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The university announced recipients of its annual undergraduate faculty achievement awards last week. Rhett Luedtke (Performing Arts) won the award for undergraduate teaching and Paul Otto (History) was selected for the undergraduate research and scholarship award. The graduate faculty achievement awards will be announced later this week.
Members of the Academic Resource Center (ARC) staff made two presentations at the Pacific Northwest Writing Centers Association Conference at Western Oregon University on April 10. Rick Muthiah, Gary Tandy and Jana Tan presented “Crossing the Cultural Chasm: International Students at the Writing Center.†Gary also made a presentation to writing center directors entitled “Writing Center Administration: Creating a Student Ownership Culture.†Also attending the conference were ARC consultants Hannah Adderly, Amy Wery and Eric Butler.
Douglas Campbell (Visual Arts) had his acrylic painting “I Pledge Allegiance to the Fish†accepted into Expressions West 2010, a juried exhibit sponsored by the Coos Art Museum. The exhibit runs through July 3. In addition, two of his poems, “Erosion†and “Angel’s Rest,†are included in Nature’s Gift, an anthology published in March by Vanilla Heart Press.
For most of 18 days, Nadine Kincaid (Security Services) was a volunteer Olympic driver for members of the International Olympic Committee during the Winter Games. It marked the second time she volunteered for the Winter Olympics.
Kelly Chang and Chris Koch (Psychology) joined Joel Perez (Student Life) in presenting “The Role of Openness and General Education in Developing Critical Thinking about Diversity†at the Christians on Diversity in the Academy’s annual conference hosted by Azusa Pacific University on March 25.
Rick Muthiah coauthored with Robert Bringle and Julie Hatcher “The role of service-learning on the retention of first-year students to the second year,†published in the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. Bringle and Hatcher work at the Center for Service and Learning at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).
Tom Head’s (International Studies) article, “Economic Peacemaking,†was published in the Spring 2010 issue of Sacred Journey: The Journal of Fellowship in Prayer.
Ed Higgins (English) published the poem “Memory at Near Zero†in the April issue of Dark Sky Magazine.
Teresa Arnold (Biology) and Dave Johnstone (Student Life) were selected the university’s employees of the month for April.