2008 Accomplishments
Nebraska Economics and Business Association (NEBA) selected Dr. Les Manns, Professor of Economics as president elect at its annual meeting. Manns will be responsible for the 2008 annual meeting which will be held at Doane.
Les Manns, Professor of Economics and Dr. Brian Pauwels, Associate Professor of Psychology, were interviewed for the documentary, GasHole. GasHole, as described by the Ross Film Theatre, "is an examination of US dependence on foreign supplies of oil and poses pointed questions about America's turn from leading exporter to largest importer" of oil.
Jennifer Petersen, Lecturer in Economics, authored an article entitled "The State of Tax Increment Financing in the United States," which was published in the August 2007 edition of State Tax Notes.
Dr. Timothy Wiedman, Assistant Professor of Management/Human Resources, faculty sponsor of Human Resources Club and an active member of Lincoln Human Resource Management Association (LHRMA), authored an article, "Performance Appraisal: An Alternative Viewpoint," which was published in the December issue of the LHRMA Newsletter.
Dr. Kay Hegler, Professor of Special Education, has been reappointed to the Board of Examiners of National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).
Dr. Tom King, Professor of Secondary Education, currently serves as President of the Nebraska State Council for Social Studies.
Dr. Rod Diercks, Associate Professo of Education, is the President elect of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and has been asked to sit on the Spring Creek Prairie Education Committee. He is also on the advisory board for the Young Nebraska Scientist Initiative as part of a Nebraska EPSCoR project.
Dr. Linda Kalbach, Assistant Professor of Education, serves as the Director of Service-Learning at Doane and is co-chair of the Learning Community Committee. She also is on the Mid-West Consortium of Service Learning in Higher Education and has been elected to its Board of Directors. She also has been invited to serve on the Spring Creek Audubon Society Education Advisory Committee and the Crete Blue Valley Community Action Partnership Board of Directors.
Dr. Marilyn Johnson-Farr, Dwight E. Porter, Professor of Education, presented at the Student Education Fall Conference on issues surrounding poverty and implications for children, at the YWCA Citizens Against Racism and Discrimination Conference on the presence of racism in society, and at a forum held by State Farm Insurance on multicultural awareness.
Dr. Julie Kozisek, Professor of Education, has been elected to serve in a three-year position as President of the Nebraska State Reading Association.
Dr. Evelyn Haller, Professor of English, delivered a paper on Willa Cather and the sculptor Lorado Taft at the International Cather Seminar in Paris and Avignon. She also delivered a slide-illustrated paper, "Marianne North's Botanical Recollections of a Happy Life," for the Travel and Literature Session at the Modern Language Association (MLA) conference. She delivered another slide-illustrated paper about how Virginia Woolf was influenced by Marianne North's paintings and writings at the 18th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, "Woolf Editing/Editing Woolf" at the University of Denver.
Roy Scheele, Poet-in-residence, Writing Specialist with rank of Associate Professor of English, recently won the John Joseph Memorial Award in the World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets international poetry competition. Mr. Scheele also has two collections slated for publication in 2008: a chapbook of sonnets, Wire Walker, from Lone Willow Press, and a book-length collection, A Far Allegiance, from Backwaters Press.
Phil Weitl, Instructor in English, published an essay, "The Important Things," in a new college-level writing textbook entitled Next Text.
Brad Johnson, Associate Professor of English, delivered a paper, "Teaching Jane Eyre as Southern Literature," at the Literatures in English Conference at St. Olaf College.
Betty Levitov, Professor of English, gave a talk based on her book, Africa on Six Wheels: A Semester on Safari, in the Winter Lecture Series at the Unitarian Church in Lincoln.
Valerie Knobel, Instructor in Art, served on the response panel for the Victorian (Art History/English) Symposium at St. Thomas University.
Dr. Chris Masters, Professor of Mathematics, served as Governor of the Nebraska-Southeast South Dakota section of the Mathematical Association of America.
Dr. Andrea Holmes, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, was awarded a very competitive $525,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. The project funded by the grant, entitled "CAREER: Design of Colorimetric and Chiroptical Sensors for Abused Narcotics" will provide a number of students unique research opportunities through 2014 and fund a salary for a full-time researcher in chemistry.
Dr. Mark Plano Clark, Associate Professor of Physics, and Dr. Andrea Holmes, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, received a $10,000 grant toward building an x-ray spectroscopic instrument from the Pittsburgh Conference Memorial National College Grants Program; and Dr. Holmes received a $5000 American Chemical Society Project Seed grant.
Dr. Kim Jarvis, Assistant Professor of History, presented a paper General Education Outcomes From the First-Year Liberal Arts Seminar, together with Dr. Kay Hegler, Professor of Special Education, at the Higher Learning Conference.
Dr. Molly Rozum, Associate Professor of History, recently published an article, Exploring the Differences Between Gender and Region: The Northern Grasslands in Comparative Context.
Dr. Tim Hill, Assistant Professor of Political Science, presented a paper at the Southwestern Political Science Association Conference entitled What If You Knew It All? The Effect of Full Information on Prospect Framing Theory, the paper's listed co-authors are Abi Mihel (recent Doane College alum) and Doane student Zach Blackman.
Dr. Nick Vaccaro, Assistant Professor of Political Science, attended and presented a paper at the Latin American Studies Association Conference in Montreal.
Dr. Heather Lambert, Asst. Professor of Psychology, Dr. Brian Pauwels, Assoc. Professor of Psychology, and Dr. Rod Peters, Professor of Psychology, hosted the Nebraska Psychological Society Fall Conference at Doane in November, 2007.
Dr. Steve Gunkel, Associate Professor of Sociology, won his second Doane College Teacher of the Year Award in 2007.