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Activities and Awards for Westmont’s Outstanding Professors GREGG AFMAN (kinesiology) presented “Effect of Carbohydrate or Sodium Bicarbonate Ingestion on Performance During a Validated Basketball Simulation Test,” at the American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting. SCOTT ANDERSON (art) published a dual portrait of Amy... Read More
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Activities and awards for Westmont’s outstanding professors Three Westmont professors received the 2014 Teacher of the Year Award: John Blondell (theater arts, right) in the humanities; Kristi Lazar Cantrell (chemistry) in the sciences; and Rick Pointer (history) in the... Read More
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Activities and awards for Westmont’s outstanding professors Gregg Afman (kinesiology) is the lead author of an article in the International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism exploring the “effect of carbohydrate or sodium bicarbonate ingestion on performance during... Read More
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Activities and Awards for Westmont’s Outstanding Professors Kathryn Stelmach Artuso (English) edited “Critical Insights: William Faulkner” (Salem Press), which includes an essay by Karen Andrews (English), “‘The Past is Never Dead’: Faulkner’s Relationship to Southern Culture and History.” Artuso... Read More
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Activities and awards for Westmont’s outstanding professors Three professors won the 2013 Bruce and Adaline Bare Outstanding Teacher Award: Steve Contakes (chemistry, left), Omedi Ochieng (communication studies) and Michelle Hughes (education). Alister Chapman (history, not pictured) received the Faculty... Read More
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Activities and awards for Westmont’s outstanding professors The New York Society of Illustrators’ annual competition has accepted a cover illustration by Scott Anderson (art) for a fall edition of Seattle Weekly. The cover will be included in the annual... Read More
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Activities and awards for Westmont’s outstanding professors Scott Anderson (art) illustrated a cover for Seattle Weekly’s fall arts issue and created a spot illustration for a financial column in the Wall Street Journal on financial housekeeping. After directing “Henry... Read More
All the World’s on Stage
Theater professor John Blondell directed “Henry VI: Part 3” when the Globe presented all of Shakespeare’s plays, each in a different language. For years, John Blondell has imagined directing a Shakespeare play at the Globe Theatre in London, staging... Read More
The Emergence of the EU in Global Security
Political science professor Susan Penksa has co-authored a book examining the European Union’s contributions to international security. Does the European Union (EU) matter in international security? Susan Penksa addresses this question in her book,“The European Union in Global Security:The... Read More
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Activities and awards for Westmont’s outstanding professors. Professors from each academic division engaged in a conversation celebrating the installation of Provost Mark L. Sargent in October,“Awakening the Moral Imagination”: EILEEN MCQUADE (biology), WARREN ROGERS (physics) and NIVA TRO (chemistry) in... Read More