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Ms. Cindy Boyd (Mathematics)
-Taught a 2-week workshop through the IMPACT grant awarded to USD #305 of Salina and Bethany College for middle level mathematics teachers. The workshop was followed up with coaching/mentoring visits to each teacher from September 2004 through February 2005.
-Continuing work on the Ph.D.
Dr. Tom Claassen (Bethany Academic Support Services)
-Granted a Woodward Award to cover registration for a mini-course on a group tutoring method called Supplemental Instruction.
-Granted a second Woodward Award to attend a regional conference on students with disabilities in higher education.
Paul Gentine (Business)
-Attended National Computational Sciences (National Science Foundation) last summer in San Diego. It was a week long program overviewing changes in the teaching of sciences and mathematics using computer modeling software.
-Developed the Sports Management Major for BC.
Dr. Marlysue Holmquist (Education)
-Wrote a self-study of the Teacher Education Dept. of Bethany College
-Completed an KSDE/NCATE accreditation visit.
-Reviewed programs for the Kansas State Department of Education.
-Began research on "Male Elementary Student Teachers."
Dr. Bruce Kahler (History)
-Continuing research on book-length project: "Soldier State"
-Four book reviews published
-Essay on Birger Sandzen published in Encyclopedia of the Great Plains (University of Nebraska Press, 2004)
-Wrote essay on Mary Bickerdyke to be published in Kansans Who Made a Difference (University Press of Kansas, forthcoming)
Invited panelist, " Eccentric Kansans: 30 Years of Vision" conference, Lucas, Kansas, October, 2004
-Address: "Boston Corbett: A Mad Hatter in the Soldier State", Kansas History Teachers Association Conference, Overland Park, April, 2005
-Elected President, Kansas History Teachers Association
-Selected to participate in NEH Summer Institute, "The Redemptive West", Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, July-August, 2005.
Caroline Kahler (Art)
-2005 March, I received a grant from the Greater Salina Community Foundation for Bethany College to publish a catalogue highlighting the art work from the Bethany College art collection in celebration of the 125th year. I will work on this project with student Marissa Phillips and Ron Michael, volunteer collection manager to complete prior to the end of the summer.
-2005 April 26th Gallery Talk, Baskets Past to Present, The Gallery, McPherson, KS
-2005 April 9th Using Art to Express Your Feelings, a presentation to the Steven Ministries, Messiah Lutheran Church
-2005 April 4-May 29th May Baskets, Featured Artist, Jane Tubbs, functional baskets, Caroline Kahler, sculptural baskets, at The Gallery, McPherson, Kansas.
-2005 March 4- April 8, Topeka Competition, 12 states juried crafts competition, Juror Isabel Barbuzza, professor of Sculpture from the University of Iowa, Iowa City.
-2005 March 20- April 14, Exhibition- Precious Vessels, Carla Scott mix-media drawings, Caroline Kahler sculptural ceramics at the Waldemar A. Schmidt Gallery, Backman Fine Arts Center, Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa
-2005 Feb 26- April 7, Exhibition – Manhattan Center for the Arts wrote a grant with the assistance of the artists and was granted funds from the Kansas Arts Commission for this exhibition, Beastly Forms. Two-person exhibition of Lee Becker’s paintings and Caroline Kahler’s functional and sculptural ceramics.
-2005 March 30- Presentation to 125, fifth and sixth grade students from 4 different schools and their teachers at the Manhattan Center for the arts in conjunction with art my art show at the center. I Students made clay seeds to add to the piece Strange Fruit Seeds of Liberation. Art Education Major, Nickie Crosby assisted with the group.
-2005 Feb 12 -Hosted the Greater Federated Women’s Club Art Exhibit, in Lindquist Hall, prepared room with tables and easels for display, registered art work, juried the two dimensional work of students and women club members.
-2004 Nov. 4 - Spent all day with Greg Maxwell, art teaching alumni at Ellenwood High School, showing slides about the art program at Bethany, talking with students and teaching students throwing techniques. (We have recruited two students for the fall from this interaction)
-2004 Attended the Kansas Artist Craftsman Conference in Manhattan, KS
-2004 Two ceramic and fiber pieces were juried into the Kansas Artist Craftsman Exhibition, Manhattan, Kansas.
-2004 Planned, Illustrated, Produced and installed, the Jultide Mural in Downtown Lindsborg, 50 Campus and Community Members helped to paint the three part mural, exhibited in the Sundstrum Building and on Presser Hall Stage.
-2004 Received a Grant from the Smoky Valley Foundation, for the Jultide Mural Project for Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas
-2004 Attended State Department Assessment Workshop in Topeka, Topeka, Kansas
-2004 Designed the Christmas card for President Formo, Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas
-2004 Designed the logo for the 125th Celebration
-2004 Wrap It Up, Art Exhibition and Sale, by thirty five artists, Manhattan Arts Center, Manhattan, Kansas
-2004 Holiday Gift Show, Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, Kansas
-2004 Solo Exhibition, Salina Country Club Gallery, Salina, Kansas
-2004 Two Person Exhibition, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan Kansas
-2004 Caroline Kahler-Ceramics and Dan Mason -Paintings, Kirstin Wigley-Fleming Gallery, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
-2004 Connections, Three Lindsborg Artist, Lincoln Art Center, Lincoln, Kansas
-2004 Smoky Valley Crafts, Baskets, Birger Sandzen Museum, Lindsborg, Kansas
-2004 Juror, Smoky Hill River Festival's Artist in Action Projects, Salina Arts and Humanities Council, Salina, Kansas
-2004 Juror, Horizons Grant Program, Gallery Project for the Steifel Theatre, Salina, Kansas
-2004 Panelist, Kansas Arts Commission, Artist-in-Education Residencies, Community Arts Grants, Topeka, Kansas
-2004 Midsummer's Festival, Swedish Folk Festival, Demonstrator- Exhibitor, Traditional Basketry, Lindsborg, Kansas
-2004 Who’s Who among American Teachers
-2004 Burmeister Award, Faculty Development Grant, for assistance with travel and installation of an exhibition at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa.
-2004 Visiting Artist Luther College, Slide and Gallery Lecture, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
-2004 Twenty-five slides of my textile and ceramic sculptures were featured during March in a slide lecture by textile artist Kelly Frigard of McPherson College at the Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland. The lectures were advertised by TEXO the Scandinavian Fiber Organization, the University of Art and Design and the American Scandinavian Foundation.
Dr. Mark Kozubowski (Biology)
Attended the Natural Systems Agriculture short course at the Land Institute, Salina, Kansas, May 28-30, 2004.
Attended the Adaptation Institute at the Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources, Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon, July 12-17, 2004. This institute was sponsored by NSF.
Dr. Linda Lewis(English)
-Attended a five-week summer seminar of the National Endowment for the Humanities at the University of California-Santa Cruz on the topic of Charles Dickens
-Had an essay on poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning accepted for publication by the URAM [interdisciplinary] Journal, published by the University of Toronto Press (edition now in publication)
-Presented a paper, "Charles Dickens, H.K. Brown and the Illustration of Revolution in A Tale of Two Cities," for the Midwest Victorian Studies Association in Chicago
-Wrote two essays currently under consideration, one by a literary journal, the other in a book collection.
-Presented approximately ten book discussions for the Kansas Humanities Council (in communities throughout the state).
Dr. Loranelle Lockyear (Chemistry)
-Continued work toward the goals our team established at the Annual Curriculum Reform Institute (attended June, 2003), sponsored by the Women and Science Program of the University of Wisconsin. This involved coordination with Facilities to move major instrumentation and to remodel a classroom to provide a group learning environment in the Science Building.
-Worked with a student in a Directed Independent Study (Interterm and Spring 2005) to clean out the chemical stockroom, consolidate chemicals from throughout the Science Building, and compile a complete chemical inventory, eventually targeting unused hazardous chemicals for removal as waste.
Two papers published this year, as a result of a previous summer research fellowship. The citations are:
-Stoyanov, S.R.; Villegas, J.M.; Cruz, A.J.; Lockyear, L.L.; Reibenspies, J.H.; Rillema, D.P. Computational and spectroscopic studies of Re(I) bipyridyl complexes containing 2,6-dimethylphenylisocyanide (CNx) ligand. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2005, 1, 95 – 106.
-Villegas, J.M.; Stoyanov, S.R.; Huang, W.; Lockyear, L.L.; Reibenspies, J.; Rillema, D.P. Synthesis, characterization, photochemical and computational investigations of Ru(II) heterocyclic complexes containing 2,6-dimethylphenylisocyanide (CNx) ligand. Inorg. Chem. 2004, 43, 6383-6396.
Submitted final copies of two invited book chapters for the book series Methods in Molecular Biology. The titles of the chapters are: "Solid-phase extraction in packed beds on glass microdevices," and "Reversible, room-temperature bonding of glass devices for microfluidics." The book is to be published sometime in 2005.
- Received a Burmeister grant to attend the Regional American Chemical Society meeting in October, 2004.
-With a colleague at K-State who has an existing ACS-PRF (American Chemical Society – Petroleum Research Fund) grant, submitted an application for a Summer Research Fellowship supplement to that grant. This will provide an opportunity to do research at K-State for 8 – 10 weeks during summer of 2005, and bring some of that technology back to Bethany. The proposal was recommended for funding.
Dr. Ron MacLennan (Religion)
-Spring-Summer 2004, completion of sabbatical, working on a book on rural ministry and the theology of Paul Tillich
-"Seven Gifts from Rural Ministry and Paul Tillich for the Whole Church," paper/presentation, multiple venues
-Service as a member of the Board of Directors of the North American Paul Tillich Society
ELCA scholoarship to the ELCA Rural Ministry Conference, Newberry, SC, June, 2004
-Faculty Development grant to partricipate in the meetings of the North American Paul Tillich Society and the American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, November, 2004.
-"Gathered to Bethlehem," Advent Series, Emmanuel Lutheran church, Hoisington, KS, December 2004
-Selected representative of the Association of Lutheran Teaching Theologians to a joint workshop with the ELCA's Bishops' Conference, Chicago, January, 2005
-"Gathered to the Cross," Lenten Series, Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Hoisington, KS, February-March, 2005
-Three presentations on campus on Luther's theology of education and Lutheran higher education, April 2005 Pierce, Greg (Criminal Justice)
Selected by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences to be one of seventy college program reviewers. This involves reviewing and making recommendations concerning academic program certification of both 2 yr and 4 yr criminal justice degree granting colleges/universities throughout the country.
Dr. Joyce Pigge (Political Science)
-October 2004 and March 2005, member of Kansas State Department of Education review team, evaluating Secondary and Middle School Social Science programs submitted for licensure review.
Invitee, Oxford Round Table (July 10-15, 2005), St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, England. Topic: School Law
Ed Pogue (Sculpture)
-Iron Pour and Workshop – San Jose State University, San Jose, California
June of 2004
-Bronze Casting Workshop - Fullerton College, Fullerton, California
April of 2005
Additional Exhibitions:
-Exceptional Art - Not for Profit Art Auction for Kids Art Programs
Kansas City, Missouri
-Chicago Athenaeum - Outdoor Sculpture Garden, Galena, Illinois
-Bethany Art Auction – Advancement Office – October, 2004
Margaret Presley(Social Work)
"Are We Losing Our Children? Chile Welfare and Early Childhood Collaboration" Presented April 1, 2005 at the Annual Conference of the Kansas Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.
Social Justice Ethics workshop for the Smoky Hill Association of Social Workers on May 20th, 2005, Salina (with David Norlin and Deb Marseline)
Dr. Sharon Roberts (Psychology)
Presentations:
-Roberts, S. L., & Larkin, C. (2004, November). College success in one semester? Exploring first-year experience programs. Workshop and discussion presented at the Association for Psychological and Educational Research in Kansas annual meeting Pre convention Teaching Workshop, Kearney, NE.
-Roberts, S. L. (2004, June). Lifeline Activity. Teaching demonstration presented at the Teaching Workshop during the Educational Testing Service Advanced Placement Psychology Exam Reading, Daytona Beach, FL.
Sponsored Student Presentations:
-Koehn, M., & Wilson, M. (2005, March). Attitudes about academic integrity among college athletes. Poster presented at the Great Plains Students' Psychology Convention, Omaha, NE.
-Longhofer, C., & Glendening, A. (2005, March). Academic dishonesty in the college classroom: Students’ perceptions and the role of the professor. Poster presented at the Great Plains Students' Psychology Convention, Omaha, NE.
-Wilson, M., & Koehn, M. (2005, March). Attitudes about cheating among A, B, and C students. Poster presented at the Great Plains Students' Psychology Convention, Omaha, NE.
Invited Addresses:
-What’s in your resume? Ten strategies for success after graduation. Keynote address presented at the annual meeting of the Arkansas Symposium for Psychology Students, Russellville, AR (April, 2005)
-Tips and Tales from The Trenches: Advice for Grad Students. Address presented at the Friends University Psi Chi Chapter Induction Ceremony (April, 2005)
-Psychological and Educational Research in Kansas
President (2004-05), planning for annual convention November 2005
-Faculty Consultant, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Advanced Placement Psychology Exam Reading (2000-current)
-Judge for oral and poster presentations, Great Plains Students’ Psychology Convention, Creighton University, Omaha, NE (March, 2005)
-Judge for paper competition, Psychological and Educational Research in Kansas, University of Nebraska at Kearney (November, 2004)
-Who’s Who of American Women (2005)
-Who’s Who among America’s Teachers (by student nomination, 2004, 2005)
Dr. Glenn Walker (Education)
-Burmeister award to attend the national convention of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development: main areas of interest: alternative licensure of teachers and differentiated instruction
-Travel and study in NW New Mexico, SW Colorado, and SE Utah, study of Anasazi Indian culture
Continuing study of late 19th century settlement of the Brookville and Smoky Hills area.
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