TeachingIn February 2022, Dr. Dan Clanton is teaching his twenty-eighth class at First-Plymouth Church in Lincoln. Creatively titled "Luke-Acts," this is a four-week Zoom course examining one way in which the story of Jesus and his early followers is told at the end of the first century CE.
TeachingStudents in Dr. Erin Doyle's BIO 352: Genetics and Functional Genomics class participated in a Wiki Education project to improve Wikipedia's coverage of basic genetics topics. Students completed training on how to edit Wikipedia before selecting articles to work on. Students added 800+ words and 13 new peer-reviewed references to support their work to four different existing Wikipedia articles. The articles they edited and their edits have been viewed over 80,000 times by Wikipedia users.
Professional Development & TeachingDr. Durham-Brooks attended the AAC&U DESS conference in order to learn more about initiatives relevant to Doane and her professional society. She also learned more the concept of belonging (how it is defined and measured) for research she is conducting within her classrooms.
TeachingDr. Brad Elder was asked by The Nature Conservancy, government agencies of Canada as well as property owners and NGOs to hold fire workshop in Canada this coming fall.
Dr. Brad Elder helps to provide hands-on leadership training in fire and emergency healthcare situations. Crete Fire allows me the opportunity to provide real world learning and leadership experiences. I teach new students every weekend in class and on the job when on calls. It is all volunteer and the learning comes from all quarters. The Cool Background: Crete Volunteer Fire Department has 6 current and 8 former Doane students as well as 2 faculty members. We have recruited Doane students for more than 15 years because it gives our students real learning opportunities, real leadership skills and real on the job experiences. Their experiences here have been cited as reasons for getting the bump into med school and other health programs. Our students regularly save lives, save homes, help people in need and even deliver babies. They learn about healthcare from the emergency side and experience real wins and real losses. It teaches them to be team players leveraging each other’s skills and weaknesses to get a job done. Here is a video of our students in action (The video was made by one of the fire fighters for his own webpage and has no ties to Doane, but it shows our students learning on the job, giving back to the community and being leaders.) Our current and former students often make up the whole team on ambulances and fire trucks. Or students take scene command on car accidents, fires, and medical calls including cardiac arrests. We build leaders.
At 2:54, everyone with a hat on is Doane, at 4:10 100% Doane firefighters and scene command Doane, at 4:45 all but one is Doane, 6:10 100% Doane firefighters and scene command Doane. All helmet cam footage is from my helmet.
TeachingDr. Debora Sepich has been selected to serve as a judge for the BBB Torch Awards for Ethics. Dr. Sepich was a judge in 2019 as well and the award was named the BBB Integrity Awards. Businesses from Metro Omaha, Southwest Iowa, the Kansas Plains, and South Dakota submit applications for review and the winners are honored on September 21, 2022 in Lincoln.