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The
following is a summary of faculty and staff accomplishment reported
to ESU Public Affairs and Marketing in July 2004:
WHO, WHAT, WHEN, AND WHERE
CONFERENCES
Dr. Tom Eddy, professor, Department of Biological Sciences, participated in The Nature of Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains Symposium sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska – Lincoln and held at Nebraska City. Eddy also represented the Flint Hills Scenic Byway at the Kansas Scenic Byways Conference in Wilson, Kansas.
Dr. Marshall Sundberg, professor, Department of Biological Sciences, was an invited speaker for the 2004 National Summer Conference Integrating Science and Mathematics Education Research Into Teaching held June 20-22 at the University of Maine, Orono. He presented “Assessment: Quantitative plus Qualitative produces Quality.” He also led an afternoon workshop on “Using Qualitative Assessment Tools.” Interestingly, the representation of disciplines among the presenters reflected the formal research base in science education – two thirds of the 17 presenters were physical scientists, four were mathematicians and Sundberg was the “token” biologist!
Dr. John Richard Schrock, chair, Department of Biological Sciences, lectured on the problems of U.S. biology education reform and the value of questioning and labwork, at four normal universities in east-central China: Qufu Teachers College in Shandong Province (birthplace of Confucius), Hebei Normal University in Shijiazhuang, Beijing Normal University and Beijing Education Institute. He was in China from May 16 to 29, 2004. A more detailed personal newsletter is available from Schrock upon request.
GRANTS
Ann Piper, assistant professor, Department of Art, has been awarded a grant from the Roswell Artst- in-Residence Program. She will be returning to ESU this fall after spending the 2003-2004 academic year in New Mexico, producing artwork at the RAIR facilities.
Scott Crupper, associate professor, Department of Biological Sciences, received a grant that matched funds for a DNA sequencer from the LI-COR Genomics Education Matching Fund Program at LI-COR in Lincoln, Nebraska. The total cost of this machine is approximately $60,000. The LI-COR 4300 DNA Analyzer expands the research capabilities of the Jones Biotechnology Laboratory Suite.
Greg Sievert, instructor, Department of Biological Sciences, received a grant of $575 from the Oklahoma Wildlife Department. The money will be used for the purchase of film and developing to complete the photographs for the upcoming book “The Amphibians and Reptiles of Oklahoma” which will be co-authored by Dr. Lynette Sievert, associate professor, Department of Biological Scienes.
PRESENTATIONS
Dr. Tom Eddy, professor, Department of Biological Sciences, presented a poster titled, “Ecotonal Dynamics of a Prairie/Woodland Interface at the American Quaternary Association’s 18th Biennial Meeting on the topic of Quaternary Grassland – Forest Dynamics held at the University of Kansas.
Jeremy S. Tiemann, ESU M.S. 2002, David P. Gillette, ESU M.S. 2002, Mark L. Wildhaber, Biological Sciences Adjunct Professor, and Dr. David R. Edds, professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Effects of lowhead dams on abundance of the Neosho madtom, Noturus placidus. 84th annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Norman, Oklahoma. (2004).
PUBLICATIONS
Dr. Derek Zelmer, assistant professor, Department of Biological Sciences, and J.R. Seed published “A patch hath smaller patches: delineating ecological neighborhoods for parasites” in Comparative Parasitology 71: 93-103. Zelmer and H.P. Arai published “Development of nestedness: host biology as a community process in parasite infracommunities of yellow perch (Perca flavescens (Mitchill)) from Garner Lake, Alberta” in Journal of Parasitology 90: 435-436.
Jeremy S. Tiemann, ESU M.S. 2002, David P. Gillette, ESU M.S. 2002, Mark L. Wildhaber, Biological Sciences Adjunct Professor, and Dr. David R. Edds, professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Effects of lowhead dams on riffle-dwelling fishes and macroinvertebrates in a midwestern river. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 133(3): 705-717. (2004) They also published, Correlations among densities of stream fishes in the upper Neosho River, with focus on the federally threatened Neosho madtom, Noturus placidus. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 107(1-2): 17-24. (2004)
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
Chair, Department of Accounting and Computer Information Systems
Computer Information Systems (2 positions), Department of Accounting and Computer Information Systems
Director of Facility Planning, University Facilities
Career Counselor, Career Services
Staff Interpreter, Disability Services
WHO, WHAT, WHEN, AND WHERE
APPOINTMENT
Dr. Malonne Davies, assistant professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, has been elected to serve as the Region 3 College representative for the Kansas Association of Teachers of Science (KATS) for 2004-2007.
Dr. Ken Thompson, associate professor in the Department of Physical Sciences and Director of the Science and Mathematics Education Center, has been elected to serve as the vice president of the Kansas Association of Teachers of Science (KATS) for 2004-2005.
Terri Summey, associate professor, Department of Library Sciences, has been appointed to the Program Advisory Board for the 12th Off-Campus Library Services Conference in 2006.
AWARDS
Dr. Lynnette Sievert, associate professor, Department of Biological Sciences, and Daphne Jones’, biology undergraduate, won first place in undergraduate posters in the 2004 Research and Creativity Forum. The poster was entitled “Temperature and digestive rate of cornsnakes, Elaphe guttata”
CONFERENCES
Dr. David Edds, professor in the Department of Biological
Sciences, attended the 51st Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Association
of Naturalists on April 15-17 in San Antonio:
Dr. Derek Zelmer, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, attended the 37th annual meeting of the Southwestern Association of Parasitologists:
Dr. Tom Eddy, and Dr. Richard Schrock, professors, Department of Biological Sciences, attended the 80th annual meeting of the Kansas Entomological Society in Lincoln, Nebraska on April 16th &17th.
2004 Kansas Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting
The following biology faculty attended
the 2004 Kansas Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting in Kansas City
on April 16th & 17th:
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Dr. Tim Burnett, assistant professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Dr. Scott Crupper, associate professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Dr. David Saunders, professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Dr. Lynnette Sievert, associate professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Dr. Lee Sudlow, assistant professor, Department of Biological Sciences
PRESENTATIONS
Terri Summey, associate professor, Department of Library Sciences, presented at the Eleventh Off-Campus Library Services Conference, May 5-7 in Northern Scottsdate, AZ. The presentation was entitled, “If You Build It, Will They Come?: Creating a Marketing Plan for Distance Learning Library Services.”
2004 Research and Creativity Forum
The following posters were given at the 2004 Research and Creativity
Forum by biology faculty and students:
Dr. DeWayne Backhus, professor, Dr. James Aber, professor, Dr. Jorge Ballester, associate professor, Dr. Michael Keck, associate professor, Dr. Ronald Keith, associate professor, Dr. Jim Roach, assistant professor, Dr. Richard Sleezer, assistant professor, Dr. Charles Pheatt, associate professor, all with the Department of Physical Sciences, Dr. Firooza Pavri, assistant professor, Department of Social Sciences, and Dr. David Saunders, professor, Department of Biological Sciences, presented, “NASA-funded activities since the early 1990s with opportunities for student participation.”
Dr. Lynnette Sievert, associate professor, Department of Biological Sciences, and Daphne Jones, undergraduate, presented, “Temperature and Digestive Rate of Cornsnakes, Elaphe guttata.” Dr. Sievert also presented with Marty Puckett, undergraduate, “Transit Rate, Digestive Efficiency, and Thermoregulation in the Cornsnake, Elaphe guttata.”
Dr. Scott Crupper, associate professor, Department of Biological Sciences, and Jeung-Eun Lee and Havilah Wilcox, undergraduates, presented, “Isolation and Substrate Utilization of Sorangium cellulosum.” Dr. Crupper also presented with Mariko Nishibe, undergraduate, and Jeri Toepfer, graduate student, “A Whole-cell Assay to Determine Soluble Overexpression of MurA in Escherichia coli.” Dr. Crupper and Jeri Toepfer, graduate student, presented, “Cloning and Comparison of the Genes Encoding MurA1 and MurA2 from Bacillus anthracis and Oceanobacillus iheyensis.”
Dr. Leland Sudlow, assistant professor, Department of Biological Sciences, presented, “Hormonal Replacement Therapy Using Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 Slows the Effects of ÿ- Amyloid Toxicity: An Alzheimer’s Treatment Model.”
Dr. Derek Zelmer, assistant professor, Department of Biological Sciences, presented, “Null Models for Nested Subset Patterns of Community Structure: An Illuminating Shift from Black Boxes to Grey Areas.”
2004 Kansas Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting
The following posters and presentations were given at the 2004 Kansas
Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting in Kansas City on April 16th & 17th:
Poster Presentations:
Dr. David Saunders, professor, Department of Biological Sciences, John
Ewing, graduate student, and Justin Asbury, undergraduate student,
presented, PILOT STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON COAGULATION
ACTIVITY. Dr. Saunders, Jennifer Fahrbach, undergraduate student,
and M.R. Kanost Department of Biochemistry, Kansas State University,
presented: THE EFFECT OF MELANIZATION ON HEMOLYMPH VISCOSITY OF THE
TOBACCO HORNWORM, MANDUCA SEXTA.
Dr. Lynnette Sievert, associate professor, Department of Biological Sciences, and Daphne Jones, undergraduate student, presented, TEMPERATURE AND DIGESTIVE RATE OF CORNSNAKES, Elaphe guttata.
Dr. Scott Crupper, associate professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Jin-Oh Lee, and Haviland Wilcox, undergraduate students, ISOLATION AND SUBSTRATE UTILIZATION OF SORANGIUM CELLULOSUM. Dr. Crupper, Mariko Nishibe, undergraduate student, and Jeri.L. Toepfer, graduate student, presented: A WHOLE-CELL ASSAY TO DETERMINE SOLUBLE OVEREXPRESSION OF MurA IN ESCHERICHIA COLI. Dr. Crupper and Jeri Toepfer, graduate student, presented: CLONING AND COMPARISON OF THE GENES ENCODING MurA1 AND MurA2 FROM BACILLUS ANTHRACIS AND OCEANOBACILLUS IHEYENSIS.
Dr. Lee Sudlow, assistant professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Joseph Njau, graduate student, and Sarah Schul, Deb Potter, Ben Areheart, undergraduate students, presented, IGF-1 BUT NOT ESTROGEN REDUCES AMYLOID TOXICITY IN CELL CULTURES.
Oral Presentations:
Dr. Tim Burnett, assistant professor, Department of Biological Sciences,
Cody Snyder, graduate student, and R. DeLisle, Department of Anatomy
and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, presented,
INCREASED BACTERIAL LOAD ASSOCIATED WITH THE SMALL INTESTINE OF A
MOUSE MODEL OF CYSTIC FIBROSIS.
51st Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Association of Naturalists
The following presentation and poster was given at the 51st Annual
Meeting of the Southwestern Association of Naturalists on April 15-17
in San Antonio, TX:
Poster
Dr. Dave Saunders, professor, Department of Biological Sciences, and
Sean Daly, Alumni (B.S. 2003), presented, “Comparison of osmotic
fragility of erythrocytes between sympatric species of treefrogs,
Hyla versicolor and Hyla chrysoscelis.”
37th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Association of Parasitologists
The following biology faculty and students presented at the 37th annual
meeting of the Southwestern Association of Parasitologists:
Dr. Derek Zelmer, assistant professor, Department of Biological Sciences, presented, “Null models for nested subset patterns of community structure: an illuminating shift from black boxes to grey areas.”
Third Annual Undergraduate Research and Creativity
Day
The following presentations and posters were presented at the Third
Annual Undergraduate Research and Creativity Day by biology students:
Oral Presentations
Dr. Derek Zelmer, assistant professor, Department of Biological Sciences,
(faculty mentor), and Amy Shaw, undergraduate, presented, The Effects
of Habitat Heterogeneity and Area on Benthic Invertebrate Diversity
in 5 Kansas Ponds.
Dr. David Saunders, professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Dr. Ron Keith, associate professor, Department of Physical Sciences, Dr. Elizabeth Yanik, professor, Department of Math/Computer Science (faculty mentors), and Jeremiah Dugger, Casey Gamble, and Larry Parks, undergraduates, presented, The Rate of Closure of Dionaea muscipula Pods, and Factors that Affect the Rate.
Dr. Ronald Keith, associate professor, Department of Physical Sciences, Dr. David Saunders, professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Dr. Elizabeth Yanik, professor, Department of Math/Computer Science (faculty mentors), and Daphne Jones, Jason Miller, Greg Stout, undergraduates, presented, Tongue Speed and Prey Capture in Toads.
Posters
Dr. David Saunders, professor, Department of Biological Sciences, (faculty
mentor), Justin Asbury, undergraduate, and John Ewing, graduate student.
Pilot Study of the Effect of Temperature Changes on Coagulation Pathways.
Dr. Saunders (faculty mentor) and Jennifer Fahrbach, undergraduate,
presented: Investigations into the Viscous Properties of Maduca sexta
hemolymph.
Dr. Tim Burnett, assistant professor, Department of Biological Sciences, (faculty mentor), and Nicole Harris, undergraduate, presented, The Effects of Gestational Day on the Migration of Uterine Natural Killer Cells from Metrial Gland Explants.
Dr. Lynnette Sievert, associate professor, Department of Biological Sciences, (faculty mentor), and Daphne Jones, undergraduate, presented, Temperature and Digestive Rate of Cornsnakes, Elaphe guttata.
Dr. Scott Crupper, associate professor, Department of Biological Sciences, (faculty mentor), and Jeung-Eun Lee and Havi Wilcox, undergraduates, presented, Isolation and Substrate Utilization of Sorangium cellulosum.
Dr. Lee Sudlow, assistant professor, Department of Biological Sciences, (faculty mentor), Sarah Schul and Deb Potter, undergraduate, presented, Hormonal Replacement Therapy as a Means to Slow the Effects of ßëamyloid Toxicity: an Alzheimer’s Treatment Model.
Dr. Tom Eddy, professor, Department of Biological Sciences, presented the prairie ecology and rangeland management segment to the ESU Elderhostel and also presented a program on prairie ethnobotany at the Prairie Fire Festival in Cottonwood Falls. He also spoke to Tea and Talk on the ESU campus on the topic of edible and medicinal plants of the tallgrass prairie.
PUBLICATIONS
Dr. Khaled Alshare, assistant professor, Department of Accounting and Computer Information Systems, Elizabeth Grandon, assistant professor, Department of Accounting and Computer Information Systems and Donald Miller, professor, Department of Business Administration and Education, “Antecedents of Computer Technology Usage: Considerations of the Technology Acceptance Model in the Academic Environment,” The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges; Vol. 19 - No. 4, April 2004, pp. 164 - 180.
Elizabeth Grandon, assistant professor, Department of Accounting and Computer Information Systems, and J. Michael Pearson, “E-Commerce Adoption: Perceptions of Managers/Owners of Small and Medium Sized Firms in Chile,” Communication of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 13 - Article 8, February, 2004, pp. 81-102. Grandon and Peter P. Mykytyn, Jr., published, “Theory-Based Instrumentation to Measure the Intention to Use Electronic Commerce in Small and Medium Sized Businesses,” The Journal of Computer Information Systems; Vol XLIV - No. 3, Spring 2004, pp. 44 - 57.
Jim Agee, Director Colorado Regional Program, Department of School of Library and Information Management, and Jacqueline Solis, “Spanish language books: a review of print and online resources.” The Journal of Collection Building; Vol 23 – No. 2, 2004, pp. 87 – 95.
Terri Summey, associate professor, Department of Library Sciences, “If You Build It, Will They Come?: Creating a Marketing Plan for Distance Learning Library Services” in The Eleventh Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings, May 5-7, 2004, Northern Scottsdale, Arizona. (Mount Pleasant, Michigan: Central Michigan State University, 2004), 345-354. Summey with Sherry Backhus, assistant professor, Department of University Libraries and Archives, presented, “Collaboration is the Key to Unlocking the Dilemma of Providing Distance Reference Services.” “Reference Cooperation: Social Interaction in the Workplace” in The Reference Librarian 83/84 (2003).
EMPLOYMENT SEARCH
Assistant Professor, Department of Newman Division of Nursing
Special Education, Department of Psychology and Special Education
Special Education/Gifted, Department of Psychology and Special Education
Access Services Coordinator, Department of University Libraries and Archives
Infant/Toddler Specialist, EarlyChildhood –Childcare Res & Referral
Director of Facility Planning, University Facilities
Coordinator of Media Relations, Public Affairs and Marketing
Reading Support Specialist, Jones Institute
Workshop and Conference Director, Jones Institute
Director of Athletic Marketing, Athletics
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