On Campus - Faculty and Staff News
August 11, 2000 Vol. 53, No. 10
Susan Sidney Smith, professor of early childhood education, published an article titled "Oh, That Kind of Writing: The Importance of Experimental Writing for Young Children Learning to Read" in the May issue of Children and Families.
Jon Ericson, the Ellis and Nelle Levitt professor of rhetoric and communication studies, was featured in an article titled "Campus Uprising: Faculty group seeks reform for athletes" in the Sunday, June 25, issue of The Kansas City Star. He also was quoted extensively in a July 26 article in The Detroit Free Press titled "Drake prof: Faculty must pick up the ball."
Karen A. Conner, professor of sociology, has a new book published recently with Garland Press titled Continuing to Care? Older Americans and their Families.
Klaus Bartschat, the Ellis and Nelle Levitt professor of physics, has published three papers in the Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. The first paper was titled "Spin Exchange in Elastic Collisions of Polarized Electrons with Manganese Atoms." The second paper was titled "Excitation of the (3p5 4s2)2P Autoionizing State in Potassium by Electron Impact at Low Energies: an R-matrix Calculation." The title of the third paper is "Internal Spin-orbit Coupling and Electron Exchange in the Excitation of the np5(n+1)p States of Neon, Argon, Krypton and Xenon by Polarized Electrons."
Four Drake faculty members attended a recent case-writing workshop in Davenport, Iowa, to polish their case-writing skills and develop case studies based on interviews with senior managers at agricultural and construction equipment manufacturer John Deere. Participating in the workshop were Jeff Bradford, assistant professor of marketing; Steve Clapham, associate professor of management; Delaney Kirk, professor of management; and Brad Meyer, associate professor of management.
Kay Augustine Pettijohn, director of education and outreach for the Institute for Character Development at Drake University, gave a presentation at the 6th annual National Character Education Conference for Home, School, Community and World in St. Louis on July 14. The conference was sponsored by the Character Education Partnership and Cooperating School Districts of St. Louis. Her presentation was titled "Character Education and Service Learning: an Effective and Fun Partnership."
Seventeen faculty members have been approved for sabbatical leave in 2000-01:
- Richard Abel, the Ellis and Nelle Levitt professor of English
- Daniel Alexander, associate professor of mathematics
- Charisse Buising, associate professor of biology
- Steven Faux, associate professor of psychology (spring 2001)
- David Foster, professor of English
- Mary Hansen, associate professor of nursing
- Robert Hariman, the Ellis and Nelle Levitt professor of rhetoric and speech communication
- William Klipec, associate professor of psychology
- Annette Liggett, professor of education
- Gholam Mirafzal, associate professor of chemistry
- Drocella Rwanika, associate professor of French
- Robert Soltis, associate professor of pharmacology
- Daniel Spencer, associate professor of religion
- Maura Strassberg, associate professor of law
- Thomas Swiss, associate professor of English
- Tom Worthen, associate professor of art
- R. Dean Wright, professor of sociology