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Rebekah Ambrosini, Assistant Professor of Voice, sang “Flora” in La Traviata by Verdi at the Masterworks Festival in Winona Lake, Indiana, an event sponsored by the Christian Performing Arts Fellowship. |
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Brent Ballweg, Professor of Music, recently assumed the position of President of the Oklahoma Choral Directors. Ballweg has been a part of the organization for more than 25 years. |
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Reggie Coleman ('76), Adjunct instructor in BRIDGE and BSBA programs, made the list of National Republican Congressional Committee 2006 Businessmen of the Year. This list recognizes the top U.S. business leaders who have successfully integrated business and financial success with the support of Republican ideals. He was also nominated for “Who’s Who among American Teachers and Educators, 2007”. |
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Linda Garrett, adjunct professor, made a presentation at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, on “The Arts Education Perception Survey” (TAPES) and its application to teaching arts within public elementary schools in the state of Oklahoma. Attendees included representatives from around the nation. |
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Brint Montgomery, professor of philosophy, was an invited participant in a 3-week Open Theology and Science seminar in Boston. This new field in science and religion discussion explores the issues of science (cosmology, biology, and human sciences) as they relate to open theology. Open theology scholars conversed with nationally prominent scientists in pursuit of integrated research on science and open theology. From this conference will come scholarly articles to appear in journals, books, and high visibility publications. |
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Koshy Muthalaly, professor of professional/graduate studies led a session on “Diversity as an Asset to Learning” at the Christian Adult Higher Education Association (CAHEA) conference in Los Angeles. |
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Dwight E. Neuenschwander ('74), professor of physics, was invited to present a paper titled “There is no ‘Art,’ only Artists” at the summer 2007 national meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, in Greensboro, NC. He was one of only three people giving invited talks in a session titled “The Art and Science of Physics Teaching.” |
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Gwen Rodgers ('02), Computer Science/Network Engineering professor, recently published “Instructor Resource Expert Demonstration Documents” for Prentice Hall’s new “GO! With Microsoft Office 2007” series. She is also a reviewer for several Prentice Hall computer application books. |
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Stephanie Shellenberger, assit. professor/asst. director of athletics was involved with the “Healthy Choices” grant program this past summer. The program offered four evening classes a week throughout the summer in water aerobics, dance aerobics, lap swimming and a walking program. More than 100 participants enjoyed classes that provided something valuable to the immediate Bethany community. |
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Judy Steele ('91,'02), adjunct professor, professional /graduate studies developed and presented a workshop at Mid-America Christian University’s (MACU) Career Expo 2007 on “Resume Writing for Results,” focusing on language style and usage and resume formatting and appearance. She also contributed to the development of MACU’s accreditation Self-Study Report as a member of the accreditation committee. Steele has been included in the acknowledgements section as a contributor to the new fourth edition of an English rhetoric textbook, “Critical Thinking, Thoughtful Writing,” published by Houghton Mifflin, published this past summer. |
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Brad Strawn, Vice President for Spiritual Development, published the article “Preaching and/as Play: D.W. Winnicott and Homiletics” with co-author and brother Brent Strawn, Associate Professor of Old Testament at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, in the journal “Homiletic.” He also edited a special volume of the Journal of Psychology & Theology called “Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Religion: A Case Study Appriach.” Strawn contributed an article in this same volume titled “Slouching Toward Integration: Psychoanalysis and Religion in Dialogue. He presented “Courting Surprise: A Hermeneutical Approach to Psychotherapy” at the International Conference for the Christian Association for Psychological Studies. This past spring he presented a paper at the Wesleyan Theological Society titled “Making Persons Together: Revisiting Wesley’s Small Groups.” |
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Howard Culbertson ('68), Professor of Theology and Ministry, co-authored "The Discovering Missions", the fourth part of a series of Centennial textbooks. |
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Rick Farmer ('78), Rick Farmer, adjunct professor of political science, is co- author of a chapter entitled "Legislative Leadership" found in Institutional Change in American Politics: The Case of Term Limits (University of Michigan Press, 2007). The book was released September 6 and is the culmination of seven years of research conducted with the National Conference of State Legislatures, the State Legislative Leaders Foundation and the Council of State Governments. Farmer is the director of committee staff at the Oklahoma House of Representatives. This is the first of several publications slated for release in the Fall of 2007. |
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Dr. Wesley Hanson, Professor of Biology at Southern Nazarene University has recently published in the new City Style and Living Magazine http://www.citystyleandliving.com several photos that he took for the Quetzal Education Research Center (QERC) .
Dr. Hanson is the Director of the Quetzal Education Research Center. He is a molecular biologist by trade. His love for plants and animals is expressed in the photos he takes. |