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The following faculty members were
recently promoted from Assistant Professor
to Associate Professor: Rodney Bragdon,
Ph.D. (Arts & Sciences), Cindy Schendel,
Ed.D. (Arts & Sciences), Lili Zhu,
Ph.D. (Business), Richard Pierce, Ed.D.
(Pharmacy) and Amanda Wellbourne,
M.S., PAS (Physician Assistant Studies).
Additionally, the following faculty
members were recently promoted from
Associate Professor to Professor: Bing
Li, Ph.D. (Business), John Winn, J.D.
(Business), Doris Lederer (Conservatory),
Donovan Stokes, D.M. (Conservatory),
Jan Wagner (Conservatory), Earl Yowell,
M.M. (Conservatory), Gina Peacock,
Ph.D. (Pharmacy) and Mark Johnson,
Pharm.D. (Pharmacy).
2013 by Routledge in the “Handbook of
Distance Education,” Third Edition. The
chapter, co-authored with Dr. Terry Evans
of Deakins University, Australia, merges
the fields of doctoral education, with
attention to research-intensive doctorates,
and distance learning in an international
context. Dr. Green also presented her
paper “Critical Information Literacy:
Matching Theory and Inquiry” at the Fifth
International Conference on Qualitative
and Quantitative Methods in Libraries in
June at the Università degli Studi di Roma
“La Sapienza” in Rome, Italy. The paper
was addressed to an audience of doctoral
students and faculty, information literacy
educators and others interested in the use
of critical theory in qualitative inquiry.
Arts & Sciences
The following individuals joined the
full-time faculty of the College of Arts
& Sciences this fall semester: Associate
Professor of Psychology Brandon
Greene, Ph.D.; Assistant Professor of
Mathematics Jessica O’Shaughnessy,
M.S.; Assistant Professor of Kinesiology/
Exercise Science Barry M. Parker, Ph.D.;
and Visitor Professor of Spanish Edgardo
Ullrich, M.A.
Graduate Programs Librarian Rosemary
Green, Ph.D., M.S.L.S., co-authored
a chapter, Doctorates for Professionals
Through Distance Education, published in
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Professor of Environmental Studies
and Biology Woodward S. Bousquet,
Ph.D., and Associate Professor of
Environmental Studies and Geography
Joshua Kincaid, Ph.D., supervised four
undergraduate students who had their
proposals accepted and presented their
research findings at the annual meeting
of the Virginia Academy of Science in
Blacksburg, Va.
Assistant Professor of English Michelle
L. Brown, Ph.D., presented “How to
Create and Use Course Blogs,” a half-hour
workshop as part of the Going Global: FirstYear Seminar faculty training this summer.
Associate Professor of History Ann
E. Denkler, Ph.D., worked with
disadvantaged high school students at
Takshashila Academy in Kathmandu,
Nepal, this summer and lectured on critical
thinking and writing, American women’s
history and African-American history.
She also participated in teacher training
at the Little Sister’s Fund, a nonprofit
organization devoted to educating and
empowering young women. Dr. Denkler
hopes to establish a strong relationship
between the university and these
organizations for future exchange programs.
When she returned to the United States
in August, she traveled with two new
Shenandoah students from Nepal, Kritti
Hada and Sapana Ojha, who began their
studies as scholarship recipients chosen for
study during the Global Citizenship trip to
Nepal last March.
Professor of English and Director of
Writing and the Writing Center Doug
Enders, Ph.D., published “The Idea
Check: Changing ESL Student Use of the
Writing Center” in the May/June 2013
Writing Lab Newsletter. During a spring
2013 sabbatical, Dr. Enders received the
Mednick Memorial Fellowship Grant to
study how recent research in neuroscience,
self-regulation and motivation can be
applied to the teaching of writing.
Assistant Professor of Kinesiology Joey
Gawrysiak, Ph.D., presented his ongoing
research, “Baseball and Video Games: An