University of Wisconsin Oshkosh faculty members gathered to put the spotlight on and celebrate research during the 2014 “University Scholarship Recognition Luncheon” on Oct. 23.
UW Oshkosh Director of the Offices of Grants and Faculty Development Bob Roberts and Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Lane Earns led the program, acknowledging “the magnitude of scholarly research and creative activities” that can be easily lost in the day to day teaching and other work at the University.
“Our colleagues’ endeavors deserve a special celebration,” Roberts said.
Faculty speakers included Yijun Tang (Chemistry), Anna Filipova (Public Administration), Andrew Redington (Art) and Ryan Skiver (COB-Marketing and Supply Chain Management).
The program recognized faculty members who contributed to or authored published books in the last year and those who received Faculty Development Teaching and Research Awards, Sabbatical Awards and Extramural Research and Instructional grant awards of $25,000 or more during fiscal year 2013 to 2014.
The faculty members and scholarly and creative activities featured included:
FordMichael Ford (COEHS) and Michael Opitz, co-authors
Engaging Minds in the Classroom: The Surprising Power of Joy
ASCD, 2014
This book explores issues, insights and ideas related to instruction that engages students and enables them to truly enjoy learning in school settings. Distinguishing joyous effort from traditional views of motivation, the book builds a theoretical framework based on current research on affective dimensions of learning. It presents assessment tools to examine five critical factors in schools (learners, teachers, materials, assessments and the environment). It provides real-life teaching examples for (re)discovering and promoting joy in the school environment, school-wide activities, whole group instruction, small group instruction and individualized instructional approaches.
Brunsell
Eric Brunsell (COEHS) and Michelle Fleming, co-authors
Engaging Minds in Science and Math Classrooms: The Surprising Power of Joy
ASCD, 2014
Daily decisions about how to incorporate creativity, choice, and autonomy—integral components of engagement—can build students’ self-efficacy, keep them motivated, and strengthen their identities as scientists and mathematicians. This book expands on a theoretical framework for joyful learning and provides suggested activities and guidelines for designing instruction that is engaging and motivating to all learners. Special attention is given to engagement of students from populations that are typically underrepresented in science and mathematics. This book is part of a series designed and edited by Michael Ford and Michael Opitz.
Eric Brunsell (COEHS), Deb Kneser and Kevin Niemi, co-authors
Introducing Teachers and Administrators to the NGSS: A Professional Development Facilitator’s Guide
NSTA Press, 2014
The Next Generation Science Standards, released in spring 2013, provide a national vision and framework for science education in the United States. To better reflect understanding of how children learn science, these complex standards are structured differently than almost all previous standards documents. This book provides teacher leaders and administrators with 24 activities that can be used to help educators better understand the pedagogical shifts made by NGSS, plan implementation, and design effective instruction. Each activity was pilot tested in professional development settings with hundreds of educators. Introducing Teachers and Administrators to the NGSS is currently one of only two books published that focuses on implementation of standards adopted by 10 states and many individual school districts. As such, it is forming the basis for a nationwide school administrator professional development initiative.
Eierman Iversen
Jakob Iversen (COB-Information Systems) and Michael Eierman (COB-Information Systems), co-authors
Learning Mobile App Development: A Hands-on Guide to Building Apps with iOS and Android
Addison-Wesley, 2014
Mobile apps are becoming increasingly important information systems for both personal and professional uses. This textbook covers mobile app development on both market-leading platforms: Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. Perfect for both students and professionals, Learning Mobile App Development is the only text with complete parallel coverage of both iOS and Android. With this guide, students can master either platform, or both—and gain a deeper understanding of the issues associated with developing mobile apps.
The book is structured as a set of tutorials that leads students through developing an actual working app on both iOS and Android, mastering the entire mobile app development lifecycle, from planning through licensing and distribution. The tutorials lead students through creating the traditional initial “Hello World” app to a sophisticated app that uses many facets of the mobile devices’ capabilities including finding location, storing data, and using maps. Along the way, students also learn the app lifecycle unique to mobile devices.
Clark Fischer
Thomas Fischer (COEHS), Denise Clark (COEHS) and Mary Ann Marchel, co-authors
Assistive Technology for Children and Youth with Disabilities
Pearson, 2014
Denise Clark and Tom Fischer (Special Education), along with Mary Ann Marchel, a former UW Oshkosh faculty member now at the University of Minnesota Duluth, are co-authors of Assistive Technology for Children and Youth with Disabilities, published in 2014 by Pearson Education.
The textbook encompasses home, school and community environments and highlights supports available for children with disabilities from birth to age 21. The text details what types of assistive technology exist and how to select technology to meet specific student needs and match specific environmental circumstances.
Chapters address the broad range of technologies now available, including supports for mobility, positioning, access, academic areas, behavior problems, recreation and transitioning. Case examples, vignettes and activities provide practical, real-life examples that show how to use assistive technology to improve the independence and participation of students with special needs.
Lareau
Alan Lareau (Foreign Languages and Literatures), editor
Victor Hollaender: Revue meines Lebens
Hentrich & Hentrich, 2014
The composer, conductor and theatrical entrepreneur Victor Hollaender (1866–1940) was one of Berlin’s most popular entertainment and operetta composers at the turn of the last century, and helped create the modern forms of cabaret and revue, above all with his scores of the satirical shows of the Metropol-Theater. He also wrote musicals for Broadway and Chicago and, in 1890, he was the first musical director of the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee. He fled the Nazis in 1933 and died in obscurity in Hollywood; his works were suppressed and destroyed in Germany. Hollaender’s annotated memoirs are complemented by articles and poems by and about the composer, biographical annotations, a catalogue of works, and an audio CD.
The following UW Oshkosh awards were provided during fiscal year 2013–14 :
Faculty Development – Teaching Awards
Michael Baltutis (Religious Studies and Anthropology), Summer Study Abroad in South Asia
Mark Bowen (Geography and Urban Planning), Enhancing Instruction in a Large STEM
Catherine Bryan (Foreign Languages and Literatures), Latin American Civilization
Mary Kate Friess (College of Nursing), Integrating QSEN Competencies
Fredi Giesler (Social Work), Integrating QSEN Competencies
Yoshiro Hanai (Foreign Languages and Literatures), Instructional Materials on Manga and Anime
Joan Heller (Social Work), Integrating QSEN Competencies
Marguerite Helmers (English), Literature of the Great Irish Famine
Marianne Johnson (Economics), Experimental Learning in Environmental Economics
Faculty Development – Research Awards
Isabel Alvarez (Foreign Languages and Literatures), Evolution of Soccer Anglicisms
Ben Arbaugh (College of Business), Research Forums for Business Education Scholars Bruce Atwell (Music), Three Movement Composition for Horn Quartet
David Barnhill (English), Piercing the Blue Sky: The Snow Leopard
Michael Beitz (Art), Furniture-Sculpture
Jessica Calderwood (Art), Floral Fictions
Julia Chybowski (Music), Blackface Minstrelsy and the Black Swan
Stewart Cole (English), Fascist Animal
Jennifer Considine (Communication), Identity Tensions
Kevin Crawford (Chemistry), Semba Sample Purification
Andrzej Dziedzic (Foreign Languages and Literatures), Gaston Leroux’s Le fantome de l’opera
James Feldman (Environmental Studies), Nuclear America
Anna Filipova (Public Affairs), APNP’s View of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising
Daniel Gier (Foreign Languages and Literatures), Detective Novel in Spanish and Cuban
Ryan Haley (College of Business), Journal Ranking Metrics
Eric Hiatt (Geology), Ancient Glacial-Chemical System, Brazil
Phan Hong (Psychology), Source Credibility, Invalidation, and Emotional Distress
Edwin Jager (Art), William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 55
Marianne Johnson (Economics), Estimating the Welfare Costs of Zebra Mussel Infestations in Wisconsin
Eli Kalman (Music), Lera Auerbach’s Pianism
Nadejda Kaltcheva (Physics and Astronomy), Star Formation in the Seagull Nebula
Courtney Kurtz (Biology and Microbiology), Retinoic Acid in Hibernator’s Intestine
Birgit Leisen Pollack (College of Business), Customer Loyalty Behaviors
Sheri Lense (Chemistry), Multifunctional CO2 Reduction Catalysts
Evan Lipschutz (Art), Decimal and Zero
Gabriel Loiacono (History), A Shepherd, a Pauper and the Poor Law
Nadia Louar (Foreign Languages and Literatures), Bilingual Beckett/Beckett Bilingue
Edward Martin (Music), Composition for Keyboard Percussion Solo
Richard Masters (Art), Forsaken Passages: A Visual Narrative
John Mayrose (Music), Hashlife: Composition for Percussion Duo
Elsbeth McPhee (Biology and Microbiology), Effects of Fluorescent Powder
Anca Miron (Psychology), Empathy and Evidentiary Standards
Michelle Mouton (History), German Children’s Wartime Flight West
Gail Panske (Art), Teh: Printing the Void
James Paulson (Chemistry), Electron Microscopy of Chromosomes
Troy Perkins (Communication), Outpost
Joseph Peterson (Geology), 3D Modelling of a Dinosaur Bonebed
Thomas Rowland (History), Ulysses S. Grant: A Controversial Presidency
Michael Rutz (History), Religion in the Modern Age: Europe
Ryan Skiver (College of Business), Supply Chain View of Green Organization
Stephanie Spehar (Anthropology), Orangutans in Human-dominated Landscapes
Robert Stelzer (Biology and Microbiology), Spring Monitoring Program
Nenad Stojilovic (Physics and Astronomy), Nanofibers for Energy Conversion
Yijun Tang (Chemistry), Improving the Catalysts
Robert Wagoner (Philosophy), Evil and Responsibility in Plato’s Dialogues
Sabbatical Awards
Klara Bahcall (Music), Karl Goldmark, Forgotten Musical Genius
Jessica Calderwood (Art), Floral Fictions
Kevin Crawford (Chemistry), PPCPs and EDCs in the Winnebago System
Douglas Haynes (English), Every Day We Live is the Future
Larry Herzberg (Philosophy), Emotion, Perception, and Self-Knowledge
Paul Klemp (English), Early Modern Execution Rituals (1641–62)
Edward Martin (Music), Microtonal Composition for Marimba
Gail Panske (Art), Near and Far
Susan Ridgely (Religious Studies), Shaping Our Families and World in His Image
Stephanie Spehar (Anthropology), The Behavioral Ecology and Conservation of Orangutans in Human-dominated Landscapes
The following external grant awards – major research and instructional grants of $25,000 or more were awarded in 2013-14:
Catherine Arentsen (Head Start):
–Federal Head Start Continuation Grant (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services): $4,060,486
–Wisconsin Head Start State Supplement (Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction): $98,175
Fredi Giesler (Social Work), Title IV-E Child Welfare Training (Department of Health and Human Services and University of Wisconsin-Green Bay): $192,674
Nancy Harrison (Center for Academic Support and Diversity):
–First Year Scholars/First Year Professionals (Great Lakes Higher Education): $216,445
–Student Support Services Program (U.S. Department of Education): $365,466
Toivo Kallas (Biology and Microbiology), Cyanobacterial Strains and Culture Strategies for Isoprenoid (WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc.): $28,667
Gregory Kleinheinz (Biology and Microbiology):
-Iron County Environmental Health (Iron County Public Health Department): $52,000
-Vilas County Public Health (Vilas County Public Health Department): $225,000
-Vilas County Clean Boats Clean Water Internship Program (Vilas County): $62,100
-Vilas County Transient Non-Community Well Testing (Vilas County/Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources): $48,000
-Assessment of Beach Remediation Efforts at Select Lake Michigan Beaches (U.S. Department of Commerce): $91,944
John Koker (COLS), Implementation of the Collaborative Engineering Technology Program (UW System): $1,900,000
Colleen Merrill (Small Business Development Center):
– Small Business Development Center (Federal Small Business Administration): $88,000
–Small Business Development Center (UW Extension): $90,117
–Alta Resources Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Private Donations): $120,000
– Alta Resources Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation): $97,500
Jamie Page-Stadler (Career Services), Career Ready Internship Initiative (Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation): $150,000
Renee Rickert (CCDET):
–TANF/W-2 Training, Pathlore Services for Childcare, and Child Support (Wisconsin Department of Children and Families): $544,497
-Increasing Safety by Preventing Violence-Civil Money Penalty (Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction): $37,000
Guadalupe Salinas (Center for Academic Support and Diversity):
–Opening Doors to College for Foster Youth Program Grant Proposal (Wisconsin Department of Children and Families): $40,000
-UWO PreCollege Program: MPS Team Gear Up (Milwaukee Board of School Directors): $30,000
Pat Scanlan (Literacy and Language):
-Advancing Disciplinary Literacy in Rural Schools (Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction): $79,565
Jennifer Shuttlefield Christus (Chemistry), Solar Army-SHArk SEAL & HARPOON (National Science Foundation): $50,671
Rosemary Smith (Nursing), Increasing UW System Nursing Program Faculty (UW System): $3,200,000
Wendy Strauch-Nelson (Art), ArtsCore Center Planning (Margaret Cargill Foundation): $58,000
Kim Stuyvenberg (CCDET):
-University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Vet Corps (Wisconsin Department of Human Services): $72,939
-Pathlore (Wisconsin Department of Health Services): $104,160
-Truancy Intervention Program (Winnebago County): $64,260
-Dementia Care Standards: Training Development and Delivery (Wisconsin Department of Human Services): $500,000
Leona Whitman (Nursing), Living Healthy Clinic (Winnebago County Department of Human Services): $126,900
Mary Seaman (Biology and Microbiology), UW Oshkosh McNair Scholars – Year 2 of 5 (U.S. Department of Education): $208,494
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