On Campus - Faculty and Staff News
December 15, 2000 - Vol. 53, No. 26
George Drake, M.D., adjunct associate professor of pharmacy and preceptor for pharmacy students in his family practice office, was recently selected as a member of the Michigan State University Gamma Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Selections are made on the basis of scholarship, teaching excellence, integrity and loyalty to the College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University. He is a past president of the college's alumni association.
William S. E. Coleman, professor of theatre arts, was taped by a C-Span 2's Book TV crew during a talk and reading from his book, Voices of Wounded Knee, during a signing in Lincoln, Neb., for later broadcast. In addition, his interview on the Nebraska Public Radio Network has been broadcast and is being edited to include his field recording of a Ghost Dance song. This new version of the interview will be broadcast on the 110th anniversary of the Dec. 29, 1890, Massacre at Wounded Knee. While on this signing and promotional tour, he also taped a half-hour interview for Nebraska Public Television, which will be broadcast in February. Voices of Wounded Knee has sold out its first printing and has had a second printing.
R. Dean Wright, professor of sociology, has produced the book published as Applying Sociology: Making a Better World (Allyn and Bacon: Boston) edited with Bill DuBois, professor of sociology at South Dakota State University. The book is about putting sociological ideas into action. The pieces in the book include a wide range of human endeavors: architecture, organized labor, the criminal justice system, social welfare organizations, homelessness, churches and private corporations.
Eunice Merideth, professor of teaching and learning in the Drake School of Education, has been invited to serve as a member of the review board for the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, published by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
Two faculty recently gave papers at a conference on "Musical Intersections," jointly sponsored by the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, and other groups, held in Toronto. Thomas Swiss, endowment professor of the humanities and professor of English, spoke on "Jewel Case: Pop Stars, Poets, and the Press." Bruce Horner, associate professor of English, spoke on "Teaching the Labor of Listening: Toward a Pedagogy of Music as Social."
Law professor Russell Lovell recently presented a paper, "The Constitution and Race: The First 200 Years, 1789-1989," at the Iowa National Bar Symposium about "Past, Present and Future Trends in Civil Rights Law in the U.S. and Iowa." The symposium was the highlight of the 75th Anniversary Celebration of the founding of the National Bar Association in Des Moines in 1925. It was held at the Smith Law Center court room at Drake.
Susan Sidney Smith, professor of Education, was invited to participate in a focus group to determine the international certification of teachers in 20 Eastern European Countries. The meeting, held in Washington, D.C., was sponsored by the International Reading Association and the George Soros Foundation.
Birgit Wassmuth, professor advertising, had an article accepted for publication in the Winter 2001 issue of the Disability Studies Quarterly. "Accessibility of Online Advertising: A content analysis of alternative text for banner images in online newspapers" is co-authored by David Thompson, Ph.D., Loras College.
Gary Gildner, professer emeritus of English, has published short stories in recent or current issues of Witness ("I Have Work To Do"), The North American Review ("Something Special"), The Georgia Review ("The Great Depression"), and Shenandoah ("South of Wenatchee"). The Kenyon Review has accepted his story "Come Sta? Come Va?" for publication in 2001. His story "Sleepy Time Gal" has been reprinted in the fourth edition of Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing and in the fifth edition of The Holt Handbook (both from Harcourt Brace).