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WELCOMESouthern Utah University is firmly committed to experiential

education, a commitment highlighted in this edition of Summit

magazine.

While much of the extraordinary work by individual faculty can

be viewed in the longer online issue of Summit

(http://www.suu.edu/academics/provost/newsletters.html), this

print issue highlights some of the extraordinary work by faculty

and students in the EDGE (Education Designed to Give

Experience) program, a new immersive learning opportunity in

Semester in the Parks, a new CREATE lab satellite on SUU

campus, and the fifth annual Festival of Excellence.

These programs underscore the belief that a rich educational

experience rests on the experience of education—that ideas

gain maturity and complexity from growing in an engaged,

experiential environment.

Regards,

Brad CookSUU PROVOST

This table of contents is interactive. If you want to go straight to a specific school, college or area simply mouse over the text and click.

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SCHOOL OF BUSINESSEconomics & Finance

Publications and Presentations

Dr. Joshua Price presented “Measuring the Economic Impact of Sporting Events: Defining the Local Economy” at Western Economic Association International, 13th International Conference, Santiago Chile, January 2017. The sports industry asserts that sports franchises, sporting events, and mega-sporting events create a large positive impact on the local economy. Existing studies define the local economy in different ways and arrive at differing conclusions. Using sales tax revenue from 1988 to 2011 from municipalities in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, this study examines the effects of mega-sporting events on the local economy. The key contribution to the literature this study provides is the use of multiple definitions of the local economy (metropolitan region, county, and city) to depict how results change based on how the local economy is defined. Results from the study indicate that results can vary based on how the local economy is defined.

The recently formed Investment Scholar Group, hosted visits from five professional affiliates this fall. These affiliates work in the investment and financial planning industry and met with the group as a whole and individual students. This group shows the faculty dedication toward connecting students with alumni working in their field of study and providing high quality applied learning experiences. More information on these activities and this group can be found on the group’s website: http://people.suu.edu/investment/

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Projects

Dr. Joshua Price created a new Student Group, with Dr. Bruce Haslem, called the SUU Scholar Investment Group, which provides students with the confidence, career vision, analytical tools and curriculum to best prepare them for a career in investment management. This group hosted visits from five professional affiliates in Fall 2016; these affiliates work in the investment and financial planning industry and met with the group as a whole and individual students: people.suu.edu/investment

Dean: Carl Templin

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Dixie Leavitt Business Building with the Carter Carillon in the background

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Management, Marketing and Hospitality


Dr. Gerald E. Calvasina and Richard Calvasina presented “Using Personality Testing as Part of the Employee Selection Process” at the Allied Business Academies International Conference in Las Vegas, October 27, 2016.

Dr. Shih-Ming (Howard) Hu published “Developing Low-Fat Banana Bread by Using Okra Gum as a Fat Replacer” in the Journal of Culinary Science and Technology, Fall 2016. This study found that okra gum can replace saturated fat in banana bread and can greatly enhance the nutritional density of banana bread without significantly sacrificing its color, texture, flavor, and overall acceptability. Results of this study provide a gateway for further research with okra gum as a fat replacer in bakery products. Additionally, it could provide bakery manufacturers and culinary professionals with an incentive to enhance their formulas so that they can be used more rigorously as a fat replacer. Further development of reduced-fat banana bread could provide consumers with healthier bakery options, leading to improvements in the American diet.

Dr. Janice Scarinci and Gene Jeffers published a book chapter, “Theme Parks Greet Chinese Tourists” in The World Meets Asian Tourists, January 2017. The movement of Asian citizens across continents now occurs on an unprecedented scale. This book discussed the implications for marketing, planning, and policy which these tourist markets pose for good governance’s. The chapter on Theme Parks Greet Chinese Tourists, explores what has been and is planning to be implemented in the theme parks in the Orlando area to meet the specific needs of a rising number of Chinese tourists.

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Physical Education & Human Performance


Robert Ah Sue, T. Sevene, J. Berning, K.J. Adams, & Dr. Mark DeBeliso published “Determination of trials needed for measurement consistency of standing long jump in female collegiate volleyball athletes: A brief report” in International Journal of Sports Science, in press 2017.

M. Climstein, J. Walsh, Dr. Mark DeBeliso, I. Heazlewood, T. Sevene, & K. J. Adams published “Cardiovascular risk profiles of world masters games participants” in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, published ahead of print, 2016: http://www.minervamedica.it/en/journals/sports-med-physical-fitness/article.php?cod=R40Y9999N00A16101102.

N. Farrell, K.J. Adams, and Dr. Mark DeBeliso published “Correlation between varying back squat depths on speed and vertical jump performance in north American high school football players” in the Journal of Physical Education Research, 3.4 (2016): 1-11.

B. Springall, Dr. Abigail Larson, and Dr. Mark DeBeliso published “The effects of a heavy resistance warm-up on sprint speed: A post activation potentiation study” in the Journal of Physical Education Research, 3.3 (2016), 52-65.

E.A. Tanner, J. Montes, Dr. Jacob Manning, Dr. Julie E. Taylor, Dr. Mark DeBeliso, J.C. Young & J.W. Navalta published “Validation of Hexoskin biometric shirt to COSMED K4 b2 metabolic unit in adults during trail running” in Sports Technology, 8.3-4 (2016): 118-123.

Dean: Shawn Christiansen

Website: http://suu.edu/ed/

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Beverly Taylor Sorenson College of Education highlights

The College of Education and Human Development received a $500,000 donation from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation to begin their fundraising efforts towards a new on-campus Child and Family Development Center.

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G. Tano, A. Bishop, J. Berning, K. J. Adams & Dr. Mark DeBeliso published “Post activation potentiation in North American high school football players” in the Journal of Sports Science, 4.6 (2016): 346-352.

I. Heazlewood, Dr. Mark DeBeliso. et al. published “Participant motivation predicting training sessions and training type in male and female athletes competing at 2010 Pan Pacific masters games” in M. Leung & L.M. Tan (Eds.), Applied Psychology Readings (pp. 137-146). Singapore: Springer, 2016.

I. Heazlewood, Dr. Mark DeBeliso, et al. published “Differences in participant motivation based on category of body mass index and gender” in M. Leung & L.M. Tan (Eds.), Applied Psychology Readings (pp. 125-135). Singapore: Springer, 2016.

I. Heazlewood, Dr. Mark DeBeliso, et al. published “Gender differences in participant motivation in masters football at the 2010 Pan Pacific masters games” in T. Favero, B. Drust, & B. Dawson (Eds.), International Research in Science and Soccer II (pp. 236-241). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Teacher Education & Family Development

Projects

Professor Betty Ann Rember, Professor John Meisner, and Dr. Bart Reynolds (associate dean) organized a practicum experience for secondary education students in Page, AZ, September 21-23, 2016. Twenty-two students experienced a three day practicum at Page High School and Page Jr. High School. Both schools are in close proximity to the Navajo Nation in Northern Arizona. Our SUU secondary education students worked and taught in classrooms with high school and junior high students. The highlight of the trip was a Navajo cultural seminar held in the hogan on the Page High School Campus. The College of Education plans to make this an event each semester.

Awards

Alisa Petersen, Southern Utah University’s Beverley Taylor Sorenson Endowed Chair of Elementary Arts Education, has been named the 2016 Higher Education Art Educator of the Year by the Utah Art Education Association (UAEA): https://www.suu.edu/news/2017/02/art-educator-year-alisa-petersen.html

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COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCESCommunication


Dr. Matthew H. Barton and Dr. Kevin A. Stein published “Listening to Unheard Voices: Nurses’ Communication Experiences with the NRS Pain Scale” in Discourse: The Journal of the Speech Communication Association of South Dakota. (In press).

Dr. Kevin A. Stein and Dr. Matthew H. Barton published “140 Characters to Say I Hate You: Melissa Click, Racism, and the Media Circus at Mizzou” in Relevant Rhetoric (in press).

Dr. Kevin Stein, McKay West, Megan Jensen Hutchinson, and Brett Lunceford presented “Anime and the ‘Just’ War: A Critical Analysis of Attack on Titan and Knights of Sidonia” at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, San Diego, CA, April 2017.

Dean: James McDonald

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English


Dr. Kyle Bishop presented “The Asynchronous Split-Screen Montage: Constructing Dialectical Meaning in Fargo, Season 2” at the Southwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association, February 2017, Albuquerque, NM.

Dr. Bryce Christensen presented a paper “Keats in the Laboratory: Aesthetics and Veridicality in Poetry about Science” at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Salt Lake City, on October 7, 2016.

Dr. Rosalyn Eves published the first volume in a young adult fantasy trilogy, BLOOD ROSE REBELLION, with Knopf/Random House in March 2017.

Dr. Rosalyn Eves was part of a panel discussion of “Advocacy in Young Adult Fiction” at the National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE), November 2016.

Professor Jennifer L. Sorensen presented “Tradition and Techniques: Tips to Keep Writing Students Engaged on Canvas” at the RMMLA (Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association) Convention, Salt Lake City, October 2016.

Professor Charla Strosser presented “The Custom House Revisited, Laurie King’s Mary Russell Series and the Challenge of Female Legitimacy” at the Southwest Popular Culture/ American Culture Association, February 2017, Albuquerque, NM.

Foreign Language & Philosophy


Dr. Corey Twitchell presented “Calling a Nazi on the Phone? Wolfgang Hildesheimer’s Tynset as Imagined Dialogue between Holocaust Survivor and Perpetrator,” at the 2017 International Conference on Narrative, March 2017, Lexington, KY.

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History , Sociology , Anthropology


Dr. Laura Davis presented “‘To Aid and Save our Country’: Confederate Boat Burners, Southern Identity and the Legal Question of Loyalty,” at the Organization of American Historians Annual Organization, New Orleans, LA, April 2017.

Dr. Matthew Eddy, with Michael Dreiling (co-director and producer), and Teal Grayhavens (cinematographer and editor), wrote, directed, and produced “A Bold Peace,” a 90-minute documentary film about Costa Rica’s experiment in living without a military for over 65 years. The film screened at the following film festivals:

I Will Tell International Film Festival, London (UK), September 2016—awarded grand prize for best picture.

DocUtah International Documentary Film Festival, St. George, UT, September 2016.

Global Peace Film festival, Orlando, FL, September 2016

Utopia Film Festival, Greenbelt, MD, October 2016.

Pembroke Taparelli Arts and Film Festival, Raleigh Studios, Hollywood, CA, November 2016.

Peace on Earth Film Festival, March 2017

Political Science & Criminal Justice

Leadership

Dr. Angela Pool-Funai has been made the new director of the Masters of Public Administration program at SUU: https://www.suu.edu/news/2016/11/master-public-administration-new-director-angela-pool-funai.html

Psychology


Dr. David Hatch, Dr. Michelle Grimes, Dr. Garrett Strosser, and Dr. Lynn White attended and presented at the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association conference, Salt Lake City, UT, April 2017.

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Art & Design


Dr. Andrew Marvick’s paper, “Absence and Anonymity,” was published in Identity and Anonymity: An Artful Anthology, from Mizzentop Press, in 2016. Another paper, “Un trou dans la filière,” was accepted for publication in 2017 as part of a new anthology, Le symbolisme et l’angoisse, from Cambridge Scholars. A third paper, about the late work of Nicolas de Staël, was accepted for the 2016 meeting of the Mediterranean Studies Association in Palermo, Italy. And he was invited to lead a session for ALMSD at the 2017 CAA conference in New York.

Professor Hala Swearingen and Greg Swearingen presented “Practical Strategies for Making Great Images Happen on a Deadline”at the Utah/Southern Idaho Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators 7th Annual Conference for Children’s Book Illustrators, Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb 18, 2017

Exhibitions

Professor Eric Brown was included in a statewide invitational, “Forgotten Angels and Other Heavenly Beings” at the Springville Museum of Art that opened October 19, 2016 and ran through January 11, 2017.

Professor Sam Davis exhibited “Lagerstätte” at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay Lawton Gallery, September and October 2016. The exhibition of images was created using custom built pinhole cameras depicting fictional/historical images of dinosaurs. Many images were created using hand-made glass plane negatives and mounted to recreations of 19th century cabinet cards.

CPVA Highlights

The grand opening of the Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA) was July 7, 8, and 9, 2016. Under the direction of Reece Summers, Director/Curator, and Rachel Bishop, Arts Administration Chair, graduate and undergraduate students will assist in running this new museum through project based classes.

Professor Sam Davis’s exhibition “Lagerstätte”

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Professor Sam Davis and Tom Richardson exhibited photographs exploring themes set in the desert Southwest, at the Matrix Gallery, Albuquerque NM, November-December 2016.

Professor Sam Davis exhibited “Retro-Active 10 Years of Science Fiction” at the Doyle Fine Art Pavilion Gallery at Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa CA, February 23rd-April 2, 2017. The exhibit includes a survey of 10 years of photography sculpture and multimedia art based on themes of science fiction.

Professor Sam Davis, Dai Ito, Christin Trub, Seph Itz, Steve Goff exhibited and presented at the Marfa Open, in Marfa TX, September-October 2017. The exhibitors will participate in the inaugural year of a potentially ongoing photography festival incorporating gallery exhibits, talks, and image sharing as well as community building.

Professor Susan D. Harris exhibited “Reliquaries for the Ancient Future” at a one-person invitational exhibit at ArtWorks Gallery, Cedar City, UT, December 2016.

Professor Rheana Gardner exhibited work in the prestigious Greater Taipei Biennial of Contemporary Art exhibition in November 2016, Taipei, Taiwan. The Greater Taipei Arts Festival, organized by National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA) and implemented by the College of Fine Arts and You·Zhang Art Museum, is a large-scale International event that initiates and connects the art and cultural organizations in the Greater Taipei. Internationally renowned philosopher and sinologist Professor Francois Jullien invited 25 artists from different countries to participate in this event under the theme, “De-coincidence - Where do art and existence come from?” With Professor Jullien’s expertise and insightful perspectives, the Biennial will serve as a platform to foster a substantial dialogue between the Eastern and Western art and culture and promote international artistic exchanges.

Professor Deborah K. Snider exhibited “Elemental: Fire Totem” (18x32” mixed-media collage, 2016) at the 2017 Department of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, January 19 through March 18, 2017.

Professor Deborah K. Snider also exhibited “Elemental: Spirit Totem” at the 2017 Department of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, at the Southern Utah Museum of Art, January 19-March 18, 2017.

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left: Elemental: Fire Totem, by Professor Deborah Sniderright: Elemental: Spirit Totem, by Professor Deborah Snider

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Professor Deborah K. Snider also exhibited “Encrustaceans II” (40x40” fabric collage/art quilt) at the 2017 Department of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, at the Southern Utah Museum of Art, January 19-March 18, 2017.

Professor Deborah Snider, Kari Heaps (Director of Education at SUMA), Nikki Lewis (MFA candidate in Arts Administration), Dr. Jackie Grant (biology, Frehner Museum), Brian Powell, Wendy Sanders (Theatre & Dance), Reece Summers (Braithwaite Gallery), and Sally McDonald (SUU Special Collections Analyst and Archivist) put together an exhibition, “Everything in Between: Pathfinders-New Territories” for the Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA), for June-August 2017. They have assembled a regional team of art quilters from Colorado, Nevada, and Utah to serve as an advisory board for the planned biennial exhibition at SUMA. Following in the footsteps of the highly-successful 2012 international invitational art quilt exhibition at the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, this show is intended to become a biennial that alternates exhibition location with the St. George Art Museum

Professor Hala Swearingen exhibited “Drawn to the Music” at the Society of Illustrators, New York City, October 25-December 23, 2016. Members of the society are invited to participate in the “Members Open” show each year. This year the theme was—art inspired by music.

below: “Encrustaceans II” by Professor Deborah Snider“Brand” image from California artist, Valya, in the 2012 exhibition (used with artist’s permission), “The Ancient Beginning of the New World,” silk art quilt

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Community projects

Professor Deborah Snider, Dr. Jaqueline Grant (biology), Ryan Paul, Reece Summers, Kari Heaps, Nikki Lewis, Gina Dodge, Mallory Petersen, Lizzy Constantino, the StateWide Art Partnership, Springville Museum of Art, and Leslie Gleaves collaborated on an

“Evening for Educators—Museum-in-a-Box” at the Southern Utah Museum of Art, October 4, 2016. This project is an annual presentation for teacher licensure renewal credit, SUU students, and community members. This year, the theme centered on the National Park service and the idea of “preservation.”

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Music

Publications, Presentations, and Performances

Dr. Christian Bohnenstengel presented “Improvisation: From Folk Tunes to the Blues” at the 2016 Utah Music Teachers Association State Conference at Weber State University, November 2016. He also served on a panel, “Principles of Creative and Effective Practicing” with colleagues from Brigham Young University, Utah Valley University, and Dixie State University.

Dr. Lawrence Johnson, along with a theater company of actors, singers, and dancers put together a staged radio show, “A Christmas Carol on the Air” in Cedar City, UT, December 2016.

Brief description of project and its significance: This was a fundraiser for the Neil Simon Festival involving a production of an adaptation of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” written by Peter Sham. I was the music director and pianist for the performances and the show involved several SUU faculty and administration as well as SUU students and community members.

Dr. Krystal McCoy presented “Singing Keeps Me Alive: Perceptions of Older Adult Choral Singers in Summer camp” at the Music & Lifelong Learning Symposium, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, October 2016. Dr. McCoy investigated older adult singers’ perceptions of choral singing during their participation in a sleepaway summer camp. Research questions that query significance of singing among the singers and the importance of context and social attachment guided the research. Results indicated that the summer camp provided a context for growth and reminiscing. The most significant perceptions of older adult singers in the camp were a sense of connectedness, learning new things, and reflection. This will influence policy and programs in the older adult community.

Dr. Krystal McCoy presented “Let It Flow: Conquering ‘Complex’ Rhythms in Popular Styles of Choral Music Using Continuous Flow in Space” at the 2016 ACDA Utah State Conference, Salt Lake City, October 2016. Dr. McCoy demonstrated and applied the use of Continuous Flow in space in the choral rehearsal for warm up and repertoire preparation. Focusing on unusual meters and the popular/jazz idiom, attendees worked together to foster a positive relationship with “challenging” rhythms in the choral context and learned how to teach these styles without fear of notation.

Dr. Krystal McCoy prepared and conducted an auditioned group of high school students in Anne Arundel County Maryland. This culminated in a final performance for the community, Harwood, MD, November 2016.

Dr. Krystal McCoy presented “Fostering Musicality and Appropriate Behavior within the Ensemble” ath the Utah Music Educators Association, St. George, UT, February 2017. An artistic performance often lies beneath the surface of a well-disciplined music ensemble. This session focused on rehearsal techniques and assessments that cultivate an individual and ensemble sense of professional artistry while performing, predominantly focusing on the assessment factors of ensemble contribution, musicality, and movement.

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Dr. Krystal McCoy presented “Partnering with a Community Theater to Promote Lifelong Music Engagement” at the 2017 Utah Campus Compact Engaged Faculty Retreat Moab, Utah, February, 2017. The Heritage Center is a community venue where Southern Utah University ensembles and faculty frequently perform. Heritage Center constituents provide opportunities for SUU faculty community engagement through directorship and arts management. The SUU music education department and Heritage Center is embarking upon a new program offering community music engagement. The New Horizons International Music Association provides instrumental and choral experience to older adults of all training levels. This initiation will involve a tremendous amount of forethought and coordination, ultimately enriching the lives of older adults and teaching music education students the importance of providing opportunities for lifelong music engagement.

Professor Carol Ann Modesitt, Paul Houghtaling (U of Alabama) and Linda Lister (UNLV) presented “Taking the Scenic View: New Ideas for Opera Scenes Programs” at the National Opera Association Conference, Santa Barbara, California January 4-7, 2017. Opera scenes programs have been a standard component of college and university opera workshop training for generations. The challenge is to create performance and teaching experiences which are relevant for students and interesting for audiences. This session offered fresh approaches and reimagined the boundaries of traditional scenes presentations while retaining the pedagogical importance of scenes study (variety of styles, skills demonstrated and appropriate challenges)

Dr. Lynn Vartan attended the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Indianapolis, IN, November 2016, and presented her signature mallet line for the first time at a convention.

Dr. Lynn Vartan hosted several performers on SUU campus:

In November 2016, Dr. Vartan hosted percussionist and composer Ron Coulter to campus and hosted a performance of his works and masterclass for the percussion students on composition and music careers.

In October 2016, Dr. Vartan hosted Patrick and Rachel Roulet for the Fall installment of her Satellite Salon Series. The concert was titles “The Golden Age of Xylophone” and traced the history of the lost music of xylophone in ragtime music and early jazz.

In January 2017, Dr. Vartan hosted George N Gianopolis and Kathleen Rodlan-Silverstein for the Spring installment of her Satellite Salon Series. The concert was titled “Composition Conjuring” and was entirely composer by Mr. Gianopolis. Several SUU music faculty members performed and Lynn and Kathleen premiered a new work entitled “The Bells” using the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe.

Professor Carol Modesitt presenting at the National Opera Association Conference

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Community Project

Dr. Christian Bohnenstengel arranged a Piano Monster Concert at the Heritage Center Theater, November 29, 2016. This was the 5th annual Piano Monster Concert. The event brings together piano students, piano teachers, their families and music lovers from southern Utah. The concert in December featured more than one hundred performers on nine grand pianos and participants came from as far away as Escalante and Ivins.

Leadership

Dr. Lynn Vartan began her new role as the Director of the SUU Convocations Series in January 2017. Lynn is excited to produce, host and promote this great series at SUU.

Performers in the Piano Monster concert at the Heritage Center Theater, November 29, 2016.

Piano Monster Concert performers

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Theatre Arts and Dance


Dean Shauna Mendini presented “Dream of Helen: Developing Grassroots Chinese, American Friendships” at the Snow Symposium at Northwest University, Xi’an, China (titled: Symposium on Edgar and Helen Snow in 1936). 2016 marked the 80th anniversary of the historical trips made by Edgar and Helen Snow (Cedar City native) to the Northwest of China. As a co-director for the Dream of Helen, I was invited to serve as a speaker for a symposium and as an invited guest for a series of celebrations sponsored by Northwest University, Xi’an. Southern Utah University, Brigham Young University, and University of Missouri Kansas City, were honored at the symposium for contributions in promoting Chinese-American people’s understanding and friendship by carrying forward the Snow’s Legacy. Vice-President Stuart Jones and Director of Global Engagement Kurt Harris were on hand to accept the award.

Professor Denise Purvis presented “When Cultures Coalesce: Culturally Aware Westernized teaching in Guatemala” at the International University Global Theater Experience, Styria, Austria, in December 2016. Professor Purvis shared the challenge of sharing Western arts-integrated pedagogy in the Guatemalan Highlands schools, discussing the need to serve the needs of the students in Guatemala rather than impose Western ideology. She then taught the group one of the effective lessons to help participants understand arts integration in action.

Professor Denise Purvis presented “AXIS” with Andrea Vazquez and James Kaufmann at the International University Global Theater Experience, Styria, Austria, in December 2016. Professor Purvis and her partners shared a work composed through collaboration in December 2015. The dance is performed to Bela Bartok’s Microkosmos Book 4 (selections) and inspired by British playwright Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis.

Professor Denise Purvis at the International University Global Theater Experience

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Projects and Performances

Professor Peter Sham was the playwright and lyricist for A Christmas Carol on the Air, with Brad Carroll composing the score and music. The musical play was produced for The Neil Simon Festival and performed at the Heritage Center Theater in December 2016. The play originally premiered at the Utah Shakespeare Festival in 2004 and ran for 4 straight seasons. It was produced in 2012 and 2013 by the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, and now in its 7th local production, it will become the annual event for the Neil Simon Festival. This past year it included featured film and television star Tony Amendola as Scrooge, along with a host of local celebrities, including our very own university president, Dr. Scott L. Wyatt.

Professor Peter Sham (author of music and lyrics) with Dr. Keith Bradshaw (Orchestrations) and Brandon Scott Grayson (Transcriber/Arranger) are producing and premiering a new musical, Under Construction: The Blue Collar Musical. When an audience unexpectedly shows up at the theatre on an unscheduled performance time, an unlikely group of working class folk must trade in their hard hats for top hats and put on a show! The world premiere for The Neil Simon Festival will take place at the Heritage Center Theater, July-August 2017. This is Professor Shaw’s second Cedar City world premiere of a new musical work; the first, Lend Me a Tenor (written with Brad Carroll), premiered at the Utah Shakespeare Festival in 2007.

SUU professors have fun with the president in A Christmas Carol on the Air! L-R: Dr. Lawrence Johnson (seated), President Scott L. Wyatt, Kirsten Sham, Dr. Matt Nickerson, Peter Sham, Dr. Kyle Bishop, Michael Don Bahr, Richard Bugg, and Dr. Keith Bradshaw.

Peter Sham and Richard Bugg, with Tony Amendola as Scrooge (center)

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Leadership

Professor Melinda Vaughn, as co-founder and executive director, hosted the Statera Foundation National Conference in Denver, CO, in October 2016. The organization works toward gender parity in the theatre, and this second annual conference was held in partnership with the Denver Center for performing arts. Among the over 50 speakers and workshop leaders presenting on gender balance in the theatre were Executive Director of Actor’s Equity Association, Mary McColl offering a Touchstone Address; American social justice activist, Chris Crass leading special training sessions; and American Conservatory Theater Artistic Director, Carey Perloff and Wellesley Centers for Women Senior Scholar and Research Scientist, Sumru Erkut sharing results of their recent study on women in leadership in the theatre.

Professor Peter Sham was named artistic director for the Neil Simon Festival beginning Fall 2016 and has designed and is currently planning the 15th anniversary season in 2017.

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Dr. Ali Siahpush, Associate Professor of Engineering, is providing STEM opportunities for SUU students and in-service teachers and students. Dr. Siahpush was awarded an additional $25,000 through the NASA Space Grant Consortium to develop and oversee these projects: K-12 Rocket Proj-ect, a Sounding Rocket Project and a K-12 STEM Teacher Workshop. The K-12 Rocket Project allows students to experience hands-on science and study meteorites. Students will also learn about physics and mathematics, and how they are applied to engineering in the unique environment of space. Funding for the Sounding Rocket Project allows SUU engineering students to compete in this summer’s Experimental Sounding Rocket As-sociation’s Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition in White Sands, NM. The K-12 STEM Teachers Workshop, held on the SUU campus Febru-ary 24 and 25, 2017, provided professional development in STEM instruction introducing stimulating new concepts in scientific fields such as: plate tectonics, meteorites, origin of the moon, fate of the dinosaurs, and dangers to the human body in space. Hands-on curriculum development activi-ties and materials were provided so K-12 teachers could not only participate but take the materials back to their classrooms, helping their students learn that science can be fun and enjoyable!

The Department of Physical Science recently hired Dr. Brandon Wiggins, a 2014 SUU mathematics graduate. Since leaving SUU, Dr. Wiggins has completed a Ph. D. astronomy program at Brigham Young University, that included an internship and research at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico. He is already making an impact in the classroom and on-campus. Evidence of this can be found in the recent announcement that SUU student Morgan Taylor, who is a pure mathematics major and a physics minor was awarded a prestigious student fellowship to LANL that will allow her to attend a summer workshop in computational physics beside students from Stanford, Caltech, and MIT. Dr. Wiggins not only assisted Morgan in applying for the positions but he utilized his LANL contacts to insure her participation.

The SUU Engineering program just completed an accreditation visit from ABET. The self-study was written by Dr. Matthew Roberts, Professor of Engineering and Associate Chair of the Department of Engineering and Technology. The ABET delegation repeatedly commented on the quality and accuracy of the materials SUU provided. Their evaluation yielded no significant findings beyond several commendations and a single concern. The concern centers around the workload of SUU’s four engineering faculty members. The evaluators felt that the long-term health of our growing engineering program requires the addition of more faculty and/or staff members. We are working together to find an avenue to address the concern of our site visitation team. Our heartiest congratulations to Drs. Robert, Siahpush, Munro, and Bok on the very successful renewal of our engineering accreditation.

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WALTER MAXWELL GIBSON COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

SUU Science Building

Dean: Robert Eves

Website: http://suu.edu/cose/

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Agriculture and Nutrition

Projects

Dr. Randall Violett, with Dr. Karen Mock, Dr. Simon Landhausser, and Dr. Owen Burney worked together on Aspen (Populus tremuloides) restoration utilizing nursery-propagated seedlings on Cedar Mountain (October 2016-2019). Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is a foundation species in the western US, where it supports high levels of biodiversity, provides important wildlife and domestic forage, and is prized for its aesthetic qualities. Recently, aspen has experienced widespread declines linked to a variety of factors including drought, pathogens, succession, and herbivory. With the range of aspen predicted to contract in the western US over the coming century, active management approaches such as assisted migration may be required. Traditional silvicultural practices to regenerate aspen focus on inducing asexual suckering through coppicing or burning, but these methods reduce genetic diversity over time and are limited to existing stands. Planting of nursery-grown aspen seedlings could address these limitations and has proven effective in mined land reclamation in Alberta, Canada, but protocols have yet to be developed for the western US. To assess the viability of a seedling-based approach to aspen restoration, seed was collected from stands in Alberta, Utah, and New Mexico and nursery-propagated following protocols developed in Alberta. In the fall of 2015, over 7,000 seedlings were planted in southwestern Utah in 15 wildlife exclosures. Results from the 2016 growing season indicate mixed outplanting success, with the primary mortality factors linked to rodent herbivory and early summer drought, the latter of which appears tied to soil texture. Additionally, uneven responses among seedling sources in the nursery suggest further work will be necessary to optimize protocols for southwestern aspen. Monitoring will continue in 2017 to assess the ongoing performance of the established seedlings.

Dr. Randall Violett organized the “SRM University Chapter Display” at the Society for Range Management Annual International Meeting in St. George, UT, January 28-February 2, 2017. Southern Utah University was well represented at the recent SRM meetings that were hosted by the Utah section in St. George, UT with 12 students participating in activities that ranged from employment workshops to the coveted plant identification contest. The SUU Range club won second place in the University chapter display contest. The SUU range club is advised by Dr. Randall Violett and he is very excited about the future of these competitive teams here at SUU.

SUU Display at the Society for Range Management An-nual International Meeting

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Biology


Dr. Helen Boswell and Tasha Seegmiller (EDGE) published “Reading Fiction in Biology Class to Enhance Scientific Literacy” in The American Biology Teacher, October 2016. The article was a featured article.

Dr. Laurie Mauger, Elizabeth Velez, Michael Cherkiss, Matthew Brien, Frank Mazzotti, James Spotila published “Conservation Genetics of American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) Populations in Pacific Costa Rica” in Nature Conservation, 2017 (in press).

Projects

The SUU Center for STEM Teaching & Learning was selected to become part of the Carnegie Mellon CREATE Lab Satellite Network. This allows SUU to bring cutting-edge robotics and technology learning projects to the K-12 classrooms of southern Utah. Collaborators include Dr. Bill Heyborne (Director, SUU Center for STEM Teaching & Learning), Dr. Jackie Grant, Dr. Cecily Heiner (Computer Science), Professor Alisa Petersen (Education) and Professor Peggy Wittwer (Education). The program will be available in K-12 classrooms in six counties of southern Utah. To date, the satellite lab has trained seven Iron county elementary school teachers.

Computer Science & Information Systems


Dr. Shalini Kesar and James Pollard (Outdoor Engagement Center) will present “Designing and Teaching Computing Capstone Class: A Case Study Involving Forest Service Project” at the 2017 CEPE/ETHICOMP conference in Turin, Italy, in June 2017. Additionally, they have been asked to submit the full article for publication to the society proceedings and Journal, later in 2017.

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Projects

Dr. Richard Cozzens presented “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Concurrent Web-Based Engineering and Technology Curriculum for Rural High Schools” at the International Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) Conference 2016, Leeds, England, September 2016. Through the research a framework has been developed for evaluating the effectivity of concurrent web-based engineering and technology courses. This framework has been used to help implement and improve concurrent engineering and technology courses offered to rural high schools in southern Utah.

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Mathematics


Dr. Bhuvaneswari Sambandham published “Generalized Monotone Method for Sequential Caputo Fractional Boundary Value Problems” in Journal of Advances in Applied Mathematics, October 2016.

Dr. Bhuvaneswari Sambandham presented “Differential Equations Versus Fractional Differential Equations” at COSE Undergraduate Research Symposium, November 2016.

Dr. Bhuvaneswari Sambandham, with Dr. Vatsala and Dr. Vinodh Chellamuthu, presented “Numerical Results for Sequential Caputo Fractional Boundary Value Problems” at the Joint Mathematics Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2017 (invited talk). Brief description of project and its significance: Recently, Dr. Bhunavaneswari and her colleagues developed the generalized monotone method for sequential Caputo fractional boundary value problem with mixed boundary conditions which are in terms of Caputo fractional derivative. They have obtained a representation form for the corresponding linear Caputo sequential boundary value problem in terms of the Green’s function. In addition, they have obtained a linear comparison result for sequential Caputo fractional differential inequalities with the mixed boundary conditions. The comparison result is useful in proving the monotonicity of iterates as well as the uniqueness of the solution of the nonlinear sequential boundary value problem. Their method yields the integer results as a special case. In this work, they develop the numerical methods to solve a linear sequential boundary value problem which will be used as a tool to develop the numerical methods to solve a nonlinear problem by a generalized monotone iterative process in a later work.

Dr. Bhuvaneswari Sambandham presented “Sequential Caputo Linear Fractional Boundary Value Problem with Numerical Results” at the Southern Utah University Festival of Excellence, April 4, 2017.

Dr. Andreas Weingartner and Victor Guo presented “When Shifted Primes are Practical” at the West Coast Number Theory Conference, Pacific Grove, CA, December 2016.

Dr. Andreas Weingartner published “A Sieve Problem and Its Application” in Mathematika, January 2017.

Dr. Andreas Weingartner and Igor Shparlinski published “An Explicit Polynomial Analogue of Romanoff’s Theorem” in Finite Fields and Their Applications, March 2017.

Nursing

Awards

The Nursing Department received the Engaged Learning departmental award at the EDGE awards banquet, March 28, 2017.

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Physical Science

Presentations and Publications

Dr. Bruce Howard and Michael J. Adams published “X-ray Analysis of Lead(II) Binding to Haloferax volcanii Malate Synthase” in Journal: Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences Arts and Letters 93 (November 2016). This paper received the best biological paper award for this year’s edition of the journal. Michael is currently enrolled in his first year of medical school at the University of Utah.

Dr. Bruce Howard, Dr. Guizella Rocabado, Christiana Standler, Cody Black, and Blake Overson published “Use of the Bruker AXS SMART BREEZE™ System for Macromolecular X-ray Data Collection” in the Americal Journal of Undergraduate Research 13.4 (December 2016). The Bruker AXS SMART BREEZE™ system is a single-crystal X-ray diffractometer designed to collect data from crystals of small organic or inorganic compounds. It is typically equipped with a Molybdenum-anode sealed tube to facilitate data collection from small unit cells. SUU recently acquired this system, but chose to have it installed with a copper-anode sealed tube with the hope of using it to collect data from larger unit cells such as those found in crystals of proteins or other macromolecules. This is the first and only BREEZE™ system installed by Bruker AXS with a copper-anode to date. Here they show that this system is capable of efficiently collecting quality X-ray diffraction data from crystals of the enzymes lysozyme and xylanase. This capability to collect diffraction data from both macromolecular and small-molecule crystals greatly expands the scope of undergraduate research projects that can be addressed using this instrument.

Dr. Paul R. Larson and Dr. C. Frederick Lohrengel II published “Collecting Data to Construct an Isoline Map” in The Geography Teacher 14. 1 (January 2017): 25-35. Isoline maps are common exercises in physical geography and earth science courses on both the K-12 and college level. Students frequently are not exposed to data sources and isoline map construction. This exercise contains both of those elements. Students conduct a rudimentary surveying exercise to obtain data for a large-scale topographic map, and they use these data to construct a map. National Geography Standard 1 applies to this exercise: “How to use maps and other geographic representations, geospatial technologies, and spatial thinking to understand and communicate information.”

Dr. Hussein Samha, with B. Singh, A. Diwan, V. Jain, A. Herrera-Gomez, J. Terry, and M. R. Linford published “Uniqueness Plots in Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Now in X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy: A Straightforward Way to Show You Have a Statistically Meaningful Fit” in Vacuum Technology and Coating, October 2016. This publication resulted from a collaboration with scientists at BYU.

Dr. Hussein Samha, Shiladitya Chatterjee, Jacob C. Denning, Cody V. Cushman, Nicholas J. Smith, Paul Mack, George H. Major, Tim Nunney, and Matthew R. Linford published “Trends in Advanced XPS Instrumentation in Angle-Resolved XPS (AR-XPS) and XPS Surface Mapping” in Vacuum Technology & Coating, 24 (January 2017).

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Dr. Mackay Steffensen (SUU Chem Club mentor) and Dr. Guizella Rocabado, with students Jaxon Barney, Hayden Bishop, Brett Clouse, Michelle Pham Nguyen were able to work with the SUU Chem Club to share their passion for science with elementary schools throughout the region:

* In May, 2016 we participate in the Cedar City Water Fair

* In September, 2016 we participate in the homecoming parade

* In October and November, 2016 we held a 6-week after school science program in cedar city elementary schools

* In 2017 they are just as active (in one week they had 7 different shows in Cedar City and nearby cities and the next week we will have another 7 shows.

* Our club continues to grow and we learn new demos in our meetings which are held every other week.

Awards

Dr. Guizella A. Rocabado was named Most Supportive Educator Award, from the SUU Student Veterans of America, in November 2016. On Veterans’ Day, she was honored with this award for outstanding support to veteran students. She reports, “It is an honor to serve and teach the men and women who have and continue to sacrifice their all for our country and our freedom.”

Dr. Mackay Steffensen performing with the SUU Chem Club

SUU Chem Club at Cedar City Water Fair

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GRADUATE & ONLINE SCHOOLPublications and Presentations

Jennifer Hunter (SUU Online) presented a workshop on “Effective Online Course Development and Effective Online Teaching” at the Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education, January 5, 2017. Research tells us what Best Practices are for the development of an online course, but precious little is said how to implement those practices. This workshop was a hands on workshop to develop at least three modules of an online course.

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Dean: Mark Atkinson

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Presentations

Dr. Leilani Nautu presented “Equity vs. Equality” at the Utah Multi-Tiered System of Supports Connections Conference, 2016.

Dr. Leilani Nautu presented “Having Your Students Begging for More: Engagement Strategies” at the Utah Rural Schools Conference, 2016.

Dr. Leilani Nautu presented “Turning ‘I hate math’ into ‘I love math’ – Changing Mindset/ Metacognitions of Students and Teachers” at the Utah Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference, 2016.

Dr. Leilani Nautu presented “Journeys through Hallowed Ground - Helping Students Develop a Sense of Place” at the SUU Experiential Learning and Leadership Conference, 2016.

Tasha Seegmiller (EDGE Coordinator), Dr. Helen Boswell (Biology), Dr. Elaine Braithwaite (Chemistry), Dr. Rosalyn Eves (English) and Erin Shakespear participated in a panel discussion about the pathway to publication, “How Great Starters Can Become Great Finishers” at the Cedar City Library, January 12, 2017. The five members, part of the writing website Thinking Through Our Fingers, accepted the invitation from the Cedar City Library to provide insight and encouragement for local writers engaged in pursuit of publication, primarily for works of fiction. The collaborative effort included the local bookstore, Main Street Books, and provided resources to assist community members eager to improve their writing.

Projects

Dr. Leilani Nautu established a Community Enrichment Program (which includes Active Learning Adventures, Community on the Go, and Lifelong Learning), 2016.

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Dean: Patrick Clarke

Website: http://www.suu.edu/uc/

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Dr. Leilani Nautu is the co-chair of the Utah Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partners (UACEP)

Grants and Awards

Dr. Leilani Nautu completed an MPA program, emphasis in Higher Education Administration, at SUU in 2016.

Dr. Leilani Nautu helped develop a proposal that received funding from a STEP Up Grant (2016) and was the lead investigator for partnership with Iron County School District to support efforts in helping high school students gain an understanding of the connection between Mathematics and careers pathways (and for the promotion and support of students getting higher ACT scores so that they can be ready for those career pathways). Dr. Nautu also helped develop a proposal and receive funding for a Quantitative Literacy Project (2016), to help the university focus on its partnerships with high school Mathematics teachers to become better at their practice, and to support high school students in the completion of the Quantitative Literacy requirement for university graduation.

Community Engagement Center

Director: Earl Mulderink Website: https://www.suu.edu/siel/cec/

Presentations

Director Earl Mulderink and Associate Director Pam Branin participated in the 45th Annual Conference of the National Society for Experiential Education in San Antonio, Texas, September 26-29, 2016. They joined several colleagues from SUU’s School of Integrative and Engaged Learning (SIEL) to complete certification in the NSEE’s Experiential Education Academy. In addition, Earl collaborated with SIEL colleagues in offering a well-received presentation that showcased The EDGE Program.

Dr. Earl Mulderink (Director) created and shared a PechaKucha presentation for SUU’s International Education Week: “International Service-Learning: 2016 Alternative Spring Break to Costa Rica,” November 17, 2016.

Projects

The CEC began participating in a year-long national program entitled “Best Practices in Assessing Community Engagement” (BPACE), co-sponsored by the Indiana Campus Compact and IUPUI (one of the country’s leading institutions in assessment practices). Starting with their first webinar in October 2016, a team has been doing readings and “homework” designed to improve our assessment practices. BPACE participants include Earl Mulderink, Pam Branin, Patrick Clarke, Briget Eastep, Jackie Grant, Donna Law, and Karl Stevens.

SUU’s CEC continues to coordinate with the Utah Campus Compact in several statewide initiatives. Earl Mulderink helped to plan the UCC Engaged Faculty Retreat in Moab, February 9-11, 2017, and remains an active member of the UCC Steering Committee and Faculty Development Network. The Moab Retreat was highlighted by SUU’s large contingent of eleven faculty and staff, eight of whom presented a poster, a panel, or a plenary session. In addition to Earl and Pam, participants included Patrick Clarke, Jeb Branin, Ellen Treanor, Steve Barney, Jayci Bash, Johnny MacLean, Krystal McCoy, and Tony Pellegrini, and Karl Stevens.

Pam Branin remains an active leader among Community Engaged Administrators and participated, with several SUU Student Service Leaders, in a UCC Alternative Spring Break Leadership Retreat, hosted by Dixie State University, November 18-19, 2017.

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Programs

Working with Iron County Care and Share and Toys for Tots, the Iron County Holiday Assistance Program once again helped to raise funds and distribute toys, food, and clothing to nearly 400 households -- and 800 children -- in Cedar City, Enoch, Parowan, and elsewhere in Iron County. Overseen by Pam Branin, the ICHAP continues to assist some of our region’s neediest citizens. Key assistance again was provided by Jeff Lennert of the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots program, and the Utah National Guard graciously allowed use of armory facilities for a week-long distribution in early December 2017. The ICHAP was aided by volunteers from local high schools, SUU, and the community.

SUU continues to lead other USHE institutions in the number of AmeriCorps student participants who volunteer through a UCC-managed program. Overseen at SUU by Community Engagement Center Program Specialist Gabrielle Strand, nearly 150 SUU students are participating in the 2016-2017 year. At a minimum, each student agrees to engage in 300 hours of service and, upon completion, they earn an educational stipend of about $1,300. Some students pursue lengthier terms of 450 hours and receive a larger stipend, and all participants can renew for up to four terms of service. Most of SUU’s AmeriCorps participants are in the Nursing and Education programs, while a few hail from Rural Health Scholars and CEC Student Service Leaders. For more information, see http://www.nationalservice.gov/programs/americorps. The CEC continues to sponsor a number of student-led service programs overseen by Pam Branin. An exciting new program is “Days for Girls,” an international effort that began in Utah and aims to provide feminine hygiene kits to girls and women around the world. Cedar City is home to a local chapter, and SUU now has a campus program led by student Service Leader Cameron Robins. For more information, see https://www.daysforgirls.org/

Creative Engagement Center

Director Todd PetersonWebsite: https://www.suu.edu/siel/creative/

The Creative Engagement Center manages the “Creativity and Innovation” track within the SUU EDGE Program and advises students who have chosen a Creativity and Innovation EDGE Track. In addition to curricular matters, the Center and its advisory council also develop and oversee creativity-based co-curricular activities. We also provide access to networks and resources for SUU students, faculty, and community members.

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Outdoor Engagement Center

Director: Briget EastepWebsite: https://www.suu.edu/siel/outdoor/

Vision Statement

The Outdoor Engagement Center will be an active hub supporting and creating meaningful interdisciplinary learning opportunities to involve the university’s community in the outdoors. Participants will enhance their knowledge and awareness of the natural, cultural, and historic resources on public lands while gaining lifelong skills, a sense of place, and appreciation for stewardship of our natural world. Through our work, SUU will gain national attention for engaging students, faculty, and staff in the outdoors.

Projects

Professor Anne Smith (Outdoor Recreation in Parks and Tourism) and Dr. Johnny MacLean (Geology), with Dr. Anne Diekema (Library), Dr. Kelly Goonan (ORPT), Dr. Jackie Grant (Biology) and Dr. John Smith (Communications) participated in the first Semester in the Parks program, at Bryce Canyon National Park and Ruby’s Inn Resort, Fall 2016. Twelve students enrolled in six SUU courses offered at Bryce Canyon National Park. Students lived and worked at Ruby’s Inn Resort, and faculty commuted each week to teach their courses. Courses were tailored to the outdoor setting of Bryce Canyon, and the group took multiple excursions to other southwestern national parks, including Cedar Breaks, Capitol Reef, Great Basin, Zion, Pipe Springs, and Grand Canyon. It was designed to immerse students in the National Parks, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service and to continue to build Southern Utah University’s status as “University of the Parks.”

Every other weekend the group traveled to different national and state parks in Utah, Nevada and Arizona. The group began with a four-day river trip on the San Juan River in the recently designated Bear’s Ears National Monument and culminated with a four-day trip to Grand Canyon National Park.

The program’s success hinged on critical partnerships with Ruby’s Inn and the public lands. Ruby’s Inn offered students housing and employment, which helped keep the program affordable and gave the students real world experience with the tourism business. Bryce

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Canyon National Park offered a classroom near the canyon rim in the original park visitor center and interaction with park staff and visitors. Bryce Canyon Natural History Association provided special access and training sessions. Other parks provided access to park rangers and special programs.

Students were immersed in national park course material, experienced the parks and their operations first-hand and reported that it was a transformative experience. One student said, “The Semester in the Parks program was an adventure of a lifetime! The experiences and lessons I learned within these ‘universities without walls’ will stay with me for as long as I live.” This served as a semester-long immersion experience similar to study abroad programs, and it highlighted SUU’s partnerships with local businesses and land management agencies. It was (and continues to be) a wonderful example of SUU’s claim as the University of the Parks.

In 2015, the OEC partnered with James E. Pollard to unite his research with undergraduate research and faculty opportunities. In the past year, our research program has grown creating unique learning opportunities.

Collaboration was initiated with Dr. Shalini Kesar with her Spring Capstone class. Seventeen students were engaged in direct research testing as the main focus for their Capstone projects. Results of the student projects were incorporated into Mr. Pollard’s research-reporting to the Forest Service. Plans were made to continue collaboration with Dr. Kesar in providing student project material for her spring, 2017 Capstone class.

James Pollard and Dr. Shalini Kesar (CSIS) will present “Designing and Teaching Computing Capstone Class: A Case Study Involving Forest Service Project” at the 2017 CEPE/ETHICOMP conference in Turin, Italy, in June 2017. Additionally, they have been asked to submit the full article for publication to the society proceedings and Journal, later in 2017.


SIP students learning and exploring in National Parks, Photos by Alex Salimbene

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HONORS PROGRAM Projects

Jayci Bash, Dr. Johnny MacLean (Physical Science), Dr. Kyle Bishop (Director, Honors), Dr. Matt Weeg (Biology), Professor Matt Nickerson (Library), and Jason Kaiser (Physical Science) led Partners in the Park programs in Cedar Breaks National Monument, Zion National Park, and Glacier National Park during Summer 2016. Partners in the Parks helped commemorate the 100th anniversary of the NPS by taking over 30 honors students from across the country into some of our nation’s most treasured places. During these outdoor experiential learning projects, students engage responsibly in the park, seminar with park officials and professors, provide service to the park, and gain a life-long appreciation for our public spaces. This year was also the 10th anniversary of SUU directing projects in the intermountain west.

At the start of fall semester, Dr. Kyle Bishop (director) also organized a trip to Great Basin National Park to tour the Lehman Caves as a part of SUU Day in the Park, August 25.

Director: Dr. Kyle Bishop

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Gerald R. Sherratt Library

SUU Students participate in “Partners in the Park”

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Dean: Richard Saunders

Website: http://www.li.suu.edu/

LIBRARYFaculty Publications and Presentations

Professor Paula Mitchell presented “Resources in Special Collections at Southern Utah University” at the 3rd Science Symposium of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Kanab UT, August 2016. Professor Mitchell spoke to the audience about the online resources that SUU has gathered about the research that has been down at the GSENM. http://library.suu.edu/page/special-digital-collections-grand-staircaseescalante-national-monument-collection

Professor Paula Mitchell and Ryan Paul, Museum Curator at Frontier Homestead State Park, presented “Early Tourism in Southern Utah: Utah Parks Company” at the Frontier Homestead State Park, August 2016. This event was sponsored by the Utah State Historical Society. Professor Mitchell spoke about the development of National Parks in our area and their impact on early tourism in southern Utah. Ryan talked about the role that the Utah Parks Company played in moving tourism forward in southern Utah.

Professor Paula Mitchell, Leighton Quarles, Susan Rhodes, Paula Mitchell, and Michael Shamo presented “Rural Utah, National Destinations: Developing Utah’s National Parks” at the Utah State History Conference, Salt lake City, UT, September 29-October 1, 2016. The panel was a hybrid paper session/panel discussion that explored the dynamics of national park development in Utah with an emphasis on interaction with and impact on surrounding communities. Professor Mitchell spoke on the Grand Circle Tour: Early Tourism in Zion, Bryce, North Rim, and Cedar Breaks.

Professor Matt Nickerson exhibited Willy the Kid: Shakespeare in the American West 1850 to 1870 in the Sherratt Library Special Collections, July-October 2016. In 2016 the American Library Association and the Folger Shakespeare Library sponsored Shakespeare and His First Folio a series of exhibitions commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. Research included actors, actresses of the time that portrayed characters in works of Shakespeare from Utah to California from 1850 to 1870. The exhibit highlighted the value and accessibility of his work across time and among people of all ages, class, and education.

Gerald R. Sherratt Library

Willy the Kid display

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Projects

Professor Paula Mitchell organized an exhibit, “The Grand Circle Tour” of National Parks Historic Photography, in the Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA), June 25-September 1, 2016. Historical images from Gerald R. Sherratt Library’s Special Collections representing what it would have been like for a tourist participating in the “Grand Circle Tour” during the early 1920s through the 1960s traveling through Utah’s Painted Canyons in celebration of 100 years of National Parks in Utah.

“The Grand Circle Tour” exhibit at SUMA

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Undergraduate Research & Scholarship Program (UGRASP)

With national participation in undergraduate research reaching an all-time high, SUU is taking a leadership role by including research as a major emphasis in its new academic roadmap. The Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Program (UGRASP) seeks to support, advocate for, and assist students engaging in research and scholarship activities.

Perhaps the most direct contribution of UGRASP is to provide funding for undergraduate research and scholarship conduction and dissemination. Grant awards of up to $500 are available to students from all disciplines across campus.

Another highlight of the yearly activities of UGRASP includes the annual Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research (UCUR) in the spring. Based off the prestigious National Conference on Undergraduate Research, UCUR is a statewide conference dedicated to the dissemination of student research and creative activity. UGRASP covers all expenses for students who present at this conference. In February 2017, Utah Valley University served as the host institution.

Bennion Administration Building

Director: Mackay Steffensen

Website: http://suu.edu/ugrasp/

The Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Program (UGRASP) at Southern Utah University is committed to fostering a community of scholars across all disciplines. As part of its mission, the program will encourage and support student-mentor collaborations in research and creative expression, preparing students to become the scholars, scientists, and leaders of tomorrow.

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Projects

Brandon Street (Director, Career & Professional Development Center) and Donna Law (Executive Director, The Michael O. Leavitt Center for Politics & Public Service) organized “The Professional Closet” in the Sharwan Smith Center, January 27, 2017. They noticed that often when they spoke with students regarding professional dress standards for interviews, internships, professional gatherings, etc. that some students would express a concern regarding the clothes they own. Based on this ongoing concern, and the financial limitations of most students, they decided to create the Professional Closet. Street and Law collected professional attire from individuals both on- and off-campus, found a location in the Sharwan Smith Center, created a student committee and watched our dream become a reality. On January 27, 2017 we held an open house for the Professional Closet which was featured on ABC 4 News (http://www.good4utah.com/news/local-news/suu-helps-students-dress-for-success/646432113) and other local news sources. The organizers hope that the Professional Closet will help students feel confident in the way they present themselves so they can focus on whatever task is at hand and, perhaps, land the job of their dreams.

SUU Care and Support Team (CAST), led by co-chairs Jayci Bash (Honors) and Dr. Johnny MacLean (Physical Science) have organized an ongoing program to build community at SUU. The The SUU Care and Support Team (CAST) promotes student resiliency by providing a visible network of trained faculty and staff who are committed to students who may be struggling with emotional distress and mental health issues. CAST offers trainings to faculty and staff that build understanding in listening and helping skills, Title IX, and suicide prevention. It also hosts reading groups that allow employees to discuss pertinent topics surrounding our students’ emotional health and to build an open and vibrant community. Finally, CAST partners with other helping groups on campus to organize special events to show students they’re supported such as Suicide Prevention and Awareness Week.

More information is available at https://www.suu.edu/cast/

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Sharwan Smith Student Center

Dr. Jared Tippetts, Vice President for Student Services

Website: http://www.suu.edu/studentaffairs/

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Programs

Dr. Danielle Dubrasky, with support from The Office of the President, The Outdoor Engagement Center, The Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, Native American Week, Women and Gender Studies Conference, the Tanner Center, and Art Insights, organized SUU Convocations. The program hosted a variety of speakers during Spring 2017.

Topics and speakers included the following: Andrew Marvick on identity in contemporary art; Christine Ibarra on borders; Eccles Visiting Scholar Gary Nabhan on conservation; Jelani Cobb on race and justice in America.

Please refer to the website https://www.suu.edu/convocations/archive.html for the archives.

SUU Convocations is a distinguished lecture series hosted by Southern Utah University. The program’s purpose is to foster the growth of lifelong learners by engaging students of all levels and disciplines.

President’s and Provost’s Office

Dr. Bradley Cook

President: Dr. Scott Wyatt

Provost: Dr. Bradley Cook

Websites: https://www.suu.edu/general/president/index.html

www.suu.edu/academics/provost

https://www.suu.edu/convocations/archive.html

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During summer 2016, the Global Engagement Center was renamed the Office of Learning Abroad and absorbed into the Office of International Affairs, which also includes International Student & Scholar Services, the American Language & Culture Center, the Office of International Collaboration, International Recruiting, and the Confucius Institute.

Office of Learning Abroad

Director: Kurt HarrisWebsite: https://www.suu.edu/academics/studyabroad/

Presentations

Dr. Kurt Harris (director) presented at the Helen Foster Snow Symposium at Northwest University in Xi’an, China, September 2016.

Dr. Kurt Harris co-presented at the National Society for Experiential Education Conference in San Antonio, TX, September 2016.

Leadership

Dr. Kurt Harris is the editor of a new journal, Experiential Learning & Teaching in Higher Education


Head: Stephen Allen

Website: http://www.suu.edu/internationalaffairs/

Sharwan Smith Student Center

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FACULTY SCHOLARLY SUPPORT FUND GRANTCongratulations to the following faculty on being awarded grants for their research, presentations, and other special projects:

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Azmi Ahmad

Dave Berri

Jeff Orton

Michael Kroff

Walter Maxwell Gibson College of Science and Engineering

Nathan Barker

Carrie Jo Bucklin

Daniel Eves

Robert Eves

Chad Gasser

Artis Grady

Jackie Grant

Fred Govedich

Derek Hein

Paul Larson

Jana Lunt

John MacLean

Laurie Mauger

Andrew Misseldine

Christopher Monson

Scott Munro

Emma Schafer

Nasser Tadayon

Elaine Vickers

Randall Violett

Andreas Weingartner

Nathan Werner

Dean Winward

Lee Wood

Beverly Taylor Sorenson College of Education and Human Development

Rea Gubler

Joel Judd

Michiko Kobayashi

Tony Pellegrini

Bart Reynolds

Julie Taylor

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Lisa Arter

Bryce Christensen

Danielle Dubrasky

Matthew Eddy

Kelly Kathleen Ferguson

Michelle Grimes

Nozomi Irei

Liz Olson

Michelle Orihel

Kevin Stein

Joy Sterrantino

College of Performing and Visual Arts

Keith Bradshaw

Sam Davis

Jeff Hanson

Scott Knowles

Patricia Meredith

Ben Sowards

Hala Swearingen

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Loralyn Felix

Steven Irving

Paula Mitchell

Phil Roché

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