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Apparel, textiles & interior design

The following K-State faculty members presented at the Interior Design Educators Council 44th annual International Conference, March 6-11, Austin, Texas:

Migette Kaup, "An Analysis of Resident Room Design in the Changing Culture of Long-Term Care: Examining the Design of Spaces that Promote Resident Autonomy" and "Rethinking Nursing Home Architecture: Why Skilled Care Environments Don’t Really Feel like Home (and What We Can Do About it)."

Yun Zhu, "Participation as Learning by doing in Habitat for Humanity."

Barbara Anderson, Peggy Honey and Michael Dudek, "Interior Design’s Social Compact: The Missing Aspect of Our Quest for Professional Legitimacy."

Economics

Michael Babcock presented "Transportation Journals and Books: An Editor’s Surgery," 49th Annual Transportation Research Forum, March 16, Boston, Mass. He also presented "A Model of Corn and Soybean Shipments on the Ohio River," (panel session), March 15.

Educational Communications Center

Sue Maes and colleagues presented "Canadian Studies and Distance Learning in the Midwest," Midwest Association for Canadian Studies annual meeting, Feb. 16, Kansas City, Mo.

Geography

Lisa Harrington will present "Milking the Plains: Movement of Large Dairy Operations into Southwestern Kansas," Sixth Quadrennial Conference of British, Canadian, and American Rural Geographers, July 15-22, Spokane, Wash. Paper was co-authored by David Kromm and Max Lu.

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Bimal Paul published "Fear of Eviction: The Case of Slum and Squatter Dwellers in Dhaka, Bangladesh," Urban Geography, Vol. 27, No. 6.

Geology

The following faculty members will present at the joint meeting of the North-Central and South-Central Sections of the Geological Society of America, April 11-13, Lawrence, Kan.:

Keith Miller, "The Nature and History of Science: Response to Religious Challenges to Evolution."

Iris Moreno Totten, "The Impact of an Interdisciplinary Course on Student’s Understanding of Concepts in Origins."

Grain science & industry

David Wetzel and colleagues presented "Single Fiber Infrared Dichroism Microspectroscopy With Synchrotron Beam Native Polarization," "Investigation of Biochemical Changes in Wheat Kernels During Sprouting by IR Microspectroscopy," "Synchrotron IR Microspectroscopic Study of Aorta Atherosclerotic Plaque Inhibition in Drug-Treated APOE Knock Out Mice," "Identification of Genetically Desirable Sprout Resistant Wheat Cultivars via Indium Antimonide Range Near-IR Imaging" and "Relative Merits of Infrared Chemical Imaging with MCT, InGaAs, or InSb Detection and Synchrotron or Thermal Sources," 58th Annual Pittsburg Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Feb. 25-March 2, Chicago, Ill.

History

Robert D. Linder presented a series of lectures on "The History of Baseball" to Kansas City Royals minor league players and personnel, March 15-17, Surprise, Ariz.

Journalism & mass communications

Joye Gordon published "Social Constructionism and Public Relations," Public Relations: From Theory to Practice, Ed. Hansen-Horn et al, Pearson Books, 2007.

Kinesiology

David Poole will present "Oxygen Uptake Kinetics," University of Exeter, United Kingdom, April 20-21.

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Poole was selected the Peter A. Rechnitzer Distinguished Lecturer, Canadian Center for Activity and Aging.

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Poole will present "Muscle Microcirculation in Healthy Aging: Inconvenient Truths," London, Ontario, May 7.

Modern languages

Douglas Benson published "Transtextualidad, hipertextualidad y poliglosia en la poesía religiosa de Ernestina de Champourcin," Una Rosa Para Ernestina: Ensayos en conmemoración del centenario de Ernestina de Champourcin, Ferrol, Spain: Sociedad de Cultura Valle-Inclán, 2007.

Multiple departments

Sue Maes, Educational Communications Center, and Virginia Moxley, Human Ecology, published "The Great Plains IDEA Story," in Advancing Campus Efficiencies, Bolton, Mass.: Anker Publishing Company, 2007.

Psychology

Mark Barnett and students presented "Children as Recipients of Antisocial and Prosocial Teases: Experiences and Perceptions," Society for Research in Child Development biennial meeting, March 31, Boston, Mass.

Sociology, anthropology & social work

Michael Wesch was part of the faculty for the recent Salzburg Seminar "The New Information Networks: Challenges and Opportunities for Business, Governments, and Media," March 13-18, Salzburg, Austria.

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Harald E.L. Prins and colleague published "Edmund Carpenter: A Trickster’s Explorations in Culture & Media," in Memories of the Origins of Ethnographic Film, Bern (Switzerland): Peter Lang Publishers.

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Prins and colleagues published the textbook "Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge," revised 12th Edition, Wadsworth.

Special education, counseling & student affairs

Jim Teagarden presented "Do You See What I See? The Impact of Nonverbal Receptive Ability on Behavioral Adjustment," American Council on Rural Special Education 27th annual national Conference, March 14-17, Billings, Mont.

Speech communication, theater & dance

The following K-State faculty members attended the Central Region American College Dance Festival, March 7-10, Wichita:

David Ollington adjudicated his choreography with the piece "Student Rite."

Joyce Yagerline taught a master class in Intermediate-Advanced Pointe.

April 5, 2007 / Vol. 29, No. 18