Academe welcomes news from 黑洞社区 faculty and staff about research, teaching and service activities. This column recognizes grants, honors, awards, presentations and publications, new appointments, new faculty, sabbaticals, retirements and deaths of our current and former colleagues.
Ted Ayres, vice president and general counsel, was an invited participant in the symposium 鈥淕athering at the School House Gate: 40 Years of Landmark School Speech Cases鈥� relative to his involvement in the Widmar v. Vincent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. The symposium, Sept. 20-21, was hosted by the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law and the UMKC Law Review.
Amy Baker, assistant professor, musical theatre, won the Mary Jane Teall Theatre Award in September for Choreography for 鈥淗onk!鈥� at Music Theatre of Wichita.
Ed Baker, associate professor, and Danette Baker, adjunct faculty, theatre, were awarded the Ruth McCormick Theatre Educator of the Year Award at the Mary Jane Teall Theatre Awards in September.
Daniel Bergman, assistant professor, curriculum and instruction, was elected as Kansas Association of Teachers of Science KATS vice president for 2012-2013.
Catherine Bohn-Gettler, assistant professor, counseling, educational leadership, educational and school psychology, recently presented 鈥淭racking causal information during reading comprehension鈥� at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. She also presented 鈥淭he interplay between mood and working memory on inference generation鈥� at the annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, both in Montreal, Canada.
Jason Flanders, manager, scene shop, theatre, had his first gallery showing at the Aviary Gallery in Wichita during the Sept. 28 Final Friday gallery crawl.
Angela Gaughn has been hired by the Center for Community Support and Research as support group project specialist for the center to promote its support group database across Kansas.
Alicia Huckstadt, graduate program coordinator, and Amy McClintock, administrative specialist, nursing, applied to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and were accepted for a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The HRSA Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship Grant is for almost $350,000 this year and comes with a recommendation for the same amount next year. The program supports training students to become primary care nurse practitioners.
John Paul Johnson, professor, music education, has been chosen to represent North America as an adjudicator at the National Christian Universities Choir Competition held in Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia from Oct. 15-22. Choirs from private universities throughout Indonesia will travel throughout the country to perform for five adjudicators representing Asia, Europe, Africa, South and North America.
Bret Jones, director, theatre, will have his play 鈥淭HEBES City鈥� presented by Fly By Night Theatre Company as part of its 2012-2013 Season. For details, go to .
Charles L. Martin, professor, marketing and entrepreneurship, traveled to Lahore, Pakistan in July to participate as keynote speaker in the Second International Conference on Contemporary Issues in Business Management. More than 300 participants from around the world and from cross-business disciplines attended the event held at the Pearl Continental Hotel and the University of Central Punjab. The keynote address by Martin, 鈥淲hat Goes Around Comes Around: Business Thinking As Cyclical Phenomena,鈥� focused on the roles that cycles play in business planning, forecasting and human (buyer) behavior.
Katherine Mason, assistant professor, curriculum and instruction, recently co-published 鈥淟ocating queer community in award-winning LGBTQ-themed young adult literature (2005-2010)鈥� in The ALAN Review.
Betty Monroe, professor, costume design and technical theatre, had her article "Stereotypes in Theatre Costumes: A Blessing or a Curse?鈥� published in the 2012 International Fashion and Costume Conference's Publication.
Sara Muzzy has been promoted to associate director of the Office of Cooperative Education and Work-Based Learning.
David Neville, associate professor, design and technical theatre, won the Mary Jane Teall Theatre Award for Lighting Design for 鈥淔iddler on the Roof鈥� at Music Theatre of Wichita.
Fletcher Powell, producer, KMUW 89.1, has received a 2012 High Plains Media Award from the American Cancer Society for an October 2011 story about doctors beginning to focus on patients after their traditional treatments are complete, focusing on breast cancer survivorship. Winners were chosen from several categories, including magazine, newspaper, television, radio and online.
Priscilla Ridgway, community and organizational researcher, Center for Community Support and Research, published a piece in the National Recovery to Practice Initiative Newsletter discussing spirituality and recovery from prolonged psychiatric disorder. A longer report by Ridgway and peer specialist educator Lael Ewy on the topic was recently released. The document, Report of a Statewide Spirituality and Mental Health Recovery Summit, is available upon request from priscilla.ridgway@wichita.edu.
Michael Rogers, chair, professor and research director, Center for Physical Activity and Aging, presented 鈥淓ffective exercise interventions for active aging鈥� and 鈥淔alling Less in Kansas: Preventing falls in rural older adults鈥� at a Sedgwick County conference in Wichita called Positive Aging: Protect your health, wealth and self.
Donna Sayman, assistant professor, curriculum and instruction, recently published 鈥淢y journey into qualitative research.鈥� In J.M. Meloy (Ed.). Twenty-first Century Learning by Doing (3rd. ed.)
Donna Sayman, curriculum and instruction; Mark Vermillion, sport management; and Catherine Bohn-Gettler and Craig Elliott, counseling, educational leadership, educational and school psychology, recently completed a two-year, on-line 鈥渂ootcamp鈥� workshop offered by the 黑洞社区 Media Resource Center. These faculty members used their training to revise and develop online courses for their departments.
Nick Taylor, a 2007 graduate of the Sport Management master's program in the College of Education and a lecturer in the department of sport management, won a gold medal in tennis at the Paralympics in London on Sept. 5. Taylor and doubles partner David Wagner of Oregon, have won two previous gold medals in Athens (2004) and Beijing (2008) in quad doubles wheelchair tennis.
Susan Unruh, assistant professor, and Nancy McKellar, associate professor, counseling, educational and school psychology, recently wrote 鈥淓volution, Not Revolution: School Psychologists鈥� Changing Practices in Determining Specific Learning Disabilities.鈥� It has been accepted for publication in the journal Psychology in the Schools.
Sabrina Vasquez, faculty, dance, is the recipient of the Dorothy Johansen Hauck Faculty Fellow in Dance and Musical Theatre.
Gayle Veltman, coordinator of testing, Counseling and Testing Center, was recently awarded the 2012 President's Award from the National College Testing Association. The award recognizes NCTA members who contributed to the organization in the preceding year through service on a standing committee, working on the Annual Conference Committee, or participating in a special NCTA project.
Eric Wilson, instructor and outreach coordinator, Elliott School of Communication, was interviewed by fellow ESC alum Marc LaVoie for KFDI News鈥� "At Issue" program. Wilson talked about how the media has changed and about the Elliott School. To listen to the interview, go to .
NEW FACULTY 2012
Please welcome new faculty to campus; for more information, go to .
SERVICE AWARDS 2012
Please congratulate faculty and staff who have been honored for their years of service or as Benders of Twigs; for more information, go to .
RETIREES 2012
Please offer good wishes to faculty and staff who have recently retired; for more information, go to .
IN MEMORIAM
Carol L. Johnson Harding, 74, retired, Physical Plant, died May 24. Services have been held. Survivors include brothers Walter L. Davis, Tracy A. Davis and Melvin E. Tipton; sisters Maxine J. Davis, Elaine Brashears and Joyce J. Henderson.