Sally Brannan, instructor in education, and Brenda Buckner, assistant professor of education, presented “Dr. Seuss, Dr. Dolittle, & Diversity: A Course Addressing the Needs of First-Year Students” at the annual conference of the First-Year Experience sponsored by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, Feb. 4-8, in Phoeniz, Ariz.

Imogene Bolls, adjunct professor emeritus of English, has published a number of poems, including “Full Measure of Black Walnut” in Ceremony of Trees, her first anthology. She has also been invited to critique selected Ph.D. poems and present a poetry reading at Kansas State University in April, and she has been invited to serve as the teaching poet at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in July. In addition, Bolls will serve as the poet at the Taos Writers’ Workshop, sponsored by the University of New Mexico, in summer 2006.

Donald Busarow, professor of music, was the featured speaker and clinician at the 13th annual Schola Cantorum held at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Jan. 21-23. During the event, the choral directors of 35 Lutheran churches were represented during a choral reading session featuring 25 of Busarow’s choral pieces. Busarow also conducted a day-long workshop and worked with a choir of 180 singers and five instrumentalists in three rehearsals in preparation for a service of Evening Prayer. Five of Busarow’s compositions were presented during the closing worship.

Darlene Brooks Hedstrom, assistant professor of history, presented two papers, “The Archaeological Evidence of Monastic Life in Egypt after the Islamic Conquest” at the American Society of Church History in Seattle, Wash., and “An Archaeological Mission for the White Monastery” at the 2004 annual meeting of the St. Shenouda Society for Coptic Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. She also served as field director for the White Monastery Excavation in Sohag, Egypt, and for the Gammon House excavation in Springfield.

Kristin Cline, associate professor of chemistry and department chair, attended the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry in March to present a poster titled “Electron Transfer of Aquated Iron Ions and Dopamine at Carbon Surfaces Modified with Aromatic Carboxylic Acid Groups” with Jerilyn Vrabel ’05 and Heather Griffith ’05.

Robert Davis, associate professor of English, has published an essay on Walt Whitman’s political writings titled “Democratic Vistas,” which will appear in the forthcoming book The Walt Whitman Companion.  In April, Davis will present the “Last Lecture” for Mortar Board on campus.

The work of Scott Dooley, assistant professor of art, will be featured in two upcoming solo exhibitions. The first will be at Charlie Cummings Clay Studio, Fort Wayne, Ind., April 2-30. In addition to the opening reception, Dooley will present a slide lecture on his work at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne. The second exhibition will be in June at the Shirley Gallery in Columbus, Ohio.

Keith Doubt, professor of sociology and department chair, published an essay titled “Evil and the Ritual of Shame: A Crime Against Humanity in Bosnia-Herzegovina” in the Winter 2004 issue of Janus Head, a refereed journal with a focus on continental philosophy, literature, phenomenological psychology and art. 

The featured harpsichordist for the Springfield Symphony Orchestra’s (SSO) performance of all six Bach Brandenburg Concerti, Trudy Faber, professor of music and department chair, was also the featured organist for the SSO’s performance of “Mozart’s Requiem.” Additionally, Faber recently performed an organ recital at First Immanuel Lutheran Church, Portland, Ore., as part of the 125th anniversary celebration. She has also been invited to perform for the Mt. Angel Abbey annual Bach Festival in July 2006 in Oregon, and she presented “Against All Odds: The Organ Works of Florence B. Price” for the University of Dayton’s 2005 Symposium: A Celebration of African American Women Composers and Arrangers in March.

Mike Griest, residence coordinator, and Holly Reynolds, assistant dean and director of residential life, participated in the conference committee for the Ohio Student Personnel Association in Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 2-5. Angela Hopkins, residence coordinator; Alexandra Kimball, coordinator of residential life and multicultural programs; Randy Green, director of financial aid; and Carolyn Perkins, associate vice president for student development and dean of students also attended.

James Huffman, H. Orth Hirt Professor of History, has been appointed to the Advisory Council of ASIANetwork, the national organization for undergraduate education on Asia. Huffman is the first faculty member from an undergraduate institution to be selected for the council.

After four years shepherding the Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center building process, Tim Lewis, professor of biology and department chair, went on sabbatical. During this time, Lewis completed four new manuscripts, published two scientific papers and wrote a nationally available ecology lab module using GIS.  He also served as a science building projects consultant for a few schools and joined Wittenberg’s presidential search committee last summer.  Lewis and the students with whom he is collaborating on research also had four publications accepted for upcoming conferences.

Paul Miller, professor emeritus of English, has published an article titled “In Theodore Roosevelt’s Footsteps: Midwestern Writers Hunt Lion in East Africa.” The article appeared in a special issue of Philological LX: Eighty Years of English Studies at the Faculty of Arts published in Bratislava, Slovak Republic.

Jim Noyes, professor of computer science, recently attended the National Academy of Science Keck Futures Initiative Conference Frontiers of Bioinformatics: Unsolved Problems and Challenges with Margaret Goodman, associate professor of biology. He also presented “Computational Science with Mathematica 12 Easy Pieces: Essential Operations in Computational Science” at the Wolfram Technology Conference and was invited to present “A Prototype Nanoscience System” at the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference: Designing Nanostructures at the Interface between Biomedical and Physical Systems.

An essay on Arthur Miller published in 1999 by Terry Otten, professor emeritus of English, titled “Death of a Salesman at Fifty–Still Coming Home to Roost,”  has been reprinted in the newly released anthology titled Will Loman  in Harold Bloom’s Major Literary Characters series. It was also reprinted earlier last year in Volume 179 of the Gale Press’ Contemporary Literature Criticism series. Additionally, Otten is currently under contract to write an essay on Miller for a collection to be published by Rodopi Press, and another commissioned essay of Otten’s is scheduled to appear later this year in a collection of essays on Miller to be published in India.
 
Tammy Proctor, associate professor of history, received a 2005 Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society for research at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University this spring.

Pamela Schindler, professor of management, was on hand for the launch of her new textbook Marketing Research at the American Marketing Association Winter Educator’s Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, in February.

Andy Tune, university pastor, presented a paper, “Augustine’s Theological Use of the Books of the Platonists” at the November 2004 meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Antonio, Texas.

Molly Wood, assistant professor of history, has published “A Diplomat’s Wife in Mexico: Creating Professional, Political and National Identities in the Early Twentieth Century” in the Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies. On Jan. 8, she also presented a paper on a panel titled “In the Service of America: Foreign Service Officers, Diplomatic Wives and Military Families” at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting in Seattle, Wash.

Mike Zaleha, assistant professor of geology, recently had a paper published in the Journal of Sedimentary Research titled “Hyperconcentrated Flows and Gastroliths: Sedimentology of Diamictites and Wackes of the Upper Cloverly Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Wyoming, U.S.A.”