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 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.
Accounting
Jan Colbert has been appointed to the Content Committee for the Computer-Based CPA Exam of the American Institute of CPAs. The Committee oversees all sections of the intensive, four-part CPA exam. Also, she has been named Chair of the Audit Committee for the same organization.
Harold Little was elected President of the American Accounting Association Diversity Initiative Section during the August 2005 annual meeting in San Francisco, Calif.
Biology
Scott Grubbs presented “Factors influencing the distribution of lotic fish assemblages in the Upper Green River – Kentucky CREP region” at the annual North American Benthological Society meeting in New Orleans, La. held May 23-27, 2005.
Chemistry
Kevin Williams published “Interaction of N-acetylmethionine with a non-/C/•2 -symmetrical platinum diamine complex” in the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. Donald J. Chapman, Sondra R. Massey (Chem, 2005) and C. Haare were undergraduate student co-authors.
English
Sandra Hughes presented her paper “I Am Obnoxious to Each Carping Tongue’: Anne Bradstreet and New World Femininity” at the Spanish Association for American Studies Conference: Masculinities, Femininities, and Hybridities in U.S. Culture in Jaén, Spain.
She also chaired a panel and presented “How Students Perceive Difference in the Classroom—A Roundtable Discussion” at the June Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching Summer Conference: Ideas for Student Engagement Across the Curriculum in Bowling Green, Ky.
Mary Ellen Miller had her poem, “Things in the Shape of Other Things” appear in an article “The Kentucky Writers Series” by Jane Olmsted and Elizabeth Oakes in the Fall 2005 issue of Arts Across Kentucky.
Engineering
Robert Choate and Kevin Schmaltz presented “Senior ME Capstone Laboratory Course,”“Design, Build and Test in a Thermal Fluids Laboratory Course,” and “Engaging Students in Multidisciplinary Engineering Problem Solving: An Investigation of an Airflow Imbalance and Humidification Problem at an Absorbent Hygiene Production Facility” at the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference in Portland, Ore.
Shane M. Palmquist, was elected secretary of the Civil Engineering Division of American Society of Engineering Education, Southeast Section (ASEE-SE) at the 2005 Annual Conference at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Gashwin Saleno, Kevin Schmaltz, and Stacy Wilson presented “Introducing Teachers to Engineering Principles Through Robotics,” at the 2005 Kentucky Conference Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.
Kevin Schmaltz presented “Teaching Engineering Ethics within an Integrated Professional Component” at the 2005 Ethics and Social Responsibility in Engineering and Technology Conference hosted by Loyola Marymount University.
Folk Studies and Anthropology
Darlene Applegate organized with Bob Ward two conferences entitled Continuing Conversations: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Consultation at Mammoth Cave National Park. These conferences included Applegate’s co-authored presentation entitled “An Archeological Site Monitoring Program at Mammoth Cave National Park” with Bob Ward, Mark DePoy, Wayne Elliott, Bruce Powell, and Ronald Switzer at Mammoth Cave National Park in June 2005. Applegate also co-edited a book with Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. of Woodland Period Systematics in the Middle Ohio Valley published in September by The University of Alabama Press.
History
Anthony Harkins recently had his book Hillbilly: a Cultural History of an American Icon, released in paperback. Awards received include the seventh annual Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Humanities Scholarship from the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University, and John G. Cawelti Award honorable mention for Outstanding Book in American Culture Studies given by the American Culture Association.
Modern Languages
Linda S. Pickle, was selected as the 2005 recipient of the Kentucky World Language Association Lifetime Achievement Award in Louisville, Ky. on Sept. 24, 2005.
Melissa Stewart published A Testament in Prague, a translation and critical edition of the original by Teresa Pàmies (written in Catalan) University Press of the South, during Summer 2005.
Music
Michele Fiala gave a lecture recital on 19th-century Italian oboe music with Donald Speer at the 2005 International Double Reed Society Conference, held this year in June in Austin, Texas. In July, she participated in a masterclass with Richard Killmer at the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta, Canada, and performed on a recital as part of the Banff Summer Festival. Additionally, she taught at the Governor’s School for the Arts and performed a recital with Donald Speer on the campus of Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky.
Michael Kallstrom performed his fifth Electric Opera, Tell Me Your Name, for bass voice, electronic music, video projections and shadow puppets, at the University of Florida and the University of Alabama in September. He also presented a master class for undergraduate and graduate composition majors at the University of Florida.
Robyn Swanson offered a one day Music and Movement workshop in June, presented by the internationally renown, Dr. John Feiereabend from the Hartt School of Music. 180 music, physical education, early childhood, and elementary classroom educators from Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee attended. Swanson has also been recently appointed by the Kentucky Department of Education Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment to serve on the 2005-2010 Arts and Humanities Core Content for Assessment Committee.
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