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Jaciel Keltgen (Business Administration) pre-sented a paper titled “Gen Y Infuses Healthcare with Generational Angst,” in the Marketing and Management of Health Care track at the 18th annual American Society of Business and Behav-ioral Sciences meeting.

Dr. Barret Eichler (Chemistry) had a paper entitled, “Symmetric diarylacetylenes: one-pot syntheses and solution photoluminescence,” accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal Tetrahedron Letters. Dr. Eichler also pre-sented a paper at the National American Chemi-cal Society in Anaheim, Calif., titled “Synthesis and Characterization of Novel pi-Conjugated 2,3,4,5-Tetraarylsiloles via NiCl2(PEt3)2 Catalysis.” The Augustana Chemistry Department had nine students present posters by students mentored by Dr. Eichler, Dr. Jared Mays, Dr. Bijoy Dey and Dr. Jetty Duffy-Matzner.

Dr. Erin Mercer (Chemistry) had a manuscript titled, “Determination of Free Glycerol in Biodies-el via Solid-Phase Extraction and Spectrophoto-metric Analysis,” accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Oil Chemists’ Society.

Dr. Mitch Harris (English) was invited to be the respondent to the “Donne at Sermons” Session of the 26th Annual John Donne Society Confer-ence.

Dr. Darcie Rives (English) delivered a paper at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900 titled, “Psychiatry and Sexual Identity in Natalie Barney’s The One Who is Legion and H.D.’s HERmione.”

Dr. Joe Dondelinger (Government and Inter-national Affairs) wrote a solicited book review of John R. Pottenger’s “Reaping the Whirlwind: Liberal Democracy and the Religious Axis” for the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. He also taught a seminar entitled, “From the Balkans to bin Laden, Baghdad and Beyond: Racial, Ethnic, Religious, and Nationalist Identity Conflicts in the 21st Century,” at the Federal Executive In-stitute in Charlottesville (attended by 24 senior U.S. federal executives).

Dr. Andrew Gillham (HPER) co-authored two papers to be published in the June 2011 Interna-tional Journal of Sports Science & Coaching. The first article is entitled, “More Cheers and Fewer Tears: Examining the Impact of Competitive Engineering on Scoring and Attrition in Youth Flag Football.” The second article is entitled, “Competitive Engineering: Structural Climate Modifications to Enhance Youth Athletes’ Com-petitive Experience.”

Dr. Harry Thompson (CWS) had a solicited book review published in the Winter 2011 issue of Great Plains Quarterly, a publication of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Thompson was also in-vited to present at the Willa Cather International Seminar, to be held at Smith College, Northamp-ton, Mass., in June. The title of his paper is “This Is Not a Plough: Resisting Authenticity in Cather’s My A’ntonia.”

A paper on the antimicrobial properties of bury-ing beetle anal/oral secretions by Dr. Carrie Hall and Dr. Dan Howard (Biology) was accepted for

publication in Environmental Entomology.

Dr. Sheryl Feinstein (Education) had an article accepted for the African Sociological Review titled “The Division of Household Labor in Tanza-nia: Analysis of Gender Norms and the Lan-guage Used for Rationalizing Gender Inequality.”

Dr. Jeffrey Miller (English) presented the paper “All the Publisher’s Men: Journalism, Gender, and Technology in a ‘State of Play’” at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in March.

Lisa Brunick and Donovan DeJong (Library and ITS) presented on their collaboration recreating the Mikkelsen Library’s web pages in Drupal at the Library Technology Conference held at Macalester College in March. Their pre-sentation was titled “Better Together: Leveraging Strengths to Improve the End User Experience.”

Dr. David O’Hara (Religion, Philosophy & Clas-sics) had a book review of “C.S. Lewis As Philoso-pher” appear in the latest edition of Faith and Philosophy, the Journal for the Society of Christian Philosophers. During the spring semester, O’Hara chaired two sessions on the American Philoso-phy of Religion at the Central Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Minne-apolis. He also gave an invited talk at SDSU on St Paul’s engagement with Epicurus in Philippians 2; gave an invited keynote address on research with undergraduates at Bryan College in Day-ton, Tenn.; and gave a paper at the Mid-Atlantic Pragmatist conference in Asheville, N.C.

“The Optics of Responsibility,” an article by Dr. Stephen Minister (Religion, Philosophy & Classics), was published in Southwest Philosophy Review. He also presented the paper “From the Divine Wisdom Within to a Weapon of War: the Itinerary of Reason in Levinas’s Early Writings” at the North American Levinas Society conference at Texas A&M in May.

Dr. Laurie Jungling (Religion, Philosophy & Classics) was accepted to the 2011 Lutheran Academy of Scholars Summer Seminar at Har-vard University.

Dr. Bill Swart (Sociology) hosted a roundtable discussion on “Strange Bedfellows: Effective Praxis in Consortial Approaches to Short-term Education Abroad” at the annual meeting of the Forum on Education Abroad. He will present his paper, “Integrated Spectacles and Economic Crises,” at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, and is offering a faculty workshop on short term study abroad at Hast-ings College in Hastings, Neb.

Dr. Mike Wanous (Associate Academic Dean)has been invited to participate in the Thrivent Fellows Program. The 12-month leadership development program views the leadership experience through the lens of vocation.

Beth Boyens (English) presented a paper titled “ ’Regions of Fancy’: Mapping Melancholy in Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette” to the Society for Early Americanists at the American Literature Association conference. She also presented a paper titled “To Hell and Back:

Death and Resurrection in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God” at the Women’s Research conference at USD in March.

Dr. Daniel Howard (Biology) and Karla Abbott (Nursing) successfully led efforts to secure a new Augustana chapter of the American Indian Sci-ence and Engineering Society.

Dr. Patrick Hicks (English) had solicited reviews appear in Briar Cliff Review and in Paddlefish. He also had a short story titled “The Background Actor” appear in the Beloit Fiction Journal and his interview with Iraq War Poet Brian Turner will be featured in The Missouri Review.

Dr. Drew Alton (Physics) was invited to speak at the Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics that will be held at the Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia) in August.

Dr. Olivia Lima (Psychology) presented a paper titled “Expanding our Interdisciplinary Perspec-tives on Development” at the Society for Re-search in Child Development Teaching Institute meeting in Montreal, Canada.

Dr. Martha Gregg and Curt Olson (Math) have formed a team with Patrick Henry Middle School Teachers Sarah Ailts and Ruth Johnson and Middle School Math Instructional Coach Mi-chelle Dykstra to start a “Math Teachers’ Circle.” Their application to attend the workshop, “How to Start a Math Teachers’ Circle,” facilitated by the American Institute of Mathematics has been accepted. All five will be spending a week in Washington, D.C., this July. They will be working together to start their “Teachers’ Circle” begin-ning in the fall.

Scott Parsons (Performing & Visual Arts) com-pleted the terrazzo artwork for the University of Alberta’s new Centennial Centre for Inter-disciplinary Sciences. In his words: “The floor is a 10-color epoxy terrazzo design depicting all of the sciences, from a plesiosaur to neurons, fractals, subatomic particles, and stars.”

Dr. Richard Swanson (Religion, Philosophy & Classics) had a solicited article titled “Moving Bodies and Translating Scripture: Incarnation as an Interpretive Discipline” accepted for publica-tion in the summer issue of Word and World.

Dr. Rocki Wentzel (Religion, Philosophy & Clas-sics) had a review of William Harmless’ “Augus-tine in His Own Words” published by Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

Associate Dean of Students Tracy Riddle and Office of Admission Coordinator Marsha Brooks received “Augie Pride” awards at the annual Augustana Service Awards Presentation and Celebration. The “Augie Pride” award recognizes exceptional service. Since assuming her position in 1990, Riddle has been charged with leading the College’s residence life program. She also works with Dining Services, Volunteer Services and Campus Safety (security) programs. Brooks joined Augustana in 1986 and is responsible for coordinating documents and correspondence for students and parents related to the college admission process.