Pictured L-R: Pauline Lipscomb - Executive Director of ORGSP, Dr. Mary Anne Modrcin - Dean and Professor for Caylor School of Nursing, Carolyn Gulley - Post-Awards Grants Manager, Ms. Cynthia Whitt - Vice
President for University Advancement, Sarah Burnett, and Joan Uhl Pierce.
Dr. Mary Anne Modrcin has done it again! The Caylor School of Nursing recently received notification from the Department of Health and Human Services that its FY 2010 Advanced Education Nursing
Program application had been approved for funding. Dr. Modrcin submitted the application in response to a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announcement of a competitive grant opportunity under the Health Profession’s Program. This award will support the FNP program and will provide an additional three years to the first FNP grant that Nursing was awarded in 2007. An additional three years is not automatic. Dr. Modrcin had to apply for a competing continuation award documenting the previous good outcomes (and continuing need) from the previous grant award. The project is titled, “Enhancement of an FNP Serving Rural Appalachia.”
Dr. Modrcin would especially like to thank all the Nursing faculty and staff for their continued good work and support of all these good initiatives. Without all of their hard work, these initiatives would not be possible.
Congratulations to Dr. Modrcin and the Caylor School of Nursing!
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The LMU School of Business met the requirements of the Baccalaureate/
Graduate Degree Board of Commissioners to be a Candidate for
Accreditation on June 27, 2010 with the Association of Collegiate Business
Schools and Programs (ACBSP). The department hopes to be ready for a site visit in January of 2011.
Mr. John Moore , Assistant Director of Institutional Research, and Dr. Ann Callahan , Assistant Professor of Social Work, attended the second pilot group meeting of the Global Perspectives Inventory (GPI) ( www.gpi.central.edu
) which was sponsored by the Appalachian College Association. LMU was one of 11 ACA member campuses to complete the GPI in 2010.
Larry Braskamp, developer of the GPI, suggested that a global perspective is the product of a multidimensional, developmental process that allows us to “become increasingly capable of understanding and acting in ways that are interculturally aware and appropriate.” Thus, a global perspective can strengthen our ability to cope with “complex life tasks.”
Braskamp suggested that the promotion of a global perspective is a shared responsibility of University administration, faculty, staff, students, and alumni. It is the responsibility of us all to create opportunities to personally engage with people different from ourselves as well as to constructively process the experience to learn from it.
LMU has worked to promote a global culture on campus by infusing courses with readings, classroom exercises, and service learning opportunities to expose students to cultural difference. Additional ways include the introduction of multicultural programming, student/faculty recruitment, and study abroad/ away opportunities, and yet, more can be done.
In the months ahead, Moore and Callahan will be developing ways to further support the emerging global perspective at LMU. They request suggestions from the University community on new directions in this area. This concerted effort is becoming more pressing as the University continues to grow and hopefully emerge as a microcosm of our global society.
Article contributed by Dr. Ann Callahan and Mr. John Moore.
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Congratulations to those who recently put in the extra time and hard work it takes to submit a grant application:
Dr. Adam Rollins , Assistant Professor of Biology—National Science Foundation (NSF), for a project entitled “Microbial Diversity of Canopy Microhabitats in Neotropical Forests and the Role of Terrestrial
Snails as Ground-to-Aeriel Vectors of Microorganisms”.
Dr. Andrew Carroll , Assistant Professor of Physiology, LMU-DCOM—National Science Foundation
(NSF), for a project entitled “Energetic Linkages Between Morphology and Performance in Suction
Feeding Fish”.
Ms. Michelle Ganz , University Archivist and Cataloger—Application submitted to the Humanities
Collections and Reference Resources Program from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
The following are new grant awards that have been processed through the ORGSP. If your grant award is not listed, please let us know.
Dr. Mary Anne Modrcin , Dean and Professor for Caylor School of Nursing—Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA), for Nurse Anesthetist Traineeships, $10,607.
Upward Bound received from the U.S. Department of Education their fourth installment of their five year grant in the amount of $354,793.00.
Medical and Allied Health Librarian, Ms. Lisa Travis , has compiled a list of journals that publish articles on pedagogies and/or instructional methods. This list is a work in progress; journals for disciplines not yet covered will be added over time. If you know of a journal to add or find a broken link, please email
Lisa at lisa.travis@lmunet.edu
.
You can find the list of journals by clicking here.
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Contributed by
Martha Scheidler, Director of Foundations
The Colby Foundation awarded LMU the Colby Cassani Endowed Lectureship Series last fall. To fulfill this grant, LMU will offer a three part lecture series on October 21, 2010 which will involve the entire LMU community and be open to the public.
The Colby Foundation was established by Dr. John Cassani, D.O. and his wife Starla in the late 1990’s after the accidental death of their young son, Colby. Colby’s organs were donated to people in need of transplants. Since then, the Cassani’s have made it their mission to educate the medical community and raise the awareness of the importance of organ and tissue donation.
October 21 will be dedicated to organ and tissue donation awareness. The morning will begin with
Fall 2010 Convocation featuring Starla Cassani who will tell Colby’s story. The afternoon session will include a representative from the TN Organ Procurement Organization and others who are involved in the education of medical personnel and other professionals who may deal with ethical, moral, and legal ramifications of organ donations.
This day will be a celebration of life for many individuals and families who have been touched by the selfless and generous act of giving life to another person.
The committee members are Ann Callahan, Karen Carter, Neal Cross, Vina Diderrich-Faulkner,
Joshua Dodson, Amy Drittler, Sandra McGuire, Mary Anne Modrcin, Ray Penn, Kate Reagan,
Martha Scheidler, Cindy Whitt, and Okie Wolfe .
The Colby Foundation is nationally recognized, and brings that prestige to LMU. It is an honor to host the Lectureship Series and provide another area of education to our students, faculty, staff and the larger community. The website is www.colbyfoundation.org
. I urge you to join their FaceBook page also.
Mark your calendars and join us on October 21!
You can reach Martha at
(423) 869 6398, or martha.scheidler@lmunet.edu
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Renewing Ideas and Engaging the Public – Presidential Sites and Libraries Conference V
Charlottesville, Virginia June 21-24
James Madison’s home: Montpelier
Hosts: Miller Center of Public Affairs and University of Virginia
Presented by: American Association for State and Local History, James Madison’s Montpelier , National
Park Service, National Archives and Records Administration, President Lincoln’s Cottage and White
House Historical Association.
Special lectures and workshops enhanced backroom tours of major presidential sites and archives in
Virginia. The conference host speaker was the director of the Miller Center, former governor of
Virginia Gerald L. Baliles. Presidential authors Joseph Ellis, Jon Meacham, Michael Beschloss, and
Annette Gordon-Reed delivered keynote addresses. Conference attendees were able to study operations at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, Jefferson’s Monticello, Madison’s Montpelier,
Washington’s Mount Vernon, and Monroe’s Ash Lawn-Highland.
I was able to make new professional connections with leading staff from the following sites: President
Lincoln Cottage; James Buchannan National Historical Park; the Martin Van Buren National Historical
Park; Harvard University’s Houghton Library-Lincoln collection; Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
Park; White House Historical Association. I met and interviewed with a travel writer from Presidential
Places.com. A major discussion point throughout the conference was how to show how the various presidents reacted to each other during their careers. I was able to show how we have used this theme in a temporary exhibit Steve Wilson, Assistant Director and Curator for ALLM, built last year titled Abraham Lincoln and the Presidents: History & Heritage .
Article and photo contributed by Thomas Mackie.
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Ms. Lisa Travis was recently elected the
Vice President/President-Elect for the
East Tennessee Library Association
(ETLA). It will be a three-year commitment. She will be President next year, and serve as an advisor on the board the following year. Ms. Travis has also been designated as a peer reviewer for the journal, Medical Education Online. See http://med-ed-online.net/index.php/meo for more information on the journal.
Dr. Ann Callahan attended the 3rd annual meeting of the Society for
Spirituality, Theology and Health sponsored by Duke
Medical School on
June 16th at
Durham, NC.
Dr. Suhanya Aravamudhan , Assistant
Professor of Management, reviewed a manuscript entitled "A Study of HR
Consulting Firms’ Performance Measurement Indicators by Using Balanced Scorecard—Analysis of Fuzzy AHP" for AFRICAN
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT.
The review was done upon frequent request from the editor of the journal.
Dr. Aravamudhan also had an article published;
Aravamudhan, S. (2010). An empirical study on the critical factors for balanced scorecard implementation in the Indian context. International Journal of Business
Excellence, 3 (4).
Dean Syd Beckman ,
Professor and Dean for the
Duncan School of Law, has had a book published,
“ Evidence Logic Maps , A
Collection of Logic Maps
Designed to Assist in the
Understanding of the Federal
Rules of Evidence.” The book was published by
Thomson Reuters Publishers,
2010.
Dr. Jack McCann , Dean for The LMU School of Business, has had an article published;
McCann, J.T., & Holt, R.A. (2010). Servant and sustainable leadership: an analysis in the manufacturing environment.
Practice, 4
International Journal of Management
(2), 143-148.
Dr. Clayton Hess , Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs-Planning and Accreditation, was selected to moderate a Roundtable Discussion at the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and
Programs (ACBSP) 2010 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, California, on June 26. The ACBSP Annual
Meeting was held on June, 25-28, 2010. The topic of the Roundtable was, “Improving the Relationship between Community Colleges and 4-year Programs for Cost Savings.”
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Details and deadlines for each opportunity can be found by clicking on the corresponding links. This list , as well as a variety of public, private, and institutional funding source databases, can also be found on the
ORGSP website under funding sources. http://www.lmunet.edu/curstudents/ORGSP/funding-sources.shtml
alan.biel@lmunet.edu
or call (423) 869-6815
pauline.lipscomb@lmunet.edu
or call (423) 869-6214
carolyn.gulley@lmunet.edu
or call (423) 869-6291
stephanie.maiden@lmunet.edu
or call (423) 869-6834
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As a reminder, all applications for external funding must first begin by contacting the ORGSP.
If your grant award, application, presentation, or publication has not been mentioned in this edition, please forward your information to us using the contact information listed on the left.