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.
