{"id":25399,"date":"2016-09-14T13:54:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T18:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=25399"},"modified":"2016-09-15T09:04:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T14:04:17","slug":"faculty-staff-news-september-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2016\/09\/14\/faculty-staff-news-september-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty &#038; Staff News \u2014 September 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>New Hires<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cory Anderson<\/strong> has joined the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics as an assistant strength and conditioning coach and assistant compliance officer, effective Aug. 16.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Devin Bates<\/strong> has joined the Department of English as adjunct faculty, effective Aug. 16.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stephanie Common<\/strong> has joined BSU Alumni and Foundation as an office and administrative specialist, senior, effective Aug. 22.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eric Gustafson<\/strong> has joined the Department of Music as adjunct faculty, effective Aug. 16.<\/li>\n<li><strong>James Nissen<\/strong> has joined the Department of Professional Education as adjunct faculty, effective Aug. 16.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brian Ophus<\/strong> has joined the Department of Social Work as adjunct faculty, effective Aug. 16.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blake Peterson<\/strong> has joined the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics as an assistant men&rsquo;s basketball coach, effective Aug. 16.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amy Weiher<\/strong> has joined the Bemidji School of Nursing as a college laboratory services specialist, effective Aug. 29.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Faculty and Staff Achievements<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/yj4235th\/\"><b>Dr. Drago Bilanovic<\/b><\/a>, professor of environmental, economic, Earth and space studies, presented &ldquo;A global facility for microalgal reduction of atmospheric carbon dioxide&rdquo; at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grc.org\/programs.aspx?id=12560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Green Chemistry &ndash; Gordon Research Conference<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>, held July 31-Aug. 5 in Stowe, Vt. He also recently published several papers &mdash; &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0144861716304192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Preparation of biodegradable xanthan&ndash;glycerol hydrogel, foam, film, aerogel and xerogel at room temperature<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>&rdquo;&nbsp;in the Sept. 5, 2016, issue of&nbsp;&ldquo;Carbohydrate Polymers&rdquo; along with two co-authors; &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0010938X15301360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Rust dissolution and removal by iron-reducing bacteria; a potential rehabilitation of rusted equipment<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>&rdquo; in the Jan. 2016 issue of &ldquo;Corrosion Science&rdquo; along with three co-authors; and &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0268005X14003300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Cross-linking Xanthan and Other Compounds with Glycerol<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>&rdquo; in the Dec. 2015 issue of &ldquo;Food Hydrocolloids&rdquo; along with two co-authors. In addition, he and three co-authors wrote &ldquo;Co-cultivation of microalgae and nitrifiers for higher biomass production and better carbon capture&rdquo; which has been accepted for publication in &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.elsevier.com\/bioresource-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Bioresource Technology<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/mr7939yd\/\"><b>Dr. Mary Fairbanks<\/b><\/a>, associate professor of nursing, participated in &ldquo;Improving Your Online Course&rdquo;, a two-week online course by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qualitymatters.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Quality Matters<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>&nbsp;in June. She&nbsp;also attended <a href=\"http:\/\/nursetim.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">NurseTim<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>&lsquo;s&nbsp;Nuts and Bolts for Nurse Educators Conference, Aug. 5-6 in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. Angela Fournier<\/strong>, associate professor of psychology, and BSU alumna Sara Fritsch co-authored &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10852352.2016.1166814?scroll=top&amp;needAccess=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">It can W8: A community intervention to decrease distracted driving<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>&rdquo; &nbsp;in Volume 44, Issue 3 of &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/wpic20\/current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>.&rdquo; She also published &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/08927936.2016.1181372\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Human&ndash;Animal Interaction Scale: Development and Evaluation<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>&rdquo; in Volume 29, Issue 3 of &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rfan20\/current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Anthrozo&ouml;s<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>,&rdquo;&rdquo; a&nbsp;multidisciplinary journal of the interactions of people and animals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/uv8897xd\/\"><b>Dr. Colleen Livingston<\/b><\/a>, professor of mathematics&nbsp;and&nbsp;North Central Section of the Math Association of America,&nbsp;attended the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maa.org\/meetings\/mathfest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Mathematical Association of America MathFest<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a> in Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 3-6.&nbsp;She also attended a North Central Section of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maa.org\/about-maa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Math Association of America<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>&nbsp;summer seminar on <a href=\"http:\/\/sections.maa.org\/northcen\/summerSem.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Big Data<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>, June 22-24 at South Dakota State University in Brookings, S.D.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pete McDonnell<\/strong>, systems, distance learning and circulation librarian at the A. C. Clark Library, edited &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/store.elsevier.com\/product.jsp?isbn=9780081007754\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Experiential Library: Transforming Academic and Research Libraries Through the Power of Experiential Learning<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>,&rdquo; released this month. McDonnell also wrote the book&rsquo;s preface and its final chapter, &ldquo;Conclusion: An Experiential Librarian&rsquo;s Creed.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/kc3475lg\/\"><b>Dr. Denise Meijer<\/b><\/a>, assistant professor of nursing, presented a&nbsp;poster &ldquo;Community Health Nursing in a Global Setting&rdquo; during the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhch.org\/service\/international-rural-conference-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">International Rural Nursing Conference<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>&nbsp;in Rapid City, S.D., in July. She&nbsp;also recently led a group of nursing students on a trip to experience nursing in South Africa.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Dr. William &ldquo;Bill&rdquo; Scheela<\/strong>, professor emeritus of business administration, has recently published several articles. He wrote the chapter on Thailand with two co-authors&nbsp;in the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com\/products\/books\/notable\/page.htm?id=9781786351289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&ldquo;<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">Angel Financing in Asia Pacific<\/span><span class=\"s1\">,&rdquo;&nbsp;published in August; he wrote&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"s1\">&ldquo;Business Angels in Emerging Economies: South East Asia,&rdquo; in &ldquo;<\/span><span class=\"s2\">Handbook of Research on Business Angels<\/span><span class=\"s1\">,&rdquo;&nbsp;which will come out in October; and he wrote&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"s1\">&ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emeraldinsight.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1108\/S1571-502720160000029010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Born-Global Start-ups in Emerging Economies<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>&rdquo; in &ldquo;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emeraldinsight.com\/doi\/book\/10.1108\/S1571-5027201629\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><span class=\"s2\">Global Entrepreneurship: Past, Present &amp; Future<\/span><i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a><span class=\"s1\">,&rdquo;the most recent volume in the book series &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/emeraldgrouppublishing.com\/products\/books\/series.htm?id=1571-5027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Advances in International Management<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. Marty J. Wolf<\/strong>, professor of mathematics and computer science, has joined the editorial advisory board for&nbsp;the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emeraldinsight.com\/journal\/jices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>. As vice chair for its Committee on Professional Ethics, Wolf&nbsp;is helping lead a group that is&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ethics.acm.org\/code-of-ethics\/code-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">updating the code of ethics and professional conduct<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a> for the Association for Computing Machinery.&nbsp;In May, he&nbsp;spent three days at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, to begin work on this project.Wolf also has had several papers published, including:\n<ul>\n<li>&ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emeraldinsight.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1108\/JICES-10-2015-0035?journalCode=jices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">There&rsquo;s something in your eye: Ethical implications of augmented visual field devices<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>&ldquo;, along with two co-authors, in Volume 14, Issue 3 of the&nbsp;&ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emeraldinsight.com\/toc\/jices\/14\/3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>&ldquo;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/01972243.2016.1177764?journalCode=utis20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&ldquo;Ethics of the software vulnerabilities and&nbsp;exploits market&rdquo;<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>&nbsp;along with one co-author in Volume 32, Issue 4 of &ldquo;The Information Society.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li>&ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11948-016-9785-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">This ethical trap is for roboticists, not robots: On the issue of artificial agent ethical decision making<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>,&rdquo;&nbsp;along with two co-authors, in Volume 22, Issue 4 of &ldquo;<span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/11948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Science and Engineering Ethics<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>.&rdquo;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">Wolf and two co-presenters also delivered &ldquo;<span class=\"s1\">Applying a&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"s1\">social-relational model to explore the curious case of hitchBOT&rdquo; at the annual meeting of the<\/span>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iacap.org\/iacap-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">International Association for Computing and Philosophy<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>, held June 14-17 in Ferrara, Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hires Cory Anderson has joined the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics as an assistant strength and conditioning coach and assistant compliance officer, effective Aug. 16. Devin Bates has joined the Department of English as adjunct faculty, effective Aug. 16. Stephanie Common has joined BSU Alumni and Foundation as an office and administrative specialist, senior, effective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25399"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25411,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25399\/revisions\/25411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}