Language Villages Receives Tutorial Grant

Concordia Language Villages received a $100,000 grant through the STARTALK initiative to provide an online tutorial for teachers of less commonly taught languages.

The tutorial is patterned after a Language Village workshop, "Staying in the Target Language," that provides teachers with strategies to use the Chinese language continuously while teaching their classes. Donna Clementi, Concordia Language Villages director of Education and Research, says the tutorial focuses on how the teachers can make Chinese comprehensible to students by teaching the language in context and using drawings, pictures, gestures and repetition to support learning.

The Villages previously received STARTALK funding for the Chinese and Arabic Language Villages.

STARTALK is a project of the National Security Language Initiative. NSLI's purpose is to expand educational opportunities in critical languages for students in grades K-12 and professional development opportunities for teachers of those languages. The online tutorial will be available through the National Foreign Language Center in March.

Scholarship and Activities

Dr. William Tomhave (math) gave the talk "Analyzing Change in Context with Real Data and Fathom" in November at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics regional meeting in Minneapolis.

Ellen Lutgen (dietetics) published the article "Antimicrobial Resistance Profiling and Molecular Subtyping of Campylobacter spp. from Processed Turkey" in September in BMC Microbiology.

Dr. Nikki Berg Burin (history) had an article, "A Family Firm: The Marital and Business Partnership of Ann and Richard Archer," published in Family Values in the Old South, edited by Craig Thompson Friend and Anya Jabour, and published by University Press of Florida.

Linda Erceg (Language Villages) had the article "An Injury and Illness Surveillance Program for Children and Staff: Improving the Safety of Youth Settings" published in The Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, 27 (4), pg 121-132.

Dr. William Tomhave (math) served as external reviewer for the mathematics department program review at the College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minn.

Dr. Richard Chapman's (history) essay, "Good News from Nicaragua," was published in the Advent-Christmas issue of The Cresset.

Dr. Peter Schultz's (art) book, "Structure, Image, Ornament: Architectural Sculpture in the Greek World," co-edited with Ralf von den Hoff, Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, was published by Oxbow Books, Oxford.

Dr. Stephanie Ahlfeldt (CSTA) attended the National Communication Association Convention in Chicago and presented on a panel about the process of creating a communication center. Currently, Concordia College is the only institution of higher ed with a communication center in the state of Minnesota. She also presented on a panel about using technology, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and TeacherTube, in the classroom.

Dr. Krystle Strand (biology) and Dr. Susan Larson (psychology) presented their research, "Behavioral and Genomic Analyses of Lupus-Prone MRL/MpJ Mice," in October at the International Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in Chicago.

Dr. Kristi Loberg (social work) presented the results of her research, "A Theoretical Model of Social Work Leadership for Social & Economic Justice," in October at the seventh annual Education Program Round-Up at the NDSU Alumni Center and in November at the national meeting of the Council on Social Work Education in San Antonio, Texas.

Dr. Peter Schultz's (art) chapter on "Nike" has been published in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Greece and Rome.

Dr. Linda Johnson (history) presented the lecture "Games Aesthetes Play: The Art of Romance in Classical Japan" in connection with the exhibit "Asian Games: The Art of Contest" in November at the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County.

Jane Linde Capistran (music) was presented the 2009 Distinguished Service Award by the North Dakota String Teachers Association.

Dr. Andrew Lindner's (sociology) review essay, "The War Society," appeared in the fall issue of Contexts, a popular magazine produced by the American Sociological Association.

Dr. Peter Schultz's (art) article, "Style, Continuity and the Hellenistic Baroque," will be published in Creating a Hellenistic World, (ed. Andrew Erskine) University Press of Wales.

David Hamilton (music) and his partner, Bernie Erickson, were featured in a recent issue of Business Week. Hamilton also had a photo and was quoted in an article by NPR financial guru Chris Farrell about the financial challenges faced by alternative families.

Dr. Andrew Lindner (sociology) is the co-recipient of a grant to support the insertion of survey questions into the Nebraska Annual Social Indicators Survey. The resulting survey data will be used for a study of the so-called "culture wars," anti-soccer attitudes, and globalization.

Dr. Peter Schultz's (art) book, "Aspects of Ancient Greek Cult: Ritual, Context, Iconography," co-edited with Jesper Jensen, George Hinge and Bronwen Wickkiser, has been published as Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity VIII by Aarhus University Press.

Jean Bokinskie (nursing) was featured in an article about her 2008 North Dakota Legend in Nursing award in the holiday issue of Area Women Magazine.

Dr. Olin Storvick (classicist-in-residence) will continue as an editor of the "Excavation Reports" series of the "Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima" where Concordia students did field archaeology from 1973 to 1997. The fourth volume, "Field O: The Synagogue," was published by the American Schools of Oriental Research of which Concordia College is a member and Concordia's institutional representative is Dr. Barbara McCauley (classical studies).

Dr. Sonja Wentling (history) published a review essay in H-Diplo Reviews titled "Paul V. McNutt: The Oscar Schindler of the Philippines?" on Dean Kotlowski's "Breaching the Paper Walls: Paul V. McNutt and Jewish Refugees to the Philippines, 1938-39," Diplomatic History 33:5.

Dr. Amy Watkin's (English) book "Oscar Wilde," part of Harold Bloom's "How to Write about Literature" series for Chelsea House, was published in December.

Dr. Olin Storvick (classicist-in-residence) was honored on the 60th anniversary of his graduation with the Distinguished Service Award in October during Homecoming activities at Luther College.

Dr. Peter Schultz (art) presented his lecture "Polyeuktos, Demochares and the Portrait of Demosthenes" at the 111th annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Anaheim, Calif.

Please send scholarship and activities submissions to kappes@cord.edu.