Recent Accomplishments (2006-2007)
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College of Arts and Sciences

Shiva Achet, assistant professor of environmental science and geography, published "A Watershed Management Framework for Mountain Areas: Lessons from 25 Years of Watershed Conservation in Nepal" in Journal of Environmental Planning and Management in September. Posted: 10/23/2006

Laura Anderson, senior secretary in the College of Arts and Sciences, was the University's Reward Now Employee of the Year for the 2005-2006 academic year. Posted: 6/12/2006

Betty Balanoff, professor emerita of history, was honored for her commitment to social justice and her work in documenting more than 50 oral histories of working-class Chicagoans, during the panel discussion entitled "The Importance of a Useable Past: Social History, Working Class Voices, and Struggles for Justice" held in the Murray-Green Library in October. Those who participated in the event included Jack Metzgar, professor emeritus of humanities, Christopher R. Reed, professor emeritus of history and Lynn Weiner, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Posted: 10/23/2006

Bethany Barratt and Christian Erickson, assistant professors of political science, have developed an intensive summer study abroad course comparing London and Chicago during World War I, World War II, the Cold War and the War on Terror. Posted: 2/9/2006

Bethany Barratt, assistant professor of political science, presented "Prudence or Panic? Preparedness Exercises, Counterterror Mobilization, and Media Coverage, TOPOFF 1 and 2" during the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in September. She also presented "Preparedness Exercises, Counterterror Mobilization, Media Coverage and Public Opinion in the US and UK - Dark Winter, TOPOFF 1, 2, 3 and Atlantic Blue" at London Metropolitan University in May. She began her second year on the steering committee for the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association. Posted: 2/9/2006

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Regina Buccola, assistant professor of English, presented "Sister/Lover, Wise Woman/Witch: Helena in All's Well that Ends Well" at the Midwest Conference on British Studies at Notre Dame University in September. She also presented The Merchant of Venice Teacher Workshop, Scholar's Perspective Lecture and "Pre-Amble" pre-show lecture for The Merchant of Venice at Chicago Shakespeare Theater in September and October. Posted: 2/8/2006

Regina Buccola, associate professor of English, published Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith: Fairy Lore in Early Modern British Drama and Culture. Posted: 10/23/2006

Regina Buccola, associate professor of English, and Joseph Fedorko, adjunct professor of English, are among a group of producers that have created Democracy Burlesque, a monthly revue/variety show at No Exit Cafe in Chicago. Posted: 10/23/2006

Sathees Chandra, assistant professor of biology, published "The genetic architecture of sucrose responsiveness in the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.)" in Genetics in September. Posted: 2/8/2006

Sathees Chandra, assistant professor of biology, published "Chemosensory processing in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster: Generalization of a feeding response reveals overlapping odour" in the Journal of Biosciences in December 2005. Posted: 6/5/2006

Sathees Chandra, assistant professor of biology, published "Comparative insect mitochondrial genomes: Differences despited conserved genome synteny" in Journal of Biotechnology in July. He also published "Identification of a Novel NAD-Dependent DNA Ligase Encoded by the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon, Haloferax Volcanii in Bioinformatics Trends: A Journal of Bioinformatics and its Applications in September. Posted: 10/23/2006

Sathees Chandra, assistant professor of biology, published "Behavioral Genomics of honeybee foraging and nest defense" in Naturwissenschaften in January 2007. Posted: 2/28/2007

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Heather Dalmage, associate professor of sociology and director of the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice, discussed her book, Tripping on the Color Line: Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World at the Chicago Public Library's Blackstone Branch Library in May. Posted: 6/12/2006

Heather Dalmage, associate professor of sociology and director of the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice, presented "Tripping on the Color Line: Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World" in Tallahassee, Fla., in October 2006. Dalmage also presented "Teaching Intersecting Locations of Inequality" to the Society for the Study of Social Problems in Montreal in 2006. Posted: 2/28/2007

Evgeny Dantsin and Alexander Wolpert, associate professors of computer science, published "A faster clause-shortening algorithm for SAT with no restriction on clause length" in Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modeling and Computation in November. The two also co-published "On Quantum versions of record-breaking algorithms for SAT" in ACM SIGACT News in December. Posted: 2/8/2006

La Vonne Downey, assistant professor of public administration, co-published "The Effects of Noise in the Emergency Department” in Academic Emergency Medicine in July. She also co-published "Who are the Young Victims of Violence" in Pediatric Emergency Care, "The Use of Seclusion in Emergency Medicine" in General Hospital Psychiatry, both in September, and "Pediatric Health Screening and Referral in the ED" in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine in October. Downey presented "Measuring Health Literacy in a Healthcare Setting" at the annual meeting of SAEM in Detroit in September. Posted: 2/8/2006

Michael Ensdorf, Associate Professor/Associate Dean Panel moderator at the national Society for Photographic Education conference.fff Posted: 3/20/2007

Christian Erickson, assistant professor of political science, has received a teaching fellowship from the U.S. State Department's Fulbright Scholars Program to teach courses in political violence and terrorism, cyberpolitics, American politics and other topics at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, during the spring 2007 semester. Posted: 10/23/2006

Peter K. Fallon, assistant professor of journalism, will present "Why the Irish Speak English" at the Conference on Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland in Galway, Ireland, in June. He will be a panelist on Irish culture and technology during the seventh annual convention of the Media Ecology Association at Boston College in Massachusetts in June. Fallon also has published the book Printing, Literacy, and Education in Eighteenth Century Ireland: Why the Irish Speak English. Posted: 2/8/2006

Elyse Koren-Camarra, adjunct faculty member in art and women's studies, presented "Memorializing the Ordinary: Anne McGinn and the Ballard Grain Elevator" in March at Marquette University in Milwaukee. She also was a featured artist in an exhibition entitled Art on Armitage at Isis in Chicago in June. Posted: 10/23/2006

Bruce Kraig, emeritus professor of history, wrote, hosted, co-produced and appeared in the WTTW/Channel 11 program "Hidden Turkey," a show about the customs, food and history of Turkey, in September. Posted: 2/9/2006

Elizabeth Marino, adjunct faculty member in English, will read from Debris: Poems & Memoir at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago in July. Posted: 6/12/2006

Steven Meyers, associate professor of psychology and director of the Initiative for Child and Family Studies, has been appointed consulting editor of PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology. He published "Expanding the genogram," a book review on Community genograms: Using individual, family and cultural narratives with clients in August and "An inspirational teaching conference in 183 pages," a book review on Voices of experience: Memorable talks from the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, in December in PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books. Meyers also published the book chapter, "Teaching psychology, teaching people," in The teaching of psychology in autobiography: Perspectives from exemplary psychology teachersin November. Posted: 2/8/2006

Steven Meyers, associate professor of psychology and director of the Initiative for Child and Family Studies, co-published "Teaching assistant training and supervision: An examination of optimal delivery modes and skill emphases" in Journal of Faculty Development in April. He published the book review "How constructivism can help your internet course" in PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books in March. Meyers also presented "Putting social justice into practice in your psychology course" at the Souteastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology in Atlanta in February. Meyers also won an Excellence in Teaching award from the University in April. Posted: 6/9/2006

Steven Meyers, associate professor of psychology and director of the Initiative for Child and Family Studies, presented "What is transformative pedagogy and can I use it when teaching online?" to the Midwestern Psychological Society. He published the book reviews "Flying solo: Parent and child skills training without the psychologist" and "Help for the dissertation hurdle" in PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books and co-published "How do faculty experience and respond to classroom conflict?" in International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in December 2006. Meyers also was appointed editor of Excellence in Teaching. Posted: 2/28/2007

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Mary Anne Mohanraj, assistant professor in the Department of Literature and Languages, has received a $7,000 fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council, which recognized her work in the prose category. Posted: 2/9/2006

Mary Anne Mohanraj, assistant professor of English and creative writing, has published a paperback version of her novel, Bodies in Motion. Posted: 6/9/2006

Mary Anne Mohanraj, assistant professor of creative writing, is publishing her story collection, Bodies in Motion, in Germany, Brazil, France, Italy, Spain and Serbia. Mohanraj also has been selected to publish her poem "And the sea is shaking..." in Contemporary Voices from the East: An Anthology of Poems in 2007. Posted: 10/23/2006

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Leonard Robins, professor emeritus of public administration, co-published "Desperately Seeking Standards: The Court's Frustrating Attempts to Limit Partisan Gerrymandering" in Political Science and Politics in July. Posted: 10/23/2006

Sam Rosenberg, professor of economics and director of the Roosevelt Scholars Program, presented "Deregulation, Deunionization and Labor Flexibility: Components of a New Social Structure of Accumulation for the United States" at the Growth and Crisis, Social Structure of Accumulation Theory and Analysis Conference in Galway, Ireland, in November 2006. He presented "Labor Market Segmentation Amidst Labor Market Flexibility: The Case of the United States" at an annual meeting on socioeconomics in Trier, Germany. Rosenberg submitted testimony in support of increasing the Illinois minimum wage in Springfield, Ill., in November. He also chaired a session on "The Dynamics of European National Employment Models" at the Allied Social Science Association meetings in Chicago in January 2007. Posted: 2/28/2007

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Jonathan Smith, professor of psychology and director of the Stress Institute, was recently quoted in AARP Magazine about ways to improve health and relaxation. Posted: 10/23/2006

Jacqueline Trussell, adjunct professor for African American studies, serves as co-chair of Harvard Divinity School's Black Alumni/ae Network. She was recognized for her service at the group's annual conference in April in Cambridge, Mass. Posted: 6/9/2006

Yao Wang, associate professor of mathematics, presented "Useful Properties of the Three-Parameter Burr II Distribution" to the 40th Actuarial Research Conference of the Society of Actuaries in August. Posted: 2/9/2006

Janet Wondra, associate professor of English and film studies, has two new poems in After Hours Wondra has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Bellingham Review for "The War at Home," which was recently reprinted in Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Literary Nonfiction. She also published "Marx in a Texas Love Triangle" in Journal of Film and Video. Posted: 10/23/2006

Janet Wondra, assistant professor of English and film studies and coordinator of creative writing and film studies, will publish “The War at Home” in Bellingham Review in the summer of 2005. The piece also will be published in Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction in fall 2005. Posted: 3/20/2007

Steven Ziliak, associate professor of economics, has been interviewed on his article "Size Matters" for a profile and issues piece being done by the magazine Strategy Business. Posted: 2/9/2006

Steve Ziliak, professor of economics, has finished co-writing the book The Economic Conversation, which is expected to be published in 2007. Posted: 10/23/2006

Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration

Joseph Ament, professor of accounting, has been designated as a 2006 Illinois Super Lawyer in Taxation. He also has been selected for a Leading Lawyer Network designation by the independent Illinois Law Bulletin Publishing Company. Ament also was given a national AV designation by the Martindale-Hubbell Director of Lawyers. Posted: 10/23/2006

Joseph Chan, assistant professor of information systems, published "Optimizing Data Warehousing Strategies" in a journal for the Communications of the International Information Management Association. He presented "Optimizing Data Warehousing Strategies" at the 2005 International Information Management Association conference in Dublin, Ireland, in September. Posted: 2/8/2006

Joseph Chan, assistant professor of information systems, published "A Conceptual Model for Operations-Analytics Convergence" in The Journal of American Academy of Business in March. He also presented "Increasing Revenues through IT Planning for Nonprofit Organizations" at the 42nd annual MBAA International Conference held in Chicago in March. Chan also won the Outstanding Research Award from the Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration in April. Posted: 6/5/2006

Joseph Chan, assistant professor of information systems, published "The Anatomy of Real-Time CRM" in a Communications of International Information Association publication in September. He also published "Electronic Customer Relationship Management for Nonprofit Organizations" in a Communications of the International Chinese Information Systems Association publication in September. Posted: 10/23/2006

Shamsul Chowdhury, assistant professor of information systems, published "A Holistic Framework for Knowledge Management" in Issues in Information Systems in Fall 2005. He co-published "Data Warehousing Practices: A Success Story" in GESTS (Global Engineering, Science and Technonology Society) International Transactions on Computer Science and Engineering, Paper field: Computer and its Application. Posted: 2/8/2006

Shamsul Chowdhury, assistant professor of information systems, received an Excellence in Teaching award from the University in April. Posted: 6/9/2006

Sofia Dermisi, associate professor of real estate, has received a National Science Foundation grant and a best-paper award for her research with a Harvard University professor on how real estate office markets have been affected by terrorism. Posted: 10/23/2006

Jon DeVries, director of the Chicago Institute of Real Estate, and Sofia Dermisi, associate professor of real estate, co-authored and released a study entitled "Standing Tall: Keeping Chicago Vibrant into the 21st Century-Ensuring a Sustainable Chicago Real Estate Industry" for the Building Owners and Managers Association of Chicago in June. Posted: 10/23/2006

Tanweer Hasan, the Frederick S. Addy professor of finance, co-published "The Stock Price Overreaction Effect: Evidence on Nasdaq Stocks" in Quarterly Journal of Academy Finance. He also published "An Empirical Analysis of Stock Prices in the Transitional Countries of Europe and the United States" in Journal of Academy of Finance, and co-presented his findings on the topic at the International Conference on Finance, Finance Research Unit, at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark, in September. Hasan published "Accounting Regimes in Spain and the State of Informational Efficiency of its Equity Markets: An Empirical Analysis" in The South European Review of Business, Finance and Accounting and "Evaluation of Investment Performance" in Encyclopedia of Finance. He also co-presented "Regulatory Change & the Quality of Compliance to Mandatory Financial Disclosure: Evidence from Bangladesh" at the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association in San Francisco in August and co-published research on the topic as an abstract in Proceedings of the American Accounting Association 2005 Annual Meeting,. Hasan co-presented "Regulatory Change & Timeliness of Corporate Financial Reporting in Bangladesh: A Multivariate Analysis" at the 17th annual Asia-Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues and to an accounting group in the Stockholm School of Economics in Stockholm, Sweden, in August, and co-published an abstract on the topic in Proceedings of the 17th Asia-Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues. Posted: 2/9/2006

Ralph Haug, assistant professor of management and director of the department of management, marketing and information systems, published "Putting the 1 in Ethics, Part Two: A Solution" in Ethics and Critical Thinking Quarterly Journal and "Putting the 1 in Ethics, Part One: The Problem" in Ethics and Critical Thinking Quarterly Journal. Posted: 6/9/2006

Ralph Haug, assistant professor of management and director of the department of management, and Alan Krabbenhoft, associate professor of finance and associate dean, co-published "OD Interventions and Strategy in International Settings" in Journal of International Business and Economics, "A Model for Strategy and OD Intervention" in Journal of Academy of Business and Economics, "Changes Historically Desired in Strategic Planning Systems" in Business Journal for Entrepreneurs, "Difficulties Historically Encountered in Strategic Planning Systems" in Business Journal for Entrepreneurs "Historical Contributions of Strategic Planning Systems in Business Journal for Entrepreneurs and "The Self-Fulfilling Prophesy of the Tenure/Promotion Policies at Business Colleges and Schools" in The Journal of the American Academy of Business. The two presented "A Model for Strategy and OD Interventions" and "OD Interventions and Strategy in International Settings" at the Academy of International Business and Economics conference. Posted: 6/9/2006

Sumaria Mohan-Neill, the Alan Anixter Professor of Entrepreneurship, received the Distinguished Research Award from Allied Academics for "Online Market Information and Environmental Scanning Activity by Small Business; The Correlation Between a Firm's Characteristics and online Market Information Acquisition." She also received the Best Author Award from The Journal of American Academy of Business in March. Posted: 6/9/2006

Marshall Ottenfeld, adjunct instructor in marketing, presented "Are Your Customers Happy With You? -- Satisfaction Research -- A Key to Ensuring Your Marketing Efforts are Customer Focused" to the Chicago West Suburban Executive Forums in Carol Stream in April. Posted: 6/5/2006

Gordon Patzer, dean of the Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration, was quoted significantly in August in a front-page Red Eye article on the physical attractiveness phenomenon. Posted: 10/23/2006

Dennis Tucker, adjunct faculty member in the Department of Marketing and Management Information Systems, was inducted into the Business Strategy Game Online Hall of Fame as a master professor. Posted: 6/13/2006

College of Education

Nona Burney, associate professor of secondary education, published "A Tale of Two Cities: Reality Check on Mayoral Control of Urban School Districts" in the International Journal of Educational Policy, Research and Practice. Posted: 6/9/2006

Roberto Clemente, associate professor in counseling and human services, taught an evaluation course entitled "Principios Basicos de la Evaluacion en la Consejeria" for Spanish-speaking clinical psychologists and counselors in Guatemala City, Guatemala, in August. He also presented resultsof a research study that compared Russian, American and Puerto Rican counseling graduate students entitled "Como seleccionan su teoria de consejeria los estudiantes graduados puertorriquenos, norteamericanos y rusos" during the National Annual Counseling Conference in September in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Posted: 2/8/2006

Sheila Coffin, assistant dean in the College of Education, and Judith Gouwens, assistant professor of elementary education. organized and made several trips to Bay St. Louis, Miss., where volunteers assisted the devastated Bay Saint Louis-Waveland School District in clean up and organization after Hurricane Katrina. Posted: 2/9/2006

Ann Epstein, assistant professor of early childhood education, presented "Top Ten Child Development Issues in 2005" at the Montessori Teachers Association of Northern Virginia fall workshop in Virginia in September. Posted: 2/8/2006

Hilve Firek, assistant professor of secondary education, co-presented "Using Literature and Providing Access to Books" at the annual convention of the International Reading Association in Chicago. Posted: 2/9/2006

Sharon Grant, associate professor of elementary education, department chair of elementary education and program chair of special education, presented "Female gang behavior: Understanding gender issues in violence" at the International Conference on Children and Youth with Behavior Disorders in Dallas in September. Posted: 2/8/2006

Gregory Hauser, associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, and Dennis Koutouzos , assistant to the dean in the College of Education, published the book The Standards-Based Digital School Leader Portfolio: A Handbook for Preparation and Practice in January. Posted: 2/9/2006

Susan Katz, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, organized for the College of Education to be the host in December of a board meeting of the Illinois Women Administrators. Katz is a member of the board of the Illinois Women Administrators. Posted: 2/9/2006

Susan Katz, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, published "Influencing Others: Women Superintendents Speak (Reluctantly) About Power" in Journal of Women in Educational Leadership in April. Posted: 6/9/2006

Susan Katz, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, presented "Just Do It: Women Superintendents Speak to Aspiring Women" at the 20th annual Conference of Women in Educational Leadership in Lincoln, Neb., in October 2006. Posted: 2/28/2007

Thomas Kersten, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, presented "Principal as Teaching Model: Expanding the Role of Instructional Leadership" at the National Council on Professors of Educational Administration Summit on Preparation of School Leaders in Washington D.C. in July. He also presented "Educational Fund Tax Rate Referendum: You Can Pass It" to the Association of School Business Officials international 91st annual meeting in Boston in October, "What Are the Latest Trends and Practices in Administrative Hiring?" at the National Association for Employment in Education conference in Boston in November, and "Strategies for a Successful Referendum Campaign" at the Lighting the Way joint annual conference in Chicago in November. Kersten received the 2005 Winn Research Award in October from the Illinois Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, which recognized his research study "Teacher Evaluation: Principals' Insights and Suggestions for Improvement Rationale." The Association will publish Kersten's award-winning study as an Illinois Education Hot Topic 48 in Spring 2006. Kersten also published "Beyond DARE" in Principal Leadership in January. Posted: 2/8/2006

Thomas Kersten, assistant professor in educational leadership, published "Career Development: Have you Considered School Administration?" in the Kappa Delta Pi Record in spring 2006. He also published "Beyond DARE" in Principal Leadership, in January. Posted: 6/5/2006

Thomas Kersten, assistant professor of educational leadership, has been selected as co-editor for the 2007 Job Search Handbook for Educators. He presented "Best Practices in Principal Selection Processes: Implications for Superintendents and Professors of Educational Administration to the National Council of Professor of Administration Convention in Lexington, Ky., in August. Kersten published the book chapter "Principal Selection Processes: Best Practices for Superintendents" in Unbridled Spirit: Best Practices in Educational Administration in Fall 2006. He also published "Interview Questions: What to Expect" in the Job Search Handbook for Educators in fall 2006. Posted: 10/23/2006

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Margaret Policastro, professor of education and director of the language and literacy program, has been appointed to the editorial advisory board of the Illinois Reading Council Journal. She also is a guest reviewer for the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. Posted: 2/9/2006

Chicago College of Performing Arts

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Stacy Garrop, assistant professor of composition, is the recipient of a 2005 Barlow Commission prize of $4,000 for a new 15-minute work for viola and piano. She also was accepted for artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony in January and Ragale Colony in May 2006. Posted: 2/8/2006

Stacy Garrop, associate professor of composition, premiered String Quartet No. 2: Demons and Angels in Chicago in September. She also premiered In Eleanor's Words at Roosevelt University in November. Posted: 10/24/2006

Stacy Garrop, associate professor of composition, has been selected as the inaugural winner of Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Elaine Lebenborn Memorial Award. As winner, Garrop will write a new work that will receive its world premiere at Orchestra Hall in Detroit in 2008. Posted: 3/6/2007

Yang Liu, adjunct instructor in violin, participated in the first Momento Virtuosi! Chamber Music Series in June in Chicago. Posted: 6/9/2006

Michael Molloy, assistant professor of vocal jazz, was a workshop facilitator working with students and high school educators during the 4th annual Illinois All-State Vocal Jazz Audition Workshop held at Roosevelt University in September. Posted: 2/8/2006

Gregory Reish, assistant professor of music history, gave a solo performance of American folk music for an audience of Japanese dignitaries, academics and media figures at the U.S. Embassy compound in Tokyo. Posted: 10/23/2006

Graham Scott, associate professor of piano, gave a piano recital to benefit the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund of the Music Teachers National Association at Tulane University in New Orleans in Jaunary. Posted: 2/9/2006

Evelyn T. Stone University College

Gerald Bober, professor of hospitality and tourism management and director of the Manfred Steinfeld Hospitality and Tourism Management program, presented "Private Club Best Practices," "Improving Private Club Member Participation" and "Club Revenue Generation Activities" to the Greater Club Managers Association of Chicago. Publication of these presentations by the Club Managers Association is expected during 2006. Posted: 6/5/2006

Michael Bryson, associate professor of humanities, was the organizer of and chaired a roundtable on "Perspectives on Urban Ecology: Literature, Science and the Nature of Cities" at the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Posted: 6/5/2006

Deborah Colky, assistant professor in training and development and director of the Master of Arts in Training and Development program, Vince Cyboran, assistant professor of training and development, and Kathleen Iverson, associate professor of training and development, co-published "E Learning Takes the Lead: An Empirical Investigation of Learner Differences in Online and Classroom Delivery" in Performance Improvement Quarterly. Posted: 6/5/2006

Jane Curtis, assistant professor in the English Language Program and coordinator of curriculum and special programs, received a Faculty Outstanding Service award from the University in April. Posted: 6/9/2006

Vince Cyboran, assistant professor of training and development, published "The Influence of Reflection on Employee Psychological Empowerment: Report of an Exploratory Field Study" in Performance Improvement Quarterly. Posted: 6/5/2006

William Host, assistant professor of hospitality and tourism management, and Brooke Portmann, assistant professor in humanities and academic director of Partners in Education, published Early Chicago Hotels in 2006. Posted: 6/9/2006

D Bradford Hunt, assistant professor of social sciences, published "Understanding Chicago's High-Rise Public Housing Disaster" in Chicago Architecture; Histories, Revisions, Alternatives. Posted: 6/5/2006

Doug Knerr, associate professor of social sciences, has received recognition for his book, Suburban Steel, which the American Library Association’s Choice has named to its annual list of outstanding academic titles. Posted: 2/8/2006

Carrie Lausen, director of the Paralegal Studies Program, made a presentation as part of a panel session entitled "Adjuncts: Recruiting, Training and Effective Use and Retention" at the annual conference of the American Association for Paralegal Education in Tampa, Fla., in October. Posted: 2/9/2006

Suzanne McLaughlin, assistant professor of linguistics, received a Faculty Outstanding Service award from the University in April. Posted: 6/9/2006

Debra Orr, assistant professor of organizational leadership, presented "The aesthetic qualities of leadership" at the Southwest Academy of Management in Oklahoma City, Okla., in March. Posted: 6/5/2006

Arny Reichler, director of external studies, has published Souldade: Poems for and about Brazil. He recently read selections of his poems on Chicagoland Information Radio Service and TV Channel 19 in Chicago. Posted: 2/9/2006

Gary Wolfe, professor of humanities and director of the Bacholor of General Studies program, published Soundings: Reviews 1992-1996. He also won the British Science Fiction Association's best nonfiction award for the book. Posted: 6/5/2006

Staff

Deonna Alexander, assistant registrar, received a Staff Outstanding Service award from the University in April. Alexander also was the chairperson of Bring Your Child to Work Day, which was held at the University in April. Posted: 6/9/2006

Deonna Alexander, assistant registrar for course scheduling, Mary Gabioud,, assistant coordinator for information technology, Clara Gong, human resources analyst, Mary Grigar, outreach coordinator and staff psychologist, Tara Hawkins, coordinator of the graduate program in training and development, Danuta Kania, assistant registrar, Tim Mollencamp, financial analyst, and Jennifer Wonderly, assistant director of advising and assessment, have been selected to participate in the 2006-2007 Roosevelt Perspective Program. Posted: 10/23/2006

Nadine Burruss, house manager of the Auditorium Theatre, Chris Chulos, director of foundation relations, Laura Janota, associate director of public relations, Susan Johnston, supervisor of mail and office services, Robert Sipe, payroll and disbursement supervisor, Julie Stock, director of the Academic Advising and Assessment Center, Diane Vetrovec, director of alumni relations, and Earl Watson, employment and community resource coordinator, graduated from the Roosevelt Perspective Program for Administrators in May. Posted: 6/9/2006

Miguel Cano, circulation manager with the performing arts library, has published an article about the ethics of pharmaceutical marketing, in the IMC Review. Posted: 6/13/2006

Laurie Cashman, director of administrative services, and Susan Rohde, assistant director of human resources, co-chaired the University's New Deal Service Day event held in April in Chicago and Schaumburg. Posted: 6/13/2006

Chris Chulos, assistant vice president for institutional giving, published "Russian Piety and Culture from Peter the Great to 1917" in the Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 5: Eastern Christianity. He published book reviews in H-Net Gender-MidEast, Russian Review, and Revolutionary Russia and chapters in a book published by the Finnish Literature Society on "The Internationalization of Russian Studies in Finland" and "Friends and Foes in the Late Imperial Russia Village: The Problem of 'Otherness'." He also was a panelist discussing "The Politics of Memory in Late Imperial Russia" and "Notes from the Field: Current Research in Old Believer Studies" at a conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies held in Washington D.C. in November 2006. Chulos will publish "Celebrations of the Empire and Collective Memory in Late Imperial Russia" in Russian History/Russe Histoire in Spring 2007. Posted: 2/28/2007

Laura Anderson, senior secretary in the College of Arts and Sciences, Sheila Coffin, assistant dean in the College of Education, Donna DeMille, assistant director of the Manfred Steinfeld School of Hospitality Management, Sabrina Elms, executive secretary in the Office of Public Relations, Mary Gabioud, assistant coordinator of the Information Technology/Educational Resource Center, Sharon Grant, associate professor of elementary education, Hope Green, assistant director of career services, Laura Janota, associate director of public relations, Susan Johnston, supervisor of mail and office services, and Sharon Lewis, purchasing clerk, organized the We Care Holiday Bazaar, a project of the Administrative Assembly and the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 391, which raised money for Roosevelt University students affected by Hurricane Katrina. Posted: 2/13/2006

Lisa Encarnacion, director of external relations, Patrick Green, director of student activities, and Nick Solano, director of corporate relations, were recognized by the Schaumburg Business Association for their work on the Leadership Institute 2005, a program which earned Roosevelt University "Member of the Year" honors from the Association. Posted: 2/9/2006

Lisa Encarnacion, director of external relations, was honored as a Paul Harris Fellow by the Schaumburg/Hoffman Estates Rotary in April. Posted: 6/5/2006

Kimberly Gosell, assistant vice president of development, presented "Recruiting and Retaining a Diverse Staff" during the Winter Institute for Chief Development Officers held in March in Tucson, Ariz. Posted: 6/5/2006

Patrick Green, director of residence life, presented "Constructing Meaning in Student Reflection: Mediating Learning with Students in Service Learning" during the regional NASPA conference in Schaumburg. Green also received his doctorate in educational leadership from Roosevelt University in May. Posted: 6/9/2006

Kevin Henderson, associate director of the paralegal studies program, and Eric Tammes, assistant vice president for student services, have been elected by the Administrative Assembly to serve as senators to the Roosevelt Faculty Senate. Posted: 6/13/2006

Laura Janota, associate director of public relations, was elected to the University Senate in October. Posted: 2/9/2006

Gwen Kanelos, assistant vice president for enrollment services, presented "Current Trends in College Admission" at the 2005 annual Illinois ACT State Organization Conference in November. She also is a member of the executive committee of the Illinois ACT Council. Posted: 2/9/2006

Gwen Kanelos, assistant vice president for enrollment services, received a Staff Outstanding Service award from the University in April. Posted: 6/13/2006

Kathleen Kane-Willis, associate director of the Institute for Metropolitan Affairs, appeared on WMAQ-TV Channel Five's town hall meeting and special one-hour broadcast entitled "Target America: The Damage that Drugs Cause" in September. Posted: 10/23/2006

James Lewis, executive director of the Institute for Metropolitan Affairs, discussed "Immigration: The Big Picture and the Local Picture" at a League of Women Voters luncheon in Highwood in September. He presented "Is Human Interest National Interest? The Future of U.S. Immigration Policy" at a League of Women Voters forum in Schaumburg in September and will speak on immigration issues and policies to a League of Women's Voters group in Wheaton in November. Lewis also was recently quoted in The Chicago Reporter and in Catalyst Magazine. Posted: 10/23/2006

Nancy Litke, director of the Academic Success Center, received a Staff Outstanding Service award from the University in April. Posted: 6/12/2006

Patrick Lytle, production manager in the Office of Marketing, Prakarn Nisarat, graphic designer, and a team of others in the office have received recognition for recent marketing efforts from the Admissions Marketing Report: The National Newspaper of Admissions Marketing, including a gold medal award for the University's 2005-2006 student handbook, a silver medal for its outdoor billboard campaign and merit awards for its Counselor Day invitation and its annual report. The Office of Marketing also received gold and silver service industry advertising awards for a variety of projects. Posted: 2/9/2006

Sarah Manzeske, assistant director of student activities, has been elected president of the Illinois College Personnel Association, which is the state division of the national Association of College Personnel Administrators. Posted: 2/8/2006

Charles Middleton, president, delivered the keynote address on the University's involvement in the Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Transformation at the Executive Directors' meeting of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities in June. Middleton will be inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame in November. Posted: 10/23/2006

Angela Ryan, director of resident life and first-year programs, was one of 50 professionals from the Midwest region who was selected to attend the two-day NASPA New Professional Institute held in Schaumburg. She founded the group, Illinois Private College University Housing Administrators, and arranged for the group's first meeting at University Center of Chicago in June. Posted: 6/5/2006

Pamela Trotman Reid, provost and vice president, participated in a panel discussion entitled "The Education of Girls in the Developing World" that was sponsored by the United States Mission to the United Nations at Wayne State University in September. Reid also co-published "Gaining options: A mathematics program for potentially talented at-risk adolescent girls" in Merrill-Palmer Quarterly. Posted: 10/23/2006

Jocelyn Yarbrough, senior secretary in Department of Math and Actuarial Science, sang in the chorus for "Too Hot To Handel" at the Auditorium Theatre in January. Yarbrough also sings with the Chicago Master Singers. Posted: 2/9/2006

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