Grants
Peggy Anderson, College of Education associate dean and professor, curriculum and instruction, was awarded $35,000 by the Kansas Department of Education for the project "Preparing Professionals to Educate Students."
Alex Chaparro, assistant professor, psychology, was awarded $3,710 and $4,770 by Larksfield Place for the projects "Quality of Life Initiative" and "Red Cross Visual Assessment Project," respectively.
Barbara Chaparro, director, psychology’s Software Usability Research Lab, was awarded $5,406 by Larksfield Place for the project "Physical Activity Tracing and Examining Web site Usability with the Elderly."
Bobbie Harris, instructor, kinesiology and sport studies, was awarded $13,000 by the Kansas Health Foundation for the project "Kansas First-Kansas Team."
Michael Long, professor, public health sciences, was awarded $11,220 by the Kansas Joint Replacement Institute for the project "Graduate Research Assistant Support."
Michael Papadakis, professor, aerospace engineering, was awarded $105,656 by NASA/Glenn for the project "Water Droplet Impingement Program-Phase II."
Chihdar Charles Yang, assistant professor, mechanical engineering, was awarded $26,668 by NASA EPSCoR/Kansas State University/University of Kansas/Center for Research Inc. for the project "Studies of the Role of Surface Treatment and Sizing of Carbon Fiber Surfaces on the Mechanical Properties of Composites Containing Carbon Fibers."
The following faculty were awarded WSU research/creative projects grants for fiscal year 2002: George Bousfield, associate professor, biological sciences, "Adaptation of Adsorptive Sequencer to Solid-Phase Edman Degradation," $4,500; Pedro Bravo-Elizondo, professor of Spanish, "Foreign Fiction about the Nitrate Era in Chile," $4,030; Sylvia Coats, associate professor, School of Music, "Student Teaching in Piano Enhanced by Video Technology," $4,500; Michael Palmiotto, professor of criminal justice, "Study of Agent-based Technology to Develop a Strategy for Criminal Justice," $4,500; and Keith Pickus, assistant professor of modern German history, "Comparing Religious Communities: The Jews and Catholics in 19th Century Hesse-Darmstadt," $4,484.
The following faculty have been awarded WSU summer research/creative projects grants: David Eichhorn, assistant professor, chemistry, "Metal Complexes with Mixed Nitrogen/Sulfur Coordination Spheres as Models for the Active Sites of Thiolate-Coordinated Metalloenzymes," $4,000; Robert Feleppa, associate professor, philosophy, "Rationality Assumptions in Culture Study," $3,000; Nyalls Hartman, assistant professor and director, theater, "The Changing Elements of Language, Image and Performative Techniques in Alternative Theater Performance," $4,000; Silvia Herzog, assistant professor, School of Music, "Bending Genres: Petrarch’s ‘Vergine Bella,’" $3,000; Judith Johnson, assistant professor, history, "Laura Cobb: A Kansas Nurse in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp," $4,000; Teressa Wylie McWilliams, assistant professor of dance, "Peridance/New York," $4,000; Gary Toops, associate professor, modern and classical languages and literatures, "A Contrastive Examination of Verbal Aspect in Literary Upper Sorbian and Russian," $3,000; and Wan Yang, assistant professor, geology, "Sedimentation Rates of Carbonate Sediments in the Shallow Marine Environments of Northern Belize," $4,000.
Community Service
Jon Engelhardt, College of Education dean, was a judge for the 2001 Sam Walton Community Scholarship Program.
Eric Sexton, director of government relations, has been named an officer for Exploration Place’s board of trustees.
Publications
Cindy Claycomb, associate professor, marketing, has an article, "Business-to-Business E-commerce: Models and Managerial Decisions," in the May-June issue of Business Horizons. Alumna Pamela Barnes-Vieyra was the co-author.
Kyung-So Im, assistant professor, economics, has had two papers – "Test of Unit Root Roots in Heterogeneous Panels" and "More Efficient Estimation under Non-Normality When Higher Moments Do Not Depend on the Regressors, Using Residual-Augmented Least-Squares" – accepted by the Journal of Econometrics.
Jean Patterson, assistant professor, administration, counseling, educational and school psychology, has had a book, "Essentials for principals: School leader’s guide to special education," published by Educational Research Service.
Scholarly Activity
Ariel Loftus, assistant professor, history, has been named Sterling Dow Fellow for 2001/2002 at the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Research at The Ohio State University for the research project "Attic Tombstones and the Periclean Citizenship Law." The center is considered one of the best places in the United States to study ancient Athens.
Jobs
WSU job opportunities can be accessed online at http://www.twsu.edu/~humanres/ or by calling the 24-hour Job Line, 978-3344.
