Faculty & Staff Points of Pride

• Anna Arnar’s, Art and Design, book The Book As Instrument: Stéphane Mallarmé, The Artist’s Book and the Transformation of Print Culture (University of Chicago Press) has been selected as a finalist for the Berkshire First Book prize.


• The Djerassi Resident Artist Program awarded Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson, Cinema Arts & Digital Technologies, a 2012 Resident Artist Fellowship in media arts to continue her creative work. Djerassi is the largest residency program in the West. 


• Jan Adair, Health and Physical Education, received a presidential citation at the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) national convention. Presidential citations are presented to an individual or group who has been responsible for a major contribution to AAHPERD.  


• Donna Bruns Stockrahm, Biosciences, received the Mother Clarissa Dillhoff Award for Distinguished Achievement in Mentoring at Marian University (Indianapolis, Ind.). The award is given to an individual who has demonstrated the spirit of mentoring. Read more. 


• Raymond Rea, Film Studies, had his animated short, Cat’s Cradle, recently reviewed in Film Threat, and an earlier film was recently reviewed in (online magazine) Bodies of Work.


• Richard Adler, Speech Language and Hearing Science, was appointed to the committee that will oversee the writing of the 7th Edition of the Standards of Care (SOC-7) from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. He is the first speech pathologist ever appointed to this committee.  


• Brad Bachmeier, Art & Design, was invited and selected to show his work in a ceramic invitational art exhibit, “50 States Fire Up: American Clay Invitational,” at the Margaret Harwell Art Museum.Al Sheets, Art & Design, designed an art exhibit catalog that received a 2011 American Graphic Design Award from Graphic Design USA. The catalog, entitled Abstract 100, showcases the work of 31 artists from the southern Red River Valley from 1954 to 2010.


• Brian Wisenden, Biosciences, was interviewed by Scientific American for his response to a recent published paper in Current Biology on chemically-mediated predator-prey interactions in fish. Wisenden is an expert in this field and three of his publications were cited in the paper in Current Biology. The Scientific American story containing his interview can be read here.


• The American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) selected Ken Karr, Operations Management, to join a committee of seven external subject matter experts throughout the United States to review their Certified Production and Inventory Management Certification (CPIM) exam. The CPIM certification exam is an industry designation for engineers and operations professionals throughout the world.


• Chang-Seong Hong, Philosophy, was appointed to be on the editorial board of Journal of Philosophical Ideas, a Korean language philosophy journal.


• Lisa Stewart, Psychology, trained Minnesota Reading Corps members and teachers as part of the Minnesota Reading Corps 2011 week-long training institute. Minnesota Reading Corps is an Americorps program where members volunteer for a year to help reduce the achievement gap in reading.    


• Ashish Gupta, School of Business, has published a book, Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation, with Springer Publications. More information about the book can be found on its dedicated homepage. A display copy of the book is available in the office of Dean of College of Business & Industry.


• A collection of works by guitar instructor Nick Fryer, Music, for college jazz musicians is now available through Amazon.com, Muse-Eek.com and NickFryerMusic.com. Modern Jazz Guitar Ensemble Vol.1, published by Muse-Eek Publishing in New York, is a collection of four original compositions for five guitars, bass and drums.  


• Ashish Gupta, School of Business, was selected president-elect for the Midwest Association for Information (MWAIS), which serves members across the Midwest United States from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.  


• Dave Weinrich, Planetarium Coordinator, chaired his first council meeting as President of the International Planetarium Society (IPS). Thirty people, representing IPS affiliates in Australia, Japan, China, Brazil, the USA, Russia and several European nations, attended the meeting in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in July.


• Don Clark, Art & Design, had his image, Italian Olive Groves #5, accepted into the juried exhibition “The Nature of Trees” at the PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vt. Juror Sean Kernan chose 40 photographs for the gallery exhibition from over 1,600 photographs submitted.  


• Oscar Flores, Economics, has been named president of the Missouri Valley Economics Association, which boasts members from all 50 states and many countries.  


• Deneen Gilmour, Mass Communications, and Heather Nesemeier, Communication Studies, are part of a research team that earned top panel honors in the women’s caucus division at the Central States Communication Association’s annual conference. Read more. 


• Economics faculty member, T. J. Hansen, was one of several researchers from across the U.S. interviewed by Congressional Quarterly Researcher and featured in the article, “Attracting Jobs – Do tax breaks for business spur employment?” The article is accessible using CQ Researcher Online.