- Dr.
Christine Berry,
economics and finance, attended the Risk and Insurance Management
Society Conference in
San Diego
,
Calif.
, in April 2004.
Dr.
Ronald Berry,
CIS, Dr. Donna Luse, CIS, and
Dr. Michelle McEacharn,
accounting, attended the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of
Business International 2004 Learning from the Leaders Conference in
September 2004, in
Denver
,
Co.
Abigail
Bratton, Julie Davis,
Randall Dulaney
, Barbara Michaelides,
Patti Pate
, Mary Elizabeth Sewell, and
Kim Todd,
Student
Success
Center
, attended the Noel-Levitz Conference in July, 2004. The conference
focused on enrollment objectives such as student recruitment, financial
aid, student retention, market research, publications, web site
development, and professional development. They also attended the
pre-conference workshop on the retention management system, the College
Student Inventory (CSI), which
ULM
is currently using with all FRYS classes. ● A. Bratton, J. Davis,
R. Dulaney, Ida Gaines, B.
Michaelides, P. Pate, M. E. Sewell, and K. Todd attended an intensive
two-day workshop on Supplemental Instruction provided by Maureen Hurley,
Associate Director of the Center for Academic Development at the
University
of
Missouri
,
Kansas City
. The training focused on
procedures for selecting SI courses and SI leaders; evaluation and
funding of the program; ongoing training and supervision of SI leaders;
theoretical frameworks underlying the SI model; and effective learning
strategies and SI session activities.
Debra
Brossett, nursing, was awarded
the Glenwood Regional Medical Center Endowed Professorship.
Dr.
June Bruyninckx, family and
consumer science, attended the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID)
National Convention on
October 1-2, 2004
, in
Natchez
, Miss.
Dr. Jay Bulot, Dr. Chris Johnson and
Dr. Bonnie Hatchett, gerontology, were recently awarded a contract
to research “Aging with Down Syndrome” by the
Resource
Center
on Aging with Developmental Disabilities.
Juliet
Burgess, nursing, has been
appointed as the Department Head of Nursing Concepts
Michael
Cappel, social work, was recently
named Louisiana State Coordinator for the “Run for The Wall,” the
largest movement of motorcycles as a single unit across the
US
. The group converges in
Washington
,
D.C.
, and travels to the Viet Nam Memorial Wall as “Rolling Thunder.”
The purpose of this ride is to keep alive the memory of the POW/MIA who
are still awaiting their return home from
Viet Nam
and all our nation’s wars. The ride motto is “We ride for those who
can’t.”
Paulette
Cappel, social work, will attend
the 16th Annual National Dropout Prevention Network
Conference October 31-November 3 in
Orlando
, Fl.
Linda
W. Christmas, social work, was
appointed to the La. Department of Social Services, Office of Community
Services Workgroup for Continuation of Statewide Family Resource
Centers. OCS has funded all three ULM Social Work Department Family
Resource Centers since 1996.
The
CIS Department
recently offered a Business Technology Summer Camp where high school
students and teachers learned about careers in the information systems
field and skills such as programming, database development, web-page
development, and networking.
Dr.
Roy Clinton,
management and marketing, attended the Pi Sigma Epsilon (PSE) National
Convention in
Reno
,
Nev.
, in April 2004.
Dr.
Kenneth Clow,
management and marketing, attended the American Assembly of Collegiate
Schools of Business (AACSB) Maintenance of Accreditation Seminar in May
2004 in
Tampa
,
Fla.
Dr.
Lisa C. Colvin, kinesiology, will
serve as co-investigator with
Pennington
Biomedical
Research
Center
researchers on the Louisiana Health (LA Health) grant. This USDA-funded
childhood obesity prevention program is a school-based intervention that
uses different treatment strategies to prevent overweightness in rural
Louisiana
school children grades 3-6. The study will be conducted for 3 years and
the development of a valid and usable national intervention model is one
of the project’s goals.
Emily
Doughty, nursing, has been
appointed as the Department Head of Nursing Interventions.
Catherine
Estis, Talent Search, is in her
third year pursuing a Ph D. in the Department of Public Policy and
Administration at
Jackson
State
University
with a Policy Analysis Concentration and was named a 2004 Eisenhower
Fellow.
Dr.
Valerie Fields, student life and
leadership, received her Ed.D. degree in Curriculum and Instruction,
Cognate-Technology from
Louisiana
Tech
University
and will be hooded on
November 20, 2004
. Dr. Fields successfully defended her dissertation “The Effects of
the Teacher’s Levels of Technology Integration on Student Achievement
in
Reading
and Mathematics” under the Louisiana Education Consortium (LEC), a
collaborative effort of Louisiana Tech, Grambling and
ULM.
Steve
Gaharan, social work, project
director for the Child Welfare Family Resource Center in Delhi, known as
Family Ties, completed two years of service on the Louisiana Department
of Social Services, Office of Community Services, Region VIII, on the
Continuous Quality Improvement Committee; and is currently serving on
OCS subcommittee on consumer rights.● S.
Gaharan, participated in a fundraiser for the center sponsored by
The Big Top Travel Centers in Waverly, La. A community barbeque was held
and its proceeds will be used to purchase Christmas gifts for needy
children served by the
ULM
Center.
Dr.
Janet Haedicke, English, is a
referee for the South Atlantic
Modern Language Association Quarterly.
Robert
Hanser,
criminal justice, was selected as a participant in the International
Academic Scholars program and taught a two-week workshop on Chinese
Americans and the Social Service and Criminal Justice Systems of the
United States
May 21 - June 6 at
Beijing
Union
University
,
College
of
Arts
and Sciences, in
Beijing
,
China
. ● R. Hanser has been gradually working
on his state certification as a Substance Abuse Counselor in addition to
his current credentials as a Licensed Professional Counselor in the
state of
Texas
. ● R. Hanser attended the Louisiana
Association of Substance Abuse Counselor Training (LASACT) Conference in
July, 2004, and received specifics on opiate and narcotic drug
addiction, codes of ethics and dual relationships, and suicide
grief/loss issues. ● R. Hanser has provided psycho-educational
services on anger management and substance abuse issues to inmates at
David Wade Correctional Facility.
Please Join Helen
Hogan, nursing, for her retirement tea on November 4 at
2:00 p.m.
in the nursing conference room. Helen has served as interim director of
the
School
of
Nursing
.
Dr.
Chris Johnson, gerontology, took
twelve students and two professors this past summer to
Scotland
's
Stirling
University
to study “New Approaches to Dementia Care” and “The
Person-Centered Approach to Dementia Care”. This conference was held
at the
Dementia
Services
Development
Center
of the
University
of
Stirling
, in
Scotland
, July15-28, 2004. Under the auspices of Professor Mary Marshall of
Stirling
University
, the classes revolved around lectures, visits to community service
organizations and feedback/review sessions conducted by leading
practitioners in the field of dementia. The program involved an
international dimensionality with contributors and Professors from
Europe
joining
United States
faculty--Dr. Chris Johnson and Ms. Roxann Johnson as lecturers for the
weeklong seminar. Dr
Bonnie Hatchett
and
Dr. Marsha McGee,
Institute
of
Gerontology
, attended the lectures.
Sandra
Jones, nursing, was awarded the
Sister Anne Marie Twohig Endowed Professorship.
Dr.
Troy Kammerdiener,
Dr. Jose Cordova, Dr. Lon Smith and Kim Taylor,
computer science, coordinated the Association for Computing
Machinery's local programming contest on
September 17, 2004
, in which eleven computer science majors competed for positions on two
programming teams and various prizes. Solving two problems in 304
minutes, Devin Canterberry earned a position on the programming team and
a 256 Mb USB key. Corey Bordelon and Thom Savage won 2nd and 3rd place,
both also solving 2 problems. Paul Gullette, Matt Michels, Patrick
Lewis, and Paul Boquet each solved one problem. The top six contestants
will form two programming teams that will travel to LSU early November
to compete in the regional ACM programming contest.
Dr.
Marsha McGee, gerontology and
sociology, will soon attend a conference on Death & Dying in
Jackson, Miss.
Dr.
Stacy Moak,
criminal justice, joined the Board of Directors for Twin City Ballet
Company.
Annette
Murdock-Tangye, human resources,
was promoted to Assistant Director of Human Resources on
August 1, 2004
.
Dr.
Michael Parker,
economics and finance, attended the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE)
National Conference on
May 23-25, 2004
in
Kansas City
,
Miss.
● Dr. M. Parker and Dr.
Tammy Parker, economics and finance, recently attended the
Federation of Business Disciplines (FBD) Conference in
Orlando
,
Fla.
Dr.
Ava Pugh, curriculum and
instruction, the
ULM
representative for Southwest Education Development Laboratory (SEDL),
attended the annual fall conference in
Austin
,
Tex.
, on
September 26-28, 2004
. Representatives from seven states gathered to share the success of the
Access Centers of their school systems and universities.● Dr. Pugh
was initiated into the Monroe Garden Club on
September 13, 2004
.
Linda
Reid, nursing, was awarded the
Sister Jerome Crowley Endowed Professorship.
Patricia
Roshto,
and Dr. Dorothy Davis,
accounting, recently attended the Southwest Regional Beta Alpha Psi
Leadership Conference in
San Antonio
,
Tex.
The
Department of Criminal Justice is proud to announce the addition of Dr.
Jeff Rush to its faculty. Dr. Rush comes from the
University
of
Tennessee
,
Chattanooga
. He has a B.S. and a M.S.M.A. from the
University
of
Alabama
,
Birmingham
, and a D.P.A. from the
University
of
Alabama
. Dr. Rush has a total of 16 years of teaching
experience. He is active in many criminal justice organizations and
concentrates his research in the area of gangs and terrorism.
Dr.
Jenny Savage, Tamara Thompson, Andrea Savage, Lula Williams, Latanya
Whiteside, Lillie Tucker, Krystal Graham,
and Liz Dawkins, social work,
along with ULM SW Title IV-E students, Christy Ticheli and Melody
Karamanis, attended the Faith-Based Adoptions Mini-Conference sponsored
by Grambling State University School of Social Work and the U.S.
Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, Region 6, in
Shreveport, La., to encourage child welfare professionals to increase
collaboration with churches to achieve permanent homes for abused and
neglected children.
The
ULM Social Work Department Family Resource Centers
sponsored a local grandparent in the 6th annual Grandparents
Raising Grandchildren Conference in
Baton Rouge
, on
September 17, 2004
. Brenda McKeel represented our region and became the first
representative from
Monroe
to ever participate in the conference. Mrs. McKeel knows first-hand some
of the issues and challenges in raising her grandchildren, which she has
been doing since her daughter’s death one year ago. Mrs. McKeel
enjoyed participating in the conference, and attended a session on the
Kinship Care Program conducted by the Louisiana Department of Social
Services, Office of Family Support (OFS) and a session on how the
Association of Retired Persons is helping grandparents raise
grandchildren.
The
ULM Social Work Centers will be
involved with the Ouachita Council on Aging (COA) to bring more
workshops and support to the region. More grandparents are caring for
children of working parents and are sought out for placement when
parents are unable to care for children, according to ULM Social Work
Department graduate and COA Social Worker, Fannie Holland. She adds that
it is essential that everyone works together to help elders care for
their grandchildren.
The
ULM Social Work Department Title IV-E Child Welfare Program
conducted its 2004 Families in Focus Fall Seminar at the Holiday Inn
Holidome in
Monroe
. The guest speakers were nationally recognized Dan and Gail Tate of the
Louisiana Family Council in
New Orleans
. The seminar was titled “Getting Fathers Involved in the Process”
and presented child welfare professionals advanced practice methods to
help families increase recognition and involvement of fathers in
childcare. Dr. Richard Hood and Amy
Weems welcomed the group on behalf of
ULM
; the training was moderated by Dr.
Jenny Savage and coordinated by Andrea
Savage. There were 145
attendees representing State agencies for child protection, juvenile
justice, and education, and included professionals from private and
nonprofit groups, such as social workers in private practice, the VA
Medical Center in
Shreveport
, Grambling State University School of Social Work Title IV-E, Promise
Specialty, Christus Schumpert, St. Francis Medical Center,
Glenwood
Medical
Center
, and
Jackson
Parish
Hospital.
Dr.
Jerry Wall and The
Center for Business & Economic Research are winding down their
14th year of data collection for the federal Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System (BRFSS). Data for this system is collected from
every state in the nation and allows the activities and attitudes of
Louisiana
residents to be compared to the rest of the nation. CBER's involvement
included assistance in instrument design; supervising programming of new
questionnaire into a computer-aided telephone survey instrument,
collection of data, editing and reformatting of data and submitting it
to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Over the course of the year
CBER will have collected telephone interviews from over 9,000 carefully
selected
Louisiana
residents and asked them about various behaviors that affect health.
Smoking, smokeless tobacco use, alcohol consumption, eating habits, care
for the elderly, inoculations and exercise are among the many topics
included in the survey. In addition, CBER collected data from over 3,000
New Orleans
residents as part of the STEPS to a Healthier U.S. program. The grant
was obtained from the Louisiana Public Health Institute/New Orleans
Health Department. These data will be used to provide insight into
decisions as to allocation of scarce public health dollars.
Emily
Williamson,
Child
Development
Center
, was awarded the National Administrator Credential, the only national
credential designed specifically for child care administrators, by the
National Child Care Association, after completion of specialized
training in nine administrative competency areas.
Dr.
Holly Wilson, history and
government, and Dr. Ann Findley,
biology, attended the Ethics Institute - Faculty Summer Program workshop
“Teaching the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human
Genome Project,” at
Dartmouth
College
, on
July 25-31, 2004
.
Linda
Wilson, human resources, was
promoted to Human Resource Analyst 1 on
June 14, 2004
.
