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Faculty and Staff Achievements

October 2007

Appointed

Gary Flory, director of KIPCOR, was named an outside reviewer for the Case Foundation’s “Make It Your Own” grant program, which challenges people to connect with others in their community to form solutions to community problems. Flory reviewed 125 of the more than 3,000 applications received by the foundation.

Attended

Rodney Frey, registrar, and Kay Schmidt, associate registrar, attended the annual Kansas Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (KACRAO) conference Sept. 26-28 in Pittsburg.

Chuck Regier, Kauffman Museum curator of exhibits, attended the Mountain-Plains Museums Association conference Sept. 11-14 in Fargo, N.D.

Kirsten Zerger, KIPCOR director of education and training, attended an all-day workshop Sept. 21 in Wichita titled “Domestic Violence and Child Welfare: Engaging Families & Working Together to Make Every Home a Safe Home.”

Hosted

Andi Schmidt Andres, Kauffman Museum curator of education, hosted a meeting of the Wichita Museum Educators on Sept. 24. The informal group of museum personnel meets bimonthly to discuss trends and collaboration possibilities in museum education in the Wichita area.

Participated

Gary Flory, KIPCOR director, participated in Kansas Dialogue XIV Aug. 24-26 in Hutchinson. Flory moderated a dialogue session titled “Salt Talks: Strategies for Resolving Conflict."

Performed

Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, professor of music, has performed in recent months with clarinetist Suzanne Tirk, assistant professor of clarinet at Wichita State University. In June they performed at the Clarinet Symposium held at the University of Oklahoma in Norman and in July at the International Clarinet Association conference held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. On September 11, Schlabaugh collaborated with Tirk in her WSU faculty recital, performing works by Hurstone, Prokofiev, Hartley and Meister.

This past summer Jim Pisano, assistant professor of music, was invited to perform a two-week tour of several jazz venues in New England. These included the Acton Jazz Café, The Pressroom and Elixer. Pisano collaborated with some of Boston’s finest musicians, including pianist/composer Mark Shilansky. Pisano also performed with the Wichita Grand Opera this past season in the productions of Puccini’s Tosca and Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet. Pisano will perform with the WGO again this season which will feature Puccini’s La Boheme.

Presented

Gary Flory, KIPCOR director, presented the workshop “Analyzing Conflict and Reducing Its Impact” at the Kansas Environmental Leadership Program (KELP) training Aug. 16 in Independence.

Mark Jantzen, associate professor of history, presented “The Trouble with Marrying Lutheran Boys: The End of Exogamous Marriages in the Mennonite Community in the Vistula Delta, 1713-1803” at the Myth and Reality of Anabaptist/Mennonite Women conference Aug. 31-Sept. 1 in Amsterdam.

Don Lemons, professor of physics, gave the presentation “My Life Changing Sabbatical” during Life Enrichment Sept. 26.

Published

Mark Jantzen, associate professor of history, had a review published Sept. 26 on H-German of Christoper Dowe's Auch Bildungsbürger: Katholische Studierende und Akademiker im Kaiserreich [We Too Belong to the Educated Middle Class: Catholic Students and Professors in Imperial Germany] Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2006. 384 pp. H-German is a listserv of more than 2,400 professors and others interested in German history.

Don Lemons, professor of physics, and Bethel College alumna Margaret Penner '06 are authors of the paper "Sadi Carnot's Contribution to the Second Law of Thermodynamics" that was accepted for publication in the American Journal of Physics. Lemons’ 270-page manuscript "Mere Thermodynamics" has been accepted for publication by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Served

Jim Pisano, assistant professor of music, served as the Honors Jazz Ensemble director at the 60th annual High Plains Band Camp at Fort Hays (Kan.) State University this past summer. At this year’s camp, Pisano performed as a soloist extensively with the camp’s guest artist, international trumpet sensation Allen Vizzutti. He also served as a judge for Kansas State Solo and Ensemble Festival and has been selected to direct this year’s South Central District High School Jazz Ensemble in November.

Barbara Schmidt, Community Mediation Center manager, has been elected treasurer of Heartland Mediator’s Association, an association that serves Kansas and Missouri mediators.

Kirsten Zerger, KIPCOR directory of education and training, serves on the Office of Judicial Administration’s Mentor Mediator Advisory Committee, which is charged with developing policies related to the mentoring of new mediators and the Kansas Supreme Court’s process of approving new mediators.