Beloit College 2014-15 Faculty Accomplishments

Sustainability Research

11 Faculty, 10 Departments

Carol Wickersham, Sociology

  • Authored “More than Community-Based Learning: Practicing the Liberal Arts” in Liberal Learning and the Art of Self-Governance, Chamlee-Wright, E. (ed.), Routledge, New York, N.Y., 2015. (book chapter)
  • Authored “Both Sides of the Fence, Community as Colleagues” in the SAGE Sourcebook of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, Delano-Oriana, O. and Parsavand, S. (eds.), Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, Calif., April 2015. (book chapter)

Charles Westerberg, Sociology

  • Authored “More than Community-Based Learning: Practicing the Liberal Arts” in Liberal Learning and the Art of Self-Governance, Chamlee-Wright, E. (ed.), Routledge, New York, N.Y., 2015. (book chapter)

Christina Clancy, English

  • Presented “From Land to Body: How Polluted Spaces Become Toxic Body Consciousness in Contemporary Literature” at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, October 2014.

Daniel Bartlett, Logan Museum of Anthropology

  • Awarded $13,950 contract from the Byron Forest Preserve to form a Beloit College student team to develop an interpretive plan for Byron (Ill.) Forest Preserve’s Heritage Farm historic site in summer of 2015.
  • Curated and designed the new permanent history exhibit Best by Any Measure: Bergstrom Climate Systems at the Midway Village Museum, Rockford, Ill., June 2014.

George Lisensky, Chemistry

  • Awarded $19,350 subcontract from the National Science Foundation grant as a part of the Chemistry Collaborations, Workshops, and Communities of Scholars (cCWCS) program, Workshop on Renewable Energy for chemistry faculty, Summer 2014.

Jonathan Warnock, Geology

  • Awarded $12,000 subcontract from the National Science Foundation grant to fund the proposal “Diatom-based Salinity and Pollution Reconstructions of the Halocene and Recent Baltic Sea.”

Jo Ortel, Art & Art History

  • Awarded $5,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to attend the Mapping Nature Across the Americas Institute at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

Kevin Braun, Chemistry

  • Awarded $19,350 subcontract from the National Science Foundation grant as a part of the Chemistry Collaborations, Workshops, and Communities of Scholars (cCWCS) program, Workshop on Renewable Energy for chemistry faculty, Summer 2014.
  • Presented “Using the ChemConnections Workbook” (with Anthony, S. and Mernitz, H.) and “Would You Like Fries with Your Reduced Air Pollution from Automobiles?” at the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Allendale, Mich., August 2014.

Linda Sturtz, History

  • Awarded $13,950 contract from the Byron Forest Preserve to form a Beloit College student team to develop an interpretive plan for Byron (Ill.) Forest Preserve’s Heritage Farm historic site in summer of 2015.

Sonja Darlington, Education and Youth Studies

  • Authored “’Fiat Justitia, Ruat Caelum’: Justice Juxtaposed to Questions of Maturity, Community, Gender, and Moral Action in the Novels by Unity Dow: in Journal of African Literature Association, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 74-86, 2013.

Susan Swanson, Geology

  • Awarded $92,935 from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to update the springs database for the State of Wisconsin by conducting field surveys of springs with historical flow rates of .25cfs or more, and to establish reference springs in representative hydrogeological and ecological settings for long-term monitoring and to broadly characterize their vulnerability to groundwater withdrawals or changes in recharge.

Beloit College 2013-14 Faculty Accomplishments

Sustainability Research

16 Faculty, 11 Departments

Carol Mankiewicz, Biology

  • Presented “Population Structure of Freshwater Turtles across North America: An Ecological Research as Education Network (EREN) Collaborative Project” (with Bowne, D.; Bloch, C.; Dosch, J.; Druckenbrod, D.; Fredericksen, T.; Gameau, D.; Genet, K.; Kish, P; Kolozsvary, M.; Kuserk, F.; Lindquist, E.; March, J.; Muir, T.; Murray, K; Simmons, J; Urban, R.; Zimmerman, C.) at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN., August 2013. (poster presentation).

Chris Fink, English

  • $725,000 from an anonymous Foundation to construct a three-tiered framework of increasingly sophisticated project-based student learning pathways that will simultaneously embed sustainability in Beloit’s curriculum, operations, and culture (with Grossman, Y.; Palmer, W.; Swanson, S.; Tedesco, M.; Toral, P.).

Daniel Youd, Modern Languages and Literature

  • Languages and Literatures: $50,000 Rivers in Transition Exploratory Grant from the Luce Foundation to support the study of pressure on water resources in China using scientific, social, cultural, and economic knowledge and research methods, in partnership with the Yellow River Institute at Henan University (with Beckman, J.; Brewer, E.; Stanley, P.; Swanson, S.).

David Boffa, Art and Art History

  • Presented “What is Open Access Art History?” (with Scott, V.) at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the College Art Association, February 2014.

Diep Phan, Economics

  • “Princelings and Paupers: State Employment and the Distribution of Human Capital Investments among Vietnamese Households” (with Coxhead, I.), in Asian Development Review, Vol. 30, No. 2, September 2013.
  • “Long-run Costs of Piecemeal Reform: Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Vietnam” (with Coxhead, I.), in Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 41, No. 4, November 2013.
  • $24,595 Freeman Foundation Student-Faculty Fellows Grant from ASIANetwork to support four Beloit College students and Dr. Phan to go to the Mai Chau village in the HoaBinh Province of Vietnam to study community-based tourism and sustainable development, Summer 2014.

Elizabeth Brewer, International Education

  • Languages and Literatures: $50,000 Rivers in Transition Exploratory Grant from the Luce Foundation to support the study of pressure on water resources in China using scientific, social, cultural, and economic knowledge and research methods, in partnership with the Yellow River Institute at Henan University (with Beckman, J.; Stanley, P.; Swanson, S.; Youd, D.).

George Lisensky, Chemistry

  • $19,350 subcontract from National Science Foundation grant. As a part of the Chemistry Collaborations, Workshops & Community of Scholars (cCWCS) program, Workshop on Materials Science and Nanotechnology for chemistry faculty, Summer 2013.

Joy Beckman, Wright Museum of Art

  • Languages and Literatures: $50,000 Rivers in Transition Exploratory Grant from the Luce Foundation to support the study of pressure on water resources in China using scientific, social, cultural, and economic knowledge and research methods, in partnership with the Yellow River Institute at Henan University (with Brewer, E.; Stanley, P.; Swanson, S.; Youd, D.).

Kathryn Johnson, Biology

  • $20,000 from Kerry Inc. for the Beloit College Community Science Education Program.

Matthew Tedesco, Philosophy and Religious Studies

  • $725,000 from an anonymous Foundation to construct a three-tiered framework of increasingly sophisticated project-based student learning pathways that will simultaneously embed sustainability in Beloit’s curriculum, operations, and culture (with Fink, C.; Grossman, Y.; Palmer, W.; Swanson, S.; Toral, P.).

Nicolette Meister, Logan Museum of Anthropology

  • Presented “Reap Benefits: Grow Community Interaction through Shared Collection Databases” (with McGuire, S. and Rengel, M.) at the Association of Midwest Museums Annual Conference, Madison, WI, July 2013.

Pablo Toral, Political Science

  • $725,000 from an anonymous Foundation to construct a three-tiered framework of increasingly sophisticated project-based student learning pathways that will simultaneously embed sustainability in Beloit’s curriculum, operations, and culture (with Fink, C.; Grossman, Y.; Palmer, W.; Swanson, S.; Tedesco, M.).

Paul Stanley, Physics and Astronomy

  • Languages and Literatures: $50,000 Rivers in Transition Exploratory Grant from the Luce Foundation to support the study of pressure on water resources in China using scientific, social, cultural, and economic knowledge and research methods, in partnership with the Yellow River Institute at Henan University (with Beckman, J.; Brewer, E.; Swanson, S.; Youd, D.).

Susan Swanson, Geology

  • “Evaluating Shallow Flow System Response to Climate Change through Analysis of Spring Deposits in Southwestern Wisconsin, USA (with Asmerom, Y.; Muldoon, S.; and Polyak, M.) in Hydrogeology Journal DOI 10.1007/s10040-014-1115-3, 2014.
  • $725,000 from an anonymous Foundation to construct a three-tiered framework of increasingly sophisticated project-based student learning pathways that will simultaneously embed sustainability in Beloit’s curriculum, operations, and culture (with Fink, C.; Grossman, Y.; Palmer, W.; Tedesco, M.; Toral, P.).
  • Languages and Literatures: $50,000 Rivers in Transition Exploratory Grant from the Luce Foundation to support the study of pressure on water resources in China using scientific, social, cultural, and economic knowledge and research methods, in partnership with the Yellow River Institute at Henan University (with Beckman, J.; Brewer, E.; Stanley, P.; Swanson, S.; Youd, D.).
  • $314,605 from the Drinking Water and Groundwater Program, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, (with Bradbury, K. and Hart, D.) to conduct an updated Springs inventory for the State of Wisconsin, July 2014 – June 2017.
  • Presented “Calculating a Water Budget for Lake Belle View: A Capstone Exercise for an Introductory Hydrogeology Course (with Muldoon, M.) at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, October 2013.
  • “The Role of Groundwater in the Flooding History of Clear Lake, Wisconsin” (with Dodd, J.) in the Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Annual Keck Research Symposium in Geology,Varga, R. (ed.), pp. 249-254, 2013.
  • “Wisconsin’s Spring Resources: An Overview” inGeoscience Wisconsin,Vol. 21, No. 1, 13, 2013.

Warren Palmer, Economics

  • $725,000 from an anonymous Foundation to construct a three-tiered framework of increasingly sophisticated project-based student learning pathways that will simultaneously embed sustainability in Beloit’s curriculum, operations, and culture (with Fink, C.; Grossman, Y.; Swanson, S.; Tedesco, M.; Toral, P.).

Yaffa Grossman, Biology

  • $725,000 from an anonymous Foundation to construct a three-tiered framework of increasingly sophisticated project-based student learning pathways that will simultaneously embed sustainability in Beloit’s curriculum, operations, and culture (with Fink, C.; Palmer, W.; Swanson, S.; Tedesco, M.; Toral, P.).
  • Presented “Beloit College Sustainability Fellows Program: A College and Community Collaboration” (with Fang, D.’14) at the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, August 2013.