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NINE NEW FACULTY MEMBERS BRING SPECIALTIES TO CAMPUS |
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August 15, 2008
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Nine new faculty members are joining the Grove City College family this fall, bringing with them specialties from accounting to quantitative stellar spectroscopy.
Dr. Christen Adels, associate professor of business, grew up in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. She graduated from Geneva College with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a bachelor’s degree in business administration. While at Geneva, she played varsity volleyball, basketball and track.
She worked for a year with Prime Financial Services and then went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned her Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration degrees in 2000. During graduate school, Adels began working for Deloitte Tax LLP in Pittsburgh and holds the title of tax manager. Adels was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 2001 and became licensed as a CPA in Pennsylvania in 2003.
In 2003, Adels began teaching business law, finance and accounting in Geneva’s business department. While there, she served as director of the M.B.A. program. Her work at Deloitte includes tax consulting for individuals, partnerships and corporations. She recently completed her fifth year of teaching at Geneva and her ninth year of consulting with Deloitte.
Dr. Laurieanne Dent, assistant professor of biology, earned a Ph.D. in neurobiology and behavior with a minor in genetics and development from Cornell University. She investigated communication signal processing in the electrosensory system of African electric fish. Prior to doctoral studies, Dent developed a broad background in organismal biology through master’s research on the physiological ecology of sunfishes while at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. In 2001-02, she served as a lecturer at Sam Houston in freshman biology and environmental science.
She graduated from Texas Christian University with a bachelor’s degree in biology, having enrolled for a fifth year to earn secondary teacher certification in composite science. For nine years, she taught a range of science subjects from earth to physical sciences to the biological sciences in a variety of environments, including homeschool and English as a Second Language immersion classrooms.
David DiQuattro ’02, instructor of philosophy, was born and raised in Northern New Jersey. He graduated from Grove City with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a minor in religion. Since then, he has been pursuing doctoral studies in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, where he has specialized in ethics and practical reason. He is currently completing a dissertation on Augustine and practical reason.
While attending Notre Dame, DiQuattro was active in Michiana Covenant Presbyterian Church, teaching Sunday school and serving as a deacon, among other activities. He also taught logic at the church’s homeschool co-op.
During his undergraduate studies at Grove City, he served as the chaplain for the Sigma Phi Omicron men’s housing group, was the president of the Philosophy Club and the first president of Grove City’s chapter of the Phi Sigma Tau national philosophy honorary.
Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez, associate professor of physics, was born in Havana, Cuba, and entered the United States with his family as a refugee in 1967. He received his bachelor of science in astronomy and physics from the University of Arizona.
Gonzalez studied at the University of Washington, where he earned his Ph.D. in astronomy in 1993. His specialty was quantitative stellar spectroscopy. Upon completion of his thesis, he accepted a post-doctoral position at the University of Texas at Austin, where he made frequent use of the telescopes at McDonald Observatory. In 1996, he returned to the University of Washington to do his second post-doc.
Gonzalez accepted a tenure-track position at Iowa State University in 2001. While at ISU, Gonzalez was awarded a grant from the Templeton Foundation to conduct research in intelligent design. In 2004, he completed his Templeton-funded research and published the results in the book, “The Privileged Planet.” In 2006, Gonzalez published the second edition of the textbook, “Observational Astronomy.” He will work extensively with Grove City’s newly acquired observatory in Edinboro, Pa.
Dr. Jonathan Kolm, assistant professor of music and fine arts, is a music theorist and composer. He earned a bachelor of music in piano performance in 1999 and a master’s in music composition in 2000, both from Virginia Commonwealth University. He earned his D.M.A. in composition and theory from University of Texas in 2007.
He has been recognized with many awards and has been performed throughout the United States and abroad. Kolm’s work has earned distinction at the Young New Yorkers Chorus competition and the 2006 New Choral Music Competition, among others. Several of his commissioned works premiered in 2007, including a song cycle written for soprano Mela Dailey. He also won first place in the Austin Peay State Composition Competition for “A Dream within a Dream.”
Also a researcher and historian, Kolm lectures on various topics of 20th century American history and the dynamic between energy and foreign policy.
Dr. Sharon McCathern, assistant professor of mathematics, is from Austin, Texas. She attended Rice University, earning a degree in mathematics. She spent the fall semester of her junior year in Hungary through the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics study abroad program. McCathern worked for a year as a substitute teacher and math specialist at a charter high school in Austin for at-risk students, and then moved to Chicago to attend graduate school at the University of Chicago.
In her seven years at Chicago, McCathern specialized in group theory, particularly the theory of finite p-groups and their associated Lie rings. She received her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago, finishing in 2007. In the last year, Dr. McCathern was a visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Dr. Andrew Mitchell, assistant professor of history, grew up in the Philadelphia area. He earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Hillsdale College and his master’s and Ph.D. in history from The Ohio State University, the latter in 2005 with specialties in early modern Europe, military and world history.
Mitchell speaks, reads and writes Spanish and Catalan, and his particular focus is on early modern Spanish history. During 2003-04, he studied in Spain under a Fulbright Research Fellowship. His dissertation looked at the creation of regional identity in Cataluña.
He has taught at Hillsdale College and Spring Arbor University since completing his doctorate. His wife, Sarah, also graduated from Hillsdale and holds a master’s degree in library science.
Stacy (Hensley ’93) Paparone, instructor of music and fine arts, was born in Omaha, Neb. She traveled extensively in her youth thanks to the Air Force duties of stepfather Daniel Stumme ’71. She received her bachelor’s degree in music education from Grove City with a concentration in viola.
Paparone worked at Commodore Perry School District in Hadley, Pa., for 15 years, where she taught kindergarten through fourth-grade general music, fifth- through 12th-grade choirs, seventh-grade general music and clarinet and percussion lessons. She has been a cooperating teacher to many student teachers from Grove City, Slippery Rock University and Youngstown State University.
In 2004, Paparone earned her master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from Indiana Wesleyan University, where she researched standards-based assessment in the general music classroom. She has served as a guest speaker at Grove City College and for a regional in-service program for District 5 Pennsylvania Music Educator’s Conference. She is married to Joseph Paparone ’91.
Dr. JonDavid “J.D.” Wyneken, associate professor of history, received his bachelor’s degree in history from Humboldt State University (Calif.). He completed his master’s in American history at the University of Nebraska before beginning work on his Ph.D. in modern European history at Ohio University, where he was also a graduate fellow in the Contemporary History Institute. In 2003-04, he received a year-long fellowship from the Baker Peace Studies Foundation. In May 2004, Wyneken joined the faculty at Concordia University in Portland, Ore. He completed his Ph.D. in June 2007.
Wyneken has taught on European and world history, totalitarianism, the Holocaust, European film, issues in global diversity and the history of baseball. He is also very active in discussions about the Global HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty crises.
Additionally, Dr. Jennifer Scott ’99 is moving to a full-time faculty position as assistant professor of communication studies. Scott earned her bachelor’s in English from Grove City, her master’s in interdisciplinary studies from Ohio University and Ph.D. in communication studies from Ohio University. Since joining the College in the summer of 2006, Scott has been associate director of Career Services and teaching part-time.
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