Presentation - December 2023 Nominated by Broadway World as Best Performer in the region for her performance as Pam in "Hunter Gatherers" by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb for the OmniArts Nebraska production in 2022.
Seminar - June 2023Faculty Librarian Cali Biaggi was accepted into the inaugural Transylvania University Digital Liberal Arts Institute in Lexington, KY in June 2023. She took part in three days of workshops and facilitated discussions on three focused topics: digital fluencies (led by Dr. Dànielle Nicole De Voss), wicked problems and design thinking (Dr. Paul Hanstedt), and human-technology interaction, specifically through the lens of Black Twitter (Dr. Meredith Clark).
Presentation - May 2023Cali Biaggi & Jayne Germer, Faculty Librarians, presented a session called "Scaffolding Information Literacy Throughout a Liberal Arts Core Curriculum" at the Nebraska Library Association College & University Section spring meeting at Central Community College, Columbus, NE, on May 19, 2023 . Cali also planned the meeting as the C&U Section chair.
Presentation - October 2023Dr. Erin Doyle was the conference chair for the Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas Women in Computing (MINK-WIC) conference, held October 27-28, 2023, in Lenexa, KS. The conference theme was "Community, Computing, Connections". The conference brought together approximately 200 students, faculty, and industry leaders from the four state area for panels, workshops, research presentations, and a career/graduate school fair. The goal of the conference is to discuss the experiences of women in technology and computing fields, to explore the issues and challenges these women face, and to celebrate and support each other. Dr. Doyle also served as a panel moderator for the panel "Is grad school right for me?" and was a panelist on the panel "Bioinformatics".
Publication - October 2023Courtney Buchkoski published an essay titled, "Growing up American: The Children’s Aid Society and the American West" in Reconsidering Regions in an Era of New Nationalism published by University of Nebraska Press.
Presentation - 2024Dr. Feyes and the Doane Concert Band gave a performance clinic at the annual Nebraska State Bandmasters Association conference entitled, "Significant Repertoire for Young Bands from the NSBA Recommended Music List." The performance clinic provided 5-12th grade band directors from across our state with an opportunity to hear and learn about the musical and educational merits of significant band literature for potential use in their own band programs.
On Tuesday, December 5th, 2023 Dr. Andrew Feyes led the 2nd Annual Elkhorn, Nebraska All-City Honor Band in rehearsal and performance at Elkhorn North High School. In doing so, Dr. Feyes conducted some of Nebraska's finest high school musicians from all three Elkhorn High Schools. Dr. Feyes and the students rehearsed for 5 hours during the school day and gave a performance to the Elkhorn community that evening at 7:00pm.
Dr. Andrew Feyes and the members of the Doane Concert Band performed at Lincoln's Lied Center in conjunction with the Nebraska Music Education Association's annual professional development concert. The Doane Concert Band was one of only two collegiate bands across Nebraska to be selected to perform via peer review of previous concert recordings.
Presentation - February 2024Tim presented with Dr. John Skretta at the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education national conference in Denver, Colorado. Along with Co-authors Dr. Josh McDowell and Dr. Brenda McNiff, they shared about the Educator Pipeline Collaborative Grant program. The presentation was entitled: "Educator Pipeline Collaborative: An EPiC Approach to Grow Your Own".
Presentation - October 2023Dr. Julianna Grabianowski and Jared List presented their research in a presentation titled “Why Ethics Matter in the Classroom and Beyond” at Great Plains Economic and Business Association Conference in Omaha, Nebraska. Their research was supported by a Walt Olsen Endowment for Faculty Development grant.
Presentation & Professional Service - October 2023Rachel Jank was invited to present at Educational Service Unit 11's Fall Conference in Holdrege, Nebraska. She attended as a representative of the Nebraska Writing Project, of which she is a co-director. Her presentations were titled "Building Social-Emotional Skills to Improve Classroom Collaboration" and "On-Demand Argument Writing: Developing Skills for 'Real Life'". The latter focused on the College, Community, and Career Writer's Program, in which Rachel participated as a facilitator of professional development for an i3 grant study.
Rachel Jank presented at the 2023 Wisconsin Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel, a TRIO conference for students pursuing graduate school. The title of her presentation was "Beating Burnout with Boundaries: Mental Health Strategies to Positively Manage Stress."
Presentation - July 2023Kim Jarvis, Professor of History, gave a presentation about her research as part of the Museum of the White Mountains event series "An Enduring Presence: The Old Man of the Mountain," in July 2023. This series celebrated the 20-year anniversary of the disappearance, due to erosion, of New Hampshire's state symbol, the granite profile known as the Old Man of the Mountain. Kim's talk, “The Old Man of the Mountain Would Be Pleased: Preserving Franconia Notch,” focused on the symbolic importance of the Old Man to the environmental history of Franconia Notch, a unique natural feature on the western slopes of the White Mountains. The Museum of the White Mountains is located on the campus of Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH.
Public Performance - September 2023Living History, Chautauqua Presentation as President U.S. Grant for the First Nebraska Infantry Volunteers Social at General George Crook House, 5739 N 30th St, Omaha, Nebraska.
Publication - August 2023Jared List, with co-editor Mauricio Espinoza (University of Cincinnati), co-edited a volume over Central American film titled The Rise of Central American Film in the Twentieth-First Century (University Press of Florida, August 2023). More information about the book can be accessed here: https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683403715
Publication - December 2023Andrea McGrath, with Elyssa Smith (Stockton University), Joshua Mangin (University of Southern Maine) and Nicole Altenberg (Stockton University) published a chapter "Traditional Psychoanalytic Approaches" in a textbook "Counseling Theories and Case Conceptualization". Smith, E. B., McGrath, A. M., Mangin, J., & Altenberg, N. (2023). Traditional psychoanalytic approaches. In S. Flynn & J. Castleberry (Eds.). Counseling theories and case conceptualization: A practice-based approach. Springer Publishing.
Andrea McGrath and Amanda DeDiego (University of Wyoming) engaged in a panel discussion "Professional identity development: Research and implications for inclusive counseling and counselor education" at the ACES national conference in Denver, CO.
Andrea McGrath received the "Outstanding Service Award" from the Wyoming Counseling Association at the annual conference in Casper, WY.
Andrea McGrath presented "Ethical Decision-Making in Applied Cases" and "Ethical Considerations in Rural Practice" at the Wyoming Counseling Association annual conference in Casper, WY.
Andrea McGrath, along with MAC student Jordan Henkel, presented at the Association for Humanistic Counseling annual conference. Their presentation was titled "Destigmatizing Addiction for Trainees in Recovery". Dr. McGrath also participated in a roundtable discussion with Andrew Southerland (Stephen F. Austin State University), titled "Breaking Silos and Stigma in Co-Occurring Care".
Andrea McGrath and Arden Szepe, with Amanda DeDiego (University of Wyoming) and Rakesh Maurya (University of North Florida) published an article titled "Counselor educator workload and burnout in the era of COVID-19" in the Counselor Education and Supervision Journal. DeDiego, A. C., McGrath, A. M., Maurya, R. K., & Szepe, A. A. (2023). Counselor educator workload and burnout in the era of COVID-19. Counselor Education and Supervision, 62(4), 368-383. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ceas.12276
Andrea McGrath and Arden Szepe, with Amanda DeDiego (University of Wyoming) and Rakesh Maurya (University of North Florida) presented "Counselor educator workload, job satisfaction, and burnout in the era of COVID-19" at the ACES national conference in Denver, CO.
Public Performance - July 2023Rob McKercher was the director of Crane River Company’s production of the musical, “SHREK” which ran through the month of July.
Presentation & Professional Service - January 2024Dr. Meysenburg ran his "Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, and the Dawn of Computing," Reacting to the Past (RTTP) game at the 8th annual Reacting Winter Conference, an online event hosted by the University of Georgia, starting on Friday, January 12th. At the conference, Dr. Meysenburg was the "game master," and fourteen other university and high school faculty members played characters in the game. During the four online sessions, participants debated, while playing characters in early 19th century Britain, three issues: 1) whether reason or imagination should rule our lives; 2) whether science should be pursued by wealthy amateurs or as a profession; and 3) the extent to which the government should fund science and engineering projects. Dr. Meysenburg received positive feedback on the game from members of the RTTP editorial board. Additionally, several faculty members who played the game plan to use it in their classrooms in the future.
Publications - April 2023Dr. Mark Orsag and co-author Dr. Amanda McKinney have the following forthcoming publication: Mark Orsag and Amanda McKinney, “It is All Interconnected- A Brief Comparative, Planetary Limits and Lifestyle Medicine Analysis During Three Stages of Human History,” RAIS Conference Proceeding, (Atlantis Press [Springer]), [Forthcoming],2024.
Mark Orsag has had the following article accepted for publication in the (Brill-affiliated) Journal of Applied History: Mark Orsag and Amanda McKinney, “The Alexander Moment”: Complex Systems, Crises, Warnings and the Limitations of Historical Analogy,” Journal of Applied History [Forthcoming], 2024.
Mark Orsag has begun (1/22) a series of six public history presentations at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) [UNL East Campus]– January-March 2024 as part of an Osher course with approximately 90 enrollees on the Russo-Ukraine War. 1. Historical Background –Part I 2. Historical Background– Part II 3.The Soviet Legacy and the Post-Soviet Period 4. Analysis of Origins and Failed Diplomacy 5.Overall Military Analysis 6. Diplomatic, Political, and Economic Analyses. Predictions.
Mark Orsag will be an author on the following forthcoming publication...Amy Lykins, Daniel Hoyer, Amanda McKinney and Mark Orsag, “Planetary Limits and Communities of Life,” [Chapter 3] in Understanding Planetary Limits. Ben McCall, Chelsea Schelly, Amanda McKinney, et al eds. [Cambridge University Press, 2024].
Dr. Orsag presented: “'The Alexander Moment': Complex Systems, Crises, Warnings and the Limitations of Historical Analogy" at the 48th European Studies Conference–University of Nebraska Omaha, (October 5-6, 2023).
Dr. Orsag was part of a team that presented at a national conference: Mark Orsag and Amanda McKinney, “An Approach to Engaging Undergraduate Students in Interdisciplinary Problem-Solving,” The Magna Teaching Professor Online Conference (October 24-26, 2023).
Interdisciplinary Insights from the Plague of Cyprian: Pathology, Epidemiology, Ecology and History (Mark Orsag, Amanda McKinney and DeeAnn M. Reeder) is one of a dozen recently or soon to be published scholarly monographs and edited volumes listed in the "News from and about Colleagues" section of the Association of Ancient Historians (AAH) Fall Newsletter. This international scholarly organization will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in April 2024, with the AAH Annual Meeting to be held at Harvard University.
A publishing contract has been signed for the forthcoming Planetary Limits Academic Network (PLAN) edited volume. Dr. Orsag has been chosen as the lead author for chapter two: Mark Orsag, Daniel Hoyer, Robert McLachlan, Graeme Lang, and Amanda McKinney, “What History Can Teach” [Chapter 2] in Understanding Planetary Limits. Ben McCall, Chelsea Schelly, Amanda McKinney, et al eds. [Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2024].
Interdisciplinary Insights from the Plague of Cyprian co-authors Amanda McKinney and Mark Orsag were interviewed (in July) and quoted (along with academics from Princeton University and the University of Oklahoma) by popular science journalist Dr. Jean-Baptiste Veyrieras for "La mort infernale d'une civilisation", which appeared in the August issue of the French popular science magazine Epsiloon.
Presentation - July 2023Josh published the chapter "Individual differences in the adoption of dialectal features during study abroad" in the edited volume "Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish." The volume was edited by Sara Zahler, Avizia Long, and Bret Linford.
Invited speaker at the Creighton University Fall Mathematics Colloquium. The title of the talk was "Mouse Mind Reading." Abstract
Jerome Roehm spoke at the American Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting. The title of the talk was "Discrete, combinatorial, and topological methods for analyzing stimulus spaces via neural activation sequences". Abstract and more details available here: https://meetings.ams.org/math/fall2023c/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/26422
Performance - June 2023Scenic Designer for The Omaha Theater Company’s production of “Beauty and the Beast” which ran through the end June.
Presentation - May 2023Joel TerMaat, Kristopher Williams, and Christopher Wentworth presented their conference paper "Work-in-progress: Comparison of the DIT2 and EERI instruments for assessing the development of ethical reasoning of engineering students" at the 2023 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Rocky Mountain Section Conference held in Golden, Colorado.
Joel TerMaat, Kristopher Williams, and Christopher Wentworth presented their paper "A cross-sectional study of undergraduates’ ethical reasoning skills at a liberal arts institution" at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2023 Midwest Section Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska. The study was supported by the Walt Olsen Endowment for Faculty Development.
Presentation - January 2024Blake Tobey and Violet Ahrens ('25) presented two student sessions and one director session at the Nebraska Thespian Festival in Omaha, Nebraska. The student session was titled "Completing the Stress Cycle for the Theatre Artist," which explored how the biology of stress uniquely affects performing artists and how they can use biology to complete the stress cycle. The director session was titled "Beating Burnout for Theatre Educators," which focused on how high school theatre directors can schedule their seasons and rehearsals with mental health and sustainability in mind, not only for the directors but the students as well.
Presentation - September 2023J.L. Vertin was selected to present at the 43rd Annual Conference on the First Year Experience in February. The 60-minute presentation, entitled "Prepare for Takeoff! Using Dimensions of Wellness to Increase Self-Efficacy" highlights the effectiveness of the Tiger Takeoff Summer Bridge Program.
November 2023William Whipple, music department, was invited to write a review for publication in the American Music Teacher (AMT) journal. William reviewed new intermediate piano music composed by Bruce Stark (To a Child’s Heart-vol. 1). The review will be available in the Feb/March 2024 issue of the AMT.
Nathaniel Wilson (Dir. of Forensics and Asst. Professor of Practice in Communication) and Jennifer Torres (Asst. Dir. of Forensics) gave a panel presentation at the Nebraska Speech Communication & Theatre Association Convention. This annual convention brings together k-12 Speech and Theatre teachers from across the state of Nebraska to discuss pedagogy in the communication arts, provide support to educators, and evolve Speech and Theater activities at all academic levels.