September 28, 2007

Patricia Schiaffini, part-time assistant professor of Chinese, has a book on modern Tibetan literature coming out in 2008. It will be published by Duke University Press.

A.J. Senchack, professor of business and holder of the Lucy King Brown Chair in International Business, traveled to Stanford University in August to collaborate with researchers at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Carnegie Foundation has received a $500,000 grant for a new initiative on "Business, Entrepreneurship, and Liberal Learning," which involves a three-year study of how educators can help ensure that undergraduates majoring in business gain the benefits of a strong liberal arts education. Southwestern University will be one of the 12 colleges and universities that will be part of this investigation to find promising approaches to integrating liberal arts and business.

September 21, 2007

Romi Burks, assistant professor of biology and chair of the animal behavior program, recently had an article accepted for publication in Aquatic Ecology. The article is titled “Comparing applesnails with oranges: the need to standardize measuring techniques when studying Pomacea” and was written with Abby Youens '07.

Alisa Gaunder, assistant professor of political science and chair of the international studies program, recently published "Reform Leadership in the United States and Japan: A Comparison of John McCain and Ozawa Ichiro." The article appeared in the May 2007 issue of Leadership.

September 14, 2007

Kathleen Juhl, associate professor of theatre, recently published a book called Radical Acts: Theatre and Feminist Pedagogies of Change. The book is an anthology co-edited by Ann Elizabeth Armstrong of Miami University of Ohio and published by the premiere feminist press, Aunt Lute Books of San Francisco. Juhl received a $3,500 grant from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education to give free copies of the book to people who joined the ATHE adjunct organization Women and Theatre Program this summer.

Edward L. Kain, professor of sociology and university scholar, authored a chapter titled “Families.” The chapter was recently published in Social Problems: A Case Study Approach, 2nd ed., edited by Norman A. Dolch, Linda Deutschmann, and Helen Wise.

Sue Mennicke, director of intercultural learning, is co-author of an article that will be published this fall in Frontiers, an interdisciplinary journal of study abroad. The title of the article is "A Notion at Risk: Interrogating the Educational Role of Off-Campus Study in the Liberal Arts." She wrote the article with Andrew Law, off-campus study director at Denison University.

Ben Pierce, professor of biology and holder of the Lillian Nelson Pratt
Chair, published an article titled "Interobserver Variation in Frog Call Surveys" in the September 2007 issue of the Journal of Herpetology.

Work by Mary Visser, professor or art, will appear in Intersculpt 2007, a worldwide exhibition devoted to computer sculpture.

September 7, 2007

Phil Hopkins' chapter “To Say What is Most Necessary: Expositional and Philosophical Practice in Thucydides and Plato" has just been published in Northwestern University Press' Topics in Historical Philosophy series Philosophy in Dialogue: Plato's Many Devices.

Alicia L. Moore, associate professor of education, conducted a workshop titled “The ABCs of Culturally Responsive Teaching” at the 26th Annual Wright Group Early Childhood Summer Institute, titled “Kaleidoscope: Vision and Imagination.” The institute was held at the InterContinental Hotel in Dallas on July 24, 2007. The institute provided professional development for Pre-K, kindergarten, first grade, special education, ELL, and Head Start teachers, assistants, directors and administrators.

A.J. Senchack, professor of business and holder of the Lucy King Brown Chair in International Business, participated in the 2007 Academy of Management national conference in Philadelphia Aug. 3-6. This year's theme was "Doing Well by Doing Good," with featured sessions such as reducing poverty and other social ills at the "base of the economic pyramid," feminism in organizational studies, corporate social responsibility, as well as other sessions relating to the university’s current curriculum revision project on liberal learning in business.