2017 Faculty Activity Report

April 25, 2018

Rajiv Asthana

  • Presentation: "Joining and Integration Issues for Advanced Functional Materials," Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Institute for Complex Materials, IFW, Dresden, Germany, March 2017.
  • Presentation: "Educator at the Crossroad: Navigating the Divide Between Content-centered Pedagogy and Skills-centered Pedagogy (keynote), 4th International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education, Manipal University, Jaipur, India, January 2017.
  • Presentation: "Joining of Advanced Ceramics and Ceramic-matrix Composites by Diffusion Bonding and Brazing (keynote), All-India Conference on Smart and Functional Materials, Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute, Bhopal, India, January 2017.

Jennifer Astwood

  • Developed and taught a two-week workshop and gave a presentation about industrial design, included students’ presentation of their design work, Moscow, Russia, November.

Lopamudra Basu

  • Publication: “Cosmopolitanism and New Racial Formations in Post 9/11 Honors Diversity Curriculum” Occupy Honors Education on Diversity. Ed. Lisa L Coleman et al. National Collegiate Honors Council ‘s Monograph Series. 2017, 135-176.
  • Publication: “Winter Games” in inaugural issue of the creative writing journal of the Chippewa Valley, Barstow and Grand, October 2017, 10-11.
  • Publication: “Helen,” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, December 2016, 117-120.
  • Presentation: "Trauma, Victimhood and Empathy: The Road to Male Radicals in Homeland, The War Within and Khuda Kay Liye,American Comparative Literature Association’s annual conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 7.

Julie Beston

  • Publication: Beston, Julie, co-authors Thompson, M.; Etterson M.; Diffendorfer, J.E.; Loss, S.R.,  Loss Factors Associated with Bat Mortality at Wind Energy Facilities in the United States, Biological Conservation, November, 215, 241-245
  • Presentation: "Insect Diversity Found on Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) During Wisconsin Growing Season," Riveredge Nature Center's Student Research Symposium, Newburg, November.
  • Presentation: co-authors Mohl, E.K.; Brauner, S; Couture, J.J.; Koomen, M; McCall, A.C.; Styrsky, J.N., Recruiting Participants for a Distributed Research and Education Project Investigating Local Adaptation in Common Milkweed, Asclepias syriaca, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, Ore., August.

 Jennifer Grant

  • Publication: Human Peptidyl Arginine Deiminases Types 2 and 4 Recognize Distinct Structure-Specific Citrullination Motifs, Computational Biology and Chemistry, September, 70, 107-115.
  • Presentation: "MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry, Undergraduate Research Methodologies, and POGIL Instructional Methods," 53rd ACS National Meeting and Exposition, San Francisco, Calif., April 2017.
  • Presentation: "Assessing Student Competencies Using Rubrics Associated with Figure Legends and Ability to Perform the Bradford Assay in a 400-level Undergraduate Course on Proteomics," Poster Presentation, Experimental Biology 2017, Chicago, April 2017.
  • Presentation: "MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry, Undergraduate Research Methodologies, and POGIL Instructional Methods," Abstracts of Papers, April 2017, CHED, 307.

William James 

  • Publication: Diffusive Phosphorus Fluxes in Relation to the Sediment Phosphorus Profile in Big Traverse Bay, Lake of the Woods, Lake and Reservoir Management, 33, 360-368.
  • Publication: Internal Phosphorus Loading Contributions from Deposited and Resuspended Sediment to the Lake of the Woods, Lake and Reservoir Management, 33, 347-359.
  • Publication: Phosphorus Binding Dynamics in the Aluminum Floc Layer of Half Moon Lake, Wisconsin, Lake and Reservoir Management, 33, 130-142.

Jerry Kapus

  • Award: Andrew Schneider Professorship, UW-Stout, 2017-19.

Amanda Little

  • Publication: Ephemeral Pond Vegetation Within the Glaciated Upper Midwest: A Comparison with Permanent Wetlands, Freshwater Science, 37(1), January.

Laura McCullough

  • Publication: The “Problem” of Women in Physics, Physics Education Research Council of Graduate Students Newsletter, Special Issue May 2017, page 2.
  • Presentation: "Gender and STEM Leadership," Seminar at University of Minnesota, April 2017.
  • Presentation: "Gender Equality in STEM: Leadership and Learning," Seminar at University of North Carolina-Greensboro, April 2017.
  • Presentation: "Women’s Leadership in STEM," University of Wisconsin-System Women and Science Program Spring Conference, May 2017.
  • Presentation: "Comments on Women and Leadership," Women Leaders in Science, Technology, and Engineering Conference, Kuwait, Kuwait, October.
  • Presentation: "Women's Leadership and Women in STEM," Annual meeting of the American Association of University Women--Eau Claire Branch, Eau Claire, April 2017.
  • Presentation: "Women in Physics in the United States: Reaching Toward Equity and Inclusion," 6th International Conference on Women in Physics, Birmingham, United Kingdom, July 2017.
  • Presentation: "Women in Physics Leadership," 6th International Conference on Women in Physics, Birmingham, United Kingdom, July 2017.

Daisy Pignetti

  • Presentation: "A Fandom Hiddlesplit over Hiddleswift," presented as part of the Stardom, Celebrity and Fandom Conference held at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, Nov. 11.

Alan Scott

  • Publication: Monte Carlo Simulations of Gravitational Planetary Transfers and Orbital Dynamics in Rogue Star – Solar System Interactions, International Journal of Physics and Astronomy, Vol. 5, No. 1, June 2017.
  • Publication: No Time for Certainty, Skeptical Inquirer, January/February 2017.
  • Presentation: "A Quasi-Cheerful Long-Term Earth Destiny," Joint meeting with Wisconsin Association of Physics Teachers and Illinois Association of Physics Teachers, October.

Ana M.Q. Vande Linde

  • Presentation: Vande Linde, Ana M.Q., co-authors Kuss, Lillie; Deaver, Brent; Jerkovich, Tyler, "Lead and Cadmium Content of Imported and American Food Products," Food and Drug Administration Regional Retail Food Safety Seminar and National Environmental Health Association Region 4 Conference, Minneapolis, Sept. 21.
  • Presentation: Vande Linde, Ana M.Q., co-authors Ciak, Alexandra; Theisen, Lilia; Kuss, Lillie; Deaver, Brent; Hang, Christina; Xiong, MaiHer, "Effect of Zinc Application on Cadmium Absorption in Kale and Snow Peas," Food and Drug Administration Regional Retail Food Safety Seminar and National Environmental Health Association Region 4 Conference, Minneapolis, Sept. 21.

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