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Melanie Springer Mock (Writing/Literature) received the university’s Faculty Achievement Award for Undergraduate Teaching, and Mary Peterson (Graduate Psychology) was selected recipient of the Faculty Achievement Award for Graduate Teaching. Also honored was Chris Koch (Psychology), named winner of the Faculty Research Award.

The following faculty members are on sabbatical for the full 2009-10 academic year: Michael Everest (Chemistry), Scot Headley (Education), Mark Ocker (SPS), Larry Shelton (Seminary) and Tim Timmerman (Visual Arts). Three faculty members – Viki Defferding (Spanish), Craig Johnson (Management) and Don Powers (Biology) – are on sabbatical for the fall semester, and Daniel Sweeney (Graduate Counseling) is on sabbatical for the spring semester.

Lori DeKruyf, Keith Dempsey and Michelle Cox (Graduate Counseling) attended the American Counseling Association’s 2009 conference in Charlotte, N.C. Michelle, along with students Emily E. Hazel, Annette Korkeakoski-Sears and Debra Richards, held a poster session titled “Faith Maturity in Older Adults: Factor Structure of the Faith Maturity Scale (FMS).” Michelle and student Brandi Walters held a poster session titled “Depression or Insomnia?: Diagnostic Complexity among Baby Boomers.” Keith co-presented with Dr. Manivong Ratts on “Advocacy Competencies Self-assessment Survey: A Tool for Measuring Advocacy Competence.” He also co-presented with Dr. Kent Butler to local mental health professionals on working with African American male clients. Lori co-presented with Dr. Manivong Ratts on “Multicultural and Advocacy Dimensions Model: Connecting the Multicultural Counseling Competencies and Advocacy Competencies.”

Several Writing/Literature faculty members presented at the West Region Conference on Christianity and Literature, hosted at George Fox April 16-18. Laura Simmons presented “The Wimsey Papers: Dorothy L. Sayers Speaks Truth to the Government”; Melanie Springer Mock, Ed Higgins, Polly Peterson and Kendra Weddle Irons presented “Channeling the Inklings: A Dialogue About Writing Group Success”; Kim Colantino presented “A New Liberation Theology: Jesse Jackson”; and Abigail Rine (adjunct) presented “Words Incarnate: Michele Roberts’s Creative Dissent.” Kathy Heininge participated as a convener for some sessions. Students who presented included Adrienne Swenson, Kohleun Adamson, Karith Magnuson and Margaret Diepenbrock.

Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) presented a review of recent Jesus scholarship over the last decade, “No Marginal Treatment of Jesus — Meier’s Project and Corollary Jesus Research Trends,” at the New Testament and Hellenistic Religions Section of the Pacific Northwest AAR/SBL/ASOR meetings at Pacific Lutheran University April 24-26. His review of the John, Jesus, and History Project (of which he is co-chair) and his outlining of his own theory of the origins and relations of gospel traditions were invited by the editors of ZNT and published this month in the Zeitschrift für Neues Testament 23 (April 2009) as “Das ‘John, Jesus and History’ Projekt — Neue Beobachtungen zu Jesus und eine Bi-optische Hypothese.”

Tamara Cissna (Marketing Communications) was named the university’s Employee of the Month.

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