Students vie for research prize $$

Nearly 50 students from Heidelberg and other Ohio colleges will present their research Feb. 19 during the 15th annual Minds at Work Student Research Conference. Monetary prizes will be awarded for the best papers. Conference objectives are threefold: to increase student interest and knowledge concerning academic research and scholarship; to recognize, honor and reward academic excellence; and to give students an opportunity to experience the conference format of academic inquiry; to improve critical thinking, writing and presentation skills in a professional setting.
 
 
The keynote speaker for the conference is Dr. Patricia Kubow, associate professor in the School of Leadership and Policy Studies and director of the International Comparative Education Center at Bowling Green State University. Her presentation is at 11 a.m. The title of her address is Developing the Global Professional Through Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Her scholarship is focused on comparative and international education, democratic citizenship education, indigenous knowledge, globalization and cross-cultural pedagogies. She has presented at professional conferences around the world, and has conducted research in more than 15 countries.
 
Kubow’s co-authored book, now in its second edition, Comparative Education: Exploring Issues in International Context, is used in graduate courses across the United States and has been translated into Korean for use in universities in South Korea. She has also published in journals such as Comparative Education Review, Educational Policy: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Policy and Practice, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education and Development, Higher Education in Europe and Phi Delta Kappan.
 
Students from Heidelberg, Ohio Northern, the University of Findlay and Muskingum College are scheduled to present at the conference.
 
The 13th annual Faculty Research Symposium on Feb. 14 will set the stage for the student research conference. The campus community is invited to hear faculty presentations from the following professors:
 

  • Dr. Marc O'Reilly, Unapologetic and Misguided (For Now): The Legacy of George W. Bush’s Foreign Policy
  • Dr. James Troha, The Increasing Influence of Parents in Higher Education
  • Dr. David Kimmel, A Heap of Broken Images: Creating a Multi-Vocal Reading of T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’
  • Dr. Daniel Cruikshanks, The Role of Clinical Supervisors in the Formation of Professional Identity in Young Counselors
  • Dr. Daryl Close, Why It Is Time to End Student Evaluations of Teaching
  • Drs. Sophia Grobler and Pierre van der Westhuizen, Sibling Rivalry: Tracing Concerto and Concertato Elements in Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos, K. 365
  • Drs. Grant Cook, Douglas McConnell and William Reyer, and the Heidelberg Concert Choir, From Poem to Choral Performance: Elijah and the Raven.

 
Posted on Feb. 4, 2008