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UE Global Scholars 2010- 11 announced

The Institute for Global Enterprise in Indiana has selected the following individuals as the University of Evansville Global Scholars for 2010-11. A brief review of each of their projects follows:

Jennie Ebeling, Associate Professor of Archaeology

Jennie Ebeling, Associate Professor of Archaeology and chair of the Department of Archaeology and Art History will use her Global Scholar position to complete research on portrayals of ancient daily life, gender, and nationalism in museum exhibits in the Middle East.  She will visit a dozen museums located in Israel, Jordan, and Palestine to compare different approaches to reconstructing and claiming the ancient past.  This project will provide new material for introductory archaeology classes and upper-level courses in her area of specialization.  Additionally, Dr. Ebeling’s experiences will be valuable in developing a new course on museum studies for her department.  She also intends to present her results at a major conference and a journal publication.

Chris Mohn, Assistant Professor of Spanish

Chris Mohn, Assistant Professor of Spanish, will travel to Spain this summer as a Global Scholar to complete research on her nearly-completed book on the contemporary novelist Álvaro Pombo and to participate in a professional development program sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Education in Santiago de Compostela.  In Spain, she will conduct research at the National Library and interview Pombo in person. She is also an invited participant to a program that will study the impact of the centuries-old Pilgrimage of Santiago on the social, political, and cultural development of the country. Dr. Mohn’s experiences will not only produce new avenues of research but will also provide new material to enrich her classes and expand the University’s global curriculum.

Greg Rawski, Assistant Professor of Management

Greg Rawski, Assistant Professor of Management in the Schroeder Family School of Business Administration will participate with 24 universities worldwide to conduct the International Manufacturing Strategy Survey through his Global Scholar appointment.  This study collects data on best practices in global manufacturing strategy and will provide data for a rich stream of future research.  While there are more than 1,000 companies globally that participate in the survey, the project also impacts local companies through the Southwestern Indiana Manufacturers organization.  Dr. Rawski plans to use the results of the study to publish several journal articles as well as to transfer this newfound knowledge to classroom instruction.

John Layer, Assistant Professor of Engineering

John Layer, Assistant Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering will develop a Summer International Immersion Engineering Elective Course that allows engineering students to travel to an international location to take a three credit elective course that applies engineering concepts learned in the classroom to a series of international case studies, field trips, workshops, interviews and/or exhibits. This proposed engineering elective course will be distinctive in its coupling of the active learning associated with study abroad programs and the application of engineering principles in an international setting. The course will include time at Harlaxton, at various sites in England and at Fachhochschule Osnabrück, University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrück, Germany, Sister City to Evansville, Indiana.

Kyle Kiesel, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy

Kyle Kiesel, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, will use his award to strengthen the global perspective of the physical therapy curriculum through the integration of knowledge and skills from the tradition of Eastern medicine techniques. He plans to travel to Florida, Los Angeles, and Vancouver, BC, to receive hands-on education at health care facilities where he has colleagues who have expertise in Eastern medicine therapies. His goals are to contribute to the department’s cultural competence curricular thread by enhancing his own cultural competence, becoming trained in use of an evidence-based Eastern medicine technique, and developing content to infuse into classes in the physical therapy program.

UE Global Scholars 2009- 10 announced

The Institute for Global Enterprise in Indiana has selected the following individuals as the University of Evansville Global Scholars for 2009-10. A brief review of each of their projects follows:

Gale Blalock, Professor of Economics

Dr. Blalock will examine the globalization of the economic topics of outsourcing, trade and the environment, the subprime crisis, and China’s exchange rate policies.  Blalock will integrate this research into the EMBA curriculum through the MBA 543 – International Macroeconomics course.  Dr. Blalock will incorporate Krugman and Obstfeld’s leading text:  International Economics:  Theory and Policy.  Krugman is the 2008 Nobel laureate in Economics.

Daniel Byrne, Assistant Professor of History

Amy McBride Martin, Assistant Professor of Education

Wesley Milner, Iglehart Chair, Political Science

Mark Valenzuela, Associate Professor of Engineering

UE Global Scholars 2008- 09 announced

The Institute for Global Enterprise in Indiana has selected the following individuals as the University of Evansville Global Scholars for 2008-09. A brief review of each of their projects follows:

Suzanne L. Bailey, Associate Professor of Nursing

Bailey will work on a project related to Transcultural Alternative Healing Practices. The purpose of this project is to help nursing faculty and students develop a global view of alternative healing practices used in various cultures to enhance wellness. As a Global Scholar, Professor Bailey will visit and learn from practitioners at a university wellness center that practices integrative medicine including traditional allopathic medicine as well as complementary and alternative holistic approaches. The Global Scholar will also examine current research on alternative healing and will assist with integration of content into the nursing curriculum.

William Hemminger, Professor of English

Roger Pieroni, Associate Profess or French

Pieroni will focus on Asia during his time as a Global Scholar, conducting research related to both curriculum development and scholarship. In his role as chair of the Department of Foreign Languages, he will explore the possibility of creating an Asian Studies Program, which would complement UE's current program in Japanese Studies and expand our global profile. He will also conduct research on francophone Vietnamese novels with the goals of producing a scholarly paper or monograph, enhancing his literature and civilization classes, and providing programming for the Global Living and Learning Center of campus.

James Schaefer, Professor of Business Administration

Schaefer will examine the global nature of accounting standards. Specifically, over half of the countries in the world use International Accounting Standards (IAS) as a framework for external financial reporting. In the United States, we use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), which are promulgated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). European Union countries use IAS. In recognition of today's global economy, the FASB has developed the Convergence Project. The purpose of convergence is, where possible, to align GAAP with IAS. Dr. Schaefer's work will examine the integration of these new approaches to standard setting into our accounting curriculum to ensure students have formal training in IAS as well as GAAP.

Douglas Stamps, Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Stamps' research project involves nuclear reactor power plant safety, which has both global and domestic interest. His Global Scholar research will focus on combustion-related severe accidents. The proposed work includes seeking collaboration with faculty at the University of Pisa, Italy on combustion research and the use of chemical kinetics software to analyze pressure loads induced from the partial combustion of fuel-air mixtures and on laminar flame velocities for diffusion flame stability.

UE Global Scholars 2007- 08

The University of Evansville Global Scholars for the 2007-2008 academic year have been announced by the Office of Academic Affairs. “I know you will join me in congratulating each of the award recipients for their excellent proposals to enhance global citizenship through scholarship and curricular enhancements,” said Susan Kupisch, vice president of Academic Affairs. “Global Scholars will engage in scholarship, curriculum development, travel and/or research activities related to the impact of globalization on our learning environment.”

A brief review of their projects follows:

Mohammad K. Azarian, Professor of Mathematics

Azarian will contribute to the understanding of the history of mathematics as he travels to Iran to obtain a copy of a fifteenth century Persian manuscript written by the medieval mathematician and astronomer, Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Mas’ūd al-Kāshī.  Azarian will translate this manuscript, The Treatise on the Circumference, and prepare the first full English account of it making it available to a wider range of mathematicians and historians.

Soumen De, Associate Professor of Finance

De will be examining emerging financial markets with a particular attention to Asian securities markets and the importance of financial markets in development.  The work will lead to materials that will be integrated into the undergraduate curriculum and the new Executive MBA program’s curriculum on global financial markets.
 

Douglas Reed, Professor of Music and University Organist

Reed  will explore global sacred (particularly Christian) music, especially in Africa, where Christian forms of worship and song originally brought by eighteenth and nineteenth century missionaries are now being supplemented by indigenous Christian songs and worship practices.  He also hopes to explore Ethiopian and Coptic church music, the roots of which may go back 1500 or more years.  A well-traveled organ scholar, Reed can also be expected to study organs and organ music wherever he finds them in the course of the year’s work.

Janet Szczepanski, Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy and
Mary Kessler, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy

This is a collaborative faculty project designed to enrich the physical therapy department's emphasis on cultural competence.  Goals will be to secure additional clinical internship opportunities in Spanish speaking countries, to develop teaching modules for Doctor of Physical Therapy courses in the area of providing services for those of diverse backgrounds, and to increase students' abilities to expressively and receptively communicate in a culturally competent manner. 

David Unger, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering

Unger will develop a solution to an important problem in fracture mechanics. Fracture, or breaking of materials, has a world-wide cost estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Dr. Unger will publish the results of his work in a journal or at a meeting with international scope.