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Stansbury, Jason - Business
Professional Svcs. Reviewed a manuscript for Business Ethics Quarterly.

van Liere, Frans - History
Church group presentation. "How the Hebrew Bible Became a Christian Book," Adult Education Forum, All Saints Church, Princeton, New Jersey. 02/03/2013

Bailey, Patrick - Computer Science
Drama/musical performance. "The Interview," One act play, Lake Effect Fringe Festival, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 02/22/2013

Bailey, Patrick - Computer Science
Wrote play. "A Burning Heart," One act play, Lake Effect Fringe Festival, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 02/15/2013

Wunder, David - Engineering
Journal article. Wunder, D.B., Tan, D.T., LaPara, T.M., Hozalski, R.M. (2013) "The Effects of Antibiotic Cocktails at Environmentally Relevant Concentrations on the Community Composition and Acetate Biodegradation Kinetics of Bacterial Biofilms," Chemosphere 90(8):2261-2266 Peer reviewed.

Vande Kopple, William - English
Professional Svcs. Reviewed an article submitted to Text and Talk.

Urban, David - English
Newspaper article. "Griffins, Sled Wings Meet Feb. 12 for 8th Annual Sled Hockey Game." The Rapidian. Feb. 7, 2013. Web. http://therapidian.org/griffins-and-sled-wings-meet-feb-12-8th-annual-sled-hockey-game

Winkle, Jeff - Classical Languages
Professional Svcs. Teaching evening classes at my church (Madison Square CRC) on various aspects of the ancient world in conjunction with a Bible study on the book of Acts.

van Liere, Frans - History
Book review. Review of Vocabularius Thetonicus: "berlieferungsgeschichtliche Edition des mittelniederdeutsch-lateinischen Schule rterbuchs. Edited by Robert Damme. Niederdeutsche Studien 54, 1-3. Cologne: Bohlau Verlag, 2011. 3 vols. In Mediaevistik 25 (2012): 564-565. http://aclassen.faculty.arizona.edu/sites/aclassen.faculty.arizona.edu/files/Bd.25.Reviews.pdf

Westra, Joel - Political Science
Professional Svcs. External manuscript reviewer, International Theory

Vande Kopple, William - English
Professional Svcs. Reviewed an essay for The Journal of Teaching Writing

Dhuga, Umit - Classical Languages
Anthology piece. "Fools Like Me," in The Poet's Quest for God, ed. Oliver Brennan and Todd Swift (London; Eyewear, forthcoming [April 2014]). Peer reviewed.

Plantinga, Carl - Communication Arts & Sciences
Book chapter. "What a Documentary Is, After All," in Documentary, ed. Julian Stallabrass, 52–62 (repr., London and Cambridge, MA: Whitechapel Gallery and the MIT Press, 2013). Peer reviewed.

Van Kooten, Gerry - Geology, Geography, & Environmental Studies
Poster presentation. "Oil and Gas in Alaska's Interior Basins," North American Petroleum Exhibition, Conference Center, Houston, Texas. 02/07-08/2013

Moes, Paul - Psychology
Poster presentation. "Happy Together: Interhemispheric ERP Synchrony for Happy and Angry Emotion Perception," International Neuropsychological Society Annual Meeting, Hilton Waikola Village, Waikoloa, Hawaii. 02/06/2013

Heun, Matt - Engineering
Working Paper. M. De Wit, M. K. Heun, and D. J. Crookes, "An Overview of Salient Factors, Relationships and Values to Support Integrated Energy-Economic Systems Dynamic Modelling," Stellenbosch University Department of Economics Working Paper Series WP02/2013 (2013). Peer reviewed. http://www.ekon.sun.ac.za/wpapers/2013

van Liere, Frans - History
Book review. Review of Ten Popes Who Shook the World, by Eamon Duffy, The Historian 74 (2012): 904-5.

Koop, Jan - Mathematics & Statistics
Talk contributed at a conference. "Riddles, Ratios and Reasoning: A Problem Solving Approach to Proportional Thinking," Math in Action Conference, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan. 02/20/2010

Koop, Jan - Mathematics & Statistics
Talk contributed at a conference. "Facilitating Classroom Discussion in Mathematics Class," Math in Action Conference, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan. 02/09/2013

van Liere, Katherine - History
Invited lecture. "Believers and Unbelievers in Spanish Renaissance Historiography," Shelby Cullom Davis History Seminar, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. 02/15/2013

Carpenter, Joel - Administration
Interviewed. "Interview with Joel Carpenter," Aqueduct Project, , Grand Rapids, Michigan. 01/30/2013

Lee, Won - Religion
Invited lecture. "Contextual Hermeneutics: A Case Study of Korean Biblical Interpretation," Graduate School of Theology, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California. 02/18/2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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