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Faculty and Staff Achievements

September 2009

Presented

Tracy Tuttle, assistant professor of physics, offered a hands-on, multimedia presentation entitled “Telescopes, Computers and CCDs” to attendees at the 1st Kansas Cosmosphere “Starry Night 2009” public star party on Aug. 21. He demonstrated computer driven telescope operation and astronomical imaging techniques in conjunction with the Kansas Cosmosphere.

Garrett Whorton, admissions counselor, gave the Baccalaureate address to the graduating seniors from Little River High School on May 13. He is a graduate of Little River High School.

Published

Mark Jantzen, associate professor of history, had his article “Wealth and Power in the Vistual River Mennonite Community, 1772-1914” published in the Journal of Mennonite Studies, 27 (2009): 93-107.

Ami Regier, professor of English, wrote an article in 2004 that will be reprinted in a volume titled Native American Writers, published as a part of Harold Bloom's Modern Critical Views series in 2009. The article is entitled "Revolutionary Enunciatory Spaces: Ghost Dancing, Transatlantic Travel, and Modernist Arson in Gardens in the Dunes," MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Volume 51, Number 1 (Spring 2005): pp. 134-157.

Served

Gary Histand, professor of chemistry, recently completed a term as a member of the committee that produced the 2009 General Chemistry First Term Examination (American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Education, Examinations Institute).