The Quad

Tina Niemi (Geosciences) was granted a Fulbright Specialist award (www.cies.org/specialists/) to work with the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Haifa in Israel (http://marsci.haifa.ac.il/about.htm). Niemi spent five and a half weeks in Summer 2010 at the new Department of Marine Geosciences doing a workshop on the Quaternary Evolution of the Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba. Niemi and colleagues will edit a special volume on the topic in Quaternary International, the Journal of the International Union for Quaternary Research.

Pellom McDaniels (History) received the  2010 Julius E. William Distinguished Community Service Award from the NAACP at its national convention in Kansas City this summer. The award is for his exhibit “They Came to Fight” and the website and outreach related to African Americans in WWI.
See:- http://www.theycametofight.org/docs/the-came-to-fight-press-release.pdf and www.theycametofight.org

The Dept. of Communications Studies congratulates Walt Bodine on the recent celebration of his 90th Birthday and thanks him for his many years of service to the department and its students as an adjunct professor. as well as KCUR 89.3 FM. For the past 25 years, Walt has worked at KCUR 89.3 FM hosting KCUR’s Walt Bodine Show. An endowed scholarship is planned.
See:- http://www.kansascity.com/2010/09/10/2214033/kcur-reworking-bodines-monday.html and http://www.kcurmultimedia.org/WaltBodine/default.asp

Jim Sheppard (Philosophy) has had his course Environmental Ethics and Policy recognized as one of the top five environmental classes in the nation by the Sierra Club in August 2010.
See:- http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201009/coolschools/fantasydraft.aspx

Clancy Martin (Chair, Philosophy) continues to get accolades for his novel How to Sell.
See:- http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-30/jonathan-franzen-recommends-4-overlooked-books/

Katie Kline (English) and the teachers affiliated with the Greater KC Writing Project were featured on Monday evening August 2, 2010 FOX 4 News broadcast! The news story focused on the ways in which area teachers are meeting the needs of ELL (English Language Learning) students. Check out the video link below. Congratulations for Katie and the GKCWP!
See:- http://www.fox4kc.com/news/wdaf-story-english-second-language-080210,0,2592912.story

Veronica N. Wilson-Tagoe ( Black Studies) has told us of her chapter “Feminism and Womanism” in A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature published earlier this year.
See:- http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405135034,descCd-tableOfContents.html

Richard Delaware (Mathematics and Statistics) has reported on the work of the Southwest Early College Campus Mathematics Team (that included Dr. Frank Gardella of Hunter College ) over the last two years. Since the completion of that report in June 2010, the team has grown from 7 to 17 with expansion of the school from under 500 to over 1600 students. He also has prepared over 40 Mathematics Video Shorts featuring the students of Southwest with the help of an $18,000 grant from PREP-KC. These can be viewed below on the Southwest YouTube Channel which Dr. Delaware maintains.
See:- http://cas.umkc.edu/mathematics/MathTeamReport06-01-10.pdf and http://www.youtube.com/user/southwestecc

Linna Place, Director of International Academic Programs reported in May that Maria Iliakova, a triple major in Biology, Chemistry and Spanish in May 2010, had been awarded a Fulbright to study biology in Barcelona, Spain. Maria also had been in the High School Science, Mathematics and Technology Institute taught by Charles Wurrey, (Chemistry) Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor.

The UMKC Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, was chosen to be among the 12 Best Chapters (out of more than 700) in AY 2009-2010. This recognition is based on an evaluation of the local chapter’s activities program over the academic year according to Beth Miller, their faculty adviser. The award carries a cash prize as well.

Two Sociology majors Kianda Simmons and Dorian Johnson decided to empower and lead fifth to eighth grade girls at Central Academy through a program they created and funded called “Precious Minds.” They were to be recognized by Mayor Funkhouser for their volunteer efforts in May 2010.
See:- http://www2.kcmsd.net/Lists/News1/DispForm.aspx?ID=1185

Deborah Smith (Sociology) has seen a revision of her 2007 award winning paper from The Gerontological Society of America’s Civic Engagement in an Older America Initiative published in Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare.
See:- http://info.umkc.edu/umatters/books-etc-2/

Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, Kathy Krause had an article published, Xanath Caraza had a short story included in an anthology , and Gayle Levy completed a translation that will be a chapter in a book to be published later this year.
See:- http://cas.umkc.edu/ForeignLanguages/FacultyNews.asp and http://cas.umkc.edu/ForeignLanguages/Students-Alumni.asp

Kerri Stowell, who graduated from A&S with a degree in Communications Studies, is now part of KMBZ 9 “First News”. Her career has taken her to Louisiana, Iowa and Nebraska prior to returning to Kansas City.
See:- http://www.kmbc.com/station/24576658/detail.html

Barry Anderson (Art and Art History) had a showing at the Lawrence Art Center June 18 through July 17 that included this piece “Treebeasties”.He also works displayed as part of an exhibit of videos and short films at the Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angeles, July 10 through August 20.

Clancy Martin (Chair, Philosophy) published an article in Harper’s magazine in June, 2010 and one in The London Review of Books in July, 2010.
See:- http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/06/0082994 and http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n14/clancy-martin/things-they-dont-want-to-hear.
He also was interviewed about the themes in his forthcoming book Love, Lies and Marriage, the writing of which was supported by UMRB grants.
See:- http://umresearchboard.org/resources/162

Elijah Gowin (Art and Art History) had his work ‘Into the Sun” exhibited in May 2010 at Dolphin.
See: http://elijahgowin.blogspot.com/

Caroline Davies (Geosciences) reports that she and four environmental studies majors have been awarded a grant for $10,000 to develop and test desiccants and solar collectors to address water needs in developing countries. This is part of the national EPA P3 National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet. They will be presenting their design and research results at the National Sustainable Design Expo in Washington DC, April 2011.
See:- http://www.epa.gov/ncer/p3/index.html

We learned over the summer that the late Jim Phillips, Professor Emeritus of Physics, had his last article published posthumously in June, 2010. A co-authored piece based on research that had been on-going during retirement, it appears in the June 2010 issue of Surface Science, an Elsevier journal.

Five A&S faculty were awarded grants by the Missouri Research Board in July, 2010. They are: Keith Buszek (Chemistry); Ekaterina Kadnikova (Chemistry); Jejung Lee (Geosciences); James Murochick (Geosciences) and Nathan Oyler (Chemistry). We congratulate them.

Dean Karen Vorst announced to the College community on June 24th that Jerry Dias (Chemistry) and Michael Kruger (Physics)were awarded UM Curators’ Professorships.   Nomination and selection of Jerry and Michael for these Professorships were based on their outstanding achievements in creativity and research.

Dias’ appointment was based on his pioneering research in the chemistry and molecular architecture of bile acids and tetracyclic triterpenoids, and on his work in the graph-theoretical classification of benzeniod compounds, an area in which he is arguably the world’s foremost authority.  He has been a prolific publisher, with three books, 185 papers and over 1700 citations.

Kruger’s appointment was based on his numerous innovative and diverse accomplishments in ultra-high-pressure solid-state physics and geophysics. Michael has a strong publication record in top journals, including Physics Review Letters and Science, and he has a strong record of external funding including the prestigious “NSF-Career Award.”

Professors Dias and Kruger join an elite group now at eleven and five previous Curators’ Professors and Curators’ Teaching Professors in the College.

Christie Hodgen (English) has just published her newest book: Elegies for the Broken Hearted. (W.W. Norton & Company.)
See: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/books/review/Rakoff-t.html?_r=1

Carla Noack (Theatre)

Carla Noack teaches acting for the MFA Professional Actor Training Program. She recently enjoyed her fourth year as member of the Great River Shakespeare Festival acting company, where recent roles include Rosalind in As You Like It, Katherine in Taming of the Shrew and the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet. For ten years she was a co-artistic director of the Commonweal Theatre Company in Lanesboro, MN. She has also worked regularly with Minneapolis-based companies Ten Thousand Things and Theatre Latte Da. Most recently, she played Helen in Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s production of The Borderland, Queen Elizabeth in the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s production of Richard III, and a whistling, drumming, Irish ping-pong champ named Josie Horgan in “Boom! An International Lost and Found Family Marching Band”, created by her colleague, Stephanie Roberts. Carla earned her MFA from UMKC in 1992, and first came back to Kansas City in 1997 to play “C” in Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s acclaimed production of Three Tall Women. She is thrilled to back now in the training grounds that provided the foundation for her career.

Ian Besse (Mathematics and Statistics)

Dr. Besse got his B.A. in Mathematics from Grinnell College and his M.S. in Mathematics and Ph.D. (2010) in Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences, both from the University of Iowa. HIs area of research is broadly mathematical biology, with particular emphasis on the mathematical modeling of the electrophysiology of electrophysiology cardiac cells and neurons. He has a background in teaching, having taught at the secondary level both domestically and overseas, directed a college mathematics tutoring center, served as a teaching assistant and worked as an adjunct mathematics instructor at a community college. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, the Society for Mathematical Biology, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Joan McDowd (Psychology)

Joan M. McDowd is a graduate of Washington University and received her doctoral degree in Psychology from the University of Toronto with a specialization in cognition and aging. Her research interests are in attention and executive function in aging. She is recognized nationally for her work in attention in typical aging, and has expanded that work to include age-related neurological deficits such as stroke, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. Of particular interest is the relation between performance on measures of attention and functional outcome.

William Stadler (Criminal Justice and Criminology)

Professor Stadler earned his Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati and his MS and BA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has served as an adjunct professor and undergraduate internship coordinator for the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Stadler has also worked closely with a local social service agency in Cincinnati, conducting research related to offender assessment and treatment. His research interests include offender risk/needs assessment and classification, correctional and community rehabilitation, gender-responsivity, correctional policy, crime theory, and white-collar crime.

Thomas Fisher (Mathematics and Statistics)

Dr.Fisher received his BS degree in Computer Science from University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and an MS and a Ph.D. (2009) in Mathematical Sciences from Clemson University. His research focuses on multivariate statistics and their applications in modern science; specifically in genetics and economics. His published findings include a recent article in the Journal of Multivariate Analysis He is currently investigating estimators for the covariance matrix for applications in biology and finance. He has been teaching for 5-years, most recently at Clemson University as a Visiting Assistant Professor.

Massimiliano Vitiello (History)

Dr. Vitiello is a Visiting Assistant Professor specializing in Roman history and Late Antiquity, particularly the Germanic Kingdoms and the history of Rome and Constantinople. He studied in Rome (“La Sapienza”) and in 2001 completed his Ph.D. at the University of Messina. Since then, he has been honored with postdoctoral scholarships in Europe and in Canada. As a fellow of the “Alexander von Humboldt” foundation, he continued his research activity at the University of Münster (Germany) between 2004 and 2006. Most recently he has been a research fellow at the “Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies” in Toronto (Canada), where he earned the License in Mediaeval Studies. Dr. Vitiello is the author of two books, Il principe, il filosofo, il guerriero: lineamenti di pensiero politico nell’Italia ostrogota (Stuttgart 2006) and Momenti di Roma ostrogota: aduentus, feste, politica (Stuttgart 2005) as well as numerous articles in international journals. His research interests include Roman historiography and Quellenforschung (History of Texts), as well as political, social and economic history. His current research project includes a third monograph on the Gothic King Theodatus and a study of the damnatio memoriae.

Pearlie M. Johnson (Black Studies)

Dr. Johnson has an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Art History and Sociology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City (2008). Her dissertation African American Quilts: An Examination of Feminism, Identity, and Empowerment in the Fabric Arts of Kansas City Quilters, explores a complex system of symbols and encoded images that address theoretical issues related to African and African American studies. A current research project involving her work is the upcoming exhibition African American Quilts Today: A Celebration of Motherhood, Sisterhood, and the Matriarchs, scheduled for October 21 – December 31, 2010, at the New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts. Johnson joins the University as Visiting Assistant Professor of Black Studies.

Paul J. Schroeder (Psychology)

Professor Paul J. Schroeder received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research interests include working memory, text comprehension, and changes in cognitive function that accompany healthy aging. He teaches introductory and advanced undergraduate psychology courses.

UMKC celebrated the promotion and tenure of 24 members of its faculty on September 1st at Pierson Auditorium. Among them were seven from the College. We congratulate them here as well.

	Awarded Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure Rosalyn M. Bertram (School of Social Work)
	Awarded Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure Mona Lyne (Political Science)
	Awarded Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure Diane Louise Mutti-Burke (History)
	Awarded Promotion to Professor Keith Buszek (Chemistry)
	Awarded Promotion to Professor Delwyn Catley (Psychology)
	Awarded Promotion to Professor Clancy Martin (Philosophy)
	Awarded Promotion to Professor Kati Toivanen/strong> (Art & Art History)

New Staff

• Steven Siegel  — Sr. Research Design Engineer
  (Physics)

Years of Service Awards

• 30 years: Connie Powell
  (Dean’s Office)
• 10 years: Cecelia Brewer
  (APP Coordinator)
• 10 years: Cynthia Stofiel
  (Theatre Dept)

Retirements

Lester Porter,  (Physics) Senior Research Design Engineer retired on July 30, 2010 after 15 years of service to the College of Arts and Sciences.  Les worked to design and build scientific equipment for both Physics and Chemistry faculty, as well as researchers at the Stowers Institute.   Les trained faculty in the research shop, and a few generations of students on safe and effective machining practices in the student shop.  He brought much needed improvement to the existing machinery, expanded the shops’ capabilities and also making them more responsive to the users’ needs.  Les also helped members of the Society of Physics Students build impressive demonstrations such as the giant vortex generator and the electromagnetic can crusher.

• see: http://cas.umkc.edu/physics/sps/projects/vortex/vortex.html and http://cas.umkc.edu/physics/sps/projects/cancrusher/cancrusher.html

It was in July that the moving van pulled up to Epperson House and moved the Department of Architecture, Urban Planning + Design to Katz Hall!  As of mid-August, the spaces all came together and look terrific. A very BIG thank you goes to Dick Ahsmuhs for his untiring focus on securing furnishings for the new building. UMB Bank has donated furnishings that grace the offices, reception areas, and studios. The idea of using signature pieces in offices and common areas has also been supported by the furniture donations from UMB Bank. The gifts have made an incredible difference to the department.

Michael Frisch (AUP+D) reports that he raised over $12,000 from the Local Initiatives Support Corporation to support his studio.  A story on the work was recently published in the Northeast News: http://www.northeastnews.net/indepavetalked.html.



We are delighted to roll out this special issue of the A&S College’s E-Zine. It celebrates the many accomplishments of our faculty during 2009, though clearly it does not represent everything that faculty have been doing. We would need a much bigger venue for that.

Not only do we want to highlight faculty activities, but we also want to share information across the College and the campus. Often we know what is happening in our own departments but we may not know what is going on elsewhere. The interdisciplinary nature of our College necessitates data sharing and we hope that presenting the accomplishments of our faculty here will lead to more collaboration within and across departments.

As you’ll see in these pages, we have so much to celebrate. We have an amazing collection of published books and articles on a wide variety of topics. There are important conference presentations, invited lectures and bestowed honors. Included also are myriad art exhibitions, play and film creations and directorships. Grant production in the College has expanded as well, including funding from national and international organizations.

Congratulations to our faculty for a very productive year!

Karen S. Vorst
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

This special issue of the A&S E-Zine had its origins in a comment made to the editor in December 2009 that the format of the then new E-Zine did not permit the sharing of scholarly and creative activities that either could not be captured by links to online content or otherwise in a format that was not suited for the E-Zine. As a consequence, I pledged that I would publish a special issue where all A&S faculty and units could provide material on a particular accomplishment during calendar year 2009.

The original call for submissions went out in January, published in the E-Zine and was included in correspondence with chairs at several points between January and the end of May. The result is an impressive mix of activities that, while not comprehensive, does provide an interesting sampling of our College’s academic accomplishments.

I thank the chairs and the faculty who responded and helped create this issue. The Editor alone is responsible for the manner in which the materials submitted have been presented to our readers.

Next Issue

For those who have already submitted materials (or plan to do so) for the next regular E-Zine, it will be published in late August or early September. Please provide a brief summary with links to where more information can be found electronically. Thank you for your contributions.
Send items to Neumand@umkc.edu.

— Dale Neuman, Editor

(Alphabetical by faculty member’s last name)

Ricky Allman (Art and Art History) was included in an exhibit at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, IL called Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture which coincided with the publication of the book Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture by Front Forty Press, www.front40press.com/sotar.php

• For exhibit info, see: www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2009/07/signs_of_the_apocalypserapture.php

Barry Anderson (Art and Art History) exhibited “Intermissions,” a solo city-wide project involving 13 venues and numerous billboard sites around the Syracuse University campus and city of Syracuse, New York. Highlights included a solo exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art and a new video installation for the Light Work Gallery.

• See: www.lightwork.org/exhibitions/past/anderson.html and www.barryanderson.com/exhibitions/intermissions/

Architecture, Urban Planning + Design received national accreditation/candidacy status in 2009 from the national Planning Accreditation Board.

Scott Baker (Foreign Languages and Literatures) published an article; “The Insufficiency of Irony: The Evolution of Brecht’s Epic Theater,” Brecht Yearbook 34 (2009): 207-226. See: Political Intimacies/Politische Traulichkeiten. Friedemann J. Weidauer, ed. The Brecht Yearbook/Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 34.

Scott also presented four lectures in the Cockefair Series in fall 2009 titled: “Bertolt Brecht as Playwright and Poet.”

Virginia Blanton (English) was inducted into the Scholars Hall of Fame (2009) at her alma mater, Southwestern College.

• See: www.sckans.edu/alumni-and-friends/halls-of-fame/scholars/

Michelle Boisseau’s (English) fourth book of poetry, A Sunday in God-Years, was published (2009).

• See: www.uapress.com/titles/sp09/boisseau-sunday.html

Mitchell Brian (Communication Studies) saw the world premier of his play Maul of the Dead in October, 2009 as part of the Coterie at Night Series.

• See: www.pitch.com/2009-10-29/culture/in-the-coterie-s-maul-of-the-dead-zombies-have-bloody-fun-at-the-mall/

Jie Chen (Mathematics and Statistics) and her collaborator published a research paper “A Statistical Change Point Model Approach for the Detection of DNA Copy Number Variations in Array CGH Data” in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics in 2009.

• See: http://http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/TCBB.2008.129

Robert Cohon, who has a joint appointment with the Department of Art and Art History and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, completed the installation of ancient Egyptian art at the Nelson-Atkins.

• See: www.nelson-atkins.org/art/egyptian.cfm

Frances Connelly (Art and Art History) has been invited to contribute a volume to the series on modernism published by Macmillan Palgrave.

Steve Dilks (English) is Director of Universal Design for Learning, an appointment that is part of a $1.3 million NSF grant called KC-Bancs, coordinated by Ronda Jenson in the Institute of Human Development and Kevin Truman, dean of the School of Computing and Engineering. The grant is designed to develop programs at UMKC, the Metropolitan Community College and Kansas City Community College, with a view to increasing the number of students with disabilities—including veterans with disabilities—majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

Jenni Frangos (English) has been promoted to Editor of Eighteenth Century Theory & Interpretation, which has just moved to the University of Pennsylvania Press and now publishes four issues per year.

• See: http://ecti.pennpress.org/strands/ecti/journalInfo.htm;jsessionid=84975F8792543D1B6340CE210ED3044B

Gene Friedman (Theatre) received promotion to associate professor, with tenure, September 2009, in recognition of his national standing as a designer, historian and educator. In May 2009, Gene published The Eighteenth Century Liturgical Costume Collection of Zuni Pueblo, a catalogue and history of the oldest intact set of Catholic vestments in North America.

Michael Frisch (Architecture, Urban Planning + Design) was guest co-editor and co-author of the introductory essay with Jacob Wagner of the “Special Issue: New Orleans and the Design Moment,” Journal of Urban Design.

• See: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/spissue/cjud-si.pdf

He also presented papers at national meetings.

The German Studies program, which began in the 2007-08 academic year with the introduction of a minor degree, graduated its first student in Fall 2009. This interdisciplinary, team-taught course of study encourages students to learn the German language as well as take classes across disciplines that focus on, or centrally include, the history and cultures of the German-speaking countries.

Elijah Gowin (Art and Art History) was honored when the Charlotte Street Foundation and Urban Culture Project’s Paragraph Gallery hosted “The Heaviest Flower,” an exhibition of recent photographic work by Gowin and Colby Caldwell in October-November 2009.  An 80-page full-color catalog was published in conjunction with the exhibit.

• See: www.charlottestreet.org/2009/10/the-heaviest-flower-elijah-gowin-colby-caldwell-opens-at-ucps-paragraph-gallery-october-16/

Gregory Gutenko (Communication Studies) had six short film and video projects screened in 2009 at film festival venues across the country and in Canada. One of the six, “Flora’s Fancy Free,” an animation/live action dance film, took first place in its category at the ReelHeART Film Festival in Toronto.

• See: www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi1885144345/

Eric Hall (Mathematics and Statistics) worked on a paper on relative logical strengths of different forms of the axiom of choice for finite sets. This is a joint project with Saharon Shelah of Hebrew University and Rutgers University.

G. Derrick Hodge (Sociology) co-edited a book with Merrill Singer, The War Machine and Global Health.

• See: www.altamirapress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0759111901&thepassedurl=%5Bthepassedurl%5D

Jessica P. Hodge (Criminal Justice and Criminology) completed her book, Gendered Hate: Exploring the Gender Category of Hate Crime Law and it is scheduled for publication by in spring 2011 by Northeastern University Press under the University Press of New England. The book involved a case study of New Jersey’s bias crime statute. (Their 2011 catalog is not yet online.)

Christie Hodgen (English) won a Pushcart Prize in 2009 for a short story “Tom & Jerry” published in Ploughshares in 2008.

• See: www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?intAuthorID=7244

Alexander Holsinger (Criminal Justice and Criminology) completed work on the fourth edition of Correctional Contexts an edited volume that will be published by Oxford University Press dealing with the American correctional system.   See: www.oup.com/us/catalog/he/subject/CriminalJusticeCriminology/Corrections/Corrections/?view=usa&ci=9780199751464

Kristi Holsinger (Criminal Justice and Criminology) continues to work closely with the Family Court to provide service learning opportunities for students. This unique program gives students real-world experience working with at-risk delinquent girls, and is a mutually beneficial relationship between UMKC and Jackson County.

• See: www.umkc.edu/news/feature.asp?id=117

Kristi Holsinger, Toya Z. Like and Jessica P. Hodge (Criminal Justice and Criminology) collaborated to write “Gender-specific programs:  A glimpse of where we are and where we need to go.” This work examines the practices of one juvenile court system in the Midwest from many different perspectives to assess how adolescent females are being served and to identify areas for improvement. The article appears in Women, Girls and Criminal Justice (Volume 1, pp. 1-16).

• See: www.civicresearchinstitute.com/wgc_book.html

Daniel Hopkins (Geosciences) reported publication of his article “Peter Thonning, the Guinea Commission, and Denmark’s Post-abolition African Colonial Policy, 1803-1850” in William and Mary Quarterly, October 2009.

• See: www.historycooperative.org/journals/wm/66.4/

Sungyop Kim (Architecture, Urban Planning + Design) published four articles and made numerous invited conference presentations based on his research on factors affecting transportation and transportation safety issues in the U.S. and abroad. One example is his work “New Immigrants and Transportation: An Analysis of New Immigrant Workers’ Work Trips” in Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research.

• See: www.huduser.org/portal/periodicals/cityscpe/vol11num3/ch7.pdf

Toya Z. Like (Criminal Justice and Criminology) published work describing the history of school victimizations in the United States over the past twenty years. This work appears in the Handbook of Victimology, and can be found at: www.greenwood.com/catalog/C35935.aspx

She also is working closely with the Hickman Mills Prevention Coalition’s (HMPC) Youth 4 Change (Y4C) committee is centered on Y4C’s initiative to prevent and reduce alcohol and drug use among youth in the Southeastern portion of Kansas City. More information may be found at www.hmpreventioncoalition.org.

Felicia Londré (Theatre) was elected to a second term on the Board of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. Her twelfth book, The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theater, which last year won the George Freedley Memorial Award, was subsequently recognized with Jackson County Historical Society’s Education Award.

Jennifer Martin (Theatre) was the choreographer for Bare at Unicorn Theatre in Winesburg, Ohio and at the KC Repertory Theatre and Merry Wives of Windsor at Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. Martin published two papers at ATHE in New York: “Embedded Period Movement Directions in Shakespeare’s Texts” and “Defining Original Research for a Kinetic Journal.” The ATME Journal premiered with her kinetic article on “Using a Period Movement Score in Training, Rehearsal and Performance” based on Theodore Swetz’s production of The Country Wife featuring UMKC actors, designers, and technicians. Check it out at www.ATMEWEB.org – click on “Online Resources” and then on “ATME Digital Journal.”

Daniel McIntosh (Physics) was co-author of “Structural Properties of Central Galaxies in Groups and Clusters” in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, September, 2009. See: www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122593922/issue

Beth Miller (Political Science) and Jennifer Lundgren (Psychology) noted the publication of “An Experimental Study of the Role of Weight Bias in Candidate Evaluation” in the journal Obesity, December 2009.

• See: www.nature.com/oby/journal/v18/n4/abs/oby2009492a.html

Kenneth Novak (Criminal Justice and Criminology) published an invited essay in Criminology and Public Policy entitled “Reasonable officers, public perceptions, and policy challenges.”

• Journal information may be found at www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=1538-6473

Jennifer Phegley’s (English) collection of essays, co-edited with Andrew Maunder, has just been published by Palgrave/Macmillian (2010): Teaching Nineteenth Century Fiction.

• See: http://us.macmillan.com/teachingnineteenthcenturyfiction

Physics reported a range of research activities that reflected over $900,000 in external grants and contracts for calendar year 2009 as well as receiving three Good Teaching Awards in early 2010 by its faculty.

Louis Potts (History) reported that he lectured at the Middelburg Center for Transatlantic Studies for three weeks on the topic of “The American Revolution.” 

• See: www.transatlanticstudies.org

Noah Rhee (Mathematics and Statistics) published a paper (co-authored with J. Ding and J. Kolibal) titled “Integral and non-negativity preserving Bernstein type polynomial approximations” in International Journal of Computer Mathematics.

• See: www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a794849712~frm=titlelink

Stephanie Roberts (Theatre) co-directed the first year Discovery Project, The Tempest, with Carla Noack. She also choreographed and coached movement for UMKC’s world premiere of The Master and Margarita. Her original show Boom! An International Lost and Found Family Marching Band enjoyed a successful run at the Kansas City Fringe Festival and at the St. Mane in Lanesboro, MN. In August, she presented a session on “Ensemble Awareness and Availability” at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference in New York City.

Over the last year Ron Schaeffer (Theatre) directed Brighton Beach Memoirs at the Black Hills Playhouse in South Dakota. The show employed one graduate acting student, Grant Prewitt, one graduate scenic designer, Evan Hill, and one just-graduated stage manager, Laura Krouch. In fall 2009, he directed I’ll Be Back Before Midnight at the American Heartland Theatre in Kansas City, as well as The Laramie Project for UMKC.

Liana Sega (Mathematics and Statistics) and her collaborators published a paper “Acyclic complexes of finitely generated free modules over local rings’’ in the international journal Mathematica Scandinavica.

• See: www.mscand.dk/issue.php?year=2009&volume=105&issue=1

Max Skidmore (Political Science) noted that his most significant accomplishment in 2009 was seeing to completion the UMKC Accreditation Self Study 2007-2009. Skidmore served as Steering Committee Chair.

• See: www.umkc.edu/accreditation/docs/selfstudy09/UMKC_HLCselfstudy2009.pdf

New Letters, edited by Robert Stewart (English), won the trifecta—three national awards for literary publishing in 2010. See: www.newletters.org/Pushcart2010.asp

New Letters on the Air won a NEA/NPS grant for preserving recordings, awarded to Robert Stewart and Angela Elam. See: http://cas.umkc.edu/english/publications/Fall2009NewsletterIssue%202.pdf

Tom Stroik’s (English) book, Locality in Minimalist Syntax, was published by MIT Press (2009) and a collection of essays on his linguistic theory also appeared, published by John Benjamins Publishing (2009).

• http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11785
• www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA%20144#toc

Craig Subler (Art and Art History) was selected as an artist in residence at Scuola Internatinale DeGrafica in Venice, Italy for six weeks during the summer of 2009.

• See: www.scuolagrafica.it

Joy Swallow (Architecture, Urban Planning + Design) was named 2009 Educator of the Year by The American Institute of Architects / Kansas City Chapter.

Theodore Swetz (Theatre) played the role of Bengalsky in the department’s world premiere of The Master and Margarita written by Ron Hutchinson and directed by Barry Kyle. This past summer he played Polonius in the critically acclaimed production of Hamlet led by alum Todd Carlton Lanker (who played Hamlet) and directed by Kyle Hatley,  Assistant Artistic Director of the Kansas City Rep.

Kati Toivanen (Art and Art History) and Michelle Boisseau (English) collaborated to do the book cover artwork for Bousseau’s book A Sunday in God-Years.

• See: www.uapress.com/titles/sp09/boisseau-sunday.html

Wayne Vaught and Clancy Martin (Philosophy) had their reader on professional ethics published by Oxford University Press.

• See: www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/?queryField=author&query=vaught&view=usa&viewVeritySearchResults=true

Hristo Voulov (Mathematics and Statistics) published “Asymptotic Behavior of the Solutions of a Nonlinear Difference Equation,” in the Journal of Difference Equations and Applications.

• See: www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a912618594~frm=titlelink

Jacob Wagner (Architecture, Urban Planning + Design) was guest co-editor and co-author of the introductory essay with Michael Frisch of the “Special Issue: New Orleans and the Design Moment,” Journal of Urban Design.

• See: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/spissue/cjud-si.pdf

He also completed grant-funded research and presented papers at national and regional conferences.

Randall Wray (Economics) along with his co-PI William Mitchell of the University New Castle (Australia) completed the first phase of a multi-year project funded by the Asian Development Bank. They produced three papers and organized a conference held in Almaty, Kazakhstan to work with researchers from the Central Asian Republic nations (CAREC) addressing the project’s topic: “Developing a sustainable macroeconomic policy response to the global financial, energy and food crises in the CAREC countries.”

Xin Yan (Mathematics and Statistics) published with his co-author Xiao Su Linear Regression Analysis: Theory and Computing.

• See: http://ebooks.worldscinet.com/ISBN/9789812834119/9789812834119_0001.html

Yong Zeng continued to do his research with an active NSF grant entitled “Statistical Analysis of the Filtering Models with Marked Point Process Observations: Applications to Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) Data” in 2009.