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Faculty Activities and Accomplishments
We want to learn of those specific events,
activities, special recognitions, etc., that have brought credit to the
faculty member and the College. We do not have space to reproduce
activity reports or similar lists. We can only post four or five lines
about a recent achievement. Since we are limited in the number we can
post, we will be rolling the items about “featured” faculty into an
archive that can be consulted for a year by those who choose to visit
the College site. Routing of information should come through the chair
or director to Dean Vorst.
Diane Mutti-Burke,
Assistant Professor of History, has been appointed by Governor Matt
Blunt to the 18-member Missouri Civil War Sesquicentennial
Commission charged to plan the state’s commemoration of the Civil
War.
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Curators’ Teaching
Professor of Chemistry and Executive Associate Dean Charles
Wurrey is part of the interdisciplinary UMKC team that has won a
NSF Grant of $749,984 awarded for scholarships for preparing
teachers of science and mathematics. This is associated with the
Southwest Early College Campus.
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Physics Professor and Chair, Michael Kruger has been
interviewed by the Kansas City Star on principles of physics that
come into play in various track and field events at the Olympics.
To see his explanations, click on the following links:
Science of
sports: The high jump,
Science of
sports: The discus and
Science of
sports: pole vault
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More Faculty Accomplishments
Curators’ of Theatre Felicia Londré has won The
George Freedley Memorial Award for her book: The Enchanted Years of the
Stage; Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theatre, 1870-1930.
The award will presented by the Theatre Library Association at the New York
Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on October 10, 2008.
Curators’ Professor of Political Science Max Skidmore has been
named founding editor of a new Berkeley Electronic Press Journal
titled: Poverty and Public Policy: A Global Journal of Social
Security, Income, Aid and Welfare. The BEPress began in 1999 and
electronically publishes peer reviewed journals in many fields.
Geosciences
Associate Professor Jimmy Adegoke testified before Congress
in July. Invited to share his expertise with the House of
Representatives Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global
Warming, Professor Adegoke provided written and oral testimony on
the effects of climate change on extreme weather patterns in the
Midwest and their resultant effects on the public, the economy and
the environment.
Theatre Associate Professor Victor E. Y. Tan
will again be director of lighting for a Broadway Show.
“For Colored Girls” is set to open September 8th at the
Circle in the Square Theatre at 50th and Broadway. Tan
has been lighting director three other Broadway shows.
He also recently designed for the
premiere of “The Ballad of Emmett Till” presented at Chicago’s
Goodman Theatre.
History Professor Lou Potts, has been
elected to the Mid-America Hall of Fame and will be inducted on
Saturday, November 1, 2008. Established in 1996, the
Mid-America Education hall of Fame has as its purpose “to identify
and recognize individuals, organizations, and corporate supporters
notable for their contributions to education.” The letter to Lou
announcing his selection says this honor is in recognition of “your
commitment to education, your history of working to improve the
quality of life in the community, your efforts to increase
educational opportunities for others, and your work to make changes
that have improved the quality of education.”
Writer-In-Residence Whitney Terrell has won a Hodder Fellowship
to spend a year at Princeton University. Hodder Fellowships are awarded
to those early in their careers who have demonstrated exceptional
promise and for whom the fellowship will allow the “studious leisure” to
undertake significant new work. The fellowship carries a stipend of
$58,000.
Associate Professor of English Virginia Blanton has won the
“Best First Book Prize for 2008” for her book Signs of Devotion: The
Cult of St. AEthelthryth in Medieval England , 695-1615, from the
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship at its annual meeting in May
2008. The book was published by Pennsylvania State University Press in
2007.
Art and Art History Assistant
Professor Elijah Gowin has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Receipt of this prestigious international award so early in a career is
exceptional and quite noteworthy.
Foreign Languages Associate Professor Kathy Krause
has been awarded a Fulbright Research Grant for archival and manuscript
research in Belgium as a visiting scholar at the Universite Catholique
de Louvain.
Professor Henry
Frankel of the Department of Philosophy has been awarded a $4,000
Franklin Grant from the American Philosophical Society to examine
papers of Blackett, Bullard, Runcorn and Matthews in archives in
London and Cambridge, U.K. This will allow him to finish his work:
“Controversy over Continental Drift”, forthcoming, Cambridge
University Press.
Associate Dean and Professor
of English Tom Stroik found his scholarly work in linguistics the
focus of a conference on “Exploring Crash Proof Grammars” at
Carson-Newman College, February 29- March 2, 2008. He presented a
plenary address to those assembled.
Family Studies Associate Professor Debbie
Smith, in The New York Times addressed the changing nature of
familial obligations to ‘stay connected’ as air travel has become more
complicated and costly while the Internet provides a ready alternative
to visiting in person. The article appeared Sunday, December 23, 2007.
Geosciences Assistant Professor Molly Davies
article is cited as among top 10 articles most downloaded from the
website of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society in the two
year period between December 2005 and November 2007. The article,
co-authored with Nicole DeMotto, is titled: A GIS Analysis of the
Relationship between Criminal Offenses and Parks in Kansas City, Kansas.
It appeared in 2006.
History Professor Marian Forman-Brunnel
will serve second term as a Distinguished Lecturer under the auspices of
the Organization of American Historians. Her current term expires in May
of 2008 and she has been asked to take a second three-year term in
recognition of her successful contributions to that organization.
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