On Campus
- Faculty and Staff News
October
3,
2003 Vol. 56, No. 15
Raymond Hubbard,
the Thomas
F. Sheehan professor of marketing, is co-author of
a paper titled "Confusion Over Measures of Evidence (p's) Versus Errors
(alpha's) in Classical Statistical Testing." It was published, along with
comments, in the latest edition of The American Statistician.
Rod Henshaw, dean
of Cowles
Library, has been appointed to the Sirsi Advisory Council for Academic Library
Executives. Dean Henshaw will be one of 10 academic librarians drawn from a pool
of international library and information service leaders. Sirsi Inc. is a worldwide
leader in information technology and supplies software to thousands of libraries,
including both the Cowles and Law libraries.
Jeff Nichols, Drake
Telemedia Center engineer, in cooperation with the School of Journalism and Mass
Communication,
volunteered to videotape the Des Moines
International Airport annual disaster drill. He and several members of the SJMC
faculty/staff have performed this project in years past using department equipment
and resources as part of the school's community service. This year, they were
assisted by Joseph Scavo, academic computer support specialist in the College
of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, during the videography and editing of this project.
When the editing is finished, time-synchronized videos will be returned to the
staff at the Des Moines International Airport to be used for analysis and to
improve emergency preparedness.
Lisa West Norwood,
assistant professor of English, has presented several papers this year in early
American literature. She gave
a paper on Literary Archaeology
at the Society of Early Americanists conference in April and a paper on "Fragments,
Ruins, and Artifacts: The Reconstruction of Reading in The Deerslayer" at
the American Literature Association conference in May. This fall she gave a paper
on "The Nature of Consent: Marital Choices in Catharine Sedgwick's Early
Novels" and was a panelist for a roundtable on Susan Fenimore Cooper and
the natural history tradition, both at the Society for the Study of American
Women Writers conference. In addition, this summer she had a paper on landscape
and Sedgwick delivered in absentia while she gave birth to her second child,
Sarah Ware Norwood.
On Aug. 1, Birgit
Wassmuth, professor of advertising, successfully
completed
a yearlong training
program sponsored by the Journalism and Mass Communication Leadership Institute
for Diversity. She was one of seven fellows
nationwide selected by the Associa-tion of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
and the
Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication. The institute's
mission is to increase the number of people of color and women who serve as chairs,
directors, deans, and endowed chairs in journalism and mass communication education.
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