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September 2012
CONTINUED GROWTH AT LMU RESULTS IN NEW
POSITIONS AND NEW SCHOOLS
Lincoln Memorial University has officially announced Dr. Dennis Kiick as
the Vice President of Research. Kiick
will oversee the Office of Research,
Grants and Sponsored Programs as
well as the University’s research
efforts including compliance, responsible conduct of research, and new
research partnerships and initiatives.
Kiick, who came to LMU six years ago
to help with the start-up of the osteopathic medical school, is currently the
Assistant Vice President of Research
for the Division of Health Sciences.
He will also retain his academic rank
as professor of biochemistry.
Kiick is not one-dimensional by anyone’s definition, but it is clear that he is a scholar and an educator first and foremost. His curriculum vitae is extensive and chronicles many years of teaching,
research, writing and service. He says that, whether students like him or not,
they quickly learn two things about him. “Students know I care about their education and they know the care comes from my passion for biochemistry and the
life sciences.”
Kiick said that Michael Clyburn, dean of the Carter and Moyers School of Education, was exactly right when he said recently during the University’s annual strategic planning retreat, “the intangibles of research are that faculty need to be
engaged in their discipline and at the cutting edge [of it] to keep that enthusiasm and freshness in their subject area and to be able to translate that to their
students in their teaching.”
In his new role Dr. Kiick will serve as the chief advocate for allowing faculty
members the opportunity to do research. “Research is question driven. An institution benefits from encouraging the inquisitive nature of its faculty.. It’s all
the better if that focus is in the health-related arena because you have the opportunity to make positive changes in a person’s life.”
Kiick has plans to visit with alumni groups around the country in the near future
to talk more about research at LMU.
Information provided by University Advancement.
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CONTINUED GROWTH AT LMU RESULTS IN NEW
POSITIONS AND NEW SCHOOLS
The new Math and Science Building that opened with this academic year is the
largest building on the Lincoln Memorial University campus. At 140,000 square
feet, it is approximately 25% larger than the LMU-DCOM building. It houses
state-of-the-art classrooms, research and office space, the Caylor School of
Nursing, LMU-DCOM first-year classes, all of the undergraduate science programs, and some classes for the proposed College of Veterinary and Comparative Medicine.
The Math and Science Building contains a 400-seat auditoria, microscopy suite
and 4,700 square feet of research labs to enable faculty and students to engage
in more research activity. For the undergraduate programs, it houses state-ofthe art biology, chemistry and physics labs and classrooms. The building has
complete wireless internet integration and full high definition and digital classrooms. Also contained in the building is a much larger anatomy suite which will
accommodate professional and undergraduate students in four pods.
The Math and Science Building is poised to provide advanced learning for advanced students. It will be dedicated to its mission during LMU’s annual Homecoming weekend in October 2012.
As the University continues to grow, particularly in regards to new program development and degree offerings, so does the requirement to demonstrate a
commitment to scholarly activities and research. “It has taken us a long time to
get a building to expand the research efforts at LMU. As a result, faculty- driven
research will become a big part of how faculty spend their time at the University. Given the number of health science-related programs now at the university,
the focus of our research will probably be in health-related fields – patientrelated research – that will affect patient outcomes,” said Kiick. “We will be
looking for ways to keep people alive longer and improve their quality of life.
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Allied Health Sciences News
LMU group chosen NAVTA Student Chapter of the Year
Mary Hatfield and her Vet Tech students were awarded National Association of
Veterinary Technicians of America (NAVTA) student chapter of the year, and
are featured on the cover of the NAVTA Journal. Pictured above are the members and below are the officers (L-R) Natalie Rudy, secretary; Elizabeth Lacy,
vice president; Ellen Manneschmidt, president; and Emily Rudy, treasurer. Congratulations to all students and Ms. Hatfield!
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School of Mathematics and Sciences News
USDA Challenge Grant Allows for Unique UT-LMU Tick Study
The summer of 2012 has been a banner
year for ticks in Tennessee. Some say
that last year’s mild winter is to blame,
but there’s no denying that there has
been an increase in the tick population
this year. So, how are ticks being
spread through Tennessee? Is there a
pattern or some sort of conduit to their
dispersal? One student has been
spending his summer trying to answer
those questions.
Daniel Greene, a senior at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tenn.,
has been travelling across the state trying to determine if Interstate 40 plays a
role in where ticks end up. Greene is
studying the interstate to see if it plays
a role as a conduit or a barrier to tick
dispersal.
Greene is an intern in the University of
Tennessee Institute of Agriculture’s Department of Entomology and Plant Pa- Daniel Greene, a senior at Lincoln Memorial
University in Harrogate, Tenn., is an intern in
thology. He’s working under the direc- the University of Tennessee Institute of Agrition of Dr. Rebecca Trout Fryxell. His in- culture’s Department of Entomology and
ternship stems from a Higher Education Plant Pathology. to LMU undergraduate students in agriculture-related fields.
Challenge grant from the USDA. In the
grant, UT has developed a partnership to provide educational opportunities to
LMU undergraduate students in agriculture-related fields.
“We’re looking at species diversity and comparing it from Knoxville to West Tennessee,” said Greene. “We have taken our samples at eastbound and westbound
rest stops.”
Greene says there have been some unexpected findings during his research project, “One of the most unusual things we found was at one westbound rest stop
where we wouldn’t expect ticks. We found more there than anywhere else,” he
said.
Article Information and photo provided by UTK
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USDA Challenge Grant Allows for Unique UT-LMU Tick Study Cont.
Greene learned of the UTIA internship from a professor at LMU, Dr. Aggy
Vanderpool. “I had worked with her the past summer on the Powell River and
when she said she had an opening for an internship here at UT, I jumped on the
opportunity,” he said.
“Working with Daniel has been fun,” Trout Fryxell said. “He came to me not
knowing a lot about entomology and wanting to work with ecology and the environment. So a roadside ecology project focusing on tick dispersal was a nice
combination of our interests,” she said. “Different personalities come together
with different problem-solving skills. They bring different techniques to the lab
and new questions that we haven’t addressed and need to be addressed. The
best part is watching Daniel go through the scientific method from hypothesis
formulation and testing all the way to evaluation,” she explained.
Greene has been commuting to Knoxville from Harrogate every day. He says that
there are more opportunities in a larger city and that it’s been an eye-opening
experience coming from a much smaller school.
Trout Fryxell had a similar internship experience during her college years. While
an undergraduate at Transylvania University in Kentucky, an opportunity arose
to participate in an internship at the University of Kentucky. “It opened my eyes
to research at a big institution, where a lot of different labs can work together.
Research internships are an excellent opportunity to see research in action, both
the successes and the pitfalls, too,” she said. “So for me it was great and I hope
it rubs off on Daniel.”
So far, it looks like the experience is rubbing off on Greene. “Dr. Trout Fryxell
wants me to get things accomplished. She presents a lot of good questions and I
feel it makes me a better scientist,” he said. As for future plans, Daniel plans to
go to graduate school, although he’s not sure where at this time. His goal is to
become a college professor.
Greene will be presenting the findings from his research this November at the
Entomological Society of America national meeting in Knoxville.
The UT Institute of Agriculture provides instruction, research and public service
through the UT College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, the UT
College of Veterinary Medicine, UT AgResearch, including its system of 10 research and education centers, and UT Extension offices in every county in the
state.
Article Information and photo provided by UTK
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School of Mathematics and Sciences News Continued
Powell River Mussel Release Event
Lincoln Memorial University, Virginia
Tech, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service have teamed together to restore
native freshwater mussels to the Powell
River. The oyster mussel and Cumberlandian combshell belong to the highly
endangered Epioblasma genus. Over,
4,000 1-year-old (~20 mm) oyster mussels and 1,000 1-year-old combshell mussels were released at several sites in the
Powell River upstream and downstream
of Brooks Bridge (the State Route 63
road crossing). The mussels were propagated and reared at Virginia Tech’s Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Center,
Blacksburg. This event represents the
largest recovery effort to date for the
Epioblasma genus in the Powell River.
The release sites are shallow and very scenic, where people can easily wade around
and participate directly in the event and learn about the mussel restoration program.
Teams gathered at Lincoln Memorial University’s Powell River Research Station on September 25th to release the mussels.
PRARS is a 576 square foot field station located in Tazewell, Tenn., in southern
Claiborne County. It was developed through a partnership with the Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA), local officials and LMU to create additional infrastructure capable of
supporting increased study of the Powell River. Directed by LMU professor Dr. Ron
Caldwell, the station represents important research opportunities for the critical habitat that exists in the Powell River. Critical habitats are federally designated areas that
carry legal implications under the Endangered Species Act. The Powell River is a critical
habitat for a number of endangered fish and mussels.
Information provided by Dr. Ron Caldwell
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School of Nursing News
Nurse Anesthesia Program News
Kenneth Kirsner, CRNA, MS, JD, Director, Nurse Anesthesia Concentration,
Published:
K. Kirsner , C. Biddle : Production Pressure And A Culture Of Deviance In The Insular Operating Room And The Consequences Of Their “Normalization”: Have
We Reached A Hooper Moment?. The Internet Journal of Law, Healthcare and
Ethics. 2012 Volume 8 Number 1. DOI: 10.5580/2c20
Kirsner also spoke at The Kentucky Association of Nurse Anesthetists September
14, 2012 on:
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Fire Safety in the Operating Room
What to do When Sued – Anatomy of a Lawsuit
There were also multiple poster presentations by nurse anesthesia students
September 14-16, 2012:
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Keisha Little, RN, BSN. Comprehensive Airway Assessment
Cynthia Napier, RN, BSN. Complications of Prolonged Steep Trendelenburg
Position
Chris Griffin, RN, BSN. Anesthetic Implications of Marfan Syndrome
Tami Henegar, RN, BSN. Anesthetic Implications Related to Ankylosing
Spondylitis
Heather McKinney, RN, BSN. Atelectasis in the Obese
Ashley White, RN, BSN. Anesthetic Considerations in Patients with Down
Syndrome
Erin Fox, RN, BSN. CCRN: Predictor of Success on the National Certification
Exam for Nurse Anesthetists?
Tasha Wynn, RN, BSN. Radiation Safety for Anesthesia Providers
Dr. McGuire Presents at Southern Gerontological Society Meeting
Dr. Sandra McGuire, Assistant Dean, LMU School of Nursing and Professor of
Nursing, and Dr. Diane Klein (Tennessee Wesleyan College) did a poster presentation at the Southern Gerontological Society in April 2012 entitled
"Intergenerational Learning Through Early Children's Literature". Dr. McGuire's
nationally used booklist: "Growing Up and Growing Older: Books for Young
Readers" is available through the LMU library website.
Information provided by Sandra McGuire, Kenneth Kirsner, and
Theresa Weaver.
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School of Education News
Dr. Judy Arnold presented at the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnographic Sciences (IUAES) Interdisciplinary Conference on Issues of Legitimacy: Entrepreneurial Culture, Corporate Responsibility and Urban Development. The paper, "Where
The Girls Are: Women, Education, and Prison," was co-authored with Dr. Betty Standifer who was unable to attend the conference. As a result of the presentation, the paper
was selected for publication in the International Journal of Sociology Studies. The title
of the panel for Dr. Arnold and Standifer’s work was Corporate Moralities and Social
Responsibility. Pictured above is Dr. Toby Rogers, who chaired the panel, and Dr. Arnold to the right. Other presenters were from the University of Bergamo, Italy, the CEU
Business School in Budapest, the University of Western Australia, and Volunteer Aid,
Nepal.
In addition to chairing the panel on corporate responsibility, Dr. Toby Rogers made a
presentation for the Panel Neoliberalism, Entrepreneurialism and New Cultural Values.
His paper was entitled "Making Bail for U.S. Universities: Can Education be Reclaimed
from the Neo-Liberals?" His presentation was highlighted in the conference newspaper
which reported that he "pointed out how the global economic crisis has been reflected
in the overall budgets of public universities, straining them to historically low levels and
forcing administrators to particularly cut the funding of many established programs in
the humanities." A former student of Dr. Rogers, Natalia Campbell, a graduate of the
LMU EdD program, also made a presentation at the IAUES Conference about the perceptions of Hispanic women leaders on their success in leadership roles based on her
dissertation.
The conference was held September 10-14 in Naples, Italy. It was sponsored by the
IUAES in cooperation with organizations such as the University of Kent and the Royal
Anthropological Institute, the Brazilian Anthropological Association; the China Union of
Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences; the International Association of Southeast
European Anthropology; the Indian Anthropological Association and the IUAES commissions on Anthropology of Women and the Commission on Human Rights. There
were 23 panels with 4 to 7 papers for each panel with presenters from all over the
world.
Information and photo provided by Dr. Judy Arnold
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School of Education News Continued
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Dr. Pat Clark and Dr. Deborah Hayes attended the 2012 International Conference on Learning at the University of London and presented a paper titled “Art for Art’s Sake” in London, England July 14 & 15, 2012.
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Dr. Judy Arnold has written a chapter for Tennessee Women of Vision and
Courage, a textbook project sponsored by the Tennessee Branch of the
American Association of University Women. The book is scheduled for publication next year and highlights famous women in Tennessee history.
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As a result of a required writing assignment in EAS 611 Assessment of Educational Programs, Marie Valentino a Ducktown Cohort Ed.S. student who is
a Transition Specialist Teacher at Alfred Ely Beach High School in Savannah,
GA, submitted her class assignment to ASCD for publication and was accepted. The article, "Meeting the Needs of Struggling Students Before College"
was published in the ASCD Express in the June 7, 2012 edition. Many Ed.S.
students have been successful having articles published over the years as a
result of this assignment but this may be the first accepted by ASCD. Maria
Valentino’s article can be viewed in the ASCD Express:
Valentino, Marie. (June 7, 2012) Meeting the needs of struggling students
before college. ASCD Ex-press, 7(18) retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/
ascd-express/vol7/718-valentino.aspx.
Information provided by Dr. Deborah Hayes
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School of Arts and Humanities News
Dr. Quinton Wacks
Dr. Quinton Wacks, Professor of Psychology, was recently a guest editor of Journal of
Transpersonal Psychology, 43(2), 2012, special edition on “Transpersonal Gerontology” (right). Wacks also was the author of
the lead article in the special edition, “The
Elder as Sage, Old Age as Spiritual Path: Towards a Transpersonal Gerontology” (pg.
127-155).
Dr. Wacks will also be a presenter
at International Sageing Guild Conference, Lake Junaluska, NC, October 14, 2012, and a presenter at
Annual Conference of ACISTE, San
Mateo, CA, October, 20, 2012.
Dr. Jacques Debrot
Pulp Fiction, Jacques Debrot’s collection of
flash fictions, was published by the New
York-based press Deadly Chaps in September. Stories in the collection previously appeared in the literary journals 971 Menu,
JMWW, Pear Noir! and Wigleaf.
Dr. Debrot is Assistant Professor and Chair
of the Department of English. Dr. Debrot
has bee with LMU for seven years.
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ALLM News
Tom Mackie
Tom Mackie, Director of the ALLM,
attended the R.
Gerald McMurtry
lecture at the Indiana State Museum,
Indianapolis Indiana on September
12th. Guest lecturers included Gary
W. Gallagher
(pictured below)
who spoke on “A
Mighty War for Union: Reality, Memory and America’s Greatest Conflict”. Mackie was also a guest
lecturer for the class “Introduction to Public History” at the University of Virginia
Wise Friday, September 21st. The topic was titled The Life of a Public Historian
to this undergraduate history class.
Mackie will speak September 29th at Bridgewater State University to the Lincoln
Group of Boston. The talk, “Log Walls and Marble Halls” , focuses on how Lincoln is depicted in Museums and Memorials from the early to mid-20th century.
Article information and photos provided by Tom Mackie
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Foundation Corner by Martha Scheidler, Director of Foundations
I really like to write. I talked to someone the
other day who told me they would rather do
anything other than write. I can’t imagine why!
It is a solitary, quiet, engaging, engrossing process. A process of fragmented words and
thoughts and sentences, cutting and pasting,
shaping, molding that is like any other creative
medium. Words are bits of precious stones
that a wordsmith strings together. Well, I’m not
that good, but I still like to string together
words!
These quotes came to me via a friend several
weeks ago:
“Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.” –
Muriel Rukeyser
“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first
time.” – Ernest Hemingway
So how can we apply those thoughts in the world of grant writing? I believe
there are some very basic things that all foundations look for in a successful
grant proposal: a statement of need, clear goals and measurable objectives,
knowledge of resources at hand, realistic activities to address the problem, a
feasible budget and a plan for sustainability. That seems simple enough, right?
OK, sometimes not so much. But most everyone who has an idea for a project
has a vision for what that project can accomplish. And with that beginning,
Pauline, Marca and I can guide the grant application process into a well written
proposal.
Breathe in experience/knowledge/education/vision, breathe out activities,
goals, objectives, resources and yes, even budgets. Seeing words for the first
time is using old, every-day, mundane words to create and shape new ideas,
thoughts, and activities. It’s finding a hundred different ways to speak to the
uniqueness of every situation, every project, and every individual and connect
them together. Words, words, words….that’s what we do!
Submissions:
Turner Bowling submitted requests to New Belgium Brewing Company and Enterprise Corporation for the Bicycle Friendly Campus Initiative.
Lisa Cox submitted requests to Firehouse Subs and CSX Company for Segways for the LMU
Police Department.
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A Note From the LMU Institutional Review Board
Please remember that all research proposals and projects involving human subjects,
must have IRB approval prior to the presentation of any information gathered during
the course of the research.
Under federal policy, the IRB cannot grant retroactive IRB approval.
For more information regarding the LMU IRB, please visit
http://www.lmunet.edu/curstudents/ORGSP/IRB.shtml.
ORGSP Contact Information
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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.
The ORGSP is located in Duke Hall, Suite 304
As a reminder, all applications for external funding must first begin by contacting the
ORGSP.
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