Faculty and Staff Achievements

May 2012

Attended

Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Assistant Professor of History, attended Mennonite Writing VI at Eastern Mennonite University, March 2012

Rachel Pannabecker, Director of Kauffman Museum, and Chuck Regier, Curator of Exhibits, attended the preview opening of the Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan, Kansas, on April 13, to mark the premier of the special exhibition "Kansas: Climate and Energy Central" for Kansas NSF EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) which was developed, designed and fabricated by Kauffman Museum in collaboration with Flint Hills Design, North Newton.

Chaired

Rachel Epp Buller, Assistant Professor of Art, presented a paper and chaired a session on art in the Weimar Republic at the Midwest Art History Society conference, March 29-31, 2012.

Curated

Rachel Epp Buller, Assistant Professor of Art, curated "Art Lives!", an artistic collaboration of The Feminist Art Project at City Arts, Wichita Kan., March 30 - April 21, 2012. The show was featured in the April 1 segment of "Hatteberg's People" on KAKE-TV.

Juried

David Long, Professor of Art, juried the Student Art Exhibit at Butler Community College in April. There were aver 500 works of art entered into this year's exhibit.

Presented

Gary Histand, Professor of Chemistry, presented, along with seven students, Chemistry Demonstrations for Service Day, April 14, at Chisholm Middle School in Newton

Gary Histand, Professor of Chemistry, presented "From Fleeting Thought to Useful Material - The Development of a Lab Experiment" at the Kansas College Chemistry Teachers Conference at the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy, April 13, 2012

Mark Jantzen, Associate Professor of History, published a review of Doing Theology When God is Forgotten: The Theological Achievement of Wolf Krötke, by Philip G. Ziegler, Religion in Eastern Europe, 32, no. 1 (February 2012): 44-46.

Chuck Regier, Curator of Exhibits, presented "The Story behind Stories on the Trail: The North Newton Trail Signage Project" to Life Enrichment on May 2. Trail signage, which was commissioned by the City of North Newton and supported by a KDOT grant, was inaugurated on April 22 as part of the museum's Earth Day Adventure.

Published

Rachel Epp Buller, Assistant Professor of Art, published "Surviving and Thriving through Collaboration," in an exhibition catalogue essay for Womanhouse v4.0: The House that Feminism Built (University of Nebraska, 2012).

Rachel Epp Buller, Assistant Professor of Art, published "Postcards from the Edge," an exhibition catalogue essay for Outpost (El Dorado, KS: White Gallery, 2012).

Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Assistant Professor of History, published "Anger and Compassion on the Picket Line: Ethnography and Emotion in the Study of Westboro Baptist Church," The Journal of Hate Studies 9, no. 1 (2010/11).

Served

Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Assistant Professor of History,served as the 2011-2012 co-chair of the Religion and American Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association, where her main duty was writing and distributing Calls for Papers, organizing responses, establishing panels for submission, and serving as a writing consultant.