Faculty Kudos
College of Education
Richard E. Vatz (Department of Instructional Leadership and Professional Development) organized, chaired and presented a panel titled “The Obama Presidency and Republican Opposition Watch in Year Five: The Rhetoric and Politics of Governing and Forging Foreign Policy” at the National Communication Association (NCA) national convention in Washington in November. He also chaired and interacted in a panel titled “Considerations of the Campaign: Communicative Aspects of the 2012 Presidential Race” and participated in the Convention’s Vice Presidential panel titled “Making the Connections with the Capitol Steps II.” Vatz also serves as a representative in the NCA’s Legislative Assembly, its major legislative body.
College of Liberal Arts
Professor Andrew Reiner (Honors College and Department of English) had his course, “The Search for Intimacy in the Age of Facebook” featured in the New York edition of Metro newspaper. The article delves into the out of class experiments that Reiner assigns students to challenge their social media sensibilities. The article is accessible at http://www.metro.us/newyork/lifestyle/education/2013/12/01/students-unplug-technology-and-look-for-intimacy/.
Peter Baker (Department of English) had his annotated and indexed edition of The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley published in November by the University of California Press.
Dave Belz (Department of English) had a short story, “The Paper Clip,” that was awarded one of two honorable mentions in The City Paper’s 15th Annual Fiction Contest.
Fran Botkin (Department of English) won a year-long NEH fellowship to continue her project, “Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Circumatlantic Representations of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2013.”
Ted Hendricks (Department of English) interviewed the novelist Stephen Dixon in BOMB’s online edition. He also reviewed Jeffrey J. Folks’s study, Heartland of the Imagination: Conservative Values in American Literature from Poe to O’Connor to Haruf in Modern Age (Fall 2013).
Carol Quinn (Department of English) won the 2014 Spring Poetry Contest at So To Speak: Feminist Journal of Language and Art. Her winning poem is entitled “Late Light”.
Diane Scharper (Department of English) reviewed Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed in the November 11 number of America magazine.
Jonathan Vincent (Department of English) read “Preparedness Nation: American Novels of the U.S. Civil War and the Revision of Military Memory, 1890-1914” at the American Literature Symposium on October 1 in New Orleans. He also presented “A Sudden, Bright Anger: Maritta Wolff and Working-Class Dissent during the Mobilization for World War II at the American Studies Association annual meeting last month in Washington, D.C.
Fran Botkin (Department of English) has recently been awarded a year-long National Endowment of the Humanities Research Fellowship for her book project, “Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Circumatlantic Representations of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2013.” Dr. Botkin’s was one of 72 out of 1085 proposals to receive funding. The work builds upon several years of work in Jamaica including the origination and organization of an annual conference o0n Maroon culture.
Library
Mary Gilbert (Assistant University Librarian for Content Management) has been named to Gale’s Academic Advisory Board. At a recent meeting of the board in Detroit, she gave a presentation as part of a webinar panel discussion entitled, “Best Practices for Reaching Students and Faculty”.
Staff Kudos
Carol Clafferty (Kinesiology) completed the University Business Certificate, one of five noncredit certificates offered by the Office of Human Resources. This certificate is designed for university employees responsible for business functions. Click this link to learn more about competency focus and certificate programs available to all faculty and staff.
Trevor Lowing (College of Fine Arts and Communication) completed the University Business Certificate, one of five noncredit certificates offered by the Office of Human Resources. This certificate is designed for university employees responsible for business functions. Click this link to learn more about competency focus and certificate programs available to all faculty and staff.
Earline Rogers (Campus Recreation Services) completed the University Business Certificate, one of five noncredit certificates offered by the Office of Human Resources. This certificate is designed for university employees responsible for business functions. Click this link to learn more about competency focus and certificate programs available to all faculty and staff.
Robert Zengel (Procurement) completed the University Business Certificate, one of five noncredit certificates offered by the Office of Human Resources. This certificate is designed for university employees responsible for business functions. Click this link to learn more about competency focus and certificate programs available to all faculty and staff.
