PresentationCali Biaggi presented a session called "Engaging First Year Students with a Virtual Escape Room" at the Big Talk from Small Libraries virtual conference. The recording of the presentation is available at the link below.
PublicationDr. Jennifer Bossard was Guest Editor of a Special Issue for the Journal of Human Trafficking in January 2022. The introductory article that she wrote is entitled, “The Field of Human Trafficking: Expanding on the Present State of Research."
PublicationOne of Dr. AJ Chauradia's co-authored papers has been published in the Journal of Consumer Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction, and Complaining Behavior. In this paper, the authors study frontline human capital in the airline industry, specifically under what conditions that investment in frontline workers reduces consumer complaints.
PresentationDr. Dan Clanton presented a paper titled “‘Snatching Away’ in the Iliad and in Paul” at the Rocky Mountain/Great Plains Regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature in Denver, CO on 25 March 2022.
Dr. Dan Clanton was one of only twenty-five applicants selected to participate in the faculty seminar on “Teaching Interfaith Understanding,” sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges and Interfaith Youth Core. The seminar will be led by Laurie Patton, president of Middlebury College, and Eboo Patel, founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core, and will “broaden faculty members’ knowledge and perspective to help them strengthen the teaching of interfaith understanding, develop new courses and other resources, and expand the network of faculty members who are committed to teaching this subject.” It will be held in Chicago in June 2022. Clanton recently received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a new academic program in Ethics and Interfaith Studies at Doane University, and plans on utilizing and incorporating what he learns in the seminar in this new program. More information about the seminar can be found at https://www.cic.edu/programs/interfaith.
PublicationOne of Dr. Blake Colclasure’s co-authored papers has been published in the Journal of Advancements in Agricultural Development. In this paper, the researchers examined alternatively certified agriscience teachers’ experiences and responses to challenges in their teaching and management of a school-based agricultural education program.
Blake Colclasure and co-authors, Nicholas Gray (undergraduate student at Doane University) and Laura Young (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) presented the poster "Nebraska Conventional Farmers' Perspectives Toward Agricultural Hemp" at the 2022 National Association for Agricultural Education Conference in Oklahoma City, OK.
Blake Colclasure and co-authors, Jamie Greig (University of Tenessee), Taylor Ruth (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), and Nathan Conner (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) presented the poster "Is It Really That Hard? Developing Immersive Experiences Through Virtual Reality" at the 2022 National Association for Agricultural Education Conference in Oklahoma City, OK. The innovative poster presentation was awarded 1st place at the national conference.
Three students (Kristina Quinn, Arian Alai, and Nicholas Gray) and Dr. Blake Colclasure presented their research at the 132nd annual meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences. The work was supported by Nebraska EPSCoR. Quinn, K., Alai, A., & Colclasure, B. C. (2022, April). Voices from graduate school and the workforce: Identified student outcomes from completing a multi-semester undergraduate research experience. Poster presented at the 132nd Annual Meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Lincoln, NE. Gray, N., Colclasure, B. C., & Young, L. (2022, April). Nebraska conventional farmers’ perspectives toward agricultural hemp. Poster presented at the 132nd annual meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Lincoln, NE.
PublicationDr. Blake Colclasure, Dr. Tessa Durham-Brooks, Dr. Mary Durham, and Dr. AnnMarie Marlier conducted a study about how teaching practices changed during the change to emergency remote teaching the spring of 2020 and factors that affected this transition. The target group was PUI faculty from the midwest. This is the first publication to result. It is an analysis of the barriers encountered during the transition as described through a representative set of fourteen faculty interviews.
GrantDr. Erin Doyle is part of a team of researchers awarded a total of $12.5 million from the National Science Foundation to study the aerobiome over the next 5 years. The Biology Integration Institutes: Regional OneHealth Aerobiome Discovery Network project, which began on Sept 1, 2022, brings together researchers from Colorado State University, CSU Pueblo, Doane University, and the University of Colorado Boulder to study the microbes and microbial communities that are found in the air. Dr. Doyle and students from Doane University will actively participate in the project research by assisting with sample collection, carrying out data analysis, and attending project workshops and symposia. A cohort of three Doane students will begin project research in June of 2022.
PresentationDr. DeAmbrose will be presenting her research “Lead with Love”: A Case Study of Vocal Music Students in the Aftermath of the Pandemic at the International Society for Music Education (ISME) in July 2022.
PresentationIn October, Dr. Tessa Durham-Brooks gave a workshop at the Nebraska Association of Teachers of Science as a follow-up to the Nebraska STEM Education Conference she led last summer. In a workshop during this conference, educators learned how to use the bromegrass system developed at Doane to teach students how to build hypotheses and experimental designs. They also learned how to use the system to introduce computational thinking and coding. In this workshop, educators used the hypotheses they had created previously to practice breaking them down into variables that could be used for graphing and asking statistical questions of their data.
GrantThe NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education grant entitled, "Developing computational efficacy and skill within an inclusive community of practice in the natural sciences (DIVAS Alliance)" was funded. This three-year, $600k project begins July 2022. Dr. Tessa Durham-Brooks serves as Principal Investigator, along with co-PI Raychelle Burks of American University and senior personnel Mark Meysenburg and Erin Doyle. The grant leaders have four partner institutions including the University of Michigan, the University of District Columbia, the University of Nebraska - Kearney, and the University of Nebraska - Omaha. The goal of this project is to build a network of institutions using a Community of Practice model that will foster the computational self-efficacy and skill of students majoring in biological and chemical fields. Through this Alliance, leaders will test a model of growing a sorely needed set of skills in the sciences using inclusive practices. If their project is successful, they will continue scaling up the Alliance for large-scale adoption.
GrantsDr. Brad Elder’s work on making mosquito nets from plastic shopping bags is currently being tested by Habitat for Humanity in southern Kenya. It is designed to provide whole homes protection against mosquitos at nearly no cost. This is the last stage in a $20,000 award for malaria reduction through home construction sponsored by Habitat for Humanity.
Dr. Brad Elder was awarded two Doane funded student research positions for the summer. We will be researching a way to make homes invisible to mosquitoes. Background: Mosquitoes hunt by using CO2. There are ways to vent homes cheaply and possibly for free so that the CO2 in the house is vented 10 to 15 feet above the house. If this works, we can make homes invisible to mosquitos. I will be working with juniors Cierra Meyer and Jaelynn Scott.
Dr. Brad Elder was asked by producers at CNN to edit and narrate a fire documentary (wildland and prescribed fire). Shooting starts after graduation. Dr. Brad Elder has published a video for emergency dispatchers. The video trains dispatch on how to determine if the weather is safe for burning. This video was asked for by Crete after several mistakes. It is starting to be used nationwide.
Dr. 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.
PerformanceJoel Egger, Assistant Professor of Theatre has been cast in the upcoming Angels Theatre Company production of local playwright, Nancy Shank's play THIS MORTAL LIFE ALSO at the Lied Center's Carson Theater. The play centers on the challenging decision of famed German theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, to join the resistance to the Nazi resistance and plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Joel Egger plays Bonhoeffer's famous legal wunderkind brother-in-law, Hans von Dohnanyi who skillfully recruits Dietrich Bonhoeffer to the cause.
Information about the show and ticket information is available on the Lied Center's box office website and here: https://angelscompany.org/tmla/
The production runs March 17-20 and tickets are selling out quickly.
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PresentationJayne Germer co-presented a session called "Don't Throw Away Your Shot: Adopting a Little or No-Cost Electronic Resources Management System Without Causing a Revolution" at the Nebraska Library Association's fall conference.
PresentationDr. Katy Hanggi presented the Integrated Humanities program as part of the MLA Innovation Room.
GrantDr. Katy Hanggi and Dr. Dan Clanton were awarded a nearly $500,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to fund the development of a new Department of Ethics and Interfaith Studies and expand the Certificate in Integrated Humanities program, with the retention of three humanities positions.
PresentationDr. Katy Hanggi and Dr. Kate Marley led an interactive, virtual seminar at the AAC&U annual conference titled: Connecting the Liberal Arts to Career-Focused Students: A Model for Interdisciplinary Pathways through Gen Ed.
PerformanceBridget Hill will be performing in a concert: She Sings: Music by Women Composers, on Saturday, May 21st, 5-6pm at Calvary United Methodist in Lincoln, NE. (1610 S. 11th St./Lincoln, NE) The concert is free and is hosted by the Sigma Alpha Iota Lincoln Alumnae/Patroness chapter.
PublicationDr. Amanda Irions, along with Dr. Leah Cech and Luis Sotelo, published an article titled "Interfaith Incentives: Funding and Measuring Interfaith Education at Doane University," in Interfaith Cooperation for Our Times: Educating Citizens for a Diverse Democracy. This publication is available as a free download from the link below.
GrantIn 2020, Dr. Kim Jarvis and former library director Melissa Gomis were awarded a CIC Humanities Research for the Public Good grant, funded by the Council of Independent Colleges and the Andrew W. Mellon foundation. The project is titled "The Flora of the Nebraska Tallgrass Prairie: Past and Present," and is a partnership with the Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center.
Due to the pandemic, the grant activities were postponed to the 2021-2022 academic year. In that time period, Cali Biaggi stepped in as the collections expert for the grant. The project utilizes two archival collections from the Doane Perkins Library and Archives: the Mary Doane watercolors and materials related to Goodwin Swezey and the Doane Herbarium. These collections along with Spring Creek Prairie’s continued conservation efforts have offered students a unique opportunity to compare the flora of the eastern Nebraska prairie during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with the flora of the twenty-first-century prairie. The project examines what observers of flora saw in the early years of white settlement and development of the landscape and what is present today.
An exhibit opening to showcase student research and the collections will be held on Sunday, April 3 from 12:30 to 3:00 at Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center. The exhibit will be up through the month of April.
Public PerformanceDr. Tom King presented a Chautauqua performance for Crete 2nd graders as President Ulysses S. Grant. He gave the students a 15 minute presentation and had a 15-20 minute question and answer session on a variety of subjects related to the American Civil War, General U.S. Grant and Grants two terms as President.
Dr. Tom King as President Grant with Crete 2nd Graders.
Thursday October 7, 2021
"A Conversation with Mark Twain and Andrew Carnegie"
Dr. Tom King presented a chautauqua presentation as Andrew Carnegie with Warren Brown as Mark Twain. This was a fundraiser presentation for the Crete Public Library in Crete, Nebraska.
PublicationIn June 2021, Dr. Jared List had an article published in the Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies.
He also had a book chapter published in September 2021.
Presentation & AwardDr. Jared List and Dr. Josh Pope facilitated a roundtable discussion called "The Future of World Languages in Nebraska Schools, Colleges and Universities: Observations, Trends, Advocacy" at the Nebraska International Language Association's conference in October, 2021. In February 2022, it was announced that this session was voted "Best of Nebraska" by conference attendees. This means Dr. List and Dr. Pope will present the session at the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in March, 2023.
PresentationDr. Andrea McGrath presented a session titled "Telling Stories: Narrative Therapy and 12-Step Programs as Partners in Treatment" at the American Counseling Association Annual Conference and Expo in Atlanta, GA on April 9th, 2022.
Publication & PresentationDr. Meysenburg made two presentations at the international conference on computer science education, SIGCSE 2022, which was held in Providence, RI, in early March. Dr. Meysenburg served on a panel in the "Innovations and Opportunities in Liberal Arts Computing Education" workshop. During the panel, we presented information about our new Doane Institute for Computing. Later in the week, Dr. Meysenburg presented a poster entitled "The Doane CCLA: Cultivating a Culture of Computing at a Small Liberal Arts University." Two Doane Computing students, Mitchell Norris and Kamryn Plock, accompanied Dr. Mesyenburg to the conference. They attended workshops, watched presentations, and networked with the tech vendors at the conference.
AwardKathy Ohlman received the Bryan R. Johnson Distinguished Service Award from the Nebraska Music Education Association this school year. This peer selected award is given to music educators who exemplify extraordinary service to schools and programs in the music education profession.
PresentationJosh Pope presented "Sociolinguistic variation of learners who studied Spanish in both Spain and Latin America" at the New Sounds 2022 conference on April 21, 2022 in Barcelona, Spain.
AwardPete Poppert received the A.R. Kinney Endowed Chair in Business and Economics.
AwardDr. Deb Sepich was awarded the Doane University COB Mission Award, 9-20-2021
As Chair of the Graduate Business Department, Deb has worked hard to make the MBA an excellent program. She made significant improvements, increasing efficiency, providing excellent support to faculty, and enhancing the student experience. Under Deb's leadership, the MBA was recognized as the 4th best MBA program in Nebraska out of 12 programs in total (University Headquarters (HQ) 2021).
Publication & AwardIn the summer of 2019, "Follow the Baton: the Story of the Wagner Siegfried Idyll Baton" (co-authored by Anita Breckbill and Doane Music Faculty member Hannah Jo Smith) was published in volume 66/3 of Fontes Artis Musicae, the journal of the International Association of Music Libraries. Subsequently, this paper was honored by IAML with The Vladimir Fédorov Award, given annually to the best article published in Fontes Artis Musicae in a given volume year. It is named for Vladimir Fédorov (1901–1979), the first Editor-in-Chief of the journal.
PublicationDr. Sommervold published her first solo book, Moral Imagination through Rowman Littlefield Education in November 2021.
Professional CredentialIn December, Jaye Stentz became a Center for Credentialing and Education, Inc. (CCE) Board Certified Coach (BCC) with specialty designations as an Executive/Corporate/Business Coach and Personal/Life Coach.
Professional LicensureDr. Cale Stolle received his licensure as a professional mechanical engineer in the state of Nebraska in October 2021.
AwardDr. Joel TerMaat was awarded funds from the 2022-2023 Walt Olsen Endowment for Faculty Development. The award will facilitate professional development towards integration of engineering ethics and the liberal arts. The award also includes a pilot study using the validated Defining Issues Test (DIT-2), that seeks to measure the moral development across Doane’s student population, as well as supporting faculty seminars on discussing different approaches to understanding moral development.
Dr. Joel TerMaat, along with 2 undergraduate engineering students, attended and presented at the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum (SEAC) 22nd Annual Conference hosted by the Colorado School of Mines on October 7-9th, 2021 (virtual).
The title of the presentation was "Problem-Based-Learning using recent and local events to explore environmental engineering ethics: a case study of the Mead AltEn ethanol plant situation."
PublicationDr. Tiffany Young published an article in Reading & Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties titled "Redesigning for Equity and Achievement: Non-Leveled Guided Reading Instruction." This article problematizes the system of the leveled grouping of elementary students for reading instruction. It focuses on the ways in which teachers can support the reading achievement of all students by presenting complex texts to readers and providing them with effective scaffolding to support their success.
Tiffany Young co-led a workshop with cross-institutional colleagues which was featured at three national conferences: American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences (AABSS), Conference on Academic Research in Education (CARE), and Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference (EQRC). The workshop was titled "Publishing in JEQR and Qualitative Journals: Outlining Strategies for Success."
Dr. Young was an invited panelist for a session titled Best Practices for Undertaking and Publishing Qualitative Scholarship at the World Qualitative Research Conference.
AwardKathleen Rathje Zumpfe received the Doane University, College of Business Mission Award in recognition of her significant contribution to the college's mission. Doane University's College of Business mission is: achieving excellence through knowledge, experience, and the liberal arts.
The award reads:
Kathleen devotes a significant amount of time and effort to offering experiential leaning opportunities to students. In the classroom, she has organized service learning projects, allowing students to 'learn while doing' and contribute to the community. In addition, Kathleen works with students on their internships. In recent years, she has served as faculty sponsor for 20%-79% of all business internships. She is very involved in the process, carefully reviewing evaluations, offering feedback, and encouraging students.
The award was received October 8, 2021.