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The following is a summary of faculty and staff accomplishment reported to ESU Public Affairs and Marketing in October 2003:

AWARDS

Dr. Scott Crupper, associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, was awarded a $145,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute of the NIH to study “Overproduction of Epothilones in Sorangium cellulosum."

CONFERENCES

Dr. Dwight Moore, associate professor, Dr. Greg Smith, assistant professor, with the following graduate students: Bryan Maher, Alisa Rapp, Sarah Reznicek, Janda van Loenen, Travis Wright, all in the Department of Biological Sciences, attended the annual meeting of the Central Plains Society of Mammalogists at Bull Shoals Field Station (near Branson, MO) on September 26-28, 2003.

PRESENTATIONS

Dr. Greg Smith, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Barry Smart, graduate student in the Department of Biological Sciences, Layne Knight, & Daniel Jirak presented, “Historic patterns in small mammal community structure at the Ross Natural History Reservation, Lyon County, Kansas” at the annual meeting of the Central Plains Society of Mammalogists at Bull Shoals Field Station (near Branson, MO) on September 26-28, 2003.

Dr. David Edds, professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, presented a program on aquatic biology to area Girl Scouts at Eisenhower State Park.

Dr. Tom Eddy, professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, presented a program to the Emporia Camera Club on adaptive colors, forms and behaviors of tropical insects. He also conducted a classroom and field activity on prairie ecology for the students in the Cassoday School and taught the riparian ecology segment of the Kansas Academy of Science fall field trip on the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.

Dr. Greg Schneider, associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences, will present "The Protean Character of Modern American Conservatism" at the Evolution of American Conservatism conference at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio on October 11. An extended version of the same paper will be presented at the Historical Society conference in Boothbay Harbor, Maine in June 2004. Dr. Schneider was one of 10 historians of conservatism invited to participate in the Ashland conference.

Dr. David Kaplan, professor and chair of the Department of Counselor Education and Rehabilitation Programs, presented the keynote address, "Family Wellness" at the Kentucky Counseling Association annual conference on October 23 in Louisville, Kentucky.

PUBLICATIONS

Dr. Connie Briggs, director of ESU’s Reading Recovery Center and a Reading Recovery Trainer, and Sallie Forbes, clinical professor at the University of Iowa, edited Research in Reading Recovery, Volume 2, published by Heinemann (Portsmouth, NH). The book includes an afterword by Dr. Marie M. Clay, the New Zealand educator and researcher who developed Reading Recovery nearly 30 years ago. In the national debate about scientifically based research and accountability, Reading Recovery® has come under scrutiny. Evidence cited in the book supports Reading Recovery on several fronts: its solid research base since its inception, its high success rate with the lowest-performing first-grade students, its cost-effectiveness, its assessment measures, and its response to change, including specific adaptations to emphasize phonemic awareness and phonics. This book goes even further in documenting Reading Recovery's real research, bringing readers up to date on findings since the first volume of the same name appeared in 1997.

Dr. David Saunders, associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences,
Dr. Ron Keith, associate professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, and
Dr. Elizabeth Yanik, professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, had “Digital Imaging Investigations” published in the October 2003 issue of The Science Teacher.

Dr. Marshall Sundberg, chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, had “Strategies to Help Students Change Naïve Alternative Conceptions about Evolution and Natural Selection” published in Reports of the National Center for Science Education 23 (2): 23-27.

Dr. Nitham Hindi, chair of the Department of Accounting and CIS, Dr. Donald Miller, professor in the Department of Business Administration and Education, and Dr. Thomas Slocombe, associate professor in the Department of Business Administration and Education and director of the MBA program, published “Today’s MBA Degree: Characteristics of Programs at AACSB - Member Schools of Business,” in Southwestern Business Administration Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2003, pp. 65 - 69.

Dr. Donald Miller, professor in the Department of Business Administration and Education, and Dr. Nitham M. Hindi, chair of the Department of Accounting and CIS, published “Hiring of Accounting Professionals: Employee and Employer Perspectives,” in the New Accountant, Issue 702, 2003, pp. 7 - 10.

EMPLOYMENT SEARCH

An AA/EOE institution, Emporia State University encourages minorities and women to apply. The following positions are available and may be viewed on the ESU website at: http://www.emporia.edu/esu/searches.htm or at http://www.emporia.edu/humres/classified.htm

-- Dean, College of the Liberal Arts and Sciences
-- Assistant/ Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences
-- Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
-- Director of Theatre, Department of Communication and Theatre
-- Assistant Professor, tenure-track, Department of Communication and Theatre
-- Assistant Professor, tenure-track, Department of English
-- Organic/Physical Chemistry, tenure-track position, Department of Chemistry
-- Art History Assistant Professor, Department of Art
-- Tenure-track position, Department of Business Administration and Education
-- Tenure-track appointment, Department of Business Administration and Education
-- Dean and Richel Distinguished Professor, School of Library Information Management
-- Major Gifts Officer, University Advancement, ESU Foundation
-- Assistant/Associate Professor, School of Library Information Management
-- Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
-- Two tenure track nine month positions, Department of Health, Physical Education & Recreation
-- Assistant/Associate Professor in Special Education
-- Assistant Director, Greek Affairs
-- Department Chair, Department of Accounting and Computer Information Systems

THANK YOU!

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