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FACULTY AND STAFF ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND BEST PRACTICES // February 2020
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Gabi Martorell published her seventh textbook, a lifespan human development text entitled, "Experience Human Development 14E,"
with McGraw-Hill Education. Her book focuses on culture and diversity, practical applications of psychology, and up-to-date research in human development.
Paul Ewell had an article published in the SAM Advanced Management Journal entitled,
"Issues Related to Labor Shortages and Port Effectiveness." Volume 84 Edition 3 | Summer
2019.
Bill McConnell coauthored an article with adjunct Mindy Gumpert entitled, "An examination of the argumentation abilities of secondary students with disabilities using socioscientific issues," in the latest edition of the Journal of Virginia Science Education.
Kathy Merlock Jackson wrote the lead book blurb for the back cover of "The Twentieth-First-Century Western: New Writers of the Cinematic Stage," edited by Douglas and Shea T. Brode and published by Lexington Books, 2020.
In her new children's book, VWU Professor of Education Emeritus Dr. Karen Bosc
h tells the story of a Canadian goose with autism who's learning to swim, honk, and fly alongside his siblin
gs. Co-authored
with her daughter Morghan and illustrated by Leyla (Fransen) Caralivanos '99, "Being Cha
rley: Embracing Differences" is currently a "hot new release" on Amazon.
Follow Charley on Facebook
and Instagram at @WeAreCharley.
Terry Lindvall p
ublished the article, "Green Cartoons: Toward an Environmental Pedagogy of the Animated Parable," with William J. Brown in
Animation: An Interdisciplin
ary Journal
14: 3, November 2019.
received her Ph.D. in Sport & Recreation Management, Fall 2019.
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Kathy Merlock Jackson, Lisa Lyon Payne, and Kathy Shepherd Stolley gave a presentation titled, "Our Animals/Ourselves: The Blurred Line Between Humans and Animals in Popular Culture," at the Virginia Beach campus of Tidewater Community College for the Institute for Learning in Retirement. The presentation was based upon their book, soon to be published by McFarland Press.
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This semester several of the VWU faculty are partnering with Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake Bay to support the Westminster/Wesleyan Lifelong Learning Institute. The program brings together key professors from a variety of areas within the University to engage the Westminster-Canterbury community. This intellectual encounter promotes healthy and happier living among participating senior adults.
The following faculty are teaching during the spring 2020 semester:
Dr. Kathy Merlock Jackson: The Documentary film: The March of the Penguins.
Paul L. Ewell:
From the Dugout Canoe to the Carolina Skiff: The Evolution of Chesapeake Bay Workboats
Timothy G. O'Rourke: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue.
Terry Lindvall: Laughing!
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Benjamin Dobrin recently renewed and upgraded his USCG/Merchant Mariners Credential from a OUPV (6-pack) to a 50-Ton Master, Near Shore. He is now eligible to take vessels up to 50 gross tons up to 100 miles off-shore.
Kathy Merlock Jackson served as a judge for this year's Jones Award for the best paper in American culture to be presented at the Popular Culture Association conference in Philadelphia in April. The award is named after former Virginia Wesleyan political science professor William M. Jones, who was co-editor of the Journal of American Culture and an officer of PCA.
April Christman and
Benjamin Dobrin developed and led an "Intervening with Suicidal Individuals" training for the Chesap
eake Police Department's Crisis Negotiating Team.
Paul Ewell was elected President of the Hampton Roads Chapter of the Association for Supply Chain Management.
Paul Ewell was appointed Chair of the Education & Training Committee of the Virginia Maritime Association.
Travis Malone
directed th
e
January Term production of "PUFFS...or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic.' Performances took place in the Joan and Macon Brock Theatre and feature
d 11 students from the TH270/370 January Term course.
at Gallery 21, located on 21st Street in the Ghent section of Norfolk, through the month of January 2020. The
exhibition, titled "Akiko and Friends," included 37 regional artists invited to celebrate Japanese artist Akiko
T
anaka's farewell exhibition in the United States.
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Ben Haller and
Travis Malone received a grant for $3,000 from
Virginia Humanities
to bring Peter Meineck of NYU to the Susan S. Goode Fine and Performing Arts Center in February. They organized a performance of Meineck's Warrior Chorus pr
oject, which staged readings of Greek tragedies, employing
veterans of the U.S. military as performers, and provided benefits for VWU veterans and other
area military personnel.
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As a fall 2019 semester project, students in
Kathy Stolley's
"Small Groups" course developed and hosted an Escape Room for students from Tidewater Collegiate Academy (TCA). The challenge was to find the holiday gifts hidden by a rogue elf. The TCA team did a great job of solving the clues with time to spare!
In "Visualizing Homelessness: Service Learning and Issues of Civic Engagement in Hampton Roads" (INST/PORT 123/124), 85 students (including
12 student shelter managers) served in six area shelters across Coastal Virginia logging in over 1,586 hours of service-learning within two weeks. The class, taught by Takeyra Collins, Kathy Stolley, and Robin Takacs, featured a panel of community professio
nals (including two shelter manager alumnae) and Skyped with Dr. Eric Weisaman, the award-winning author of the course textbook.
Hofheimer Library and INTEL sponsored "Escape from Hofheimer Library," an escape room activity that was created, organized, and led by Amber Gruszeczka. Teams of three to six students and staff signed up to
complete the quest to escape from the library before Hurricane Hofheimer landed on the VWU campus
. The event was very successful and included participation by eighteen groups (53 students and six faculty/staff), and included J-term classes: Math 104 Algebra and Its Applications (
Denise Wilkinson
), and Sociology 308 (
Jeff Toussaint
). Student reflections on their experiences included the focus of teamwork, critical thinking, transference of soft skills, information literacy, and connections to course material.
Amber Gruszeczka, Kathy Stolley
and
Denise Wilkinson
will present a session at an upcoming pedagogy conference in Blacksburg, VA, this month titled"Creating Campus Escape Rooms to Enhance Student Engagement."
Batten Fellows engaged in service in both Washington, D.C. and Virginia Beach during the HON 150 "Leadership and Civic Responsibility" course, led by
Joyce Easter
and Kathy Merlock Jackson. One service experience aimed to improve literacy, while the other directly addressed the issue of housing insecurity; but an overarching theme in both was the impact of poverty. These opportunities allowed students to have a positive impact while engaging directly with individuals in the community, to shatter previously held stereotypes, and gain a better perspective and understanding of the world around them.
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