{"id":3120,"date":"2009-04-27T15:42:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T23:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/ennounce\/2009\/04\/27\/about-our-people-36\/"},"modified":"2009-04-27T15:42:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T23:42:21","slug":"about-our-people-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/ennounce\/2009\/04\/27\/about-our-people-36\/","title":{"rendered":"About Our People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About Our People<br \/>\n<strong>Melanie Springer Mock<\/strong> (Writing\/Literature) received the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Faculty Achievement Award for Undergraduate Teaching, and <strong>Mary Peterson<\/strong> (Graduate Psychology) was selected recipient of the Faculty Achievement Award for Graduate Teaching. Also honored was <strong>Chris Koch<\/strong> (Psychology), named winner of the Faculty Research Award.<\/p>\n<p>The following faculty members are on sabbatical for the full 2009-10 academic year: <strong>Michael Everest<\/strong> (Chemistry), <strong>Scot Headley <\/strong>(Education), <strong>Mark Ocker<\/strong> (SPS), <strong>Larry Shelton<\/strong> (Seminary) and <strong>Tim Timmerman<\/strong> (Visual Arts). Three faculty members \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <strong>Viki Defferding<\/strong> (Spanish), <strong>Craig Johnson<\/strong> (Management) and <strong>Don Powers<\/strong> (Biology) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c are on sabbatical for the fall semester, and <strong>Daniel Sweeney<\/strong> (Graduate Counseling) is on sabbatical for the spring semester.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lori DeKruyf<\/strong>, <strong>Keith Dempsey<\/strong> and <strong>Michelle Cox<\/strong> (Graduate Counseling) attended the American Counseling Association&#8217;s 2009 conference in Charlotte, N.C. Michelle, along with students <strong>Emily E. Hazel<\/strong>, <strong>Annette Korkeakoski-Sears<\/strong> and <strong>Debra Richards<\/strong>, held a poster session titled &#8220;Faith Maturity in Older Adults: Factor Structure of the Faith Maturity Scale (FMS).&#8221; Michelle and student <strong>Brandi Walters<\/strong> held a poster session titled &#8220;Depression or Insomnia?: Diagnostic Complexity among Baby Boomers.&#8221; Keith co-presented with Dr. Manivong Ratts on &#8220;Advocacy Competencies Self-assessment Survey: A Tool for Measuring Advocacy Competence.&#8221; 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 &#8220;Multicultural and Advocacy Dimensions Model: Connecting the Multicultural Counseling Competencies and Advocacy Competencies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several Writing\/Literature faculty members presented at the West Region Conference on Christianity and Literature, hosted at George Fox April 16-18. <strong>Laura Simmons<\/strong> presented \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Wimsey Papers: Dorothy L. Sayers Speaks Truth to the Government\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; <strong>Melanie Springer Mock<\/strong>, <strong>Ed Higgins<\/strong>, <strong>Polly Peterson<\/strong> and <strong>Kendra Weddle Irons<\/strong> presented \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Channeling the Inklings: A Dialogue About Writing Group Success\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; <strong>Kim Colantino<\/strong> presented \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A New Liberation Theology: Jesse Jackson\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; and <strong>Abigail Rine<\/strong> (adjunct) presented \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Words Incarnate: Michele Roberts\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Creative Dissent.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <strong>Kathy Heininge<\/strong> participated as a convener for some sessions. Students who presented included <strong>Adrienne Swenson<\/strong>, <strong>Kohleun Adamson<\/strong>, <strong>Karith Magnuson<\/strong> and <strong>Margaret Diepenbrock<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Anderson<\/strong> (Religious Studies) presented a review of recent Jesus scholarship over the last decade, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No Marginal Treatment of Jesus \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Meier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Project and Corollary Jesus Research Trends,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 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 <em>ZNT<\/em> and published this month in the <em>Zeitschrift f\u00c3\u00bcr Neues Testament<\/em> 23 (April 2009) as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Das &#8216;John, Jesus and History&#8217; Projekt \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Neue Beobachtungen zu Jesus und eine Bi-optische Hypothese.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tamara Cissna<\/strong> (Marketing Communications) was named the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Employee of the Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Our People Melanie Springer Mock (Writing\/Literature) received the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Faculty Achievement Award for Undergraduate Teaching, and Mary Peterson (Graduate Psychology) was selected recipient of the Faculty Achievement Award for Graduate Teaching. 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