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January 30, 1995

Recently/soon to be published

.....Penny Beed, curriculum & instruction - co-authored "Sometimes the conversations were grand, and sometimes....," in Language Arts.

.....Roy R. Behrens, art - "Paul Rant: A Life in Design on the Farm" in the Nov./Dec. issue of Print magazine. UNI alumnus Gary Kelley created one of the article's illustrations, while its remaining illustrations were provided by five other former UNI graphic design students: Jerry Bond, John Dopita, Debbie Gage, Kris Kroemer and Matthew Parkinson.

.....Jeffery Byrd, art - work featured on the cover of Picturing Cultural Values in Postmodern America, a book of critical essays.

.....Mingshui Cai, curriculum & instruction - "Can we fly across cultural gaps on the wings of imagination?: Ethnicity, Experience, and Cultural Authenticity" in The New Advocate; and "Images of Chinese and Chinese Americans mirrored in Picture Books" in Children's Literature in Education.

.....Roberta A. Davilla, communication studies - co-authored "Children's perspectives of the family: A phenomenological inquiry," in Human Studies.

.....Donald DeGraaf, HPELS - "What do We Really Know? The Million Dollar Question" in the fall 1994 issue of Humanics: The Journal of Leadership for Youth and Human Service.

.....Forrest Dolgener, Fred Kolkhorst, HPELS, and David Whitsett, psychology - "Long Slow Distance Training in Novice Marathoners" in Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport.

.....Philip Fass, art - received a certificate of excellence for his work included in Print Magazine Regional Design Annual. His work was one of 2,000 pieces selected by the jury from among 35,000 submissions.

.....Debbie Gordon, music - Gordon's lesson plans and teaching strategies for elementary and secondary music classrooms were recently published in Teaching Examples: Ideas for Music Educators.

.....Roger J. Hansen, former student Andrew J. Schneider, physics, and Frederick W. Halgedahl, music - "Anomalous low-pitched tones from a bowed violin string" in Catgut Acoustical Society Journal.

.....Larry D. Hensley, HPELS - "New Fitness Norms For Iowa children" in Iowa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Journal.

.....Annette Iverson, educational psychology and foundations - "Analysis of risk to children participating in a sociometric task" in Developmental Psychology.

.....Deanne R. Jorgensen, a UNI undergraduate, and Debra Jordan, HPELS - collaborated on a research project that was published in the Iowa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Journal.

.....Jean Kimball, English - "An Ambiguous Faithlessness: Molly Bloom and the Widow of Ephesus" in the James Joyce Quarterly.

.....Md Salim, industrial technology - co-authored "Effects of Design-Integrated Process Planning on Productivity in Rebar Placement" in Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.

.....Al Stamberg, Placement & Career Services - "War According to Clausewitz - Why We Won Operation Desert Storm and Lost in Vietnam" in The Naval Reserve Association, November 1994. Members of Congress, the Pentagon, Naval Reserve officers and all ships in the Navy receive copies of this magazine.

.....John Stiles, curriculum & instruction - "It's time to teach science across the curriculum" in Principal.

.....Zhong Yi Tong, Public Policy Program - "Shanghai - Rising Again as the Largest Economic Center in Asia?" in International Third World Studies Journal and Review. (Tong's name was spelled incorrectly in the previous Kudos insert. CNN regrets the error.)

.....Robert J. Ward, English - a poem, "Morning, A Good Beginning" in Lyrical Iowa.

Presentations/lectures/exhibitions

.....Jeffery Byrd, art - has artwork in "The Made Image" at Cornell College, a national exhibition of manipulated photography; and in "Iowa Visions of Color" at Iowa State University. Byrd will also be presenting the paper "Art History Through Queer Eyes" at the College Art Association National Convention in San Antonio.

.....Roberta A. Davilla and Paul J. Siddens III, communication studies - presented their co-authored paper, "From Beaver Cleaver to Bart Simpson: Reinventing Boyhood," at the Speech Communication Association convention in New Orleans. In addition, Davilla presented a workshop on teaching cultural diversity through storytelling for K-12 teachers, presented a paper, "Preparing Students to Live in an Increasingly Violent Society," and led discussion in a panel investigating the use of computer, audio and video technology in the Basic Communication course. Siddens also presented a paper, "Perspectives on Promoting Diversity and Sensitivity in the Basic Communication Course," and in another panel, demonstrated the computer technology currently being used at UNI in delivery of the Oral Communication course (48C:001).

.....George F. Day, English (emeritus) - paper, "Vardis Fisher & the Salt Lake City Connection," at the Western Literature Association annual meeting in Salt Lake City; also chaired a panel on Sinclair Lewis and Bernard DeVoto.

.....Rheta DeVries and Betty Zan, Regents' Center for Early Developmental Education - co-presented two four-day workshops on constructivist early education for teachers in Dolny Kubin and Bratislava, Slovakia. DeVries also has presented research on "Sociomoral Atmosphere and Sociomoral Development" at the University of Pavia in Italy; and Zan presented "The Social and Moral Curriculum in Constructivist/Developmentally Appropriate Classrooms" at the annual conference of the National Association for the Education of Young Children in Atlanta, Ga.

.....Debbie Gordon, music - will conduct an all-day vocal music education workshop at the University of Iowa on March 18 for the Iowa Choral Directors Association.

.....Susan Koch, HPELS - lecture, "In Their Own Words: Using Ethnographic Interviewing to Analyze Conflict and Coping Among Bulgarian Women" at the Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced Study (SAIS) in Washington, D.C.

.....Joane McKay, teaching - will present "Changes in Perceptions: A comparative Study of the Experiential Learning of International Student Teachers" at a symposium on international education for the 1995 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April 18-22. She also has been selected as one of two representatives from Iowa's Association of Teacher Educators for the National Congress on Teacher Education in Washington, D.C., April 27-29.

.....Bill Shepherd, music - solo trombonist for a concert centered around the Big Band Era, presented by Highland Arts Unlimited, an artist series program, in Keyser, West Virginia. The concert was held on the Potomac State College campus where Shepherd also presented trombone clinics to trombone students from that county's high schools and middle schools.

.....John Stiles, curriculum & instruction - co-presented a half day workshop at the Royal Thai Ministry of Education's Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology in Bangkok, Thailand.

.....Thomas Tritle, music - presented a lecture concert at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), speaking on the Classical Era Concerti for Two Horns, and performing the Fiala Concerto and the Krommer Partita for two horns, with UNI alumna Valerie Lueders and UNI faculty pianist Horacio Nuguid. Tritle also co-conducted the 1995 Illinois Honors Horn Choir, performed in recital, and lectured on performance practices of the Mozart horn concerti.

.....Ann Vernon, curriculum & instruction - workshops: three held in Canada on working with angry, anxious and acting-out children and adolescents; for Iowa school administrators on understanding adolescents; in Minneapolis about understanding what is normal child and adolescent development; for Iowa counselors on working with and understanding adolescents.

Awards/honors/service

.....George F. Day, English (emeritus) - presented the Wylder Award for "Longtime Distinguished Service to Western Studies" by the Western Literature Association at its annual meeting in Salt Lake City.

.....Robert W. Dean, music - posthumously nominated for the Karl King Award by the Northeast Iowa Bandmasters Association. The award is in memory of Iowa's greatest bandmaster and is presented annually to one active band director, one retired and one deceased/hall of fame. Statewide winners, selected from the nominees in Iowa's six districts, will be announced this spring.

.....Ali E. Kashef, industrial technology - received an award from the United Nations Development Programme to conduct a seminar for faculty and students to update their knowledge in research and education in industrial technology at Shiraz University in Iran, Dec. 15, 1994 to Jan. 15, 1995.

.....Tom Kessler, library - elected president of the Iowa Library Association Foundation Board of Directors.

.....Michael Klassen, marketing - was invited and flown to New York to be interviewed for a segment on NBC's "Dateline." He provided information on discrimination issues dealing with overweight people in the market place. The segment may be aired the end of January.

.....James G. McCullagh, social work - renewal of Title IV E Training Grant ($33,000) to provide training to Department of Human Services workers who are employed in the area of child protective services.

.....Phil Patton, registrar - received the Exemplary Service Award from the Upper Midwest Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers at its annual meeting held in St. Paul. This top award given by UMACRAO is particularly notable because it is not given out every year.

.....Bob Rose, library - elected vice president/president-elect of the Association of College & Research Libraries Forum of the Iowa Library Association.

.....Allan R. Shickman, art - had a letter read on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition." The subject was separation of church and state in the schools. Over the years Schickman has had two letters on "Sixty Minutes" and one on "Meet the Press."