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Faculty and Staff Achievements

October 2009

Attended

Mark Fox, women's basketball coach, attended the Read and React Clinic, presented by Rick Torbett who created this offensive system, at Grapevine High School in Grapevine, Texas, Sept. 12-13.

Fred Goering, director of development, attended the Mennonite Foundation Planned Giving Conference in Lancaster, Pa., met with the development officers from other Mennonite colleges, and visited alumni and donors in Pennsylvania Sept. 26-30.

Dwight Krehbiel, professor of psychology, attended an undergraduate biology education conference in Washington, D.C., on July 15-17, called “Vision and Change,” which was sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Science Foundation.

Patty Shelly, professor of Bible and religion, attended MC USA Executive Board Meetings in Kansas City, Sept. 23-25.

John Thiesen, co-director of libraries, attended the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists in Austin, Texas, Aug 11-16, and also a pre-conference workshop on email archives.

Exhibited

David Kreider, Kauffman Museum technician, moved the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibit "Journey Stories" on Sept. 29, from the Glasco Community Foundation in Glasco to the Geary County Historical Society in Junction City where it will be on display through mid-November. This work is part of a contract Kauffman Museum has with the Kansas Humanities Council to provide shipping and installation services for "Journey Stories" at six Kansas museum/library locations during the next six months.

Hosted

Merle Schlabaugh, professor of German, hosted the annual Deutsches Wochenende, a German language immersion weekend sponsored by the Kansas Association of Teachers of German, on the Bethel College campus on Sept. 18-19.

Preached

Patty Shelly, professor of Bible and religion, preached at First Mennonite Church, Hutchinson, on Sept.13 and during Sunday school presented “Three meetings with the President of Iran.” Shelly also preached at Hope Mennonite Church, Wichita, on Sept. 27, and presented “Three meetings with the President of Iran” during Sunday school.

Presented

Dwight Krehbiel, professor of psychology, gave the lecture “Biopsychological Responses to Music Chosen by a Computer: Validation of a Music Search Engine” for the concluding symposium of the summer undergraduate research program of the College of Natural Sciences, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, on July 31. Krehbiel also chaired a panel to review grant proposals for the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Program of the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Va., July 13-14.

Patty Shelly, professor of Bible and religion, gave a presentation on “Three meetings with the President of Iran” at Shalom Mennonite Church, Newton, on Sept. 30.

Published

Francisca Méndez-Harclerode, assistant professor of biology, along with three coauthors published “A Molecular Examination of Relatedness, Multiple Paternity, and Cohabitation of the Southern Plains Woodrat (Neotoma micropus)” in the Journal of Mammalogy 90(4): 819-831.