Connections - An Alumni and Friends Magazine by Holy Cross College, Notre Dame, IN
Faculty Notes Spring-Summer 2008
The Holy Cross College faculty have been very active since May. Here is the report from the Center for Faculty Development.
Pat Adams, MSA Attended “Aging as a Spiritual Journey,” the Conference on Ministry with the Aging XVI May 8 and 9. She will also be busy this summer offering two professional development programs in gerontology through the Gerontology Consortium of Michiana. June 2-6, was Geriatric Case Management Certificate (20 contact hours). August 11 will be Health Care Administrators Retreat: Future Issues in Health Care (7.5 CEUs). Both are offered at Holy Cross College and are part of plans for a gerontology center on campus with the Gerontology Consortium of Michiana.
Lori Crawford-Dixon, MEd, assistant professor Lori Crawford-Dixon is the newly-appointed instructor-on-record for the Foreign Language Education and Assessment courses for the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Master's of Education program at the University of Notre Dame. She will be teaching two 7–week courses at the University this summer. This contract extends throughout the school year as well as an online assessment course. Her current project, “Developing Performance Assessments as Tools for Civic Engagement,” was accepted for presentation at the 2008 national conference by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). She will fly to Orlando in November to present.
Vickie Frohne, PhD, assistant professor physics Professor Frohne has been active as a member of the MINOS collaboration at Fermilab. MINOS (Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search) is a high-energy physics experiment in which rates of neutrino oscillation are being studied. The experiment is described at www-numi.fnal.gov. She has an upcoming conference talk this summer “Writing as a tool for coaching students to think scientifically,” at the American Association of Physics Teachers summer 2008 meeting, July 19-23; in Edmonton, Canada She has also been featured in several publications:
- ”Study of Muon Neutrino Disappearance Using the Fermilab Main Injector Neutrino Beam” P. Adamson et al. MINOS Collaboration Phys. Rev. D 77, 072002 (2008)
- ”Measurement of Neutrino Velocity With the MINOS Detectors and NuMI Neutrino Beam,” P. Adamson et al. MINOS Collaboration Phys. Rev. D 76, 072005 (2007)
- “Measurement of the Atmospheric Muon Charge Ratio at TeV Energies” collaboration Phys. Rev. D 76, 072005 (2007)
- “Measurement of the Atmospheric Muon Charge Ratio at TeV Energies,” with the MINOS detector P. Adamson et al. MINOS Collaboration Phys. Rev. D 76, 052003 (2007)
- “Charge-separated Atmospheric Neutrino-induced Muons in the MINOS Far Detector,” P. Adamson et al. MINOS Collaboration Phys. Rev. D 75, 092003 (2007)
John Raymer, PhD As a Dismas House of Michiana Board Member, Raymer worked on the Dismas House Annual Dinner and Silent Auction (March 27), their Homeward Bound–North Central Indiana Walkathon (April27), and their 15th Annual Salad Luncheon (May 1) at the First Presbyterian Church. Raymer also taught a class in workplace grammar at Dismas House in April, organized a group from his church, St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal, that made dinner for the residents (an on-going project of that church), and went to Regency Place Retirement Home, South Bend on two occasions with St. Michael’s Outreach Committee to talk with residents and serve beverages before their Sunday meal. This summer he has been asked to be a reader of S.A.T. essay examinations at Daytona Beach, Florida (June 10-18, 2008) by College Board’s Advanced Placement Program, an honor given to those “who, by virtue of their experience and expertise, have appropriate student performance expectations in their disciplines.” He also continues to teach the English S.A.T. preparation classes offered by Holy Cross College’s Division of Community Education (two sections each semester). This coming fall, Professor Raymer will also have an article on major South African novelist Andre Brink published in the forthcoming Salem Press book, Magill’s Survey of World Literature, Revised Edition (Pasadena, CA). In a side note, after admitting to his class at St. Mary’s College that his parents met while performing Romeo and Juliet, his students determined that he must truly be an incarnation of the Bard. Below is his official “Rebirth Certificate” which was presented to him on the last day of class. (Come to think of it, there is a strange resemblance, hmmmm.)