Professional Activities
Submissions for entry in the Professional Activities section should be sent to Joy Baum, joy.baum@wku.edu. All submissions must be sent electronically. Please include name, department, title, current position, name of presented or published work and name of publication or conference. No acronyms or abbreviations please.
WKU’s Office of Media Relations has relaunched its Experts Guide. The Experts Guide is an excellent public relations tool for the university as media look for experts to interview and civic organizations look for speakers.
The Experts Guide is available online at www.wku.edu/ur/experts.html.
If WKU faculty or staff members would like to be included, send an email with your name, contact information and areas of expertise to wkunews@wku.edu. If your name is on our list and you’d rather not be listed or if you need to update your information, send an email to wkunews@wku.edu.
Academic Advising and Retention
Kevin Thomas and Jessica Staten have been accepted as presenters for the National Academic Advising Association Region 3 Conference to be held on May 18-21. Their work, titled “The Foundation and Creation of the WKU Campus Advising Network (CAN),” will detail the genesis of WKU’s Campus Advising Network.
College of Health and Human Services
John A. Bonaguro was appointed by Gov. Steve Beshear to the Southern Growth Policies Board.
Ron Ramsing (Phys Ed & Recreation Admin), Mary Kovar (Nursing), Daniel Carter (Allied Health), and Becky Tabor (Allied Health) facilitated a trip to Belize with five students in the CHHS International Health and Human Services Learning Program, Jan. 4-14.
Engineering
Ron Rizzo won the Governor’s Innovation Award in the inaugural statewide business plan contest for entrepreneurs called “Idea State U.”
English
Joe Millichap published a comparative essay, “Warren’s Faulkner,” in Mississippi Quarterly, 60 (2007), 351-367.
Economics
Brian Goff has received notification that his article, “Bequests, Sibling rivalry, and Rent Seeking” has been accepted for publication in the journal Public Choice.
Brian Goff, Stephen Lile, and Alex Lebedinsky presented “A Matched Pairs Analysis of State Growth Differences,” at the 35th annual meeting of the Academy of Economics and Finance, held in Nashville.
Stephen E. Lile and Roy Howsen presented “A Comparison of Course Delivery Methods: An Exercise in Experimental Economics,” at the 35th annual meeting of the Academy of Economics and Finance, in Nashville.
Stephen E. Lile published “Taxation causes Kentucky to lag Tennessee in growth” in the April 1 edition of the Nashville Tennessean.
Thomas Noser’s paper “Have Basic Mathematical Skills Grown Obsolete in the Computer Age?” was accepted for publication in the March 2008 edition of The Journal of College Teaching and Learning.
Jean C.Snavely and Michelle W. Trawick presented “Using Student Response Systems in Economics and Finance Classes,” at the 35th annual meeting of the Academy of Economics and Finance, in Nashville.
Dennis Wilson presented “The Cost of Probation in Division IA College Football,” at the 35th annual meeting of the Academy of Economics and Finance, in Nashville.
David Zimmer received notification that his article, “Racial Differences in Health Care Utilization: Analysis by Intensity of Demand” (with X. Zheng) has been accepted for publication in Contemporary Economic Policy.
Journalism & Broadcasting
Terry Likes won the Edward R. Murrow award presented by the Radio/TV News Directors Association for his documentary “Music and War” that aired on WKYU-FM.
Music
Michael Kallstrom’s composition, STARFLAME, was performed by the French horn quartet, Horns Aloud, for their first place performance in the Trinity College of Music (London) Chamber Music Prize. The ensemble will be playing STARFLAME for several concerts in the United Kingdom for 2008.
Wayne Pope presented an Auditions Workshop for the Youth Theatre of Hardin County at the Performing Arts Center of John Hardin High School. Pope provided written critique and worked vocal technique, performance practice and audition etiquette with more than 50 young singers ranging in age from 12 to 18.
Pope served as the music director for the co-productions presented by the Department of Theatre and Dance and the Department of Music. In his ninth season, Pope finished direction of the musical, Sweet Charity. Other spring performances include his third recital in a series of “themed recitals” entitled Baritones Gone Bad and a reprise of Michael Kallstrom’s OZYMANDIAS with colleagues Heidi Pintner (flute) and Michele Fiala (oboe).
The WKU Steelband was the featured ensemble in Columbia, Ky., for the Lindsey Wilson College Cultural Performance Series concert, held on April 1.
Women’s Studies
Trish Lindsey Jaggers has had four poems and a photo accepted for publication. Three of her poems—”To Away,” “Collide,” and “After Reading The Gold Cell” and her photo “Mushroom Petticoat”—will appear in the Spring 2008 edition of The Round Table, the annual literary journal of Hopkinsville Community College. Also, her poem “While I Wait” will appear in The Briar Cliff Review, the annual literary journal of Briar Cliff University.
WKYU-FM
The news department of the Public Radio Service of Western Kentucky University has been recognized for outstanding reporting efforts by the Kentucky Associated Press. At an awards presentation April 1 in Lexington, WKYU-FM received a total of 12 awards, including five first-place plaques:
Lisa Autry won top honors for Class One Radio for Best Public Affairs for her report on All Terrain Vehicle deaths.
Joe Corcoran earned a first place in the Class Two Series/Documentary Category for a special report on the Prestonsburg-based Creation Museum.
Dan Modlin earned top honors for Class One Special Series/Documentary for his report on the community cost of methamphetamine abuse. Modlin also earned a first place plaque for Best Public Affairs for Class Two Radio with a special report on the continuing difficulty of hiring and retaining law enforcement officers in Kentucky.
Kevin Willis earned a first-place plaque in Class One radio for Best Hard News Feature for his report on “HIV Testing in Jail.”
In addition to the first place awards, the WKU Public Radio news staff was recognized for outstanding coverage of “The Odd Year in Weather,” criminal activity involving dog fighting, telephone solicitation scams, WKU’s move to 1-A football, e-mail scams, best radio reporter, and a feature interview with one of the few surviving veterans of World War One.
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