DR. GRANT MANHART, professor of high brass, online music and jazz studies, created the event “high school-college student meet and greet” for the International Trumpet Guild Conference in Columbus, Ohio, May 26-30. Manhart also presented at the first-ever William Adam Trumpet Conference at the University of Oklahoma in Norman on June 4-7. Manhart’s presentation was titled “William Adam’s Teachings on Trumpet, Projected into the Creation of Your Musical Life.” DR. ERIN H. FOUBERG, professor of geography and director of the NSU Honors Program, published two college-level textbooks in 2015. The first edition of Understanding World Regional Geography (Wiley, 2015), co-authored with Dr. William G. Moseley (Macalaster College), was released in March 2015. In January 2015, Fouberg coauthored the 11th edition of Human Geography: People, Place, and Culture (Wiley) with Dr. Alexander B. Murphy (University of Oregon). DR. ANDREW RUSSELL, assistant professor of biology, published an article highlighting his plant biology research in the journal Plant Physiology in September 2014. The article was titled, “Evolutionary relationship of disease resistance genes in soybean and Arabidopsis specific for the Pseudomonas syringae effectors AvrB and AvrRpm1.” Russell worked on the research discussed in the article while seeking his Ph.D. in collaboration with colleagues at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. DR. STEVEN USITALO, associate professor of history, presented “The Armenian Genocide: Origins, Nature and Consequences” in March at Slippery Rock University. He also gave a talk on Armenian history at Carnegie Mellon’s Center for International Relations and Politics. In May, Usitalo presented a research talk on the Armenian Genocide at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C. In July, he attended the annual meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars meeting in Yerevan, Armenia. DR. GUANGWEI DING, associate professor of chemistry, published a scholarly article in the international, peer-reviewed online publication PLOS ONE. Ding published “Impact of Water Content and Temperature on the Degradation of Cry1Ac Protein in Leaves and Buds of Bt Cotton in the Soil” with colleagues from the College of Agriculture at Shanxi Agricultural University in China. In 2014, Ding also coauthored three other papers, which were published in peer-reviewed journals. DR. PETER RAMEY, professor of English, had an article accepted for publication by the journal English Studies. “The Poetics of Caxton’s ‘Publique’: The Construction of Audience in the Prologues of William Caxton” is scheduled to appear in 2016. Ramey’s paper, “The Aesthetics of Wrætlic in the Old English Poems of the Physiologus,” was accepted for the international medievalist conference, the Kalamazoo Medieval Congress. It was presented at Western Michigan University in May. DR. ROBERT VODNOY, conductor of the Aberdeen/University Civic Symphony and professor of strings and music history, was honored as Debut Orchestra Member of the Year at the Aberdeen Community Theatre 26th annual volunteer party. Vodnoy made his ACT debut by conducting the 14-member orchestra in “White Christmas.” DR. SARA SCHMIDT received NSU’s 2014-15 Outstanding Faculty Award. Schmidt, assistant professor of accounting, serves as faculty advisor of the NSU Accounting Club. She is also chairwoman of the NSU Department of Accounting, Banking and Financial Services, Economics, and Finance. Among numerous other accomplishments, Schmidt has worked with students to create quarterly economic reports for the state of South Dakota through a partnership between the NSU School of Business and the office of the South Dakota Secretary of State. NORTHERN TODAY 5 SPRING 2015 FA C U LT Y AND S TA F F N EWS
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