- Sarah Lux, PhD, assistant director of the Master of Science in Health Care Ethics, has been promoted and will serve as the program director. Dr. Lux is well prepared to assume these responsibilities having served as the assistant director under the direction of Dr. Amy Haddad. In addition to these responsibilities Dr. Lux has officially accepted the role as Associate Director of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies. In this role she will serve across the Department of Interdisciplinary studies and work collaboratively with the other Program Directors on program assessment activities, curriculum planning, course evaluations, accreditation requirements, as well as supervision of staff roles within the department. Dr. Lux earned a master’s degree in Counseling/Student Affairs in Higher Education from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and a PhD in Educational Leadership from Iowa State University. She has worked in higher education since 2001 in various academic and student affairs leadership roles.
- Helen Chapple, PhD, RN, MA, CT, associate professor in the Center for Health Policy and Ethics and the College of Nursing, published her article, “Strategies for Building Trust with the Caregiver of a Patient with End-Stage Dementia,” in the AMA Journal of Ethics last month. To read the article click here. Here is the citation to the article: Chapple, H. S. (2017). Strategies for Building Trust with the Caregiver of a Patient with End-Stage Dementia. AMA Journal of Ethics, 19(7), 656–662. http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2017/07/ecas3-1707.html
- Noam Ebner, LLB, LLM, professor in the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (NCR) Program, has authored the following articles in the Journal of Dispute Resolution, Vol. 2017 (1): 1) Negotiation is Changing; and 2) On the Forming of Unified Field Theories. In the same journal he has also co-authored: 1)The Definition of Negotiation: A Play in Three Acts; and 2) A ‘Grand’ Unified Negotiation Theory.
Graduate School and Department of Interdisciplinary Studies August Updates
– August 30, 2017Posted in: Faculty/Staff News, Graduate School and College of Professional Studies
