2004 Accomplishments
Dr. Jill M. Bale, associate professor of Finance - wrote the article, "A Standardized Pre- and Post-Test for the Introductory Undergraduate Managerial Finance Course", accepted for publication in Financial Decision.
Bryan Hayes, management adjunct - presented "Creating Inclusive Organizations: Its Meaning and Measurement" at the 19th Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology conference in Chicago and presented "Making 360 0 work: From the Board Room to Front Line Supervisors" at the 6 th Annual Best of Organizational Development Summit.
Amy H. Moorman, J.D., associate professor of Business - published an article, "Highlighting Environmental Law in a Regulatory Compliance Course for Business Students," in the Spring 2004 issue of the Environment and Business Forum. , Professor Moorman participated in the annual meeting of the ALSB in Ottawa , Canada , where she was elected Chairperson of the Environment and Business Section and Editor-in-Chief of the Environment and Business Forum .
Dr. Nelson DaCosta, assistant professor of Communication Studies - was selected as a presenter at the National Communications Association convention in November 2004 on the panel, "Moving From Principles to Practices: Hands-On Learning Opportunities in the Organizational Communication Classroom."
Liam Purdon, professor of English - had an essay accepted for publication in a festschrift for Professor Elizabeth Kirk to be published in 2005. The essay is on the late-medieval debate poem known as "Als I lay in a winteris nyt." The title is "The Dramatization of the Second Death in the Late-Thirteenth-Century Debate Poem 'Als I lay in a winteris nyt.'"
Barbara Clement, associate professor of Biology - attended an ASM conference in Banff, Alberta on Cell-to-cell Signaling. She and a co-author had a paper accepted for publication: "Soils, Surficial Geology, and Geomicrobiology of Saline-Sodic Wetlands, North Platte River Valley , Nebraska ," in CATENA.
Russ Souchek, associate professor of Biology and Geology - was an invited speaker at the UNL School of Natural Resources fall seminar, giving a presentation entitled "A home on the range: prairie dog biology and undergraduate student research", which dealt with conservation efforts and student and faculty research projects at the Aldrich Prairie Research Site (APRS). As a result of Dr. Souchek's efforts at the APRS, Doane College received the "2004 Conservation Education Award" from the Nebraska Wildlife Federation.
David Smith, professor of Chemistry - presented a paper on a new organic laboratory experiment at the 18 th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education.
Dr. Mark Meysenburg, associate professor of Information Science and Technology - organized and chaired the second annual workshop on undergraduate student research at the international Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, held in Seattle in June 2004.
Physics Department faculty - made several presentations at the recent 129th Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers held August 2004 in Sacramento, California including: " Humanized Physics Project : Using Speech and Hearing to Teach Physics". Invited talk by Mark Plano Clark, Associate Professor; "The Effect of Helium on the Human Voice: A Laboratory Activity", Mark Plano Clark and Chris Wentworth Professor; and "Creating Lessons for Scientific Reasoning from Professional Human Motion Data", Mark Plano Clark, Chris Wentworth, and collaborators at UNL and California State University, Sacramento.
The Doane College Department of Physics, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Physics & Astronomy, and the Chapin Gait and Motion Lab at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital - published an educational CD titled "Understanding Human Motion". The CD was published in July by California State University , Sacramento , for the American Association of Physics Teachers. Professor Chris Wentworth served as co-editor of the CD.
Dr. Kimberly Jarvis, visiting assistant professor of History - published "The Preservation of Franconia Notch: The Old Man's Legacy," Historical New Hampshire . Fall/Winter 2003-2004.
Dr. Molly Rozum, assistant professor of History - was the Thomas O. Enders Fellow at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada for the academic year 2003-2004. She delivered talks on her work at The University of Calgary and the University of Lethbridge . She published "'The Spark that Jumped the Gap': North Americas Northern Plains and the Experience of Place" in the collection One West, Two Myths: A Comparative Reader, Volume One , edited by Carol Higham and Bob Thacker (2004). Dr. Rozum also published book reviews for Great Plains Newsletter , The American Review of Canadian Studies , and for NEWDEAL @ LISTSERV.UIC.EDU. She served as a round table participant and paper commentator at the 38 th Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference in Fargo, North Dakota and as the chair of a session on children in agriculture at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting in Boston.
Tim Hill, assistant professor of Political Science - had an article accepted for publication in Political Communication . The article is co-authored with R. Andrew Holbrook and is entitled: "Agenda-Setting and Priming in Prime Time Television: Crime Dramas as Political Cues."
Robin McKercher, assistant professor of Theatre - professional credits include: designed the scenery for My Way, a Frank Sinatra musical, at the Fulton Opera House, a LORT (League of Regional Theatres) company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He also directed Ragtime, the Musical and Seussical, the Musical for the Fulton as well. His innovative production of Ragtime won the 2004 Footsie Award for Best Director and Best Musical in Pennsylvania. Additionally, he designed Gypsy and George M! for the Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre in Lancaster, PA., and Show Boat for the Broadway Palm West Dinner Theatre in Mesa, Arizona. Locally he also directed and designed Guys & Dolls at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts, in Lincoln, Nebraska.