Summer 2008

Karen I. Adsit, Walker Teaching Resource Center, (March 2008). iPods in Paris - Learning French culture in an authentic environment. Presentation at the West Tennessee Technology Symposium, Martin, TN.

Jooyong Ahn, music, has debuted his Italian opera conducting in Milan, Italy, to celebrate Giocomo Puccini’s 150th birthday. He conducted two performances of La Boheme in Milan and Masate, Italy, May 24th and 29th, 2008, with singers from the Accademia Donizetti and the Lirico sinfonica provincia di Lecco.

Deborah Arfken, The Graduate School, served as a SACS site reviewer for two universities during spring 2008. She served on the substantive change team for Georgia State and was the lead reviewer for substantive change at The University of Texas Brownsville/Texas Southmost College.

J. Ronald Bailey, engineering, presented two papers and chaired a session at the international Electric Vehicle Symposium held in Anaheim, California. He has also been named Editor-in-Chief of the Journal: World Electric Vehicle Association which consists of the World Electric Electric Vehicle Association of the Asia Pacific, the Association for Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (Europe) and the Electric Drive Transportation Association (US).

Bailey was elected President of the Chattanooga Engineers’ Club for 2008.

Thomas P. Balázs, English. His short story, “Sea of Faith,” appears this summer in the literary journal RiverSedge. Along with his wife, Merav, he has recently translated into English poems from Hebrew for Ambassador Reda Mansour, poet and consulate general in Atlanta for Israel. The translations appeared along with other works at an exhibition of Middle Eastern poetry at the Jewish Community Federation in Chattanooga December 2007, and more recently, May 2008, at a reading given by Ambassador Mansour at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, North Carolina.

Barbara Webb, IT Specialist, graduated with an MS in Criminal Justice in May 2008.

Lisa Burke, management, has the following publication forthcoming: Burke, Lisa A., & Hutchins, H. A study of best practices in training transfer and proposed model of transfer. Human Resource Development Quarterly.

Lisa Burke, management, was awarded the 2007-2008 Professor of the Year Award by the UTC Student Government Association (SGA), April.

Toni Carter, library, Reaching Your Millenials: A Fresh Look at Freshman Orientation. Tennessee Libraries 57.2 (2007) (co-author Beverly Simmons)

J.R. Clark, Probasco Chair of Free Enterprise, had four articles published in the 2007-2008 academic year, “Economic Freedom, Entrepreneurship, Migration, and Economic Growth” Clarion Business and Economic Review Journal, “To Whom Does Wealth Belong? An Economic Perspective” Journal of Lutheran Ethics, “Freedom, Barriers to Entry, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Progress” Review of Austrian Economics, and “The Politics of Poverty and the Poverty of Politics” Journal of Private Enterprise. A fifth article, “Government Transfers and Inequality: An Anatomy of Political Failure,” co-authored with Dwight R. Lee, has recently been accepted for publication in the journal of Public Finance and Management. Clark was also selected to serve as judge for the Atlas Foundation’s Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award, an international award that recognizes the single publication for 2008 that made the greatest contribution to world understanding of a free society. Clark serves as Secretary/Treasurer for both the Association of Private Enterprise Education and the Southern Economic Association, organizing both associations’ annual international conferences and publishing their respective professional journals. The 2008 APEE conference, featuring keynote speakers Arnold Harberger and John Stossel, of ABC’s 20/20 News, attracted record attendance. Clark also serves on the board of directors of the Mont Pelerin Society and organized academic sessions for its international conferences in Kenya and Japan.

Susan Davidson, nursing, had an abstract accepted to the 19th International Nursing Research Congress: Focusing on Evidence-Based Practice, which will be held in July of this year in Singapore.

Gene Ezell, health education, was inducted into the North American Society of Health and Physical Education in April 2008. The award represents a lifetime of achievement in the fields of health and physical education. Ezell was the only health educator honored from all of Canada and the United States.

Ezell has co-authored “Teaching Today’s Health, Ninth Edition” for Benjamin Cummings Publishing, San Francisco, California. This book is due to be published in January 2009.

Lisa Pinckney Flint, business, has been promoted to Assistant Dean in the College of Business.

Tim Gaudin, biological & environmental sciences, published a paper entitled “A new pangolin (Mammalia: Pholidota) from the Pliocene of Langebaanweg, South Africa” in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in collaboration with Dr. Jennifer Botha, a colleague from South Africa [Botha, J. and T. J. Gaudin. 2007. J. of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27(2):484-491.]. He also co-authored a chapter in a book entitled “The Biology of the Xenarthra” recently published by the University of Florida Press, in collaboration with Dr. Greg McDonald of the U.S. Park Service [Gaudin, T.J. and H.G. McDonald. 2008. Chapter 3. Morphology-based investigations of the phylogenetic relationships among extant and fossil Xenarthrans. Pp. 24-36 in: J. Loughry and S. Vizcaíno (eds.), The Biology of the Xenarthra, University of Florida Press, Gainesville, FL]. He published a brief taxonomic note in collaboration with a UTC adjunct faculty member, Matt Smith, and departmental colleague Tom Wilson [Smith, M.B., T.J. Gaudin, and T.P. Wilson. 2007. Geographic distribution. Ambystoma opacum (Marbled Salamander). New County Record, Hamilton Co., TN. Herpetological Review. 38:347]. This past summer Dr. Gaudin was invited to give a presentation in a symposium entitled “Recent Advances in Xenarthran Studies,” organized by Drs. Gerry DeIuliis (University of Toronto) and Greg McDonald (Curator of Natural History, U.S. National Park Service), and held at the 8th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology in Paris, France [Gaudin, T.J. 2007. Xenarthran phylogeny and relationships to non-xenarthran placentals. Journal of Morphology 268(12): 1076]. He also presented a poster at the conference in collaboration with a UTC Adjunct faculty member [Bramblett, J.L. and T.J. Gaudin. 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of extant armadillos (Xenarthra: Dasypodidae) based on postcranial data. Journal of Morphology 268(12): 1053].

Christopher Hensley, criminal justice, co-wrote the following peer-reviewed journal article that was published in 2008:

The effect of inmates’ self-reported childhood and adolescent animal cruelty motivations on the number of convictions for adult violent interpersonal crimes. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 52(2), 175-184.

Julie Hobbs, music, published the following article: “Adding Theory to Private Lessons” Flute Talk Magazine, May 2008.

Debbie Ingram, physical therapy, co-authored “Generic Inabilities and the Use of a Decision-Making Rubric for Addressing Deficits in Professional Behavior” published in the Winter 2007 issue of the Journal of Physical Therapy Education. This work was completed with university faculty from Shenandoah,Wichita State, Duke and Virginia Commonwealth Medical College of Virginia.

Mike Jaynes, English, is emerging as a new voice in the animal rights world and has recently published several articles and creative pieces on various topics.

His paper “From Achilles to House: The Social Freedom of Not Giving a Flying Rip (And Being Good Enough)” has been selected for inclusion in Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference to be held in Cincinnati this October.

His paper entitled “The Saddest Show on Earth: Elephant (Ab)use in Traveling Circuses” has also been selected for the MPCACA conference and he has been asked to serve as Panel Chair for the Plants and Animals in Pop Culture panel.

His article “The Rhetoric of Hunting and Whaling: Sustainable Abuse” has been selected for publication by Abolitionist Online out of Sydney, Australia.

His freelance magazine article “The Suffering of Animals: The Public’s Hatred of Animal Rights Activists.” was selected as Cover Story of the forthcoming Summer 2008 issue of the nationally circulated award winning The Animal’s Voice Magazine.

His freelance article “Anthropormophism and Sentimentality: Flawed Rhetoric Harming Animals” appeared on the animal rights media site All Creatures.

His freelance magazine article, “The Logos of Abduction: A Logical Defense of Abductees” is forthcoming in the May 2008 issue of nationally circulated and industry leading UFO Magazine.

His article “Avoid Factory Farms at All Costs” was published by All Creatures.

His freelance magazine article, “Holding Fast: A Southeastern Tattoo Icon Tells it Like it is” was selected for publication forthcoming this summer by Prick Magazine, the world’s only free tattoo and body piercing lifestyle magazine.

His essay “A Braver, Newer World.” was published by the Animal Liberation Front on their Worldwide News and Information Resource about the A.L.F. (March 22, 2008)

An excerpt from his essay “Vegeveganism: A Call for the Unification of the Animal Rights World.” was published by the Animal Liberation Front on their Worldwide News and Information Resource about the A.L.F. (March, 2008)

Interviewed as featured guest by Chattanooga,Tennessee, radio personality Jeff Styles during his acclaimed F.R.E.D. the show (WGOW 102.3 FM) regarding animal rights issues regarding mass confinement factory farming on Earth Day, 2008. 4-22-08 11:00 a.m.

Abolitionist Online (Sydney, Australia) will be interviewing him regarding several facets of the Animal Rights world this summer.

His guest editorial “No ‘Green’ Eggs and Ham: Another Way to not Destroy the Earth While Saving Animals” appeared in the April 17th, 2008 edition of the University Echo: Student newspaper of The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga summer edition.

His article “Teaching Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use’: Employing Race, Class, and Gender, with An Annotated Bibliography. ” with Marcia Noe was published in “Alice Walker: New Edition” released by Bloom’s Modern Critical Views Infobase Publishing: New York, 2007

His essay “A Case for Shelter Adoption: Sir Brutus Maximus, Eater of the Treats, King of all Romp.” was published in March, 2008 on The Animal Rescue Site.com

His essay “A Coyote and Coy Dog Defense” was published in April, 2008, in All Creatures and all-creatures.org

His creative non-fiction piece “A Small Grey Ghost” was published by the Animal Liberation Front on their Worldwide News and Information Resource about the A.L.F. (April, 2008)

He was interviewed by a member of UTK’s Marketing Ph.D. program regarding “Going Green” in contemporary society. Interview will be included in a published project in a Marketing industry peer reviewed journal.

His previously published article “A Braver, Newer World” was translated into Portuguese and published by a Brazilian animal rights organization called Red Pill Vs. Blue Pill.

His previously published articles “A Braver, Newer World”,”Vegeveganism: A Call for the Unification of the Animal Rights World”, and “A Small Grey Ghost” were picked up for distribution by the official website of the Animal Rights Militia.

He has also published various editorials in online media sites regarding animal rights, direct action animal groups, university student apathy regarding the Michael Vick dog fighting case, Speciesism, the suffering of circus elephants, mass confinement factory farming operations, and free speech issues regarding the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA).

Jaynes has also been invited to speak at the nation’s largest Animal Rights conference. His presentation is on the plight and suffering of performing circus elephants. AR2008 will take place in Washington D.C. on August 14-18.

Wes Moore, athletics, was named Southern Conference Coach of the Year for Women’s Basketball in March, 2008. He led the Lady Mocs to the Southern Conference regular-season and tournament titles and the NCAA Championships.

Chris Bono, athletics, was named the Southern Conference Coach of the Year for Wrestling in March, 2008. He led the Mocs to their 23rd SoCon Championship.

Nora Kile, music, has had two more of her flute choir arrangements published this spring, one by ALRY Publications, Inc. in Charlotte, N.C., and the other by Falls House Press in Nashua, New Hampshire. This brings to a total of 15 works for various combinations of instruments, published by three different publishers. She was also the guest clinician at the recent Flute Choir Workshop of the Upper Midwest Flute Association in Minneapolis, MN. She is finishing up a five-year appointment as Exhibitors Concert/Exhibitors Showcases Coordinator for the National Flute Association.

David Levine, physical therapy, published the article “The Canine Shoulder: Selected Disorders and Their Management with Physical Therapy” in Clinical Techniques in Small Animal Practice, 22:171-182; 2007. Also published was “The Effects of the Five Ballet Positions on Posture of the Lumbar Spine, Pelvis, and Hip” in the Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy, 2008:38(1);A54 with Debbie Ingram and Randy Walker from Physical Therapy.

John Lynch, chemistry, presented the paper “Automation of Spectrophotometric Titrations” at the 59th Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 3, 2008. The “Pittcon” is the premiere conference for the subspecialty of Analytical Chemistry. This paper was coauthored by students William M. McGee and Ivan P. Zubkov.

Darrell Meece, education, was named to the editorial board of the journal Early Child Development and Care, an international, peer-reviewed journal focusing on early childhood education. He presented results of two research projects in April:

Meece, D., (2008, April). One state, two state, red state, blue state: Education funding accounts for outcome differences. Presented to the biennial meeting of the Conference on Human Development, Indianapolis.

Meece, D., & Mize, J. (2008, April). Father-child interaction: Associations with self-control and aggression among 4.5 year olds. Presented to the biennial meeting of the Conference on Human Development, Indianapolis.

Andy Novobilski, computer science and engineering, served as a proposal reviewer for the ICT and COPD health care research program of the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw).

Oralia Preble-Niemi, foreign languages & literatures, read a scholarly paper titled, “Meditaciones ante el cadaver de un desconocido” at the annual meetings of the Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana (International Conference on Central American Literature), in Nicoya, Costa Rica, April 16-18, 2008.

Cairon Reagan, UTC Educational Talent Search Project, has been named Eastern Representative of the Tennessee Association of Special Programs. TASP is dedicated to addressing barriers to postsecondary education opportunity for its low-income, first generation students. Reagan serves as Education Specialist to participants demonstrating potential for success in several area inner-city schools.

Valerie Rutledge, education, was named to the Tyner Academy Hall of Fame (formerly Tyner High School) as a part of the 100 year anniversary celebration of this institution. Rutledge, a 1970 graduate, was honored along with 14 other individuals as a member of this initial group.

Valerie Rutledge, Linda Johnston and Ted Miller, education, along with Alvena Kaffman presented on the topic “Response to Intervention” at the annual Statewide Reading First Meeting held in Nashville. The presentation consisted of implementation at both the local education agency and higher education levels related to implementation of Response to Intervention for the identification of students with a Specific Learning Disability.

Felicia Sturzer, foreign languages, evaluated an article for Women in French Studies and New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century. She is on the Editorial Board of both journals.

Jim Tucker, education, has been named co-editor of Ethical Human Psychiatry and Psychology, the peer-reviewed journal of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology. Tucker has also been appointed to the advisory board of the Early Learning Success Initiative, Early Learning Foundation, Brighton, MI. Tucker’s recent publications include:

Norm reference as it applies to abilities and disabilities: Reflections of a former
state-government official. Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 9(3).

School psychology in a land of blended professions: The ultimate flavor of effective response. NASP 2007 Distinguished Lecture. Communique, 35(8), 48-52.

(with R. Sornson) One student at a time; one teacher at a time: Reflections on the use of instructional support. In Jimerson, S. R., Burns, M., & Van Der Heyden, A. (Eds.). Handbook of response to intervention: The science and practice of assessment and intervention. New York: Springer

Tucker’s recent professional presentations include the following:

The normal child: Creating abnormality through educational processes. Presentation at the annual conference of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology, Arlington, VA, October 14, 2007

Instructional support and Response to Intervention: Critical connections and profound differences. Keynote presentation, Superintendent’s Conference Day, Mahopac Central School District, Mahopac, NY, November 6, 2007.

Tucker is currently serving as an expert witness in two cases in Federal Court: 1) Expert for the plaintiffs in Linda Finch, as Next Friend of Johnny Ebert vs. Texarkana School District No. 7 of Miller County. 2) Expert for the plaintiffs in Jamie S., et al., v. Milwaukee Public Schools, et al.

Kim Turner and John Fulmer, business, have an article forthcoming in The National Accounting Journal. The article is entitled, “Code of Professional Conduct and Professional Advice in an Introductory Accounting Course.”

Debbie Archambeault, Rick Turpin, and John Fulmer, business, published an article in the March-April edition of The Commercial Lending Review. The article is entitled “The Changing Components of the Corporate Annual Report; An Update.”

Bart Weathington, psychology, published the following articles:

Hoiness, A.R., Weathington, B.L., & Cotrell, A.L. (2008). Perceptions of Female Athletes Based on Observer Characteristics. Athletic Insight, 10(1), 43-54.

O’Leary, B.J., Vande Walle, H.A., & Weathington, B.L. (2008). Series Sweeps in Competitive Situations: The Line between Can and Can’t. Athletic Insight, 10(1), 55-65.

Trumpeter, N.N., Watson, P. J., O’Leary, B. J., & Weathington, B.L. (2008). Self-Functioning and Perceived Parenting: Relationships of Parental Empathy and Love Inconsistency with Narcissism, Depression, and Self-Esteem. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 169, 51-71.

Cecelia Wigal, engineering. In April, Wigal completed a year as President of the Southeastern Section of the American Society for Engineering Education. She is now serving as Immediate Past President.

Cecelia Wigal, engineering. In April 2008 Wigal received the Outstanding Paper Award for the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Southeastern Section Conference for her paper titled “The Use of Engineering Design Projects for Student Understanding of Engineering’s Societal Impact and Global Responsibility.”

Wayne K. Williams, geology, has participated in two school job fair presentations this year. The first was at Hixson High School’s first ever job fair and the second was at CSAS. These presentations were to promote jobs in the geosciences as well as recruitement for the UTC Geology Department. Several hundred students were exposed to the possibility of seeking a career in the geosciences at each of these fairs.

Alma Cemerlic, Li Yang, Joseph M. Kizza, computer science, Network Intrusion Detection Based on Bayesian Networks, Proceedings of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE06), July 2008, accepted.

Li Yang, Raimund Ege, Integrating Trust Management into Usage Control in P2P Multimedia Delivery, Proceedings of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE06), July 2008, accepted.

Li Yang, Kathy Winters, Joseph M. Kizza, Biometrics Education with Hands-on Labs, Proceedings of ACM Southeast Conference, ACM Digital Library, March, 2008.

Spring 2008

Deborah Elwell Arfken, graduate school, was elected president of the board of directors for the Partnership for Families, Children and Adults for 2008. She previously served as vice-president of this multi-faceted social services organization.

Gwendolyn Spring Atkinson, English, presented a paper, “La Visceralidad Femenina: Overflowing the Feminine in Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portraits, or, What Would Walter Benjamin Say About Frida Kahlo and Would She Care?” at Talking Back, Moving Forward: Gender, Culture & Power: The 30th Annual Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Conference, UTC, March 24, 2007.

Hinsdale Bernard, education, graduate studies, was awarded a US patent for a three dimensional (3D) rendition of the Periodic Table of the Elements in November, 2007. The foundational model was first developed by Bernard and his students in 1977, while he served as a high school chemistry teacher and science chairman at Northeastern College, Sangre Grande, Trinidad, West Indies. In early 1995, Bernard’s son (Roald) encouraged him to resume work on the model and they worked intermittently on its refinement for eight years. It soon became a family preoccupation and Bernard’s wife (Barbara), daughter (Ishara), and daughter-in-law (Hamdellia) were involved in its development to varying degrees. It was finally submitted to the Patent Office in November, 2003, assisted by patent lawyer, Gregory Turocy of the law firm Amin, Turocy and Calvin of Cleveland, Ohio.

Beverly Brockman, marketing and entrepreneurship, had two manuscripts accepted for publication. They include, “An Exploratory Model of Interpersonal Cohesiveness in New Product Development Teams,” Journal of Product Innovation Management, (coauthors: Melissa Rawlston, Diane Halstead, and Michael Jones) and “The Price of Unconditional Love: Consumer Decision Making for High-Dollar Veterinary Care,” Journal of Business Research, (coauthors: Valerie Taylor and Christopher Brockman).

Sharon Brueggeman, mathematics, published the article “Pythagorean Triples with Square and Triangular Sides,” College Math. J., 38 (2007), 138 - 140. She also gave a presentation titled “Ramification Targeted Polynomial Searches” at a meeting of the American Mathematical Society.

Virginia Cairns, Lupton Library, was elected Secretary of the Tennessee Library Association for 2007-2008. She also was named to the editorial board of The Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, published by Haworth Press. Her presentation entitled “Project Management Basics for Librarians” was accepted as a preconference workshop for the Electronic Resources & Librarianship Conference in Atlanta in March, 2008.

Marisa Colston, health and human performance, served as the co-chair for the Tennessee Athletic Trainers’ Society Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium.

Marisa Colston, health and human performance, served as the co-chair for the Southeast Athletic Trainers’ Association Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium.

Marisa Colston, health and human performance, presented at the 2008 SEATA Student Clinical Symposium on “Lumbosacral Spine Evaluation”.

Marisa Colston, health and human performance, presented at the 2008 SEATA Bi-Annual Educators’ Conference on “Athletic Training Educators: The Gatekeepers of the Profession”.

Steve Cox, Lupton Library, has been elected Vice President/President-Elect of the Society of Tennessee Archivists for 2008. This position automatically assumes the position of President the year after the position of Vice President is served.

Lucien Ellington, education and Asia Program, was the project director (and author of Japan in World History) of Japan: A Teaching Module located at http://www.utc.edu/Research/AsiaProgram/teaching/ in September 2007. Ellington authored the International Baccalaureate History section of Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate: Do They Deserve Gold Star Status? published by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation in November 2007. He edited two issues of Education About Asia (Association for Asian Studies). Ellington was also awarded $99,889 from the Freeman Foundation to direct the 2008 National Consortium for Teaching about Asia in Tennessee and $65,149 from the Association for Asian Studies to support publication of the 2008 Education About Asia journal.

Gene Ezell, health and human performance, will be inducted as a 2008 Fellow in the North American Society of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance Professionals.

Established in 1999, the North American Society (NAS) recognizes outstanding professionals from within the allied professions of health education, physical education, recreation, sport and dance in North America.

In a letter of invitation to Ezell, Jan Adair, 2008 NAS Chair, said “your induction as a 2008 Fellow represents our recognition of your accomplishments, but most importantly, your contributions to our professions.”

Ezell was selected as United States Best College Health Educator of the Year by the American Association of Health Education. He was named Scholar of the Year by the Southern District Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance and he was appointed United States’ delegate to 12th World Congress on Health Education by AAHPERD, Dublin, Ireland. He was nominated as Amateur Athlete of Year, 1995, to the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.

Elizabeth Folse, housing, was awarded the Outstanding New Professional Award at the 2007 Tennessee Association of College and University Housing Officers Conference (TACUHO) held in Martin, Tennessee in October.

John Friedl, political science, accounting, was one of two UTC faculty to receive the 2008 University of Tennessee National Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award. He published “Accountants Considering Service as Corporate Directors: What You Should Know” (co-author, Deborah Archambeault), Journal of Accountancy, September 2007; “Is Justice Blind? Examining the Relationship Between Presidential Appointments of Judges and Outcomes in Employment Discrimination Cases” (co-author, Andre Honoree), Cumberland Law Review, vol. 38, December 2007; “Impartial justice?”, Chattanooga Times Free Press, December 16, 2007. He also was named Treasurer of the Chattanooga Creative Discovery Museum, where he has served on the Board of Directors since 2002.

Bill Gautier, athletics, was named 2007 Southern Conference Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year in October.

Greg Grant, chemistry, published the paper title “Fixation of atmospheric carbon dioxide by a cadmium(II) macrocyclic complex” in the October 2007 issue of the Royal Society of Chemistry Journal Dalton Transactions. The paper describes an unusual compound which removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and former UTC chemistry undergraduate Maikel Botros appears as a co-author. Grant has also just published a second paper in Dalton Transactions, “Cyclometallated Pt(II) and Pd(II) Complexes with a Thiacrown Ligand”.

William Harman, philosophy and religion, published three chapters in a volume he co-edited with Selva J. Raj, entitled Dealing With Deities: The Ritual Vow in South Asia,released in paperback by State University of New York Press in 2007. He also published “A Miracle (or Two) in Tirucchi,” in Dempsey, Corinne (ed.), The Miracle as Conundrum in South Asian Religions., SUNY Press, 2007. He presented “The Sacred Body of the Tamil Female Suicide Bomber,” at the Conference for the Study of Religion in India, Albion College, September, 2007 and «La bombe humaine devient une déesse: femmes sacrificielles dans la guerre civile de Sri Lanka,» at the annual meeting of the Centre d’études sur les nouvelles religions, June 2007 at l’ Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux, France. He received an Open Research Grant from the American Academy of Religion to interview the families of female martyr-bombers among Sri Lankan diaspora communities in Toronto, Paris, India, and Sri Lanka.

Debbie Ingram, physical therapy, is the first faculty member to serve as the President of the University of Tennessee Alumni Association. The UTAA represents the 310,000 alumni of all campuses of the University. In this role, Ingram is speaking to alumni groups across the country regarding the value of education and the low college graduation rates in Tennessee. Ingram has also been appointed to the UT Development Council and the Campaign for Tennessee Planning Committee. Ingram will also be presenting four research presentations at the American Physical Therapy Association’s Combined Sections Meeting in February, 2008 in Nashville. The topics are related to physical therapy licensure and discipline, accommodations on the National Physical Therapy Examination and anatomical dance positions.

Richard Jackson, English. His book length translation of Alexsander Persolja’s poems, Potovanje Sonca/Journey of the Sun, has appeared from the Slovene Writers’ Union Press. He has been invited for the second year in a row to read and present workshops at the Leysin American School in Switzerland and the University of Primorska in Slovenia, and has been invited to be on the staff of the Prague Summer Writing Program this summer. He is giving readings this academic year at the University of Michigan, Vermont College, Austin Peay University, Lee College, The Russian Club in NYC, and the Durango Arts center. His poems have been accepted for publication in Helicon (Israel), Nuori Voima (Finland), Golden Boat (Slovenia), Southern Indiana Review, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Atlanta Review, Ecotones, Cave Wall and other journals. An interview with him, “Revelation: an Interview with Richard Jackson,” appears in Southern Indiana Review and his essay, “Murmurs in the Background: An Introduction to Slovene Poetry,” in Beyond All Borders: A Slovene Poetry Anthology, ed. Kelly Allen, White Pine Press. He also write the introduction to Romanian poet, Magda Carneci’s Chaos: Poems. He will be chairing the fourth edition of his panel on “Neglected and Forgotten Poets” at the AWP meeting in NYC in January, as well as serving on another panel on “New Ways of Teaching Workshops.” He recently judged the first book contest for ZONE 3 Press (Austin Peay University) and wrote the introduction to the books of poems by both prize winning poets. He directed the Meacham Writers’ Workshop in October and the forthcoming workshop February, and is once again taking creative writing students to Europe this summer. He has edited the poetry for the Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 editions of Hunger Mountain, a Vermont publication, and the current Poetry Miscellany.

Mike Jaynes, English, has published his short story “Midsummer” in Farmhouse Magazine’s January/February 2008 issue. It was selected as a featured story in the issue.

Linda Johnston, education, Valerie Rutledge, education, Linda Rivers, Children’s Center, are currently under contract with Prentice Hall for the publication of a textbook entitled “AT 4 u & me”.
The focus of the text will be the development of low tech strategies for both preservice and inservice educators to utilize within the classroom. The strategies will range from PreK-12 grade levels.

Joseph M. Kizza, computer science and engineering, has written 2007 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE: Computer Network Security and Cyber Ethics, 2d ed., McFarland Publishers, 2006. 223pp. softcover ISBN 978-0-7864-2595-2 ( Joseph M. Kizza)

Joseph M. Kizza, Li Yang, Alma Cemerlic, Feiqiong Liu, Fine-Grained Reputation-based Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, New Brunswick, NY, May 2007.

BOOKS:

J.M. Kizza, Jackson Muhirwe, Janet Aisbett, Katherine Getao, Victor W. Mbarika, Dilip Patel, and Anthony J. Rodrigues (Editors). Strengthing the Role of ICT in Development. Fountain Publishers, Kampala, Uganda, 2007.

J. M. Kizza, Janet Aisbett, Andrew Vince, and Tom Wanyama (Editors).
Special Topics in Computing and ICT Research: Advances in Systems Modelling and ICT Applications. Fountain Publishers, Kampala, Uganda. 2006.

J.M. Kizza and Flo Kizza. Securing the Information Infrastructure, IGI Global, Hershey, PA, 2008.

J. M. Kizza. Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age. Third Edition, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2007.

David Levine, physical therapy, published the article Changes in Lumbar Spinal Motion when Walking and Running on Level, Uphill, and Downhill Surfaces in the Journal of Athletic Training 42(1):29-34; 2007 with Marisa Colston from Athletic Training. He was also appointed as a grant reviewer for the Orthopedic section of the American Physical Therapy Association.

Charles Lippy, philosophy and religion, had his three-volume edited work, Faith in America, as the focus for a panel at the annual meeting of the Religion Research Association and Society for the Scientific Study of Religion in November 2007. In January 2008 he became president-elect of the American Society of Church History.

Claire McCullough, computer science and engineering, recently presented a paper titled, “Use of Neural Networks to Predict Adverse Outcomes from Acute Coronary Syndrome for Male and Female Patients,” at the International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, Cincinnati, Ohio. Co-authors on this paper, which appears in the conference proceedings, are Andy Novobilski, also of computer science and engineering, and Francis Fesmire, M.D., University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Chattanooga Unit.

Mark Mendenhall, business, has co-authored a new book: “Global Leadership: Research, Practice and Development” (London: Routledge, 2008).

Dana Moody, interior design, presentation “Safety prevention through sight simulation: Understand how the aging eye perceives interior finishes” won the Award of Excellence and the National Safety Council Congress in Chicago, IL, October, 2007.

Dana Moody, interior design and Michelle Vineyard, food & nutrition have conducted collaborative research focusing on the historic evolution on kitchen design. From this research they have produced two conference presentations: “The evolution of domestic kitchen design” at the Interior Design Educators Council’s International Conference in Austin, TX, March 2007 and “A Visual Perspective of Industrialization, Kitchen Design, and the Role of Women in the Twentieth Century” at the Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Conference Proceedings in Chattanooga, TN, Fall, 2007

Dana Moody, interior design, presented “The design kaleidoscope: Designing homes as a complex pattern that must constantly change.” at the Tennessee American Family & Consumer Science Conference in Knoxville, TN, Fall, 2007

Dana Moody, interior design, visited Weber State University in Ogden, Utah as an Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) consultant, January, 2008. She performed accreditation consultations for Mississippi College, October, 2007.

Sarla R. Murgai, Lupton Library, and Mohammad Ahmadi, management, (2007). A multiple regression model for predicting reference desk staffing requirements. The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances. V 20#2, 69-76.

Gregory O’Dea, English and University Honors Program, directed two separate workshops in medical humanities for the Tennessee and Georgia state chapters of the American College of Physicians. Each three-day workshop drew national-level audiences, enrolling 50-60 participants and treating the theme of “War and Remembrance” through reading and analysis, lectures, small group discussion sessions, and small group writing activities. O’Dea also served on the faculty of the American College of Physicians at its national meeting in San Diego, California, presenting a workshop course on “Plague and Community.”

Gretchen Potts, chemistry, organized a workshop titled “No time? No Money? No Problem: Solutions for Innovative Analytical Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions” for the 2008 Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, the premier analytical conference for more than 20,000 attendees from 80 countries in industry, academia and government.

M. D. (Peggy) Roblyer, education, graduate studies, has published an article (Roblyer, M.D., Freeman, J., Donaldson, M.B. & Maddox, M. (2007). A comparison of outcomes of virtual school courses offered in synchronous and asynchronous formats. The Internet and Higher Education), and has the following in press: an article (Roblyer, M. D., Davis, L., Mills, S., Marshall, J., & Pape, L. (2008). Toward practical procedures for predicting and promoting success in virtual school students. The American Journal of Distance Education), and a book chapter (Roblyer, M. D. (2008). Virtual schooling: Redefining a place called “school.” In J. Voogt & G. Knezek (Eds.), International Handbook of Information Technology in Education. Amsterdam, NL: Springer-Verlag). She has also had four papers accepted for presentation in March, 2008 at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association in New York, where she will also chair the annual meeting of AERA’s Education and the Internet Special Interest Group (SIG-WWW). She is the featured speaker at Covenant College’s 2008 Educators Conference (http://www.covenant.edu/news/08.30.07.php).

Valara Sample, housing, was awarded the Service Award at the TACUHO Conference (Tennesseee Association for College and University Housing Officers) held in Martin, TN on October 22-23, 2007.

Mina Sartipi, computer science and engineering, F. Delgosha, F. Fekri, “Two-Dimensional Half-Rate Codes Using two-Variable Finite-Field Filter Banks,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 55, Issue 12, pp.5846-5853 December 2007.

M. Sartipi, B. N. Vellambi R, N. Rahnavard, F. Fekri, “DSCM: An Energy Efficient Multicast Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Distributed Source Coding,” IEEE Infocom, April 2008.

M. Sartipi, F. Fekri, “Distributed Source Coding in Wireless Sensor Networks using Rate-Compatible LDPC Codes: The Entire Slepian-Wolf Rate Region,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, March 2008.

Booker T. Scruggs, II, sociology, anthropology, and geography, received the Community Service Award from the Unity Group of Chattanooga at the recent M.L. King Celebration held at the Tivoli Theatre.

Beverly Simmons, Lupton Library, published the following: “Academic Users’ Interactions with ScienceDirect in Search Tasks: Affective and Cognitive Behaviors.” Information Processing & Management 44.1 (January 2008): 105-121 (co-authors Tenopir, Wang, Zhang, and Pollard); “Reaching Your Millenials: A Fresh Look at Freshman Orientation.” Tennessee Libraries 57.2 (2007) (co-author Carter); and, “E-Mail is SO 5 Minutes Ago: Implementing IM Reference at UTC Lupton Library.” Tennessee Libraries 57.1 (2007) (co-author Cairns.) Simmons made two presentations at the Tennessee Library Association’s 2007 Annual Conference. Simmons has been invited to present at the national LOEX 2008 Annual Conference and the 2008 Tennessee Library Association Annual Conference.

Cathie Smith, physical therapy, presented a full day preconference and a concurrent session at the national Developmental Interventions for Neonatal Care sponsored by Contemporary Forums in Las Vegas. The preconference examined “The Role of Movement and Posture in Promoting Efficient Physiologic Performance in Preterm Infants” and the topic of the concurrent session was “Movement and Posture: Identifying Adaptive and Maladaptive Motor System Markers in Preterm Infants.” Smith presented a half day conference at the fall state Tennessee Physical Therapy Association meeting entitled “Hands on Help: Manual facilitation techniques designed to enhance positive neural adaptation in young children with movement system dysfunction.” She has been invited to present two sessions at the national Young Child with Special Needs conference in May addressing the topics of “To touch or not to touch: How do you decide?” and “Learning to listen and speak more effectively with your hands: A different perspective on communication.” During summer, 2008 she will co-direct an international faculty/student exchange to Romania, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.

Ron Smith, mathematics, has been awarded a THEC Grant of $74,993 to co-direct (with Francesco Barioli, mathematics) a summer workshop for algebra teachers entitled “Applications of Algebra and Statistics IV.” He also published the articles “Path Product Matrices and Eventually Inverse M-matrices” (joint with C.R. Johnson), SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 29, no. 2, (2007), 370-376 and “Positive, Path Product, and Inverse M-matrices” (joint with C.R. Johnson), Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 421, (2007), 328-337. He gave the talk “Some Remarks on Inverse M-matrices” at the Robert C. Thompson Matrix Theory Symposium, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, March, 2007, and the invited talk “Schur Complements and Eigenvalue Inequalities” at the mini-symposium Schur Complements and their Applications (held in honor of Hans Schneider) at the 14th Annual Meeting of the International Linear Algebra Society, University of Shanghai, Shanghai, China, July, 2007.

Joanie Sompayrac, accounting, has co-authored an article with Linda Christiansen (from Indiana University) and former MBA student Arie Veltenaar, Minimizing the Effect of the Federal Estate Tax on Family Farms: A Continuing Issue, is scheduled to be published this spring in Todays CPA.

Joanie Sompayrac’s article, written with D. Michael Costello, Thinking Merger? A Proper Courtship Can Avert A Nasty Divorce, was published in January in The CPA Journal, Vol. 78, Issue 1, January 2008, pgs. 63-65.

Felicia Sturzer, foreign languages, published the paper “Writing the Self and Textual Authority in the Letters of Julie de Lespinasse” in New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 5(Feb., 2008). She also published a review of Mary Sheriff’s book, Moved by Love: Inspired Artists & Deviant Women in 18th Century France (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2004) in the same journal. She delivered a paper, “Villains, Heroes, Turkish Pirates, Gladiators, and Fairy Tales: Madame d’Aulnoy’s Novel Histoire d’Hypolite, Comte de Duglas” at the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Auburn University, February 14 - 16, 2008. At the same meeting, she chaired two sessions on “French ‘Letters’ I: Influences and Intersections” and “French ‘Letters’ II: Real and Fictional Contexts in Art and Literature”. She is on the Editorial Board of Women in French Studies and Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century.

Gary Wilkerson, health and human performance, is the lead author of a research report to be published in the March 2008 issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (co-authors Nicholas Boer, Chris Smith, and Greg Heath): Health-Related Factors Associated With the Healthcare Costs of Office Workers. He is also the lead author for two research reports to be presented at the Second International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health in Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 13-16, 2008: 1) Self-Reported Physical Activity Level is a Key Predictor of Metabolic Health Risk and High Healthcare Cost Cases among Office Workers (co-authors Greg Heath and Nicholas Boer) and 2) Validation of the Patient-Centered Assessment and Counseling for Exercise (PACE) Survey as a Useful Tool for Worksite Assessment of Employee Physical Activity Level (co-authors Greg Heath and Burch Oglesby).

Anne Wilkins, accounting, was a presenter on current developments in income taxes for the Chattanooga Chapter of the Governmental Accountants Association and the Chattanooga Chapter of the Association of Women Accountants. Wilkins was appointed to the Board of Directors of Northwest Georgia Bank.

Li Yang, computer science, published the following in 2008: “Detection of changes in transitive associations by shortest-path analysis of protein interaction networks integrated with gene expression profiles,” in proceedings of the International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI), accepted, 2008. (Co-authors: Hong Qin); “Trust-based Usage Control in Collaborative Environment, International Journal of Information Security and Privacy,” April 2008, to appear. (Co-authors: Chang Phuong, Andy Novobilski, and Raimund Ege); “Aspect-Oriented Analysis of Security in Object-Oriented Distributed Virtual Environments, book chapter in handbook of Research on Information Assurance and Security,” in press. (Co-authors: Raimund Ege, Lin Luo).

Fall 2007

Mohammad Ahmadi, management, published the following in 2007: Information Technology (IT) and the Health Care Industry: A SWOT Analysis, International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics (IJHISI), Volume 3, Number 1, 2007. (Co-Authors: Helms and Moore); A Multiple Regression Model for Predicting Reference Desk Staffing Requirement, The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances, Volume 20, Number 2, 2007. (Co-author: Murgai)]; Is PowerPoint Evil? Students’ Perceptions, Review of Business research, Volume VII, Number 4, 2007 (Co-authors: Dileepan and Raiszadeh); Study Guide & Workbook to Accompany Statistics for Business and Economics (10th Edition 2007), Thomson Learning, Inc.; Test Bank to Accompany Statistics for Business and Economics by Anderson, Sweeny, and Williams, South-Western Publishing Company, Tenth Edition (2007).

Jooyong Ahn, music, debuted in Shanghai, China, to conduct the combined orchestras of Shanghai Conservatory of Music (pre-college division) and University of Memphis Orchestra in May, 2007, and also gave master classes in China and Korea respectively. This trip was part of student recruitment and funded by UTC.

Tom Buggey, graduate studies, had the following study published in the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions: Video self-modeling applications at school and home.

Sandy Cole, Center for Community Career Education, served as a proposal reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education’s Smaller Learning Communities Program. She also served as a proposal reviewer for the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration’s Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program.

Helen Eigenberg, criminal justice, was elected to a three year term as an at-large Board Member for the Tennessee State Victims of Crime State Coordinating Council. The purpose of the Council is to promote awareness of the needs of victims of crime as well as coordinate and assist the efforts of victims’ rights organizations throughout the state of Tennessee. She also is the faculty liaison for the Tennessee State Victim Academy which is a partnership between the Council and UTC, and serves on the Steering Committee for that initiative.

John Fitzpatrick, philosophy and religion, has recently signed a contract with The Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. to publish a book in their Starting with… series. The title is Starting with Mill and the work will focus on the British philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1873).

Kevin Ford, music, has been invited to present at the annual VISTA conference of College and University choral directors in Breckenridge, Colorado.

Tim Gaudin, biology, has published the book Amniote Paleobiology: Perspectives on the Evolution of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles. Carrano, M. T., Gaudin, T. J., Blob, R. W. & Wible, J. R. (eds.). 2006. Amniote Paleobiology: Perspectives on the Evolution of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 547 pp.

Gregory Grant, chemistry, has been named one of seven finalists for a national CUR Fellows Award for research with undergraduate students sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). Grant has also published a paper, “Fixation of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide by a Cadmium(II) Macrocyclic Complex” in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Dalton Transactions which describes a new compound that removes carbon dioxide by reacting with it.

Gregory Heath, health and human performance, has been appointed to the Tennessee Health Commissioner’s Child Nutrition and Wellness advisory council, Tennessee Department of Health. He has been appointed to the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Scientific Advisory Board, Washington, D.C. Heath was also appointed as a member of the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) review study section — Kidney diseases, nutrition, obesity, and diabetes (KNOD): 2007 - present. He was named to the Journal of Physical Activity and Health, Editorial Board: 2007- present and the ACSM’s Health and Fitness Journal Editorial Board: 2007-present.

Christopher Hensley, criminal justice, has had one article published and two manuscripts accepted for publication. They include: Hensley, C., Tewksbury, R., & Koscheski, M. (2007). Examining criminology majors’ and non-majors’ attitudes toward inmate programs, services, and amenities. Criminal Justice Studies, 20(3), 217-230; Hensley, C., & Tallichet, S. E. (Forthcoming). Childhood and adolescent animal cruelty methods and their possible link to adult violent crimes. Journal of Interpersonal Violence; Hensley, C., & Tallichet, S. E. (Forthcoming). The effect of inmates’ self-reported childhood and adolescent animal cruelty motivations on the number of convictions for adult violent interpersonal crimes. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.

Jean Howard-Hill, political science, heads the Tennessee Youth Study which targets the youth population for Chattanooga, Knoxville, Nashville and Memphis. Study will provide data and in-depth analysis of the State of Tennessee’s youth population, in order to connect youth and the community in creating safer environments, reducing crime and violence, addressing youth related issues, improving education, maintaining, strengthening and creating new programs, and servicing the needs of youth, so that they can obtain higher education and achieve higher goals.
Howard-Hill was also recognized through two resolutions from the 105th Tennessee General Assembly and Governor Phil Bredesen for outstanding and exemplary job in engaging UTC students in learning, and healthy and meaningful discussion that have enriched their higher education learning experience, spring 2007. Additionally, Howard-Hill worked with Barbara Medley, sociology, anthropology and geography and Center for Applied Social Research, as a research team to provide research and data availability report for the Office of Multicultural Affairs for the City of Chattanooga, Spring and Summer 2007. Howard-Hill was presented with a Certificate of Recognition for outstanding, meaningful and significant contribution to the personal and academic enhancement of the students of the Many Faces of Diversity at UTC Summer Program 2007. She was also presented with a Certificate of Recognition for outstanding service to the students and Staff of Leading Youth to Success, center for Community career Education, University of Tennessee 2007.

Bruce Hutchinson and Leila J. Pratt, economics, have written “Is Contracting-Out Government Services the Great Panacea: Evidence from Public School Transportation in Louisiana?” which will be forthcoming in The Journal of Private Enterprise. This research follows their previously published analysis of public school transportation in Tennessee.

Michael Jaynes, English, has published the short story “Monsters” in Farmhouse Magazine. Another story, “Animal Man,” will be published in the September/October issue of Riverwalk Journal.

David Levine, physical therapy, was appointed as the chairman of the scientific committee for the 5th International Symposium on Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy in Veterinary Medicine, August 2008 at the University of Minnesota. He has published several books in this field that have been translated into 8 different languages.

Wilfred McClay, humanities, has been featured in “Figures in the Carpet,” a free 60-minute podcast that reflects on how the understanding of human nature has influenced American history and how American history has shaped understanding of the meaning of human nature. McClay is one of five cultural historians featured in the podcast.

Karen McGuffee, legal assistant studies, Helen Eigenberg, criminal justice and Tammy Garland, criminal justice, have a forthcoming paper titled “Is Jury Selection Fair? Perceptions of Race and the Jury Selection Process” to be published in the Fall issue (Volume 20 # 4) of A Critical Journal of Crime, Law And Society. The article examines potential jurors’ perceptions of jury service and the role of race in selection and dismissal for service.

Melanie McCoskey, accounting, was named president-elect of the Chattanooga Chapter of American Society of Women Accountants. She is also chair of the Program Committee.

Lyn Miles, anthropology, was elected as Chair of the University of Tennessee Faculty Council in May, 2007, in Nashville. The UT Faculty Council meets several times a year and confers with, advises, and communicates with UT President John Petersen on system-wide matters of interest to the faculties of UTC, University of Tennessee at Martin, and University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center. Miles will serve for one year, with a renewable term.

Tiffany Mitchell, English, will present a paper titled “Fire Starters: Politics from the Margins” at the 6th Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, which will be held in Little Rock, Arkansas. “Fire Starters” explores the rhetoric of Barbara Jordan and Shirley Chisholm.

John Phillips, foreign languages and philosophy and religion, has a new book out from Brill Publishers entitled Order From Disorder. Proclus’ Doctrine of Evil and its Roots in Ancient Platonism. The book is part of Brill’s new Platonism and Neoplatonism series.

Oralia Preble-Niemi, foreign languages and literatures, was recently named the 2007-2008 Cambridge Professional of the Year representing Foreign Language and Literature in Higher Education in the 2007-2008 edition of the Cambridge Who’s Who.

Irven M. Resnick, philosophy and religion, has been awarded a grant of $198,545 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to co-direct a summer 2008 faculty institute entitled “Holy Land and Holy City in Classical Judaism, Christianity, and Islam” at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (England). During summer 2007, Resnick led the first UTC Summer in Oxford program at the Oxford Centre, where 26 UTC undergraduates studied over a five week period.

M. D. (Peggy) Roblyer, education, graduate studies, was elected president of the American Educational Research Association’s Education and the World Wide Web Special Interest Group (AERA’s SIG-WWW) for the 2007-2009 term. As SIG president, she will oversee the SIG publications and conference presentations and chair the 2008 Business Meeting at the AERA 2008 Annual Conference in New York in March, 2008.

Edward Rozema, mathematics, published the article “Epidemic Models for SARS and Measles,” College Math. J., 38 (2007), 246 - 259.

Tom Rybolt, chemistry, with his student co-authors Christina Wells, Charles Sisson, Claire Black, and Katherine Ziegler, published: Evaluation of molecular mechanics calculated binding energies for isolated and monolayer organic molecules on graphite in the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 314, 434-445 (2007). Tom Waddell (retired) and Tom Rybolt, chemistry, previously published a book of Sherlock Holmes stories which has been translated into French by Paul Depovere: L’affaire des cristaux jaunes et autres enigmes, 15 mysteres chimiques resolus par Sherlock Holmes (The business of the yellow crystals and other enigmas, 15 chemical mysteries solved by Sherlock Holmes) and published in France by Dunod Publishers.

David Sachsman, Kit Rushing, communication, and Roy Morris Jr. are preparing three books of edited conference papers (from UTC’s annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression) titled Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Cold Mountain; Words at War: The Civil War and American Journalism; and Seeking a Voice: Images of Race and Gender in the 19th Century Press. Purdue University Press published Memory and Myth in July 2007. Sachsman presented “The Urban Environment: The Metro Story of the 21st Century” in the panel on “Community and Journalism - and the Stretching of Place” sponsored by the Urban Communication Foundation at the National Press Club, August 10, 2007, as part of the AEJMC annual convention.
Sachsman, James Simon of Fairfield University, and JoAnn Myer Valenti presented a paper titled “Environment Reporters and U.S. Journalists: A Comparative Analysis” at the 90th annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), August 9, 2007, in Washington, D.C. Sachsman also presented “Environment Reporters in the 21st Century: What Distinguishes This Beat from Others?” (the research of Sachsman, Simon, and Valenti) at the annual convention of the Society of Environmental Journalists, September 7, 2007, at Stanford University.

Charlene Simmons, communication, was recognized for her award-winning article at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC) annual convention. Simmons explored questions of the Internet becoming an alternate source of information. Simmons’ paper, “The interconnected Web: Media consolidation, corporate ownership, and the World Wide Web,” has been judged by the AEJMC as one of the top three faculty papers in her division, Communication Technology.

Steven Symes, chemistry, has been selected to serve on a NASA committee to guide the science objectives related to Mars Sample Return. Within the next decade NASA plans to send a robotic mission to Mars with the specific intent of scooping up samples, blasting them off the surface, and returning them to Earth for detailed chemical analyses. It is hoped that these returned samples will answer fundamental questions regarding the formation of Mars, the timing of volcanic activity, its climate, the presence and role of liquid water, and whether any interesting carbon chemistry has ever taken place.

John Tallman, art, has been included in the prestigious Selections Exhibition at the Drawing Center in New York. Tallman’s work, as well of that of twelve other artists, was selected among a registry of over 2000 artists to be part of the exhibition called, Non-Declarative Art. Non-Declarative Art explores ambiguity and the rejection of overt meaning while presenting drawing-based work that ranges from the pointed to the trivial in subject matter, from perfection in craft to studied clumsiness. The exhibition has been seen on the pages of ArtForum and Time Out New York and will be on display until October 18. The Drawing Center’s website is http://www.drawingcenter.org .

Sandy Watson, education, presented at three national conferences: Teachers for a New Era (Philadelphia, PA): Professional Development Schools; Holmes Conference (San Antonio, TX): Perceptions of Teacher Performance: PDS vs. Non-PDS; Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (Towson, MD): PDS: A Partnership of Success. She also presented a science workshop for Hamilton County grades 3-5 teachers. She has published three articles and a web site in 2007: Sandefur, S., Watson, S.,& Johnston, L. (2007): Literacy Development, Science Curriculum, and the Adolescent English Language Learner: Modifying Instruction for the English-Only Classroom. Multicultural Education, 14(3); Watson, S. & Johnston, L. (2007). Assistive Technology in the Inclusive Science Classroom. The Science Teacher, 30(6); Watson, S. (2007). Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Atomic Bombings and the Resultant Biological Effects of Radiation. Japan Inservice/Preservice Teacher Module. Available: http://68.60.199.117/pas/beta/ ; Watson, S. (2007). Article accepted for publication (in press): Boys, Masculinity and School Violence: Reaping What We Sow to Gender and Education. She along with Dr. Linda Johnston received a funded THEC grant in the amount of $65,000.00 to teach differentiation of science instruction to 4th and 5th grade teachers and special educators from Hamilton, Marion, Grundy and Sequatchie Counties. This workshop took place during the summer of 2007. She presented one day of the ESL Summer Institute on Diversity and Multiculturalism. She received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor.

Anne Wilkins, accounting, was named to the Audit and Compliance Board Committee of Memorial Hospital and the Finance Committee of the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce.

Marilyn Willis, accounting, named president of the Chattanooga Chapter of the American Society of Women Accountants.

Richard L. Wilson, political science, is on sabbatical leave for the 2007-2008 academic year in order to complete various writing projects for which he has contracts. The following chapters or articles have been published or accepted for publication recently: “Habeas Corpus,” Forensic Science. Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, forthcoming 2008; “Jefferson, Thomas: paternity issue,” Forensic Science. Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, forthcoming 2008; “Al Gore,” Great Lives From History: The Twentieth Century. Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, forthcoming 2008; “Hu Yaobang,” Great Lives From History: The Twentieth Century. Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, forthcoming 2008; “Jiang Zemin,” Great Lives From History: The Twentieth Century. Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, forthcoming 2008; “Zhao Ziyang,” Great Lives From History: The Twentieth Century. Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, forthcoming 2008; “Ferraro, Geraldine,” The Eighties in America. Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 2007; “Mondale, Walter,” The Eighties in America. Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 2007; “Schulz, George,” The Eighties in America. Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 2007; “Sioux City Airplane Crash,” The Eighties in America. Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 2007; “Mao Zedong,” Notorious Lives. Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 2007; “Yuan Shikai,” Notorious Lives. Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 2007; “Eagleton Thomas F.,” The Seventies in America, Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 2007; “Election of 1972,” The Seventies in America, Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 2007; “Kennedy, Ted.” The Seventies in America, Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 2007; “Liddy, G. Gordon, and E. Howard Hunt” The Seventies in America, Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 2007.

Thomas P. Wilson, biology, hosted a student scientist from China in the Asian Scholarship Program (ASP), Fei Yan Zhang. The program is sponsored by the Turtle Survival Alliance. The ASP gives developing scientists from countries that do not have access to direct research areas the opportunity to train with U.S. scientists.

Kathy Winters, computer science, was elected chair of the MidSouthest ACM chapter.