Fall 2003 - Northwestern College

C a m p u sn e w sN o r t h w e s t e r n C l a s s i cF a c u l t / ys t a f fnewsA new book, The Scienceof the Soul: Christian Faith andPsychological Researc h,includes two chapters writtenby D r. Don Wa c o m e, philosop h y. He wrote the chapterson the epistemological foundationsof science and on evolu t i o n a ry psychology. Editedby former NWC psychologyp rofessor Scott Va n d e r S t o e p ,now at Hope College, thebook was published byAmerican University Pre s s .D r. Ron Ta k a l o,Spanish, was selected for participationin the ChristianPerspectives on Fore i g nLanguage Education workshopat Calvin College inJune.B a rryB r a n d t, athleticdire c t o r,has beena p p o i n t e dc h a i rman ofthe NAIA’sRegion IV. He re p resents theregion on the 15-memberCouncil of AthleticsAdministrators, the gro u presponsible for initiating operationalpolicies for nationalcompetition in the NAIA.D r. Sara To l s m a, biology, is on sabbatical this year.She is writing a cell andmolecular genetics textbookfor non-science majors.Mitch Kinsinger, re l i-gion, was awarded an Andre wW. Mellon Researc hFellowship from the Vi rg i n i aHistorical Society inRichmond, where he conductedre s e a rch in May. There s e a rch is for a chapter of hisd i s s e rtation on Pre s b y t e r i a ns t ruggles for religious libert yin Colonial America.Michael Av e ry, business,was awarded a Doctor ofBusiness Administrationd e g ree in international managementin June from the H.Wayne Huizenga School ofBusiness and Entre p re n -eurship at Nova SoutheasternUniversity in Fort Lauderd a l e .He and senior Matt Va nG roningen wrote a paper,“ I m p roving U.S.Tr a n s p o rtation LogisticsE fficiency through Interm o d a land Infrastru c t u reDevelopment,” which waspublished in the July issue ofThe Vo y a g e r, a global publicationof TRANSLOGI n t e rnational. In May, Av e ry,junior Jeremy Youngers andCraig Dalen ’03 presented ap roject entitled “Ti e rra Bonita:I n t e rnational EconomicsSimulation in the CollegeC l a s s room,” at the Classro o mof the Future Conference atA u g s b u rg College inM i n n e a p o l i s .D r. Michael Kensak,English, has been chosen tos e rve as a peer review re a d e rfor The Chaucer Review, thep r i m a ry journal for Chaucerand Middle English.D r. Marc Wo o l d r i d g e,music, perf o rmed solo percussionmusic atN o rt h w e s t e n r College,Roseville, Minn., in April andat the University ofWisconsin-Stevens Point inS e p t e m b e . rHe also hosted theIowa Percussive Arts Society’s2003 Iowa Days of Perc u s s i o non our campus in April. InJ u l y, he participated in a twoweekresidency at the Akro n ,Iowa, Care Center, helpingresidents and staff learn howto perf o rm percussion instruments.They worked withhim to compose three newmusical works that also incorporatetechnology via filmand slides, and they premi e red a new work he composedfor them. On sabbaticalthis year, Wooldridge hasbeen chosen for inclusion onthe Iowa Arts Council’sTouring Artists Roster andA rtists in Schools andCommunities Roster. He alsohas been approved as one of20 Iowa artists to teachCharacter Counts principlesas part of artistic workshops.D r. Barb To p, education,will be doing re s e a rch andwriting on the topics ofautism and Fetal AlcoholS y n d rome during a springsemester sabbatical.Todd McDonald, dire c-tor of multicultural affairs, hasbeen selected to join theR e f o rmed Church inA m e r i c a s ’ Commission onRace and Ethnicity.D r. Scott Monsma, sociol o g y, is serving as pre s i d e n tof the Association for ChristiansTeaching Sociology. Hep resented a paper, “Te a c h i n gwith My Mouth Half Shut,” atits June conference in Dallas.D r. Tim McGarv e y,music, was selected by apanel of jurors to present andconduct at the College BandD i rectors National Associati o n s ’ national convention inMinneapolis in March. Hep resented on and conductedthe “Overt u re for Winds” byFelix Mendelssohn as part ofthe convention’s “ChosenGems” session.D r. Paul Bart l e t t, headw restling coach, was selectedto serve as an honorary assistantcoach at Sioux City’s Tw oWorlds, One Mat fre e s t y l ew restling meet in April. Heand Buena Vi s t a s ’ coachbacked up Olympic championsDan Gable and To mB r a n d s .Joonna Tr a p p, English,was awarded a Ph.D. inEnglish, with an emphasis inrhetoric and composition,f rom Texas ChristianUniversity in May. She presenteda paper at Penn State’sRhetoric and CompositionC o n f e rence in July. Tr a p pspoke on “Epideictic’sS o u t h e rn Road Trip: TheLyceum Impulse in the OldD o m i n i o n .”Piet Koene, Spanish,gave a presentation at theannual conference of theN o rth American ChristianF o reign Language Associationin April. He spoke on“Integrating the Bible into theLanguage Classroom: APractical Approach to KeyBiblical Passages and TheirRelevance to Language” in thec o n f e rence at Californ i a ’sAzusa Pacific University.Dan Yo u n g, political science,recently published abook chapter. “Martin Wi g h t :Politics in the Era ofLeviathan” is included in T h eChristian Realists: Reassessingthe Contributions of Niebuhrand His Contemporaries, p u b-lished by University Press ofA m e r i c a .1 0 ▲ F a l l 2 0 0 3