Compiled by Anne Jordan-Baker, Assistant Librarian

Marie Baehr, Associate Dean of the Faculty, Professor of Physics.

Ph.D., The Ohio State University. Research interests: interdisciplinary foundations courses;

center of mass of liquid-solid combinations; technology in the classroom.

Poster session: "The Creation of a Freshman Foundation Course Textbook."

Cheri Carrico, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Director of the

Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic. Ph.D., Northwestern University. Research interests:

speech and language development in children prenatally exposed to cocaine, in twins, and in

children with Cornelia de Lange syndrome.

Presentation: "Speech and Language Development in Preschool Age Children Prenatally

Exposed to Cocaine."

Dianne L. Chambers, Associate Professor of English.

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Research interests: work on the novels

of Edith Wharton, modernism and women writers, and the role of Chicago women's clubs

in giving women access to high culture at the end of the nineteenth century. She also does

research in education on teaching literature in high school and adult students who leave one

career to enter the teaching profession.

Judy M. Diekmann, Associate Professor of Nursing.

Ed.D., Northern Illinois University; A.O.C.N. Research interests: the client with cancer; the

pain experience; research methods.

Poster session: "The Well-Elderly's Rating of Acute Pain: A Pilot Study"

Julia diLiberti, Adjunct Faculty, French.

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Research interests: French 19th Century

Fantastic Literature, The Concept/Strategy of Androgyny in 19th Century France, Les

Paraliteratures (i.e. the fantastic, cartoons, detective fiction), Feminist Theory, Francophone

literature and cultures, Foreign Language (or any) Pedagogy.

Presentation: "A Few French Follies from the Fantastic to the Francophone."

LuEllen Doty, Associate Professor of Education, Director of Special Education.

Ed.D., University of Kentucky. Research interests: integrating technology

for engaged learning; integrating technology and building technology competencies via a

technology portfolio in preservice teacher education.

Angela L. Ellis, Instructor of Business.

M.B.A., Northern Illinois University. Research interest: business taxation.

Karin Evans, Assistant Professor of English.

Ph.D., Purdue University. Research interests: how students develop as writers in

different areas of their lives, including academic, professional, civic, and personal;

currently conducting a longitudinal case study of nine EC undergraduates.

Poster session, copresented with Janice Fodor, "Student Literacy Development at

Elmhurst College: A Longitudinal Case Study."

Judy M. Fiene, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education.

M.A., Concordia University. Research interests: school-based literacy programs; Judy is

supporting an action research project at a local elementary school to help teachers and

administrators determine the best early reading intervention for primary students. She is

also developing a program in school-based tutoring that provides a community service while

training preservice teachers in the diagnosis and remediation of reading.

Janice Fodor, Director of the Learning Center, Assistant Professor of English.

Ed.D., Northern Illinois University

Poster session, copresented with Karin Evans, "Student Literacy Development at

Elmhurst College: A Longitudinal Case Study."

Brenda Forster, Professor of Sociology.

Ph.D., Northwestern University

Ann Frank Wake, Associate Professor of English.

Ph.D., University of Michigan. Research interests: women and British Romanticism;

intersections of race, class, and gender in literature, primarily U.S.; writing poetry.

Poster session: "Transformations of Romanticism."

Kelly A. Fugate, Assistant Professor of Nursing.

N.D., Case Western Reserve University. Research interests: integrating treatment adherance

with coping & lifestyle behaviors; complementary therapies; nursing care management of

HIV disease.

Presentation: "TEAMS: The Education and Medication System"

Donna J. Goetz, Associate Professor of Psychology.

Ph.D., Loyola University. Research interests: gender differences; women and leadership;

religion and spirituality; mother-daughter relationships in Japan and the U.S.

Poster session, presented with student Lida Billings-Geibel and EC graduate Marci DiVerde:

"College Students’ Self-Concept and Gender Roles in 1978 and 1998"

Marjorie K. Goodban, Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Department Chair.

Ph.D., University of Illinois. Research interests: communication development in the

Cornelia deLange Syndrome; fluency disorders; multicultural communication.

Donna Goodwyn, Associate Librarian, Head of Reference Services, Assistant Professor.

M.A.L.S., Rosary College. Research interests: information literacy; U.S. Civil War;

women’s history.

Judith E. Grimes, Associate Professor of Music, Director of Music Education.

M.S., Indiana State University

Heather L. Hall, Associate Professor of Kinesiology.

Ph.D., University of Toledo. Research interests: Effects of exercise on immune function,

reproductive function, and other physiological parameters.

Poster session: Three papers: "Effects of Intensified Training and Detraining on Testicular

Function," "Cross Training: Indices of Training Stress and Performance," "Knowledge and

Attitudes of University Female Athletes About the Female Athlete Triad."

Lynn Hill, Assistant Professor of Art.

M.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Research interests: digital imaging and

multimedia. The subject matter concerns connections woven through generations of

women. Referenced through various frames of domesticity, both unrealized potential and

transcended restrictions compile a type of resonating visual memory.

Presentation: "Re-Collections: Imaging A Legacy."

Carole D. Hillman, Assistant Professor of Education.

Ed.D., Northern Illinois University. Research interests: connecting brain study and

development to teaching methodology.

Poster session: "An Array of Writings for Educators and Children."

Abigail Hoit, Assistant Professor of Mathematics.

Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Research interest: algebraic number theory.

Jane A. Jegerski, Professor of Psychology.

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago

Anne Jordan-Baker, Assistant Librarian, Instruction/Reference Librarian, Assistant Professor.

M.S.L.S., Florida State University. Research interests: information literacy; technology and

pedagogy; electronic resource usage patterns.

Poster session, co-presented with Susan Swords Steffen and Elaine Fetyko Page: "Online

Research Guides: Are They Worth Librarians’ Effort?"

Beth Kirkpatrick Vlad, Assistant Professor of Biology.

Ph.D., Texas A&M University. Research interests: plant molecular systematics of

Amaranthus and related plants; environmental microbiology impacts of Canada Geese;

methods used by students to learn in science versus nonscience courses.

Patricia Kovar, Assistant Professor of Education.

Ph.D., Walden University. Research interests: early childhood-special education program

development; Pat’s research resulted in the model Master’s program in early childhood-

special education at Elmhurst College. She also has been invited to present on the

curriculum portfolio, which she developed for the undergraduate early childhood program.

Phyllis M. Kowalke, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Information Systems.

Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology

Linda M. Krause, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Information Systems.

M.S.E.E., Illinois Institute of Technology. Research interests: developing and teaching

new courses for the Master of Science in Computer Network Systems; application

programming; database systems programming; active server pages.

Lee-Ann Laffey, Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

Ph.D., Indiana University. Research interests: female empowerment in contemporary Latin

American literature.

Nancy C. Lee, Assistant Professor of Theology and Religion.

Ph.D., Union Seminary (May, 2000). Research interests: Hebrew Bible; lament literature.

Presentation: "Lament Literature in Biblical Studies and in Contemporary Contexts of

Suffering."

Patricia A. Lynott, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences.

Ph.D., Loyola University

Maureen F. Mascha, Assistant Professor of Business Administration.

Ph.D., University of Kentucky. Research interests: systems control, specifically

control over Internet transactions and business; evaluation of the effects of decision aids on

learning and judgment/decision making.

Sheila A. Mehigan, Assistant Professor of Education.

Ed.D., Loyola University. Research interests: gifted education, multiple intelligences

theory; achievement for girls in the areas of mathematics and science; instructional design

and writing across the curriculum.

Poster session: "Validation of the Impact of the Multiple Intelligences Theory on Female

Secondary Students in a Private School."

Debra Meyer, Associate Professor of Education and Director of Elementary Education.

Ph.D.,University of Texas at Austin. Research interests: the social context of teaching and

learning at multiple levels: elementary, middle school, and college.

Poster session: "Examining the Contexts of Teaching."

Susan R. Moninger, Assistant Professor of Music, Director of Choral Music.

M.M., Northwestern University

Linda K. Niedringhaus, Professor of Nursing, Director, Deicke Center for Nursing Education.

Ph.D., St. Louis University. Research interests: care of critically ill patients; learning

outcomes in baccalaureate nursing programs.

Poster session: "Nutritional Management for Critically Ill Patients."

Helga Noice, Associate Professor of Psychology.

Ph.D., Rutgers University. Research interests: For the past 14 years, her research (carried on

in collaboration with her husband, Tony Noice, of Indiana State University) has focused on

human memory. In the last three years, the research has taken on an "applied" aspect by

showing how the general population, from college students to senior citizens, can benefit

from the strategies that professional actors use to learn their roles.

Poster session: "Long-Term Retention of Previously Performed Theatrical Roles."

Bridget K. O’Rourke, Assistant Professor of English.

Ph.D., Purdue University.

Presentation: Bridget O'Rourke earned her Master's degree in English at the University of

Illinois at Chicago, which was built on the former site of the Hull House, founded in 1889

by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. When Bridget began writing her dissertation at

Purdue University, fate intervened in the person of Edeline Lombardo, a 90-year-old former

resident of the Hull House neighborhood whose uncanny memory and family history

enriched Bridget's research in innumerable ways. Tonight, Bridget will share with us part of

Mrs. Lombardo's oral history and talk about the unique insight the family's story played in

Bridget’s study of literacy and immigration in the Hull House neighborhood.

Elaine Fetyko Page, Assistant Librarian, Head of Technical Services, Assistant Professor.

M.S., University of Illinois. Research interests: archives and manuscripts, theory and

methods; cataloging and management of electronic resources.

Poster session, co-presented with Susan Swords Steffen and Anne Jordan-Baker: "Online

Research Guides: Are They Worth Librarians’ Effort?"

Amy S. Patterson, Assistant Professor of Political Science.

Ph.D., Indiana University. Research interests: decentralization in Africa; African women’s

involvement in political and economic development; African civil society and

democratization.

Presentation: "A Window of Opportunity? Women’s Participation in Grassroots Political

Change in Senegal."

Kathleen G. Rust, Assistant Professor of Business.

D.B.A., Southern Illinois University. Research interests: organizational downsizing;

organizational restructuring; managerial ideologies; organizational change.

Presentation: "How Managerial Ideologies Affect the Relationship Between

Profitability and Downsizing."

Kathleen Scanlon, Assistant Professor of Nursing.

M.S.N., University of Illinois at Chicago; M.A., Governors State University

Susanne Schmitz, Associate Professor of Economics.

Ph.D., University of Kentucky

Janet Schreiber, Assistant Professor of Nursing.

M.S., Northern Illinois University

Kathleen J. Sexton-Radek, Professor of Psychology, Department Chair.

Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology. Research interests: Clinical psychophysiological

assessment and treatments, Correlates of headaches, Sleep patterns, Sport performance

enhancement, Computer pedagogy, and Clinical psychopharmacology.

Poster session, copresented with P. Freebok, EC alumni M. Grant, R. Pichler, R. Fleming,

R. Eremia, and EC students J. Glancey and K. Murray: "Personality Style and Level of

Insomnia."

 

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