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NORTHERN TODAY

4

SPRING 2016

FA C U LT Y AND

S TA F F N EWS

NORTHERN

NEWS

DR. ANTHONY WACHS,

assistant

professor of speech communication and

director of forensics, received NSU’s

2015-16 Outstanding Faculty Award.

Wachs, coach of the NSU Speech and

Debate team, has been teaching at

Northern since 2011.

DR. ANDREW RUSSELL

is the

recipient of the 2016 Nora Staael Evert

Research Award. Russell, assistant

professor of biology, won for his project,

titled, “Analysis of DNA Double Strand

Breaks Induced by Pseudomonas

syringae Effector Proteins.”

DR. COURTNEY WAID-LINDBERG,

assistant professor of sociology and

criminal justice, co-authored a book

chapter, “Fear of Crime Among

University Students in Canada and the

United States.” It appears in the edited

volume “Psychology of Fear, Crime and

the Media.”

DR. JOHN E.

PETERSON

and

SCOTT A.

PETERSON

of the

NSU School of Business

won the Best Paper

Award at the 2016

Academy of Business

Research New Orleans Conference.

John Peterson is associate professor of

finance. Scott Peterson is a management

information systems faculty member.

DR. STEVEN USITALO

has

published a chapter, “Curiosity and

the Kunstkamera,” in a book titled “A

Century Mad and Wise: Russia in the

Age of Enlightenment.” The book was

issued in 2015 by Groningen University

Press.

DR. THOMAS ORR,

assistant

professor of sport marketing and

administration, published an article,

“Concussions: The Marketing

Nightmare that Faces the NFL and

Youth Sports,” was published in the

Journal of Business and Economics.

DR. DARCI

BULTEMA

and

DR.

MARLA FOGDERUD,

voice faculty members,

presented “Sounds of

the North” on Feb. 18

in Krikac Auditorium.

The recital showcased

song literature they performed at the

May 2015 International Grieg Society

Conference “Edvard Grieg and the

Human Voice,” held at the Grieg

Academy in Bergen, Norway.

DANIEL YURGAITIS, SETH M.

HONERMAN,

and

JOSHUA JOHN

FRACHISEUR

were among Northern

faculty and students receiving

honors at the 2016 Region 5 Kennedy

Center American College Theater

Festival. They received the following

certificates of merit: Honerman for

Dramaturgy (also one of 12 candidates

for the SDC Directing Intensive);

Frachiseur for Achievement in

Lighting Design; and Yurgaitis for

Achievement in Directing.

DRS. ALYSSA

ANDERSON

and

JON MITCHELL,

both assistant

professors of biology,

presented research

at the 63rd annual

meeting of the

Entomological Society of America,

along with several Northern biology

majors.

DR. ALYSSA ANDERSON,

assistant professor of biology,

published an article, “Winter Diets

of Brown Trout Populations in

Southeastern Minnesota and the

Significance of Winter-Emerging

Invertebrates.” It appeared in the

journal Transactions of the American

Fisheries Society.

DR. KELLY DUNCAN,

dean of the

Millicent Atkins School of Education

at NSU, co-authored three articles

that were published in the Journal

for Counseling and Development.

The articles are titled “Meta-Analysis

of Counseling Outcomes for the

Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress

Disorder,” “Choosing Assessment

Instruments for Posttraumatic Stress

Disorder Screening and Outcome

Research” and “Psychometric Meta-

Analysis of the English Version of the

Beck Anxiety Inventory.”

DR. AUDREY MILLER

performed

a faculty recital Feb. 4 in Krikac

Auditorium. Miller performed on

clarinet and bass clarinet. The recital

featured faculty members Dr. Darci

Bultema and Dr. Allan Jacobson; local

pianist Ron Parker; and Seattle guest

artist Dr. Kate MacKenzie.