Earlham College and Earlham M.A.T. graduate Lauren McKown has been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for Humanities to study in Scotland for a year. Way to go, Lauren!
Congratulations to senior Psychology majors, Hannah Baughman, Anna Hoffman, Anna Putnam and Rubina Welvaart for their outstanding presentations at Mid-America Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference (MAUPRC) on April 18th!
Thank you everyone who contributed to the Empty Bowls fundraiser. The event raised over $1550 to fight hunger in Wayne County. A special thanks to everyone who made bowls and soup for the event and to SAGA for donating supplies. See you next spring in the Japanese courtyard.
Stan Hill, Graduate Programs in Education, and Jeff Rickey, Admissions, presented a session titled "Acquiring Data for Achieving Dreams: Using Data to Effectively Recruit Teacher Education Students" at the annual conference of the National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals in New York City. The session was the national debut of Stan's research that will change the way many graduate students across the nation are recruited.
Thank you to the Senior Gift Committee and the Residents of Miller Farm for hosting an amazing potluck and benefit concert this past Friday! More than $200 was raised to help support the 2009 Senior Gift, Miller Farm Sustainable Energy Project. Contact: For more information e-mail Mae Turley turlema@earlham.edu or visit www.earlham.edu/seniorgift .
Mark Van Buskirk completed the 113th Boston Marathon April 20 and established a record time for Associate Painting Professors teaching in Carpenter! Thanks to all who supported Mark.
Karim Sagna presented his paper entitled “Esthétique de la répétition dans l’ écriture de Massa M. Diabaté” at the African Literature Association (ALA) Annual Conference at the University of Vermont at Burlington. Karim also published his study, “Entretien avec fina Sirifo Tounkara : un fina se raconte”, in the Journal of The African Literature Association (JALA) (Spring 2009, 222-228). This study was supported by Professional Development Fund (PDF) that allowed Karim to travel to southern Senegal for fieldwork in December 2008.
SoAn, Biology, and History majors gave presentations at this year's Butler University Undergraduate Research Conference. SoAn majors Tucker Foltz "Witches in the Bible Belt: The Complex Power Relations of Contemporary Wicca"; Ketayinla Jamir, "Being Ao: Indigenous Identity in Nagaland, India"; Lucie Kalousova "Alternative Opportunity Structures in Adult Education"; and Emily Miller, "Colliding Realities and Narratives of Socioeconomic Class and School Achievement" were accompanied by faculty members Deb Jackson and Dan Rosenberg. Biology majors Ruth Carter, "Two Eleutherodactylus species on Dominica and notes about habitat use"; and Jessica Swilhart, "A phylogenetic analysis of egg and clutch size characteristics in turtles" were accompanied by faculty members John Iverson and Wendy Tori. History majors David Schultz, "Reflections on a Revolution: The Xinhai Revolution of 1911 and What it Means for China"; and Anna Obermayer, "(Image)ining D
anger: Purity, Race and America's Wars in Asia" were accompanied by faculty member Chuck Yates. Congratulations to all!
Four biochemistry majors presented their Earlham research at the 21st Annual Butler University Undergraduate Research Conference. Victor Anciano presented a poster, “The Expression of Heat Shock Protein 70 and Metallothionein in Trout Red Blood Cells Exposed to Cadmium.” Chris Owens and Juan Hernandez presented a poster, “The Expression of Metallothionein I in Indiana Game Fish Exposed to Copper.” Both of these were summer experiences supported by the WM Keck Foundation grant. Leo Bautista gave a talk entitled “The Expression and Activity of Aromatase in Canine Reproductive Tissues” which was a culmination of the laboratory in Chemistry 351, Biochemistry, Fall, 2008.
Thanks to all who supported the WECI/Faculty Benefit Basketball game! The event raised exactly $201 for the "Give a Dollar For Clean Water" campaign for the residents of the Garden City Mobile Home Community. Great job!
Kudos to Cheri Gaddis and her Liberty Avenue Nursery for supplying the beautiful bucket planter for the last Staff on Campus luncheon, Thursday, April 16th. Lyn Thomas was the grateful recipient of this generous gift.
Peace, Justice, and Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide, 7th edition (Lynne Rienner: 2009) has just been published by participants in the Plowshares Project: Timothy McElwee, Welling Hall, Joe Liechty, and Julie Garber. Joanna Swanger, Earlham parent Bob Johansen, and former Earlham professor George Lopez all have chapters in the book
Jennie Kiffmeyer, Reference/Theological Librarian, recently co-presented a biblical storytelling workshop on King David for Episcopal clergy and lay leaders at the Under One Roof Conference held at the Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis.
Heidi Hisrich, Richmond Highschool teacher and M.A.T. alum, received $8,000 from the Lilly Foundation to pursue her project entitled: Green Urbanism: From Rotterdam to Richmond. Heidi plans to travel to Germany and Holland to study ecological rooftops, planted to absorb carbon dioxide, control heating and cooling costs, and provide a habitat for birds and butterflies. Holly plans to use her experience in planning the Environmental Science class she will be teaching at Richmond High School next year. Way to go Heidi!
The recent All Staff Retreat led by Tim Branson, our own Human Resource Director was amazing! The topic - Building Better Work Groups - was well organized with important information presented using clear examples and much good humor. Thank you Tim, well done!
M.A.T. alum Brenda Campbell '03 was awarded $25,000 by the Lilly foundation for her project entitled Supporting the Bridge. She was one of three teachers in the state of Indiana to receive this prestigious award. She will travel the United States studying bridge construction and taking pictures of abutments and connectors (things not usually photographed) to share with engineering classes throughout the state.
Jeff Rickey, dean of Admissions, recently presented a session on college affordability to a standing-room-only crowd of high school counselors and administrators at the annual Indiana state ACT conference.
Congratulations to the Earlham Students, Staff, Faculty and the Richmond community members for record breaking attendance at this year's Wellness Fair! After the tabulations, it was revealed that nearly 700 people attended the 8th Annual Wellness Fair on March 5th! After reviewing the evaluations, it is clear that the health screenings were extremely popular and helpful to the attendees, with nearly 17% noting that they were made aware of a medical condition with the screenings.
Mark your calendar for next year's fair which will be held on Thursday, March 4, 2010. If you have suggestions for new health and wellness providers to invite to next year's fair, please forward those to Cathryn Craig Dickman at craigca or call x 1899.
Amy Bryant presented a poster at the recent Association of College and Research Libraries conference on her Ford/Knight Project entitled, Sustainable Digitization by Students: How Undergraduate Students, Librarians and Archivists Collaboratively Planned and Implemented the Digitization of Archival Photographs.
Neal Baker, teaming with professional colleagues at Beloit, Lawrence and MacMaster, gave two presentations at the recent Association of College and Research Libraries conference. The sessions were entitled Cultivating Quality Collaboration (a poster) and Improving on Excellence: Looking Beyond Information Literacy to 21st-century Educational Paradigms and Virtual Worlds (a panel presentation).
Tom Kirk, and founding members of the Association of College and Research Libraries' Institute for Information Literacy, recently received a ACRL Presidential Recognition Award at the ACRL National Conference. The award was presented for the tenth anniversary of the Institute which provides professional development for librarians.
The Earlham College cross country teams earned recognition recently from the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. The men’s and women’s teams were on the list of All-Academic teams for 2008. The Earlham women had a 3.66 GPA and the men a 3.56 GPA during the fall semester.
The Earlham College team took third place last weekend at the Iowa State National Cyber Defense Competition (CDC). The eight-hour competition ran through the morning and afternoon, with the tired but valiant Earlham CS students keeping the lead most of the afternoon. The final results reflected the closest top scores in CDC history with Earlham College finishing third by a razor's edge margin of six points. The third-place winning Earlham team consisted of Matt Edlefsen, Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, Ben Goldstone, Samuel Leeman-Munk, and Samuel Wein.
Tom Hamm's article, "'Chipping Away at the Landmarks of the Fathers': The Decline of the Testimony against Hireling Ministry in Nineteenth-Century Quakerism" appears in the spring 2009 issue of Quaker Studies.
Kudos to the students, faculty and staff who organized the trip to Powershift 09 in Washington, D.C. this past weekend. More than forty folks committed a long weekend to demonstrate for real solutions to climate change and our economic future. Thank you for taking action on these critical issues... now, let's bring it back to Earlham!
Congratulations to Andrew Sloin, who during break defended his dissertation with distinction at the University of Chicago and is now Dr. Sloin.
Congratulations to Ben Solganik, Kat McDonough, Tyler Schroeder and Andrew Marrical for winning the ACUI Regional Recreation Tournament-Halo 3 competition. Also congratulations to Nora Mineva who placed fourth in Table Tennis and to Jorge Villagren who had a strong showing in Men's 9 ball.
Thanks to Tim Branson, the director of human resources, for discovering and publicizing the vision care discounts that have been an (unknown) employee benefit.
The votes are in at the bookstore and Shanna-Kay McKenzie is our contest winner. You can see her “71 Countries” tee in your bookstore to purchase soon. Kudos to Shanna and the other student participants. Thank you for supporting your Earlham Bookstore.
Kudos to the staff of the post office for working on Presidents' Day, even though the rest of the country's post offices were closed. Wow!
Debbie Rickey and Randy Wisehart from Graduate Programs in Education recently presented at the Association for Independent Liberal Arts Colleges of Education (AILACTE) annual conference in Chicago. Debbie and Randy's presentation was "From the Mirror, To the Window, and Back Again: Embedding Reflective Practice in Teacher Education Programs" and Randy co-presented another session "Collaborative Inquiry: We Are Not Teaching by Accident" with colleagues from IUPUI and University of Indianapolis.
Welling has been appointed by the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State, and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars to the Fulbright Specialists Roster. The roster is a list of approved candidates who will be matched during the next five years with requests from overseas academic institutions for a Senior Specialist to teach or engage in program evaluation. Her identified area of expertise is "General Peace Studies." In addition, Welling is a finalist for an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship. The Program is the nation's oldest and most prestigious congressional fellowship. Winners work for a Congressional committee or for a Senator or Representative for a year. Congratulations and best wishes, Welling!
Many thanks to Jeff Rickey in Admissions for purchasing ten copies of the Indianapolis Star for students to use in the Dining Hall, the Coffee Shop and Runyan Center.
Congratulations to Lori Watson who is co-author on a publication in the January Journal of Chemical Education: Benatan, E., Eppley, H. J., Geselbracht, M. J., Johnson, A. R., Reisner, B. A., Stewart, J. L., Watson, L. and Williams, B.S. IONiC: A Cyber-Enabled Community of Practice for Improving Inorganic Chemical Education. J. Chem. Ed., 2009, 86(1) 123.
Alan Beith, British Member of Parliament who has sponsored numerous visits of Earlham students, faculty and alumni to go "behind the scenes" in Parliament, was recently knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Alan supported Earlham student visits since 1984, and has spoken to London Program students on many occasions. He has also visited Earlham three times, to give the Emerson Lecture, Staley Lecture and convocation; his last visit was in 2000.
Tom Finger recently had an article published, Anabaptist Theology, in Dyrness and Karkkainen, eds., Global Dictionary of Theology (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2008), 23-27.
Tom Kirk recently gave a talk at the annual meetings of the Indiana Library Federation on "What is an OPAC?" With the increasing availability of online books at Google Books, Amazon, Project Guttenberg and others, how does the catalog to a local collection integrate into an open-ended information seeking process?
The Religion Department is celebrating the following recent accomplishments:
Michael Birkel is the author of a Pendle Hill pamphlet, “The Messenger That Goes Before: Reading Margaret Fell for Spiritual Nurture” which was published this fall. His article "Silence in Heaven: The Revelation to John Woolman” appears in the current issue of Quaker Theology.
A conversational essay facilitated by James Logan, “Strangers No More” appears in the Fall 2008 volume of Perspectivas: Hispanic Theological Initiative. James’s mentoring work with minority PhD candidates through the Fund for Theological Education was honored with an award at the recent meeting of the American Academy of Religions.
Lyn Miller‘s "What Has Divinity To Do with Democracy? Metaphysics, Transcendence, and Critical Theology of Liberation," will be featured as an anchor essay in the April/May issue of the Journal of Feminist Studies in
Religion
Hooray!
Congratulations to the Earlham Men's Rugby Club for their first winning season with a record of 1-1-1! This has been their first non-losing season in years. Good job boys!
Aletha Stahl presented a paper, "'Enfans de l'Amérique': Revolutionizing Creole Citizenship in Press, 1793" at the 20th annual conference of the Haitian Studies Association in Montrouis, Haiti. Following the conference, Stahl spent two days helping to introduce sites in northern Haiti to historians on her panel.
As Deputy Co-Chair of the IUCN Iguana Specialist Group, John Iverson attended the annual meeting at White Oaks Sanctuary near Jacksonville, Florida. At the conference, he presented a paper on the current status of an endangered Bahamian iguana, and co-authored another on a population viability analysis of the endangered Mona Island iguana.
Kathy Taylor presented a paper on November 7, 2008 at the Eastern Caribbean Island Cultural Conference in Curacao. Her paper was on language and identity on Curacao. She also chaired a session on Culture & Education in Creole Languages while at the conference. Contact: Languages & Literatures.
Ferit Guven, Associate Professor of Philosophy presented a paper titled, "Hunger Strikes in Turkish Prisons: Foucault and Discipline," at the 8th Biennial Conference of Radical Philosophy Association in San Francisco, CA on November 9th, 2008.
Ten Earlham students accounted for more than 1/3 of all entries in the amateur division of the Richmond Art Museum's annual juried competition, claiming four of the nine awards. The students are: Sabrina Freedman, Jesus Jimenez, Rosie Nevins, Whitney Ousley, Jiae Paik, Harriet Rollitt, Mary Rowley [Merit Award], Stephanie Smith [Merit Award and Purchase Award], and Janel Torkington and Michael Zakes collaboration [Merit Award].
Congratulations to the following members of the Earlham College community for their success in the 30th annual Whitewater Valley Art Competition at IU East: Harriet Rollitt (Top 10 award), Miriam Dolnick, Mia Herring, Virgil Looney, Will Schmiechen, Micah Wood, Coleman Yunger and Walt Bistline (Top 10 award). Earlham accounts for more than 13 percent of the show.
Wes Miller and Mark Pearson participated in the AECT Leadership and Technology Convention in Orlando. Mark presented a session on social networking and Earlham Learning Spaces. Wes was awarded a Presidential Award for service to AECT.
Research conducted by Kenneth Martin '08 for a Ford-Knight with Welling Hall on The Responsibility to Protect is being published in the 2009 edition of Global Perspectives, the undergraduate International Studies journal. Martin's work was commended by the editors for the depth of his scholarship.
LaTrisha Jackson, Andrea Irving, and Tanya Beam all current M.A.T. students joined Earlham alumni Charles Calhoun, Pacho Guitierrez, Montoan Butler, Tamika Bynum and Melissa Armbrester in a discussion focused on the role diversity plays in today's public schools.
Computer Science and Mathematics students, Matt Edlefsen, Nathaniel Smith, Molly Visscher and David Wellcome and Computer Science alumni Dylan Leeman and Nathan Myers, presented their paper titled Deciding Strictly Local (SL) Languages at the Fifth Annual MidStates Conference for Research in Computer Science and Math (MCURCSM'08) at the College of Wooster.
A big thank you to our students, staff and faculty who helped make Family Weekend 2008 a big success. The activities, athletic events, musical performances and other programs were excellent and were well received by all. Your hard work and dedication to our community truly made the difference.