In academia Publications Tom Bertoncino, Ph.D., chair and associate professor of athletic training, wrote an article that appeared in February in PrepsKC, a magazine focusing on high school sports in the Kansas City area. In the article, “Tackling Concussions with Multiple Tests,” Bertoncino recommends a more comprehensive approach to assess and care for athletes with head injuries, especially in regard to concussions. An article by Samuel Chamberlin, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, was published in the March issue of the Journal of Algebra. The title of the article was “Integral Bases for the Universal Enveloping Algebras of Map Algebras.” Suzanne Discenza, Ph.D., associate professor and director of the Master of Healthcare Administration program, wrote “Healthcare Administration: A Demand for Talent,” that appeared in the “Careers in Healthcare” supplement of USA Today in late December 2012. The article discussed how the demand for extraordinary talent in health care management is expected to be “phenomenal.” Jolene Lampton, Ph.D., assistant professor of accounting and management, authored the article “Techniques for Lasting Impact in the Teaching of Ethics,” published in the March issue of the World Journal of Social Sciences. The article discussed methods that can be used in the instruction of ethics. Lolly Ockerstrom, ‘73, Ph.D., associate professor of English, had a monograph on Virginia Woolf published by Cecil Woolf Publishers as part of its Bloomsbury Heritage Series, Virginia Woolf and the Spanish Civil War: Texts, Contexts and Women’s Narratives. Sunita Rao, Ph.D., assistant professor of accounting, co-authored a paper that was published in the conference proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Uncertainty Processing, held in September 2012 in Prague, Czech Republic. The title of the paper was “Assurance Services for Sustainability Reporting Under Dempster-Shafer Theory of Belief Functions.”
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A book written by Brian Shawver, associate professor of English — The Language of Fiction: A Writer’s Stylebook — was published in January by University Press of New England. The book discusses the various issues of language, style and grammar as they are used in novels and short stories.
Presentations Kay Barnes, distinguished professor for public leadership in the Hauptmann School of Public Affairs, and founding director of the Center for Leadership, was the keynote presenter at the Inspiring Women in Public Administration Conference in April in Overland Park, Kan. The focus of Barnes’ keynote address, “Having it All: A Dream or Reality?” was to encourage women to engage in selfreflection regarding their personal and professional goals. Silvia Giovanardi Byer, Ph.D., associate professor and program coordinator of modern languages, presented a paper at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association’s annual conference in Atlanta in November 2012. Byer’s paper, “Mystical Journey in Post-Tridentine Italy,” focused on her research on Isabella Sforza’s biography, revealed through a collection of her letters as a journey into her soul.
Gail Hennessy, assistant professor, Linda Seybert, PhD., associate professor, and Michelle Myers, Ed.D., dean, all in the School for Education, presented “Empowering Teacher Candidates to Use Artifacts to Demonstrate Competency” at the Association of Teacher Educators conference in Atlanta in February. The presentation shared the process the School for Education used when planning, developing and executing a new electronic portfolio to assess and evaluate teacher candidates’ competency of Missouri’s new state teaching standards. Laurel Hilliker, Ph.D., assistant professor of sociology, presented research at the Association for Death Education and Counseling’s annual conference in April in Hollywood, Calif. Hilliker’s research presentation on “Who am I Now? Experiences of Formal Grief Care Among Baby Boomers” was a qualitative study of 38 “boomers” who attended grief support groups after the death of a spouse.