Posted Feb. 15 - Teresa DeLellis, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, has been chosen to serve on the LEARN Resource Center Board, which delivers summer and after-school programs for elementary aged children in underserved areas. She will also serve on the board of the Foundation for Art and Music in Education (FAME), which empowers teachers to nurture artistic creativity and develops programs for children in art and music.

Posted Feb. 14 - Student-athletes attended HCAC leadership conferenceFour Spartan student-athletes – Dasia Beck, Sydney Thompson, Craig Overpeck and Brady Nyland – participated in the first-ever Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee leadership retreat Feb. 9 and 10 in Richmond, Ind..  The retreat emphasized team-building and leadership development.

Posted Feb. 14 - Football Offensive Coordinator Vince Cashdollar spoke to the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) National Convention in January in San Antonio, Texas.  Cashdollar will also speak to the Indiana Football Coaches Association (IFCA). 

Posted Feb. 12 - Grammy-winning operatic baritone Daniel Belcher will perform “Your John Keats,” a nine-movement song cycle by Professor Debra Lynn, at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, on April 11. He premiered Lynn’s work at Manchester, with Pamela Haynes, assistant professor of music on piano, in October 2017. He also recorded the cycle, which is on Lynn’s website. 

Posted Feb. 12 - Jennifer Robison, visiting assistant professor of biology, is the author of “The ethylene signaling pathway negatively impacts CBF/FREB-regulated cold response in soybean (Glycine max),” just published in Frontiers in Plant Science.

Posted Jan. 16 - A research proposal from Vaibhav Mundra, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, has been funded as a New Investigator Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.  “Formulation of Micelles for Co-Delivery of Bortezomib and Doxorubicin” was peer-reviewed.

Posted Jan. 10 - “The Dynamic Response of Fractionalization to Public Policy in U.S. Cities,” by Sreenath Majumder, assistant professor of economics, will be published in an upcoming issue of Current Politics and Economics of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 

Posted Jan. 9 - David Kisor, director of pharmacogenomics education at Manchester, was quoted extensively for a recent article in PharmacyToday. The American Pharmacists Association story focuses on the consumer genetics company 23andMe and its pharmacogenomics test that can bypass practitioners completely. Learn more. 

Posted Jan. 2 - Whitney Bandemer, vice president for human resources and strategic initiatives, has joined the board of directors for the AWS Foundation. Located in Fort Wayne, the foundation helps children and adults with enduring intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities live as independently as possible, be included in the community and function at their highest potential. AWS envisions a community in which people with enduring intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities are engaged fully and meaningfully in all aspects of community life.

Posted Dec. 6 - A research paper by Sree Majumder, the Howard and Myra Brembeck Associate Professor of Economics, will be published in Current Politics and Economics of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Vol. 18, No. 4 (2018). The paper is titled “The Dynamic Response of Fractionalization to Public Policy in U.S. Cities."