Dr. Linda Gordy, assistant dean and
assistant professor of the School of Urban Initiatives, and Casey O’Keefe, assistant professor and chair of the
Early Childhood Bachelor Completion Program, presented “Text, Talk, and the
Common Core Standards: A framework for collaborating with teachers to support
language and literacy,” at the Wisconsin Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s
annual convention in the Wisconsin Dells in February.
Shana McCaw, assistant professor of Visual Art, and
her husband Brent Budsberg presented a lecture on their recent artwork at the
Chazen Museum at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Feb. 20. McCaw and
Budsberg were awarded a Stritch Faculty Research and Development Award in
January for their work during a recent residency in Death Valley, California.
Dr. Rainer
Meisterjahn, adjunct faculty in Sport Science and Management, was recently
accepted for publication by Athletic
Insight: The Online Journal of Sport Psychology. His paper, ‘‘'Everything
Was Different’: An existential phenomenological investigation of US
professional basketball players’ experiences overseas,” is currently in press.
Sister Barbara
Reynolds, SDS, Ph.D., professor of Math, presented "The Arbelos, the Salinon ... and the Parbolos," for
students and faculty at University of Wisconsin-Platteville on March 7.
Dr. Daniel Scholz,
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, recently published his second book, "The Pauline Letters: Introducing the New
Testament."
Dr. Sarah Foust
Vinson, assistant professor of English, presented “Peaceful Transgression:
Personal and National Boundaries in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible” at the Wisconsin Institute of Peace and
Conflict Studies’ annual interdisciplinary conference on March 1.