Category: Professional Notes

Ben LaBreche, assistant professor of English, has been awarded a month-long fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas-Austin. His research will focus on Milton’s conception of liberty, 17th-century natural law, and debates in modern political theory.

LaBreche also is the recipient of a Clark Short-Term Fellowship for research at the University of California, Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and of a year-long Solmsen Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research in the Humanities.

Susan Knick, director of conferences and scheduling, presented a session on emergency management planning at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Conference and Event Directors – International (ACCED-I) in Toronto, Canada.  Attendees included campus professionals who design, market, coordinate and plan conferences and special events on the campuses of colleges and universities in North America, South America, Europe and Asia.

Warren Rochelle, professor of English, presented the paper “Crises of Faith: God(s) and Humankind in Caprica” at the joint meeting of the Science Fiction Research Association and the Eaton Science Fiction Conference in Riverside, Calif. The international conference, sponsored by the University of California at Riverside, was held from April 11 through 14.

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the university’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently presented a co-authored research paper,  “Election News Coverage across the Atlantic: 2008 US Presidential Election Campaigns on German, UK and US Television,” at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago. The paper is part of a chapter in Dr. Farnsworth’s latest co-authored book, “The Global President? International News and the U.S. Government,” which will be published by Rowman & Littlefield later this year.

Courtney Clayton, Assistant Professor of Education, and George Meadows, Professor of Education, published their article, Action Research in Preservice Teacher Education, in the Spring 2013 volume of The Teacher Educators’ Journal. The journal is published by the Association of Teacher Educators in Virginia. The Association of Teacher Educators was founded in 1920 and is an individual membership organization devoted solely to the improvement of teacher education both for school-based and post secondary teacher educators. ATE members represent over 700 colleges and universities, over 500 major school systems, and the majority of state departments of education.