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Last week, while you browsed the poster presentations at the Legacy Symposium, you may have noticed some display cases containing articles and books that Loras faculty and staff members have published during the past year. Did you have a chance to congratulate them on their achievement? In case you missed it, here is the list:

Beck, Robert R. (Religious Studies 1981-2010)

Jesus and His Enemies: Narrative Conflict in the Four Gospels. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2017.

Sunday Homilies – Liturgical Year Cycle B 2015. Dubuque, IA: Loras College Press, 2017.

Cochran, David (Politics 1996- )

“Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Menominee, Illinois.” Contribution to “An Ordinary Sunday: A Nationwide Survey of Parish Masses,” Commonweal 144, no. 15 (22 September 2017).

“Dethroning Irish Catholicism: Church, State, and Modernity in Contemporary Ireland.” In Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne and Beyond, Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien, eds. (Manchester University Press - UK, 2017).

Crook, Susan B. (Mathematics 2012- )

With Breeanne Baker Swart, Kristen A. Beck, Christina Eubanks-Turner, Helen G. Grundman, May Mei, Laurie Zack. “Fixed Points of Augmented Generalized Happy Functions.” To appear in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics; forthcoming 2018. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02983.pdf

Eby, John C. (History, 1998- )

With Fred Morton. The Collapse of Apartheid and the Dawn of Democracy in South African, 1993. New York: Reacting Consortium Press, 2017.

Garoutte, Lisa L. (Sociology 2007- )

“Transforming Student Ideas about Community Using Asset-Based Community Development Techniques.” In Promoting Social Justice through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Delores D. Liston and Regina Rahimi (Eds.) Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017.

“The Sociological Imagination and Community-based Learning: Using an Asset-based Approach” Teaching Sociology (2017): doi/10.1177/0092055X17750453. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0092055X17750453

Garrett, Matthew (Sports Management, 2005- )

With David A. Pierce. “So Where Do You Work Now?: Examining the Factors that Influence Career Choices of Sport Management Graduates” Global Sport Business Journal 2017, Volume 5 Issue 2, pp. 19-37. http://www.gsbassn.com/Journal/Vol5-2/GSBJ-Vol5-Iss2-Garrett-pp19-37.pdf

Joensen, William M. (Philosophy, 2001- )

“Normality, Ideology, and Inquiry into Human Life in the Thought of Georges Canguilhem.” In Medical Humanities in Theory and Practice. Andrzej Kapusta and Michal Lytovka, eds. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Kallback, Brian J. ( Finance, 2017- )

“Appreciating the Average Benefit Test.” Plan Consultant. Winter 2018, pp. 50-51.

“Technology Is a Commodity. Your Mindset Is Not.” Plan Consultant. Spring 2017, pp. 39-41.

Koch, Kevin (English, 1983- )

“Raptor Enrapture: Jon Stravers Creates an Effigy, Stone by Stone” [Dubuque] Telegraph Herald. 3 December 2017.

“One Burn at a Time: Prairie Ecosystem Benefits from Restoration and Conservation.” [Dubuque] Telegraph Herald. 4 February 2018.

“Urgency and Calm in the Porcupine Mountains.” [Dubuque] Telegraph Herald. 17 September 2017.

“Where the Earth Breathes: A Vow of Stability” [essay]. Reprinted in The Driftless Reader, Curt Meine & Keefe Keeley, eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017.

“Driftless” [poem]. Reprinted in The Driftless Reader, Curt Meine & Keefe Keeley, eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017.

“A Valley Fit for the Birds: A Sneak Peek of Valley of Eden Bird Sanctuary.” [Dubuque] Telegraph Herald. 2 July 2017.

Kohlhaas, Jacob (Religious Studies 2014- )

“Christian Sexual Ethics: The Ongoing Conversation(s).” Religious Studies Review, vol. 43, Issue 2, June 2017, p. 101–108

"[Review of] All Things Made New." U.S. Catholic, Feb. 2017, p. 41.

“Families, Ideal and Experienced” CatholicMoralTheology.com, Guest Post. July 13, 2017. https://catholicmoraltheology.com/families-ideal-and-experienced/

“Glad You Asked: Can Catholics Celebrate the Reformation?” US Catholic, February 2017: 59.

McLaughlin, Kenneth W. (Physics and Engineering 1998- )

With Kristen A. Thompson. Introductory Physics Labs: An Approach Based on Testing the Validity of Physical Models. Ronkonkoma, NY: Linus Learning, 2017.

Morton, (Roger) Fred (History 1988-2006)

With John C. Eby. The Collapse of Apartheid and the Dawn of Democracy in South African, 1993. New York: Reacting Consortium Press, 2017.

Neebel, Danial J. (Mathematics and Computer Science 1998- )

With Kristen A. Thompson. (2016, June), Integrated Fluids and Electronics Labs to Measure Fluid Flow. Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.25775. https://peer.asee.org/25775

Price-Brenner, Paul Alan. (Music 2017- )

Concerto for Viola Section and Orchestra. Dissertation. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa, 2017.

Pollock, James (English 2002- )

“Life Parries Death: The Poetry of Elise Partridge,” Canadian Notes & Queries #99, Spring 2017. 42-49.

Thompson, Kristen A. (Engineering, 2010- )

BYOE-Cold Boiling. Paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, OH. (2017, June). https://peer.asee.org/27992

With Neebel, Danial J. Integrated Fluids and Electronics Labs to Measure Fluid Flow. Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. (2016, June) 10.18260/p.25775. https://peer.asee.org/25775

With Kenneth W. McLaughlin. Introductory Physics Labs: An Approach Based on Testing the Validity of Physical Models. Ronkonkoma, NY: Linus Learning, 2017.

Thraen-Borowski, Keith M. (Kinesiology, Biology, 2016- )

With Keith P. Gennuso, Lisa Cadmus-Bertram. “Accelerometer-derived physical activity and sedentary time by cancer type in the United States.” PLoS ONE, 2017; 12(8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182554

With Laura D. Ellingson, Jacob D. Meyer, Lisa Cadmus-Bertram. “Non-worksite interventions to reduce sedentary behavior: A systematic review.” Translational Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine. 2017; 12 (2), 1-11.

With Lisa Cadmus-Bertram, Ronald Gangnon, Emily J. Wirkus, Jessica Gorzelitz-Liebhauser. “The Accuracy of Heart Rate Monitoring by Some Wrist-Worn Activity Trackers.” Annals of Internal Medicine. 2017; 166.8, 610-612.

With Lisa Cadmus-Bertram, Ronald Gangnon, Emily J. Wirkus, Jessica Gorzelitz-Liebhauser. “Accuracy of Heart Rate Monitoring by Some Wrist-Worn Activity Trackers-In Response.” Annals of Internal Medicine. 2017; 167.8, 607-608.

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