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Millikin Interdisciplinary Faculty Conference 2008

Saturday, Feb 16, 2008
Pilling Chapel & Scovill Hall, Millikin University

8:00 am • Welcome – Pilling Chapel
               Mark Munoz, Randy Brooks, Jamie Comstock

8:30 – 9:30 • Session 1 Presentations (Three Tracks) – ADM Scovill (200-level rooms)

9:30 – 9:50 • Morning Break

9:50 – 12:30 • Session 2 Presentations (Three Tracks) – ADM Scovill (200-level rooms)

12:30 – 1:30 • BOX LUNCHES in ADM Scovill lounges & 200-level rooms

1:30 – 2:50 • Session 3 Presentations (Three Tracks) – ADM Scovill (200-level rooms)

3:00 – 3:15 • Closing Remarks – Pilling Chapel


Track 1: Faculty Research
Location: ADM-Scovill Room 211 (three sessions)

Session 1: 8:30-9:40 • Chair – Kathy Booker

8:30-9:00 Travis Stimeling
“Bob Wills Is Still the King”: Western Swing Revivalism and Progressive Country Music in Austin, Texas

9:10-9:40 Tatiana Isakovski
“Merger Game: An Alternative Case Method”

Session 2: 9:50-12:30 • Chair – Rene Verry

9:50-10:20 Chuck Ciorba & Neal Smith
“Measurement of Instrumental and Vocal Undergraduate Performance Juries Using a Multidimensional Assessment Rubric”

10:30-11:00 Lisa Klotz
“A Defense of the Avocatori in Ben Jonson's Volpone”

11:10-11:40 Joe Stickles
“Zero-Divisor Graphs of Commutative Rings: A Survey of Recent Results”

11:50-12:20 Paula Stickles
“An Analysis of Pre-Service Teachers’ Mathematical Problem Posing”

Session 3: 1:30-2:50 • Chair – Mark Wrighton

1:30-2:00 Dick Chamblin & Mark Munoz
“Accounting issues confronting US executives in China : An exploration of viable management approaches.”

2:10-2:40 Ron Yadeau
"Bringing a Neglected Masterpiece to Life: a Critical Edition of "24 Preludes" by Petr Petrovich Podkovyrov"


Track 2: Faculty Research II
Location: ADM-Scovill Room 212 (three sessions)

Session 1: 8:30-9:40 • Chair – Ed Cabrera

8:30-9:00 am Alexa Royden
“Information and Legitimacy: Using Intelligence in a Multilateral Environment”

9:10-9:40 George Bennett
“A Comparison of Green Chemistry to the Environmental Ethics of the Abrahamic Religions”

Session 2: 10:30-12:30 • Chair – Elizabeth Gephart

10:30-11:00 Jo Carter
“Perceptions of Challenges and Opportunities in Community-based Nursing Practice.”

11:10-11:40 David Horn
“Integrating the scholarship of teaching and research: a study of bird-window collisions at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois.”

11:50-12:20 Ed Acheson
“My First (And Last?) Attempt at “The Gutenberg Method”

Session 3: 1:30- 2:50 am • Chair – Tatiana Isakovski

1:30-2:00 Randi Polk
“Paris, je t’aime…moi non plus: Reflections on the Representations of Contemporary Paris”

2:10-2:40 Keiko Ono
“Primary Challenges to Congressional Incumbents (1992-2006): Is All Politics Local?”


Track 3: Faculty Teaching & Innovation
Location: ADM-Scovill Room 213 (three sessions)

Session 1: 8:30-9:40 • Chair – Carmella Braniger

8:30-9:00 am Jamie Comstock
“Teaching: impact of teacher behaviors on student learning and a follow-up on student behaviors on teachers' performance”

9:10-9:40 Judy Parrish
“Teaching: The Africa experience”

Session 2: 9:50-12:30 • Chair – Luis Peralta

9:50-10:20 Nancy Curtin-Alwardt
“I’m paying big bucks for this!” Students’ Expectations at Millikin University

10:30-11:00 Jamie Kotewa
“Arts and Entrepreneurship: The thread between theory, practice, and real life”

11:10-11:40 Peiling Zhao, Carmella Braniger, Randy Brooks
“An Integrated Model of Undergraduate English Curricula”

11:50-12:20 Tracy Barton, Angela Ambers-Henderson, David Womack, Julie Jones
“Reframing the College Curriculum: Infusing Issues of Diversity and Multiculturalism”

Session 3: 1:30-2:50 • Chair – Eric Martell

1:30-2:00 Cynthia Handler
“Health Professions Advising: Lessons for the General Academic Community”

2:10-2:40 Georgette Page
“Theory of Mind and Video Proxemics: Defining Off-Screen Space through the Eyes of the Child”

 


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