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October 2, 1995

Presentations/Lectures

.....Carl Bollwinkel, professor, Teaching, participated in the federally sponsored forum on climate change education held at Johnson NASA space flight center in Houston. He serves as team leader for the Iowa Project Earth Change.

.....Roger Kueter, head, Teaching, and Janey Montgomery, PLS, presented papers at a conference, "Preparing Teachers for Twenty-first Century Classrooms: Field Experiences that Develop Multicultural and Global Viewpoints for University of Northern Iowa-U.S.A. Teacher Education Majors.," Aug. 27-Sept. 2.

.....Jerry Soneson, associate professor, Religion, presented a paper, "Rorty's View of Metaphysics: Has He Completed His Historicist Turn?" at the Highlands institute for American Religious Thought in Highlands, N.C., in June.

.....Carl Bollwinkel, professor, Teaching, is directing project SAMI, Science and Mathematics Integration: A Thematic Approach ,which involves scheduled classroom demonstration visits and wetlands workshops for September and October. The project is co-directed by Teaching adjuncts Barbara Bonnett and Rosalie Cochran.

.....Jurgen Koppensteiner, professor, German, has made/will make the following presentations: "Children's Literature in the German Classroom, July 13, during a seminar for German teachers from various countries; "New Images of America in Recent Austrian Literature," during the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of German, Stanford University, Calif., Aug. 5; "Austria in the Classroom," during the summer seminar of Goethe Institute, Kamloops, British Columbia, Aug. 23-26; "The German Language in Austria," during a workshop on "Austria in the Classroom," University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., Sept. 15-16; and " 'German' German and Austrian German: Is There a Difference?", during the fall meeting of the Arizona Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German, Flagstaff, Ariz., Sept. 30.

.....Michael L. Klassen, associate professor, Marketing, presented a paper, "A Cross-National Study of Verbal Information in Advertising in Germany, Japan and the United States," at the first International Research Seminar in Marketing Communications and Consumer Behavior at La Londe les Maures, France. He also was a visiting professor at Klagenfunt University in Austria during the Summer 1995.

.....Kathleen Kerr, associate professor School of HPELS, presented a workshop in Hungarian Dance in Winona, Minn., Sept. 10. She also set two choreographies for the Winona International Dance Company.

.....Rheta De Vries, director, Regents' Center for Early Developmental Education, College of Education, presented a paper, "Constructivist Education in Preschool and Elementary School: The Sociomoral Atmosphere as the First Educational Goal," at the Fifth European Conference on the Quality of Childhood Education in Paris, France. She also is serving on the International Scientific Committee that met in Geneva, Switzerland in preparation of The Growing Mind Conference to be held in 1996.

.....Guru Subramanyam, assistant professor, Industrial Technology, was invited to present his topic, "High Temperature Superconductor Based Microwave Phase Shifter Circuits," at the Fifth International Symposium on Recent Advances in Microwave Technology (ISRAMT '95) in September in Kiev, Ukraine.

.....Kevin C. O'Kane, professor, Computer Science, presented his work on Information retrieval by automatically generated HTML documents in large document collections, at the Second International Conference on Knowledge Acquisition, Representation and Processing, Sept. 27-30 in Auburn, Ala.

.....Thomas M. Davis, associate professor, HPELS, made a presentation at the 15th World Conference of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education, Aug. 20-25 in Makuhari, Japan, entitled, "Health Behaviors of Midwestern American College Youth."

.....Christine Streed, associate professor, Art, is exhibiting her paintings and installations in a one-person show at the Kansas City Artists Coalition. An installation of encaustic images on panels and books was selected by the Contemporary Curator of the Des Moines Art Center for the 1995 Iowa Artists Exhibition.

.....JoAnn Schnabel, associate professor, Art, is exhibiting works in a one-person shoe entitled, "Garden of Delights: Current Works in Clay by JoAnn Schnabel," at the Waterloo Museum of Art through Nov. 5. She recently returned from her summer residency at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Mont.

.....George K. Zucker, professor, Modern Languages, delivered a paper, "Contemporary Judeo-Spanish in the United States," at the 1995 annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.

.....Joane W. McKay, associate professor and interim associate dean, College of Education, presented two papers at the Ninth Annual USA-Sino Conference in June 1995 in Hong Kong entitled "Teacher's of the Year: A Midwest Profile," and "Leadership Characteristics of Vocational Educators in the United States."

.....Jeff Ashby, assistant professor, Educational Administration and Counseling, co-presented three papers at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in New York City. The papers investigated the topics of multidimensional perfectionism and supervisory working alliances.

.....Gerri Perreault, director, Leadership Studies and assistant professor, Department of Educational Administration and Counseling, presented a paper on "The Proposed Leadership Studies Minor at the University of Northern Iowa," at the annual conference of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies in Virginia.

.....Susan Salterberg, waste reduction specialist, Iowa Waste Reduction Center, recently spoke at the National Recycling Coalition Congress in Kansas City, MO. She gave a presentation with a colleague from Kirkwood Community College on the By-product and Waste Search Service, a business recycling program managed by the IWRC.

Recently / Soon to be Published

.....Margaret Holland, assistant professor, Philosophy, had a book review of "Rediscovering the Moral Life" published in Ethics, April 1995.

.....Maria Basom, assistant professor, Modern Languages, has had her article, "Destruction of the Spirit: War in Voloshin's 'To My Friend' and Pushkin's 'Arion,'" accepted for publication in the Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature.

.....Donna H. Schumacher, assistant professor, Curriculum and Instruction, had her article, "Five Levels of Curriculum Integration Defined, Refined, and Described," published in the Summer 1995 issue of Research in Middle Level Education.

.....James G. McCullagh, professor, Social Work, had his article entitled, "Sara Moulthrop Holbrook: A Life for Children," published in the Spring 1995 issue of School Social Work Journal.

.....Sharon Huddleston, associate professor, and Iradge Ahrabi-Fard, professor, HPELS, have co-authored an article, "Self-Evaluation Compared to Coaches' Evaluation of Athletes' Competitive Orientation," in the Sept. 1995 issue of Journal of Sport Behavior.

.....Richard J. Utz, assistant professor, English Language and Literature, is the co-editor of Realist vs. Nominalist Semiotics? Shifting Paradigms in Literature: Medieval, Early Modern, and After, contracted for publication in 1996 with Editions Rodopi in Amsterdam, Holland.

.....Fred Kolkhorst, assistant professor,HPELS, authored an article entitled "Effects of consecutive exercise days of jogging or cycling on the resting metabolic rate and nitrogen balance," published in the Dec. 1994 issue of The Journal of Sports Medicine.

.....Debbie Gordon, instructor, Music, has been selected to train state-wide administrators, music educators and curriculum directors in the National Standards for Fine Arts recently published by the Music Educators National Conference (MENC). She also had lesson plans published in MENC's Teaching Examples: Ideas for Music Educators.

.....Joane W. McKay, associate professor and interim associate dean, College of Education, co-authored an article entitled, "International Student Teaching: New Zealand and the United States Perspectives on Schooling," appeared in the Summer 1995 issue of Action in Teacher Education. McKay also published "Overseas Experiences Provide a Global Perspective to Perspective Teachers," in the Spring 1995 Professional Educator.

.....Linda F. Quinn, visiting professor, Departments of Teaching and Curriculum and Instruction, authored a curriculum unit, "Things Japanese: A Cooperative Learning Approach and Curriculum for Elementary Classrooms," published by the International Center for the Study of Education Policy and Human Values, University of Maryland, College Park. She also contributed as lead author on "International Student Teaching: New Zealand and the United States Perspectives on Schooling," with McKay.

.....Jeff Ashby, assistant professor, Educational Administration and Counseling, co-authored "Perfectionism in Adult Children of Alcoholics," in the Journal of College Student Development.

.....Chris W. Ogbondah, associate professor, Communication Studies, had his article, "Freedom of the press and political development in Africa," published in the current issue of Africa Media Review upon completion of his sabbatical leave. He also presented two papers at the RISONPALM Public Relations seminar in Port Harcourt, Nigeria last August. The papers were on the topics of the origin of public relations and corporate communication channels in Africa.

Awards/ honors/ services

.....Wilfred M. Johnson, director, Upward Bound, and Inez Murtha, director, Student Support Services, have received five-year funding for their submitted Upward Bound grant. Total funding received is more than $1.5 million.

.....Dean Kruckeberg, professor, Communication Studies, has been named the 1995 Outstanding Educator by the Public Relations Society of America.

.....Cynthia Goatley, assistant professor, Theatre, recently returned to UNI after completion of her second Fulbright award to Poland where she served as a professor in the English Institute at the University of Gdan'sk. Her article, "Between Art and Politics: Feminist Theatre Since 1960," appeared in British and American Studies in Torun' and also in the Fifth Annual Fulbright Conference Proceedings. She also performed in the Tenth Festival of Drama in English, directed Crimes of the Heart for the Maybe Theatre Company in Gdan'sk and conducted a workshop for Teatr Wybrzeze.

.....Shivesh Thakur, Philosophy, has been appointed general editor of the Religion and Politics series, published by Macmillan Press, London, in conjunction with St. Martin's Press, New York. He has been appointed co-editor of the World Heritage Studies in the ethical and Political Dilemmas of Modern India by World Heritage Press. He has also been appointed associate editor of the International Journal of Hindu Studies, published by the International Institute of Indian Studies.

.....Margaret Holland, associate professor, Philosophy, chaired a session on Justice for Families at the 12th International Social Philosophy Conference at Colby College, Maine, Aug. 12.

.....Keith Crew, associate professor, Sociology and Anthropology, was elected chair of the Graduate Council for the 1995-96 academic year. Philip East, associate professor, Computer Science, was elected vice chair.