Fall 2009

Adam Trowbridge, Adjunct Professor in the UTC Department of Art (Photo and Media Art), has had his panel entitled “Limited Set: Generative Intersections of Theater and Artificial Life” accepted for the 2010 CAA (College Art Association) national conference being held in Chicago. His performance work, “Hole of Society: On The Passage of a Small Dog through a Rather Shallow Amount of Water” was recently selected for Low Lives, a one-night exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at three venues in the U.S.: FiveMyles, Brooklyn; Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami; and labotanica, Houston in partnership with Project Row Houses.

Karen Adsit, Grayson H. Walker Teaching Resource Center:

Blackboard Exemplary Course Program (ECP) Reviewer

Adsit, Karen I. & Barrett, K. (March 2009). Creating the future by looking at the past: Teaching & learning center assessment. Presentation at the annual Southern Regional Faculty and Instructional Development Consortium annual conference. Louisville, KY.

Mohammad Ahmadi, management, published “Effectiveness of PowerPoint-Based Lectures Across Different Business Disciplines: An Investigation & Implications” Journal of Education for Business March/April 2009. (Co-Authors: Burke and James).

Jooyong Ahn, music, was awarded a travel grant from U.S. State Department and U.S. Embassy in Argentina to give masterclasses in Buenos Aires, San Martin, Salta, Jujuy, Chascomus, Dolores, Berisso and Bahia Blanca in June and July 2009. He also gave two performances with orchestras including the Argentine premiere of UTC faculty Mario Abril’s “Overture for School.” This project was overseeing youth orchestra programs in Argentina which came from Venezuela known as “La sistema.”

Betsy Alderman, communication:
Publication
“Use of the Eleven Professional Values and Competencies to Evaluate Interns: A Case Study,” first author, published in Insights, the journal of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, Spring 2009.

Presentation
“Pre and Post Writing Test Assessment: Determining Rater Reliability,” first author, accepted for presentation to the Intellectual International Consortium Academic Conference, October 2009.

Nesli Alp, engineering management, received $50,000 grant from the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of East Tennessee as the second payment of $150,000 grant for a three-year period, to support the Construction Management program in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. She also has two peer-reviewed papers accepted for the American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM) Conference in October 2009.

Kyle Anderson, SimCenter, submitted the following:

Publications:
1. Lange, K. and Anderson, W.K. “Using Sensitivity Derivatives for Design and Computing Error Bounds in an Atmospheric Plasma Discharge Simulation,” 61st Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, October 2008.
2. Anderson, W. Kyle, Karman, Steve L., and Burdyshaw, Chad, “Geometry Parameterization Using Control Grids,” AIAA 2008-Presented at the 12th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Victoria, BC, September 10-12, 2008.
3. Lange, K. and Anderson, W.K. “Sensitivity Derivatives for Plasma Discharge Simulations.” AIAA-2008-5930. 12th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, September 2008.
4. Kapadia, S. and Anderson, W.K., “Sensitivity Analysis for Solid Oxide Fuel cells using a Three-Dimensional Numerical Model,” Journal of Power Sources, Volume 189, Issue 2, April, 2009, Pages 1074-1082
5. Kapadia, S., Anderson, W.K., Elliott, L., Burdyshaw, C., “Adjoint-Based Sensitivity Analysis and Error Correction Methods Applied to Solid Oxide Fuel Cells.” (To be published in ASME Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology)
6. Anderson, W.K., Karman, S.L., and Burdyshaw, C., “Geometry Parameterization Method for Multidisciplinary Applications,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 47, No. 6, June 2009.
7. Kapadia, S., Anderson, W. K., and Burdyshaw, C., “Channel Shape Design of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” UTC-CECS-SimCenter-2009-01, June 2009.

Presentations:
1. Lange, K. and Anderson, K. ‘Using Sensitivity Derivatives for Design and Computing Error Bounds in an Atmospheric Plasma Discharge Simulation,” presented at 61st Gaseous Electronics Conference, Dallas, Tx October, 2008.
2. Anderson, W.K., Karman, S.L., and Burdyshaw, C, “Geometry Parameterizatio Using Control Grids,” paper presented at 12th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Sep. 10-12, 2008
3. Anderson, W.K., Kapadia, S., and Burdyshaw, C., “Numerical Simulation, Sensitivity Analysis, and Design of Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells,” Invited presentation at the Office of Naval Research Undersea Energy and Propulsion Workshop, Dec. 2008, Southbridge, Mass.

- Appointed as Associate Editor for the AIAA Journal
- Granted Patent 7,546,638 for Automatic Identification and Clean-up of Malicious Computer Code
- Appointed to AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Technical Committee (APA)
- Appointed APA liaison to AIAA Modeling, Grid Generation, and Computing Environments Technical Committee
- Chaired 1 session at AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January, 2009.
- Chaired 2 sessions at AIAA CFD Conference, June, 2009.
- Filled provisional patent application for geometry parameterization method.
- Board of Directors of the Chattanooga Technology Council

Sybil Baker, English, was Director of the first UTC’s Summer Writers’ Conference held July 25-31. Her linked short story collection, That Girl, was accepted for publication by C&R Press. Her short story, “Moles,” will appear in The Otter Tail Review, Vol. 3 (an anthology) in October 2009.

Boris Belinskiy, mathematics:
Paper
On Controllability of an Elastic Ring (with S.A. Avdonin and S.A. Ivanov), Applied Mathematics and Optimization 60, No. 1, 71-103 (2009)

Referee report for
–J. of Sound and Vibration

–Applied Mathematics and Computations

Two reports for Math Reviews

Michaël Bonnal, economics, has published the following journal articles:
- “Export Performance, Labor Standards and Institutions: Evidence from a Dynamic Panel Data Model,” accepted for publication in Journal for Labor Research, and
- “Economic Growth and Labor Standards: Evidence from a Dynamic Panel Data Model,” accepted for publication in Review of Development Economics.

Bonnal has been invited to give a seminar on “Child Labor, Openness, Human Capital and Technology” as part of the American University of Paris (AUP) Working Paper Series in the Social Sciences (WPS) (www.aup.fr/graduate/mpp-maia/conferences/wpseries.htm). Former WPS events featured Sevket Pamuk, Paul de Grauwe, Daniel Cohen, Stephen Harber, James Angresano, Mike Bordo, Ricardo Hausmann, Lee Alston, Gianfranco Poggi, Michel Wieviorka, Agnes Benassy, among others.

He will attend the Southern Economic Association meetings and present “Higher education opportunities and local employment conditions.” He will also attend the American Economic Association meetings and preside a session on “Energy, Environmental, Regional Economics.”

Robert Boyer, Patten Performances, has a one-person show of 24 landscape photographs traveling to several venues in Tennessee during fall semester 2009 and spring semester 2010. The first show is at Germantown Performing Arts Center in Memphis, TN from September 14 - November 4. The color and black & white images are from the east Tennessee/western North Carolina mountains and the southwestern United States.

Roger Briley, SimCenter, submitted the following:

Publications:
1. Dweik, Z., Briley, W.R., Swafford, T.W., and Hunt, B., “Computational Study of the Heat Transfer of the Buoyancy-Driven Rotating Cavity with Axial Throughflow of Cooling Air,” GT2009-59978, ASME Turbo EXPO 2009, June 8-12, 2009, Orlando, FL.
2. Dweik, Z., Briley, W.R., Swafford, T.W., and Hunt, B., “Computational Study of the Unsteady Flow Structure of the Buoyancy-Driven Rotating Cavity with Axial Throughflow of Cooling Air,” GT2009-59969, ASME Turbo EXPO 2009, June 8-12, 2009, Orlando, FL.
3. Briley, W. Roger and McDonald, H., “Reflections on the Evolution of Implicit Navier-Stokes Algorithms,” UTC-CECS-SimCenter-2008-04, September 2008.
4. Sivakumar, P., Hyams, D.G., Taylor, L.K., and Briley, W.R., “Using Sensitivity Derivatives for the Purpose of Design in a High Pressure Glow Discharge Simulation,” UTC-CECS-SimCenter-2008-06, November 2008.

Scott Bruce, health and human performance, spoke at the National Athletic Trainers’ Association’s 60th Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium in San Antonio, Texas, in June 2009. Topic was entitled: “Easy to Create Clinical Prediction Rules”

Also during the same conference, assisted in a learning laboratory session entitled: “Postural Relationship to Athletic Injuries: Pilates as Prevention”

Tom Buchanan, sociology, published the following article: “Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health: The Role of Lifestyle, Education, Income, and Wealth” (with Lisa Cubbins, Battelle Memorial Institute) in May, 2009 issue of Sociological Focus.

Tom Buggey, education:
Research:
Buggey, T., Hoomes, G., Williams, S. & Sherberger, B. (In Press, Focus on Autism). Facilitating social initiations with preschoolers with autism using self-modeling.

Book:
Buggey, T. (2009). Seeing is Believing: Self-modeling Applications with Children with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities. Baltimore; Woodbine House.

Book Chapter:
Buggey, T. (In Press). Video modeling for people with autism. In Prelock, P. & McCauley, R. (Eds.). Effective Interventions for Persons with Autism. Baltimore; Brookes.
Videos:

Video:
Buggey, T., (2009). Yes We Can! II. The Face RTI. TN Department of Education. Video featuring 3 model schools that have instituted the Response to Intervention model.

Presentations:
Oct. 09 – Recent Research in Self-modeling Research with Preschoolers with Autism. Annual CEC Division of Early Childhood Conference, Albuquerque.

Scheduled:
January 2010 - Video Modeling to facilitate language in children with autism. American Speech and Hearing Association’s Annual Online Conference.

April 2010 - Self-modeling uses for persons with autism spectrum disorder - Kansas Dept. of Human Services.

Chad Burdyshaw, SimCenter, submitted the following:

Publications:
1. Kapadia, S., Anderson, W. K., and Burdyshaw, C., “Channel Shape Design of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” UTC-CECS-SimCenter-2009-01, June 2009.

Susanne Burgess, Southeast Center for Education in the Arts, will present “An Integrated Approach to Music and Reading: Building Expressive Readers and Singers” at the Greek Society for Music Education in Athens, Greece in October 2009. The lesson demonstration will introduce a conceptual framework for planning and delivering integrated instruction that endeavors to build student fluency, expression and comprehension in both areas of instruction.

Rebecca Cook, English, was a Margaret Bridgman Scholar in Fiction at the 2009 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Amy Doolittle, social work, was invited to submit a chapter to be included in the appendix of the book Crossroads: Essays on a Christ-Centered Approach to Benevolence (2010). The chapter, “Service-Learning Outcomes at a Faith-Based Institution of Higher Education,” was accepted and has just been published in the book by Cengage Learning.

Gene Ezell, health and human performance, has co-authored a textbook, Teaching Today’s Health, 9th edition, for Benjamin Cummings Publishing, San Francisco, California. The text is used in at least one college in each of the 50 states, and has been translated for use in Taiwan.

Bento Lobo, Christi Wann, and John Fulmer published an article titled “Managing Late Payments for International Sales” in the September/October 2009 edition of The Journal of Corporate Accounting & Finance.

Bento Lobo, Christi Wann, and John Fulmer, business, published an article title “Managing Late Payments for International Sales” in the September/October 2009 edition of The Journal of Corporate Accounting & Finance.

Elizabeth Gailey, communication. Conference paper: “We’re all Corporate Whores Here”: Memory and Threatened Masculinity in AMC’s ‘Mad Men’,” National Women’s Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 12-15, 2009

Martina Harris, nursing, was awarded the Mary B. Jackson Professorship. She was selected to participate in the 2009 Air Force Recruiting Service Health Professionals Tour held in San Antonio, Texas. She also attended a conference in which she presented a poster.

Martina Harris, nursing, continues to serve as Project Director of the UTC School of Nursing Workforce Diversity grant -DREAMWork, (Diversity Recruitment and Education to Advance Minorities in the nursing Workforce) DREAMWork Nursing Diversity Grant. The total grant award is $912,028, secured from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The grant is now in year three year.

Gregory W. Heath, health and human performance, accomplished the following during 2009:

Awarded: The 2009 Charles C. Shepard Science Award, 1st Place in the Prevention and Control category, awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Co-Author, Cost Effectiveness of Community-based Physical Activity Interventions, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Presented: “Overview of the Physical Activity Guidelines For Americans” at the annual meeting of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, April, 2009 and at the annual meetings of the American College of Sports Medicine, June, 2009;

“The Cost-Effectiveness of Community-based Interventions to Promote Physical Activity” at the Institute for Nutrition of Central America and Panama’s 60th Anniversary Symposium, Guatemala City, Guatemala, C.A. - August 21-22, 2009.

Published:
Heath GW. Physical activity epidemiology. In: Exploring Exercise Science. Wilson, Gregory (Ed) McGraw-Hill, NY, NY, 2009, pp. 170-181.

Heath GW. Behavioral approaches to physical activity promotion. In: Clinical Exercise Physiology, second edition. Ehrman JK, Gordon PM, Visich PS, and Keteyian SJ (Eds) Human Kinetics, Champaign-Urbana, 2009, pp. 17-30.

Heath GW and Brown DW. Recommended levels of physical activity and health-related quality of life among overweight and obese adults in the United States: 2005. Journal of Physical Activity and Health. 2009;6(4):403-411.

Heath GW. Physical activity transitions and chronic disease. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. Jul 2009; vol. 3: pp. 27S - 31S.

Roux L, Pratt M, Tengs TO, Yore MM, Yanagawa TL, Van Den Bos J, Rutt C, Brownson RC, Powell KE, Heath G, Kohl HW 3rd, Teutsch S, Cawley J, Lee IM, West L, Buchner DM. Cost effectiveness of community-based physical activity interventions. Am J Prev Med. Dec. 2008;35(6):578-88.

Christopher Hensley, criminal justice, co-wrote the following journal article that was published in 2009: Recurrent childhood animal cruelty: Is there a relationship to adult recurrent interpersonal violence? Criminal Justice Review, 34(2), 248-257.

Daniel Hyams, SimCenter, submitted the following:

Publications:
1. Sivakumar, P., Hyams, D.G., Taylor, L.K., and Briley, W.R., “Using Sensitivity Derivatives for the Purpose of Design in a High Pressure Glow Discharge Simulation,” UTC-CECS-SimCenter-2008-06, November 2008.
2. Wilson, R., Lei, J., Karman, Jr., S., Hyams, D., Sreenivas, K., Taylor, L., and Whitfield D., 2008, “Simulation of Large Amplitude Ship Motions for Prediction of Fluid-Structure Interaction,” Proceedings of the 27th ONR Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Seoul, Korea, 5-10 Oct. 2008.

Debbie Ingram, physical therapy, was the invited speaker for the summer graduation doctoral hodding ceremony at Georgia State University. She also represented the Education Section of the American Physical Therapy Association at the annual Government Affairs Forum in Washington, DC.

Richard Jackson, English, published 17 poems in Crab Orchard Review (So Illinois U), Salt Hill (Syracuse U), Superstition Review (AZ State U), CutThroat (Durango, Co), Indiana Review (U of Indiana), Chattahoochee Review (Georgia), Consonance (NYC), New Ohio Review (Ohio U), A Remembered State (Prague), Cerise (Paris), Prairie Schooner (U Nebraska), Brilliant Corners (Pennsylvania), and Poetry Daily (online anthology).

He gave readings of his work at Vermont College, University of Iowa, Fort Lewis College (Durango), also conducting workshops in all three places, and Poet’s House (NYC). He has been invited to give readings at the AWP National Convention in Denver and The Slovene Literature Society/Ugly Duckling Press Program in NYC where he will also introduce a Slovene Poetry anthology he wrote the introduction for. He was featured in Citiscope and the UTC Alumni Publication. He is directing the bi-annual Meacham Writers’ Workshops and participated in UTC’s first Writers’ Conference (reading, workshop). In May he took a group of UTC students to Tuscany for a series of workshops and cultural experiences. He is editing Poetry Miscellany for the 39th year, and is a contributing editor for the Pushcart Prize Anthology. He is the winner of the 2009 AWP George Garrett Prize for teaching and Arts promotion. His 10th book of poems, Resonance, is due out from Ashland Poetry Press (Ashland, OH)at the end of the semester.

M. Jaynes, English, has published several new pieces, been invited to three conferences, and received the following award:

His paper “Meat and Porn: An Ecofeminist Perspective” was accepted to the third annual Global Studies Conference to be hosted by Pusan National University, South Korea, June 21-23 2010. He has also been invited to speak at the conference.

His article “Animal Defense, Earth Defense, Ecofeminism: Compassionate Bedfellows” was published in EarthFirst!: The Radical Environmental Journal Volume 29 number 3 pps. 20, 21.

His story “Confessions of a Recovering Reckless Hypochondriac” was published in the Spring 2009 issue of Wordriver Literary Review published by the University of Nevada at Las Vegas

He has been invited to Portland State University’s 2010 Let Live Festival to speak on Ecofeminism and the animal advocacy movement in the United States.

He has also been invited to the National Animal Rights Convention hosted by the Farm Animal Rights Movement to be held in Washington D.C., in the summer of 2010.

He was awarded the English Department’s Special Award for Scholarship by the Department Head.

He was asked to submit regular columns for the progressive Four Corners Magazine published in Sedona, Arizona.

He was featured as a “Person to Watch” by the Chattanooga Times Free Press for his newly designed Women’s Studies course, “Activist Ecofeminism.”

His book review of Mike Hudak’s “Western Turf Wars: The Politics of Public Lands Ranching” was published in Paragon Earth and Paragon Magazine

Jessica Westbrook, art, has had her independent research/work selected for the following projects/programs in 2009: Syzygy at The Lab, San Francisco, CA, Pulling Back the Curtain Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media, Jamaica Plain, MA, INHABIT at SoFA Gallery Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, The Way We Are/A Museum of Now NXNW Festival, Manchester, UK, 10 Seconds Video Festival at the Soap Box, Minneapolis, MN, Screengrab: Intervention at the School of Creative Arts, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD Australia, Materialization Deborah Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, and Images of The Apocalypse at the Welch Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Her work was also featured in a write up “Jessica Westbrook General Assembly,” by Christien Garcia in Static 8: General; Journal of the London Consortium with Architectural Association, Birkbeck College (University of London), the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Science Museum and Tate.

Sagar Kapadia, SimCenter, submitted the following:

Publications:
1. Kapadia, S. and Anderson, W.K., “Sensitivity Analysis for Solid Oxide Fuel cells using a Three-Dimensional Numerical Model,” Journal of Power Sources, Volume 189, Issue 2, April, 2009, Pages 1074-1082
2. Kapadia, S., Anderson, W.K., Elliott, L., Burdyshaw, C., “Adjoint-Based Sensitivity Analysis and Error Correction Methods Applied to Solid Oxide Fuel Cells.” (To be published in ASME Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology)
3. Kapadia, S., Anderson, W. K., and Burdyshaw, C., “Channel Shape Design of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” UTC-CECS-SimCenter-2009-01, June 2009.
4. Sagar Kapadia, “Sensitivity Analysis of Three-Dimensional Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Model,” at the 6th International Fuel Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, Denver, June 16-18, 2008.

Presentation:
1. S. Kapadia, W.K. Anderson, and C. Burdyshaw, “Channel shape design of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells”, 7th International ASME Science, Engineering and Technology Conference, Newport Beach, CA, June 8 - 10, 2009.

Steve Karman, SimCenter, submitted the following:

Publications:
1. “F-16XL Geometry and Computational Grids Used in Cranked-Arrow Wing Aerodynamics Project International”, AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Volume 46, Number 2, pp. 369-376, March-April 2009
2. “Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Solutions for the CAWAPI F-16XL Using Different Hybrid Grids”, AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Volume 46, Number 2, pp. 409-422, March-April 2009
3. “Geometry Parameterization Method for Multidisciplinary Applications”, AIAA Journal, Volume 47, Number 6, pp. 1568-1578, June 2009.

Presentation/papers
1. “Hierarchical Unstructured Mesh Generation with General Cutting for Free Surface Simulations”, 27th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, October 2008.
2. “Unstructured Elliptic Smoothing Revisited”, AIAA-2009-1362, January 2009.
3. “CFD Modeling of F-35 Using Hybrid Unstructured Meshes”, AIAA-2009-3662, June 2009.

Professional Organization:
Chairman of the Meshing, Visualization and Computational Environments Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

- Appointed for a 2 year term on the organizing committee for the International Meshing Roundtable technical conference held in October each year. The term ends in October 2009.

Joseph Kizza, engineering and computer science:

1.Keynote: “(Inter)net Neutrality: Your Voice Matters”, at the 4th Annual International Conference on Computing and ICT Research, - SREC2009

2. Keynote: “Implementing Security in Sensor Networks”, at the 3nd Annual International Conference on Computing and ICT Research, - SREC2008.

BOOKS:

3. J. M. Kizza. Guide to Computer Network Security. Springer-Verlag, 2009. London, UK

4. J.M. Kizza, Janet Aisbett, Greg Gibson, Anthony J. Rodridges, Revi Nath and Gerald R. Renardel (Editors). Special Topics in Computing and ICT Research: Strengthening the Role of ICT in Development. Fountain Publishers, Kampala, Uganda, 2008.

RESEARCH:

5. Summer ‘09 USAF Faculty Fellowship - Rome New York.

6. IASP U.S. Department of Defense grant to support scholarships at UTC in the Information Assurance (IA) program.

JOURNAL WORK:

7. Editor –in-Chief for the International Journal of Computing and ICT Research (IJCIR)
8. Member Editorial Board:
 International Journal of Emerging Mechanical Engineering Technology
 African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation, and Development.
 International Cyber crimes Journal Society of Productivity Enhancements (ISPE)
 International Journal of Information Science (IJIS)

David Levine, physical therapy, was appointed editor of the textbook Gait Analysis: An Introduction. The 5th edition will be published in 2010. The textbook title for this and future editions will be changed to Whittle’s Gait Analysis: An Introduction, in honor of Michael Whittle, a UTC Professor from 1990-2005.

Phillip Andrew Lewis, Adam Trowbridge, and Jessica Westbrook, art, work collaboratively on interdisciplinary art+technology projects under the name TEH. This year TEH has been invited by Sewanee (The University of The South), Western Kentucky University, and Fort Point Boston, to develop and implement site based installations using simulation, sound, and responsive technology. This new work will push the boundaries of cultural expectations and perception through the use of art, science, and electronics.

Brendon McDermott, health and human performance:

McDermott BP, Casa DJ, O’Connor FG, Adams WB, Armstrong LE, Brennan AH, Lopez RM, Stearns RL, Troyanos C, Yeargin SW. Cold-water Dousing with Ice Massage to Treat Exertional Heat Stroke: A Case Series. Aviat Space Environ Med. 2009;80:720-722.

Henry McDonald, SimCenter, submitted the following:

Publications:
1. Briley, W. Roger and McDonald, H., “Reflections on the Evolution of Implicit Navier-Stokes Algorithms,” UTC-CECS-SimCenter-2008-04, September 2008.

Jonathan McNair, music, was awarded a “MakeWork” project grant from Create Here, in Chattanooga. The project, titled “Tennessee Valley Voices,” involves the creation of two new works: (1) for baritone voice and string quartet; and (2) for tenor or soprano voice, viola, and harp. These new works, along with other music involving the same performers, will be presented in a regional concert tour in the winter of 2010.

Jonathan McNair, music, was awarded a residency in music composition at the Ucross Foundation ranch in Wyoming, Oct. 26-Nov. 20, 2009.

Jonathan McNair, music, was awarded a residency in music composition for the month of September, at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, located in northeast Georgia.

Jonathan McNair, music, will present his recent work Digressions, for violin and piano, at the National Conference of the College Music Society, in Portland, Oregon, Oct. 23, 2009. The performers will be Corinne Stillwell and Heidi Williams, both from Florida State University.

Digressions was also presented at the Southern Chapter CMS conference, in Orlando, on Feb. 27, 2009, and was awarded Honorable Mention in a national competition held by the Music Teachers National Association.

Jonathan McNair, music, had an original work performed by the Knox-Galesburg Symphony, in Galesburg, Illinois, April 25, 2009. Beachspring, for small orchestra, was commissioned in 1999 by Ballet Tennessee for its Millenium Nutcracker production, and opened the final concert of the season for the Knox-Galesburg Symphony, conducted by Bruce Polay. Both the orchestra and Maestro Polay have been recognized with awards from the Illinois Council of Orchestras.

Jonathan McNair, music, was invited to review two music theory textbooks in 2009 for Oxford University Press in preparation for possible new editions of the books. OUP asked for extensive comments on The Complete Musician, by Steven Laitz, and From Sound to Symbol, by Michael Houlihan.

Susan Giesemann North, English, participated in Science and Its Publics Workshop at the Rhetoric Society of America’s Third Biennial Summer Institute at Pennsylvania State University in June 2009. She presented a working paper entitled “VP, Candidate, Private Citizen: Al Gore’s changing role in the Climate Change Debate.”

She also presented a paper entitled “The Stoic Background of Francis Bacon’s Rhetoric and Natural Philosophy” at the XVIIth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in July 2009.

Gregory O’Dea, English and University Honors Program, directed two separate workshops in medical humanities for the Georgia and Tennessee state chapters of the American College of Physicians (November 2008 and March 2009, respectively). Each three-day workshop drew national-level audiences, enrolling 50-60 participants and treating the themes of “Solitude” and “Images of the Physician” through reading and analysis, lectures, small group discussion sessions, and small group writing activities. In October 2008, he delivered the annual Elie Magnuson Lecture on Literature and Science at Kentucky Wesleyan College, entitled “Alter Egos: Science and Monstrosity in Nineteenth-Century Literature.” In April 2009, O’Dea also served on the faculty of the American College of Physicians at its national meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, presenting a medical humanities workshop course on “Unexpected Outcomes.”

John Phillips, philosophy and religion, presented the paper “Hiding Plato: Platonists’ Attempts to Conceal Plato’s Doctrine” this past summer at the International Society of Neoplatonic Studies Conference in Krakow, Poland. With John Finamore, he will be co-editing a volume of select papers from the Conference. An article, “Plotinus on the Generation of Matter”, is forthcoming in The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition. Another paper, “The Ancient Histories of Platonism”, has been selected for inclusion in a volume co-edited by Jan Opsomer and Mark Beck.

Lynn Purkey, foreign languages and literatures, will present two conferences papers, “History as Fiction: The Civil War in Alberti’s Noche de guerra en el Museo del Prado and ‘Mi última visita al Museo del Prado’” in “History and Fiction” Conference, Carrollton, Georgia, Nov. 12-14, 2009, and “El tiempo chejoviano en García Lorca” in “XXXV Congreso Anual de Literaturas Hispánicas,” Indiana, Pennsylvania, Oct. 16-17, 2009.

Irven Resnick, philosophy and religion, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to reprise his five-week university faculty summer institute, “Representations of the ‘Other’: Jews in Medieval Christendom.” The program, from 6 July–11 August 2010, will convene at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, a recognized independent center of Oxford University. For more information, see http://www.utc.edu/NEH.
Resnick was also invited by the Swiss National Science Foundation to serve as a consultant this year to review grant proposals.
Resnick also published “La portée historique du Dialogue contre les juifs de Petrus Alfonsi,” Cahiers de judaisme 25(2009): 83-101.

Kittrell Rushing, history. The University of Tennessee Press this fall is releasing the history department’s Kit Rushing’s latest effort to mine the UTC Special Collections of the Lupton Library. The work, Reminiscences of an Old Georgia Lawyer, is a reprise of Judge Garnett Andrews’ 1870 memoir and includes an introduction placing the judge in a broad historical context of politics, the law, and slavery from the early 19th century through the early years of Reconstruction. The work includes the Judge’s memories of the earliest days of Georgia’s legal system and his tales from years as a circuit riding lawyer and judge. Among other pieces included in the book are the judge’s 1850 letter outlining his position on slavery and the California and territorial controversy, an 1851 speech to the Georgia Agricultural Association in which he condemns land abuse by Georgia’s white settlers, and Andrews’ letter accepting the Georgia Whigs’ 1855 gubernatorial nomination. The work is Rushing’s third publication focusing on the Andrews family of Washington, Georgia, and Chattanooga, Tennessee. (http://utpress.org/a/searchdetails.php?jobno=T01278&authorsm=Rushing,%20S.%20Kittrell)

Christine Ryan, Lupton Library, served on the Tenn-Share Statewide Resource Sharing Board of Directors as Past President in 2009, which resulted in her appointment to the Tennessee State Library and Archives’ Advisory Council on Libraries. She was also appointed as 2009-10 Co-Chair of the Tenn-Share Membership Committee (with Sandy Oelschlegel of Preston Medical Center and the UT Graduate School of Medicine).

Christine Ryan, Lupton Library, co-presented at the national conference of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) in 2009 on the topic of Online Serials Access X-Game: Surviving a vendor change for online serials access and thriving! with Rose Nelson, Colorado Alliance for Research Libraries.

Charlene Simmons, communication, will have her article “Dear Radio Broadcaster: Fan Mail as a Form of Perceived Interactivity” published in the September 2009 issue of Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. She also presented two papers at the August 2009 Annual Convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Boston, MA. The papers were entitled:
- “Weaving a Web within the Web: Corporate Consolidation of the Web, 1999-2008″
- “Converging Competitors?: Board Interlocks in the Changing Media Landscape.”

Pradeep Sivakumar, SimCenter, submitted the following:

Publications:
1. Sivakumar, P., Hyams, D.G., Taylor, L.K., and Briley, W.R., “Using Sensitivity Derivatives for the Purpose of Design in a High Pressure Glow Discharge Simulation,” UTC-CECS-SimCenter-2008-06, November 2008.

Kidambi Sreenivas, SimCenter, submitted the following:

Publications:
1. Sreenivas, K., Taylor, Lafayette K., Briley, W. Roger, “Unsteady Flow Simulations for an Aerotonomy-Designed Synthetic-Jet Airfoil,” UTC-CECS-SimCenter-2009-02-R, June 2009.
2. Wilson, R., Lei, J., Karman, Jr., S., Hyams, D., Sreenivas, K., Taylor, L., and Whitfield D., 2008, “Simulation of Large Amplitude Ship Motions for Prediction of Fluid-Structure Interaction,” Proceedings of the 27th ONR Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Seoul, Korea, 5-10 Oct. 2008.

Rebecca St. Goar, music, has been appointed to the NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) Tennessee State Board at its inception. Tennessee will begin to have its own state meetings and student auditions. St. Goar will also produce the state NATS Newsletter.

Christopher Stuart, English, edited an anthology of critical essays, entitled New Essays on Life Writing and the Body, for which he also wrote the introduction, and which was published by Cambridge Scholars Press, summer 2009.

Felicia B. Sturzer, foreign languages and literatures, is on the Editorial Boards of XVIII–New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century and Women In French Studies.

Tim Swafford, SimCenter, submitted the following:

Publications:
1. Dweik, Z., Briley, W.R., Swafford, T.W., and Hunt, B., “Computational Study of the Heat Transfer of the Buoyancy-Driven Rotating Cavity with Axial Throughflow of Cooling Air,” GT2009-59978, ASME Turbo EXPO 2009, June 8-12, 2009, Orlando, FL.
2. Dweik, Z., Briley, W.R., Swafford, T.W., and Hunt, B., “Computational Study of the Unsteady Flow Structure of the Buoyancy-Driven Rotating Cavity with Axial Throughflow of Cooling Air,” GT2009-59969, ASME Turbo EXPO 2009, June 8-12, 2009, Orlando, FL.

Steven Symes, chemistry, has been selected to serve on the Curation and Analysis Planning Team for Extraterrestrial Materials. CAPTEM meets twice a year and oversees the curation and distribution, for scientific study, of all extraterrestrial samples collected by NASA. These include samples from the Apollo missions as well as the Stardust and Genesis missions. In addition, the committee provides direct input to the National Research Council regarding science and mission priorities for the coming decade.

He has also been selected to serve as a panelist reviewer for NASA’s Mars Fundamental Research Program. The panel will meet for 1 week in October to review multi-year proposals from the nation’s leading planetary scientists.

Lafe Taylor, SimCenter, submitted the following:

Publications:
1. Sivakumar, P., Hyams, D.G., Taylor, L.K., and Briley, W.R., “Using Sensitivity Derivatives for the Purpose of Design in a High Pressure Glow Discharge Simulation,” UTC-CECS-SimCenter-2008-06, November 2008.
2. Wilson, R., Lei, J., Karman, Jr., S., Hyams, D., Sreenivas, K., Taylor, L., and Whitfield D., 2008, “Simulation of Large Amplitude Ship Motions for Prediction of Fluid-Structure Interaction,” Proceedings of the 27th ONR Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Seoul, Korea, 5-10 Oct. 2008.

Valerie A. Taylor, Diane Halstead, and Paula J. Haynes, marketing & entrepreneurship, conducted research investigating consumer responses to marketer provided religious symbols in the marketplace and marketers’ motivation for providing these symbols. The research, lead by Valerie Taylor, is forthcoming in two publications. “Consumer Responses to Christian Religious Symbols in Advertising” will appear in a top marketing journal, The Journal of Advertising. “Service Provider Use of Christian Religious Messages in Yellow Pages Advertising” will appear in Advertising & Society Review.

Adam Trowbridge and Jessica Westbrook, art, collaborate on projects and have been hired by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee to design and develop an interactive animation game/application for the Martin ArtQuest learning center. This application will introduce users to the concepts of imagining stories, creating scenes, and building animations using images. Trowbridge and Westbrook are developing the application technology, interface, and user experience and have consulted with the Frist on the build out of the physical exhibit design.

Ron Ulen, music, has been active as a performer in concert and opera. He has been asked to give master classes in voice and opera as well as being invited to serve on the jury for various vocal competitions. His performances and activities of the past several months have included the following:

• Sang the role of Peter in “Hansel and Gretel” with the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera
• Judged the Southern Region NATS - NATSAA auditions for Professional Level Performers
• Gave a recital on the Guest Artist Series at Eastern Tennessee State University (ETSU)
• Gave a recital for Smokey Mountains Music Teacher Association
• Judged Mid-South Region NATS - NATSAA auditions (Professional Level Performers)
• Gave master classes at the Opera Accademia Donizetti in Milan, Italy
• Sang performances as Musiklehrer in “Ariadne auf Naxos” in Krefeld, Germany
• Gave classes in “Character Development in Opera” in Leipzig, Germany
• Participated in a concert of opera excerpts in London, England
• Was the Baritone soloist in Performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Chattanooga Symphony
• Sang performances of “Turandot” with the Chattanooga Opera
• Was awarded a Certificate of Excellence from The Holmberg Arts Leadership Institute
• Sang a concert at the National Convention of the National Opera Association in Washington, DC
• Sang performances of “La Boheme” with the Chattanooga Symphony and Orchestra
• Gave a recital in der Reithalle, Coburg Germany
• Sang a brief concert of Jonathan Bailey Holland’s music at the National Convention of the National Association Of Negro Musicians in Chicago, Illinois
• The UTC Opera Theater, under his direction, performed “Naomi In The Living Room” at the National Convention of the National Association Of Negro Musicians in Chicago, Illinois
• Sang performances of “Der Studentenprinz” at the Schlossfestspiele (Castle Festival) in Heidelberg, Germany

Li Wang, SimCenter, submitted the following:

Publications:
1. Li Wang and Dimitri J. Mavriplis, “Adjoint-based h-p adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for the 2D compressible Euler equations,” Journal of Computational Physics, 228 (20) (2009), 7643-7661.
2. Li Wang, “Techniques for high-order adaptive discontinuous Galerkin discretizations in fluid dynamics,” Doctoral dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wyoming (May 2009).
3. Li Wang and Dimitri J. Mavriplis, “Adjoint-based h-p adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for the compressible Euler equations,” AIAA paper 2009-0952.
4. Dimitri J. Mavriplis, Cristian Nastase, Li Wang, K. Shahbazi and N. Burgess, “Progress in high-order discontinuous Galerkin methods for aerospace applications,” AIAA paper 2009-0601.

Presentations:
1. Li Wang, “Techniques for high-order adaptive discontinuous Galerkin discretizations in fluid dynamics,” presented at the 2nd NCAR-Wyoming Workshop, Boulder, CO, May 2009.
2. Li Wang, Amik St-Cyr and Dimitri J. Mavriplis, “High-order limiting for conservation laws based on total variation denoising,” presented at SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE09), Miami, FL, March 2009.
3. Li Wang and Dimitri Mavriplis, “Adjoint-based h-p adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for the compressible Euler equations,” presented at the 47th AIAA Aerospace Science Meeting, Orlando, FL, January 2009.

Thomas Ware, English:
“Where the Dead Speak: Black Belt Cemeteries and Their Stories,” Alabama Heritage<, Number 93, Summer 2009, 8-19; 56.

Robert Webster, SimCenter, submitted the following:

Publications:
1. Chen, J-P, Johnson, B., Hathaway, M.D., and Webster, R.S., “Flow Characteristics of Tip Injection on Compressor Rotating Spike via Time-Accurate Simulation”, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 25, No. 3, May-June, 2009, pp. 678-687.

David Whitfield, SimCenter, submitted the following:

Publications:
1. Wilson, R., Lei, J., Karman, Jr., S., Hyams, D., Sreenivas, K., Taylor, L., and Whitfield D., 2008, “Simulation of Large Amplitude Ship Motions for Prediction of Fluid-Structure Interaction,” Proceedings of the 27th ONR Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Seoul, Korea, 5-10 Oct. 2008.

Robert Wilson, SimCenter, submitted the following:

Publications:
1. Karman, Jr., S. L., and Wilson, R., 2008, “Hierarchical Unstructured Mesh Generation with General Cutting for Free Surface Simulations,” Proceedings of the 27th ONR Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Seoul, Korea, 5-10 Oct. 2008.
2. Lee, D., Maki, K., Wilson, R., Troesch, A., and Vlahopoulos, N., “Dynamic Response of a Marine Vessel Due to Wave-Induced Slamming,” Int. Sym. On Vibro-Impact Dynamics of Ocean Systems and Related Problems, Troy, Michigan, 2-3 Oct. 2008.
3. Wilson, Robert V., “A Review of Computational Ship Hydrodynamics,” UTC-CECS-SimCenter-2008-03, September 2008.
4. Wilson, R., Lei, J., Karman, Jr., S., Hyams, D., Sreenivas, K., Taylor, L., and Whitfield D., 2008, “Simulation of Large Amplitude Ship Motions for Prediction of Fluid-Structure Interaction,” Proceedings of the 27th ONR Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Seoul, Korea, 5-10 Oct. 2008.

- Reviewer, AIAA Journal, Computers and Fluids in 2008
- Served on the editorial board for the Journal of Marine Science and Technology

Summer 2009

Mohammad Ahmadi, management, has published the following journal articles and other work in 2008.

1. “An Exponential Smoothing Model for Predicting Traffic in the Library and the Reference Desk,” The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances, Volume 21, Number 2, 2008. This paper was chosen as an Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2008. (Co-Authors: Dileepan, Murgai, Roth)

2. “Online Teaching and Problem Solving Skills: A Performance Oriented Investigation,” International Journal of Management in Education (IJMIE), Volume 2, Number 2, 2008. (Co-Authors: Asllani, Roth, C. White)

3. “Technologies in Support of Mass Customization Strategy: Exploring the Linkages between E-Commerce and Knowledge Management.” Computers in Industry, Volume 59, Number 4, April 2008. (Co-Authors: Ettkin, Helms, and Jih)

4. Test Bank to Accompany Essentials of Statistics for Business and Economics, Fifth Edition, Cengage Publishing. (2008).

Nesli Alp, engineering management, attended the Linden Washington Program to visit embassies and agencies for international students to develop pipelines and recruit more international students to UTC. She was also selected as an Executive Board Member for Architecture, Construction, and Engineering (ACE) of East Tennessee and North Georgia Mentorship Program, which assists high school students in pursuit of careers in the construction industry with mentoring and scholarships.

Tom Bissonette, Counseling and Career Planning Center, published the book, “Peace Outings - How to End the Sex War” this spring. The book offers a framework for frank discussion between men and women; allowing a much deeper understanding of each other. It exposes how we are set up by our culture and economic system to be natural enemies. With the help of this book we can discover how to bridge the gender gap by stripping away the facade and opening ourselves to discover the wonder of the humanity we have in common. Healthy relationships and sexuality are also defined. The book addresses the darker side of human sexuality as well; when relationships descend into conflict and violence.

Janetta F. Bradley, education, completed course work and practicum requirements for the English as a Second Language (ESL) endorsement and participated in a Spanish Immersion Program in Costa Rica.

Awarded State of Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 31 Mediation Certification

Served as a panel member, U.S. Department of Education, Safe Schools/Healthy Schools Federal Grants for Public School Programs, Washington D.C.

Publication:
Watson, S. & Bradley, J. F. (2009) Modeling Secondary Instructional Strategies in a Teacher Education Class. Education. (in press)

Professional Presentations:
Rutledge, V., Bradley, J.F., Smith, L. (2008). University of Tennessee at Chattanooga ESL Summer Institute Program. Poster presented at the Southeastern Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (SETESOL) conference, September, 2008, Birmingham, AL.

Bradley, J.F., Warren-Kring, B., Mitchell, J., & Levine, J. (2008). RTI in Action: Reading intervention in a Professional Development School Setting. Presentation accepted to the Teacher Education Division of Council of Exceptional Children National Conference, November, 2008, Dallas, TX,.

Scheduled Presentations and Professional Paper Submissions:

Bradley, J. F., & Bentz, J. (2009). Using Technology to Broaden Horizons in Special Education Teacher Preparation Programs.

July, 2009, International Learning Conference, Barcelona, Spain
July, 2009, International Association of Special Educators Conference, Alicante, Spain

Bradley, J. F., & Bentz, J. (2009). Using technology to broaden horizons in special education teacher preparation programs. Submitted to IASE conference proceedings publication.

Ethan Carver, biological and environmental sciences, attended two meetings and was part of three poster presentations, including:

Poster presentation: (Awarded 1st place in Cell and Molecular Biology group)
“Characterization Of The Tnxb Gene In Zebrafish.” authored by Cofer, M.R.*, Bramblett, J.*, Culiat, C., and Carver, E.A. at the Tennessee Academy of Science, 118th Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee. November, 2008.
* denotes student authors

Poster Presentation: “Dead Elvis Zebrafish Motility Mutation-Mapping and Phenotype Characterization” at the The Southeast Regional Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. March 27-29, 2009.

Poster Presentation: “Dead Elvis Zebrafish Motility Mutation-Mapping and Phenotype Characterization” at the Celebration of Faculty Scholarship located at UTC-University Center Atrium. April 16, 2009.

Chris Cunningham, industrial-organizational psychology, secured the following peer-reviewed publications, referred conference presentations, and chaired several graduate student theses to defense since January 2009. The details on these accomplishments are as follows:

Cunningham, C. J. L. (2009). Keeping work in perspective: Work-nonwork considerations and applicant decision making. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 21, 89-113.

O’Leary, B. J., Durham, C. R., Weathington, B. L., Cothran, D. L., & Cunningham, C. J. L. (2009). Racial Identity as a Moderator of the Relationship between Perceived Applicant Similarity and Hiring Decisions. The Journal of Black Psychology, 35(1), 63-77.

Biderman, M. D., & Nguyen, N. T., & Cunningham, C. J. L. (2009, April). Common method variance in NEO-FFI and IPIP personality measurement. Poster presented at the 24th annual conference of The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Dorio, J. (co-chair), Cunningham, C. J. L. (co-chair), Bandelli, A., Greene-Shortridge, T., Kessler, S., & Schmidt, G. (2009, April). Beginning the Journey: Peer mentoring for individuals starting their careers. Panel discussion presented at the 24th annual conference of The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Owens, J., & Cunningham, C. J. L. (2009, April). Examining the relationship between proactive personality and career success. Poster presented at the 24th annual conference of The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Ghorbani, N., Watson, P. J., Rezazadeh, Z., & Cunningham, C. J. L. (2009, February). Self-Control and Integrative Self-Knowledge: Relationships with Muslim Religious Commitment and Experience in Iran. Paper presented at the Second Conference of the International Association of Muslin Psychologists, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

Cheng, J.-M. (2009). Modeling the relationships among stressors, Big Five personality traits, and strains within a sample of Chinese respondents. Unpublished master’s thesis, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN.

Owens, J. (2009). Further examination of the relationship between proactive personality and career success. Unpublished master’s thesis, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN.

Patel, S. (2009). Work-family balance and religion: A resource-based perspective. Unpublished master’s thesis, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN.

Leroy Fanning, health and human performance, has been selected by the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) to construct and present the AAU Girl’s Basketball Complete Athlete Seminars at the 13: Under through 16: Under Girl’s Basketball National Championships. Dr. Fanning will present information to approximately 12,500 student athletes covering the role of the student athlete in the community, in the classroom and on the basketball court. The seminar centers around Competitive Greatness in each area as well as NCAA and University eligibility requirements for collegiate basketball.

Angelina Forde, criminal justice, was been appointed to the Academic Advisory Board for McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Learning Series-TAKING SIDES: Clashing Views in Adolescence and TAKING SIDES: Clashing Views on Social Issues.

William Harman, philosophy and religion, presented a talk during the second semester to the UTC Council of Scholars on his research on dynamics in the Sri Lankan civil war. He presented an overview of India Studies in the Introduction to Asia Conference sponsored by UTC in February. His article, “Laughing Until it Hurts…Somebody Else — The Pain of a Ritual Joke,” will appear late summer in a volume edited by Corinne Dempsey and Selva Raj entitled Levity in South Asian Ritual Traditions, to be published by SUNY Press. He delivered three addresses as the keynote speaker at the Lyman Coleman Memorial Religious Studies Lecture Series, Lafayetee College, April 6-8, 2009. His article, “Goddesses and Illness in Southern India,” has been accepted for publication in Fabrizio Ferrari’s edited volume Disease, Possession and Healing: Negotiating Health in South Asia, forthcoming with Rougledge Press circa 2010.

Gale Iles, criminal justice, article “The Effects of Race/Ethnicity and National Origin on Length of Sentence in the United States Virgin Islands” is accepted for publication in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Forthcoming in May 2009).

Gale Iles, criminal justice, entry on the United States Virgin Islands will appear in the Crime and Punishment Around the World Encyclopedia (Vol. 2) (Forthcoming in Fall 2009).

David Eichenthal and Gale Iles prepared a report on “Crime and Public Safety in the Chattanooga Region.” Report was written as part of the 2008 State of Chattanooga Report.

Gale Iles and Vic Bumphus presented the paper “Assessing the Benefits of Substance Abuse Treatment for Female Offenders: Does Treatment Participation Impact Recidivism” at the November 2008 American Society of Criminology Annual Conference.

Rowan Johnson, English. “You float” Wordriver Literary Review. University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Apr. 2009.

Bryon Kluesner, Office for Students with Disabilities, was elected as Vice Chair for the Chattanooga’s Mayor’s Council for Disability on May 4, 2005. He will serve one year in the position.

Sydney Roberts, theatre and speech, was recently named an Associate Artist with Georgia Shakespeare in Atlanta. She has designed with them for 8 seasons, most recently, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: http://www.accessatlanta.com/music/content/entertainment/stories/2009/06/15/georgia_shakespeare_dream.html

Valerie Rutledge, education, and Linda Johnston, education, contributed to Michele Valadie’s December 2008 article published on CYC-Online entitled, “Are Early Childcare Providers Ready for Inclusion?”
http://www.cyc-net.org/cyc-online/cyconline-dec2008-valadie.html

Valerie Rutledge, Kim O’Kelley, education and Mrs. Linda Rivers, Children’s Center, presented at the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities in Cincinnati, Ohio, in October 2008. The presentation was entitled “A Partnership of People, Places, and Possibilities.”

Rutledge was recently appointed to a three year term as a member of the Tennessee State Board of Examiners (BOE) for Teacher Education. The BOE is comprised of representatives from higher education, P-12 education, state-level personnel and participates in joint accreditation visits with NCATE as they review teacher education programs throughout the state.

Erika Schafer, music, performed on trumpet with the Bob Schulz Frisco Jazz Band as part of the Chattanooga Jazz Festival held from May 1-3.

Rebecca St. Goar, music, served as a judge for the 2009 Grace Moore Memorial Scholarship Auditions for vocal performance. They took place at MTSU in April, awarding $2000 for singers in the Young Artist and Student categories.

Victoria Steinberg, foreign languages, has been asked to review the Praxis examination, required for licensure in French, by the Tennessee Department of Education for ETS (Educational Testing Service).

Jim Tucker, graduate studies, along with Eleanor Cooper, a doctoral student from the Learning and Leadership program, presented an invited address to the regular assembly of the Kettering Foundation, Dayton, Ohio, March 18, 2009. The title of the presentation was “The Chattanooga story and the Center for Whatever It Needs to Be.

Jim Tucker, graduate studies, was named ad-hoc reviewer for the peer-reviewed journal, Preventing School Failure

Jim Tucker, graduate studies, continues as co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal, Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry. His recent editorial in that journal was entitled “Commentary: Forgotten practices and sins of omission. Ethical human psychology and psychiatry, 10(3), 133-135.

Randy Walker, physical therapy, earned the privilege of being named a Certified Mulligan Practitioner in April 2009 by passing the required written and practical examinations. Walker is one of four physical therapists from Chattanooga who have earned this advanced clinical practice recognition.

Thomas Ware, English, had two articles published during the Spring 2009 term.
“Fiction Still Fights the Civil War: ‘It Ain’t Over Though It’s Over.’” War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 20: 1 & 2 (2009): 329-338.

“The Remarkable Spring of 1945: A Memoir.” Kentucky Humanities (April 2009): 20-26.

In the Spring Session of The English Department Annual Series “Works In Progress,” he read an essay, “The Irony of Disintegration in Ann Enright’s ‘The Gathering’; Or ‘What It Takes to Win a Man Booker Award These Days.’”

March 20-22, he served as The Official Host of The Southern Regional Meeting of
The American Conference for Irish Studies in Chattanooga

Sandy Watson, education, was awarded Outstanding Teaching/Advising Award: College of Health, Education and Professional Studies.

She was also named as an NCATE Program Reviewer.

Her presentations so far this year: Society for Values in Higher Education (Chicago, IL). University as Wal Mart: Consumerism in Academia.

Articles published or in press in 2009:

Watson, S. & Miller, T. (2009). Classification and the dichotomous key: Tools for identification. The Science Teacher, 76(3), pp. 50-54.

Watson, S. & Bradley, J. (2009) Modeling Secondary Instructional Strategies in a Teacher Education Class. Education. (in press)

Watson, S. (2009) Teaching Science Investigation with Discovery Bottles. Science and Children, 45(9).

Invited Book Chapter:
Watson, S. (2009). Telementoring in Teacher Education: IGI Global Communications Publishing Co.

Edited Book: Johnston, L. & Watson, S. (Eds). (2009). PDS: A Beginning to Education in a Diverse Society: Pearson Custom Publishing: Boston, MA.

Spring 2009

Mohammad Ahmadi, management, Parthasarati Dileepan, management, Sarla R. Murgai, library and Wendy Roth, business. An exponential smoothing model for predicting traffic in the library and at the reference desk. Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances. 21#2, 2008.

Nesli Alp, engineering, successfully represented UTC at the Linden International Recruitment Fair in India, organized in Kolkata, Bangalore, Cochin, Hyderabad, and Chennei in September 2008. She has also attended to the American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM) Conference hosted by the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY in November 2008.

Deborah Elwell Arfken, Strategic Planning and political science, published an article, “Gifford Pinchot: American Forester,” in Great Lives from History: The Twentieth Century, edited by Robert F. Gorman.

Deborah Elwell Arfken, Strategic Planning and political science: public administration, was elected to serve a two-year term from 2009 to 2011 as a director of the Rotary Club of Chattanooga.

Gwendolyn Spring Atkinson, English, published “Of Cabbages and Kings: On Reading Food Culture and Other Compositions.” From Hip Hop to Hypertext: Teaching About Culture in the Composition Classroom. Ed. Joanna Paul. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. 96-111.

Sybil Baker, English, published a story in MOTIF: Writing by Ear (MotesBooks), an anthology. Her novel The Life Plan will be published by Casperian Books in early March 2009.

Sybil Baker, English. She gave a reading in Chicago at an event on Feb. 12 in conjunction with The Associated Writing Programs Conference. Her short story “Tempo,” will appear in an anthology published by MotesBooks forthcoming in early 2009. Her novel The Life Plan (Casperian Books) will be available March 2.

Thomas Balazs, English. His short story, “A Ghost Story,” is scheduled to appear February in the literary journal Turnrow. Another story, “The Music Man,” has been accepted by the Southern Humanities Review.

Boris Belinskiy, mathematics, wrote:
The paper “Existence Criteria for Solutions of Linear Stochastic Differential Equations with Skew-Symmetric Differential Operator and Additive Fractional Brownian Noise” (with P. Caithamer), accepted at Stochastics and Dynamics.

The paper “On Controllability of an Elastic Ring” (with S.A. Avdonin and S.A. Ivanov), accepted at Applied Mathematics and Optimization.

The paper “A Double Sum with the Gamma Function” (with O. Saleh and T. Walters), published at The College Mathematics Journal, 1, , Vol. 40, 59-60 (2009)

Prepared a referee report for Applied Mathematics & Computations.

Prepared two reviews for Mathematical Reviews.

Hinsdale Bernard, education, was invited to present “The Three Dimensional Periodic Spiral of the Elements: Thinking Outside the Box” to the Chattanooga Engineers Club, September 29, 2008.

Lisa Burke, management. Burke, Lisa A. & Rau, B. The research-teaching gap in management. Academy of Management Learning & Education. (forthcoming)

David Carrithers, political science, has published “Montesquieu and Tocqueville as Philosophical Historians: Liberty, Determinism, and the Prospects for Freedom,” in Rebecca Kingston,. ed., Montesquieu and His Legacy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008), pp. 149-178. His edited volume, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (International Library of Essays in the history of Social and Political Thought, pp. 598) will be published by Ashgate Publishing in London, England in April, 2009. His paper “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Montesquieu’s Views on the Jansenist Controversy in Eighteenth-Century France” will be delivered at the annual national meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies in St. Louis, Missouri in March, 2009.

Stylianos Chatzimanolis, biological and environmental sciences, has published the following in 2008-2009:

Caterino, M. S. and S. Chatzimanolis. 2009. Conservation genetics of three flightless beetle species in southern California. Conservation Genetics 10: 203-216.

Chatzimanolis, S. and M. S. Caterino. 2008. Phylogeography and conservation genetics of California coastal terrestrial communities: A comparative study using three beetles. Insect Conservation and Diversity 1: 222-232.

Chatzimanolis, S. and M. S. Caterino. 2008. Phylogeography of the darkling
beetle Coelus ciliatus in California. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 101(5): 939-949.

Chatzimanolis, S. 2008. A revision of the neotropical beetle genus Isanopus
(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini). Journal of Natural History 42(25-26): 1765-1792.

Rokas, A., and S. Chatzimanolis. 2008. From Gene-scale to genome-scale
phylogenetics; the data flood in but the challenges remain. In Murphy, W.L. (ed.), Methods in Molecular Biology Series: Phylogenomics. Humana Press; Totowa, NJ, pp 1-12.

Steve Cox, library, was elected in November 2008, president of the Society of Tennessee Archivists for the upcoming year. He also presented a paper “Under the Sod and Dew: Rhyme, Reconciliation, and the Birth of Memorial Day” at the 2008 Symposium of the 19th Century Press, the Civil War and Free Expression at UTC in November. He also had an article, “The Lookout Inn: Lookout Mountain’s Grand Hotel” published in the Winter 2008 Chattanooga Regional Historical Journal.

Ken Dryden, WUTC-FM, recently completed nineteen sets of liner note biographies for the Italian jazz CD label I Miti Del Jazz. Each release will feature music selections from throughout the career of one of the greats of jazz. Some of the artists include Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane and Dave Brubeck. Ken has been a jazz journalist since 1988 and currently contributes to All Music Guide, Coda, All About Jazz New York and Hot House.

Joe Dumas, computer science and engineering, received two equipment grants from Sun Microsystems, Inc. with a total value of over $27,000. The donated equipment represents the state-of-the-art in high-performance servers and will be used to support undergraduate and graduate classes as well as academic research. Dr. Dumas was assisted in obtaining these grants by Alan Morris, the Southern Education Territory Manager at Sun Microsystems’ regional office in Hendersonville, TN.

Obi N. I. Ebbe, sociology, published GLOBAL TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN AND CHILDREN, Bota Raton, FL: Taylor and Francis Publishing Group, 2008. At an invitation of the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council (ISPAC) of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programmes, participated in a Symposium on “Organized Crime of Arts and Antiquities” held in Courmayeur Mont Blanc, Italy, from December 12-14, 2008.

Presented “Trafficking in Women and Children in Africa and Asia” at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences held in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 11 -15, 2008.

Presented “The Correlates of International and Domestic Trafficking in Women” at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology held in St. Louis, MO, from November 12-15, 2008.

Presented “An Approach to Security in Imo State of Nigeria” at the IMO STATE CONGRESS OF AMERICA held in Nashville, TN from 18-19, October 2008.

Obi N. I. Ebbe was a member of Program Committee for the 2008 Annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology held in St. Louis, MO from November 12-15, 2008.

David Edwards and Stephanie Bellar, political science, public administration and nonprofit management, completed the evaluation of WhykNOw Abstinence’s Comprehensive Abstinence and Road to Excellence programs. This is the fourth year of their evaluation work for the nonprofit organization. Edwards and Bellar also received a grant of $35,240 to continue the WhykNOw program evaluation for a fifth year.

Helen Eigenberg, criminal justice, received the CoraMae Richey Mann “Inconvenient Woman of the Year” Award on November 13 at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology (ASC). This award “recognizes the scholar/activist who has participated in publicly promoting the ideals of gender equality and women’s rights throughout society, particularly as it relates to gender and crime issues,” according to the selection committee.

She also published a book chapter with a collegue: Eigenberg, H. and Garland, T. (2008). Victim Blaming: Is it “Your Fault” if you are a Victim of Crime? In L. Moriarty (Ed.), Controversies in Victimology, 2nd Ed. Cincinnati: Anderson.

Lucien Ellington, education and UTC Asia Program, was an invited speaker at the Core Knowledge national meeting in Anaheim, CA in November 2008. Ellington’s topic was “Interactive Asia: Geography, Economics, and History.” Ellington edited two issues of the Association of Asian Studies teaching journal, Education About Asia (Vol. 13: 1 & 2, Fall and Winter 2008). Ellington also published “Asia in World History: Notes on Pedagogical Scholarship” in the Southeast Review of Asian Studies (Vol. 30, 2008). Ellington chaired a panel entitled, “Teaching East Asia in World History” at the annual meeting of the Southeast Conference for Asian Studies at Emory University in January 2009. Ellington was awarded a total of $218,675 in external funds for 2009 Asia-related publications and seminars. In late October 2008, Ellington, in a cooperative venture with Columbia University, served as study tour leader for 19 Tennessee and Mississippi teachers who visited Aichi Prefecture in Japan. A major objective of the one week visit was the creation of US-Japan digital exchange projects.

Jason Griffey, library, was named Chair of the Library Information Technology Association Program Planning Committee, and Co-Chair of the Blog and Wiki Interest group of the ALA.

He also published his first book, Library Blogging, co-authored with Karen Coombs from the University of Houston.

He was also published in Library Journal and ALA Techsource Library Technology Review. He is a regular columnist for the ALA TechSource blog.

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 d’esse: 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.

During his recent sabbatical he presented a series of talks in Tamil on Canada Tamil Talk Radio (98.1 FM in Toronto) on the relation between Tamil classic religious literature and themes of the Sri Lankan civil war. In Columbo, Sri Lanka he did research on the civil war and presented a major convocation address at the International Institute of Ethnic Studies which was later published on the website “Transcurrents,” a source of information about the civil war. See http://transcurrents.com/tc/2008/10/the_martyr_bomber_becomes_a_go.html .

George Helton and Barbara Ray, education, presented a paper entitled Administrative pressures to practice unethically: Research and suggested strategies at the Mid-South Conference on Psychology in the Schools, Chattanooga, TN, Oct., 2008.

Christopher Hensley, criminal justice, co-wrote the following journal article that was published in 2009: “Childhood and adolescent animal cruelty methods and their possible link to adult violent crimes. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 24(1), 147-158.

Linda Hill, nursing, has been selected to serve as a grant reviewer for the HRSA-09 Advanced Education Nursing (AEN) Program. AEN Program grants are awarded to eligible institutions for projects to prepare advanced education nurses through the enhancement of advanced nursing education and practice.

Linda Hill, nursing. Smith, J., Wakim, J., & Hill, L. (in press). Nurse anesthesia program requirements for esophageal/precordial stethoscope earpieces: A demographic report. AANA Journal.

Linda Hill, nursing. Hernandez, J., Secrest, J., & Hill, L. (Jan/Feb 2009). Scientific Advances in the Genetic Understanding and Diagnosis of Malignant Hyperthermia. Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing.

Linda Hill, nursing. Bruns, A, Norwood, B., & Hill, L. (in press). AANA Journal Course: Cerebral oximeter: What is the efficacy? AANA Journal.

Linda Hill, nursing. Lindgren, Kay (Principal Investigator) & Hill, Linda (Project Director). Tennessee and Mississippi (TEAM) CRNA Partnership, HRSA AEN Grant Awarded July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2011, $898,700.

Julie Hobbs, music, presented a clinic entitled “Fixing the Front Row: Troubleshooting Your Flute Section” at the 2008 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago. The conference is the largest of its kind in the United States, and her clinic was attended by almost 1,000 band and orchestra conductors from across the country.

Julie Hobbs, music, has been selected to present a lecture at the 2009 National Flute Association’s Annual Convention in New York City. Her topic will be “The Crumb Code: Finding the Hidden Symbolism in George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae” in honor of composer George Crumb’s 80th Birthday. The conference will be attended by thousands of flutists from around the world.

Christopher Horne, political science, published “Teaching what we know: Describing and challenging the neglect of management science methods in Master of Public Administration programs” in Journal of Public Affairs Education, Fall 2008. He presented “Teaching quantitative analysis skills that more public administrators will use” at the 2008 Teaching Public Administration conference and has had “Adding value with an expanded evaluand: A grounded model to strengthen formative evaluation of contracted social service programs” accepted for presentation at the 2009 Southeast Evaluation Association conference.

Debbie Ingram, physical therapy, and three UTC DPT students provided a research presentation on the ‘Effect of Physical Therapist Attire on the Trust and Confidence of Patients’ at the Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association in Las Vegas, NV. Dr. Ingram is currently serving on the Development Council and the Alumni Legislative Council of the University of Tennessee and as the National Chair of Annual Giving for the University of Tennessee Alumni Association.

Mike Jaynes, English, continues to contribute to the fields of humanities, animal advocacy, Earth advocacy, ecofeminism and animal behavioral studies with the following two conference speaking invitations, lectures, fourteen articles, and two interviews by national and international outlets:
-He has been invited to speak at the 2009 Summit for Elephants conference hosted by the Performing Animal Welfare Society and to chair a panel on elephant behavior and advocacy.
-He has also been invited to speak on behalf of captive and performing elephants at the upcoming 2009 Minding Animals international animal conference at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
-His ecofeminist article “Animal Defense, Earth Defense: Compassionate Bedfellows” has been accepted for 2009 publication by the Earth First! Journal
-Has been invited to participate in a panel on the Canadian radio talk show “Animal Voices” as part of an upcoming “Elephant Week” in 2009
-His article “From War Elephants to Circus Elephants: Humanity’s Abuse of Elephants” has been accepted for 2009 publication in the Journal of Critical Animal Studies
-He delivered the lecture “For the Animals’ Sake: From Factory Farming to Deep Vegetarianism” on November 8th, 2008, by invitation of the Chattanooga Institute for Noetic Science.
-His article “The Ethical Disconnect of the Circus: Humanity’s acceptance of Performing Elephants” was published in California Polytechnic University’s Between the Species: A Journal for the Study of Philosophy and Animals
-Having been named an animal advocacy expert by the heavily reviewed About.com, the following four articles have been/will be published by About.com: “Descartes and Kant: Self-Proclaimed Lords of Nature and Fathers of Animal Abuse,” “Elephant Biology, Sociology, and Psychology,” “Ringling Brothers: Disgraceful Animal Abusers,” and “Granting Moral Consideration to Nonhuman Species: Elephant Sanctuary.”
-His article “Social Free(ak)dom: Dragoncon 2008” is forthcoming from UFO Magazine
-All Creatures have published the following articles: “Farm Animal Manifesto,”
“Elephants Never Forget: Never Forget Elephants,” “Animal Destruction During the Holidays,” and “The Hippies Were Right”
-His article “For the Animals’ Sake: From Factory Farming to Deep Vegetarianism” was published by the media center of the Animal Liberation Front.
-He was also interviewed by the Animal Liberation Front
-His article, “Fearless Hunters Kill Ducks at Duck Pond near Chester Frost Park” appeared on Chattanoogan.com
-Delivered the lecture “The Saddest Show on Earth: Elephant (Ab)use in Traveling Circuses” at the Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association conference in Cincinnati Ohio. Served as panel chair.
- Delivered the lecture “From Achilles to House: The Social Freedom of not Giving a Flying Rip (and Being Good Enough) at the Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. Served as panel chair.
-Paper “An examination of the Irish and British Animal Liberation movement: the Global Social, Moral, Political, and Legal Impact of the Animal Liberation Front” has been accepted at the upcoming 2008 Ireland on the Move conference to be hosted in Chattanooga.

John Lynch, chemistry. Paper presented at the Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society:

“Development of Algorithms for Automation of Spectrophotometric Titrations,” William M. McGee, John A. Lynch, Paper Number 671, The 60th Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Nashville, TN, Noverber 14, 2008.

Paper published in Microchemical Journal:

“Development of Algorithms for Automated Spectrophotometric Titrations,” Ivan P. Zubkow and John A. Lynch, Microchemical Journal, 90, 13-18 (2008).

Tony Lease, health, education and professional studies, published three articles in fall issues of periodicals as follows: “School Reform – A Team Effort” in Academic Exchange Quarterly, “Improving Teacher Effectiveness Through Focused Graduate Education” in Action In Teacher Education, and “Performance Pay – Déjà vu All Over Again” in the Professional Studies Review. A fourth article, “The Art of Delegation” is scheduled for publication in The American School Board Journal this spring.

David Levine and Larry Tillman, physical therapy, presented “Comparison of Selected Stretch Positions of the Piriformis Muscle Using Computerized Tomography and Biomodeling: A Pilot Study” at the Annual American Physical Therapy Association Meeting.

Nandini Makrandi, art history, curated the exhibition and national tour ofI Heard A Voice: The Art of Lesley Dill for the Hunter Museum of American Art. The exhibition will travel to six institutions from 2009 to 2011, and is the first nationally touring exhibit organized by the museum in its 57 year history. Makrandi has published an essay, Vision, Touch, Voice, in the accompanying exhibit catalog.

Darrell Meece, education, published the article “Show your interest in children through reflections” in the National Association for the Education of Young Children’s publication Teaching Young Children. Darrell Meece also published an accompanying training guide in NAEYC’s NEXT: The Teaching Young Children Staff Development Guide. The citation is:

Meece, D. (2009). Show your interest in children through behavior reflections. Teaching Young Children, 2 (3) 8-10.

Catherine Meeks, English, was named news editor for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment’s quarterly newsletter, ASLENews.

Gregory O’Dea, English and The University Honors Program, designed, directed, and served as scholar-in-residence for two multi-day workshops for Tennessee and Georgia physicians on “”Literary Images of the Physician.” He also delivered the 2008 Ellie Magnuson Lecture on Literature and Science at Kentucky Wesleyan College, entitled “Alter Ego: Science and Monstrosity in Nineteenth-Century Literature.”

Kim O’Kelley and Darrell Meece, education, presented:

O’Kelley, K. & Meece, D. (2008, November) Providing diverse opportunities
for pre-service teachers. Presented at the Annual Conference of the
Southeastern Association of Teacher Educators, Myrtle Beach, SC.

O’Kelley also wrote:
Ridgley, R. & O’Kelley, K.E. (June, 2008). Providing Individually Responsive
Home Visits. Journal of Young Exceptional Children.

Dennis Plaisted, philosophy and religion, presented his paper, “Professional Ethics and The Verdict,” at the 10th International Conference of the Society for Ethics across the Curriculum on November 15, 2008 in Baltimore, MD. He also presented, “God and the Appropriation of Evil,” at the 60th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society on November 21, 2008 in Providence, RI.

Craig Pressley, social work, has completed the terminal professional licensure for clinical social work practice(LCSW)in January 2009. This extensive professional licensure process involves completing 3,000 hours of clinical social work practice under the supervision of a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and passage of a national examination through the Association of Social Work Boards. Craig joined the Department of Social Work here at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in July of 2008.

Susan Faye Ritz, UTC Center for Applied Social Research, received her Ph.D. in psychology (concentration: multiculturalism) from the University of Rhode Island in December 2008. She also co-authored two papers:

Bowleg, L., Brooks, K., & Ritz, S. F. (2008). Bringing home more than a paycheck: An exploratory analysis of Black lesbians’ experiences of stress and coping in the workplace. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 12, 69-84.

Quinlin, K., Bowleg, L., & Ritz, S. F. (2008). Virtually invisible women: Women with disabilities in mainstream psychological research and theory. Review of Disability Studies, 4(3), 4-17.

Linda Rivers, UTC Children’s Center, was selected as one of the recipients of the Siskin Children’s Institute’s Circle of Scholars Research Awards. She will be investigating the effects of incidental teaching on the engagement of preschool children with disabilities in an inclusive site.

Tom Rybolt, chemistry, published the following article: Thomas R.Rybolt, Christina E. Wells, Howard E. Thomas, Craig M. Goodwin, Jennifer L. Blakely, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 325 (2008) 282-286. Binding energies for alkane molecules on a carbon surface from gas-solid chromatography and molecular mechanics.

Erika Schafer, music, was selected to direct the second All-Middle Tennessee High School Jazz Band in Murfreesboro from January 15-17, 2009. The finest high school musicians from middle Tennessee were selected for this group by audition. Erika rehearsed the group on January 15th and 16th for a concert which took place on the 17th.

Katie Schwartz, theatre and speech, has just published a down-loadable book, Portable Parent, for college students. The book on practical subjects relating to starting college and living in a first apartment, offers “instant information - with a parent’s insight - 24/7″. Parents are invited to add their wisdom to this book before giving it to their children. The book can be found at http://www.portableparent.com. Katie is also the author of three books for professionals in her field.

Booker T. Scruggs, II, sociology, anthropology, and geography, was recipient of the “Honors of the Executive Board” for meritorious service and outstanding contributions to the Southeastern Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (SAEOPP). This recognition was presented at the 37th Annual SAEOPP Conference held at The Peabody in Memphis, January 26, 2009, and was given for his generating over $10,000 for student scholarships through the sales of his musical CD, “A Salute to The Duke.” SAEOPP is a non-profit regional organization of persons who are professionally involved in providing means by which students can enter and successfully complete a college or university. Scruggs is a retired director of UTC’s Upward Bound Program, which is one of the TRIO Programs affiliated with SAEOPP.

Cathie Smith, physical therapy, will co-present two posters at the national American Physical Therapy Association Combined Section Meeting in February entitled: “Use of Neuroprosthesis to Correct Gait Deviation in a Patient with an Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury” (co-presenters Alexandria Deimling and Joy Friley) and “Association Between Trunk and Lower Extremity Flexibility and X-Factor During the Golf Swing in Young, Skilled Golfers” (co-presenter Jeremiah Tate).
In March, Smith will present outcomes of the May, 2008 international faculty/student exchange that she directed to Romania, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to the Chattanooga district of the Tennessee Physical Therapy Association. Jeannette Beach, Daniel Earl and Zoe Walls–recent graduates of the post-professional DPT concentration who participated in the exchange program–will assist with the presentation.

Ron Smith, mathematics, published the paper “The Positive Definite Completion Problem Revisited”, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 429 (2008) 1442-1452; he also published the paper “On Acyclic and Unicyclic Graphs whose Minimum Rank Equals the Diameter” (with Francesco Barioli and Shaun Fallat), Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 429 (2008) 1568-1578.

Clinton W. Smullen III, Academic and Research Computing Services and Stephanie A. Smullen, computer science and engineering:

Clinton W. Smullen III, Stephanie A. Smullen, “Agnostic AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript and Data”, XTech 2008 Proceedings, Dublin, Ireland, May 2008

Clinton W. Smullen III, Stephanie A. Smullen, “Agnostic AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript and Data”, Presentation at XTech 2008, Dublin, Ireland, May 2008

Janet Spraker, facilities planning and management. This year I am marking my 20th year as a licensed professional engineer in the state of Tennessee.

Felicia B. Sturzer, foreign languages, has a review forthcoming in the April 2009 issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Mme Riccoboni: Romanci`ere, Epistoli`ere, Traductrice. La Republique des Lettres 34. Leuven: Peeters, 2007 by Jan Herman, Kris Peeters and Paul Pelckmans, eds. She will also be the respondent in a session on “French Letters: Real and Fictional” at the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference in Charlotte, NC on March 6 - 8, 2009. She is on the Editorial Boards of XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century and Women In French Studies.

Bonnie Warren-Kring, education, was accepted to the IRA’s Research Poster Session held during IRA’s 54th West Annual Convention in Phoenix, AZ on February 23, 2009. Presentation is titled, “Adolescents’ Comprehension and Content Area Education Students’ Dispositions Benefit from One-On-One Tutoring.”

Co-director of UC Foundation Strategic Planning grant 2008-2009 “Partnering to Increase Reading Comprehension & Math Skills at Orchard Knob Middle School through UTC Student Tutors” for $18, 320.

Received TNE (Teachers for a New Era) Learning Network grant 2007-2008 for
$9, 720 for assistance in my content area reading courses for supplying trade books and implementing tutoring for middle and high school students.
Asked by NCATE to be an Advisory Board member for the Urban Teacher Residency Project, Washington, D.C.

Bart Weathington, psychology, published the following articles:

Amos, E.A. & Weathington, B.L. (2008). An Analysis of the Relationship between Employee-Organization Value Congruence and Employee Attitudes. The Journal of Psychology, 142, 615-631.

Burke, L.A. & Weathington, B.L. (2008). Health insurance and job lock: Proposed consequences. Employee Benefit Plan Review, 63(2), 23-25.

Cunningham, C.J.L., Weathington, B.L., & Burke, L.A. (2008). Riding the Wellness Wave: Implications for Organizations. Employee Benefit Plan Review, 63(4), 7-9.

O’Brien, R.S., Smithson, J.N., Weathington, B.L., & Booher, L.R. (2008). Big Five Personality Characteristics and Commitment Levels in Romantic Relationships. Modern Psychological Studies, 13, 110-125.

Weathington, B.L. (2008). Income Level and the Value of Non-Wage Employee Benefits. Employee Responsibilities and Right Journal, 20, 291-300.

Weathington, B.L. & Moldenhauer, H.A. (2008). Gender Role and Personality as Predictors of Peer and Self Leadership Evaluations. E-Journal of Applied Psychology, 4(1), 7-14.

Danny West, facilities planning & management, has earned the U. S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Accredited Professional (AP) status. The LEED Green Building Rating System is designed to encourage energy and resource conservation in the construction and operation of buildings.

Anne Wilkins, accounting, was the featured speaker at an all day tax seminar sponsored by the Tennessee Society of CPA’s and Surgent McCoy, LLC in January, 2009 on the Complete Guide to Preparing Limited Liability Company, Partnership, and S Corporation Federal Income Tax Returns. She was appointed to the board of the Chattanooga Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Li Yang, computer science and engineering, published “SecCMP: Enhancing Critical Secrets Protection in Chip-Multiprocessors”, International Journal of Information Security and Privacy, Volume 2, Issue 4, pp. 54-66, October-December 2008 (co-author: Lu Peng, and Balachandran Ramadass); “Integrating Trust Management into Usage Control in P2P Multimedia Delivery”, Proceedings of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE08), July 2008 (co-author: Raimund Ege); “Network Intrusion Detection Based on Bayesian Networks”, Proceedings of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE08), July 2008 (co-author: Alma Cemerlic and Joseph M. Kizza,); “Teaching Database Security and Auditing”, Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Chattanooga TN, March 2009, accepted; “Extracting Value from P2P Content Delivery:, Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC), IEEE Xplore, France, March 2009, accepted (co-author: Raimund K. Ege and Richard Whittaker); “DoS Network Intrusion Detection through Multi-layer Features”, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security, IEEE Xplore, March 2009, accepted (co-author: Ran Tao, Lu Peng, Bin Li, Alma Cemerlic);” Discovering Latent Topics from Dark Websites”, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security, IEEE Xplore, March 2009, accepted (co-author: Feiqiong Liu, Joseph M. Kizza, and Raimund K.Ege); secured $20,000 from Odor Wheeler on “Sustainable and Scalable Wireless Sensor Network to Monitor Chemical Concentration (with Mina Sartipi and Joseph Kizza)in 2008-2009; $62, 279 from Department of Defense (DoD) IASTP, UTC Information Assurance Scholarships Program, (with Joseph Kizza and Kathy Winters) in 2008-2009.