Dundon-Berchtold Hall Groundbreaking Ceremony: Sept. 21

September 15, 2017

All University faculty, staff, and students are invited to the groundbreaking ceremony for our new academic center, Dundon-Berchtold Hall, on Thursday, September 21, at 6 p.m., on the Eastside Quad near Waldschmidt Hall. There will be a short program in which we will also recognize the generous lead benefactors of the new building, Amy Dundon-Berchtold and Jim Berchtold ’63. If you have any questions about the ceremony or need an accommodation to attend, please contact Hannah Pick in the Office of University Relations at x7397 or pick@up.edu.

Vail Fletcher and Jennette Lovejoy, communication studies, have published their book, Natural Disasters and Risk Communication: Implications of the Cascadia Subduction Zone Megaquake (with Bradley Adame, Bob Butler, Ashleigh Day, Yianni Doulis, Chris Goldfinger, Julie Homchick Crowe, Do Kyun Kim, Kai Kuang, Hiroaki Matsuura, Claude Miller, Julie Novak, Keiichi Sato, and Kathryn Schulz) through Lexington Books, May 2018, The book addresses how people communicate about natural disasters and what effect that communication has on natural disaster education, understanding, assessment of risk, preparation, and recovery. It seeks to move past primal, fear-induced physiological and emotional responses to crises with the understanding that if we accept that the disaster will occur, expect it, and learn how we can prepare, we can calm the collective panicked beats of our hearts as we wait for its first tremors. See more at this link.

Jacquie Van Hoomissen, biology, attended AAC&U and Project Kaleidoscope, STEAM Academic Renewal conference, San Francisco, CA, November 2017. While there she attended the workshop “Embedding High-Impact Practices in STEM to Increa.” She has served as Abstract Reviewer for the 2017 AAC&U/PKAL Network STEM Conference, AAC&U/PKAL, May 2018-present, and as Abstract Reviewer for the 2017 ACSM National Annual Conference, American College of Sports Medicine, November 2017; as Expert Peer Reviewer, Advances in Physiology Education, April 2018-present; as a leadership coach, Franz Center Leadership Certificate program, August 2017-present; as a Faculty Compensation Task Force member, Peer Group and Salary Structure subcommittee member, provost’s office, August 2017-present; on the Anatomy and Physiology Curriculum Review Committee, Department of Biology, August 2017-present; and on the Visiting Physiology Professor Search Committee, Department of Biology, May 2017-present.

Richard Gritta, business, wrote “The Use of the DuPont Formula and a Bankruptcy Forecasting Model in Court Proceedings: Reorganization versus Liquidation Decisions,” (with Jim Jurinski) in Credit and Financial Management Review, XXIII (no. 2), 2nd Quarter 2017. An earlier version of the paper was presented as the International Journal of Arts & Sciences Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, on November 1, 2016.

Michael Cameron, theology, was featured in “Augustine and Early Figurative Reading of the Bible” in Unitas Fidei: An Online Journal for World Christianity, a video interview by editor, Jonathan Armstrong, for his book Christ Meets Me Everywhere: Augustine’s Early Figurative Exegesis (Oxford 2012).

Sr. Angela Hoffman, chemistry, served on the Graduate Thesis Committee for Amel Taubane, University of Science and Technology, Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria, October 2016-October 2017. She was a panel moderator and lunch mentor, American Chemical Society Women Chemist Undergraduate Symposium, January 2018.

Lars Erik Larson, English, published a chapter on India in a collection of international road film studies: “Song of the Big Road: Negotiating Scale in Road Films of 21st Century India” (The Global Road Movie: Alternative Journeys Around the World, ed. Timothy Corrigan and José Duarte, U Chicago Press/Intellect, 2018, 119-31.)

Jeffrey White, international languages and cultures, is president-elect, Northwest College Reading and Learning Association, May 2018-present. He served as proposal reviewer, 51st annual College Reading and Learning Association conference, March-April 2018.

William Barnes, business, wrote “Student Preconceptions and Reality: A Survey Exercise to Teach Wealth Inequality,” (with Todd Easton, Ross Hanig) in International Review of Economics Education, available online at this link, Feb. 2018.

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