Michelle S. Applebee,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Inexpensive Sensor Development and Application
Antoinette Countryman,
Adjunct Faculty, Department of English
Re-creating a Life: The Challenges of a Character from History
Nancy C. Lee,
Assistant Professor of Theology and Religion
Traditions of Lament (songs, liturgy, poetry) & Social Injustice: A Case Study—Former Yugoslavia
Maureen Francis Mascha,
Assistant Professor, Center for Business and Economics
Decision Aids and Learning
Librarians As Readers: Reading and Writing About Books Susan Swords Steffen, Assistant Professor and Director of the Library, Anne Jordan-Baker Assitant Professor, Elaine Fetyko Page, Assistant Professor Donna Goodwyn, Assistant Professor and Ayanna Gaines Assistant Professor.
Partnership to Create A Work Site Health Promotion Program
Lynda Slimmer, Professor of Nursing, Elmhurst College;
Karen Fuist, Consultant, The Center: Resources for Teaching and Learning
The Effect of the Number of Clinical Hours on the Performance of Preservice and Untenured Teachers.
Sheila Mehigan, Assistant Professor of Education, Judith Kaminski, Adjunct Professor of Education & Director of the Satellite Program
Service Learning: An Anger Management Intervention for Second Graders
Kathy Sexton-Radek, Professor of Psychology, Brianne Lukowski, Jo Rinaldo, and Laure Bruns, Department of Psychology
Business Ideologies and Perceived Breach of Contract During Downsizing: The Role of the Ideology of Employee Self-Reliance
Kathleen G. Rust, Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Social Language Skills of Preschool Children Prenatally Exposed to Cocaine
Cheri Carrico, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts & Science
Training Family Centered Practitioners: Utilizing Families as Teachers and Mentors in Graduate Level Personnel Preparation in Early Childhood Special Education.
Therese Wehman, Assistant Professor Education
LuEllen Doty, Associate Professor Education
Nancy Cheeseman, Adjunct Professor Education
Learning Dialogue with and without Movement
Helga Noice, Associate Professor of Psychology, Elmhurst College, Tony Noice, Indiana State University
Between Paper Dolls and Chaos: Progression of Our Creative Process Over Time
Lynn Hill, Assistant Professor of Art
Mary Lou Stewart, Assistant Professor of Art
Teachers as Leaders: Teacher Education is the Key to Unlocking Leadership
Carole Hillman, Associate Professor of Education
Michelle S. Applebee, Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
Ph.D., University of North Dakota. Research interests: Sensor development for both biological and environmental analytes and methods development. Abstract of recent work: direct monitoring of petroleum hydrocarbons has been an important area of research in recent history, due to their toxicity and unfriendly environmental nature. Mature methods in this area of study involve complicated and expensive equipment. Application of a thickness shear mode resonator for the determination of petroleum hydrocarbons has been proven successful. The instrumentation is simple, inexpensive, rugged and field portable allowing for regular monitoring of possibly contaminated areas.
Marie Baehr, Professor of Physics, Associate Dean of the Faculty.
Ph.D., Ohio State University. Research interests: tipping cans; physics education; disciplinary education strategies. Grants: NSF ILI grant with Jon Johnson in 1996-1999 for computers to link mathematics and physics. Recent work: Foundations of Learning, third edition and Foundations of Learning Activities Book, second edition co-authored with Karl Krumsieg
Cheri S. Carrico, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Director of the Elmhurst College Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic.
Ph.D., Northwestern University. Research interests: speech (articulation and phonological development), language (grammar, vocabulary, and pragmatic skills), and cognitive abilities of preschool-age children prenatally exposed to cocaine. Currently I am studying the speech, language, and feeding abilities of children with Cornelia de Lange syndrome. Grants: NCUR/Lancy Grant; Central DuPage Community Health Reinvestment Program Grant; Service Learning Grant; Faculty Development Travel Grant.
Dianne L. Chambers, Associate Professor of English.
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Research interests: narrative voice in the novels of Edith Wharton; modernism and women writers; Chicago women’s clubs at the end of the nineteenth century; motivation, career satisfaction, and preparation of second-career teachers. Grants: Faculty Research Grant
Nancy Cheeseman, Family Involvement Specialist, Department of Education
B.A., Completing M.A. from Roosevelt University. Research interests: families of young children with disabilities.
Rebecca Goetz Clancy, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Theology
M. A., M. Div. Chicago Theological Seminary. Scholarly interests: feminist and other postmodern interpretations of Christianity; ancient Hebrew linguistics and Nazi ideology as a contemporary paganism. Recent work: “Feminist Theology and the Mainline Protestant Church: A House Divided.”
Antoinette Countryman, Adjunct Faculty, Department of English
M.F.A., Wayne State University. Research/creative interests: history of women in the labor movement; historical novel on a character from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula during a copperminers’ strike in 1913.
Catherine Crawford, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Northwestern University. Research interests: pattern formation and localized structures in nonlinear systems. Abstract of recent work: In systems that exhibit a bistability between nonlinear traveling waves and the basic, zero-amplitude state, pairs of fronts connecting these two states can form localized wave pulses whose stability depends on the interaction between the fronts. The localization of waves is investigated mathematically with equations describing the traveling-wave amplitudes. In particular, we find that localized pulses can be stabilized by forcing the system periodically.
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 interests: correlation of student learning styles and instructional strategies for improved student results in beginning accounting courses. Grants: travel grant from Houghton Mifflin.
Judy M. Fiene, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education
M.A., Concordia University. Doctoral student at National-Louis University. Research interests: Creating a cyberspace community of learners; improving reading through reading; developing fluency with reluctant readers.
Janice Fodor, Director of the Learning Center, Assistant Professor of English.
Ed.D., Northern Illinois University
Brenda Forster, Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Northwestern University. Research interests: converts to Judaism; African Americans through film; attitudes and experiences with diversity. Recent work: study of Elmhurst College faculty, administrator, and staff attitudes and experiences with diversity.
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. Abstract of recent work: I’m exploring ways in which four Victorian women biographers wrote about Amelia Alderson Opie, a very popular late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century poet and fiction writer. My working idea is that the ways in which these women treated Opie in their writings effectively “killed” her presence in the canon of women writers that was establishing itself through the work done by these very biographers at that time. I want to know more about both how and why the Victorian canon took shape as it did, and the role played by women in its shaping, using Opie as a kind of “test case.”
Kelly A. Fugate, Assistant Professor of Nursing.
N.D., Case Western Reserve University. Research interests: HIV/AIDS; complementary therapies; end-of-life decision-making/ethics.
Ayanna Gaines, Assistant Librarian, Assistant Professor.
M.L.I.S., Dominican University. Research interests: popular culture and its acquisition by and dissemination in libraries; Tights ‘n’ fights in the Library: comic books and graphic novels as legitimate forms of literature.
Donna J. Goetz, Associate Professor of Psychology.
Ph.D., Loyola University. Research interests: gender differences; spirituality; family relationships. Recent work: Mother-daughter relationships in Japan and the U.S.
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.
Lynn Hill, Assistant Professor of Art.
M.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Research interests: digital imaging and multimedia. Abstract of recent work: Explorations into the manner in which sound mediates visual images, as well as the expressive potential of the random combination of sound and image. Current series: Wonder, a revisionist look at growing up in 1950s suburbia, and Unexpected Levels of Connection, surreal images of women and their multi-dimensional roles
Carole D. Hillman, Assistant Professor of Education.
Ed.D., Northern Illinois University. Research interests: brain research; constructing curriculum and management approaches for educators as well as for students. Recent work: “As a teacher who cares about children, how can I provide the best for all children?”; “Training Preservice Teachers in Technology Approach” co-written with Luellyn Doty; writings for the Chicago Tribune.
Abigail Hoit, Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Research interests: Analytic Number Theory and Q-additive Functions. Abstract of recent work: Q-additive functions are a particular type of arithmetic function. They are created by summing component functions defined on the digits of a number expressed in base-Q. Our main result gives necessary and sufficient conditions for such functions to be uniformly (resp. non-uniformly) distributed modulo 1.
Jane A. Jegerski, Professor of Psychology.
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago. Research interests: pedagogy in the teaching of psychology; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary teaching. Current work: A Meta-analysis of Mentoring in the Workplace.
Anne Jordan-Baker, Assistant Librarian, Instruction/Reference Librarian, Assistant Professor.
M.S.L.S., Florida State University. Research interests: information literacy; technology and pedagogy
Lori Klose, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Sociology.
M.A., University of Chicago. Research interests: women’s health; managed mental health care; workers compensation. Abstract of recent work: Descriptions of managed care and the changing role of Employee Assistance Programs. It continues with a social and historical description of EAPs as described in the professional literature, and a description of alternative models presently In operation. The role of managed care plans as providers of mental health and substance abuse care is reviewed, and the difference between EAP’s and managed care in this regard is discussed. Findings from interviews with administrators of EAP’s in the Chicago area are reviewed with their implications for public policy.
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.
Nancy C. Lee, Assistant Professor of Theology and Religion.
Ph.D., Union Seminary. Research interests: lament genres in biblical literature and liturgy; former Yugoslavia; traditional oral poetry; biblical prophetic literature. Recent work: The Singers of Lamentations: Cities under Siege from Ur to Jerusalem to Sarajevo; “Biblical Translation, Politics and Lamentation: New Republics of the Old Yugoslavia and Former Soviet Union” co-authored with Boris Arapovic. Grants: International Faculty Development Grant
Patricia A. Lynott, Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences.
Ph.D., Loyola University. Research Interests: listening; business communication; oral history. My methodological approach tends to be qualitative and historical. My scholarship often incorporates a critical perspective, examining how communication oppresses or liberates individuals and/or social groups. Grant: Faculty Alumni Committee of the National Alumni Association Grant
Maureen F. Mascha, Assistant Professor of Business Administration.
Ph.D., University of Kentucky. Research interests: decision aids; decision accuracy; e-commerce and buying behavior. Abstract of recent work: Expert Systems assist users in making more accurate judgments, but only when the expert system is used in tandem with a complete task. If the task is simple, there is no significant change in decision accuracy.
Sheila A. Mehigan, Assistant Professor of Education.
Ed.D., Loyola University. Research interests: Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences; critical thinking and inquiry and its infusion into the curriculum; performance of preservice, nontenured and tenured teachers. Abstract of recent work: This study was conducted to ascertain whether or not the multiple intelligences environment developed in a private secondary school had an impact on its female students. It looked at the students involved in the multiple intelligences environment in terms of knowledge of their own intelligences, academic achievement in G.P.A., personal life at home and work, and participation in outside activities. The research site for the study was private secondary school for female students with a curriculum, which had been in place for five years, formulated on the the Theory of Multiple Intelligences. The students were from many cultural backgrounds and needed multiple avenues as part of their instructional process to express their intelligent behavior. During this period when there is an emphasis on reform and schools are in the process of being restructured, this study has increased the knowledge about high school students’ motivation, achievement and pesonal growth.
Debra K. Meyer, Associate Professor of Education and Director of Elementary Education.
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Research interests: classroom observation studies that involve discourse analyses and experience sampling techniques for describing the socio-emotional contexts that are related to students’ motivation to learn. Recent work: “Historical Foundations, Research Methods, and Future Directions for Studying and Understanding Classroom Contexts”with J.C. Turner; “The Role of Social Context in Educational Psychology: Substantive and Methodological Issues.” Grants: Departmental Initiative Grant with Dr. P. Liu; Faculty Research Grant with Dr. M. DiCintio.
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: critical care nursing; assessment of student outcomes in baccalaureate nursing programs. Recent work: “Using Student Writing Samples to Assess Program Outcomes” (presentation); “Comparison of two methods of managing gastric residual volumes from feeding tubes” (published).
Helga Noice, Associate Professor of Psychology.
Ph.D., Rutgers University. Research interests: human memory from both theoretical applied perspectives; examining the cognitive processes of professional actors and extending the results to the general population from college students to senior citizens. Abstract of recent work:The goals of the reported experiments were to determine the contribution of physical movement o the processing and eventual retrieval of theatrical dialogue by students with little or no instruction or practice in performing such dialogue. The present study investigated whether memory facilitation is a product of actors’ expertise and/or their extensive rehearsal process, or if undergraduate students could achieve similar results given just a few minutes of procedural training. A main finding was that participants who processed a script by moving in accordance with a director’s instructions while simultaneously reading the text aloud retained more material than those who used verbal communication only, or controls who deliberately memorized the same material. Grants: NIH grant to investigate cognitive improvement in older adults as a result of brief instruction in professional theatre techniques; Faculty Development Grant (Elmhurst College); Faculty Research Grant (Augustana)
Bridget K. O’Rourke, Assistant Professor of English.Ph.D., Purdue University. .
Elaine Fetyko Page, Assistant Librarian, Head of Technical Services, Assistant Professor.
M.S., University of Illinois. Research interests: archives and manuscripts, electronic records management; digitization.
Amy S. Patterson, Assistant Professor of Political Science.
Ph.D., Indiana University. Research interests: African politics; African democratization processes; role of women in local governance issues in rural Senegal. Recent work: examines how changes to Senegal’s election code for local elections impacted the ability of female candidates to be elected to local decision-making bodies; what local female officials do with power if they are elected. Grants: American Political Science Association Grant; Faculty Research Grant
Kathleen G. Rust, Assistant Professor of Business Administration.
D.B.A., Southern Illinois University. Research interests: organizational downsizing; organizational restructuring; managerial ideologies; organizational change. Recent work: considers how business ideologies impact the perception of breach of the psychological contract during downsizing. I am also interested in determining if belief in ideologies impact the perception of one’s own layoff and a person’s perception of layoffs happening to others. Grant: Faculty Development Travel Grant
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.
Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology, Research interest: Clinical psychophysiological assessment and treatments, Correlates of headaches, Sleep patterns, Sport performance enhancement, Computer pedagogy, and Clinical psycopharmacology. Recent work: “Clinical Comparisons of Individuals Presenting with Sleep Disorders” (poster): Mentoring by Alumni and Faculty: A Winning Combination”; Cross-cultural leadership styles: United States and China”, “Interplay of Art Making Practices and Migraine Headache Pain Experience.” Grant: Searle Pharmaceuticals for Undergraduate Sleep Research Fellowship.
Lynda Slimmer, Professor of Nursing, Coordinator of Service-Learning Program.
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago. Research interests: effects of specific health promotion interventions to decrease substance abuse and early sexual activity in Hispanic ninth graders; effects of specific health promotion interventions to increase literacy and access to health care information of Hispanic adults. Abstract of recent work: Healthy People 2010 Objectives for the nation challenge work sites to increase the proportion of employees who participate in employer sponsored health promotion activities. The National Health Interview Survey reports that only 16% of Hispanic/ Latino employees presently participate in such activities. The goal of a partnership among Marriott Hickory Ridge Hotel, Illinois Center for Teaching and Learning, and the Elmhurst College Service-Learning Program is to increase access to health promotion activities for the hotel’s Hispanic/Latino housekeeping staff through literacy skill and health education classes. Presently 25% of the staff have participated in the literacy skill classes with a mean gain of 65% in the literacy rate.
Susan Swords Steffen, Director of the Library, Assistant Professor.
M.A.L.S., Rosary College. Research interests: Faculty-librarian collaboration; children’s literature; adolescent literature; use of information technology in the improvement of teaching and learning.
Mary Lou Stewart, Assistant Professor of Art, Director of Art Education.
M.F.A., Mills College. Research interests: mixed media painting & collage/montage on paper; investigation into the tension between chaos and structure within an abstracted landscape through the use of pattern, grid, and gesture and recent inquiry into large cut paper constructions of chaos / structure; curriculum development for the beginning artist; teacher art education curriculum development.
Joan Vilim, Instructor of Business.
M.M., Northwestern University
Therese Wehman, Assistant Professor of Education, Coordinator of the Graduate Program in EarlyChildhood Special Education.Ph.D., The Erikson Institute, Loyola University. Research interests: early intervention system change; personnel preparation; creating parent-professional training partnerships; inclusion; team building.
Barbara A. Zak, Assistant Professor of Nursing.
M.S.N., University of Illinois
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