Past Faculty Brown Bag Scholarship Series
2010 - 2011 | 2009-2010 | 2008-2009 | 2007 - 2008 | 2006 - 2007

2010 - 2011 Faculty Scholarship Brownbag Series
September 7th
Dr. Sarah Hanson
Two Billion Years of Arizona History: From Mojave Desert Granite to High Country Flagstaff Volcanoes

October 5th
Dr. William Tregea
Coming Up: Prisoners on Criminology

November 2nd
Dr. Fritz Detwiler
The Embodiment of Power through Tlingit Mythology and Ritual Performance 

January 11th
Dr. James Spence
Two Methods of Moral Science

February 8th
Dr. Alia Khurram
Mathematics Around Us

March 8th
Dr. Alan Von Herrmann
Physical Attacks in a Physical World

April 5th
Dr. Carissa Massey
Social Education and Arts Industry in Appalachia: How the Danish Folkehøjskole came to the Mountains of North Carolina

2009 - 2010 Faculty Scholarship Brownbag Series
Friday, September 25th
Surviving a Military Coup, Narcotic Drinks and an Audience with the King
Dr. Craig Weatherby

Tuesday, October 20th
Teaching Visual Literacy in the Arts
Mr. Garin Horner

Friday, November 13th
Appalachian Museums; Craft Revivals, Tourism, and Cultural Identity
Dr. Carissa Massey

Tuesday, January 19th
Mushroom Clouded Memories: Japanese Comics and the A-Bomb
Dr. Terry Jackson

Friday, February 5th
Volcanoes and Rivers: A Recipe for Waterfalls
Dr. Sarah Hanson

Tuesday, March 16th
Metaphor and Ideology
Dr. Seth Knox

Tuesday, April
Elicitation of an anticancer compound from a surprising plant source
Dr. Janet Salzwedel

2008 - 2009 Faculty Scholarship Brownbag Series
Striving to fulfill the mission for 150 years through scholarship and teaching.

2007-2008 Faculty Scholarship Brownbag Series
Weaving the Local and Global into Research and Performance at Adrian College

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Stubnitz Gallery from 12-1 PM
The Process: Adrian College Art Faculty Exhibition
Moderator: Valerie Mann
Works by: Pi Benio, Catherine Royer, Brian Steele, Juliana Clendenin, Debra Irvine, Sarah Kaufmann, Jean Lash, Valerie Mann, Erik Okon, I.B. Remsen and Elijah VanBenschoten

Friday September 28, 2007
Stubnitz Conference (12-1 PM)
The Foundation of Obligation and Affirmation of the Person in Moral Philosophy of Asa Mahan
Rev. Chris Momany

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Stubnitz Conference Room (12-12:50)
Combining Travel with Student Recruitment
Dr. Joanna Schultz

Thursday, October 25, 2007
Stubnitz Conference (12-1 PM)
Arcs of Change in China Stubnitz Conference and Cultures
Dr. Bryan Bott

Monday, November 12, 2007
Peelle Hall 207 (4-5 PM, Faculty reception to follow 5-6 pm)
What Are You Drinking? Exploring the Flavor of Fruit Sprits
Dr. Michael Claus

Friday, January 18, 2008
Stubnitz Conference (12-1 PM)
Electoral Institutions and Ethnic Conflict in Austria 1867-1918
Dr. Phil Howe

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Stubnitz Conference (12-1 PM)
Cathedrals and Culture: Medieval York
Dr. Robin Bott

Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Stubnitz Conference (12-1 PM)
Greetings from Mt. Koya: Esoteric Japanese Buddhism
Dr. Fritz Detwiler

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Stubnitz Conference (12-1 PM)
River Raisin Stream Health: Invertebrates as Indicators
Dr. Jim Martin

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Stubnitz Conference (12-1 PM)
We Don’t Want Any of Their Slop at Our House: Food Fights in Chicago During the Progressive Era
Dr. Stephanie Jass

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Adrian Tobias Room (12-1 PM)
Performance and Discussion of the Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker Quartets of 1951-1952
Dr. Marty Marks, Mr. Scott Kretzer, Mr. Aaron Keaster, Mr. Brad Sharp

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Stubnitz Conference (12-1 PM)
Mermaids, Unicorns and Demons The (Super)Natural History of Japan
Dr. Terry Jackson

2006-2007 Faculty Brown Bag Scholarship Series

Monday, October 2, 2006
Dr. Jim Martin, Biology
Venomous fire ants, parasitic mites and invertebrate vernal pool communities: my journey from R1 research lab to undergraduate oriented liberal arts college.
Dr. Martin will give an overview of research experiences from graduate school through the present. His doctoral work focused on worker polyethism and foraging behavior, relatively complex behaviors in a social insect that maintains colonies of hundreds of thousands of
individuals. He will also discuss a new species of mite that Dr. Husband (emeritus professor from Adrian College) and he described off of a Central American grasshopper. Dr. Martin will conclude with discussing research paradigms that can work in a small school setting.

Monday, November 20, 2006
Dr. Sarah Hanson, Earth Science
Volcanoes of Northern Arizona: Will They Erupt Again?
Few people who travel to northern Arizona realize there are over 600 volcanoes in the Flagstaff area alone or that the last eruption was only 900 years ago. Dr. Hanson has
spent the last nine summers in Arizona unraveling the volcanic history of just of few of these volcanoes and their associated lava flows. She will be explaining how this volcanic history was determined and whether or not we can expect another eruption in the future.

Monday, November 25, 2006
Mr. John Dodson, Music
Saying It in Sounds: Images, Words and Musical Meaning
Using the music of a contemporary composer, we'll explore how these diverse works can evoke extra-musical meaning. Mr. Dodson will present works from a recording project involving orchestra, solo flute, a children's chorus, children as narrators and a Broadway actor. The musical works presented will traverse subjects as diverse as the art of Edvard Munch, the Pied Piper of Hamlin (Robert Burns' poem), Kokapelli (Native American trickster figure) and words of children from war camps in Yugoslavia.

Friday, January 26, 2007
Dr. Adam Coughlin, Exercise Science
Establishing a Cancer Survivorship Research Center (CSRC) at Adrian College.
An introduction of the conception and the proposal of actually bringing this to campus. The significance and methodology will be proposed, along with the inclusion of undergraduate research opportunities and collaboration with Hickman Cancer Center at Bixby Hospital.

Monday, January 29, 2007
Dr. Melissa Stewart, Philosophy & Religion
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary: Bridge or Barrier between Catholics and Protestants
This paper addresses the question of whether Marian devotion, especially of Guadalupe, could lead to even greater conflict between the Christianities as more and more Catholic and Protestant Latino/as immigrate to the U.S.A.-both bring their Guadalupe adoration with them--or if she could possibly build a bridge between the two Christianities here in the U.S.A. Relying on Orlando Espin's work, I argue that interpretations of Guadalupe from the Protestant perspective do not indicate insurmountable difficulties if you read pneumatologically.

Friday February 9, 2007
Dr. James Hanley, Political Science
The Failure of Diplomacy: Why Developing States Really Protect Intellectual Property Rights?
Most observers believe developing states create protections for intellectual property rights as a result of pressure from the U.S. and other Western countries. A closer analysis reveals the weakness of this argument, and shows that the pressure for protections of intellectual property comes from elites inside those countries.

Friday March 9, 2007
Dr. Jeff Berry, English
Adapting Faulkner to the Screen: Horton Foote, Robert Duvall and TOMORROW
TOMORROW, the 1972 film based on Faulkner's 1940 SATURDAY EVENING POST story, is a strong candidate for the best film adaptation of Faulkner. One reason for its effectiveness is the collaboration of its screen write Horton Foote and the lead actor Robert Duvall. Foote radically changed the Faulkner story and in the process solved some of the problems that have defeated others who tried to turn Faulkner into film

Monday March 26, 2007
Dr. Bill Tregea, Sociology, Social Work, and Criminial Justice
The Prison Campus: Description of Michigan postsecondary correctional education and a
3 book series of prisoner voices
Overview of research on prison college programs and relation to reduction in recidivism. This includes a presentation of Dr. Tregea's three-book prisoner/student voices essays as insight into the prison world, the deviant lifestyle that got them there, and prisoner issues related to reentry to the real world.