Faculty Notes

Congratulations to the following faculty members awarded tenure: Ronald Lee Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Director of First Year Seminar Kimberley Hartwig M.S.N., RNC-MNN, Assistant Professor of Nursing Luis Romero ’01 M.B.A., Associate Professor of Economics,...

Assistant Professor of Education Jacob Hardesty, Ph.D., Book Chapters included: 2020 Hardesty, Jacob, “Building the ‘Opera Factory’: Donor Involvement in the Construction of the Musical Arts Center” – Women at Indiana University, Andrea Walton, ed. (Bloomington,...

Professor of Mathematics and Department Chair Dik Mehmet, Ph.D., Completed two book proposal reviews, including: “Topics in Modern Summability Theory and Sequence Spaces,” CRC Press, by Taylor and Francis Group, LLC,   September 2019 “Functional Analysis and...

Assistant Professor of Spanish Marilén Loyola, Ph.D., was selected this spring to present the ‘Last Lecture’. Though this event was canceled due to COVID-19, Professor Loyola’s presentation will take place during the fall semester. The Last Lecture is part of the...

Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair Matt Flamm, Ph.D., along with Associate Professor of English and Department Chair Bill Gahan, Ph.D., Stephanie Quinn Ph.D., Associate Professor of Classical Studies, and former Rockford University Professor of Spanish...

Assistant Professor of Education Gina Braun, Ph.D., published in three separate journals including; The International Electronic Journal for Elementary Education, Special Education Research Policy and Practice, and Developing Teacher Leaders in Special Education: An...

Congratulations to Deepshikha Shukla, Ph.D., program chair and associate professor of Physics;  Global Faculty Fellow, past president, Illinois Section of American Association of Physics Teachers; who was recently awarded a Sigma Xi Diversity Chapter Grant...

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Business & Accounting Orhan Erdem, Ph.D., gave a presentation to the Rockford Rotary this past January where he highlighted several outstanding cases about the global economies and mentioned ties of several social and...

Librarian and Archivist Joanna Mladic ’13, MLIS, MSc, received and completed a grant from the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board (ISHRAB) in February 2019. Her task was to reorganize the minutes of faculty and trustee meetings for archival storage and...

Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Department Chair Tammy Schiek ’87 presented “Give Me a Break: Integrating Activity into the Classroom” at the Raising Student Achievement Conference in December 2019. Her talk was on the subject of incorporating physical...