the victims were. Spring 2016 Decision A Web-Based Salim (Technology) M.D. Assets Removal Optimizing Snow for System Support Temperatures. in Varying & Literatures) (Languages What Jeremy Schraffenberger of Memory and Lyric Essays and the Body. Poems Passes: Geographic Range- Theresa A. Spradling (Biology) Testing Genetics of a Colonizing Models: Population Expansion Parasite. & Literatures)Siegrun Wildner (Languages Holocaust Representation: and Narrative Survivor Testimony The Mauthausen Experience. Fall 2015 (Theatre) A Spectrum of Gretta Berghammer and Collaboration: A Visionary University Approach to Create, to Together Theatres Working Youth Professional with Autism. Youth for Theatre Implement and Sustain and Exploring West: Meets Soo C. Hostetler East (Art) and Tradition. Sharing Culture, Spirit Decisions Fidelity Noh (Mathematics) Teacher Jihwa Enactment. and Their Impact on Lesson Studies) A Critical Ogbondah (Communication Chris W. in Africa. of Terrorism of Media Coverage Analysis (Computer Science) Applications Poleksic Aleksandar in Drug Discovery. of Digital Signal Processing Dolly Parton: Image, Music, Text. (Music) Dolly Parton: Melinda Boyd Martin Chin (ChemistryRobert and Biochemistry) Complex. Alkane of Diruthenium Synthesis of Diversity: Demastes (Biology) The Persistence James W. an Ongoing Shift Experiencing A Genetic Study of a Species in Geographic Distribution. and Literatures)David Grant (Languages Rhetorical Thinking and Communicating to An Introduction Education: in College and Beyond. Optimization (Technology) Posinasetti Roa Nageswara Using Biodegradable Manufacturing Sustainable Methods for Fluids. Metal Working and (Computer Science) Analysis John B. Schafer Computer Teaching for Platform Construction of a Prototype Environments. Lab in Learning Programming J. Siddens (Communication Studies) Adapting the Epic Paul Live Contemporary for into Context Inferno” “Dante’s Poem as an Original Play. Theatrical Production Bridge Theory and Industrial Julie Zhang (Technology) Application through Six Sigma Approach: Project Microcontroller-based of the Low-Cost Development System. Detecting Leakage Professional Professional Development Assignments Spring 2015

COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, ARTS & SCIENCES 18 communiqué | 2016EDITION SCIENCES communiqué | 2016EDITION 23 The Bighorn Medicine Wheel is a stone structure built structure built The Bighorn Medicine Wheel is a stone started by visiting the Badlands National Park in South National Park visiting the Badlands by started Devils Tower, to Wyoming into traveling before Dakota, see Medicine the Bighorn Mountains to and then into interesting have Wheel. “Medicine Wheel and Devils Tower said Heinzel. aspects,” American and geological Native 300 and 800 Americans sometime between Native by and sea level, above nearly 10,000 feet ago. It sits years summer months. is only accessible during the warmer high and of a central cairn a couple feet It consists reach spokes stone Twenty-eight in diameter. 12 feet an 80-foot from the central structure and connect to point to The spokes ring of stones. outer in diameter, placement such as the sun’s astrological events, various location and summer solstices, and the during the winter efore the start of the 2015 fall semester, 14 semester, the start of the 2015 fall efore on a two-week out west ventured students Chad professor by Led learning expedition. Making a large loop, the group—which consisted of consisted Making a large loop, the group—which Heinzel, the group embarked on a journey as part of the the group embarked Heinzel, The Geology and National History course, of the Greater “The primary Ecosystem. see and to goal was Yellowstone or around in Iowa, can’t experience things we experience the And judging by said Heinzel. area,” the Cedar Falls albums the group returned with, that photo extensive sufficiently achieved. goal was Andrew Engle, Emily Jayna Brechwald, Madison Beeler, Benjamin Luinstra, Matthew Mcintosh, Katlynn Evans, Joseph Reinders, Dylan Nielsen, Kathryn Patrick, Nettleton, Todd— Spielbauer and Eddie Robert Aaron Schroeder, B

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in the Away Away uniqué | 2016EDITION 22 comm COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, ARTS & SCIENCES COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, ARTS & SCIENCES It was day four of the trip and they had bears aren’t the bears you have to worry yet to do so. “We ended up getting free about,” she added, “grizzlies are. And this showers at the Old Faithful Inn, which is one looked like it was born this year, it was this beautiful, historic landmark right in very small—I think it’s safe to say my the center of Yellowstone. It was right St. Bernard was bigger. But just seeing as a storm was blowing in,” he said. “We this bear so close to me, and the fact that were standing in this completely native it didn’t care I was there because of all wood structure, windows blowing in, and the wonderful huckleberries around was people are running around all crazy, but probably my favorite moment.” we stood and watched the storm come The trip is partially funded by the in, finally clean and dry. It was really an students themselves; however, the epic moment.” Earth Science Department works to keep “The Amphitheater Lake hike is one the cost as low as possible. Along with of my favorites,” he said. Having once supplying the trip with the majority of its been a park ranger for the Grand Teton camping gear, the department received National Park, he and his wife lived there a donation to buy a 15-person van, which for seven non-consecutive summers. “I drastically reduced the cost, allowing the know it really well,” he said. “It’s kind of group to travel to these locations without like going back home a little bit, and I just renting a vehicle. The course does have enjoy sharing my second home with the a $500 fee attached, but is open to all students.” students across the university. The learning didn’t end upon the group’s Heinzel, who has done many trips like return to the Cedar Valley. “The second this, plans on doing another one in the half [of the class] was really to try and future, although it may not be back to tie in those observations with current Yellowstone. “We try to mix it up,” he said. of certain stars. Native Americans still travel to the Medicine one day.” The glacier gets its name from its unique accessibility environmental themes,” said Heinzel. “We try to go where students want to Wheel and leave offerings and prayers, which can be seen tied and its textbook glacial features, making it a great learning “Part of that is trying to communicate go, where we think we can get the best to the rope fence surrounding the structure. opportunity for students. However, given current climate what you are seeing to different audiences. experience.” But he feels these trips are “Medicine Wheel was completely new to me,” said Brechwald. conditions, the glacier is expected to disappear by 2030, if That’s a big thing within environmental important in other ways, “It changes “I’ve attended a powwow before and felt the spiritual vibe that not sooner. “One thing a lot of national parks are studying,” needs.” To do so, he had the students their perspective, it that here [in the gave me, but this was something else. Along the fence that said Heinzel, “is how climate change will affect tourism. Will try and think from different perspectives Cedar Valley] we are controlled by our keeps people out of the center are people still be interested in visiting a national such as that of Native Americans, and try technology. You are completely plugged lots of little bundles and items that “ But in the alpine park like Glacier National Park or the Grand and communicate what they saw and the in a lot of the time. But in the alpine were left behind during ceremonies environment, you Tetons if they no longer have glaciers? With importance to others. environment, you feel very small. You get or visits from the many tribes that feel very small. the environmental major, I really try, as much Brechwald said her favorite moment a truer sense of a different perspective of still visit the site today.” ” as possible, to tie in my background, which is happened when her path crossed with a how the Earth is larger than we are.” After spending time in the Bighorn Mountains, the students geology and archeology, into future environmental issues for black bear. “The girl I was with was totally traveled into Yellowstone. “In Yellowstone we did some pretty the places we visited. Out west, the big ones are oil and gas flipping her lid because it was just the two good day hikes,” said Heinzel. “My trips are pretty strenuous in use, access to water and how that impacts the ecosystems.’’ of us,” she said. “She asked if she should general. We would go up four or five miles into the mountains. Aside from studying, the group was able to simply enjoy the get out her pepper spray, because that’s In the Tetons, a group of students wanted to see the alpine environment; Heinzel recalls a moment when they first basically what bear spray is, so we could Schoolroom Glacier, so they broke off and did a 26-mile loop in arrived at Yellowstone. “We were trying to find a shower.” protect ourselves if it came toward us. I told her to if it made her feel better. Black

24 communiqué | 2016EDITION communiqué | 2016EDITION 25 - - communiqué | 2016EDITION 27 Having this press allows our stu A new Takach Intaglio Press retails The philanthropy of the Phelps’ in have come at a better time for us. The printmaking area has been growing and the demand for press time in our classes has increased as well. dents more focused and dedicated time at the press without working other the schedulesaround of our offerings,” Wilson says. He also adds that the new equipment has helped to develop a better community among the intermediate advanced and students since it is housed in an area where students the work together. all for around $14,000. It was donated in amazing condition and along with the other equipment Wilson estimates the entire donation was worth around $20,000. donated Phelps the Dianne equipment in the memory of her late husband, Dale Phelps. Dale became an art student at UNI after a career as a surgeon and farmer. He specialized in printmaking while earning his BFA degree in Art and Wilson says his presence can still be felt in the area. A placard for the press acknowledging being the donation is created permanent of a reminder as generosity.their the Department of Art and the Cedar Valley community has been integral to many cultural institutions. Wilson says the press and other equipment benefitwill studentsgenera many in tions to come. - - - - “All of this equipment could not Commonly referred to as a Tak Many artists use the old methods in partment of Art says the control and directness of the traditional process es appeal to students and helps them develop technical knowledge that translates well to modern mechanizes digitaland techniques. “Already this semester the press has been used by many of the printmaking students to produce an astounding variety of art from laser-cut woodcuts to hand drawn monotypes,” Wilson says. PRINTING PRESS PRINTING In Fall of 2015, a new printing press was donated to the UNI Department of Art by Dianne Phelps along with other equipmentsuch as largea drying rack, hand rollers and brayers. The press has been installed in the Printmaking Studio and will be used by students enrolled in all upper-level sections of printmaking. The addition of the new press came at the perfect time, and has alleviated the high demand for the other presses in the studio. ach Intaglio Press, thenew press is designed to print copper and zinc intenseetchings under amounts of pressure. The press is also used to print woodcuts and other types of relief printmaking requiring less pressure. Some of the methods in the printmaking area use technology that dates back to the 15th Century, so this press design has been used for hundreds of years. conjunction with new digital tech niques. Aaron Wilson from the UNI De Overall, Iqbal feels this has been a Iqbal feels Overall, something to be desired. “I found it found be desired. “I something to in a work to rewarding professionally countrydifferent I am using my where he help them,” and skills to knowledge there. The people working said. “I enjoyed I should have like helpful. I felt quite were fully un- to learned the Nepali language the culture, but most people in derstand so commu- the city speak good English, not a problem. I was nication was seeing hundreds by fascinated also quite of in the streets tourists of western mostly there to who were Kathmandu, trek the Himalayas.” were the project. “We for successful year and sampling protocols develop able to set up important project guidelines,” all the necessaryhe said. “I provided A lot of the my student team. training to project logistics and ground rules have We are already planning been finalized. easy to It is not always year. next for run a scientific field project in another - gained a lot of experi but we country, So, as the project director, ence this year. work will confident that our I am quite had planned.” continue as we During their time in Kathmandu, the During their time in Kathmandu, The project is currently funded by in Nepal working Although never the Bagmati River pollution to me and pollution to the Bagmati River consider getting involved.” me to asked with faculty had worked Some students the to coming from TU previously before the connection and helped form states “I decid- universities. the two between with the Geology communicate ed to my ideas. They Department at TU about and responded positively assured necessary help with resources and logistics.” group hoped ‘hot- existing delineate “successfully to in Iqbal, explained of pollution,” spots’ come up with some recommen- order to help to the city government dations for initiatives. cleanup in their surface water continues. But once home, the effort their findings analyzes Here the team to year as they plan a return trip next continue their work. the National Science Foundation (NSF), a federal funding agency in charge of promoting high quality scientific research. Along with the U.S.-based research, the NSF has a limited, highly competitive funding for international collaboration. “Although I am currently funded through the end of 2016, I am looking for additional funding to be able to make this a long-term collaboration effort,” said Iqbal. as the experience Iqbal found before, - The students left for Nepal on May 7, May 7, Nepal on left for The students “When Iqbal Dr. shared with me Iqbal said his involvement with the Iqbal said his involvement environmental disaster in the area,” said area,” in the environmental disaster of the be part is proud to Iqbal. “My team lives.” human save to broader initiatives Nepal after 2015, just a couple weeks one of the deadliest by shaken was on record, and returned to earthquakes on July 16, 2015. Iqbal the Cedar Valley of period a shortened for joined the team time, from July 7 through 26. about this opportunity I was really excited about two things: first, getting a chance to see my family after the earthquake, second, proud and feeling to represent UNI for this project,” said Shrestha. “Being an international stu dent, working as a research assistant and then doing a project in my home country was the best experience I could ever have had in my life. I felt that I was doing something important to help monitor surface water quality issues in my own country’s land, where I grew up seeing the Bagmati River change its aesthetic look from bad to worse. Bagmati River pollution is one of the major environmental issues that needs attention.”huge suggestions came from Bagmatie River “Many Nepalese students. from the two on environ- worked Nepalese students at UNI under mental research projects he said. “They were my supervision,” the ones who brought up the issues of

he summer months are often often he summer months are return to students a time for a home, relax, maybe work

The river, which runs through the The river, Kathmandu Valley separating the cities Valley Kathmandu is considered and Patan, of Kathmandu and both Hindus and Buddhists holy by for the holds great spiritual significance people of the region. Somewhat ironic, many by believed the water however, the spirit has become one of purify to in bodies of water the more polluted the area, which is having countless ill the surrounding population. on effects is a global pollution, in particular, “Water million two said Iqbal. “Close to crisis,” Valley in the Kathmandu people live who are directly or indirectly dependent And although on the Bagmati River.” and various the Nepalese government organizations are taking several private the problems, a lot mitigate to initiatives remains. “If the problem is not of work an might lead to addressed, it adequately summer job and take a break from the summer job and take UNI gradu- For of academic life. rigors and Junu Tuladhar Sushil students ate the trip home to Shrestha however, Nepal Kathmandu, vacation. from a typical summer far was With the help of earth science professor teamed Mohammad Iqbal, the students Tribhuvan up with the local university, on a begin fieldwork (TU), to University Bag- help clean the polluted project to mati River.

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COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, ARTS & SCIENCES 26 communiqué | 2016EDITION communiqué | 2016EDITION 29 An image of earth captured by the balloons. captured by of earth An image The event is also about introducing that not all the sessions are led by women. Although, it’s important to introduce these students to women role models, it’s important to show them men that are accepting of women in STEM jobs,” she said. another obstacle according to Seavey. “Seeing these jobs are right here in our community is really important,” she said. “I think that every student in Iowa needs more of this message. A lot of students who start and stay interested in STEM never picture themselves doing it in Iowa. Helping them see there are jobs right here, in all those areas is important.” really these young girls to a community, one that is active and supportive. “If you ask very young kids to draw a picture— and this is boys andgirls—of what they think a scientist or what they think an they is, very drawengineer a lonely person. They don’t realize that most of the work is collaborative,” said Seavey. She feels introducing students to this community helps to alleviate this stereotype. “I also think it’s important Along with the interactive, hands-on afraid of those things,” said Seavey. This year’s event was held on November and14 close to 150 girls attended event. day-long the The partnership between SWE and CHAS also allows the girls in attendance to meet professionals in both the academic and professional side of STEM. The event is broken into hour-long sessions, and roughly half are led by university faculty and the other half led by women working for local companies—including John Deere, ConAgra Foods, Cargill, and Viking Pump amongst others. “Kids have different interests. So, in order for the event to have a lot of different opportunities available, we’ve opened up the sessions to leaders to many different people throughout STEM, both at UNI and SWE,” said Seavey. sessions, the students are introduced to women working in the field, and allowed to ask questions and seek their advice. “That was the part of the day I was most intrigued with,” said Seavey. “Because the girls asked really serious, in-depth questions.” She went on to say some students inquired support, finding about preparing and applying for college and career choices available in Iowa as well as other parts of the country. Meeting women working STEM jobs in the area helps break The Cedar Valley Society for Women Over the past few years SWE has By teaming up with the college, the in Engineering (SWE) isgroup a comprised of professionals working STEM jobs for companies throughout the Cedar Valley with one common goal— "to stimulate women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders, expand the image of the engineering profession as a positive force in improving the quality of life, and demonstrate the value of diversity.” joined with CHAS and STEM@UNI to hold the annual event, Expanding Your Horizon. The event is designed to help middle school girls become more familiar with the STEM careers available to them, and meet local women working in STEM careers. Expanding Your Horizons is a day dedicated to helping girls become aware of and prepared to take advantage of every opportunity available to them, including participation in future math and science courses that will insure they leave high school prepared to pursue a STEM career. event expanded to include technology, science and mathematics, as well as engineering. girl “A who is a biologist is just as much a success to SWE as a girl who becomes an engineer, or just becomes more interested and isn’t

Horizons One of the largest pushes in education in the last decade STEM jobs have one of the widest gender gaps among any And oflargest the encouragement one is obstacles standing For many young women in elementary, high school, or even has been to increase the amount of students going into STEM related fields—science,and engineering technology, mathematics. In April 2013, at the Third Annual White House Science Fair, President Barack Obama stated the effort as a focus of his presidency. In his speech, he called for an “all- hands-on-deck approach” highlighting STEM as the key to future American ingenuity. And for Obama, and many others, all-hands means all-hands, this and includes give helping women more access to these fields. area of the American workforce. In 2011, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, women only held 24 percent of all STEM jobs despite making up half the workforce. Obama went on to make note of this disparity in that same speech from 2013, saying “One of the things that I really strongly believe in is that we need to have more girls interested in math, science, and engineering. We’ve got half the population that is way underrepresented in those fields and that means that we’ve of talent...not whole bunch a got encouraged way the being they need to.” in the way for young women. “The biggest barriers to girls getting into STEM is not that their family discouraged them, encourage Marcy them,” said didn’t but that families their Seavey, UNI STEM Coordinator. “And it’s probably not like they went, ‘I don’t want my girlto be an engineer,’ it’s that they don’t know what an engineer is, or what other STEM fields are. They may know the title engineer, but not know what it is. And if you don’t know what it is, you’re not going to push your kid into it.” college, the path to STEM jobs isn’t highlighted very well. But certain organizations within and around the CHAS community are working tirelessly to correct that. EXPANDING

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raduating in 1980 from the fledgling computer Scholten also points to the liberal arts core as being Scholten alphabetically, which led to the photo mix up. science program, still housed in the Department crucial to his success. “Certainly, the technical knowledge In addition to funding scholarships, Scholten gives G of Math, Gary Scholten has applied his I gained through math, computer science and business back by serving as a member of the Department of education from UNI to reach ever-raising heights. courses were foundational to my career,” he said. “Beyond Computer Science Advisory Board. “It’s been great Scholten is currently Executive Vice President and Chief that, my world was opened so much through classes like for me to stay connected with the Computer Science Information Officer at Principal Financial Group (The Foreign Area Studies: India. Little did I know at the time, Department,” he said. “The department is so important Principal), a global investment manager located in Des but in the future I would chair an Indian subsidiary of The to our state, giving the strong graduates it produces Moines. Today, he works to give back. He and his wife, Principal with over 1,000 employees.” and the propensity for its graduates to stay in Iowa.” Mindy, fund the Gary and Mindy Scholten Computer Scholten’s motivation to serve on the board is to provide Science Scholarship, which awards one scholarship a voice of real business needs to help shape classes and annually to a sophomore, junior and senior student I really hadn't had assignments. He feels this element is crucial to prepare working towards a degree in computer science at UNI. “ students for real world, computer science situations. Scholten feels many students over look the possibilities “One fun benefit I found is through this connection I’ve of an education and career in Information Technology- exposure to computer been asked to guest lecture in a few classes over the related fields. “We wanted something to prod people years,” he said. towards pursing a field that can be both very rewarding science but I was intrigued To commemorate his success, in 2011 he received and very lucrative,” he said. Scholten feels that UNI is the the UNI Alumni Association’s Alumni Achievement perfect place to invest in such a scholarship, not only by what I had read about Award. As one of four annual Heritage Honours Awards— because he credits the school with providing him with a working with computers achievement, service, young alumni and honorary great education, but because its graduates are more likely ” alumnus—the Alumni Achievement Award recognized the to stay and pursue a career in Iowa, helping the state. significant professional accomplishment of a graduate. “We really appreciate how flexible the UNI development “Thinking about all the successful and talented UNI team was in working with us in designing the scholarship to Scholten’s love for math is what initially drove alumni, it is obviously a huge honor for me to even be include some areas of passion for us,” said Scholten. “For him to the university’s Mathematics Department. “I considered as one of them,” he said. “I was especially example, they supported our desire to put an emphasis really hadn’t had exposure to computer science but I pleased that a graduate of UNI’s computer science on students with backgrounds under-represented in was intrigued by what I had read about working with program was recognized—there are so many that have computer science.” computers,” he said. “But the fact that the computer done amazing things across the U.S. The real icing on Scholten recalls his own time on campus. “UNI was the science degree was in the Mathematics Department the cake for me was one my favorite professors (and perfect university option for me,” he said. “Coming from at the time was attractive to me because I wanted to be person who single-handedly started the computer a very small Iowa town, UNI was a very welcoming place, able to fall back to math if I decided not to science program at UNI), Dr. Carl Wehner, was able to be UNI was a very welcoming provided a great education and definitely opened up my pursue computer science.” in attendance for the award presentation.” “ world. It was a time when the computer science program Along with his education, Scholten is fond of the people In the end, Scholten said, “There were many reasons was in its infancy, which gave great opportunities for he met while pursuing his degree. “One specific memory that Mindy and I wanted to be involved in the scholarship, place, provided a great students to pursue many different tangents—coupled is that of the first meal ticket I received. It had the photo but it starts with wanting to give back to a university and with a great math foundation. In addition, the broader of a different student on it,” he said. “It took me two state that have done so much for us.” education and definitely liberal arts focus and a very strong business college years to meet him, but he turned out to be a great friend opened up my world. rounded out a great educational opportunity for me.” who ended up being the best man in our wedding.” The ” other student was Steve Schoon, who appeared next to

30 communiqué | 2016EDITION communiqué | 2016EDITION 31 - communiqué | 2016EDITION 33 “I want to continue to build on our suc continue to to “I want research cess as a scientifically relevant he said. “We students,” program involving are doing. do what we continue to plan to funding situation for the state Hopefully, and our provost will stabilize universities the aiding other faculty keep will be able to helped in that many of us were same way the past.” For Demastes the funding from NSF is a Demastes For change and other factors are forcing are forcing change and other factors shift in their geographic many species to distribution—losing ground in some areas, in some new territories but pushing into said Spradling. “Our research helps cases,” the genetic consequences of determine a new geo- of a species into the expansion see to excited always graphic location. I’m how things will turn out, what the answer what the answer things will turn out, how which work, things will be and what makes sci- so drawn to is probably why I was this project place. When ence in the first raise new is finished, it will undoubtedly will pursue.” questions, which we of their accomplishments. clear indicator “I really like the fact that UNI has been the fact “I really like and Spradling are Both Demastes ates—and master’s students—who students—who master’s ates—and in research of careers gone on to have their own.” small enough that class sizes keep able to a little bit my students know I can get to with them fun interacting more and have more said Spradling. “It is even in class,” in my work fun when some of them ask to with interact research lab, and I get to them on a one-on-one basis and see them as scientists.” their confidence develop what their research looking forward to the mean for and what it might will unveil scientific community at large. “Climate more learning opportunities to their more learning opportunities to undergraduates five Currently, students. are assisting in the lab, and some are receiving financial support through even the grant. “One of the reasons I chose UNI seemed important because teaching was right. The “I was said Demastes. here,” good here really appreciate students learn and most are eager to teaching with new ideas. Working and are open to them on an individual basis with their is icing research projects undergraduate in real involved Getting them on the cake. science, and hopefully publishing their opportunity with them, is a fantastic work had the opportunity to have them. We for undergradu- with some outstanding work -

Although Demastes and Spradling have have and Spradling Although Demastes NSF funding has been the years, Over With the new funding, the two sci- With the new funding, the two only just recently received NSF backing, only just recently received continued for their research has been Beginning in 1991, the nearly 25 years. been collecting samples and have two 80 degrees them at negative storing Samples have future work. Celsius for in 1991, been harvested site from the 1996, 2001, 2011 and 2013. “This in a time-series of has resulted work and genetic samples that span 22 years the organisms nearly 250 generations for possess samples Thus, we of interest. study that hold a unique opportunity to and continues to as it unfolded evolution said Demastes. unfold,” to acquire. increasingly more difficult “[The] NSF requires a research project pages of text in four summarized be to said Spradling. “That seems and figures,” it isn’t hard, but it shouldn’t be too like in such a convince a reviewer easy to is an ‘question’ short space that your enough have one, that you interesting and that answer, to skill and background some will transform the answer knowing Spradling, According to area of biology.” of the roughly 19 percent of the four- submit full to page pre-proposals asked are funded. This proposals, only a quarter percent approv in a less than five results al for funding rate. funding rate. al for continue their will be able to entists their labs, and extend research, expand -

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The American Mathematical Society (AMS) awarded $3,000 to University of Northern University $3,000 to awarded The American Mathematical Society (AMS) a secondary a single mother from Williamsburg, is pursuing Wardenburg, a bequest from the is made possible by Memorial Fund J. Trjitzinsky The Waldemar The MCC’s proposal for expansion was accepted by the Iowa Economic Development Development Economic the Iowa by accepted was expansion proposal for The MCC’s the equipment only put a temporary moving hold on the center's Surprisingly, support the campus and continues to The majority of the MCC is housed on main During the fall, the off-campus portion of UNI Metal Casting Center (MCC) moved (MCC) moved portion of UNI Metal Casting Center the off-campus During the fall, AMS Funds Student LearningAMS Funds Student J. Trjitzinsky through the Waldemar Wardenburg Emily mathematics major Iowa receive to UNI and six other universities The AMS randomly selected Memorial Fund. mathematical department chose university’s of $3,000 each. Each one-time awards in mathematics. a career help them pursue the funds to receive one student to Community Kirkwood at education her college began She degree. teaching mathematics classes at her church, mentors at UNI. She currently teaches a junior College and is now part-time. a middle school student and works taught at several Trjitzinsky Trjitzinsky. J., Barbara G. and Juliette of Waldemar estate of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he remained institutions, including the University mathematical students concern for He showed career. the rest of his professional for would financial resources to ensure that the lack of adequate efforts and made personal and a the author of 60 mathematical papers was not hinder their studies. Trjitzinsky He died in 1971 at the age of 72. 46 years. member of AMS for to a new location: the renovated first floor of the Cedar Valley TechWorks in Waterloo. Waterloo. in TechWorks Valley floor of the Cedar first a new location: the renovated to building. on the third floor of the same located was “The new space will center the Prior, said flow,” material for equipment and better open space higher ceilings, larger offer Jerry develop the MCC. “The of to Thiel, Director the center new space will also allow abilities throughout connection with Internet design center manufacturing an additive our industry support to community college and improved for This will allow the state. the new plastic and metal 3D printers.” room for The new space will also allow partners. been planning on “We’ve prepare the move. to awarded and $2.7 million was Agency, said Thiel. “The ago,” years two TechWorks the Cedar Valley to moved since we the move the research and provided NABL program finished its the after space became available really a great opportunity for It was overnight. double in size an opportunity to center base.” manufacturing and state’s university the center, back up and and the entire operation was a day, only took The move productivity. servicemanufacturer the equipment assisted “Our student employees running in four. Thiel. said in record time,” the printer manager in both disassembling and reassembling night.” running Thursday and were on Wednesday the printer moved “We program along with industry technology research projects. academic manufacturing On the Move On the BRIEFS Sciences 34 communiqué | 2016EDITION COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, ARTS & SCIENCES uniqué | 2016EDITION 37 comm taught for 50 years, received his B.A. degree in biology from UNI in 1950. Yager went on to earn his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in plant physiology from the University of Iowa. His research interests have focused on student motivation and attitudes toward science. Yager awardee Clayton Edwards, Dr. Robert Yager and Lisa Chizek. Yager Robert Dr. Edwards, Clayton awardee Yager Edwards was nominated by Brian Townsend, associate Robert E. professor Yager, emeritus of science education professor of mathematics. A desire to improve his classroom practice students’ his and understanding of mathematics led Edwards to UNI’s Middle Grades Master’s Program. Townsend noted that Edwards is an innovator in his classroom through the use of technology and problem-based instruction. in the College of Education at the University of Iowa where he -

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The Robert Dr. E. and Phyllis M. Yager Exemplary Teaching Recogni The 2014 recipientsThe 2014 were: Clayton Edwards, mathematics teacher The intent of the awards from the Yager Education Fund for Nominees are selected by UNI faculty members and are UNI Chizek was nominated by Jody Stone, professor of chemistry and tion Award, established by the Robert and Phyllis Yager Education Fund for Excellence, recognized two Iowa teachers with awards. from Grundy Lisa School, Center and Chizek, Middle science teacher from Elementary North Tama School. Excellence Award is to recognize exemplary K through 12 teaching by UNI graduates. It serves a key role in supporting UNI’s leadership in preparing teachers. graduates in at least their fifth year of teaching in a K through 12 classroom. Awardees are selected based on teaching materials and student performance. biochemistry. Stone noted that Chizek, who earned undergraduate her degree in elementary education and her masters degree in science education at UNI, began her teaching career as a third grade classroom transformedteacher and effective highly into a She science teacher. also successfully lobbied her principal to increase the time spent on science instruction at the third grade level and incorporated activi ty-based, student-centered science into teaching. learning her Yager Awards Yager 36 communiqué | 2016EDITION COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, ARTS & SCIENCES COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, ARTS & SCIENCES

summer research with MRSEC faculty. Bailey Knudson (Communication Dahl, Ashley Fisher, Morgan Gibbins, Nick The UNI Concert Chorale embarked on Sciences & Disorders) was awarded Hall, Mary Pat Lawler, Dana Potter, Randy an international tour over winter break, the National Student Speech Language Timm, Ben Uhl and Kaylee Wellik. traveling for the first time to Estonia. The Hearing Association (NSSLHA) graduate students left Dec. 30, 2014 and returned student scholarship. The scholarship The 2015 National Conference on on Jan. 5, 2015. They preformed three of $5,000 is awarded annually to an Undergraduate Research was held at concerts over the course of six days. undergraduate senior with an active John Len Wiles (School of Music) is the NSSLHA membership who will begin as Eastern Washington University from group’s conductor. “I feel confident saying accredited Speech Pathology Master’s April 16 through 18. More than 3,000 in the that Concert Chorale’s tour to Estonia program upon graduation. All graduate students and over 1,000 advisors were in STUDENTS NEWS was monumental for our students,” Wiles student scholarship recipients were attendance at the conference. Students said. “In particular, I believe our students recognized at the 2014 American Speech- from UNI submitted their research reached a new understanding regarding Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) through a competitive process and were the concept of a community that supports Convention in Orlando, Fla. selected to present their research at the the arts as well as the tangible, visceral The UNI Gamma Sigma Chapter of the Kelsey Lonneman (Marketing), Laura Math students won Iowa State Math power of music.” Aaron Van Fossen (Art) was showcased in conference. They presented their work national Earth Science Honor Society, Thomsen (Communication Studies), Competition in 2015. The UNI Concert Chorale making the Communication Arts (CA) Magazine as at oral sessions and poster sessions Sigma Gamma Epsilon, earned the Mike Lieb (Communication Studies), the trip consisted of 36 students. (All one of “the fifteen most promising design, throughout the time of the event. Quality Chapter award for the 4th Morgan Schutterle (Communication For the fifth time in the program's students listed were/are enrolled in photography and illustration students in Participating students included consecutive year. history, a group of students from the the School of Music unless otherwise visual communications programs from all Studies), Olivia Mossman Derek Bradley (Biology), Hannah (Communication Studies), Patricia School of Music was invited to Costa stated) Anna Belknap (Communication across the country.” Carr-Murphy (English), Kiana Graduate student Sushil Tuladhar (Earth Zubrod (Communication Studies), Rica as part of the Promising Young Studies), Sam Bergan, Laurelin Berkley, Cullnan (Biology), Danae Dieken Science) has been awarded 3rd place for Rhydian Talbot (Communication Artists of the 21st Century program. Alaura Bingham, Bradley Boyd, Adam Jason Vizzini (Communication Studies) (Communication), Allison best student poster at the Iowa Water Studies), Sean Ford (Communication Students include Aaron DeSantiago, Brown, Josh Burk, Colby Campbell, received an Award of Achievement at Dreyer (Biology), McKenzie Flick Conference in Ames, Iowa. Tuladhar’s Studies), Stephanie Duggan (Marketing) Aaron Brown, Kayla Kjeldseth, Megan Andrew Clair, Chambray Daughtery the 2015 Iowa Motion Picture Awards research has also been recognized at the and Whitney Johnson (Communication Grey and Michael Gookin. They were (Languages & Literatures), Alex Dunlay, for his documentary “A Beautiful World.” (Communication), Peter Ickes (Biology), annual UNI Graduate Symposium, earning Studies). accompanied by Olivia Frey (Communication Studies), The documentary explores his family’s Stormie Johanson (Biology), Kyle 2nd place for best oral presentation, and Mitra Sabeghpour (School of Music). Evan Gammon, Michael Gookin, Megan experience with deafness in a world Kaiser (Physics), Courtney Keiser 1st place for best poster presentation. Graduate student Hannah Carr-Murphy The group traveled Costa Rica from Grey, Kate Heetland, Morgan Kramer, focused on hearing. (Physics), Hallie Kucherea (Biology), (Languages and Literatures) published Sept. 26 through Oct. 6, and performed Kevin Lam, Leia Lensing, Hannah Elizabeth McCulloch (Biology), Jacob UNI’s American Advertising Federation a chapbook of poetry from Quick & in two concerts with the National Lodge (College of Social and Behavioral Professors Tim Dooley (Art) and Aaron Meade (Communication), Kristi (AAF) student chapter took home first Dirty Press. Symphony Orchestra. Sciences), Kaitlin McCrary, Makayla Wilson (Art) guided a group of UNI place at the AAF District 9 National McDonald, Chloe Murphy, Niki O’Meara, printmaking students to the Southern Newhall (Communication – Electronic Student Advertising Competition Two UNI students, Samuel Kapler Student Noah Hurley (Physics) and Pavel Joshua Ostermann, Ben Owen, Rachel Graphics Council International Conference Media Production), Gina Owens (NSAC). Members include Alyssa Chekas and Nicole Hegewald (Mathematics) Lukashev, Ph.D., (Physics) participated Proffitt, Angela Putnam (Languages & in Knoxville, Tenn. in 2015. At the (Communication), Jade Simpson participated in a month-long program (Communication Studies), Bart Frederick in the National Science Foundation Literatures), Bradley Rees, Alexandra conference, students participated in a (Biology), Alex Smith (Biochemistry), (Marketing), Bethany Chatterton at Kyungpook National University sponsored Research Experience for Saulsbury, Brandon Schneider, Sean number of events, including a juried art Kyle Spurgeon (Physics), Whitney (Communication Studies), Brad Haught (KNU) in South Korea. There they had Undergraduates program at the University Smith, Enrique Tovar (Physics), Nick exhibition, a portfolio exhibition and the Stoolman (Communication), Celeste (Marketing), Bradley Kennedy (Art), the opportunity to meet with U.S. of Nebraska-Lincoln Materials Research Vanderah (Communication Studies) and creation of a massive installation/print Underrinner (Biology), Jordan Weber Bryan Helleso (General Studies), Evan Ambassador Mark Lippert, who was Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) Colin Wilson. piece, complete with the playing of the and Seuren (Marketing), Evan Stevenson visiting the KNU campus to discuss facilities. The program recruits faculty song “Free Bird.” (Biology) Zhipeng Ye (Physics). (Communication Studies), Jess Petersen U.S. and South Korean cooperation and student pairs from regional four-year Participating art students included (Marketing), Joslyn Aldape (Marketing), in higher education. colleges and universities to engage in Ashlie Coady, Mariah Coffey, Desiree

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My students have big big studentsMy have hearts, decided they and and this situation to take for with it do something the greater good. resume and social networking workshops. “Specifically, we want to work on retention and recruitment of women into computing careers and majors. We hope our presence in the department and community encourage women to consider will computing and technology as a valid career choice, and we wish to provide presence encouraging an female for students already in these majors,” “ , to learn “Even turnout our was though small, For those interested in supporting As for the UNI Women in Computing, people my age enjoy programming as much as I do,” said Leinen, who helped guests. interested guide we ended up working with multiple student groups, and reached a lot of people with our advertising,” said Diesburg. With representation of the Beyond Pink TEAM in attendance, eventsthe impact reached further, beyond the UNI community. Along with spreading awareness, event the was even able to raise some money to support the fight against breast cancer. The success of the event has planted the seeds for potentially holding similar events in the future. Although there are no solid plans, the notion beyond isn’t consideration, said both Leinen. Diesburg and the UNI Women in Computing’s efforts to turn the tides on breast cancer, follow the group on Facebook and visit cedarvalleybreastcancer.org more about upcoming events, or make donations. Coding Against Cancer was just one of many events this active student group participated in. In previous years, the group has sent members to the Celebration, Grace Hopper 2014 the world’s largest gathering of women technologists. reaches The also group out to middle school students, sends women to regional national and conferences, provides events social department their women in for and continues to educate members on professional self-promotion through

The October event would be held in association with The event draw a sizable crowd, around fifty people Against Cancer event in the fall 2015 semester. “I was surprised and honored,” said Diesburg. “My students have big hearts, and they decided to take this situation and do something with it for the greater good.” the Beyond Pink TEAM, a local advocacy organization. “The goal of the event was to raise breast cancer awareness in a techie way,” said Diesburg. “Most of us don’t know that one out of eight women will develop this disease sometime in her lifetime, with the ratio in Iowa being even worse, at one out of seven women,” added.she attended the event. Guests were welcome to take part in logic puzzles, a bake sale and even learn some programing skills with the aid of Lego Mindstorms—a relatively yet comprehensive user-friendly, introductory tool to robotics. Volunteers taught some basic robot programming skills, and attendees were allowed to build, program and then test their creations by running an obstacle course. “It was great to see Code Pictured left to right Michaela Leinen, Davien Schweizer, Hannah Thompson, Davien Schweizer, right Michaela Leinen, Pictured left to Smith Sarah Diesburg, Danielle Heim and Stephanie in

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member or even or themselves.member women eight in One across the country will receive the diagnosis within her lifetime. Every year however, many work to turn the tides against breast cancer, each in their own unique way. At UNI, the members of the UNI Women in Computing group waged their battle through code, computer coding to be exact. recently struck close to home. In the summer of 2015 Sarah Diesburg, associate professor of computer sciences faculty and advisor student the for organization, was preparing for her third year teaching at UNI when she was diagnosed. But to her surprise, the young professor’s support system at UNI was both strong and responsive, and the club decided to become involved with her fight in a personal capacity. Michaela Leinen, a senior and president of the UNI Women in Coding a Computing they announced hold group, would

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Ernest A Doeringsfeld Doeringsfeld A Ernest Toby & Pam McClellan Pam & Toby COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, ARTS & SCIENCES COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, ARTS ‘74 Jann (Rudd) Weitzel, BA, MA ‘89, ’79 Diane (Dewall) Ballard, BM, ‘85 Jay Cherry, BA, Batavia, IL, retired Nevada, MO, was named president of Columbus, OH, conducted the Scarlet from the FBI after 21 years, and recently Cottey College effective June 15, 2015. Honor Band at The Ohio State University started his own polygraph business called Middle School Honor Band Festival in Eagle Eye Polygraph. ALUMNINEWS ‘75 Mary (Fasse) FasseShaw, BA, Toledo, February, 2015. IA, retired in May 2010 after 35 years of ‘85 Lisa (Andersen) Chizek, BA, MA teaching, and is now the development ‘79 Thomas Riter, BA, Yankton, SD, is still ‘12, Toledo, IA, received the 2015 STEM associate for the Tama County serving as associate farm news director Education Award for Inspired Teaching. 1940s, '50s & '60s ‘69 John Steffa, BA, MM ‘78, Mars Hill, ‘73 Patricia (Henderson) Higby, BA, MA Community Foundation. at WNAX radio, and is also a 20-year- NC, climbed to the summit of Mount ‘77, MA ‘89, Cedar Falls, IA, was a finalist member of the National Association of ‘85 Debra (Bruhn) Hedden, MA, PhD Kilimanjaro in 2000, and to base camp of in the STEM Champion award category , BA, ‘75 Allan Jacobson, BA, Cedar Falls, IA, Farm Broadcasters. ‘97, Lawrence, KS, is professor and ’48 Rosie (Maiden) Bolstad Mount Everest in 2003. Other adventures for the 2015 Women of Innovation Bremerton, WA, is continuing work on her is completing his 30th year as senior director of music education at the have included skydiving in 2015, which Awards presented by the Technology upcoming release, Remembering Bernie, lecturer in music at Wartburg College. University of Kansas. She received the was on his bucket list. Association of Iowa. 1980s in honor of her late husband, as well as He is the instructor of percussion and prestigious Byron T. Shutz Excellence in two other recording projects. director of The Knightliters Jazz Band I. ‘80 Russell Alexander, BM, Festus, MO, is Teaching Award in 2011, was promoted 1970s ‘73 Craig Perman, BA, MA ‘77, Denver, to full professor in 2014 and published CO, recently published a book, titled now Reverend Alexander and has been a , BA, Germantown, WI, ‘75 David Poggenklass, BA, Guttenberg, Threading the Concept, a text for general ‘50 Ted Herbst Shenanigans: The Curious and Romantic pastor since July, 2014. is enjoying retirement and summers in ‘70 Linda (Frey) Bayliss, BA, Iowa City, IA, currently entertains at 35-40 music methods courses in 2010. Experiences of a Young Chemist. The Rhinelander, WI, at his summer home on IA, is a guidance counselor at Tri-County retirement homes, assisted living book combines humor with tales of ‘81 Kevin de Regnier, BA, Winterset, IA, Lake Thompson. School in Thornburg, IA. Linda also facilities and care centers each month. ‘85 Melody (Turnquist) Steed, BM, the numerous difficulties he had to was named the president of the American serves as organist at Geneso (Illinois) In his spare time, he enjoys spending Lindsborg, KS, recently completed her overcome in order to complete classes College of Osteopathic Family Physicians. , BA, Congregational Church. time with his family (including five first year as the assistant academic ‘53 Shirley (Anfinson) Collins while working full-time, and the work Decorah, IA, is excited to see the third grandchildren), golfing and fishing. dean of Bethany College. In addition, she he did that eventually led to his first US ‘81 Ellen Dostal, BM, Los Angeles, CA, is generation in her family attend UNI. ‘70 Barbara Illian, BA, Hoffman Estates, continues to serve as the college organist patent for a chemical process to recover the director of arts and communication IL, was presented with a Great Citizen ‘76 Mary (Jedlicka) Humston, BA, Iowa and director of the handbell ensembles. silver from waste discharge. for Mount Wilson FM Broadcasters. ‘56 Jerry McRoberts, BA, Charleston, IL, Award by the Mayor of Hoffman Estates, City, IA, cowrote a book, titled Mary & retired from Eastern Illinois University IL in appreciation of her 24 years of Me: A Lasting Link Through Ink, with ‘86 Sara (Walker) Etzel, BA, Saint Paul, ‘74 Xuchitl (Nodarse) Coso, BA, MA ‘83 Randy Atkinson, BM, MM ‘89, Cedar in 1998, where he served as professor commitment and dedicated service as a fellow UNI grad Mary Potter Kenyon, BA MN, is the director of STEM and career ‘80, Lakeland, FL, was named executive Rapids, IA, was named the 2015 Karl of art history, and earned a faculty library trustee of the Palatine (IL) Public ‘85. The book is about their nearly three and technical education (CTE) for the director of PACE Center for Girls, Inc., L. King Distinguished Service Award excellence award. Library District. decades of friendship and letter writing. Minneapolis Public Schools. She over- which works to improve the lives of girls recipient by the Iowa Bandmasters sees the K12 continuum of educational through education, counseling and life Association. ‘60 James Riggs, BA, Hilton Head Island, ‘71 Steven Ainsworth, BA, MA ‘75, ’76 Steve Little, BA, MA ‘86, Clive, IA, is opportunities for 35,000 students. Pensacola, FL, retired after 44 years of skills training. SC, published his first novel, titled looking forward to retiring in June, 2015, ‘83 Elizabeth (Brooks) Brooks Michael, Freedom Run, which depicts the story band directing, and moved to Florida to following 38 years of teaching. ‘86 Austin Jones, BA, Grinnell, IA, is a ‘74 James Miller, BM, MA ‘77, Ames, IA, BA, Antioch, TN, is the director of the of four escaped prisoners attempting to be closer to children and grandchildren. proud new grandfather of Jaxon Nicholas is retired and stays busy volunteering Small Business Development Program establish new lives and avoid the law. Because teaching has been his , BA, Jackson McCulley, born March 11, 2015. at an elementary school, working with ‘77 Gregory Lauterbach in the Tennessee Department of occupation and hobby he will be teaching Heights, NY, was a soloist in several Scouts, teaching Sunday school and Transportation, Civil Rights Office. ‘64 Joyce (Silka) Koch, BA, Lumberton, music education courses two days per recent concerts: Brahms German ‘86 Dan Rouse, BA, Cedar Rapids, IA, week at Pensacola Christian College. giving guitar lessons. NJ, retired first in 1998 and then again in Requiem at New York’s Symphony Space ‘83 Bret Lee, BM, Marshalltown, IA, is the creative services manager for 2014 when she moved to be closer to her with the Dessoff Choirs under conductor OnMedia. He has been with the company ‘74 Brian Ney, BA, Ankeny, IA, retired recently completed his 32nd year as a daughters. She stays active in writing, ‘71 Dennis Burkle, BA, North Platte, in June 2014 after 40 years as an Iowa Christopher Shepard, Haydn Mass in Time band director. since 1993, and frequently hires interns singing and was recruited by the AFLCIO NE, retired in May 2015 after teaching of War with Sound Shore Chorale in New and full-time producers from UNI’s journalism and English for 44 years—18 educator. He is now enjoying retirement, for a project. Rochelle under conductor Richard Slade ‘83 Michael Tatoian, BA, Middletown, DE, communications and electronic media in West Bend and 26 in North Platte, NE. and driving a school bus for Durham School Services in Ankeny. and Rossini Petite messe solennelle with was promoted to president of the Dover program. ‘66 Gene Driscoll, BA, MA ‘74, both Worchester (MA) and Dessoff (NYC) International Speedway. , BA, Spirit Washington, IA, is retired and resides ‘72 Pamela (Goeb) Jordan Choirs under conductor Christopher ‘86 Debra Shapiro, BA, Suffolk, VA, is Lake, IA, is in her 12th year as county ‘74 Mary (Heffner) Oelmann, BA, MA with his wife Judy in Washington, IA. Shepard. ’84 Matthew Haven, BA, Cedarburg, WI, is the former president of the Virginia supervisor of Dickinson County. Her ‘91, Greene, IA, enjoys traveling, and president of Telsmith Inc., a manufacturer Technology and Engineering Education husband, Michael, continues to win spending time with her grandchildren. ‘66 Janet (Giese) Harvey, BA, Sumner, ‘78 John Cole, BM, Clermont, FL, of mineral processing equipment for the Association (VTEEA). In 2012 she IA, is spending retirement playing violin awards for his writing and photography ‘74 John Talley, BA, Saint Louis, MO, celebrated 25 years with Walt Disney aggregate and mining industries. received the Presidential Citation for with the Sumner Strings. for the Lakefield Standard newspaper in World in July, 2015. For the past 10 years her work as the chairperson of the Minnesota. was named 11 of 100 on the Medicine Maker’s Power List for 2015. he has been responsible for operations of ‘84 Anne Healy, BFA, Mansfield, TX, is an Electronics Communication Committee ‘67 Phyllis (Harmon) FisherPeet, BA, Disney PhotoPass photographers at US assistant professor in the Department and her work to create a members only Cedar Rapids, IA, retired from doing ‘72 Tom Sandholm, BA, Grinnell, IA, ‘74 Kathleen (Haley) Taylor, BA, and international sites. of Theatre Arts at the University of portal to share teaching strategies within taxes for H&R Block for 28 years. Her retired in 2012 following 40 years of Knoxville, IA, retired from Evans Texas at Arlington. She is the director of the VTEEA. husband, Jerry, also recently retired teaching instrumental music in Bennett, Middle School in Ottumwa, IA, and now ‘78 Terry Hancox, BM, Cleveland Heights, the new BFA musical theatre program, from Mercy Hospital. Montezuma and Grinnell, IA. substitute teaches in schools near OH, received the Professional Excellence and has served as stage director and Knoxville, IA. She also enjoys helping Award from Cuyahoga Community music director for multiple full-scale with the St. Anthony choir, Knoxville College, and is a graduate of the Chair productions at University of Texas and for Community Chorus and Pella City Band. Academy Leadership Development the Dallas Theatre Center. Program. 44 communiqué | 2016EDITION communiqué | 2016EDITION 45 ’87 Jeff Lorber, BA, Springfield, ‘94 Aaron Hansen, BM, MM ‘04, Cedar ‘97 Alan Gift, BA, Omaha, NE, received ‘99 Kathleen (Sander) Basi, MM, ‘01 Allysen (Edwards) Lovstuen, BA, Symphony Youth Ensembles as music IL, received the 2014 Outstanding Falls, IA, is teaching K-6 general music an Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award Columbia, MO, published a collection MA ‘06, Waukon, IA, was named one of director and the Greater Twin Cities Fundraising Professional award from at Cedar Heights Elementary School. from the University of Nebraska at of intermediate/advancing flute duets, the 108 recipients of the Presidential Youth Symphonies as concert orchestra the Capital Area (IL) Chapter of the This follows 16 years at Waverly Omaha Alumni Association in honor of titled Childhood: Six Progressive Duets Award for Excellence in Mathematics conductor. Association of Fundraising Professionals. Shell Rock. distinguished teaching in the classroom. For Flute. This adds to three existing and Science Teaching for 2015. She is collections for flute and piano. currently a math teacher at Decorah High ‘04 Go Yamamoto, MM, Cologne, , ‘88 Johanna Baedke, MA, Parkersburg, ‘94 Jay Judas, BA, Boston, MA, was ‘97 Rakhee Kripfgans, BA, Ann Arbor, MI, School. plays as a core member of the critically IA, retired from Aplington-Parkersburg named managing director with Crown was a 2015 LSO concerto competition ‘99 Drew Buhrow, BA, Norwalk, IA, was acclaimed early music ensemble l’arte Community School District in June, 2014, Global Insurance Group LLC. winner, and will perform Poulenc’s Organ named one of Des Moines 40 under 40 ‘01 Andrew McCormick, BA, Cedar Falls, del mondo in the vibrant German scene. after 36 years of teaching and coaching. Concerto at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, for 2015. IA, received the 2015 Gold Star Award for She now plans to travel and volunteer. ‘94 Sonia (Cuvelier) Walsh, BA, Carroll, MI on January 24, 2016. Outstanding Teaching. ‘05 Eliza Bangert, BM, Chicago, IL, is IA, is very appreciative of her theatre ‘99 Brooke (Brill) Fischels, BA, Ottumwa, an active freelance flute and piccolo ‘88 Jeffrey Liebermann, BA, Iowa education from UNI. Last year she ‘97 Kerrie (Meyers) Michael, BA, La IA, is president-elect of the Iowa Council ‘02 Cory Mixdorf, BA, Fayetteville, AR, player in Chicago, performing with the City, IA, is the assistant vice president opened an acting studio in Carroll for Porte City, IA, received the 2015 Gold of Teachers of Mathematics. is an assistant professor of trombone at Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric for main campus development at the kindergarten through high school kids. Star Award for Outstanding Teaching. the University of Arkansas. Opera, Milwaukee Symphony, Grant Park University of Iowa Foundation. ‘99 David Hildahl, BA, Waterloo, IA, was Symphony and others as a substitute ‘94 Jeffrey Weekley, BA, Wellington ‘98 Linda (Reines) Ferjak, MM, named one of the Cedar Valley’s 20 under ‘03 Jeniffer Betts, BA, BA ‘09, Des musician. This is her second season as 1990s 6011, took a deferred retirement from Forest City, IA, was honored with the 40 by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier Moines, IA, opened Fresh Mediterranean librarian of the Illinois Philharmonic. She the US Naval Postgraduate School to Outstanding High School Teacher award for 2015. He is currently a web content Express in Waukee in May, 2014, with also works in the library at Grant Park ‘90 Dirk Halupnik, BA, MA ‘02, D ‘13, Des accept a position as manager for science at the Wartburg College commencement strategist with Far Reach Technologies. husband Hassan Atarmal, BA ’09. Symphony and AWR Music. Moines, IA, was named superintendent and education outreach at the Research ceremony. She is currently with Bishop The restaurant offers a variety of of the Southeast Polk Community School and Education Advanced Network of Garrigan Schools in Algona. ‘99 Nate Noble, BA, Clive, IA, was named Mediterranean fare and 9 homemade ‘05 Roxanne (Shontz) Heimann, District. New Zealand. by the Des Moines Register as one of “15 sauces and dressings. BA, MA ‘07, Dike, IA, won the Iowa ‘98 Brian Kiser, BM, Youngstown, OH, People to Watch in 2015.” He is currently Communication Association’s ‘90 Jody (PhD) Ingwersen, BM, Spirit ‘95 Mark Johns, MA, Decorah, IA, is the associate professor of tuba at the director of Blank Children’s Hospital’s ‘03 Anne (Maiden) Duncan, BA, Waverly, Outstanding Adjunct Teacher Award for Lake, IA, currently serves as middle was promoted to full professor at Youngstown State University, and this new Children’s Development Center. IA, was named one of the Cedar Valley’s 2015. She is currently teaching in UNI’s school band director for grades fifth Luther College. marks his 10th year teaching there. 20 under 40 by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Department of Communication Studies. through eighth at Spirit Lake Community He maintains an active performing 2000's Courier for 2015. She is currently the Schools. ‘96 Jennifer (Weber) Erich, BS, Houston, schedule with the Mr. Jack Daniel’s sustainability coordinator at Wartburg ‘05 Katie Patterson, BA, Des Moines, TX, celebrated 15 years with ExxonMobil Original Silver Cornet Band, River City ‘00 Amanda Schroder, BA, Minneapolis, College. IA, is the founder and owner of Happy ‘90 Scott Slechta, MA, Libertyville, IA, in April. She is currently a global Brass and the Roanoke Symphony MN, is the manager of individual giving for Medium, which was ranked by Inc. was named the 2016 Iowa Teacher of the commercial advisor. Orchestra. As an active studio musician, the Minnesota Orchestra. ‘04 Sarah (Miller) Diesburg, BS, Magazine as the fastest growing private Year. He has taught English language arts Kiser regularly records diverse musical Waterloo, IA, was a finalist in the company in Iowa in 2015. It is a full- at Fairfield High School since 1984. ‘96 RaeMyra Hilliard, MM, Deerfield, IL, projects in Indianapolis and Cleveland ‘00 Aaron Wherry, BA, Bakersfield, CA, Academic Innovation and Leadership service à la carte advertising agency. sang in an improvised opera with Renee area studios, including projects for the was named Wrestling Coach of the Year award category for the 2015 Women ‘91 Jeffrey Rathmell, BS, Nashville, TN, Baker and her Chicago Modern Orchestra Hal Leonard Corporation, De Haske by The Bakersfield Californian. of Innovation Awards presented by the ‘06 Christian Anderson, BM, Chicago, was named a professor of pathology, Project at the Museum of Contemporary Music Publications, FJH Music Company Technology Association of Iowa. IL, enjoys a busy performance calendar microbiology and immunology at Art in May 2015. She also recorded her and Ludwig Music Publishers. He can ‘01 Jill (Brees) Barr, BA, Spencer, IA, each year, including performing with the Vanderbilt University, and will serve first CD, which will be all works by Black- be heard performing on more than one was crowned Mrs. Iowa International ‘04 Eugenia Furneaux, BA, Brooklyn, NY, Milwaukee Symphony, Chicago Symphony as the co-leader of the Host Tumor American composers, and was released thousand Hal Leonard demo recordings 2015 and will compete for title of Mrs. is the producing supervisor at New York Orchestra, South Bend Symphony and Interactions Research Program at September 8, 2015. since 2002. International during final competition in University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She numerous regional and Chicagoland Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center. Jacksonville, FL in July. received an MFA in scenic design from orchestras. ‘96 Jeff Smith, BM, New York, NY, ‘98 Dave Lisik, MM, Wellington, was the University of Arizona, 2007, and was ‘91 Kim (Meyer) Rathmell, BS, Nashville, celebrated a development workshops promoted to senior lecturer (associate ‘01 Jason Franzenburg, BA, Davenport, previously an adjunct assistant professor ‘06 Laura (Rutt) Jordan, BA, Ames, IA, TN, was named director of Vanderbilt performance of his new one-act opera, professor in U.S.) at the New Zealand IA, received the 2015 STEM Education at Laguardia Community College. received two awards from the Graphic University’s division of hematology Why is Eartha Kitt Trying to Kill Me?, at School of Music, Victoria University of Award for Inspired Teaching. Design USA magazine in 2014, American and oncology. the American Lyric Theater in New York. Wellington, New Zealand. Most recent ‘04 Benjamin Klemme, BM, Davenport, Graphic Design Award and Inhouse The workshop was met with high praise CD release is a quintet project of original ‘01 Suzanne Hendrix, BM, MM ‘06, IA, earned a promotion to associate Design Award. ‘93 Jodi (McMann) Buchan, BA, and critical acclaim. music featuring Alex Sipiagin and Donny Overland Park, KS, performed with conductor with the Quad City Symphony Johnston, IA, is an instructional coach McCaslin. Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna State Opera) Orchestra. In this role, he will conduct ’06 Brenda Liddle, BM, Waterloo, IA, and mentor coordinator for the '97 Shannon (Furlong) Gaherty, BA, in April, 2015, covering a variety of roles pops, family and education concerts, teaches full-time in the Waterloo Johnston Community School District. Dubuque, IA, was named private banking ‘98 Mike Maddox, BS, Madison, WI, including, Suzuki/Madama Butterfly, and has been invited to lead the QCSO’s Schools. relationship manager for The Private received the University of Wisconsin Larina/Eugene Onegin and Fenena/ subscription concerts in March, 2016, ‘93 Mark Schnurstein, BA, Ankeny, IA, is Client Group of US Bank. Colleges/University of Wisconsin Nabucco. In fall 2015, she will return which will feature the world premiere a teacher learning coach at Hiatt Middle Extension Chancellor’s Award for to Lyric Opera of Chicago to cover in of a new work for solo bassoon and School in the Des Moines School District. Excellence. Le Nozze di Figaro and Wozzeck. orchestra by Jacob Bancks. Klemme will also continue to lead the Quad City

46 communiqué | 2016EDITION communiqué | 2016EDITION 47 March 11, 2015. ‘06 Anna (Hass) Ranbarger, BA, Center ‘09 Josh Mahoney, BA, Chicago, IL, ‘11 Allison Offerman, BA, Coralville, ‘13 Xingzimin Pan, MM, Salt Lake City, ‘11 Jenny (Peters) Adam, BM, married ‘14 Samantha (Rupe) Mall, BA, and Justin Point, IA, is an elementary teacher in was inducted into the UNI Athletics Hall IA, completed her Master’s degree in UT, earned third Place at the fourth Justin Adam, BM ‘12, on June 28, 2014. the Cedar Rapids School District. She of Fame on September 9, 2015 as the oboe performance at the University of ChinaASEAN Music Festival Composition Mall, BA ‘14, Ottumwa, IA, son Ethan has been married to her high school inaugural Merlin Taylor Academic Hall of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2013, and is now Competition, hosted by Guangxi Arts ‘11 Dana (Shappell) Schmitt, BA, Michael Mall born February 6, 2015. sweetheart for more than 11 years and Fame award recipient. finishing her last year of DMA coursework Institute, and celebrated numerous married Brian Schmitt June 20, 2015. they have two children, ages six and nine. at the University of Iowa. She has taught performances of original compositions in Passings ‘09 Phill Nieman, BS, Cedar Falls, IA, at the Five Season Chamber Music China, Germany, Australia and throughout ‘12 Cayla (Price) Quandt, BA, MSW ‘13, ‘06 Sarah (Duvel) Rueber, BM, MA ‘10, was named project manager at Peters Festival in Cedar Rapids for two years, the United States married Andrew Quandt, BA ‘13, on ‘45 Beverley (Smith) Davis, BA, died Cedar Falls, IA, was named worship Construction Corporation. and teaches weekly woodwind lessons at September 6, 2014. January 15, 2015 in Mechanicsburg, PA. director for Orchard Hill Church’s two the Marion Music Academy in addition to ‘14 Stephanie Hogan, BA, Goyangsi, , BM, Marshalltown, Gyeonggido, South Korea, is a graduate ‘13 , BA, married campuses in Grundy County. She also ‘09 Angela Staron her private studio. Caleb Priest Nicole ‘46 Earl Dunn, BA, MA ‘54, died December IA, is teaching lower school music at student in the renewable energy program , BA ‘14, on June 21, 2014. does script writing and administrative (Wilson) Priest 15, 2014 in Muncie, IN. support for Around the Corner the Shanghai Community International ’11 Kevin Shannon, BA, Ankeny, IA, at Dongguk University in Seoul. Productions. School. was promoted to IT application analyst ‘14 Kate (Hein) Finegan, MA, married ‘50 Newt Draheim, BA, died September lead at The Principal Financial Group in ‘14 Maddie Pike, BS, College Station, TX, Chance Finegan, MPP ‘14, on June 7, 13, 2015 in Clarion, IA. ‘06 David Schmitz, BFA, Dubuque, IA, 2010's Des Moines. is enrolled in the geology graduate 2014. was named executive director of the program at Texas A&M University. Dubuque Museum of Art. , BM, Charlotte, ‘14 Samantha (Rupe) Mall, BA, married ‘50 Jack Gillikin, BA, died February 14, ‘10 Wade Arnold, BA, Cedar Falls, IA, ‘12 Isaac Brockshus NC, will travel to Maccagno, Italy, in the ‘14 Olivia Randolph, BA, Cedar Falls, Justin Mall, BA ‘14, on October 18, 2014. 2014 in Arnold, MD. was named the 2015 Business Hall of IA, works in human resources and as ‘06 Brooke Stevens, BM, Arlington, VA, Fame Young Entrepreneur by Junior summer of 2015 for the premiere of completed her DMA in trumpet at the his piece, Cognates for Trumpet and the administrative assistant for the UNI ‘14 Alysia (Grant) Owens, BA, married ‘52 Robert Wilson, BA, MA ‘63, died Achievement of Eastern Iowa. He is Culture and Intensive English Program. Indiana University Jacobs School of currently the CEO of Banno, LLC. Marimba. Ryan Owens on August 22, 2014. September 13, 2015 in Iowa City, IA. Music in December, 2014. She also She also serves as an assistant at the Hearst Center for the Arts, where serves as bugler in the United States ‘12 James Healy, BM, Jefferson, IA, ‘14 Emily (Linder) Wills, BA, married ‘54 Wayne Stark, BA, died May 20, 2015 ‘10 Sean Eno, BA, Waukee, IA, was she raises funds for music student Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps appointed CAD specialist by QA Graphics. currently serves as the grades 9-12 Nick Wills, BM ‘14, on July 26, 2014. in Lawndale, CA. in Washington DC. vocal music director at Waterloo West scholarships, and recently launched the High School. Lunchtime Concert Series, featuring UNI ‘10 Whitney Jackley, BA, Cedar Falls, IA, ‘55 David Fagle, BA, MA ‘56, died October ‘07 Weierh Chen, BA, West Des Moines, student musicians. Births is the marketing director and River Valley 16, 2015 in Marshalltown, IA. IA, joined the Davis Brown Law Firm as district executive for the Boy Scouts of ‘12 Samantha Kantak, BM, MM ‘14, ‘14 Claudia Restrepo, MM, Salt Lake City, ‘99 Amanda (Post) Lee, BM, and Paul Lee, an associate in the business division. America Winnebago Council. Webster City, IA, won the University of North Texas Concerto Competition in UT, conducted the Utah Philharmonic Cedar Falls, IA, daughter Josephine Rose ‘58 Raleigh Magee, BA, died December 20, in their spring 2015 performances of Lee born October 6, 2014, joining brothers 2014 in Cedar Falls, IA. ‘07 Mark Wagenaar, MA, Denton, TX, ‘10 Sean Matthys, BA, Iowa City, IA, is the fall of 2014. As a competition winner, Prokofiev’sCinderella . She is currently Jordan, age 16, and Noah, age 5. won the 2015 CBC Poetry Prize for the associate director of development she performed with the UNT Symphony “String Theory.” Orchestra on March 11, 2015. pursuing her doctorate of musical arts at ‘59 James Harmon, BA, died October 16, health sciences for the University of Iowa University of Utah, and was accepted into ‘03 Mark McConnell, BS, and Heather in Fallon, NV. Foundation. a competitive conducting competition in ‘08 Nicholas Hellman, BS, Cedar Falls, ‘12 Liz Sedlacek, BA, BA ‘14, Spirit (Robb) McConnell, Pella, IA, son Kallen London for the summer, 2015. IA, was named project manager at Peters ‘10 Michael Thursby, MM, Owatonna, Lake, IA, works in product development Matthew McConnell born November, ‘64 Kennith Gordon, MA, died January 6, Construction Corporation. at Powers Athletic Manufacturing in MN, is the director of athletic bands , BM, Bloomington, IN, is 2014. He was welcomed by brother 2014 in Austin, TX. Waterloo, developing athletic uniforming. ‘14 Nick Wills and percussion at Minnesota State a second year graduate student in horn Luke, age 2 years. ‘08 Kelly Keegan, BA, MA ‘13, Cedar University Mankato. performance at Jacobs School of Music ‘67 William Taylor, BA, died October 31, Falls, IA, was selected for a 10-month ’12 Spencer Walrath, BA, Arlington, at Indiana University. ‘03 Karen (Sorensen) Vander Broek, 2014 in Waverly, IA. fellowship project teaching English in VA, is now a consultant in the energy ‘11 Jenny (Peters) Adam, BM, New BFA, and Nate Vander Broek, Fort Collins, the Philippines. She is one of 165 U.S. Hampton, IA, is entering her fourth year of and natural resources practice of FTI ‘15 Aaron Ottmar, BM, Bloomfield, citizens selected for the 2015-2016 Consulting’s strategic communications CO,son Elias Maxwell Vander Broek born ‘70 JoAnn (Johnson) Barnes, BA, died teaching. She is the band teacher at the IA, was selected from more than English Language Fellow Program. division. January 9, 2015. November 22, 2014 in Ankeny, IA. beginning/middle school level and feels 3,700 applicants to present his paper, fortunate to be able to collaborate with Performing Solo Concerto with Wind ‘09 Kati Cox, BM, Cisne, IL, recently ‘13 Erica Canfield, BA, Cedar Rapids, ‘08 Kyle Bubke, BA, and Leslie ‘73 John Sailer, BA, died July 7, 2015 her husband, who is the high school band Ensemble, at the National Conference on wrapped up her work at Centralia High IA, is a manager at Premier Staffing in (Spalding) Bubke, BA ‘08, MA ‘10, in Roanoke, VA. teacher, and build a program from the Undergraduate Research in Cheney, WA. School in Illinois in order to pursue a ground up. Waterloo, IA. She opened this office in Victoria, MN, son Noah Everett Bubke doctoral program at the University of January, 2014, and it has been going well. born February 27, 2015. ‘85 Kimberly Ver Steeg, BA, died Texas. The music program at Centralia ‘11 Michael Conrad, BM, Greeley, CO, is Marriages November 14, 2015 in New York City, NY. grew substantially under her direction. starting his doctorate in jazz studies at ‘13 Jordan Leckband, BM, Guthrie ‘09 Emma (Reinertson) Westrum, BA, and ‘09 Ria (Hansen) Jenson, BA, married the University of Northern Colorado. Center, IA, is the choral director at Adam Westrum, Boone, IA, son Reid Adam , BM, Cedar Rapids, IA, Guthrie Center. He teaches high school Luke Jenson, BA ‘10, on August 2, 2014. ‘09 Jeff Fountain Westrum born July 26, 2014. is a band teacher at College Community ‘11 Hannah Leffler, MM, Denton, TX, choir, junior high choir, show choir, music School. won the University of North Texas theory and K-6 general music. The ‘10 Megan (Radig) Pray, BA, married ‘12 , BA, and Kirsten (Hayes) Concerto Competition in the fall of 2014. GCHS Choir returned to Des Moines in Larissa Pray, BA ‘10, on July 12, 2014. Matt Harken As a competition winner, she performed December, 2014, to perform the National Harken, Waterloo, IA, son Gideon born with the UNT Symphony Orchestra on Anthem at the Iowa Wild hockey game. March 11, 2015. 48 communiqué | 2016EDITION communiqué | 2016EDITION 49 CONNECTwith CHAS www.uni.edu/chas @uni_CHAS Check out what’s going on with CHAS www.facebook.com/unichas Questions: [email protected] by following these media sources: Updates: [email protected] communiqué | 2016EDITION 41