…Iradge Ahrabi-Fard, HPELS professor and head volleyball coach,
and Bobbi Petersen, assistant volleyball coach, published an article titled
“The Relationship Between Arms as a Contact Platform and the Hip Level
During the Pass or Dig” in Coaching Volleyball, (December/January 2000).
Pp. 14-16.
…Carolyn Richert Bair, Educational Leadership, Counseling and Postsecondary
Education, published an article titled “Doctoral Students: Who Persists
and Why?” in the NAGAP Journal of the National Association of Graduate
Admissions Professionals, winter 2000, volume 12, number 2.
…Annette Lynch, Women’s Studies and Textiles and Apparel, had
a book published in December titled “Dress, Gender and Cultural Change.”
…Andrea DeBruin-Parecki, Educational Psychology and Foundations,
had a book titled Helping Your Child Become a Reader: With Activities for Children
from Infancy Through Age 6 published in January by the United States Department
of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement.
…Susan Moore, Rod Library, published the article “Navigating
the G Schedule” in Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, v. 27, no.
3/4, pp. 375-384.
…Jane L. Wong, psychology, has published “Does Warning Reduce
Obvious Malingering on Memory and Motor Tasks in College Samples?” in the
International Journal of Rehabilitation and Health, vol. 4 no. 3, pp.153-165.
…Donna Thompson, Mick G. Mack and Susan D. Hudson
from HPELS published an article titled “Who is Responsible for SAFE Playgrounds?”
in Carolina Youth Alliance (1999), vol. 1, pp. 24-26. The authors also published
an article titled “Understanding the ALPHABET SOUP of Playground Safety
Organizations” in The Play Book (2000).
…Katherine van Wormer, Social Work, and Clemens Bartollas,
Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, have published Women and the Criminal
Justice System (2000), Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
…Roy Behrens, art, recently published an article on “Adelbert
Ames, Fritz Heider, and the Chair Demonstration” in Gestalt Theory: Journal
of the Society for Gestalt Theory and Its Applications (Wiesbaden, Germany).
…Dean Kruckeberg, public relations, is author of the chapter, “Public
Relations: Toward a Global Professionalism,” in J.A. Ledingham & S.D.
Bruning (Eds.), Public Relations as Relationship Management: A Relational Approach
to the Study and Practice of Public Relations (pp. 145-157). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates.
…Jennie Wang, English, published a Chinese translation of Raymond
Federman’s essay, “Fiction in American Today, or the Unreality of
Reality” in East/West Forum (New York: Rockefeller Center) 55.1 (2000):
30-34; and 55.2 (2000) forthcoming consecutively.
…Karlene Kischer-Browne, American sign language, recently had a
story published in “Our Stories: The Soul of Sign Language Interpreting,”
described as a “chicken soup book” for those who interpret for, or
work with, people who are deaf. She is currently a candidate for national certification
through the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID).
…Charles Kronengold, music, published the article “Identity,
Value, and the Work of Genre:
Black Action Films” in The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture,
ed. Shelton Waldrep (New York and London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 79-123.
…Brian L. Keeley, philosophy and religion, presented “Making
Sense of the Senses: Individuating Modalities in Humans and Other Animals”
at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in
Boston, Mass., and to the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies at
Iowa State University.
… Jeffery Byrd, art, had a solo exhibition of his photographic work
at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. One of his photographs was also
used on the cover of L’Amour Bleu a CD by singer Tom Bogdan.
…Richard Colburn, art, has photographs included in an exhibition
at the Fisher Gallery of the University of Southern California titled, “Unapolcalytic:
The Future That Never Was.”
…Tom Riedmiller,International Program, will present a workshop in
March titled “Computer Based Resources for the Job Search” at the
International TESOL Convention in Vancouver, Canada, and “Activities to
Use Tomorrow!” in May at the conference of the National Association of
Multicultural Education in Omaha.
…Erin Langan, Culture and Intensive Program, recently presented
a workshop titled “Teaching Successful Use of Speech
Acts – Focus on Compliments” at the Iowa Language and Cultural Concerns
Conference in Des Moines.
…Linda Walsh, psychology, presented “A Preliminary Analysis
of Honors Introductory Psychology Courses Across the Country and Selected Resources
for Honors Instructors” at the 22nd National Institute on the Teaching
of Psychology, Jan. 2-5, in St. Petersburg Beach, Fla.
…Chris W. Ogbondah, journalism, has had a paper, “Democratic
Changes and Press Performance in Africa: Will the Watchdog Please Watch Itself!”
accepted for presentation at the 50th annual conference of the International
Communication Association in Acapulco, Mexico, June 1-5.
…Dean Kruckeberg, public relations, was guest speaker at the monthly
meeting of the Public Relations Network of the Quad Cities on Feb. 17 in Rock
Island, Ill. He discussed international public relations.
…John Grinstead, Department of Modern Languages, was chosen as
an Iowa Regent’s Fellow for his project in collaboration with assistant
professor Elena Gavruseva of the University of Iowa’s Linguistics Department,
titled, “The Acquisition of Expletive Negation in Child Russian and Child
Spanish.” Grinstead will travel to the University of Iowa over the course
of the current semester to collaborate with Professor Gavruseva on the development
of their experimental protocol, which will be piloted with children in Iowa.
The results of this pilot experiment will be presented at a colloquium in the
University of Iowa’s Linguistics Department.
… Brian L. Keeley, Philosophy and Religion, was recently awarded
a 5-year, $10,000 Cnd., Junior Fellowship in the The McDonnell Project in Philosophy
and the Neurosciences (administered by professor Kathleen Akins, Simon Fraser
University) to work on his project titled, “The Eyes Have It: The Neuroethology
of Eye Gaze Information Processing and Other Minds.”
… Andrea DeBruin-Parecki, Educational Psychology and Foundations,
was appointed chair of the International Reading Association Family Literacy
Committee for 2000-2001.
… Howard Barnes, Design, Family and Consumer Sciences, has been
selected as one of the Centennial 100 by his alma mater, the College of Human
Ecology at the University of Minnesota.
…Tom Riedmiller, International Program, was elected first vice president
(president elect) of a regional organization called MidTESOL, MidAmerica Teachers
of English to Speakers of Other Languages.
…Christine A. Macfarlane, Department of Special Education, recently
completed an introductory mediation training program conducted by the Iowa Peace
Institute. She will be conducting special education mediations for the Iowa
Department of Education.
…Carolina Wilson, music, was elected president at the annual meeting
of the Iowa Association of Educational Office Professionals in October 1999,
in Des Moines. Other officers include Karen Paulsen, treasurer (UNI-ITS)
and Mary Friedrich, newsletter editor (UNI-Math Department).
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