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Susan Redington Bobby, assistantprofessor of English, has signed a contractwith McFarland and CompanyPublishers to write a scholarly monographon Philip Pullman. Tentativelytitled “Philip Pullman's OtherMaterials: Innocence and ExperienceThrough the Art of Storytelling,” thebook will critically analyze Pullman'sentire body of work outside his famoustrilogy “His Dark Materials,” on whichBobby published an article severalyears ago. Her book will cover a widerange of genres penned by this criticallyacclaimed British writer.Bobby also was selected to present apaper at the 2011 Northeast ModernLanguage Association (NeMLA) conferenceApril 7-10 at Rutgers University.Her paper, titled “ ‘A man [or woman]must have a code’: Heroes andAntiheroes in The Wire,” discussesthree central characters in the popularHBO series and the impact of gender onheroism. She also will chair a panel atthe conference titled "Donors andHelpers: Masculinity in ContemporaryFairy Tales." Wesley graduate MatthewJ. Gallagher ’10 has been selected as oneof three presenters for her panel andwill present on Marxism and feminismin contemporary fairy tales.Dr. Kraiwinee (Nok) Bunyaratavej,assistant professor of business administration,presented a paper at theInstitute for Operations Research andthe Management Sciences AnnualMeeting in Austin, Texas in November.This paper, titled "Reverse Offshoring ofServices: The New Wave of EmergingOffshorers," is about the determinantsof services offshoring from developingcountries to other countries. It was coauthoredby Dr. Eugene D. Hahn ofSalisbury University.On November 2, voters in the 9thRepresentative District electedRebecca Walker, JD, MSN, visitinginstructor of nursing, to the DelawareGeneral Assembly to serve as a statelegislator in the House ofRepresentatives. Walker has been afaculty member in the Department ofNursing for four years and is also aWesley alumnus. She has experience incritical care and emergency departmentnursing, served as the presidentof the Delaware Board of Nursing andwas a health care attorney inPhiladelphia. Over the next two years,she will represent Odessa, Townsend,Delaware City and parts ofMiddletown in the state of Delaware.On October 27, Dr. Patricia Dwyer,vice president for academic affairs,was part of the “Principal for a Day”program sponsored by the DelawareState Chamber of Commerce. Thisprogram is designed to give participantsinsight into the daily challengesand opportunities that principalsencounter and to find out more aboutacademic programs offered toDelaware students. Dwyer visitedWoodbridge High School inBridgeville, Del. and worked with Mr.Robert Adams, the high school principal.Accompanied by Adams, Dwyermet with students and parents on topicsranging from cyber-bullying toearly dismissal requests. She also hadthe opportunity to observe severalclasses—a civics lesson on the FifthAmendment, a mock election and anhonors astronomy class. She enjoyedlunch from the high school cafeteriaand ate in the teachers’ dining roomwith her “co-workers for the day.”Several faculty members fromWesley’s Department of Nursing participatedin the 2010 National Leaguefor Nursing (NLN) Education Summitin Las Vegas, along with more than2,000 individuals from all types ofnursing programs around the world.As the largest nurse educator annualevent in the country, the summit aimsto mobilize new ways to build a strongand diverse nurse workforce, celebrateachievement, and develop partnershipsthat promote a national conversationon issues confronting nursingand nursing education. Dr. KarenL. Panunto, associate professor ofnursing, presented a poster of her dissertationresearch titled “SimulationTechnology in Nursing Education:Student Perceptions.”Dr. Nancy Rubino, professor ofnursing, and Dr. Lucille Gambardella,professor and department chair, copresenteda session which includedtopics such as “Take This Job andShove It” and “Top Ten Reasons forNegative Faculty Dynamics” to astanding-room-only crowd of morethan 200 participants. The presentationdiscussed the factors that impactfaculty leadership and productivity innursing education.Back in October, Rubino was invitedto attend the ribbon-cutting ceremonythat marked the opening of the SportsMedicine Center at Nemours/A.I.duPont Hospital for Children inWilmington, Del., joining guests suchas Senator Tom Carper.Gambardella serves as the chairelectof the Evaluation of Learning andAssessment Advisory Council for theNLN. She was also named honorarycommander for the medical division ofthe Dover Air Force Base Command.The induction occurred in January andshe will serve in the role for one year.Dr. Teresa Griffin, associate professorof media arts, co-presented at theInternational Working Class/PovertyClass Academics Conference inArkansas in June 2010. Her co-presenterswere Dr. Deb Cohen and Dr. KarenTsukada, both from the University ofDelaware. The title of their presentationwas "The Impact of Low SES on Successfor Undergraduates: Impressions ofFaculty and Counseling Center Staff." Aspecial feature of this conference wasthat new media technologies were usedto webcast the presentations internationallyto allow virtual participation byattendees who could not be in the UnitedStates for the conference.Back in August, Griffin was the featuredreader at a standing-room-onlyWEARE.WESLEY.EDU 13