July 27, 2010

Faculty/staff news update, July 26

WSU News Services

Academe welcomes news from WSU faculty and staff about research, teaching and service activities. This column recognizes grants, honors, awards, presentations and publications, new appointments, new faculty, sabbaticals, retirements and deaths of our current and former colleagues.

Ted Adler, assistant professor, ceramics, and graduate students Nathan Carris Carnes, Lauren Clay, Todd Hayes, David Hellman and Joe Leonard have work featured in the exhibition 鈥淭he Fundamentals of Clay,鈥� July 2-31 at Red Star Studios, Belger Arts Center in the Crossroads Art District of Kansas City, Mo.

Gina Brown, associate professor, physician assistant, had a first-person article, 鈥淎 Day in the Life of Gina Brown,鈥� published in the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants on June 25. The piece documents her experiences working in Afghanistan. .

Randy Brown, senior fellow, Elliott School of Communication, has been appointed by Gov. Mark Parkinson to the Kansas Board of Healing Arts. His term will run through June 2014.

Ronald Christ, professor, painting, had work in the exhibition 鈥淭he State of Contemporary Realism,鈥� July 2-3 at Hilliard Gallery in the Crossroads Art District of Kansas City, Mo.

Sal Mazzullo, professor, geology, along with alumnus Brian Wilhite and Woolsey Operation Co. owner Wayne Woolsey, recently received the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)  Presidential Award for their paper, published in the December 2009 issue of the AAPG Bulletin, 鈥淧etroleum Reservoirs within a Spiculite-Dominated Depositional Sequence: Cowley Formation (Mississippian: Lower Carboniferous), South-Central Kansas.鈥�

Monika Meler, assistant professor, printmaking, had a solo exhibition titled 鈥淐ontain Retain,鈥� July 2-23 at Cocoon Gallery, Arts Incubator in the Crossroads Art District of Kansas City, Mo.

Richard Muma

Richard Muma

Richard D. Muma, professor and chair, public health sciences, was awarded a one-year $485,000 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, as part of the College of Health Professions 2005 diversity plan. The money will support disadvantaged students enrolled in communication sciences and disorders, medical technology, undergraduate nursing, physical therapy and physician assistant over the next year.

Jerry Shaw, program coordinator and instructor, ethnic studies, gave a presentation, 鈥淯nderstanding Native American Identity,鈥� followed by discussion on July 10 at the Heritage Center Museum in Abilene, Kan. The event was hosted by the Dickinson County Historical Society.