Recent Faculty Presentations

Anderson, Robyn

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • WI2006.  Crystal Schatz and Robyn Anderson.  "Effects of Aqua Exercise and Therabands on the Strength, Balance, and Endurance in a Long-Term Care Population."  Institute on Service Learning.  Flint Michigan.  February 2006.
  • Scholarship - External Research Grants
    • WI2006.  Robyn Anderson with Friends of the Fred Meijer Heartland Trail.  "Friends of the Fred Meijer Heartland Trail."  Consumers Energy Foundation Grant.  Effective: January 2006.

Ball, Karen

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  Patrick Furlong and Karen Ball (copresenters).  "Power to Heal? The Nevirapine Crisis and the Revival of AIDS Denialism in South Africa."  African Studies Association.  Washington, D.C..  November 2005.
    • JUN2006.  Jillian Gettel, Brandon Smith, Scott Barriger, and Karen Ball.  "Effects of Cystoseira Canariensis on C2C12 Cell Behavior In Vitro."  Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine.  Denver, Colorado.  June, 2006.

Beagley, Walter

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  "Eye Lines software - complete rewrite (in progress)."

Bender, Carol

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • SP2006.  Carol Bender.  "Key West Culture: A Midwesterner Reads the Region."  37th Annual College English Association Conference.  San Antonio, Texas.  April 6-8, 2006.

Blanchard, Kathryn

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • WI2006.  "The Gift of Contraception: Calvin, Barth, and a Lost Protestant Conversation."  Society of Christian Ethics.  Phoenix, AZ.  January 2006.
    • FA2006.  Panelist.  "Economic Dimensions of Religion and Religious Dimensions of Economics."  American Academy of Religion.  Washington, DC.  November 2006.

Bonhage-Freund, Mary

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  "Lee Creek Ceremonial Site (34SQ12): A Preliminary Assessment of Macroplant Remains from Flotation Samples."  Thomas Pluckhahn, The University of Oklahoma.  Norman.  November 2005.
    • FA2005.  "The Lawton Mounds Site (38AL11): An Assessment of the Seasonality of the Site Occupation During the Mississippian Period.."  Adam King, The University of South Carolina.  Columbia.  March 14, 2005.
    • WI2006.  with Thomas J. Pluckhahn and J. Matthew Compton.  "The Problem of Small-Scale Feasting" Interpretation of an Unusual Assemblage from Kolomoki (9ER1)."  Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Annual Meeting.  Oakland University, Oakland, MI.  March 3, 2006.
    • JUN2006.  with H. Thomas Foster.  "A Paleoethnobotany of Muskogee Creek Indian Agricultural and Garden Systems."  First Annual Conference in Crop Fields and Garden Archaeology.  Univesity of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.  1 June 2006.
    • FA2006.  "Assessment of Macroplant Remains Recovered from Flotation Samples Collected at 38LA479, 38LA480, and 38LA484, Indian Lands Vicinity, Lancaster County, South Carolina."  Cultural Resources Assessment Group: Archaeology.  Raleigh, NC.

Bu, Liping

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  Liping Bu.  "W.W.Peter and the Council on Health Education in China."  Mid-West Annual Conference on Asian Affairs.  East Lansing.  Sept. 23-25, 2005.
    • FA2005.  Liping Bu.  "Public Health and Modernization in Early 20th-Century China."  Global Health Histories Symposium.  National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.  November 3-4, 2005.
    • WI2006.  "Medicine, Public Health, and Modernization of China, 1895-1927."  Needham Research Institute, Cambridge University.  March 3, 2006.
    • SP2006.  "Modernization, National Health and Women in Early 20th-Century China: Modernization with a Traditional Bent."  Annual Conference of the Association of Asian Studies.  San Francisco.  April 8, 2006.
    • SP2006.  "Cultural Communication in Picturing Health: W.W. Peter and the Public Health Campaign in China, 1914-1926."  Nankai University.  Tianjin, China.  May 30, 2006.
    • Jul/Aug 2006.  "Public Health and Chinese Society from 1930s to SARS."  History of Medicine Seminar of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.  Bethesda, Maryland.  August 15, 2006.
  • Scholarship - External Research Grants
    • FA2005.  "Andrew Mellon Fellowship."  Needham Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK.  Effective: 2006.
    • WI2006.  "Research Grant."  Rockefeller Archive Center.  Effective: 2006-2007.

Cameron, Elizabeth

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  "When Good Will is Also Good Business"  Discovering Vocation.  Alma College.  November 16, 2006.
    • WI2006.  "Contract Law and the Talking Mailbox: An Unforgettable Application of the Mailbox Rule."  Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.  Chicago, Illinois.  March 16, 2006.
    • WI2006.  "The Apprentice: Integrating Service-Learning into Business Course," 10th Institute on Service Learning--The Places We Live: Student Engagement in Diverse Communities, University of Michigan--Flint, February 17, 2006, Flint, Michigan.
    • WI2006.  "Student Investigations of On-Line Resources."  Technology Forum.  Alma College.  February 3, 2006.
    • Jul/Aug 2006.  "The Power of the Mailbox: The Requisite Rules and Exceptions Under Contract Law."  Academy of Legal Studies in Business.  St. Petersburg, Florida.  August 10, 2006.
  • Scholarship - External Research Grants
    • FA2006.  "Helped Business Students Obtain a SCAF grant."  Michigan Campus Compact.  Effective: February 23, 2006.

Cartrite, Britt

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  "Teaching Matters" Presentation.  Alma College.  November 22 2005.
    • FA2005.  Ian Lustick.  "Virtualstan and Succession in Authoritarian Regimes."  American Political Science Association.  Washington DC.  September 1-4 2005.
    • FA2005.  Dan Miodownik.  "Demarking Political Space: Territoriality and the Ethnoregional Party Family."  American Political Science Association.  Washington, DC.  September 1-4, 2005.
    • WI2006.  "Discovering Vocation Lunch: Ethnicity and Meaning."  March 21, 2006.
    • SP2006.  "The Emergence of Political Hierarchy."  Midwestern Political Science Association.  Chicago, IL.  April 20-23, 2006.
    • SP2006.  Dan Miodownik.  "Taking Territoriality Seriously: Ethnoregional Parties and Elections."  Midwestern Political Science Association.  Chicago, IL.  April 20-23, 2006.
    • Jul/Aug 2006.  Dan Miodownik.  "The Analytical Infrastructure for Ethnicity and Politics: A Study of the Current Methodology, Concepts, Approaches, Centres, Training and Communication."  International Political Science Association.  Fukuoka, Japan.  July 9-13, 2006.
    • FA2006.  "How Deep are the Ruts in Path Dependency."  American Political Science Association.  Philadelphia, PA.  August 31-September 3, 2006.

Chen, Chih-Ping

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • WI2006.  "Of Mimicry and Racial Freaks: Shirley Temple and Her "Other" American Sisters."  National Association of African American Studies.  Barton Rouge, Louisiana.  Feb., 2006.

Clark, David

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  "Crypticness and Conspicuosness in Spiders."  Department of Biology.  Hope College, Holland, Michigan.  April 1, 2005.

Dai, Zhewei

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • WI2006.  "Local Regularization of the Autoconvolution Problem."  AMS-SIAM Special Session on Symbolic-Numeric Computation and Applications.  San Antonio, TX.  Jan 15, 2006.

Davis, John

  • Scholarship - External Research Grants
    • FA2005.  John Davis.  "Geriatric Education Center Grant."  Geriatric Education Center - Michigan State University.  Effective: July 1, 2005.

Dougherty, Deborah

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • WI2006.  "(Con)texts: Coherence between Author, Translator and Reader."  Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters.  Oakland University.  March 3, 2006.

Ealey, Thomas

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2006.  Devine, Ealey, O'Clock.  "Framework for Cost Management and Decision Support across Health-Care Organizations of Varying Size and Scope."  Decision Sciences Institute.  November 2006.
    • FA2006.  Devine, Ealey, O'Clock.  "[Teaching Case] An In-Sourcing Decision in the Health Care Industry: Should an Orthopedic Practice Buy an MRI."  Decision Sciences Institute.  November 2006.
    • FA2006.  Ealey.  "Financial Concepts for Nurse Managers."  Nursing Institute of West Central Ohio.  tele-seminar.  December 2006.

Findley, Nicola

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • WI2006.  Findley, N with Navarro, J.  "Finding diversity in a rural setting: Service learning in an alternative high school."  10th Annual Institute on Service-Learning.  University of Michigan, Flint.  February 17, 2006.
    • WI2006.  Findley, N. with Navarro, J..  "Finding diversity in our own backyard."  Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters.  Rochester, MI.  March 3, 2006.

Fobes, Catherine

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • SP2006.  "Teaching About Post-Nuclear Childhood Using 'Born Into Brothels.'"  North Central Sociological Association.  Indianapolis, IN.  March 23-25, 2006.

Furlong, Patrick

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  Patrick J. Furlong (with Karen L. Ball).  "The Nevirapine Crisis, the Revival of Denialism, and the Continued Politicization of AIDS in South Africa."  African Studies Association Annual Meeting.  Washington DC.  November 2005.
    • FA2006.  "Liberation Struggles and Post-Revolutionary Politics in South Africa: The National Party and the African National Congress Compared."  Great Lakes History Conference.  Grand Rapids, Michigan.  20 October 2006.

Gibson, John

  • Scholarship - External Research Grants
    • FA2005.  Matthew J. McGill, J. H. Gibson.  J. H. Gibson.  "Cloud Physics Lidar."  NASA.  Effective: September 1, 2005.

Gilbert, Joanne

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  Joanne Gilbert.  "Texts and Contexts: Performance, Community and Service Learning.."  International Partnership for Service Learning.  Rapid City, SD.  October, 2005.
    • FA2005.  "Augusto Boal’s Colombian Hypnosis."  National Communication Association.  Boston, MA.  November.
    • FA2005.  "Upon Learning That a Junior High School Acquaintance...."  National Communication Association.  Boston, MA.
    • FA2005.  "So Much Depends...."  National Communication Association.  Boston, MA.
    • FA2005.  Joanne Gilbert.  "Performing Marginality: Humor, Gender and Cultural Critique."  Diversityfest.  Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA.  September, 2005.
    • WI2006.  Joanne Gilbert.  "Tough Talk: Culture, Perception and the Power of Words."  Communication and Social Action conference.  Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI.  February 17, 2006.
    • WI2006.  Joanne Gilbert.  "Last Laughs: Female Comics and the Performance of Power."  Sixth Annual Isom Student Gender Conference at the University of Mississippi.  Oxford, MS.  April, 2006.
    • JUN2006.  Joanne Gilbert.  "If it bleeds, it leads...."  Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Conference.  Alma, MI.

Gorton, William

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • SP2006.  "What if Liberal Democracies No Longer Foster Happiness?" Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting.  Chicago, IL.  April 2006.
    • SP2006.  Discussant. "Deliberative Democracy."  Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting.  Chicago, IL.  April 2006.
    • FA2006.  Chair panel. "How Should We Do Political Theory?" Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting.  Chicago, IL.  April 2007.
    • SP2007.  "Karl Popper's Negative Utilitarianism."  Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting.  Chicago, IL.  April 2007.

Kelleher, Angie

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • WI2006.  "What do your teaching faculty really think about library instruction? A college library web-survey and results."  Michigan Academy Annual Meeting.  Rochester, MI.

Krakusin, Margarita

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  "Blanqueando negritudes: Vean, ve mis nanas negras de Amalia Lu Posso Figueroa."  XV International Conference of the AILFH, Canon and Marginality.  Tegucigalpa, Honduras.  October 19-22.
    • WI2006.  "Escritoras costarricenses del siglo XX: Ginecotopia en Carmen Naranjo."  The Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters.  Oakland University, Oakland, MI.  March 3-4.
    • SP2006.  "Postmodernidad y la estetica de la imposibilidad en Más allá del Parismina de Carmen Naranjo."  University of Costa Rica.  San José, Costa Rica.  May 24-25.
    • Jul/Aug 2006.  "Autoiografia y exilio en Pedro Pan de Josefina Leyva."  Simposio Internacional del ILCH.  Montevideo, Uruguay.  August 7-12.

Lopez-Isnardi, C Sandy

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • Jul/Aug 2006.  Sandy Lopez-Isnardi.  "What Makes a Photograph Fine Art."  Lakefront festival of the Arts.  Milwaukee, WI.  6/17/06.

Luetkemeier, Maurie

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  Andrew Wolford, Tony Cuttitta, Maurie Luetkemeier, John Davis.  "Effect of Positive Pressure on Autonomic Control of Heart Rate and Blood Pressure at Moderate Altitude."  Midwest Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine.  Muncie, Indiana.  September 30, 2005.
    • FA2005.  Hilary Miller, Kristy Endebrock, Tara Bjorne, Maurie Luetkemeier, and John Davis.  "Effects of Ginko Biloba on Exercise Response at Moderate Altitude."  Midwest Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine.  Muncie, Indiana.  September 30, 2005.
    • FA2005.  Jon Daniels, Will Allsopp, Andrew Tarkington, Jeff Sweet, Maurie Luetkemeier, and John Davis.  "Effects of Creatine Supplimentation on Strength, Body Composition, and Power at Moderate Altitude."  Midwest Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine.  Muncie, Indiana.  September 30, 2005.
    • FA2005.  Emily Sias, Laura Kendrick, Maurie Luetkemeier, and John Davis.  "Temperature Regulatory Responses During Cycling Exercise at Moderate Altitude."  Midwest Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine.  Muncie, Indiana.  September 30, 2005.
    • JUN2006.  LaPorte, J.A., Luetkemeier, M.J., and Davis, J.E..  "Breath Holding at Moderate Altitude (3416-m) and at Lowland (243-m)."  American College of Sports Medicine annual Meeting.  Denver, CO.  June 2, 2006.
    • FA2006.  Jaci Wilkie, Maurie J. Luetkemeier, John E. Davis.  ":Post-Exercise Hypotension in Swimming and Cycling: Changes in Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, and Forearm Blood Flow."  Midwest Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine.  Mount Pleasant, Michigan.  Oct. 6, 2006.
    • FA2006.  Andrew Wolford, John E. Davis, Maurie J. Luetkemeier.  "The Effects of Hypoxia on Graded Pre-Syncopal Lower Body Negative Pressure Tolerance."  Midwest Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine.  Mt. Pleasant, MI.  Oct. 6.2006.

McNally, Myles

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • WI2006.  Myles F. McNally (with Joseph Bergin, Michael Goldweber, and Raymond Lister).  "A Comparison of Different Approaches to the Introductory Programming Course."  2006 Australasian Computing Education Conference.  Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.  January 16-19, 2006.
    • WI2006.  Myles McNally (with Barry Fagin, Michael Goldweber, and Frank Klassner).  "Do Lego MindStorms Robots have a Future in CS Education?."  37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.  Houston, TX.  March 1-5, 2006.
    • WI2006.  Myles McNally (with Martin Carlisle, Steve Cooper, Kenneth Goldman, Paul Gross, Kris Powers, and Viera Proulx).  "Tools and Environments for Teaching Introductory Programming: What Works?."  37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.  Houston, TX.  March 1-5, 2006.
    • WI2006.  Myles McNally (with Scott Grissom and Thomas Naps).  "Integrating Algorithm Visualization into Computer Science Courses."  37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.  Houston, TX.  March 1-5, 2006.
    • WI2006.  Myles McNally (with Frank Klasssner).  "Using LEGO MIndStorms in CS 1 and CS 2."  37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.  Houston, TX.  March 1-5, 2006.
    • Jul/Aug 2006.  Myles F. McNally (with Joseph Bergin, Barbara Owens, and Raymond Lister).  "The First Programming Course: Ideas to End the Enrollment Decline."  11th Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education.  Bologna, Italy.  June 26-28, 2006.

Messing, Scott

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • WI2006.  "Neo contra Nouveau: patterns of meaning in the origins of the term neoclassicism."  interdisciplinary colloquium, “Musique, arts et religion dans l'entre-deux-guerres: la construction d'une culture religieus en pays francophones”.  University of Montreal.  March 8, 2006.
  • Scholarship - External Research Grants
    • Jul/Aug 2006.  University of Rochester Press.  "Schubert in the European Imagination."  American Musicological Society.  Effective: 2006.

Mo, Sean J.

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • Jul/Aug 2006.  Sean Mo with  Patricia Marsteller.  "Problem Based Learning in Large Chemistry Lecture Courses."  International Conference Problem Based Learning.  Lima, Peru.

Morris, Thomas

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  Thomas Morris.  "Interlochen Arts Camp."  selectively auditioned students.  Interlochen, MI.  August 2005.

Navarro, Janet

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • WI2006.  Janet Naavarro with Nicky Findley.  "Finding Diversity in Our Own Backyard."  Michian Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters.  Oakland University, Rochester Hills, Michigan.  March 3, 2006.
    • WI2006.  Janet Naavarro with Nicky Findley.  "Finding Diversity in a Rural Setting: Service learning in."  Service Learning Institute.  University of Michigan, Flint; Flint, Michigan.  February 16, 2006.
    • SP2006.   Janet Naavarro with Shari Person and Kathy Valentine.  "Phonemic Awareness: Learning How to Listen, Learning How to Hear, Learning How to Read."  International Reading Association.  Chicago, IL.  May 4, 2006.

Ottenhoff, John

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  Panel Presentation with Wendy Ostroff (Sonoma State University) and David Reichard (California State University--Monterrey Bay).  "Feeding the Feedback Loop: Self-Awareness about Teaching Self-Awareness."  International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.  Vancouver, British Columbia.  October 14-16.

Palmer, William

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • WI2006.  "William Palmer, "Hidden Wholeness: Spirituality and Literature," Institute on College Student Values, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, February 3, 2006."

Parks-Kirby, Carrie Anne

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  Carrie Anne Parks.  "Tea and Clay."  Michigan Ceramic Artists' Association, Michigan Mud conference.  Albion College, Albion, MI.  October 7, 2005.

Putz, John F.

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations

    • WI2007. “A Course with a Focus on the Other Two R’s.”  American Mathematical Society & Mathematical Association of America annual joint meeting, New Orleans LA, January 2007.  Abstract in Abstracts of Papers Presented to the American Mathematical Society, vol. 28 no. 1 (January 2007): 270.

Reed, Cameron

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  "Leaping the Fission Barrier: A Sophomore-Level Model."  American Physical Society, Ohio Section.  Oakland (MI) University.  October 2004.

Riley, Raymond

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • WI2006.  Raymond Riley.  "Living the iLife: Multimedia Integration and DVD Development."  Michigan Music Conference.  Grand Rapids, MI.  January 14, 2006.
    • WI2006.  Raymond Riley.  "Logic Pro and Logic Express."  Michigan Music Conference.  Grand Rapids, MI.  January 14, 2006.
    • WI2006.  Raymond Riley (with Andrew Bare).  "Winter 2006 Faculty and Staff Technology Workshops."  Alma College Faculty and Staff.  Alma College.  February 27- March 1, 2006.
    • FA2006.  Raymond Riley.  "Shareware and Freeware Treasures I Have Come to Know."  Association for Technology in Music Instruction.  San Antonio, TX.  September 14-17, 2006.
    • FA2006.  Raymond Riley.  "Using Audio Effect Plug-ins: Let's Spice Things Up a Little."  Association for Technology in Music Instruction.  San Antonio, TX.  September 14-17, 2006.

Rowe, John

  • Scholarship - External Research Grants
    • Jul/Aug 2006.  John W. Rowe.  Pamela McCarthy.  "Ecology of Stinkpot Turtles."  Under Graduate Research Grant, Pierce Cedar Creek Institute, 2005.  Effective: May 1, 2005.

Seals, Mark

  • Scholarship - External Research Grants
    • FA2005.  Mark Seals with Anne Ritz.  MIchigan Campus Compact.  "e2e Mentoring Grant."  Michigan Department Of Education.
    • FA2005.  Mark Seals.  "Vocation Grant."  Lilly Project.  Effective: August 5, 2005.

Setterlund, Marc

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • SP2006.  Marc Setterlund with Bronwen Pardes.  "Attributional style predicts sex without condoms."  Association for Psychological Science.  New York.  May 2006.

Starkey, Jennifer

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  "Clean up Your Collections: Inventory Using Millennium."  Michigan Library Association.  Grand Rapids, MI.  Oct 27, 2005.
    • FA2006.  Panel Participant.  "MLA Membership: Opportunities and Challenges."  Michigan Library Association.  Detroit, MI.  10-12-2006.

Stratton, Stanley Brian

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  "Theology and the Relativity of Time: Progress and Problems."  Einstein, God and Time Conference; Ian Ramsey Centre.  The Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, UK.  Sept. 2005.

Thelen, Peggy

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • WI2006.  Peggy Thelen with Anne Ritz.  "e2e Mentoring: If we can do it, so can you!"  Institute on Service-Learning.  Flint, MI.  February 17, 2006.
    • FA2006.  Peggy Thelen.  "Preservice Teachers Integrating Service Learning and Technology: Let's Brainstorm!."  Lilly North Conference 2006.  Traverse City, MI.  September 15, 2006.

Vest, Steven

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  Steven Vest with Jennifer Starkey, Angie Kelleher, Carol Zeile.  "Friday Forum Presentation."  Alma College Faculty.  Alma.  October 7, 2005.
    • WI2006.  "Sabbatical Research."  Michigan, California Nevada.  January-July 2006.

Vickery, Micheal

  • Scholarship - Scholarly/Research, Workshop, Seminar Presentations
    • FA2005.  Susan Gilbertz (with Micheal Vickery).  "Poster: A Cultural Inventory of the Yellowstone River: Pilot Study in May 2005."  Montana State University Board of Trustees.  Billings, MT.  September, 2004.
    • FA2005.  Micheal R. Vickery.  "The rhetorical construction of civil religion and the strategic uses of civic piety in the 2004 presidential election."  Western States Communication Association.  San Francisco, CA.  February, 2005.

Vivian, Robert

  • Scholarship - External Research Grants
    • FA2005.  "Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts for Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, New York."  Effective: 2006-2.

 

 

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