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Public Presentations

Dr. Michael Brophy, President, presented Critical Leadership Challenges at Two-Year Institutions: Reflections from the Perspective of the President at University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Prof. Andrew Ogilvie (English) presented Pragmatism, Dewey, and Service Learning: Reconsidering Community and Democracy in the Composition Classroom in April 2011, Atlanta, Georgia. 

Public Presentations

Melanie Sellar (Library / Information Literacy) presents Service Learning: Bringing the World into LIS Education in May 2011, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Dr. Duncan Earle (Global Studies) presents Bad to Think: The Power of the Border of Inferiorities in April 2011, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Public Presentations

Prof. Carlos Royal (Sociology) presents three papers, including “Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Ideology”, in November 2011 in Los Angeles, California.

Dr. Ghada Masri (Global Studies) presents (In)Security, Surveillance and Halal Tourism in April 2011, Seattle, Washington.

Exhibitions

Dr. Jennifer Vanderpool (Media Arts) is currently exhibiting Bayou Garden, an installation with animation and audio at Mount Saint Mary’s College, March 8 – April 17, 2011.

Dr. Jennifer Vanderpool’s (Media Arts) exhibition Sagoberättelser (Fairy Tales) was recently on view at the Designarkivet in Nybro, Sweden.  

Current Research

The Greatest Mystery in American Literature: Who was Emily Dickinson’s Master? – Patrick McMahon (English)

Pragmatism, Dewey, and Service Learning: Reconsidering Community and Democracy in the Composition Classroom – Andrew Ogilvie (English)

A Darkness Visible: American Catholics in the South and the Coming of the Civil War – Ken Zanca (Phil & Rel Studies)

The Parental Role: The Influence of Biological Versus Blended Family Structure for Parents of Adult Children – Carlos Royal (Sociology)

Current Research

Zapatista Viability: By What Measure? - Duncan Earle (Global Studies)

Too Close for Comfort: Jewish Communities and Their Hold on the Holocaust – Karen Feiner (English)

Treating a Post-traumatic Stress Disorder from a Gestalt Therapy Perspective – Brad Hess (Psychology)

Service Learning: Bringing the World into LIS Education – Melanie Sellar (Library / Info Literacy)

Current Research

CORE Survey: A Quantitative Study  - Brad Hess (Psychology)

Uprising of Hope; Accompanying the Zapatistas on their Journey to Alternative Development – Duncan Earle (Global Studies)

Poll Everywhere: A Review – Melanie Sellar (Library / Info Science)

Bayou Garden (Installation with Animation & Audio) – Jennifer Vanderpool (Media Arts)

Current Research

A Royal Pain: The Comic Spirit in George MacDonald's "The Light Princess – Greg Levonian (English)

Wanton, Galería Sextante, Bogotá, Colombia. May - June 2011 – Solo Exhibition - Jennifer Vanderpool (Media Arts)

Librarians Without Borders Get Their Hands Dirty – Melanie Sellar (Library / Info Science)

Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Ideology – Carlos Royal (Sociology)

Current Research

Stepping into a New Role: Quality of Parent-Child Relationships in Stepfamilies – Carlos Royal (Sociology)

Goodbye Paris, Hello New York: Consuming ‘Liquid’ Modernity – Ghada Masri (Global Studies)

(In)Security, Surveillance and Halal Tourism – Ghada Masri (Global Studies)

Student Scholar Award Nominees

In-depth Review on the Biological Factors of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder as well as Treatment Options and Diagnosis of Disorder – Mary Kate Morrow

Hinduism – Megan Crawford

The Psychological and Physiological Effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – Emma Bennett

Physical Fast, Spiritual Feast – Karyn Whitesides

Legos and iRobot: Building Value through Partnership – Austin Peterson and Stefnie Huth

Cocoa Genome Case Study – Shahryar Shahrestani

Energy Distribution of Hydrogen Power for Future Automobiles – Frank Sanchez

Awards

Professor Jennifer Vanderpool’s exhibition “Sagoberättelser” (Fairy Tales) was recently on view at the Designarkivet in Nybro, Sweden.  She was honored with an International Cultural Grant from the Swedish Arts Council. 

In Pictures

Dr. Earle converses in Tzotzil, a Maya language from Southern Mexico, with a young Chamula woman about the uses and growth cycles of a common weed, once sacred to their ancestors, called Amaranth.

In Pictures

Ken Zanca’s latest research project is to collect and edit primary documents on the Catholics in the South just before the Civil War. Some pictures of leading Catholic bishops in the South who were important articulators and justifiers of the Southern cause: (right) Bishop John P. Lynch, Diocese of Charleston and (left)Bishop John McGill, Diocese of Richmond, VA.

In Pictures

Jennifer Vanderpool’s “Fairy Stories” is an installation that includes sculptures, animations and even the artist's selection of material from Design Archives' collections, where she has been particularly interested in drawings and textiles made by the designer Peter Condu (1945-1986).

In the Field

Melanie Sellar will be joining 26 other Librarians Without Borders volunteers for a service trip to the Miguel Asturias Academy in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala in April/May 2011. This is the second year of the partnership which focuses on the development of the library at the Academy and the support of literacy in the community.

In the Field

Here Dr. Earle is training a team of Congolese foresters how to use a clinometerto measure the size of the towering jungle trees, in order to measure their potential as a carbon offset--an environmental service that seeks to protect the rainforest that now has a global market .