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. Items should be submitted by the 15th of each month.
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 a work in progress and will be updated as new information is received. We’ve compiled the list using previous experts guides, news releases, magazine stories and departmental webpages.
The Experts Guide is available online at
http://www.wku.edu/ur/experts.html
To WKU faculty and staff: If you’d 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.
Biology
Nancy Rice presented “Tissue expression profiles of phosphorylase kinase determined by computational analysis of expressed sequence tags” at the UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit April 21-23 at Lake Barkley, Ky.
Michael Stokes and Jerry Daday of the Sociology Department were awarded a Provost’s Initiative for Excellence grant. Their project is entitled “Social responsibility in science”. They will develop instructional materials based on their experiences and those of their students in Kenya.
English
James D. Skaggs recently returned from a world cruise on the QE2 where he delivered a series of Shakespeare lectures and hosted several poetry/creative writing workshops for passengers on the 2006 cruise to 32 countries. His new book of poetry (his twelfth) will be published in September. It is titled, “Nobody home but us rascals.”
Marketing
Lukas Forbes had his paper “Getting graduate-level students to select an online MBA program versus a traditional MBA program” accepted for presentation at the 2006 International Teaching & Learning conference.
Ron Milliman had his paper “Improving the effectiveness of e-commerce marketing through the implementation of dissonance reduction strategies” accepted for presentation at the Society for Marketing Advances annual conference.
Music
Michael Kallstrom’s composition for French horn quartet, Starflame, was performed by the TransAtlantic Horn Quartet for their International Summer Seminar at Western Carolina University in June 2006. His composition for bassoon quartet, Rough and Ready, was premiered at the annual conference of the International Double Reed Society in July 2006.
Sociology
Jerry Daday and Michael Stokes of the Biology Department were awarded a Provost’s Initiative for Excellence grant. Their project is entitled “Social responsibility in science.” They will develop instructional materials based on their experiences and those of their students in Kenya.
University Relations
WKU’s Viewbook won an Honorable Mention for photographic use at this year’s University Photographer’s Association of America conference.
WKYU-PBS
Barbara Deeb, public affairs producer and host at WKYU-PBS, received a television Emmy at the 42nd Annual Midwestern Regional Emmy Awards held in Belterra, Ind. Deeb was awarded the honor for her talents as host of the weekly PBS program “OUTLOOK with Barbara Deeb.”
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