{"id":35622,"date":"2016-01-12T08:53:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T16:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/ennounce\/?p=35622"},"modified":"2016-01-12T08:53:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T16:53:47","slug":"about-our-people-174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/ennounce\/2016\/01\/12\/about-our-people-174\/","title":{"rendered":"About Our People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kenn Willson<\/strong> (Music) presented his <a href=\"http:\/\/encounterswith.com\/Encountersmith.com\/Encounters_with...Site.html\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Encounters with Beethoven\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> concert three times in the fall \u00e2\u20ac\u201c once at George Fox in September, once in Klamath Falls, Ore., in October, and finally at the Classic Piano Company in Portland in November as part of its \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Classics and Croissants\u00e2\u20ac\u009d series. Kenn also presented master classes at the Klamath Falls and Classic Piano Company engagements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lisa Graham McMinn<\/strong> (Writer in Residence) published her book <em>To the Table: A Spirituality of Food, Faith, and Community<\/em> (Brazos Press, January 2016). An interview with Lisa was conducted by Publishers Weekly and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/religion\/article\/68796-reconnecting-with-the-spirituality-of-food-pw-talks-with-lisa-graham-mcminn.html\">published on its site<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don Powers<\/strong> (Biology) published a study, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Heat dissipation during hovering and forward flight in hummingbirds,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/2\/12\/150598\"><em>Royal Society Open Science<\/em><\/a> in December. Powers and associates, including 2011 George Fox graduate <strong>Keely Corder<\/strong>, discovered that the birds have \u00e2\u20ac\u0153windows\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for heat loss \u00e2\u20ac\u201c areas around the eyes, armpits and feet where feather density is low, allowing them to maintain their constant body temperature. For years, how birds dissipate extra heat during flight has been poorly understood. An infrared thermal camera was used to make the findings. The study has since been publicized by the BBC, <em>Science<\/em> (online) and other media outlets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brenda Morton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/strong> (Education) article, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Barriers to Academic Achievement for Foster Youth: The Story Behind the Statistics,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d won the Association for Childhood Education International\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em>Journal of Research in Childhood Education<\/em> Distinguished Education Research Article Award for 2015. The ACEI annually identifies a Distinguished Education Research Article from the articles published in the year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s volume of the <em>Journal of Research in Childhood Education<\/em>. Taylor and Francis, the publisher of <em>JRCE<\/em>, provides $1,000 as an award to the author (or authors) of the selected article. The article is selected by the members of the <em>JRCE<\/em> Editorial Advisory Board as an illustration of superior research and excellent writing on a topic of high importance for the field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ed Higgins<\/strong> (English) published his poem \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Autumn Apocalypse\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in December in the online issue of the journal <em>Plum Tree Tavern<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Anderson<\/strong> (Christian Studies) published an article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/paul-n-anderson\/the-social-conscience-of-_1_b_8842250.html\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Social Conscience of the Saint John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bible II \u00e2\u20ac\u201c On Syrian Refugees and the Reversals of Christmas,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> on the <em>Huffington Post\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/em> religion blog Dec. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenn Willson (Music) presented his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Encounters with Beethoven\u00e2\u20ac\u009d concert three times in the fall \u00e2\u20ac\u201c once at George Fox in September, once in Klamath Falls, Ore., in October, and finally at the Classic Piano Company in Portland in November as part of its \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Classics and Croissants\u00e2\u20ac\u009d series. 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