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Scholarship Snapshots Academics took on a new form in the past two years, but Gordon’s faculty persist in their scholarship to develop new, creative work. Here’s a quick look at some of their most recent projects:
Education The MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education congratulated Gordon’s School of Education for “full approval” in all areas last August. The School was commended as “exemplary” in one area and for its commitment to continuous improvement. Faculty in the School of Education, including Priscilla Nelson ’74, Todd Morano, Julia D’Onofrio ’05, Elizabeth Scottron ’06 M’10 and Krista Erickson ’91, are participating in Louisa Moats’ Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling. During the 2020–21 school year, Nelson and Erickson served on the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education initiative titled Mass Literacy: Empowering Educators and Students in Massachusetts Through Evidence-based Early Literacy.
Fine Arts Bruce Herman (art) recently contributed a chapter to God in the Modern Wing
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(IVP Academic 2021), and continues an exhibition tour of his collaborative project, “Ordinary Saints.” Last fall, Benjamin Klemme (music) conducted the choir and orchestra at SING! Global, a Nashville conference hosted by modern hymn writers Keith and Kristyn Getty of Getty Music. He also conducted the Vermont Symphony Orchestra in the annual New Year’s Eve concert. Along with fellow members of the Arabella String Quartet, Adams Endowed Chair in Music Sarita Kwok recorded the Six Concertante Quartets by Joseph Boulogne Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The Naxos Records album is set for release in 2022. Kwok also spent time on her sabbatical as a guest at the University of Arkansas. Mary Montgomery-Koppel (music) enjoyed two world premieres of her music in 2021: House on Fire: Three Songs on Responsibility, premiered by Calliope’s Call for their Earth Day virtual concert, and Prelude No. 2: Seaside, a commission premiered by Juventas New Music Ensemble. Chris Underation (communication arts) received an award of excellence from the Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts for his work on the audio drama, The Encounter. In October, the audiobook version of Beacon-Light: The Life of William Borden (Christian Focus Publishing) by Kevin Belmonte ’90 was released, which Underation engineered, edited and produced.
Humanities Graeme Bird (English, languages and linguistics) and Rebecca Leslie ’21 continue reading, analyzing and preparing a publication about a 12th–13th-century Byzantine Greek New Testament
manuscript held in Gordon’s Vining Rare Book Collection. The National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors published an article by Damon DiMauro (English, languages and linguistics) in September of 2021.
Physical Sciences Angie Cornwell (biology) and Kristen Siaw (physical sciences) were two of three faculty members, along with Dan Norton (psychology), to receive grant funding from the John Templeton Foundation to expand STEM research at Gordon. Cornwell officially began her work in January during her sabbatical, examining increased risks for dementia and stroke. A free, online textbook by Karl-Dieter Crisman (mathematics), Number Theory: In Context and Interactive, was adopted by nearly two dozen schools during the pandemic. The summer 2021 edition features new cover art designed by Art Director Rebecca Powell. Crisman recently reported results of research on highly symmetric voting systems, which was conducted jointly with Abraham Holleran ’22, Josephine Noonan ’23 and Micah Martin ’22. Faculty hosted two summer practicums last year—the new Data Analysis Summer Practicum led by Sam Mason (biology) and the Computer Science Summer Practicum led by Russ Tuck (computer science) and Jonathan Senning ’85 (mathematics and computer science). Last year, Mike Veatch (mathematics) published Linear and Convex Optimization: A Mathematical Approach (Wiley 2021).
Social Sciences In September, research by Kristen Cooper ’06 (economics and business) was featured in “Why We Do Research on
