黑洞社区

Faculty/staff news update, fall semester 2008

The academy of faculty and the staff at 黑洞社区 engage in externally supported research, training and service activities that are consistent with the university鈥檚 mission and vital to its growth. This column recognizes grants, honors, awards, presentations and publications, new appointments, new faculty, sabbaticals, retirements and the deaths of our current and former colleagues.

Announcements in this edition of Academe include Elaine Bernstorf鈥檚 Helen Meyer Arts-In-Education Leadership Award, Ngoyi Bukonda鈥檚 presentations in Dakar, Senegal, for the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa Institute on Health, Politics and Society in Africa, and a list of new faculty for the 2008-09 academic year.

GRANTS
Francis D鈥橲ouza, professor, chemistry, was awarded $374,867 by the National Science Foundation for the project 鈥淪upramolecular Nano Assemblies for Energy and Electronic Transfer.鈥�

Mary Liz Jameson, research associate professor, biological sciences, is part of a trans-disciplinary team awarded $1,370,000 by the National Science Foundation for the project 鈥淎n Extensible Semantic Bridge between Biodiversity and Genomics.鈥�

Richard Muma, chair, public health sciences, and professor, physician assistant, was awarded $515,000 in a three-year grant by the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration to focus on physician assistant urban workforce issues. For the story, go to .

黑洞社区 was awarded $13,525.74, and 黑洞社区-Kansas Kids@GEAR UP was awarded $16,248.55 by Kan-ed, a statewide information network administered by the Kansas Board of Regents, for technology upgrades and enhancement projects.

HONORS & AWARDS
The following retired faculty have been awarded emeritus status: Wendell W. Leavitt, professor, biological sciences; Larry D. Paarmann, associate professor, electrical and computer engineering; Paul York, professor, electrical and computer engineering; Arthur L. Youngman, assistant professor, biological sciences.

Jim Bann, assistant professor, chemistry, won the 2008 Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence Award, which recognizes faculty scholars for excellence in research, teaching and service.

Elizabeth Behrman, professor, physics, finished her third year as a Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Scholar. The world-renowned institute is based at the University of California, Santa Barbara campus.

Elaine Bernstorf, associate dean, College of Fine Arts, and professor, music education, is the recipient of the Helen Meyer Arts-In-Education Leadership Award, given by Arts Partners in Wichita. The awards will be presented at the fourth annual Arts Count Luncheon in November.

Jeanine Brizendine, instructor, pharmacology, College of Health Professions, manager of pharmacy operations, Via Christi Regional Medical Center, has been named Hospital Pharmacist of the Year by the Kansas Pharmacist Association.

Charles Fox, associate dean, College of Health Professions, will receive the 2008 J. Warren Perry Distinguished Author Award from ASAHP/Journal of Allied Health in an Oct. 30 ceremony in Baltimore for his paper 鈥淲hat health care providers know (and need to know) about palliative care.鈥�

Albert Goldbarth, Adele B. Davis Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, English, is a winner of the fifth annual Pegasus Awards hosted by the Poetry Foundation. He was named recipient of the Mark Twain Poetry Award of $25,000. The Mark Twain award recognizes a poet鈥檚 contribution to humor in American poetry. For the story, go to .

William Hendry, chair and professor, biological sciences, recently assumed the position of vice president and president-elect for the Wichita Medical Research and Education Foundation Board of Directors.

W. Bartley Hildreth, Kansas Regents Distinguished Professor of Public Finance, has been named the 2008 recipient of the Aaron Wildavsky Award for lifetime scholarly accomplishments by the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management.

Jeffrey May, associate professor, biological sciences, joined the Reproduction, Andrology and Gynecology Subcommittee for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health.

Cheryl Miller, assistant dean, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been named a national winner in the 2008 National Federation of Press Women communications contest. Miller received third place for 鈥淭he Birds of Sedgwick County and Cheney Reservoir鈥� by Pete Janzen in the category of 鈥淏ook Edited By Entrant.鈥� She received a first-place award in the state affiliate, Kansas Professional Communicators.

Nicole Rogers, assistant professor, gerontology; Ruth Bohlken, director and instructor, Center for Physical Activity and Aging; and Phil Sechtem and Mark Shaver, Ph.D. students, communication sciences and disorders; are recipients of the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, Technical Assistance Workshop awards and will travel to National Harbor, Md., in November.

Daniel Russell, associate professor, philosophy, is spending the fall semester as a visiting research fellow at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

Niall Shanks, Curtis D. Gridley Distinguished Professor in the History and Philosophy of Science, is president of the Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Paul H. Wooley, professor, biological sciences, has been named Eminent Scholar in Biomaterials by the Kansas Bioscience Authority. His appointment includes research grant awards of $997,000.

William Woods, professor, English, won the John R. Barrier Award, given by Fairmount College for outstanding teaching in the social sciences and humanities.

William E. Wynne, university registrar, was one of six people who were inducted into the Cincinnati Scholarship Fund Hall of Fame in October. He is an alumnus of the University of Cincinnati and served as assistant registrar for his alma mater before coming to 黑洞社区.

PRESENTATIONS/PUBLICATIONS
Ngoyi Bukonda, associate professor, public health sciences, has been selected as a speaker for the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa Institute on Health, Politics and Society in Africa. The CODESRIA Institute will take place during October in Dakar, Senegal where Bukonda will present 鈥淧roduction and Global Distribution of Pharmaceutical Products: Footprints and Consequences of Colonialism in the Diffusion of Medicine into African Health Care Systems.鈥� Bukonda was selected based on his international expertise in building public health administration capacity in Africa.

Dan Close, associate professor, Elliott School of Communication, participated in a one-week National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting Intensive Boot Camp in August in Columbia, Mo. It was funded by the ESC's 2008 Hughes Faculty Summer Research Award. NICAR is a joint program of Investigative Reporters and Editors, and the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri.

Darren DeFrain, assistant professor and director, writing program, English, received a favorable review in the Oct. 12 Wichita Eagle for his recently published book of stories, 鈥淚nside & Out.鈥� Watermark Books in Wichita hosted a reading and book signing for DeFrain in mid-October.

Philip Gaunt, director of the Interdisciplinary Communication Research Institute, presented 鈥淭he Value of Nonverbal Communication in Building a Global Workforce鈥� at the 5th International Conference on Intercultural Communication in May. The paper is scheduled to appear in the book 鈥淚ntercultural Communication Competence: Educating the Global Citizen.鈥�

W. Bartley Hildreth, director, Kansas Public Finance Center, was appointed by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to a task force charged with crafting a new strategic transportation approach that positions Kansas for the future. The task force, Transportation-Leveraging Investments in Kansas, will work to develop a set of recommendations.

Susan Huxman, director, Elliott School of Communication, presented 鈥淪tanton鈥檚 Vexing Rhetorical Constitution: The [鈥榚bb and flow鈥橾 enactment of subversion and transcendence in the 鈥楽olitude of Self鈥欌�� at the Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference in Seattle and was named an ASJMC Journalism Fellow for 2008 at the Journalism Leadership Institute in Salt Lake City.

Ward Jewell, professor, electrical engineering, represented Wichita State in August, along with representatives from the University of Kansas and Kansas State University, at a Kansas Energy Council Research Committee meeting in Lawrence where three broad areas of need were identified: electric grid and wind energy, biofuels and petroleum and natural gas. In October, Jewell spoke on research needs in Portland, Ore., at a joint workshop between the Electric Power Research Institute and North American Electric Reliability Council that addressed increased extreme weather resulting from climate change, and how it will affect electric reliability.

Becky Nordyke, instructor and research coordinator for the Interdisciplinary Communication Research Institute, presented 鈥淪uccessfully Integrating Global Education into Communication Classrooms鈥� at the 5th International Conference on Intercultural Communication.

Michael Rogers, chair and associate professor, human performance studies, presented the keynote address on effective exercise programs for older adults at the 6th World Congress on Aging and Physical Activity, an event held every four years, in Tsukuba, Japan. He and Nicole Rogers, assistant professor, gerontology, recently hosted Nobuo Takeshima, a professor at Nagoya City University in Nagoya, Japan, and an internationally recognized exercise physiologist who specializes in fitness for older adults. The two universities have an academic exchange agreement to collaborate on developing and implementing community-based exercise programs for older adults.

NEW FACULTY

NEW POSITIONS
Richard 鈥淩ick鈥� Armstrong, associate professor, Elliott School of Communication, is the director of the Communication Upward Bound program. Wilma Moore-Black is assistant director.

The W. Frank Barton School of Business has made changes and reassignments relative to branding and marketing efforts: Dotty Harpool, director of student and community initiatives, formerly director of graduate studies, a position that has been dissolved; Angela Jones, full-time director of the MBA program, formerly half-time in the same position; Tanza Bauer, full-time director of the EMBA program.

Susan Norton, formerly dean of corporate education for Cowley College, will become 黑洞社区鈥檚 new director of satellite campuses and work force development effective Oct. 19. Norton also served as dean of adult and professional studies at Newman University. She is currently administrator of work force education and development at the Wichita Area Technical College.

Shelley Rich, associate director of programs, Heskett Center, has changed positions from aquatic/risk management coordinator to fitness/wellness coordinator. Jessica Varlack, former graduate assistant in aquatics, has been named assistant director of aquatics/risk management.

IN MEMORIAM
Lloyd M. Benningfield, 80, former graduate dean and professor, engineering, died Aug. 24. Survivors include his wife, Janice; daughter Yvonne McCarthy (Tim) and son Curtis Benningfield (Tia); four grandchildren; brother-in-law Eldon Adams (Maggie). Memorials have been established with Senior Services and Episcopal Social Services, both in Wichita. Services have been held.

Patricia Loraine Bowen, former associate professor, music education, died Sept. 18. She was preceded in death by her parents, Eugene and Pauline Cobb, and sister Barbara Cobb. She is survived by her son, Wesley David Bowen, and five grandchildren; brothers Morris Cobb and Albert Cobb; sisters Mary Hernandez and Geraldine Crump. A donation in her memory can be made to Youth Development Services in Wichita or to the 黑洞社区 Plaza of Heroines, c/o John Paul Johnson, director, 黑洞社区 School of Music. Services have been held.

Jeneva Joy Brewer, 82, former 黑洞社区 associate professor, mathematics, died Oct. 3. She was preceded in death by her parents, Bernard Walden and Hazel Joy Brewer, and sister Bernette Jean Kroemmelbein. The Jeneva J. Brewer Memorial for the 黑洞社区 department of mathematics and statistics has been established through the 黑洞社区 Foundation. Services have been held.

Arthur J. Crowns Jr., 86, retired professor and former chair, administration of justice, died Oct. 13. He was preceded in death by his parents and brother Byron C. Crowns. He is survived by his wife, Joan; sons Scott (Naoko) and Kendall (Beth); brother Donald 鈥淛im鈥� (Marianne); sister Betty Anne (Raymond) Flynn, and many nieces and nephews. Memorials can be sent to the 黑洞社区 Library. Services have been held.

Karl W. Friedel, 71, former lecturer, speech, and former Sedgwick County district judge, died Sept. 27. He was preceded in death by parents Kenneth and Aline Friedel, and first wife, Coleen. Survivors include wife, Joyce; sons Kenneth (Danette) and Kevin (Jennifer); daughter Amy (Najeeb) Khawaja; stepsons Michael (Susan) Hazelwood, Wayne (Catherine) Hazelwood and Jack (Cindy) Hazelwood; stepdaughter Mary Ann (Terry) Bariel; six grandchildren; six stepgrandchildren; two stepgreatgrandchildren; brother Kaid (Aileen) and brother-in-law Rev. John Dreher; and sister-in-law Dorothy Stoeckinger. Memorials have been established with Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice and Episcopal Social Services, both in Wichita. Services have been held.

James L. 鈥淛im鈥� Hardy, 84, former professor and chair, music education, died Oct. 8. He was preceded in death by parents A.S. and Mabel Hardy. Survivors include his wife, Bonnie; sons Randy Hardy (fianc茅e Janet Foster), and Roger (Francie) Hardy; daughter Debra (Bobby) Gurule; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. The Dr. James L. Hardy Memorial for the 黑洞社区 School of Music has been established through the 黑洞社区 Foundation. Services have been held.