Daily Brief

Professor Receives Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

Kutztown University’s Samantha Nye, assistant professor of art and design, was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Nye was awarded for Film-Video and was one of 171 exceptional individuals selected from nearly 2,500 applications.

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University Relations

2023 UGRC Faculty Mentorship Award

The Office of Grants and Sponsored Projects, in collaboration with Undergraduate Research and Creativity, honored this year's recipients for the UGRC Faculty Mentorship Award. The ceremony took place as part of a special KU Inspires: Celebrating Research in the Arts Friday, April 22. The 2023 recipients are Drs. Colleen Clemens (English), Nicole Johnson (special education) and Dale Parson (CSIT). Photo left to right: Johnson, Parson, Lynn M. Kutch, UGRC Coordinator, Clemens.

https://www.kutztown.edu/academics/research/undergraduate-research-and-creativity/ugrc-faculty-mentorship-awards.html

Lynn Kutch, Undergraduate Research and Creativity

New SGB Officers Elected

Elections were held April 18 for the new SGB executive board. Please welcome the 2023-2024 KU Student Government Executive Board:
- President, Gavin Stone
- Vice President, Angie Hernandez
- Parliamentarian, Victoria Fischer
- Treasurer, Olivia Hartman
- Secretary, Maddy Graves

Jerry Schearer, Interim Dean of Students

Kutztown University Council of Trustees Meeting

The Kutztown University Council of Trustees will meet Thursday, April 27.
Committee meetings will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the McFarland Student Union Building.
- Academic & Student Affairs Committee, 323 MSU.
- Finance, Property and Audit Committee, 322 MSU.
- Human Diversity Committee, 325 MSU.
- University Relations & Athletics and Advancement Committee, 324 MSU.
The Plenary Session will begin 3 p.m. in 250 McFarland Student Union Building.

Pam Rex, Office of the President

Employee of the Month

Now is the time to submit your nominations for the April 2023 Employee of the Month.

https://fs7.formsite.com/kutzuniv/EOM/index.html

Alexis Martin, Human Resources

A Semester with Chat GPT

This joint CEL and Comp Conversations event considers how ChatGPT is influencing our teaching and impacting student learning. Some faculty are experimenting with AI in their courses or looking at the impact on student work. Feel free to bring in examples, questions, concerns; we’ll even have ChatGPT up to help answer them. Face-to-face conversation and actual (not virtual) cookies will be available 11 a.m. Thursday, April 27, 6 Rohrbach Library or you can join us via Zoom.

CEL Events

Amy Lynch-Biniek, Center for Engaged Learning

Third Annual English Language Learner Conference

The third annual KU-District Partnership English Language Learner (ELL) Conference is being held 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 29, Boehm Science Center. This conference features panels, workshops and presentations from keynote speakers, faculty and students focused on the needs of English language learners and bilingual education. This year's theme is "Creating a Culturally Sustaining Environment Through Collaboration of Community and Schools." Our featured keynote speaker is Dr. Tatyana Kleyn.

English Language Learning Conference

Brenda Muzeta, Secondary Education

Herr Food Presentation in Murshed's New Product Management

Herr Food Inc. executives, Bob Clark, vice president of Marketing; Bob Landry, vice president; and Bob Landis, senior vice president of Human Resources, presented in Dr. Murshed's new product management class. Students heard about and sampled the Sandwi-Chips, a new product recently introduced in a certain B2B setting. In an interactive session, students learned about the entire new product development process - from idea development, product concept, market testing to commercialization. Successful introduction of a new product is considered a daunting task and they shed light on this process and the role of various other elements. In this class, every student individually presents a new product idea and gives a group presentation predicting the success/failure of a recently introduced product based on diffusion theory. New Product Management is a restricted elective for marketing majors.

Feisal Murshed

Feisal Murshed, Business Administration

Dissertation Defense

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Social Work, is pleased to announce that Heather Miller, MSW, LSW, will be defending her doctor of social work dissertation, "Relational Connections for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care: A Policy Content Analysis” 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 2, via Zoom; meeting ID: 966 0647 5933, passcode: 867765.
Dissertation Chair: Dr. Yasoda Sharma

Sharon Lyter, Department of Social Work