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February
21 , 2003 Vol. 55, No. 32
Herb Strentz,
professor of journalism and mass communication, helped lead several workshops
in Mexico City this month on the implementation of new Mexican laws on access
to government information. Strentz and Robert Freeman, executive director of the
New York State Committee on Open Government, worked with Mexican state and federal
officials who will administer the new freedom of information laws and with representatives
of non-governmental organizations who will use the laws to monitor government
actions. The workshops were organized by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and by
faculty at Iberoamericana University.
Jerry E. Honts,
associate professor of biology, presented a paper titled "Molecular Machines:
Integrating Structural Biology and Cell Biology in the Classroom" in a Dec.
14 workshop at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in
San Francisco. He also gave a research presentation, "Comprehensive Biochemical
Fractionation of the Tetrahymena Cytoskeleton."
Raymond Hubbard,
the Thomas F. Sheehan distinguished professor of marketing, is co-author of a
paper titled "How the Emphasis on 'Original' Empirical Marketing Research
Impedes Knowledge Development" that was published in the December issue of
Marketing Theory.
Angela Battle,
assistant professor of art, had work accepted into the Great Plains National Juried
Exhibition at the Moss-Thorns Gallery in Hays, Kansas. Fifty-nine works were chosen
out of a total of 245 submitted by 80 artists. The exhibition runs from Feb. 14
- March 21.
William P. Dougherty,
professor of music theory and composition, had an article titled "Mignon
in Nineteenth-Century Song: Text, Context, and Intertext" published in Word
and Music Studies: Essays in Honor of Steven Paul Scher and on Cultural Identity
and the Musical Stage.
Laurie Doré,
professor of law, spoke Jan. 31 at the 2003 Regional Forum for State Court Judges
in Honolulu concerning the issue of secrecy in litigation. Doré also has
been asked to be a faculty member for the Federal Judicial Center's training of
U.S. magistrates. Over the course of the year, she will be speaking on court secrecy
and the sealing of settlement agreements to U.S.magistrates in programs located
in San Francisco, Boston and Washington, D.C.
Jack Gerlovich,
professor of education, and Rahul Parsa, professor of statistics, collaborated
with Bruce Frana (Grantwood AEA), and Valerie Drew and Theresa Stiner (Iowa Department
of Natural Resources) to complete a follow-up on some earlier research conducted
by Gerlovich and Parsa concerning the status of safety in Iowa secondary science
programs. This study extended the research from the 1998 study to help provide
science teachers with tools targeted at some of the safety issues. The latest
study was published in the September-December, 2002 issue of the Journal of the
Iowa Academy of Science. The study, titled "Science Safety Status in Iowa
Schools," was the focus of recent articles in The Des Moines Register, Omaha
World-Herald and The Christian Science Monitor. Parsa and Gerlovich have the support
of strategic national groups to extend their research to a comprehensive national
study.
June Felice Johnson,
associate professor of pharmacy practice, and Raylene Rospond, associate professor
of pharmacy practice, have published an article titled "Evolution of a pharmacy
faculty development plan" in the Winter 2003 issue of The Department Chair.
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