{"id":25631,"date":"2016-10-05T09:49:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T14:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=25631"},"modified":"2016-10-05T09:49:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T14:49:33","slug":"faculty-and-staff-news-october-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/05\/faculty-and-staff-news-october-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty and Staff News \u2014 October 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dr. Todd Frauenholtz<\/strong><\/a>, professor of mathematics, led a group of 13 students to the Minnesota Council of Teachers of Mathematics<\/span><\/i><\/a>’ annual spring conference, April 29-30 in Duluth. The conference allowed Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ students to interact with current mathematics teachers. The trip was supported by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ grants from the President’s Mini-Grant program and the NASA Space Grant.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Dr. Janice Haworth<\/b><\/a><\/span>, professor of music, spent six weeks teaching at Changzhi University in Shanxi Province, China<\/span><\/i><\/a> this summer. There, she worked with a group of 11 Chinese percussion majors to learn traditional rhythms of Guinea, West Africa. They concluded with a public presentation and concert.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Dr. Carla Norris-Raynbird<\/b><\/a><\/span>, associate professor of sociology and gender and womens studies, will present “Moving Away from Dichotomy? Trends in Gender Studies Programs in the U.S.” at the <\/i><\/a><\/span>International Journal of Arts and Sciences <\/b>conference<\/i><\/a> in Freiburg, Germany, Nov. 29-Dec. 2. The paper presents findings from a current study of undergraduate gender studies programs in four-year degree-granting institutions. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NEW HIRES Benjamin Cold has joined the Department of Music as an adjunct instructor, effective Aug. 16. Brent Gitz has joined the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics as athletic equipment manager, effective Sept. 26. Thomas Gunther has joined the Department of Music as an adjunct instructor, effective Aug. 16. Phong Nguyen has joined the Department of Music as an adjunct instructor, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25633,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25631\/revisions\/25633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}