- Mary Avery, associate professor of business, has been elected to the board of the Blue Mountain Project, an NGO located in Hagley Gap, Jamaica.
- Jackie Clark, assistant professor of sociology, has been invited to join the service award selection committee of the Wisconsin Sociological Association.
- Memuna Khan, assistant professor of biology, presented "Double Brooding, Juvenile Helping and the Eastern Bluebird" at the annual Bluebird Restoration Association of Wisconsin meeting at Mosquito Hill Nature Center in New London, Wis., Sept. 20, 2008.
In October 2008, she shared "Backyard Birds in Wisconsin" with the Green Lake County Home and Community Education "Our Day" event at the Green Lake Conference Center.
- Richard Coles, associate professor of exercise science, published the article "Midline Triple Option" in the American Football Coaches Association 2008 Summer Manual.
- Ripon College Librarians Ane Carriveau, Valerie Viers and Carl Ziebell co-wrote "FOOD FOR THOUGHT:Collaborative Leadership at Ripon College," for "College & Undergraduate Libraries," vol.15, Issue:3 (2008), pages 301-313.
- Kristine Kovack-Lesh, assistant professor of psychology, cowrote three recent articles concerning infant cognition:
Kovack-Lesh, K.A., Horst, J.S. and Oakes, L.M. (2008). "The cat is out of the bag: The joint influence of previous experience and looking behavior on infant categorization." Infancy, 13, 285-307.
Oakes, L.M., Horst, J.S., Kovack-Lesh, K.A. and Perone, S. (2008). "How Infants Categorize." In A. Needham and A. Woodward (eds.) "Learning and the Infant Mind" (pp. 144-171). New York City: Oxford University Press.
Oakes, L.M., Kovack-Lesh, K.A. and Horst, J.S. (in press). "Two are better than one: Comparison influences infants’ visual recognition memory." "Journal of Experimental Child Psychology."
- Brian Smith, professor of religious studies, had an op-ed piece in the Sept. 21, 2008, Crossroads section of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper. "Pelosi, the Bishops and Choosing Life" explores the oversimplification of the abortion issue in the current presidential campaign.
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- Leslie Ellen Brown, professor of music, presented the paper "Once More, Imitation and Expression in the Late Eighteenth Century: How the Scottish Enlightenment Can Enlighten Us" at the annual conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 2008.
- Jeanne Williams, professor of educational studies and assistant dean of the faculty, appeared on Kathleen Dunn's Wisconsin Public Radio program in July 2008 to discuss the effects of the federal "No Child Left Behind" law on Wisconsin schools.
- Peng "Roc" Huang, assistant professor of economics, published "Conditional risk-return relationship in a time-varying beta model" (with James Hueng) in "Quantitative Finance" (Volume 8, Issue 4, 2008, pages 381-390).
- Rafael Salas, assistant professor of art, has work on exhibit at the Timmons Galleries, San Diego, Calif. Another of Salas's shows will open in October 2008 at UW-Stevens Point. This fall, Milwaukee Public Television will air an interview with Salas related to his exhibit, "Substituting Emptiness."
He also will exhibit some of his work at the Dean Jensen Gallery in Milwaukee, Wis., from Dec. 5, 2008, through Jan. 24, 2009.
- Becky Matzke, assistant professor of history, participated in the 2008 Summer Seminar on Military History at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. The three-week program in June brought together 30 fellows, selected from among junior scholars in the United States and overseas, to participate in an intensive course of seminars and lectures about military history in a wide variety of periods and regions. Sessions were led by both USMA faculty and distinguished guest historians, including James McPherson, Brian Linn, William Skelton and others. The program also involved staff rides of Revolutionary War and Civil War battlefields, led by experts in the field, and opportunities to conduct research at West Point and the U.S. Army Military History Institute in Carlisle, Pa.
- Steve Martin, assistant professor of communication, and Amanda Breitenfeldt '06 co-wrote"Patriots and Saints: How the NFL Helped America Cope with Terrorists and Natural Disasters," published in "Sports Mania: Essays on Fandom and the Media in the 21st Century," Lawrence W. Hugenberg, et. al., eds. (McFarland & Co., Jefferson, N.C.), 2008.
- Bob Wallace, professor of biology, and Dr. E.J. Walsh, of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), have received grants totaling just more than $11,000 from the National Science Foundation to support two students
(one Ripon and one UTEP) for the summer of 2008. These students will help Wallace and Walsh in their research on the springs and ephemeral waters of the Chihuahuan Desert.
- Becky Matzke, assistant professor of history, chaired a panel on “Perceptions of World War I” at the Missouri Valley History Conference in Omaha, Neb., March 6 through 8, 2008. Panel presenters were Ripon senior history majors Leah Hover, Megan Anderson and Adam Mielke. Matzke also presented the paper "Imperialists Like Us: Colonialist Themes in British Propaganda for Americans in the Great War” at the Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies in Baltimore, Md., on March 29, 2008.
- Bob Wallace, professor of biology, wrote a review of "The Biology of Temporary Waters," by D. Dudely Williams, Oxford University Press, 2006 for Choice. He and a group of colleagues also served as guest editors for "Preface: Advances in Rotifer Research Hydrobiologia" and published "How well do single samples reflect rotifer species diversity? A test based on interannual variation of rotifer communities in Big Bend National Park (Texas, USA)" (2007) in Hydrobiologia 593: 39–47 and "Species composition and distribution of rotifers in Chihuahuan desert waters: is everything everywhere?" (2008) Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung Limnologie 30(1): 73–76.
- Sarah Hughes, professor of music, recently spent three days in Cleveland and Oberlin, Ohio, recording hymns from the New Century Hymnal (Pilgrim Press) for the United Church of Christ as part of an ambitious project to make the entire hymnal available on CDs for churches lacking music staff. Hughes recorded 67 hymns at First Church, Oberlin. A sample CD is scheduled for release to 7,900 churches nationwide in February, and the entire set is scheduled for completion in late 2008.
Hughes was invited to be organist-in-residence for the Pine Mountain Music Festival, June 19 through 24, 2008. She presented recitals and a workshop in different venues in the Upper Peninsula.
- William Whitehead,
adjunct scholar of anthropology, earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California-Berkeley in December. In recent months, Whitehead has contributed to several scholarly publications and conferences, including the 47th annual meeting of the Institute of Andean Studies and the edited volume In Kala Uyuni: An Early Political Center in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin.
- Memuna Khan, assistant professor of biology, has been sharing her studies with community members. At the South Woods Association Annual Meeting, she delivered the presentation "Banding Baby Bluebirds: Starting a Research Population at Ripon College." She also recently addressed the Oshkosh Bird Club on the topic"Inspiring Indonesia."
- Joe Hatcher, professor of psychology, has been elected to the board of directors for the Blue Mountain Project, a service-learning organization that brings students to Hagley Gap, Jamaica.
- Soren Hauge, associate professor of economics, recently traveled to Managua, Nicaragua, to participate in a panel presentation of a new book,"El Impacto Social de la Microfinanzas en Nicaragua" (The Social Impact of Microfinance in Nicaragua). The book reports initial findings from analysis of a 2006 survey of clients of Nicaraguan financial institutions that specialize in serving poor and female borrowers and depositors. The survey and analysis were carried out in a collaboration between the International Foundation for the Global Economic Challenge (FIDEG), the Nicaraguan Association of Microfinance Institutions (ASOMIF) and the Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua (WCCN). Hauge presented the chapter he wrote: "Metodología del Estudio" (Methodology of the Study).
- Jacqueline Clark, assistant professor of sociology, co-wrote "Analyzing the Social Construction of Gender in Birth Announcement Cards," which will be included as a chapter in "Sociology Through Active Learning," second edition, edited by Kathleen McKinney, Frank Beck and Barbara Heyl, Pine Forge Press.
She also has been asked to serve as film and book editor for "Sociological Imagination," a journal of the Wisconsin Sociological Association.
Clark also presented the paper, "Using Graphic Novels to Teach the Sociology of Illness and Disease" at the annual meeting of the WSA.
- Lamont Colucci, assistant professor of politics and government, has been asked to write a chapter about the Bush Doctrine for "The Day that Changed Everything? Looking at the Impact of 9-11 at the End of the Decade," to be published by Praeger in 2008.
- Ane Carriveau, systems/serial librarian, was elected Secretary of the Wisconsin-Illinois Innovative Users Group for 2007-2009.
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