ROUNDTABLE

The following is a summary of faculty and staff accomplishment reported to ESU Public Affairs and Marketing in July/August 2005:

WHO, WHAT, WHEN, AND WHERE

 

PRESENTATIONS

Dr. Shonda McLaughlin, assistant professor, Department of Counselor Education, and students of the Counselor Education & Rehabilitation Programs attended and presented at the National Association of Multicultural Rehabilitation Concerns Annual Training Conference, July 20-24, 2005, in San Antonio , Texas .

Dr. Shonda McLaughlin , assistant professor, Department of Counselor Education, and Mr. Artimio J. Wilson, Rehabilitation Education major, conducted a lecture presentation, “Best Practices in Developing Multicultural Competent Counselors: World.” Ms. Janice Perez and Mr. Martin Griffith, both Rehabilitation Counseling majors, conducted a lecture presentation, “Abuse among Latino Women;” while Ms. Shelby Swords, Rehabilitation Education major, conducted a poster presentation entitled, “Spirituality and Rehabilitation,” and Ms. Sandy Giger, Rehabilitation Counseling major, was accepted to present her poster presentation, “Accessing Spirituality during the Process of Rehabilitation.”

The Great Plains Trio DVD Video of Piano Trio No. 3 by Joseph Ott, was presented at the INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL on JULY 28TH AT BALDWIN WALLACE COLLEGE IN BEREA, OHIO. This composition was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1985. Mr. Ott was a professor of composition and theory at Emporia State University . Members of the Piano Trio at that time were Dr. James Starr , violinist, Dr. James Swain , cellist and Elaine Edwards , pianist, Department of Music.

Carol L. Russell , associate professor, Department of Elementary Teacher Education, co-presented: “An Inservice on NLD (non-verbal learning disorder) for the IEP (Individualized Education Plan) Team” at the International Spina Bifida Association Conference in St. Paul , MN in June, 2005.

William H. Clamurro, professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, presented a paper in August (3-6 Aug.) at the conference of the Association of Colombianists ( Granville , Ohio ), “La picaresca colective de La novia oscura.” Clamurro , will also be (1) giving a keynote lecture at the Cervantes Symposium at Hampden-Sydney College (VA), “Don Quijote in the Twenty-First Century: Cervantes and the Sorrows of Empire” and will also give a lecture at the Nesbitt Memorial Library ( Columbus , Texas ), “Don Quijote at age 400.”

Gary Holcomb, associate professor, Department of English, gave a series of lectures on American Studies at four American Studies Institutes in eastern German universities in June: Dresden Technological University; Chemnitz University of Technology; Otto-von-Guericke, Magdeburg University; and Friedrich-Schiller University Jena. Sponsored by the US Embassy in Berlin and Fulbright Commission in Germany . Holcomb also gave a series of lectures at Romanian universities in the spring sponsored by Fulbright Romania : “Racing the Nation: The New African American Studies,” Babes-Bolyai Univ. , Cluj-Napoca (April 2005). “The New African American Studies,” Craiova Univ. (April 2005). “From the Black Atlantic to the Black Sea: African American Literary Studies in Romania ,” Ovidius Univ., Constanta (March 2005). Holcomb was asked to talk at the US Embassy in March: “Why Study African American Literary Studies in Romania ,” American Cultural Center , US Embassy, Bucharest . Holcomb was also invited to talk the Romanian Literature Museum , Iasi , Romania : “Black Writers of the Interwar Period in the Soviet Union ” (Jan. 2005). Holcomb gave the keynote lecture for “A Matter of Taste,” the Annual Conference of the English Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, American Studies Program, Univ. of Bucharest, Romania in June: “Code Name Sasha: Claude McKay Dines 'Out' on America.” Holcomb also gave paper presentation at a conference in Berlin , Germany : “New Negro, New American Studies in Becoming-EU Europe,” European Perspectives in American Studies (John F. Kennedy Institute, Free Univ. , Berlin , Feb. 2005). Holcomb hosted two roundtable discussions in Romania on teaching ethnic and cultural studies: Roundtable Chair, “Ethnicity and Romania ,” Fulbright 100th Birthday Conference, Fulbright Commission ( Bucharest , April 2005). Roundtable Chair, “Ethnic Studies in Romania ,” Mapping the Future: Permanence and Change ( Univ. of Iasi , Romania , March 2005).

Dr. Marcus Childress , associate professor & chair, Department of Instructional Design and Technology. “This is your brain on PowerPoint.  Any questions?”  (2005, March) Mid-America Computers in Education (MACE) Conference, Manhattan , KS .

Dr. Marcus Childress , associate professor & chair; Dr. Harvey Foyle , professor; Derrick Richling, graduate student; Henry Wijata, graduate student, Department of Instructional Design and Technology & E-Lu Chen, graduate student, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA .  “Get SMART! Hands-on! – Using SMART Board Interactive Whiteboards and Other New and Innovative Technologies in the Classroom.”  (2005, April) National Technology Conference of the National Social Science Association (NSSA), Las Vegas , NV .

Dr. Marcus Childress , associate professor & chair, Department of Instructional Design and Technology, and E-Lu Chen, graduate student, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg , VA “Going Wireless in the Classroom and in the Home Office.” (2005, April) National Technology Conference of the National Social Science Association (NSSA), Las Vegas , NV.

PUBLICATIONS

Alshare, Khaled A ., associate professor, Department of Accounting and Computer Information Systems, and Donald S. Miller , professor, Department of Business Administration and Education, “Combining Traditional and Web-Based Learning Environments: An Effective Instructional Approach,” Teaching Journal of the ooi Academy, Vol. 5 - No. 1, Spring 2005, pp. 13 - 23.

Roach, David K., Myrna M. Cornett-DeVito , professor, Department of Communication and Theatre, and Raffaele DeVito , professor, Department of Business Administration and Education, “A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Instructor Communication in American and French Classrooms,” Communications Quarterly, Vol 53 - No. 1, February 2005, pp. 87 - 107.

Catt, Stephen E. , professor, Department of Communication and Theatre, Donald S. Miller , professor, Department of Business Administration and Education, and Nitham M. Hindi, “Don't Misconstrue Communication Cues,” Strategic Finance, Vol. XXXVI - No. 12, June 2005, pp. 50 - 55.

Groneman, Nancy , professor, Department of Business Administration and Education, “Trends in IT Skills Needed by Businesses from 2000 - 2004 with Implications for IT Curricular Offerings, NABTE REVIEW, Vol. 32, pp. 42 - 47.

David P. Gillette (M.S. 2002), Jeremy S. Tiemann (M.S. 2002), Dr. David R. Edds , professor, Department of Biological Sciences, and Dr. Mark L. Wildhaber ( U.S. Geological Survey). 2005. Spatiotemporal patterns of fish assemblage structure in a river impounded by low-head dams. Copeia 2005(3): 539-549.

Ng, H.H. (Univ. Michigan ) and D.R. Edds, professor, Department of Biological Sciences, 2005. Two new species of Erethistoides (Teleostei: Erethistidae) from Nepal . Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 16(3): 239-248.

Tiemann, J.S. (ESU M.S. 2002), D.P. Gillette (ESU M.S. 2002), M.L. Wildhaber (U.S. Geological Survey), and D.R. Edds, professor, Department of Biological Sciences. 2005. Effects of lowhead dams on the ephemeropterans, plecopterans, and trichopterans group in a North American river. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 20(3): 519-525.

Jared D. Larson , instructor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, published an article entitled “O fundamentalismo evanxélico e a política exterior de EEUU,” Tempo exterior, No 10, Instituto Galego de Análise e Documentación Internacional, Baiona (Pontevedra), Galicia (Spain), xaneiro-xuño 2005 (published in late June), pp. 127-140. Submitted in Spanish as “El fundamentalismo evangélico y la política exterior de EEUU,” translated into the Galician by the publisher. Title in English would be “Evangelical Fundamentalism and US Foreign Policy.”

William H. Clamurro, professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, published an article in the Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies, “El tiempo lúdico y mortal del Quijote” and also presented a paper on “time in Don Quijote” – “Time in Don Quijote: From Narrative Pause to Human Mortality” -- at the College of Wooster symposium on Cervantes (April 2005); the paper will be published in the proceedings. Clamurro's chapter on Cervantes' Exemplary novella “La gitanilla” (“Enchantment and Irony: Reading ‘La gitanilla'”) is forthcoming in the Tamesis Companion to Cervantes's ‘Novelas ejemplares' that is now in press ( London ).

Dr. Marcus Childress , associate professor & chair and Dr. Harvey Foyle , professor, Department of Instructional Design and Technology. “Improving student technological conceptions, attitudes and usage through the intervention of the Intel Teach to The Future curriculum.” (2005) National Social Science Journal, 25(1), 34-46.

Dr. Jane Eberle , assistant professor and  Dr. Marcus Childress , associate professor & chair, Department of Instructional Design and Technology, “Using heutagogy to address the needs of online learners.” Book chapter in the Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Teaching, Technologies, and Applications. Rogers , P., editor.(2005) Information Science Publishing.

 

 

 

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