2010 Accomplishments
Dr. Les Manns, Professor of Economics, was a member of a panel discussion on the film "Inside Job" at the Ross Film Theatre in Lincoln in November of 2010
Jennifer Bossard, Lecturer of Economics, co-authored a paper titled “The Representation of Women at Public Research Universities: Do Unions Make a Difference?” in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Vol. 63, No. 4 (July 2010), 699-718.
Dr. Wendy Hind, Assistant Professor of Business, received a Summer Research Grant to work with two students on a research paper during the summer of 2011. The research focuses on the impact of diversity among the members of corporate boards of directors.
Dr. Tim Wiedman, Assistant Professor of Management/Human Resources, worked with a nationwide team of subject matter experts to write and edit test items and scenarios for the Society for human Resource Management's (SHRM) Assurance of Learning for Graduating HR Students.
Dr. Deryl Merritt, Professor of Business, accepted a position on the Board of Directors for the Wilber Brewery Project. As a member of the founding board, Dr. Merritt’s appointment is considered to be permanent.
Dr. Kay Hegler, Professor of Special Education, has been appointed as Higher Learning Commission (HLC) coordinator of campus-wide efforts for the next institutional review for the fall of 2011.
Dr. Lyn Forester, Professor of Education, has recently been elected the vice-chair of the Undergraduate Committee to the Nebraska Council for Teacher Education.
David Swartzlander, Assistant Professor of Journalism, was nominated to be president of College Media Advisers, a nationwide group numbering more than 600 professionals who serve as advisers to college media. Swartzlander is now vice-president of the group.
Robin McKercher, Assistant Professor of Theatre, produced 30 shows and directed The 39 Steps and Adaptation at the Belvoir Terrace Fine Arts Learning Center in Lenox, Massachusetts.
Jeffrey Stander designed the scenery for Dear Ruth with Retro Productions in New York City with two Doane students participating as assistant designers. Stander will also design The 39 Steps for the Nebraska Repertory Theatre over the 2011 summer.
Dr. Liam Purdon, Professor of English, completed and submitted for publication at PMLA a long essay on Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (9,000) words. The article, based on the way he teaches the novel in the English 237 sections, is entitled “Symbolic Action and Language in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.”
Dr. Purdon has also completed another long essay of 14,000 words, “Codex Exoniensis, fol. 123b-fol. 124b: An Old English Stones of Venice.” He has taken his work on this essay to apply to the Bloomfield Visiting Scholar Program at Harvard.
Dr. Purdon also published, with alumnus Beef Torrey,
Conversations with Tom Robbins (U of Mississippi P, 2011).
Dr. Evelyn Haller, Professor of English, published an essay, “Shadows on the Rock: A Novel in American English Ezra Pound Gave to His Daughter Mary That She Might Learn His Mother Tongue and More,” in Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics” Vol. 37 (2011) 245-265. Her scholarly essay, “Virginia Woolf and Dance,” is Chapter 25 in The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts, ed., Maggie Humm (U of Edinburgh P, 2011), 455-474.
Dr. Dan Clanton, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, published “’Here, There, and Everywhere’: Images of Jesus in American Popular Culture” in The Bible in/and Popular Culture: A Creative Encounter. Ed., Philip Culbertson and Elaine M. Wainwright. Semeia Studies 65. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2010.
Dr. Tessa Durham Brooks, Assistant Professor Biology, published two papers related to her thesis work. One was as a corresponding author who included undergraduates as the first and second authors:
· “Detection of a Gravitropism Phenotype in glutamate receptor-like 3.3 Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana Using Machine Vision and Computation”. Genetics (2010) 186: 585-593. (http://www.genetics.org/cgi/content/abstract/186/2/585)
· “Separating parental environment from seed size effects on next generation growth and development in Arabidopsis”. Plant, Cell & Environment (2011) 34: 291-301. (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-3040.2010.02243.x/full)
Dr. Durham Brooks was awarded a four-year $292,000 grant from National Science Foundation via the Plant Genome Research Program and was also awarded a $4,970 EPSCOR grant titled “Defining genetic components of the AtGLR3.3 (Arabidopsis thaliana Glutamate Receptor Like 3.3) pathway in root gravitropism”.
Dr. Brad Elder, Associate Professor Biology, was awarded a portion of a $24 million NIH EPSCoR grant as part of a large group of institutions and investigators studying use of algae for biofuels.
Dr. Barbara J. Clement, Professor of Biology, is a co-author on a paper currently published online and shortly to be in press: Secondary minerals from extrapedogenic per latus acidic weathering environments at geomorphic edges, Eastern Nebraska, USA. Catena 85 (2011) 253–266. R.M. Joeckel, K.D. Wally, B.J. Ang Clement, P.R. Hanson, J.S. Dillon, S.K. Wilson.
Dr. Heather York, Assistant Professor of Biology, was just granted the Nebraska EPSCoR FIRST award. Her pre-proposal titled “Ecological Profiling of Pyllostomine Bats” was funded in the amount of $19, 315.
Dr. David Clevette, Professor of Chemistry, was co-author of a published paper: “Enzymatic Resolution of 1-Phenylethanol and Formation a Diastereomer: An Undergraduate 1H NMR Experiment to Introduce Chiral Chemistry” Journal of Chemical Education (2011) 88(3): 334-336. He was also co-pi on a funded grant: “MRI: Acquisition of a 300 MHz solution- and solid-state NMR”, with Erin Wilson (PI) and Christopher Wentworth, David Clevette, Andrea Holmes, Tessa Durham Brooks (co-pi’s). $374,400 funded by NSF.
Dr. Andrea Holmes, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, was co-author of published paper:
· “Enzymatic Resolution of 1-Phenylethanol and Formation a Diastereomer: An Undergraduate 1H NMR Experiment to Introduce Chiral Chemistry” Journal of Chemical Education. (2011) 88(3): 334-336.
· DETECHIP 1.2®: An improved molecular sensing array” Journal of Forensic Research., submitted for publication, 2011
· Wild Plum: Dyes of Improved Optical Brightness and Fluorescence. Journal of Cosmetic Science, 61, 279-288, 2010
· DETECHIP®: A sensor for drugs of abuse” J. Forensic Sci., 55, 3, 723-727, 2010
· “Enantio-discrimination of methamphetamine by circular dichroism using porphyrin tweezers” in print, Chirality 22, 398-402, 2010;
Dr. Holmes has a publication of a patent: U.S. Patent 2010, U.S. Patent No. 7,705,144: “Dyes of improved optical brightness and/or fluorescence and compositions containing them”. Inventor: Andrea E. Holmes, Ph.D.
Dr. Holmes was Principal Investigator (PI) on a funded grant: NSF, Research and Infrastructure grant, Nebraska-EPSCoR, Center for Nanohybrid-Functional Materials, PI at Doane College, (2010-2015) $562,000 and was co-pi for funded grant: NSF-CHE-1040402, " MRI: Acquisition of a 300 MHz solution- and solid-state NMR" (2010-2013) $374,000.
Dr. Erin Wilson, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, was Principal Investigator (PI) on a funded grant proposal for $374,000 from NSF titled, “MRI: Acquisition of a 300 MHz solution- and solid-state NMR”. Co-pi’s were David Clevette, Tessa Durham Brooks, Andrea Holmes, and Chris Wentworth.
Dr. Wilson was also a PI on a funded grant: EPSCOR $5000
Dr. Chris Wentworth, Professor of Physics, published: Wentworth, C.D. “Helium Speech: An Application of Standing Waves”. The Physics Teacher, 49, 212-215, April 2011.
Dr. Wentworth was a Co-Principal Investigator on a funded grant: “MRI: Acquisition of a 300 MHz solution- and solid-state NMR”, with Erin Wilson (PI) and Christopher Wentworth, David Clevette, Andrea Holmes, Tessa Durham Brooks (co-pi’s). $374,400 funded by NSF. He was also the editor and a content author for The Humanized Physics Project Web Site. http://physics.doane.edu/hpp/.
Dr. Heather Lambert, Associate Professor of Psychology, was named to the National Board of Directors of Jana's Campaign. She was re-elected as President of the Board of Directors of the Hope Crisis Center.