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By combining an enthusiastic personality, relevant real-world experience and entertaining pop culture videos, 91�ֿ�’s Mary Bacha has become a favorite among students in the College of Nursing and was named one of this year’s Outstanding Teaching Award recipients. The Outstanding Teaching Award is presented to full-time, nontenure-track or part-time faculty members who consistently show outstanding teaching skills in the classroom. Sponsored by the University Teaching Council, the awards are given every year to three faculty members for their outstanding achievements in teachin...

Six international teams compete for the prize of Best Dish at this year's International cook-off competition.     ...

91�ֿ� at Salem’s Rural Scholars Program received a $15,000 grant from the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation. According to Wendy Pfrenger, program director for Rural Scholars, the funds will support the mentors in their individual work with the scholars. “The grant from IICF will be critical in helping us meet the increasing demand from our participating districts for financial literacy education and mentoring for their students,” she said. “We are especially excited about adding a workshop on entrepreneurship for our tenth graders this summer with the help of the g...

The 91�ֿ� Alumni Association is seeking nominations for the Alumni Awards. These awards recognize graduates in the area of leadership, service, character and professional development. “The alumni association is proud to recognize notable, accomplished graduates,” said Lori Randorf, assistant vice president of 91�ֿ�’s Alumni Relations. “These awards not only bring distinction to the alumni who receive them, but also to the university as they showcase the contributions 91�ֿ� graduates make to their professions and society.” Five alumni awards will be granted along wit...

Virginia A. Dressler, University Libraries, presented “Beyond Google Analytics: Using the 'Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources' to Embed Metrics and Gauge Use of Regional Digital Collections” at the Association for Information Science and Technology annual meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, on Nov. 7, 2015.  ...

Emad Khazraee, School of Library and Information Science, presented “Mapping Digital Divide: Spatial Analysis of Information Access and Socio-Demographic Variables in the City of Philadelphia” at the 91�ֿ�’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative in Cleveland, Ohio on Nov. 13, 2015. ...

Richard (Rick) Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, presented “Taumako as Religious Crossroads” at New Zealand Studies Association (in collaboration with the University of Vienna’s Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology and the University of South Australia) in Vienna, Austria, on July 2, 2015. The global spread of European political and military dominance from the 16th- through the 20th centuries was accompanied by the introduction of Christianity into many previously non-Christian areas. Through most of the Solomon Islands, a British colony until 1978, Christianity’s leading exem...

Kenneth Cushner, School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies, authored a section of a book “Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence” in Sage Handbook of Research in International Education, 2nd ed., (2015): 200-216. Mary Hayden, Jack Levy and Jeff Thompson (Eds.). Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications. ...

Rick Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, authored a magazine article “Learning to Handle a Polynesian Dugout Canoe” in American Whitewater, Vol. 55, Issue 4. Ambrose Tuscano (Ed.). Cullowhee, North Carolina Summary: In 2007-08, Feinberg spent nine months on Taumako, a Polynesian island in the Solomon Islands, trying to learn the local people's maritime skills, which included paddling, poling and sailing a wooden dugout canoe on the island’s reef and in the surrounding ocean. In this article, Feinberg compares the handling of a Taumako dugout to Western canoes and kayaks and the extent to ...