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Regent University has accepted Glen Avery ’76, director of instructional technology, into its online doctoral program in higher education administration. He will begin classes in January 2007.
“Becoming a True Cross-Cultural Friend,” by Professor of Intercultural Studies Marcus Dean, appeared in the fall 2006 issue of Common Ground, an online journal published by CanDoSpirit Network.
Craig Fellenstein, executive-in-residence and adjunct professor of business, and six Houghton students (Andrew Ries ’07, Melissa Murray ’06, Joshua Seevers ’09, Stephen Witkowski ’09, Heather Klimek ’09 and Michael Platt ’08) presented the results of their work from the Mayterm course Innovation and Creative Problem Solving in a poster session at the International Congress on Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine in San Francisco. They developed their invention, nanotechnological toxic agent detection, in collaboration with Associate Professor of Business Ken Bates ’71, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Mengyang Li, Professor of Physics Mark Yuly, Adjunct Professor Wilson Greatbatch ’70, Joseph Hupp ’79 of Northwestern University, and Sgt. David Gresham of the New York State Police.
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Lori Huth ’00 had her article “Finding a Feeling Truth: Magical Realism and Metaphor in Jeannette Winterson’s The Passion” published in the spring edition of Pitkin Review.
Assistant Professor of Piano Sharon Johnson presented a concert with former faculty member Shirley Close at Southern Wesleyan University. Johnson, and her two-piano partner Nancy Davis, were asked to give the premiere of a newly discovered work “Four Handed Fun,” by American composer Louise Talma, at two Women’s History Month concerts in March 2007. The concerts will take place at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC and at the University of Maryland. Johnson and Davis will also premiere Eric Ewazen’s “Sonata for Two Pianos” at the First Friday concert series at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Wooster, OH.
Ben King, professor of voice and director/associate dean of The Greatbatch School of Music, has been elected president of the New York State Association of College Music Programs. The National Association of Schools of Music also has named him a senior visiting evaluator.
Professor of English and Poet in Residence Jack Leax ’67 presented a poetry reading at The Barnett-Padgett Literary Artists Series at Southwest Baptist University. He also presented a reading at the annual conference on the Missouri State Poetry Society.
Women’s Soccer Head Coach David Lewis recently had two articles published. “Intentional Strategies to Build Player Character” appears in the Brine Coaching Tips and “Why Not Sports Ministry for Kids?” appears in the October E-Journal of Church Sports and Recreation Ministries.
Susan Bruxvoort Lipscomb, assistant professor of English, presented her paper “News from Somewhere: Richard Jefferies’s After London and the Emergence of the Genre of the Ecological Dystopia” at the Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association’s 27th annual conference.
Bridget Mast ’06, administrative assistant for the vice president of market relations and administration, completed the P.A.C.E. program and marched in the September P.A.C.E. commencement.
Assistant Professor of French Justin Niati had his paper “Fiction and Genocide in Three Texts” published in France.
The Southern Graphics Council invited Jillian Sokso, assistant professor of art, to participate in two portfolios (“Satan’s Hook” and “Plot Influential”) which will travel in exhibitions. Each portfolio has 20 participants who make an edition of 23 works, with one print from each artist delegated to the Southern Graphics Council’s permanent collection. Sokso’s work is also on exhibit in a solo show at Balance Gallery in Philadelphia. The show, “Calligraph,” highlights her most recent body of work in printmaking.
John R. Tyson, professor of religion and philosophy, was selected for a “Summer Wesley Studies” research seminar at Duke University. His article “Charles Wesley and the Language of Evangelical Experience” appeared in The Asbury Journal. Additionally he contributed material to the “Wesleyana” section of the journal.
Professor of Education Dan Woolsey ’77 wrote eight book annotations that appeared in Crossing Boundaries with Children’s Books (Scarecrow Press, 2006), an annotated bibliography organized geographically by world region and country. It has annotations which describe nearly 700 children’s books representing 73 countries.
“Spring Thaw” a poem by Linda Mills Woolsey ’74, professor of English, appears in the winter edition of The Midwest Quarterly.
Jo-Anne Young ’69, equestrian program director, was one of the top five riders in a dressage clinic at Dutch Dressage Stables in Little Valley, NY. Since she was one of the top five, the stables covered the cost of the clinic for her. The clinic was taught by Henk van Bergen, coach of the 1992 Dutch Olympic dressage team, which won the silver medal. |