The following is a summary of faculty and staff accomplishments reported to ESU Public Affairs and Marketing in May/June 2006.

 

WHO, WHAT, WHEN, AND WHERE

APPOINTMENTS

Elaine Henrie, Director Financial Aid and Scholarships has been appointed to the Student Access and Diversity Committee for the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

CONFERENCES

Dr. Marsh Sundberg, professor, Department of Biological Sciences, participated in the advisory committee meeting of “Scientific Inquiry through Plants” held at the Botanical Society of America offices in St. Louis, on April 28-30.  The purpose of the meeting was to evaluate the current round of pilot classes and to revise the strategic plan in preparation for scaling up to include the Chicago Public Schools in 2006-7.  Emporia State plant biology students were involved in the original “proof of concept” round and they, and ESU honors biology students, have participated in the pilot programs for the past three semesters.  Current projects and those from previous semesters (Research Gallery) may be viewed at www.plantbiology.org - - click on Research Projects.

Betty Richardson, Scholarship Coordinator in the Financial and Scholarship Office attended the Rocky Mountain Association of Financial Aid Administrators Summer Institute at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado June 4 - 9.

 

PRESENTATIONS

Dr. Marsh Sundberg, professor, Department of Biological Sciences, was an invited speaker in a symposium entitled “Four Eye-opening Science Education Research Studies: Connecting Science and Educational Research” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on 17 February in St. Louis.  The symposium was sponsored by the section on Biological Sciences - the first time an education-related symposium was sponsored by the discipline section rather than the section on Education and Human Resources.   Sundberg’s presentation was “Using Student-Active Investigations to Overcome Student Misconceptions about Evolution and Selection.”

Dr. Sundberg was also invited to present the annual "Ethyl Belk Lecture in Botany" at Miami University, Oxford Ohio on Thursday, March 23rd.  The title of the lecture was "The Future of Botany in the American College Curriculum."  This year marks the centennial of the Botany Department at Miami University and the Belk Lecture kicked off the centennial events which will continue through mid-summer.  On Friday he presented the regular botany seminar on "Teaching Botany to Improve Student Learning."

 

PUBLICATION

Gillette, David P. (M.S. 2002), Jeremy S. Tiemann (M.S. 2002), Dr. David R. Edds, Department of ESU Biological Sciences, and Dr. Mark L. Wildhaber (U.S. Geological Survey). 2006. Habitat use by a Midwestern U.S.A. riverine fish assemblage: effects of season, water temperature and river discharge.  Journal of Fish Biology 68(5):1494-1512. 

 

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:// or at http://www.emporia.edu/humres/classified.htm

Chair and Associate/Full Professor of American History, Department of Social Sciences

Temporary Mathematics Instructor, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and             Economics

Early Childhood Certified Teacher, Department of Center for Early Childhood Education

Assistant/Associate Professor in Adaptive Special Education, Department of Psychology and Special Education

Program Director, Center for Early Childhood Education, EC/Elem Teacher Education

Infant/Toddler Specialist, Early Childhood-Childcare Res & Referral

Program Director, Jones Institute for Educational Excellence
Assistant Controller, Business Office

Nurse Practitioner, Student Health Center

Complex Coordinator, Residential Life
Counselor/Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention (ADAP) Coordinator, Student Life & Counseling

Head Women’s Soccer Coach, Athletics

 

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