The Roundtable

Volume 42/Number 4

May 2009

Worrell elected president-elect of national association

Vicki J. Worrell, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation at Emporia State University, is the new president-elect of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD). Worrell was elected at the organization’s national convention in Tampa, Fla.

With origins dating back to 1885, AAHPERD is the largest organization of professionals supporting and assisting those involved in physical education, leisure, fitness, dance, health promotion and education, and all specialties related to achieving a healthy lifestyle.

As a national spokesperson for the American Alliance, Worrell will be addressing the organization’s role in advocating for “well-balanced high quality daily physical education programs in our nation’s schools so that all children are given the opportunity to achieve their physical and academic potential,” she explained.

Worrell, a 30-year member of the Alliance, supports marketing and advocacy efforts of the Alliance and other national associations that emphasize that physical activity is critical in improving the health, fitness, and well being of people of all ages.

“It is essential that the Alliance develop collaborations with organizations of similar missions, such as the American Cancer Society, and develop partnerships with community professionals such as pediatric physicians to address such national issues as the obesity crisis, cost of health care and decrease in physical activity,” said Worrell. “We must all work together to confirm that coordinated school health programs and required daily quality physical education, recreation, dance and sport really do make a difference in contributing to physically active lifestyles,” she said.

Since becoming a member of AAHPERD in 1975, Worrell has served in numerous leadership roles for the organization at state and national levels.

Throughout her career, her peers have often recognized Worrell’s work. She received the Kansas Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (KAHPERD) Honor Award, the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) Joy of Effort Award, the Central District Honor Award, the AAHPERD Honor Award, and was recognized as the 1993 NASPE National Elementary Physical Education Teacher of the Year.

In recent years, the KAHPERD Service Award was renamed the Vicki J. Worrell Service Award in honor of Vicki’s dedication to service. According to Dr. Kathy Ermler, ESU’s Health, Physical Education and Recreation department chair, “Vicki Worrell serves the profession with passion and integrity.”

Worrell received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Education from Wichita State University, a master’s in physical education from the University of Kansas, and her Ed.D. in applied educational studies from Oklahoma State University.

AAHPERD provides its more than 50,000 members with a comprehensive and coordinated array of resources, support, and programs to help practitioners improve their skills and to further the health and well-being of the American public. The agency is headquartered in Reston, Va., 25 miles west of Washington, D.C.

WHO, WHAT, WHEN, AND WHERE

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Dr. Harvey Foyle, Instructional Design & Technology, received the National Social Science Association's 25th Anniversary Award for his support of and contributions to the organization.

Dr. Darla Mallein, Social Sciences, received a $15,000 grant for a workshop project titled "There's No Place Like Home" from the Midwest Center for Teaching with Primary Sources. This is a second grant, the first is a $5,000 grant to revise her course syllabi this summer to include the Teaching with Primary Sources materials from the Library of Congress and the Midwest Center for Teaching with Primary Sources.

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Dr. Greg Schneider, Social Sciences, was accepted to the Academic Fellows Program of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He will travel to Israel in May-June 2009 for a seminar on terrorism. He was awarded a $15,000 research grant from the Earhart Foundation in Ann Arbor, Mich., to fund travel and research at archives throughout the U.S., including Washington, D.C., Ann Arbor, MI, Austin, TX, Atlanta, Ga., Palo Alto, Calif., Denver, Colo., Boston, Mass., and Eilmington, Del. Dr. Schneider will conduct research this summer on government regulation and the collapse of the Rock Island Railroad. He was also the recipient of $6,000 grant from the Fred and Mary Koch Foundation for a speaker’s series, Lectures on Liberty, on libertarian/conservative ideas.

Dr. Karen Smith, Social Sciences, received a grant for $5,000 from the Steinberg-Lalli Foundation of Acton, Mass. for support during work at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard during sabbatical awarded for fall semester 2009.

Cynthia Akers, Associate Professor and Information Literacy/Outreach Coordinator, University Libraries and Archives, has been elected Vice President of the Kansas Library Association College and University Libraries Section for 2009-10.

Mitchell "Drew" Jahr, Residential Life, has been selected to be one of 30 full time Residential Life professionals throughout the country to participate in the James C. Grimm National Housing Training Institute to be held on June 9-14 in Baltimore Md. The purpose of this institute is to provide a thorough professional development experience for younger professionals looking to further their career in housing. Participants meet and interact with other colleagues, establish mentor relationships with experts in the field, develop professional development plans, and gain skills and competencies needed to meet the current and future demands of the profession. The institute recognizes the importance of the evolving housing field, and it strives to provide participants with the knowledge and skills they will need to be successful in the ever changing field.

Connie Corcoran, associate director of Student Financial Aid, was installed as President of the Kansas Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (KASFAA) at their spring conference held April 1-3 in Topeka. KASFAA is a nonprofit association of post-secondary institutions and agencies who are interested in promoting the effective administration of student financial aid in the State of Kansas. The Association has sought to ensure access to post-secondary education for the many students of this state through a variety of efforts in professional development, information dissemination, legislative and regulatory analysis. KASFAA believes that competent and well informed agencies and institutional financial aid administrators are vitally important if students are to receive the financial assistance to which they are entitled as they pursue post-secondary education.

Dr. Marshall Sundberg, Biological Sciences, served as a panelist for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) in Arlington, VA from February 8-12. The GRFP, the longest running program at NSF, is one of the original programs funded by the Foundation. Sundberg served on the Plant and Other Life Sciences panel which reviewed more than 330 grant proposals over the course of 3 days.

Dr. DeWayne Backhus, professor and chair, Department of Physical Sciences, reviewed a round of proposals for the NASA Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program in early February.

Dr. Michael Smith, Political Science, just returned from the Midwest Political Science Association meetings in Chicago, where he sat on a roundtable with other political scientists who participate in election campaigns. This was to promote a collaborative book, "Inside Campaigns," to be published later this year, about the same topic. He is the author of one chapter in that book.

CONFERENCES

Dr. DeWayne Backhus, professor and chair, Department of Physical Sciences, was a National Science Foundation proposal review panelist in Washington, DC, April 5-7.

Dr. Marshall Sundberg, Biological Sciences, traveled to Arlington, VA to review 330 grant proposals for the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

Dr. R. Brent Thomas, Biological Sciences, served as the keynote speaker at the awards banquet at the Tri-Beta Regional Conference, April 4, at the biological field station on Lake Texoma. Tri-Beta is a national undergraduate biological honor society.

Dr. John Agada, Dr. Jeonghyun (Annie) Kim, and Dr. Cecilia Salvatore, SLIM , attended the annual conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) in Denver on January 20-23, 2009. Dr. Agada attended a WISE (Web-based Information Science Education) workshop on online education, finalized a book contract, met with collaborators on a research grant, and met with collaborators regarding a panel at the next ASIST (American Society for Information Science & Technology) conference. Dr. Kim presented a paper titled, “Building rapport between LIS and Museum Studies.” Dr. Salvatore presided over the Archives SIG (Special Interest Group) meeting and over the Multicultural, Ethnic, and Humanistic Concerns SIG meeting. Dr. Salvatore also convened a panel on “indigenous memory, identity, and sustainability: decolonizing archival education and methods” and presented a paper titled, “brother, will you tell my story?” on that panel. She was also co-convener of a panel on “intersectionality and interdisciplinarity: LIS research/education and studies of the ‘other’.”

PRESENTATIONS

Dr. DeWayne Backhus, professor and chair, Departments of Physical Sciences, was a program presenter ("Observing the Spring Skies," a live outdoor observation sessioin) at the annual meeting of the Kansas Association of Teachers of Science, April 24-26, Rock Springs 4-H Center, Junction City, KS. Backhus and all past presidents and charter members were recognized as part of a 40th anniversary celebration of the organization.

Dr. Harvey Foyle, Instructional Design & Technology, presented Computing in the Clouds: Desktop Virtualization & Thin Client Computing at the National Technology and Social Science Conference in Las Vegas, NV, April 6, 2009.

Dr. Alexis Downs, associate professor, Accounting and Information Systems, presented a visiting lecture at the Institut d'Administration des Entreprises de Lille in France during spring break.

Dr. Susan Nakao, Department of Art, presented two papers at the National Art Education Association Conference in Minneapolis, MN, April 16-21, 2009. Titles were "The Revolutionary Spirit of Yukei Teshima: 18 Artworks With the Power to Transform 21st Century Learning" and "Art and Spirit: Fodder for a Lively Discussion in a College Art Appreciation Class." She is the assistant chair of the Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education, an Issues Group of the National Art Education and in that capacity also hosted two guests lectures at a breakfast for 42 art educators during the conference.

Dr. R. Brent Thomas, Biological Sciences, presented an invited seminar entitled "Ecology, Behavior, and Natural History of Freshwater Turtles: an integrative approach to understanding a largely neglected group " in the Department of Biological Sciences at Cameron University.

Long, A. M., W. E. Jensen, and R. S. Matlack. NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF MESQUITE DENSITY ON LARK SPARROW NEST SUCCESS

Zhao, Y., and Y. Yang. GENE EXPRESSION PROFILE OF MALIGNANT MELAMOMA CELLS IN

RESPONSE TO THE TREATMENT BY GINKGO BILOBA LEAF EXTRACT.

Wang, X., and Y. Yang. EFFECT OF MERCURIC COMPOUND AT SUBLETHAL CONCENTRATIONS ON THE SURVIVABILITY OF BACTERIAL CELLS CHALLENGED BY ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT OR N-ETHYL-N-NITROSOUREA.

Schifferdecker, S., K. Stevens, and T. G. Burnett. AN IN VITRO APPROACH TO DETERMINE SELECTIVE TOXICITY OF ANTI-CANCER DRUGS.

Brickell, C. L., B. A. Koerner, and L. Luina. IMPACTS OF SHRUB ENCROACHMENT ON SOIL RESPIRATION IN NATIVE TALLGRASS PRAIRIE.

Cao, Y., and S. Crupper. CLONING OF THE GENE RESPONSIBLE FOR MALACHITE GREEN DEGRADATION IN STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS ATCC29213.

Du, J., and S. Crupper. GENERATION AND EVALUATION OF AN ANTIBODY SPECIFIC FOR EAST1 FROM ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI.

Lassley, M. L., K. Villmer, and T. G. Burnett. CAPABILITY OF RADIANT CATALYTIC IONIZATION TO REDUCE MICROBIAL LOAD ON STAINLESS STEEL SURFACES.

Qiu, L., and S. Crupper. BIOACTIVITY OF MYXOBACTERIAL SECONDARY METABOLITES.

Schrock, J. R. INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT IN THE HISTORY OF MAJOR U.S. EDUCATION REFORMS (FOCUS ON SCIENCE EDUCATION).

Schrock, J. R. TEN PROBLEMS WITH THE ONLINE MEDIUM IN SCIENCE TEACHING AND SCIENCE PUBLICATION.

Schrock, J. R. TEN REASONS “SIMULATIONS” DO NOT REPLACE REALITY-BASED LABWORK.

Wang, X. and Y. Yang. THE TOXICITY OF LURIA-BERTANI MEDIUM ON CERTAIN ESCHERICHIA COLI STRAINS.

Westby, A., Y. Cao, L. Qiu, and S. Crupper. IDENTIFICATION OF SECONDARY METABOLITES PRODUCED BY SORANGIUM CELLULOSUM.

Dr. Gary Holcomb, Department of English: “When Wright Bid McKay Break Bread: Mapping Black Transnational Geography.” Keynote Lecture, Twenty-First Annual Arizona Quarterly Symposium, University of Arizona (March 2009).

Dr. Gary Holcomb, Department of English: “A ‘Bad Nationalist’ in the International Zone: Claude McKay in Tangier.” Jessie B. Semple Brownbag Series, Langston Hughes Center, University of Kansas (March 2009).

Dr. Dusti D. Howell, associate professor, Instructional Design and Technology, presented “Million Dollar Rookie Mistakes” to high school seniors at Chitralada Palace School in Bangkok, Thailand on June 10, 2008. This presentation was translated into Thai by Dhaphanat "Art" Inburi.

Dr. Dusti D. Howell, associate professor, Instructional Design and Technology, presented “Academic Success Secrets” to upper elementary and secondary students and faculty at Sahamit School in Wat Jahn, Thailand on July 3, 2008. This presentation was translated into Thai by Dhaphanat "Art" Inburi.

Dr. Dusti D. Howell, associate professor, Instructional Design and Technology, presented “Million Dollar Rookie Mistakes” to high school seniors at Wat Mahatat in Bangkok, Thailand on November 26, 2008. This presentation was translated into Thai by Dhaphanat "Art" Inburi.

Dr. Joyce Thierer, Social Sciences, presented her paper entitled “Heritage Studies: Defining the Field" at the Western Social Science Association conference in Albuquerque, NM

Dr. Sheryl Lidzy, Communication and Theatre, participated in the Central States Communication Association (CSCA) annual conference in St. Louis, Missouri from April 1-5. The following are her accomplishments:

Lidzy, S. D. (2008/2009). Enacting both hegemony and resistance: A phenomenology of ‘Lipstick Jungle’. Paper originally presented at the Oklahoma Speech Theatre Communication Association (OSTCA) 79th Annual Meeting in Tahlequah, OK in September 2008. This paper was featured as part of the Oklahoma State Showcase Panel Recreating the Feminine in Pop Culture, for the CSCA States Advisory Council, Central States Communication Association 2009 Convention in St. Louis, MO.

Lidzy, S. D. (2009). Making Sense of Self, Other, and Organizations through Self-Presentation, Perception, and Identity, Panel Chair for the Health Communication Interest Group, Central States Communication Association 2009 Convention in St. Louis, MO.

Lidzy, S. D. (2009). Messages and Meanings at the Heart of Health Care, Panel Respondent for the Health Communication Interest Group, Central States Communication Association 2009 Convention in St. Louis, MO.

Lidzy, S. D. (2009). Gateway to Communication at the “Heart Of It All”: The Intersection of Communication Theory and Health Communication Research, Panel Chair for the Communication Theory and Health Communication Interest Group, Central States Communication Association 2009 Convention in St. Louis, MO.

PUBLICATIONS

Slocombe, Thomas, James Wenger, Donald Miller, and Stephen Catt, “A Survey of Business School Deans Regarding Communication Issues,” Journal of Business, Vol. XVII, 2008, pp. 33–43.

Slocombe, Thomas E, and Donald S. Miller, “Classroom Culture and Behavior: The Relationship between Seating Position and Students’ Exam Performance in Business Classes,” The International Journal of Business Disciplines, Vol. 9, No. 2, Winter 2008, pp. 23 – 30.

Lidzy, S. D. (2008/2009). Enacting both hegemony and resistance: A phenomenology of ‘Lipstick Jungle’. Paper originally presented at the Oklahoma Speech Theatre Communication Association (OSTCA) 79th Annual Meeting in Tahlequah, OK in September 2008. This paper was featured as part of the Oklahoma State Showcase Panel Recreating the Feminine in Pop Culture, for the CSCA States Advisory Council, Central States Communication Association 2009 Convention in St. Louis, MO.

Lidzy, S. D. (2009). Making Sense of Self, Other, and Organizations through Self-Presentation, Perception, and Identity, Panel Chair for the Health Communication Interest Group, Central States Communication Association 2009 Convention in St. Louis, MO.

Lidzy, S. D. (2009). Messages and Meanings at the Heart of Health Care, Panel Respondent for the Health Communication Interest Group, Central States Communication Association 2009 Convention in St. Louis, MO.

Lidzy, S. D. (2009). Gateway to Communication at the “Heart Of It All”: The Intersection of Communication Theory and Health Communication Research, Panel Chair for the Communication Theory and Health Communication Interest Group, Central States Communication Association 2009 Convention in St. Louis, MO.

Dr. William Jensen, Biological Sciences, recently published a paper in Conservation Biology. This is an international level peer-reviewed journal and is considered the most prestigious journal in the field of conservation biology. The citation information follows: Rahmig, C. R., W. E. Jensen, and K. A. With. 2009. Grassland bird responses to land management in the largest remaining tallgrass prairie. Conservation Biology 23:420-432.

Dr. Jeonghyun “Annie” Kim, assistant professor, School of Library and Information Management, published an article entitled "Describing and predicting information seeking behavior on the Web" at Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(3), 679-693.

Sundberg, M. D., A. R. Orr, and T. D. Pizolatto. 2008. Phyllotactic pattern is altered in the transition to flowering in the early years of Zea mays land race Chapalote (Poaceae). American Journal of Botany 95:903-913.

Sundberg, M. D. 2008. Plant culture and the culture of the United States. BioScience 58:661-662.

Dr. Gregory Schneider, Social Sciences, recently published The Conservative Century: From Reaction to Revolution (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). Recipient of $6,000 grant from the Fred and Mary Koch Foundation for a speakers series, Lectures on Liberty, on libertarian/conservative ideas. First event March 25, was Burton Folsom, Jr., presenting “A New Deal or Raw Deal for America?”

Dr. Christopher Lovett, Social Sciences, wrote a review of Roger D. Cunningham's The Black Citizen-Soldiers of Kansas, 1864-1901 that appeared in Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, Vol. 32, No. 1, Spring 2009.

Ken Weaver, Associate Dean in the Teachers College, published the article "Leadership in community: Ideas from the 2009 National Leadership Conference for Strengthening Your Chapter" in Eye on Psi Chi, 13(3), 26-36, with colleagues Kate Marsland from Southern Connecticut State University and Susan Whitbourne from University of Massachusetts.

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: www.emporia.edu/esu/searches.htm.

 

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