| New Faculty The College of Arts and Sciences welcomed several new full-time faculty members in the last academic year. In this issue, Global Thinking introduces two new Health Sciences professors.
 Ronald Smith
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Department
Associate Education Director, Nurse Anesthesia Program
Ronald Smith comes to the University with 26 years of experience as a nurse anesthetist. He has taught nurse anesthesia for the past 12 years, first at Johns Hopkins and, most recently, at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, where he earned a Ph.D. Seeking a new challenge, he relished the chance to come to Webster and involve himself with the administrative, didactic, and clinical sides of nurse anesthesia.
What's on your summer reading list?
"I'll usually read whatever appeals to me in the book reviews. I'm a prolific newspaper reader, too, so I'll always be reading those."
What have you been thinking about lately?
"Mentoring. We have wonderful, challenging, highly motivated students, and the master's in Nurse Anesthesia is a tough, tough program, so mentoring is always an important part. I'm an enthusiastic educator, and I particularly like mentoring our new students. I'm working on a clinical manual that would be a resource for all our students, but particularly the new students."
Any hobbies? Summer plans? Traveling?
"I'm a motorcyclist, so this is my time of year. I just returned from Virginia on my bike last weekend, and I'll be riding to Jacksonville, Fla., later this summer."
Smith rides a Honda ST1300, and, yes, he has talked with the University's Biker-in-Chief, President Richard S. Meyers, about what Smith calls their "mutual addiction."
 Jenny Broeder
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Director, Graduate Program in Nursing
Although a "new" full-time faculty member, Jenny Broeder is hardly new to the University. An adjunct professor at Webster for almost eight years—including her 2002-03 term as visiting assistant professor—Broeder teaches nursing research courses for undergraduates and graduates. She holds a Ph.D. from Saint Louis University.
What's on your summer reading list?
"I'm reading a lot on mothering. I'm hoping to develop an elective on contemporary mothering practices, including mothering of premature infants—a class that could be for women's studies students, as well as for nursing students."
What have you been thinking about lately?
"I've been working on getting more work from my dissertation published."
Any hobbies? Summer plans? Traveling?
"I love to garden, and I love to cook for my two teenage boys. We have a cottage in the country that we like to go to during the summer, and I'll cook out there. One of their favorites is my raspberry-blueberry muffins. It's great to cook things like that with fresh fruit and fresh vegetables."
In her home garden, Broeder grows various plants and flowers, as well as her own herbs, but that's the most some local pests will allow: "The squirrels around here eat everything else!" she explains.
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