Faculty and Staff Highlights: AuBuchon, Bond, Martin, Sencibaugh, Rosenblum, Tchintcharauli

 

Webster University faculty and staff highlights offer a roundup of recent Webster faculty and staff activity and achievements.

AuBuchon Collaborates with Student and Graduates on Film

Aaron AuBuchon, associate dean of the Webster University School of Communications, recently collaborated with a current student and two recent graduates on a film providing about 60 visual effects and motion graphics shots. Current student Carter Reeves, recent graduates Vincent Italiano and Wyatt Kurtz along with AuBuchon encourage interested parties to visit the trailer and poster website at RueMorgue.

Martin Appointed to Multicultural Counseling Representative

Claire Martin, assistant professor in the Department of Professional Counseling at Webster University in Webster Groves, has been appointed to serve as the Midwestern Regional representative of the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD). AMCD is a division of the American Counseling Association, which is the largest national organization for professional counselors, representing over 56,000 members.

In this capacity, her role is to promote the mission of AMCD, engage in general outreach, and develop and implement educational programs that highlight issues around diversity.

Additionally, Martin has been appointed as the Special Initiatives Committee Co-Chair for the Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW), another division of the American Counseling Association. In this position, she will work to advance culturally informed and socially just practices in group work by implementing accessible, innovative, and transformative programs that foster community connections and empowerment.

Sencibaugh and Bond Lead Mathematics Workshop

Joseph Sencibaugh, a professor of Teacher Education of the School of Education at the Webster Groves Campus, led a workshop highlighting mathematics challenges in today’s schools on Aug. 8.

Jennifer Bond, an adjunct professor in the Teacher Education Department at Webster, also participated in leading the workshop.

This event specifically focused on PreK through 12 teachers and why test scores in mathematics have declined across all grade-levels over the recent years. Best practices in teaching mathematics by utilizing research-based techniques to enhance students' understanding of complex concepts and procedures were identified.

The event took place at Chesterfield Commons in Chesterfield, Mo., and was attended by 200 teachers working in the Lutheran School Districts.

After the keynote address, Sencibaugh and Bond conducted a workshop for 50 middle- and secondary-teachers interested in learning how to implement interventions for teaching fractions and pre-algebra. To learn more, visit LASE Specialized Education.

Rosenblum Leads Jewish History Bike Ride 

History professor Warren Rosenblum will lead the Trailnet Jewish History Community Ride on Sept. 22. The bike ride will begin at the Missouri Historical Society Library & Research Center, proceed through U-City, Wellston, and parts of north St. Louis City, and end in Forest Park. At various stops along the way, there will be short talks on Jewish immigration to St. Louis, synagogue architecture, antisemitism, white-flight and Jewish-black relations. 

Tchintcharauli Publishes Chapter in Socialism Book 

Anna Tchintcharauli, librarian at Webster Tbilisi, recently had a chapter published in a book about forced migration. Her chapter contribution can be found from pages 129-146 and is titled, “Memories from the Detached Lands. Soviet Forceful Resettlement Policy in the Eyes of the Chechens, Ingush and Khevsurs (1940 –50s)”. 

Tchintcharauli has been collecting and analyzing oral histories of the Khevsur people who were forcefully resettled from the Georgian mountains to the lowlands in the early 1950s under Stalin's regime, and comparing these experiences with the stories of Chechens and Ingush who were deported from their homelands in the Central Asian steppes in 1944. 

This effort is part of Tchintcharauli's ongoing research project as she completes her PhD in History at Ilia State University in Tbilisi.