Preface

The 13th symposium of Indonesian Wood Research Society (IWoRS 2021) conference was held virtually because the pandemic situation in Indonesia had not improved until the day of the conference approached. This conference was held virtually instead of being postponed so that the conference which has been regularly scheduled every year will continue to run while at the same time encouraging the researchers, scientists, government, communities, and industry professionals and students that even though the situation is difficult, we can still work. The conference was held at September, 2nd 2021 by University of Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The conference start at 08.00 WITA (GMT +8) with a plenary session which is divided into 2 sessions and there are 3 keynote speakers for each session. The keynote speakers comprise of experts from 6 different countries, they are Dr. Agus Justinanto (Director General of Sustainable Forest Management, Indonesia), assc. Prof. Dr. David Auty (Northern Arizona University), Prof. Dr. Ryo Funada (President of the Japan Wood Research Society), Prof. Jegatheswaran Ratnasinga (University Putra Malaysia), Prof. Zhongwei Guan, Ph.D. (Executive Director of Advance Materials Research Center), Dr. Wen Shao Chang (The University of Sheffield). The conference then continued with a parallel session at 13:00 WITA (GMT +8). Parallel sessions consist of 6 classes with 3 sessions where each session contains 4-6 speakers. Each presenter has present their paper for 15 minutes which is then followed by a discussion session. List of Proceeding Organizing Committee, Symposium Committee are available in this pdf.

FORENSIC ART AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Forensic artists must overcome ingrained ideas of what the human face “should” look like in order to learn how to draw it realistically. Ironically, those ingrained images and perceptions tucked away in our minds present the biggest obstacles to realism. As a teacher of a forensic art class in anthropology at Northern Arizona University, I encounter students of varying degrees of artistic ability and background. I do not require that students have pre-requisite courses in art before taking my course because I believe that any student can learn to draw faces more realistically if they apply some basic forensic art techniques used in composite sketching combined with an understanding of facial anatomy. This article is about teaching Northern Arizona University students forensic art drawing methods, but it is also about the lesser-known aspect of doing composite sketches, such as applying cultural understanding and sensitivity when interviewing traumatized witnesses and survivors of crime. The result is a very holistic approach to composite sketching rather than a purely technical one.

The Annual Review of Applied Linguistics at 40: Looking Back and Moving Ahead

It is a privilege to be Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics in 2020 as it celebrates its 40th year. This is my fifth issue as Editor. I will begin this short introduction by paying tribute, with the help of Bill Grabe (Northern Arizona University), to the founding editor of the journal, Robert Kaplan (1929–2020). Without Robert Kaplan, none of us would be reading these pages. We will then turn to some comments from each of the previous editors on a few of the highlights of their time editing the journal, along with words for the future. After this, I will describe some recent updates, go through a few of the historical successes of the journal, and then turn to the contents of the exciting current issue, “Looking back and moving ahead.”

Investigation, Examination, Control, and Anxiety

This is a special issue on surveilled bodies, with five articles guest edited by Ira Allen, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Writing, and Digital Media Studies at Northern Arizona University and Assistant Editor of Screen Bodies. The question here is one of how screens and bodies are brought together through surveillance (visual and otherwise), how surveillance hails the body to attend to it (beckons us to catch a glimpse of here or there) even as it hides itself from the body, working to be noticed yet remaining unnoticed, in order to keep us “on our toes.” In this light, surveillance is not only about investigating, examining, logging, and controlling the body but also about bringing the body into being as a body-to-be-surveilled, about interpolating the body into becoming evermore surveillable in ever-more granular ways.

Is Excellence in the Cards?

ABSTRACT Thomas G. McPoil, PT, PhD, FAPTA, is Emeritus Professor of Physical Therapy at Regis University, Denver, Colorado, and Emeritus Regents’ Professor of Physical Therapy at Northern Arizona University. He has served as an Adjunct Honorary Professor in the School of Physiotherapy at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, and currently serves as a consultant to the Physical Therapy Orthotics Clinic at Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado. Dr. McPoil is known nationally and internationally for his scholarly contributions that have systematically examined foot and ankle function from both scientific and clinical perspectives. Dr. McPoil is an author or coauthor of 130 publications in peer-reviewed journals, coeditor of 2 books, and coauthor of 6 book chapters. His work reaches beyond the profession of physical therapy, as he served on the editorial boards of Foot and Ankle International, the Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, and Research in Sports Medicine and is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association and The FOOT. Dr McPoil received his PhD in kinesiology with a specialization in biomechanics from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He holds an MS in physical education with a specialization in athletic training from Louisiana State University and a BA in physical education from the California State University, Sacramento. During his career, he has held faculty appointments at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northern Arizona University, and Regis University. Dr McPoil’s clinical practice has focused on the management of chronic orthopedic foot and ankle disorders for the past 38 years. Dr McPoil is the founding president of the Foot and Ankle Special Interest Group of the Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy. He has served as Vice President of the Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy and as the Treasurer of the Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy. He has received numerous teaching awards, including APTA’s Dorothy E. Baethke & Eleanor J. Carlin Award for Excellence in Academic Teaching and the Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy’s James A. Gould Excellence in Teaching Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Award. He is a recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, the William J. Stickel Award for Research in Podiatric Medicine, the Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy’s Stanley Paris Distinguished Service Award and was elected a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of APTA in 2007.

Designing Online Curriculum: Program Revisions and Knowledge Exchange

In this article, I focus on the importance of knowledge exchange and knowledge communities to create an online curriculum that moves from individual course design to shared curriculum design. I draw from current discussions on communities of practice, agoras, and knowledge societies, expanding on the notion that knowledge, in order to benefit society, has to be shared. I show the results of a program redesign at Northern Arizona University achieved through collaboration on online course learning outcomes as well as course design, and I conclude by arguing for continued assessment of current practices to encourage educators to think critically about their contributions to an open knowledge society.

Schedule and abstract book for the Ninth Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Biology and Mathematics

Collection of abstracts from the ninth Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Biology and Mathematics. Plenary speaker: Kiona Ogle, The School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University. Featured speaker: Katherine J. Evans, Group Leader, Computational Earth Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Environmental Political Theory and Environmental Action Research Teams

This chapter explores relationships between democratic action research and environmental political theory. In the absence of action research pedagogies, neo-liberalism will increasingly undermine the spaces and possibilities in institutions of higher education that have been integral to the development of environmental political theory. Action research pedagogy offers collaborative pathways for students, faculty, and community members to begin to address the profound ecological, political, and educational challenges of the contemporary world. The chapter contends that the transformative quotidian work involved in action research pedagogies is likely an indispensable condition for engendering civic agency, a sense of active hope, and theoretical reflection in students who are otherwise often resistant to it. With reference to the action research movement at Northern Arizona University, it illuminates ways in which action research can lead to institutional change in higher education that may catalyze environmental thought and action in dark times.