COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Dr. Matthew Vraa (dean and professor, Physical Therapy)
Dr. Renee Bourdeaux (assistant professor, Communication),
received an award for best poster for his research
Chrystal Helmcke (assistant professor, Communications and
on opioid utilization at a national conference. Matthew
Theatre Arts), and Dr. Michael Boling (assistant professor,
completed his Doctor of Science in Physical Therapy recently;
Communication) presented their paper, “Circles of My
his dissertation is titled “Characterizing Low Back Pain and
Multicultural Self: Personal Storytelling That Transforms Diversity
Low Back-Related Disability in Non-Care-Seeking
Awareness Conversations in the Classroom” in the Great Ideas
Working-Age Adults.”
for Teaching Students division at the meeting of the National Communication Association in Seattle, Washington, in
C O L L E G E & F A C U LT Y U P D A T E S
November 2021.
Dr. Rowlanda Cawthon (dean and associate professor) presented two workshops, “Emotional Intelligence: Know Your
Dr. Renee Bourdeaux (assistant professor, Communication)
Emotional Capacity” and “Transformational Leadership: How to
along with colleagues from other institutions presented
Lead Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization,” hosted by
“Transformational Teaching: Engaging Strategies To Stimulate
the Washington State Department of Corrections for a Minority
Difficult Conversations, Recognize Transformative Outcomes
Leadership Mentoring Group Initiative.
of the Pandemic, and Cultivate Hope for Students and Faculty” at the meeting of the Religious Communication Association in Seattle, Washington, in November 2021.
Dr. Todd Nelson (associate professor, Business) served as pro bono pastoral counsel at law aligned with Alliance Defending Freedom, Pacific Justice Institute, Christian Legal Society, and
Dr. Clint Bryan (assistant professor, Rhetoric and Composition)
other advocates and associations in constitutional, freedom of
recorded a workshop to be presented at the 2021 CCCC
speech, commerce, religious, and conscience matters.
(Conference on College Composition and Communication) Virtual Annual Conference April 7–10, 2022. His talk, “‘Bound to
C O L L E G E O F E D U C AT I O N
Sound’: Listening to First-Year Composition Literacy Across Ong’s
Dr. Suzan Kobashigawa (’87, professor, Education) and a
‘Great Leap,’” asked writing teachers to rediscover the 1982
collaborator published “Promoting an Inclusive Workspace by
book Orality and Literacy, written by the late St. Louis University
Holding Space” in the Colorado Lawyer, Vol 50 No. 10, in
professor Walter J. Ong, S.J., for his predictions on the role that
November 2021.
computers would play in restructuring human thought. Dr. Clint Bryan (assistant professor, Rhetoric and Composition) wrote a chapter, “‘Bound to Sound’: Reaffirming Ong,” accepted for publication in the anthology Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition. Dr. Charly Easterling (assistant professor, Biology) with collaborators received the Company of Biologists Scientific Meeting Grant to help fund travel and activities at a symposium during the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology titled “Lesser Known Transitions: Organismal Form and Function Across Abiotic Gradients.”
COLLEGE OF MINISTRY Joseph Castleberry, president, presented a response to Daniel Topf’s paper, “The Case for a Pentecostal Research University” during the Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, California, in March 2022. Destiny Kennedy (’19, ’20, program leader for the Center for Calling and Theological Formation (CCTF)), with the help of Brad Griffin of Fuller Youth Institute and other keynote speakers, hosted a successful Youth Forum in late fall of 2021. The CCTF resourced more than 80 youth pastors and leaders from the greater Seattle area for the Youth Forum. Since then, the CCTF
Dr. Joe McQueen (’08, associate professor, English) was invited
team, led by Dr. Joshua Ziefle (dean and professor, Church
to speak as part of a panel on bringing religion and theology into
History) and Destiny Kennedy, has worked tirelessly to plan an
the literary studies classroom sponsored by NAVSA’s Religion
exceptional summer theology program designed specifically
and Spiritualities Caucus. He will be participating along with
for the enrichment of 30–40 Christian high school students.
colleagues from UW, U of Lancaster (UK), and Wheaton. He also
Students that have been accepted into the program hail
received an honorable mention for Ohio State University’s Muste
from states such as Washington, Alaska, California, and
Award for the best dissertation of the year in English. He also
North Carolina.
was accepted to speak at a panel for the national conference of the Modern Language Association (MLA), which met in Washington, D.C., last January. His portion included an abstract of Joe’s own presentation on Victorian novelist George Eliot.
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Dr. William (Bill) Oliverio (associate professor, Public Theology) edited, with guest editor Craig S. Keener of Asbury Theological Seminary, a special double issue of Pneuma: The Journal of the
