• Wittenberg women assist Clark County Community Habitat for Humanity
• University welcomes Class of 2004 to campus
• Wittenberg welcomes six new members to its board of drectors
• Greer to retire at conclusion of academic year
• Filmmaker Rory Kennedy explores family life, poverty in her documentary, American Hollow
• Marable stresses need to bridge racial divides at 2000 convocation
• Alumnus' gift provides modern excise facility
• Distinguished English professor, alumnus looks to start new chapter in life
• Wittenberg pastor and alumnus remembered for lifelong ministry

Campus Notes

Douglas Andrews, associate professor of mathematics, worked with other statistics educators to draft new guidelines for undergraduate programs in statistics during a two-day symposium in early August. At the jointly sponsored international statistics meetings, held this year in Indianapolis, Andrews chaired a contributed paper session for the Statistics Education section of the American Statistical Association, and participated in the board meeting of the Journal of Statistics Education, for which Andrews is an associate editor. In late July, Andrews also attended the 2000 Bridges Conference, which focused on mathematical connections in art, music and science.

Peter Celms, professor emeritus of history, and Kurt Fickert, professor emeritus of languages, have published an article titled “‘Die Frau ohne Schatten’ and Nietzsche’s Apotheosis of the Artist” in Germanic Notes and Reviews.

Shih-Ming Chang, associate professor of theatre and dance, received the 2000 Edith B. and Frank C. Matthies Award for her development of educational tools for Chinese dance. Chang also received a faculty development grant from the Indiana Consortium for International Programs for her Chinese dance video production project. She is currently working on the video production, and as part of the project, she recently traveled to Beijing and Shanghai, China for three weeks. While there, Chang interviewed a number of dance scholars and visited China’s most respected dance institution, The Beijing Dance Academy. Chang will return to Beijing during the fall semester to complete the project while on sabbatical leave.

Trudy Faber, professor of music and department chair, presented an organ and harpsichord concert at Central United Methodist Church in Monroe, N.C. The concert was the first in the church’s 2000-2001 series. Faber also performed a recital at St. Bede’s Episcopal Church in Atlanta, Ga. earlier this year. As part of the recital, Doug McConnell ’76, chair of the department of music at Heidelberg University, was commissioned to write a choral work based on the oldest poem in the English language, “Caedmon’s Hymn,” as written down by the Venerable St. Bede. Faber’s husband, J. Arthur Faber, professor of English, recited the poem in the original Old English prior to the performance. The choral director was Tamara Makdad Albrecht.

Kurt Fickert, professor emeritus of languages, has published a poem titled “Bei einer Wiedervereinigung” in Monatshefte.

Ruth Hoff, assistant professor of languages, and Kurt Miyazaki, adjunct instructor of political science, participated in an International Faculty Development Seminar held in Havana, Cuba, June 7-17. The seminar, “Cuba at the Millennium,” was sponsored by the Council on International Educational Exchange.

April Lindner, visiting assistant professor of English, has had her monograph, Dana Gioia, published by Boise State University Press as part of its Western Writers Series. Lindner also took part in a scholarly seminar at the sixth annual West Chester Poetry Conference, during which she delivered two papers, one a tribute to The Formalist literary magazine, and the other on New Formalist poets of the American West.

Barbara Mackey, director of community programs, played two concerts in upstate New York with music major Roberta Rowland Raybold, a School of Community Education student and CMD teacher. Raybold is an organist and played on two organs her father built. One of the places the two played billed itself as the “Lutheran Shrine of the Mohawk Valley.”

Olga Medvedkov, professor of geography, spent a month in South Africa, July 13 to Aug. 13, as a member of a Fulbright Group Study Abroad program funded by the Department of Education. The project title was “New Frontiers for South Africa: Society in Transition.”

Stanley Mickel, professor of languages and department chair, has authored a chapter titled “Asian Language Study in Liberal Arts Colleges” in the book Asia in the Undergraduate Curriculum: A Case for Asian Studies in Liberal Arts Education. The book was funded by the Henry Luce Foundation to the ASIANetwork. ASIANetwork is a consortium of more than 150 liberal arts colleges that have an interest in promoting teaching about Asia.

Paul W. Miller, professor emeritus of English, has participated in two conferences. The first, titled “The Culture of the Ohio Frontier,” was held in Cambridge, Ohio, and included his paper, “Blanche Roosevelt (1853-1898) and the Three Decker Novel.” The second, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, was held at Michigan State University and included his paper titled “Hemingway’s The Last Good Country: A Fairy Tale Without a Happy Ending.”

Jim Noyes, professor of computer science, presented an invited paper titled “Computational Science in an Undergraduate Liberal Arts Environment,” at a panel session of the National Council of Undergraduate Research (CUR) annual meeting at the College of Wooster this summer. Noyes also participated in a one-week Mathematica workshop in Frisco, Colo. Mathematica is an advanced mathematical software package now used in several mathematics and computer science courses at Wittenberg.

Don Reed, associate professor of philosophy and department chair, presented “Why was Kohlberg so Thoroughly Misunderstood?” at the 26th annual conference of the Association for Moral Education. The conference was held in early July in Glasgow, Scotland. Reed is a member of the 15-person International Executive Board of the AME. He also participated in the two-week Lutheran Academy of Scholars Summer Seminar at Harvard University in July. The seminar focused on the place of religious discourse in higher education and pluralistic democracies, and was led by Ronald Thiemann of the Harvard Divinity School. Reed also conducted archival research at the Harvard University Archives for a biography he is writing about Lawrence Kohlberg.

Steven Reynolds, professor of theatre, directed a production titled Dream Theatre for the Wittenberg Community Actors Summer Theatre (Witt CAST), which ran on July 20 and July 22. Reynolds also participated on the panel “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Theatre in the Freshman Seminar” at the annual conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education in Washington, D.C. in August.

Pamela Schindler, professor of management and director of Wittenberg’s Center for Applied Management (WittCAM), has completed the newest edition of her textbook, Business Research Methods, published by McGraw-Hill. She also completed the Web site supplements to the text this summer.

Brian Shelburne, associate professor of computer science, attended the meeting of the Ohio Section of the Mathematical Association of America held at Marshall University earlier this year. There he participated in a panel discussion on The Capstone Experience where he discussed teaching Wittenberg’s senior seminar course titled “Journey Through Genius.” The course is titled after the book Journey Through Genius by William Dunham, which is the main text used in the course.

Paul Voytas, assistant professor of physics, has received a Cottrell College Science Award in the amount of $27,008 to support his study of the diffusion of alkali atoms in polydimethylsiloxane coatings and the light induced atom desorption process. The award will also allow students to study with Voytas as the project develops.

Josephine Wilson, professor of psychology, has published a paper in Psychological Reports titled “Effects of Low Doses of Caffeine on Aggressive Behavior of Male Rats.” Wilson’s co-authors on the paper were Nicole Nugent ’98, Jonathan Baltes ’99, Sayaka Tokunaga ’99, Tarik Canic ’00, Brandt Young ’99, Ellishia Bellinger ’99, David Delac ’99, Glenda Golston ’99 and Dana Hendershot ’99. Wilson has also published “Sex Differences in Route Learning by Children” with Amber Gibbs ’98 in Perceptual and Motor Skills; “Patterns of Child Abuse and Neglect Associated with Chronological Age of Children Living in a Midwestern County” with LeeAnn R. Mraovich ’97 in Child Abuse and Neglect; and “A Low Protein, High Carbohydrate Diet Attenuates Alcohol Intake in Rats” with Lynn Evans ’98 and Rebecca Murphy ’95 in Nutritional Neuroscience.

Bin Yu, associate professor of political science has published “Strategic Distancing...Or Else?: Sino-Russian Relations,” in Comparative Connections, “Mr. Putin goes to China — Looking for a More Meaningful Relationship,” in www.chinaonline.com. He was also invited to teach a seminar, titled East Asian Security Issues for the Overseas Course by the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. In addition, Yu was interviewed by the British Broadcasting Corporation in June on the topic of U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright’s visit to Beijing and South Korea.