Rock Solid Faculty

Rockhurst's outstanding faculty strive to teach you how to think, not what to think. That's why the prestigious Carnegie Foundation has recognized the quality of Rockhurst's faculty by naming it one of only 12 teaching and learning leadership sites in the United States. Full, experienced professors teach courses, and small class sizes encourage rich classroom discussions. Faculty are assigned to work individually with students as advisors and caring mentors.

Faculty engage undergraduate students in research projects ranging from finding natural alternatives to pesticides, to authoring books on a U.S. senator and presenting papers at national political science conferences.

Public Relations and Marketing made every effort to gather a complete 2007-08 list of books, articles, external presentations and awards of full-time Rockhurst faculty from the academic deans. If you find something is left out, please e-mail rockhurstpr@rockhurst.edu.

2007-08 Rockhurst University Faculty Accomplishments

The following Rockhurst faculty have earned awards, published articles and presented research at professional conferences during the past year.

Shahid Ali, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Production Operations Management

• Presented a paper titled "The Importance of Customer Satisfaction Within the Wireless Industry & Implications to a local Telecommunication Provider" at the 38th Annual Meeting Decision Sciences Institute, November 2007, Phoenix, AZ (with R. Downing).
• Presented a paper titled "Petroleum Products Pipeline Operations: A Conceptual Model" at the International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines, April 26, 2008, Dallas, TX.
• Wrote "Calling for Diversity in Health Care Executive Suites and Evaluation of Effects on Efficiency Using Data Envelopment Analysis," which was published in the Journal of Diversity Management, Second Quarter 2008, Vol. 3, No. 2 (with J. Steward, P. Musa, and G. Willis).
  

Sylvia Dochterman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Marketing

• Presented a paper titled "The Electronic Portolio as a Tool for Educating Healthcare Managers," at the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, June 3, 2007, Orlando, FL.
• Wrote "Rethinking Faculty Role in a Knowledge Age," which was published in the Academy of Education Leadership, October 3, 2007 (with C. Sasse and R. Schwering).

Brian Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., Professor of Finance

• Presented a paper titled "Creating Mutual Fund Transparency: The Elimination of Deceptive Communication" for the Applied Business and Entrepreneurship Association International, November 2007, Maui, HI.
• Received the Rockhurst University Teaching Excellence Award

Laura Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics

• Presented a paper titled "Student Reading Strategies and Textbook Use; An Inquiry into Economics & Accounting Courses" for the Allied Academies Spring 2008 International Conference, April 2-5, 2008 Tunica, MS (with C. McConnell).
• Presented a paper titled "Assessing Globally Themed Learning Objectives Using Objective Examination Results" for the Allied Academies Spring 2008 International Conference, April 2-5, 2008, Tunica, MS.
  

Myles Gartland, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics

• Presented a paper titled "Path Dependency, Behavioral Lockin and the International Market for Beer" for the European Group for Organizational Studies, July 5, 2007 Vienna, Austria (with M. Stack and T. Keane).
• Presented a paper titled "The Dynamics of Industry Architecture in the U.S. Healthcare Sector" for the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA, August 6, 2007 (with M. Stack).
• Presented a paper titled "Fossilized Routines, Lockin and Architectural Innovation: The Case of Physician Record Keeping" for the Academy of Management, August 8, 2007, Philadelphia, PA (with M. Stack).
• Presented a paper titled "Push and Pull: An Overview of the Causes and Consequences of Cross Border Physician Migration" for the Midwest Academy of International Business, April 3, 2008, Chicago, IL (with M. Stack and U. Tate).
• Served as Hall Family Foundation Chair
  

Alfred Hawkins, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Marketing

• Presented a paper titled "Defining Faculty Service Expectations and Measurement: A Model Developed by, of and for faculty" for the Market Management Association, September, 2007, St. Louis, MO.
• Presented a paper titled "Habituation: A New Perspective on Customer Satisfaction and Retention" at the Academy of Business Disciplines Conference, November 2007, Ft. Meyers, FL.

Gail Hoover King, Associate Professor of Accounting

• Presented a paper titled "Introduction to Using CEA" to the American Accounting Association, August 4-8, 2007 (with C. McConnell).
• Presented a paper titled "Ethics in the Curriculum: Using CEA to Evaluate Ethics Assignments" to the American Accounting Association, August 4-8, 2007 (with C. McConnell)
• Presented a paper titled "Implementing Course Embedded Assessment" to the American Accounting Association, August 4-8, 2007 (with C. McConnell).
• Wrote "Improving Course Level Student Learning and Teaching Through Course Embedded Assessment: Examples in Accounting," which was published in Business Education Forum, September 2007 (with C. McConnell).
• Presented a paper titled "Academically Qualified and Professionally Qualified in AACSB's New World," Midwest American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, March 28, 2008, Troy, MI (with J. Daley).
• Presented a paper titled "The Joys and Pitfalls of Using E-Portolio for Assessment" to the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, August 4, 2008, Anaheim, CA (with C. McConnell).
• Presented a paper titled "Creating Rubrics to Enhance and Access Student Learning" to the Kansas City Accounting Educators Conference, May 7, 2008, Kansas City, MO (with C. McConnell).
• Presented a paper titled "ROI of Special Events" to the Council on Philanthropy, Kauffman Foundation, May 14, 2008, Kansas City, MO.
• Served as editor of the Accounting Educators News published by the American Accounting Association.
  

Thomas Lyon, Ph.D., Professor of Finance

• Presented a paper titled "Populist Mayor Appoints Minuteman to Key Post" to the Society for Case Research, April 2-4, 2008, Chicago, IL (with T. White).
• Presented a paper titled "Kansas City's Light Rail Controversy" to the Society for Case Research, July 10-12, 2008, Cincinnati, OH, (with M. Stellern and S. Raju).
• Served as member of the Editorial Review Board of the Business Case Journal.
• Served as member of the Editorial Review Board of the Annual Advances in Business Cases Journal published by the Society for Case Research.
• Served as member of the Editorial Review Board of the Midwest Business Association, held annually.
• Served as member of the Editorial Review Board of the Society for Case Research, Case Writer's Workshop held annually.
• Wrote "And the Fraud Continues," which was published in Annual Advances of Business Cases, June 2008 (with A. Tocco).
  Board Member of the Society for Case Research.
• Served as Session Chair of the MBAA International 2008 Conference, April 2-4, 2008, Chicago, IL.
  

Cheryl McConnell, Associate Professor of Accounting

• Presented a paper titled "Introduction to Using CEA" to the American Accounting Association, August 4-8, 2007 (with G. Hoover King).
• Presented a paper titled "Ethics in the Curriculum: Using CEA to Evaluate Ethics Assignments" to the American Accounting Association, August 4-8, 2007 (with G. Hoover King)
• Presented a paper titled "Implementing Course Embedded Assessment" to the American Accounting Association, August 4-8, 2007 (with G. Hoover King).
• Wrote "Improving Course Level Student Learning and Teaching Through Course Embedded Assessment: Examples in Accounting," which was published in Business Education Forum, September 2007 (with G. Hoover King).
• Presented a paper titled "Student Reading Strategies and Textbook Use; An Inquiry into Economics & Accounting Courses" to the Allied Academies Spring 2008 International Conference, April 2-5, 2008 Tunica, MS (with L. Fitzpatrick).
• Presented a paper titled "The Joys and Pitfalls of Using E-Portolio for Assessment" to the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, August 4, 2008, Anaheim, CA (with G. Hoover King).
• Presented a paper titled "Creating Rubrics to Enhance and Access Student Learning" to the Kansas City Accounting Educators Conference, May 7, 2008, Kansas City, MO (with C. McConnell).

John Meyer, Director, Center for Leadership & Ethics

• Served as the John J. and Laura J. Sullivan Chair in Ethics

Sudhakar Raju, Ph.D., Professor of Finance

• Presented a paper titled "Kansas City's Light Rail Controversy" to the Society for Case Research, July 10-12, 2008, Cincinnati, OH, (with T. Lyon and M. Stellern).
• Presented a paper titled "Competition, Pricing and Government Intervention in the U.S. Auto Industry" to the Academic Business World International Conference, May 26, 2008, Nashville, TN (with M. Tansey).
• Wrote "Project NPV, Positive Externalities, Social Cost Benefit Analysis - The Kansas City Light Rail Project," which was published in the Journal of Public Transportation, June 2008.
• Served as Journal Referee for Financial Services Review.
• Served as Journal Referee for Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions.

Craig Sasse, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Management

• Presented a paper titled "Dane and Company: In Search of CSR in Indonesia" for the Society for Case Research, July 2007, River Falls, WI (with A. Tocco).
• Wrote "Rubrics, Writing Improvement, and Assessment: Gaining Leverage for Business Programs," which was published in the Journal of Business & Leadership, August 23, 2007 (with A. Tocco and T. White).
• Wrote "Rethinking Faculty Role in a Knowledge Age," which was published in the Academy of Education Leadership, October 3, 2007 (with S. Dochterman and R. Schwering).
• Presented a paper titled "Combining LiveText with Mastery Approach to Meet AACSB Assessment Requirements" at the College of Teaching and Learning Conference, January 3, 2008, Lake Buena Vista, Florida (with J. Spruell).
• Wrote "Combining LiveText with Mastery Approach to Meet AACSB Assessment Requirements," which was published in the Journal of Business & Economics Research, February 29, 2008, (with Jim Spruell).
• Presented a paper titled "Dane and Company: In Search of CSR in Indonesia" for the Society for Case Research, July 2008, Cincinnati, OH (with C. Sasse).
• Wrote "Forced Ranking: A Review," which was published in the SAM Advanced Management Journal, Spring 2008 (with B. Hazels).

Randolph Schwering, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Management

• Wrote "Rethinking Faculty Role in a Knowledge Age," which was published in Academy of Education Leadership, October 3, 2007 (with C. Sasse and S. Dochterman).
• Wrote "Expanding The Doman of Business Ethics: Leadership Development for a Sustainable World," which was published in the Review of Business Research, Volume III, Number 3, 2007.

James Spruell, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Management Information Systems

• Presented a paper titled "Combining LiveText with Mastery Approach to Meet AACSB Assessment Requirements," at the College of Teaching and Learning Conference, January 3, 2008, Lake Buena Vista, Florida (with J. Spruell).
• Presented a paper titled "Chaos Theory: Role of Information Technology and Social Capital in Creating Value," at the Applied Research in Business Conference, January 4, 2008, Orlando, Florida.
• Wrote "Combining LiveText with Mastery Approach to Meet AACSB Assessment Requirements," which was published in the Journal of Business & Economics Research, February 29, 2008, (with Craig Sasse).

Martin Stack, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Management

• Presented a paper titled "Path Dependency, Behavioral Lockin and the International Market for Beer" to the European Group for Orgnizational Studies, July 5, 2007 Vienna, Austria (with M. Gartland and T. Keane).
• Presented a paper titled "The Dynamics of Industry Architecture in the U.S. Healthcare Sector, 1981-2007" to the Academy of Management, August 6, 2007, Philadelphia, PA (with M. Gartland).
• Presented a paper titled "Fossilized Routines, Lockin and Architectural Innovation: The Case of Physician Record Keeping" to the Academy of Management, August 8, 2007, Philadelphia, PA (with M. Gartland.
• Wrote "Quality, Schmality: Talking Naturally about the Aesthetics of Beer; or Why is American Beer So Lousy?", which was published in Beer & Philosophy, Blackwell Publishing, 2007.
• Presented a paper titled "Push and Pull: An Overview of the Causes and Consequences of Cross Border Physician Migration," to the Midwest Academy of International Business, April 3, 2008, Chicago, IL (with M. Gartland and U. Tate).
  

Michael Stellern, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics

• Presented a paper titled "Kansas City's Light Rail Controversy" to the Society for Case Research, July 10-12, 2008, Cincinnati, OH, (with T. Lyon and S. Raju).

Michael Tansey, Ph.D., Professor of Economics

• Presented a paper titled "Competition, Pricing and Government Intervention in the U.S. Auto Industry" to the Academic Business World International Conference, May 26, 2008, Nashville, TN (with S. Raju).

Anthony Tocco, Ph.D., Professor of Accounting

• Presented a paper titled "Dane and Company: In Search of CSR in Indonesia" to the Society for Case Research, July 2007, River Falls, WI (with C. Sasse).
• Wrote "Rubrics, Writing Improvement, and Assessment: Gaining Leverage for Business Programs," which was published in the Journal of Business & Leadership, August 23, 2007 (with C. Sasse and T. White).
• Presented a paper titled "Dane and Company: In Search of CSR in Indonesia" to the Society for Case Research, July 2008, Cincinnati, OH (with C. Sasse).
• Wrote "And the Fraud Continues," which was published in the Annual Advances of Business Cases, June 2008 (with T. Lyon).
• Served as Board Member of the Society for Case Research.
• Served as Member At Large, Society for Case Research.

David Vicknair, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Accounting

• Wrote "A Recursive Approach for Calculating the Effective Yield on Bonds When Settlement and/or Expected Maturity is Other Than an Interest Payment Date," which was published in the Journal of College Teaching & Learning, November 2007 (with R. Downing).

J. Turner White, Visiting Assistant Professor of Management

• Wrote "Rubrics, Writing Improvement, and Assessment: Gaining Leverage for Business Programs,"which was published in the Journal of Business & Leadership, August 23, 2007 (with C. Sasse and A. Tocco).
• Presented a paper titled "Populist Mayor Appoints Minuteman to Key Post" for the Society for Case Research, Chicago, IL, April 2-4, 2008 (with T. Lyon).

Marshall Andersen, Ph.D., Professor of Biology

• Received sabbatical grant for spring 2009 for study of limb development in the South African Clawed Frog.

Pete Bicak, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair of Communication & Fine Arts

• Received a Presidential Grant for Faculty Development to study the Anti-Catholic propaganda work of William Lloyd Clark.
  

Keith Brandt, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair of Mathematics

• Wrote, "Using Backtracking to Study Schur Numbers," which was published in the Winter 2008 issue of the journal Mathematics and Computer Education.
  

Joanna Carraway, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History

• Received a Presidential Grant for Faculty Development to study the Trial Initiation Procedure in late medieval Italian courts.

Faith Childress, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History

• One of 15 faculty selected to participate in the National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Institute, "Past and Present in the Study of India's History and Culture" in India.
• Received sabbatical grant for spring 2009 for a biographical study of Zikiye Suleyman Egler.

Joe Cirincione, Ph.D., Professor of English

• Edited the book "Deep down things," Essays on Catholic Culture to be published in August. by Lexington Books (a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.); book includes 7 essays authored by Rockhurst faculty: Gerald Miller, Katie Madigan, Patricia Cleary Miller, Fr. Bill LaCroix, S.J., Curtis Hancock, Rick Janet, and Joe Cirincione.
• Presented a paper titled "Friendship: The Ignatian Quest to Love as God Loves" at the Conference on Friendship: Quests for Character, Community, & Truth, at Baylor University, in October 2007.

Janet Cooper, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair of Biology

• Participated in the American Society for Microbiology Scholar in Residence program
• Presented poster at Association of College and University Biology Educators (ACUBE) titled "Identification of Unknown Microorganisms Faciliated by a Computer-Assisted Program (YaIP)."
• Presented posters titled “Evaluation of a Prerequisite Cell Basis of Anatomy and Physiology to the
  Success of Nursing Students in Microbiology” and “Using a Computer-Assisted Program (YaIP) in
  the Identification of Unknowns in an Introductory Microbiology Laboratory” at the 15th Annual
  American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators (ASMCUE), which
  was held at Endicott College, Beverly, MA, on May 30 – June 1

Nancy Donaldson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics

• Presented a poster at the National Conference on Science Education/ Society of College Science Teacher Division in Boston, MA on March 28, 2008. The poster was titled "Phascination in Physics - An Inquiry-Based Physics Course for Non-Science Majors." The poster outlined the inquiry nature of this physics course and displayed student applications of learning in the Haunted Physics Laboratory.
• Together with Bob Hegarty, Professor of Physics, received a renewal on Title II Improving Teacher Quality Grant Project, Physics for Elementary School Teachers - Constructing an Understanding of Physics, for 2008-2009. This grant project is designed to improve science teachers' content knowledge and pedagogical skills in teaching physics concepts.
  

Rocío De la Rosa Duncan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spanish

• Presented a paper titled "Orfandad, ruptura y desafío en Las sin remedio: Mujeres del siglo XX de Leticia de Oyuela" at the XVI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana, Nicoya, Costa Rica, April 2008.
• Served as translator for the service trip to Honduras during Spring Break 2008.
• With Katie Madigan, took a group of 24 students to study abroad during summer 2007, Mérida, Yucatán, México.

Elizabeth Evans, Assistant Professor of Biology

• presented a poster at the Association of College and University Biology Educators (ACUBE) conference in Dubuque entitled "Nutritional Assignment for General Physiology course."

Marisa Fernández, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Spanish

• Successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation and received honors: "El medio fotográfico en la narrativa de Antonio Muñoz Molina" at the University of California, Irvine, March 10, 2008.

Lisa Felzien, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology

• research students Kelli Baalman and Lee Cavedine extended their research project from molecularbiology and presented their results at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR) at Salisbury University in Maryland on expression of cell adhesion and signaling molecules during zebrafish development.
  
• presented talk at the Association of College and University Biology Educators (ACUBE) entitled "The Integration of Zebrafish Research Projects in an Upper Level Molecular Biology Course."

Catherine Green, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Co-Chair of Philosophy

• Served as panelist on KCPT program on Genetic Modification of Foods.

Mairead Greene, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Mathematics

• Involved in a 3-year Math and Science Partnership grant received for math by the Blue Springs School District with Rockhurst as a partner.
• Received travel grant from the NCTM to attend the International Congress on Mathematical Education 11 in Monterrey Mexico in July.
  

Zdenka Guadarrama, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Mathematics

• Received a Don & Pat Morrison Teaching Award in Mathematics for Summer, 2008. Her project will involve enhancing and developing research experience for our students.
• Become a Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) 2007-2008 fellow (Sun Dot). In January of 2008, she organized a session at the national AMS-MAA Joint Meetings in San Diego titled "Early Career Grant Applications."
• Organized another session called "Teaching Interdisciplinary Courses" for Mathfest in Madison, Wisconsin, in July 2008.
• involved in organizing the first meeting of the Missouri Section NExT at the Missouri Section of the Mathematics Association of America.
• Wrote a paper titled "Approximating z in Hardy and Bergman Norms" (coauthored with Dmitry Khavinson) which appeared in a special volume of Contemporary Mathematics titled "Banach Spaces of Analytic Functions," published by the American Mathematical Society.

Curtis Hancock, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy

• Wrote "Augustine Goes Postmodern" in The Political Science Reviewer, an Annual Review of Scholarship published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Volume XXXVI, 2007.
• Wrote "A Neoplatonic Semiotics: Act and Potency in the Philosophy of Plotinus," which was published in Semiotica, Summer 2008.
• Wrote "Neuroscience and Correspondence Theory of Knowledge," which was published in Contemporary Philosophy, Summer, 2007.
• Wrote "Modern Philosophy and the De-Construction of Philosophical Experience," Translated into Polish, in Czlowiek w Kulturze ("Humanity and the State"), Catholic University of Lublin Press (Poland), 2007.
• Wrote "Hermeneutics and Scientific Realism: Rival Theories in Psychology," with Brendan Sweetman, which was published in Contemporary Philosophy, Summer, 2008.
• Wrote review of Ralph McInerny's Praeambula Fidei: Thomism and the God of the Philosophers, in International Philosophical Quarterly, Summer, 2008.
• Wrote review of Glenn Statile's Descartes' Regulae: The Power and Poverty of Method, in International Philosophical Quarterly, Summer, 2008.
• Wrote review of Vasilis Politis' Aristotle and the Metaphysics, in International Philosophical Quarterly, Summer 2008.
• Conducted Two Day Workshop on "Ethics in Leadership" for Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, August 27-29, 2007.
• Presented lecture titled "What Constitutes a Liberal Education?" for Annual Community Lecture Sponsored by Radio Maria, Chicago, Illinois, December 14, 2007.
• Presented lecture titled "What Makes A School Catholic?" to St. Stanislaus Parish, Chicago, Illinois, December 16, 2007.
• Conducted radio interview on recovering a Catholic philosophy of higher education on Radio Maria, Chicago, Illinois, December 16, 2007.
  
• Conducted radio interview: Ave Maria Radio, with Al Cresta, February 14, 2007, on my book, Recovering a Catholic Philosophy of Elementary Education.
  
• Served as a panelist discussing "The Eccentric Genius of American Education," Catholic University, Lublin, Poland, April 15, 2008.
  
• Presented lecture on "The History of Philosophy and Why Most Historians Get It Wrong," Catholic University, Lublin, Poland, April 16, 2008.
  
• Moderated student panel on "Contemporary Problems of Political Philosophy," Catholic University, Lublin, Poland, April 16, 2008.
  
• Presented plenary address to the International Gilson Society, Warsaw, Poland, April 18, 2008. Sponsored by Christiana Veritas. Title of Lecture: "Gilson's Prescription for Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century."

Mary Haskins, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology

• Implementing a three-year partnership grant with DESE to develop and facilitate institutes for local school teachers focusing on deep content knowledge modeled through the constructivist pedagogy. The grant includes a partnership with the Blue Springs, Hickman Mills, and Center school districts and KCPT. The award for the first year is $456,419.

Laura Janusik, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and McGee Chair of Communication

• Interviewed and quoted in U.S. News & World Report. (December 31, 2007). 50 ways to improve your life in 2008. Take the time to listen. Pages 61 - 62.
• Guest Editor of the International Journal of Listening for the August 2008 edition. This will report the State of the Context articles, as well as one research study that came out of the Fall Listening Forum held at Rockhurst University.
• Elected 1st Vice President Elect for the International Listening Association. She will be responsible for planning the annual conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2010, and will serve as President in 2010 - 2011.

John Kerrigan, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair of English

• Participating Scholar at the Carnegie Association for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Summer Institute at Columbia College Chicago, 2007
• Helped organize the Midwest American Conference for Irish Studies meetings in Kansas City in October 2007 will travel to Ireland in July to research the contexts of literary Dublin in James Joyce's "The Dead" and to give a presentation on Seamus Heaney and Gerard Manley Hopkins at the Hopkins Summer School in Monasterevin, County Kildare.
• Received a Presidential Grant for Faculty Development to study the relationship between James Joyce and J.M. Synge (his contemporary).

Charles Kovich, Ph.D., Professor of English

• Delivered an invited lecture titled "Civility and Reform: We Need Desiderius Erasmus Right Now" on at the New Letters Best of Scholars Lecture Series at the Kansas City Literary Festival in May.

Annie Lee, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry

• Received a Presidential Grant for Faculty Development to study the Role of Inflammatory Immune response in Multiple Sclerosis Using Flow Cytometry.
• Earned the 2008 Dean's Award for Outstanding Enactment of the Spirit of St. Ignatius

M. Kathleen Madigan, Ph.D., Professor of Modern Languages

• Presented a paper "'Jeanne: au dessus de Jeanne': Claudel's Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher as a new play on history" at the December 2007 MLA. The editor of Claudel Papers asked for her paper and will publish it.
• Accepted an invitation to present at the annual meeting of regional language teachers at Missouri Western University on Wednesday, May 8, 2008.
• The Haitian Community (at First Baptist Haitian Church of Kansas City) had a big FETE to thank the French students and Katie for the service learning contributions and to recognize each one individually.
• Organized the successful first three-week January trip to France in January 2008.

Saz Madison, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology

• Presented "Problem Solving Training in Introduction to Psychology Courses" at the National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology, St. Peterberg FL, January 2008 (with P. Scott).

Dan Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English

• Organized the panel, "Consuming Ideas: Food in Nonfiction." Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, December 27-30, 2007.
• Serves as an elected representative of the Modern Language Association's Executive Committee for the Division of Nonfiction Prose Studies.
• Published an essay titled "Subterranean Dreams" in Jack Rees, ed. The Sixth Surface: Steven Holl Lights the Nelson-Atkins Museum. Topo\graphis press, 2007.

Timothy McDonald, Professor of Music, Conductor

• Conducted Musica Sacra Chorus & Orchestra: Hasse, Laudate coeli Dominum; Leopold Mozart, Beata es, virgo, Maria; W. A. Mozart, Regina Coeli, K. 276; Grosse Credomesse, K. 257, Oct. 21, 2007, St. Francis Xavier Church, Kansas City, MO
• Conducted Musica Sacra Chorus & Orchestra: Giuseppe Torelli, Christmas Concerto; Giacomo Puccini, Sr. Magnificat; Credo, Dec. 7, 2007, St. Francis Xavier Church, Kansas City, MO
• Conducted Musica Sacra Chorus & Orchestra: Grandi, Messa à 3 voci (modern premiere); Fauré, Requiem, Op. 9, Feb. 9, 2008, St. Francis Xavier Church, Kansas City, MO
• Conducted Musica Sacra Chorus & Orchestra: Albrechtsberger, Te Deum; Michael Haydn, "Veni Sancte Spiritus"; Franz Joseph Haydn, Theresienmesse, Apr. 27, 2008, St. Francis Xavier Church, Kansas City, MO
• Earned the 2008 Henry B. Kies Award for Distinguished Service.

Bill McInerny, Ph.D., Professor of Theology & Religious Studies

• Received a summer grant from the Thomas More Center for Catholic Thought and Culture to study the Roman Catholic distinction between ordinary and extraordinary means of treatment as a part of his course on Theology, Morality and Health Care.

Patricia Cleary Miller, Ph.D., Professor of English

• "Floating, Curving" Poem. In Jack Rees, ed. The Sixth Surface: Steven Holl Lights the Nelson-Atkins Museum. Topo\graphis press, 2007.
  Poetry Editor, The Sixth Surface: Steven Holl Lights the Nelson-Atkins Museum. Topo\graphis press, 2007.

John Morris, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophy

• Presented a paper titled, "The Good News of Adult Stem Cell Research: Working Towards the Common Good," at the Annual University Faculty for Life Conference, Life and Learning XVII, held at Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 2, 2007.
  
• Served as faculty moderator for Chelsea Barnett (Class of 2008) for a Lacroix Philosophy Summer Research Scholarship, for research into the topic of natural law in contemporary America - a project that integrated her interests in both philosophy and law; her paper was selected for presentation at the Annual Fall American Maritain Association Conference, which was held October 25-27, 2007, at Notre Dame University.
  
• Presented a paper titled, "Do We Really Need More Science Education in America? A Realist Philosophical Critique of the Concept of „Science Literacy? and the Nature of Human Education," at the Annual Fall American Maritain Association Conference, which was held October 25-27, 2007, at Notre Dame University.
  
• Wrote "The Good News of Adult Stem Cell Research: Working Towards the Common Good," which has been accepted for publication in Life and Learning XVII: The Proceedings of the Seventeenth University Faculty for Life Conference (2007).
  
• Presented "Made in Whose Image? Artificial Reproduction, Prenatal Genetic Screening, and Human Dignity," at the Gospel of Life Convention sponsored by the Archdiocese of Kansas City Kansas and the Diocese of Kansas City/St. Joseph, held at St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Overland Park, KS, April 12, 2008.
  
• Named the "Outstanding Volunteer of 2006" by the Board of Directors of Missouri Right to Life-Western Region. The award was presented at their annual banquet in November 12, 2007.
  

Jennifer Oliver, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology

• Presented "Adult Development & Aging: Service-Learning in an Inner-City Nursing Home" at the Third Annual Conference on Applied Learning in Higher Education, Missouri Western State University, Feb. 23, 2008.

Anne Pearce, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art

• Featured artwork in "KC IN LA," a group exhibition in Los Angeles; group show at the Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO, in June 08; and two-person show at the Work Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC in August 08.
• Served as juror for Emporia State University Department of Art Student Show
• Served as juror for Johnson County Community College Student Exhibition G
• Served as guest critic: Final Critique for IND Department Kansas City Art Institute
• Published three drawings in the The Sixth Surface, a book on Nelson Atkins Bloch addition
• Featured Artist in the Maddhattes Review
• Featured Artist in the Houston Literary Review'
• Review: board member
  Featured artwork in
• Served a faculty mentor for KU's Preparing Future Faculty Program, Spring, 2008

Craig Prentiss, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Theology & Religious Studies

• Wrote "'Terrible Laughing God'": Challenging Divine Justice in African American Anti-Lynching Plays, 1916-1945" which was accepted for publication in Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation.
• Wrote Debating God's Economy: Social Justice in America on the Eve of Vatican II, which was released by Pennsylvania State University Press
• Named a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow for 2008-09. Will be working on a book-length manuscript tentatively titled "Religion and African American Theatre Before WWII" during year-long fellowship.

Susan Proctor, Associate Professor of Theatre and Director of Theatre

• Arranged a 20-minute theatre medley for five student actors/singers for the ALS Benefit May 3.

Laura Salem, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology

• Presented a poster at the Association of College and University Biology Educators (ACUBE) in Dubuque Iowa on "Using Neurospora crassa as a Tool for Cell Biology and Genetics."
• Earned the 2008 Dean's Award for Outstanding Faculty Advising.

Paul Scott, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair of Psychology

• Presented "Problem Solving Training in Introduction to Psychology Courses" at the National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology, St. Peterberg FL, January 2008 (with S. Madison).

Bill Stancil, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Theology & Religious Studies

• Completed four book reviews, two for catholicbooksreview.org (Catholic Books Review: Graeme Goldsworthy, Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics. & Catholic Books Review: W. David Buschart, Exploring Protestant Traditions) and two for the journal Perspectives in Religious Studies.

Risa Stein, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology

• Stein, R.J., Pyle, S.A., Haddock, C.K., Poston, W.S.C., & Bray, R. (2008). "Reported stress and its relationship to tobacco use among US military personnel." Military Medicine, 173, 271-277.
• Hoffman, K., Pyle, S.A., Haddock, C.K., Hymowitz, N., Schwab, J, Stein, R.J., Poston, W.S.C. (2007). "The Pediatric Residency Training on Tobacco Project: Four Year Resident Outcome Findings." The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Latin America, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

Daniel Stramara, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Theology & Religious Studies

• Wrote "Collegiality and the Formation of the Apostles' Creed: A Model for Ecumenical Dialogue," which was published in Ecumenical Trends.
• Wrote "The Origins of Gabriell Whelden of Yarmouth and Malden, Massachusetts," which was published in New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
• Wrote "NJ Quaker Corsons and Revolutionary Patriots" in Corson Cousins.
• Two book reviews to appear in LOGOS: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies.
• Received sabbatical grant for fall 2008 for a study of Christian texts that refer to God using feminine terms.

Brendan Sweetman, Ph.D., Professor and Co-Chair of Philosophy

• Wrote THE VISION OF GABRIEL MARCEL: Epistemology, Human Person, the Transcendent (Rodopi Press, Amsterdam, and New York, April 2008)
• "Doing Philosophy by Italics: On the Importance of the Ontological Dimension," (part of a symposium on recent work of D.Z. Phillips), Philosophia Christi, Vol. 9, No.2 (Winter 2007), pp.271-280.
  
• "Religion and Science in Contact and 2001: A Space Odyssey," in J. Spiegel and R.D. Geivett (eds.), Faith, Film and Philosophy: Christian Reflections on Contemporary Film (InterVarsity Press, 2007), pp.209-224.
  
• "Hermeneutics and Scientific Realism: Rival Theories in Psychology," with Curtis Hancock, Contemporary Philosophy, Summer, 2008.
• Received sabbatical grant for fall 2008 for completion of proposed book on religion and science.

Will Valk, Associate Professor of Art

• Received sabbatical grant for 2008-09 for completion of a large sculpture in his "Automobile" series.

Rob Vigliotti, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Philosophy

• Earned the 2008 Dean's Award for Outstanding Learning-Centered Teaching

Mindy Walker, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology

• Presented at the Association of College and University Biology Educators (ACUBE) meeting on student contribution to the conservation of Timber Rattlesnakes in Eastern Kansas.
• Received a Presidential Grant for Faculty Development to continue a study of the success of relocating a group of Timber Rattlesnakes for the sake of conservation.

Margaret Wye, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English

• Presented paper, "Jane Austen's Naval Brothers: The Material Culture of the Austen Men at Sea." International Conference on Romanticism. October 18-21, 2007. Baltimore, Maryland
• Presented paper, "Hidden Architecture in Mansfield Park and Persuasion: Jane Austen's Growing Understanding of the Transatlantic Social Sphere." Transatlantic Destinies. North East Society for Eighteenth Century Studies-October 25-28, 2007. Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.
• Presented paper, "Undergraduate Participation in On-going Research," at College English Association Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, March 27-29, 2008. [Included work with students Frank Carrio and Charion Vaughn in research project.]
• Received a Presidential Grant for Faculty Development to complete her book, Architecture and Jane Austen.

Glenn Young, Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology & Religious Studies

• Presented a paper titled, "No Audience and No Script: Mystic Performance in The Cloud of Unknowing" at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Mich.
• Presented a paper titled "Withdrawal from or Engagement with the World? Lay Spirituality and Contemporary Christian Contemplation" at the meeting of the College Theology Society at Salve Regina University.
• Book review for the journal Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religion.
• 2008 Faculty Member of the Year (by student vote)

Anne Marie Decker, Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy

• Conducted a workshop titled "Strategies for Solving Professional Behavior Dilemmas" Dec. 4, 2007, in collaboration with the departments of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Occupational Therapy.
• Participated in the student research project titled "A Comparison of Lower Trapezius and Serratus Anterior Muscle Activation Patterns During Upper Extremity Forward Flexion in Younger and Older Adults" (with D. Fuller, M. Muller, and B. Thompson).
• Presented a paper on the student research project titled "A Comparison of Lower Trapezius and Serratus Anterior Muscle Activation Patterns During Upper Extremity Forward Flexion in Younger and Older Adults" at the MPTA state meeting, April 17-18, 2008, Branson, Mo. (with D. Fuller, M. Muller, and B. Thompson).
• Wrote "Prevention Practice: Implications for Older Adults" which was published in GeriNotes 2007  14(4): 7-9 (with C. Thompson).

Lynn Drazinski, Instructor of Communication Sciences and Disorders

• Presented a paper titled "Mentoring the Millennial Generation: Implications for Clinical Supervision" at the American Speech-Language Hearing Association meeting November 16, 2007, with (C. Koch and K. van den Enden).

Pamela Hart, Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders

• Conducted a workshop titled "Details AAC and Visual Structure: Make and Take" at the annual Missouri Speech Language Hearing Convention at Lake Ozark, Mo.

Jean Hiebert, Ph. D., Professor of Physical Therapy

• Presented a poster titled " A Comparison Between Heart Rate and Oxygen Consumption in Top Rope vs. Lead Rope in Indoor Rock Climbing" at the Missouri Physical Therapy Association (with T. Marmie, D. Padberg, and S. Rhoads).
• Presented a poster titled "The Effect of Position on Lung Volumes Pulmonary Flow Rates, and Inspiratory and Expiratory Pressures" at the Missouri Physical Therapy Association (with A. McKenna, T. Nichols, and K. Nitsche).
• Gave a presentation titled "Step Count Accuracy of Pedometers in Self-paced Waling and Stair Climbing" at the American Physical Therapy Association combined sections meeting February 8, 2008, in Nashville, Tenn. (with C. Briscoe, E. Meyer, S. Schwandt, and L. Simpson).

Donald Hoover, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy

• Gave a presentation titled "A Comparison of Two Types of Orthoses for Children with Down Syndrome: A Case Series Report" at the APTA annual meeting June 11-14, 2008 , in San Antonio, Texas.
• Contributed information for a grant proposal for $50,000 submitted by B. McKiernan and A. Druin.
• Received a in-kind grant for scientific software valued at $22,500.
• Presented a paper titled "The Ministry of Novel Skills: A Unique Approach to Teaching Motor Learning Principles to Physiotherapy Students" (with E. W. Miller, S. Combs, K Martin, and S. P. Kelly).
• Presented a paper titled "The Prediction of Functional Outcomes in Patients with Non-surgical Shoulder Pathology" at the combined sections meeting of the APTA, February 6-10, 2008, (with R. Cotton, C. Killian, M. Ross, and B. Pease).
• Presented a paper titled "Predictive Validity of the Functional Movement Screen in a Population of Recreational  Runners Training for the 2006 Indianapolis Mini Marathon" at the 55th annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, May 27-31, 2008, (with C. Killan, B. Bourcier, S. Kendall, R. Martin and J. Thomas).

Carol Koch, Instructor of Communication Sciences and Disorders

• Presented a paper titled "Mentoring the Millennial Generation: Implications for Clinical Supervision" at the American Speech-Language Hearing Association meeting November 16, 2007, with (L. Drazinski and K. van den Enden).

Mohamed Kohia, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Physical Therapy

• Wrote an article titled "Effectiveness of Physical Therapy Treatments of Lateral Epicondylitis," which was published in the Journal of Sports Rehabilitation 17: pages 119-136 (with J. Brackle, K. Byrd, A. Jennings, W. Murray, and E. Wilfong).

Amy McAninch, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Education

• Consulting editor for the Journal of Educational Research.
• Presented a paper titled "Conceptualizing Teacher Reflection for Social Justice" at the American Research Association annual meeting.
• Received approval to proceed with the seventh volume of the Advances in Teacher Education series addressing the theme of teacher education and the Liberal Arts, published by Information Age Publishing.

Brian McKiernan, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Physical Therapy

• Wrote an article titled "Do Corticomotoneuronal Cells Predict Target Muscle EMG Activity?" which was published in the Journal Of Neurophysiology, 99(3), pages 1169-986 with (D. M. Griffin, H. M. Hudson, A. Belhaj-Saif and P. D. Cheney).
• Gave a presentation titled "Care and Feeding of the Brain: Lessons in Memory and Recall" on October 17, 2007, at Hallmark Corporation in Kansas City, Mo.

Nancy Montgomery, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders

• Missouri Speech-Language-Hearing Association (MSHA) president 2007-08
• Wrote an article titled "Persistence Pays Off for Missouri Audiologists," which was published in the ASHA Leader February 12, 2008.
• Gave the presentation titled "Why Can't Mario Read" at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association annual convention November 2007 (with M. Walker and J. Katz).
• Gave the presentation titled "Effects of In-service Education on Instructor Knowledge and the Early Literacy Skills of At-risk Youth" at the MSHA convention (with M. Brandt).
• Gave the keynote presentation titled "Changing the World" at the president's luncheon at the MSHA convention.
• Presented a poster titled "Educating Guidance Counselors About Our Professions" at the MSHA convention.

Stuart Phipps, Instructor in Education

• Served as a member of the DESE Examiners Team at Lindenwood University March 15-19, 2007, in St. Charles, Mo.

Mary Pat Shelledy, Instructor of Education

• Presented a workshop titled "Building Collaboration to Enhance the Student Teaching experience" at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) national conference March 16, 2008, in New Orleans, La. (with R. Shull).

Rena Shull, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Education

• Presented a workshop titled "Building Collaboration to Enhance the Student Teaching Experience" at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Developement (ASCD) national conference March 16, 2008, in New Orleans, La. (with M. P. Shelledy).
• Presented workshops titled "Paper Folding - Circle" and "The Van Hiele Model for Geometric Thought" at the KCATM annual conference in January 2008.

Mandi Sonnerberg, Visiting Instructor of Education

• Chair of the Accreditation Team for Visitation Parish School, Kansas City, MO.

Ellen Spake, Ph.D., Professor of Physical Therapy

• Presented a poster titled "Academic Integrity in Entry Level Physical Therapist Education Programs" at the APTA combined section meeting February 8, 2008, in Nashville, Tenn., (with students B. Alexander and C. Harris).
• Presented a poster titled "The Development of Leadership in Physical Therapy: Component Leaders" at MPTA spring meeting April 11, 2008, in Branson, Mo., (with students J. Madeo, L. Warner, A. Klassen and H. Reeder).
• Presented workshops titled "Assessment and Evaluation of Teaching" and "Creating Documentation of Scholarly/Creative Activity Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning" at APTA New Faculty Mentoring Workshop August 2-4, 2007, in Indianapolis, Ind.

Catherine Thompson, Ph.D., Professor of Physical Therapy

• Wrote "Prevention Practice: Implications for Older Adults" which was published in Geritopics  14(4): 7-9 (with A. Decker).
• wrote "An Examination of Listening Concepts in the Healthcare Context: Differences among Nurses, Physicians, and Administrators" which was accepted for publication in the International Journal of Listening in fall 2008 (with J. Davis, A. Foley, C. Bond and J. DeWitt).
• Prepared a successful proposal for $3,000 granted titled "Motor Assessment for Kansas City Healthy Start Infants and Self-Efficacy of Parents Project" in January 2008.
• Presented a poster titled "Audiovisual Parent Training with Motor Practice may Promote Postural Stability in Healthy Infants: A Pilot Study" at the annual meeting of the Missouri Physical Therapy Association (with S. A. Pohl, H. M. Beardslee, and E. L. Bucher).
• Present a poster titled "Pediatric Physical Therapists Provide Primary Care" at the annual meeting of the Missouri Physical Therapy Association (with L. Dunn, K. Perkins, and C. Steele).
• Invited to present lecture titled "Motor Imagery-Optimizing Therapeutic Interventions" in the Distinguished Lecture Series at the Delaware Technical & Community College October 19, 2007.
• Invited to present lecture titled "Prevention Practice: Making Healthy People a Reality" in the Distinguished Lecture Series at the Delaware Technical & Community College October 19, 2007.
• Invited to present lecture titled "Red flags and Motor Development" at a certification training for daycare providers at the Children's Motivational Behavior Center, University of Missouri-Kansas City February 8, 2008.
• Invited to present lecture title "Kansas City Healthy Start Team Training" July 13, 2007, at Research Hospital, Kansas City, Mo.

Kris Vacek, Associate Professor Of Occupational Therapy

• Presented a poster titled "Comparison of the Jamar Dynamometer and Greenleaf EVAL System for Measuring Grip Strength" at the AOTA National Conference May 2008 in Long Beach, Ca. (with M. Brown, E. Roberts, L. Rhoten and D. Lombard)
• Wrote the chapter titled "Upper Extremity Prosthetic Rehabilitation" which was published in Introduction to Splinting, 2nd Edition, Chapter 18, St. Louis, Mosby, B. M. Copeland and H. Lohman, Eds., (with O. Aragon).

Carol White, Director of Field Experiences in Education

• Presented a workshop for first and second year teachers titled "Differentiation to Meet the Individual Needs of Students" March 1, 2008, at Rockhurst University (with P. Brown).

Steve Wilkinson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Physical Therapy

• Presented a poster titled "Exercising Consistent Vocabulary in Physical Therapy Documentation" at the Missouri Therapy Association spring meeting in Branson, Mo. (with student J. Tepen).