Faculty Research Symposium
Symposium 2013 will be Wed, March 6.
This day-long event the first Wednesday in March showcases the impressive diversity of research on campus. Recent recipients of sabbaticals, summer research stipends, and research and creative projects grants share their creative and scholarly work.
The 2012 program:
10:10-45 Seeing, Building, Bridging
Chair: Stephen Craft, Dean College of Business
1. Ted Metz (Art), On the Nature of Building”
2. Deb Karpman (Art), “Connecting the Dots: Bridging Art Study and Professional Practice”
3. Joe Bennett (Art), “Systems”
4. Stefan Forrester (English and Phil), “Kant on Visual Metaphor”
11:30-12:45 Intervening
Chair: Mary Beth Armstrong, Dean of Arts and Sciences
1. Hollie Cost (Special Ed), “A Romp Through the Joys of Managing Behavior in the Elementary Classroom”
2. Linda Murdock (Comm. Science and Disorders), “Use of an iPad toy story to increase the play of behaviors of children with autism”
3. Jon-Kyle Davis (Kinesiology), “The Impact of Clothing on Thermoregulation During Exercise in the Heat”
4. Mike Hardig (Biology), “Using bacteria to test the waters of Ebenezer Swamp for chemical mutagens”
[Lunch break]
2:00-3:15 Breaking Bad
Chair: Tom Sanders (Business)
1. John Bawden (History), “Cutting Off the Dictator: The United States Arms Embargo of the Pinochet Regime, 1974-1988"
2. Leonor Vázquez-González (Spanish), “Genocide and Memory of Injustice in Guatemala”
3. Jim Day (History), “Powered by Coal: Social Impacts of an Extraction Industry”
4. Brett Noerager (Biology), “Acrolein Bad”
3:30-5:00 Earth, Sky, and Gardens
Chair: Ruth Truss (History)
1. Stephanie Batkie (English), “Illegible History and the Grave in Middle English St. Erkenwald”
2. Catherine Walsh (Art), “Botany and Sculpture in Medici Gardens”
3. Kelly Wacker (Art), “The New Naturalists: Contemporary Artists in the Realm of Natural History”
4. Jay Cofield (Mass Comm.), “Creative Collaborations via Skype”
