Deborah Elwell Arfken, graduate school, was elected president of the board of directors for the Partnership for Families, Children and Adults for 2008. She previously served as vice-president of this multi-faceted social services organization.
Gwendolyn Spring Atkinson, English, presented a paper, “La Visceralidad Femenina: Overflowing the Feminine in Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portraits, or, What Would Walter Benjamin Say About Frida Kahlo and Would She Care?” at Talking Back, Moving Forward: Gender, Culture & Power: The 30th Annual Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Conference, UTC, March 24, 2007.
Hinsdale Bernard, education, graduate studies, was awarded a US patent for a three dimensional (3D) rendition of the Periodic Table of the Elements in November, 2007. The foundational model was first developed by Bernard and his students in 1977, while he served as a high school chemistry teacher and science chairman at Northeastern College, Sangre Grande, Trinidad, West Indies. In early 1995, Bernard’s son (Roald) encouraged him to resume work on the model and they worked intermittently on its refinement for eight years. It soon became a family preoccupation and Bernard’s wife (Barbara), daughter (Ishara), and daughter-in-law (Hamdellia) were involved in its development to varying degrees. It was finally submitted to the Patent Office in November, 2003, assisted by patent lawyer, Gregory Turocy of the law firm Amin, Turocy and Calvin of Cleveland, Ohio.
Beverly Brockman, marketing and entrepreneurship, had two manuscripts accepted for publication. They include, “An Exploratory Model of Interpersonal Cohesiveness in New Product Development Teams,” Journal of Product Innovation Management, (coauthors: Melissa Rawlston, Diane Halstead, and Michael Jones) and “The Price of Unconditional Love: Consumer Decision Making for High-Dollar Veterinary Care,” Journal of Business Research, (coauthors: Valerie Taylor and Christopher Brockman).
Sharon Brueggeman, mathematics, published the article “Pythagorean Triples with Square and Triangular Sides,” College Math. J., 38 (2007), 138 - 140. She also gave a presentation titled “Ramification Targeted Polynomial Searches” at a meeting of the American Mathematical Society.
Virginia Cairns, Lupton Library, was elected Secretary of the Tennessee Library Association for 2007-2008. She also was named to the editorial board of The Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, published by Haworth Press. Her presentation entitled “Project Management Basics for Librarians” was accepted as a preconference workshop for the Electronic Resources & Librarianship Conference in Atlanta in March, 2008.
Marisa Colston, health and human performance, served as the co-chair for the Tennessee Athletic Trainers’ Society Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium.
Marisa Colston, health and human performance, served as the co-chair for the Southeast Athletic Trainers’ Association Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium.
Marisa Colston, health and human performance, presented at the 2008 SEATA Student Clinical Symposium on “Lumbosacral Spine Evaluation”.
Marisa Colston, health and human performance, presented at the 2008 SEATA Bi-Annual Educators’ Conference on “Athletic Training Educators: The Gatekeepers of the Profession”.
Steve Cox, Lupton Library, has been elected Vice President/President-Elect of the Society of Tennessee Archivists for 2008. This position automatically assumes the position of President the year after the position of Vice President is served.
Lucien Ellington, education and Asia Program, was the project director (and author of Japan in World History) of Japan: A Teaching Module located at http://www.utc.edu/Research/AsiaProgram/teaching/ in September 2007. Ellington authored the International Baccalaureate History section of Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate: Do They Deserve Gold Star Status? published by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation in November 2007. He edited two issues of Education About Asia (Association for Asian Studies). Ellington was also awarded $99,889 from the Freeman Foundation to direct the 2008 National Consortium for Teaching about Asia in Tennessee and $65,149 from the Association for Asian Studies to support publication of the 2008 Education About Asia journal.
Gene Ezell, health and human performance, will be inducted as a 2008 Fellow in the North American Society of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance Professionals.
Established in 1999, the North American Society (NAS) recognizes outstanding professionals from within the allied professions of health education, physical education, recreation, sport and dance in North America.
In a letter of invitation to Ezell, Jan Adair, 2008 NAS Chair, said “your induction as a 2008 Fellow represents our recognition of your accomplishments, but most importantly, your contributions to our professions.”
Ezell was selected as United States Best College Health Educator of the Year by the American Association of Health Education. He was named Scholar of the Year by the Southern District Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance and he was appointed United States’ delegate to 12th World Congress on Health Education by AAHPERD, Dublin, Ireland. He was nominated as Amateur Athlete of Year, 1995, to the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.
Elizabeth Folse, housing, was awarded the Outstanding New Professional Award at the 2007 Tennessee Association of College and University Housing Officers Conference (TACUHO) held in Martin, Tennessee in October.
John Friedl, political science, accounting, was one of two UTC faculty to receive the 2008 University of Tennessee National Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award. He published “Accountants Considering Service as Corporate Directors: What You Should Know” (co-author, Deborah Archambeault), Journal of Accountancy, September 2007; “Is Justice Blind? Examining the Relationship Between Presidential Appointments of Judges and Outcomes in Employment Discrimination Cases” (co-author, Andre Honoree), Cumberland Law Review, vol. 38, December 2007; “Impartial justice?”, Chattanooga Times Free Press, December 16, 2007. He also was named Treasurer of the Chattanooga Creative Discovery Museum, where he has served on the Board of Directors since 2002.
Bill Gautier, athletics, was named 2007 Southern Conference Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year in October.
Greg Grant, chemistry, published the paper title “Fixation of atmospheric carbon dioxide by a cadmium(II) macrocyclic complex” in the October 2007 issue of the Royal Society of Chemistry Journal Dalton Transactions. The paper describes an unusual compound which removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and former UTC chemistry undergraduate Maikel Botros appears as a co-author. Grant has also just published a second paper in Dalton Transactions, “Cyclometallated Pt(II) and Pd(II) Complexes with a Thiacrown Ligand”.
William Harman, philosophy and religion, published three chapters in a volume he co-edited with Selva J. Raj, entitled Dealing With Deities: The Ritual Vow in South Asia,released in paperback by State University of New York Press in 2007. He also published “A Miracle (or Two) in Tirucchi,” in Dempsey, Corinne (ed.), The Miracle as Conundrum in South Asian Religions., SUNY Press, 2007. He presented “The Sacred Body of the Tamil Female Suicide Bomber,” at the Conference for the Study of Religion in India, Albion College, September, 2007 and «La bombe humaine devient une déesse: femmes sacrificielles dans la guerre civile de Sri Lanka,» at the annual meeting of the Centre d’études sur les nouvelles religions, June 2007 at l’ Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux, France. He received an Open Research Grant from the American Academy of Religion to interview the families of female martyr-bombers among Sri Lankan diaspora communities in Toronto, Paris, India, and Sri Lanka.
Debbie Ingram, physical therapy, is the first faculty member to serve as the President of the University of Tennessee Alumni Association. The UTAA represents the 310,000 alumni of all campuses of the University. In this role, Ingram is speaking to alumni groups across the country regarding the value of education and the low college graduation rates in Tennessee. Ingram has also been appointed to the UT Development Council and the Campaign for Tennessee Planning Committee. Ingram will also be presenting four research presentations at the American Physical Therapy Association’s Combined Sections Meeting in February, 2008 in Nashville. The topics are related to physical therapy licensure and discipline, accommodations on the National Physical Therapy Examination and anatomical dance positions.
Richard Jackson, English. His book length translation of Alexsander Persolja’s poems, Potovanje Sonca/Journey of the Sun, has appeared from the Slovene Writers’ Union Press. He has been invited for the second year in a row to read and present workshops at the Leysin American School in Switzerland and the University of Primorska in Slovenia, and has been invited to be on the staff of the Prague Summer Writing Program this summer. He is giving readings this academic year at the University of Michigan, Vermont College, Austin Peay University, Lee College, The Russian Club in NYC, and the Durango Arts center. His poems have been accepted for publication in Helicon (Israel), Nuori Voima (Finland), Golden Boat (Slovenia), Southern Indiana Review, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Atlanta Review, Ecotones, Cave Wall and other journals. An interview with him, “Revelation: an Interview with Richard Jackson,” appears in Southern Indiana Review and his essay, “Murmurs in the Background: An Introduction to Slovene Poetry,” in Beyond All Borders: A Slovene Poetry Anthology, ed. Kelly Allen, White Pine Press. He also write the introduction to Romanian poet, Magda Carneci’s Chaos: Poems. He will be chairing the fourth edition of his panel on “Neglected and Forgotten Poets” at the AWP meeting in NYC in January, as well as serving on another panel on “New Ways of Teaching Workshops.” He recently judged the first book contest for ZONE 3 Press (Austin Peay University) and wrote the introduction to the books of poems by both prize winning poets. He directed the Meacham Writers’ Workshop in October and the forthcoming workshop February, and is once again taking creative writing students to Europe this summer. He has edited the poetry for the Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 editions of Hunger Mountain, a Vermont publication, and the current Poetry Miscellany.
Mike Jaynes, English, has published his short story “Midsummer” in Farmhouse Magazine’s January/February 2008 issue. It was selected as a featured story in the issue.
Linda Johnston, education, Valerie Rutledge, education, Linda Rivers, Children’s Center, are currently under contract with Prentice Hall for the publication of a textbook entitled “AT 4 u & me”.
The focus of the text will be the development of low tech strategies for both preservice and inservice educators to utilize within the classroom. The strategies will range from PreK-12 grade levels.
Joseph M. Kizza, computer science and engineering, has written 2007 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE: Computer Network Security and Cyber Ethics, 2d ed., McFarland Publishers, 2006. 223pp. softcover ISBN 978-0-7864-2595-2 ( Joseph M. Kizza)
Joseph M. Kizza, Li Yang, Alma Cemerlic, Feiqiong Liu, Fine-Grained Reputation-based Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, New Brunswick, NY, May 2007.
BOOKS:
J.M. Kizza, Jackson Muhirwe, Janet Aisbett, Katherine Getao, Victor W. Mbarika, Dilip Patel, and Anthony J. Rodrigues (Editors). Strengthing the Role of ICT in Development. Fountain Publishers, Kampala, Uganda, 2007.
J. M. Kizza, Janet Aisbett, Andrew Vince, and Tom Wanyama (Editors).
Special Topics in Computing and ICT Research: Advances in Systems Modelling and ICT Applications. Fountain Publishers, Kampala, Uganda. 2006.
J.M. Kizza and Flo Kizza. Securing the Information Infrastructure, IGI Global, Hershey, PA, 2008.
J. M. Kizza. Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age. Third Edition, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2007.
David Levine, physical therapy, published the article Changes in Lumbar Spinal Motion when Walking and Running on Level, Uphill, and Downhill Surfaces in the Journal of Athletic Training 42(1):29-34; 2007 with Marisa Colston from Athletic Training. He was also appointed as a grant reviewer for the Orthopedic section of the American Physical Therapy Association.
Charles Lippy, philosophy and religion, had his three-volume edited work, Faith in America, as the focus for a panel at the annual meeting of the Religion Research Association and Society for the Scientific Study of Religion in November 2007. In January 2008 he became president-elect of the American Society of Church History.
Claire McCullough, computer science and engineering, recently presented a paper titled, “Use of Neural Networks to Predict Adverse Outcomes from Acute Coronary Syndrome for Male and Female Patients,” at the International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, Cincinnati, Ohio. Co-authors on this paper, which appears in the conference proceedings, are Andy Novobilski, also of computer science and engineering, and Francis Fesmire, M.D., University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Chattanooga Unit.
Mark Mendenhall, business, has co-authored a new book: “Global Leadership: Research, Practice and Development” (London: Routledge, 2008).
Dana Moody, interior design, presentation “Safety prevention through sight simulation: Understand how the aging eye perceives interior finishes” won the Award of Excellence and the National Safety Council Congress in Chicago, IL, October, 2007.
Dana Moody, interior design and Michelle Vineyard, food & nutrition have conducted collaborative research focusing on the historic evolution on kitchen design. From this research they have produced two conference presentations: “The evolution of domestic kitchen design” at the Interior Design Educators Council’s International Conference in Austin, TX, March 2007 and “A Visual Perspective of Industrialization, Kitchen Design, and the Role of Women in the Twentieth Century” at the Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Conference Proceedings in Chattanooga, TN, Fall, 2007
Dana Moody, interior design, presented “The design kaleidoscope: Designing homes as a complex pattern that must constantly change.” at the Tennessee American Family & Consumer Science Conference in Knoxville, TN, Fall, 2007
Dana Moody, interior design, visited Weber State University in Ogden, Utah as an Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) consultant, January, 2008. She performed accreditation consultations for Mississippi College, October, 2007.
Sarla R. Murgai, Lupton Library, and Mohammad Ahmadi, management, (2007). A multiple regression model for predicting reference desk staffing requirements. The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances. V 20#2, 69-76.
Gregory O’Dea, English and University Honors Program, directed two separate workshops in medical humanities for the Tennessee and Georgia state chapters of the American College of Physicians. Each three-day workshop drew national-level audiences, enrolling 50-60 participants and treating the theme of “War and Remembrance” through reading and analysis, lectures, small group discussion sessions, and small group writing activities. O’Dea also served on the faculty of the American College of Physicians at its national meeting in San Diego, California, presenting a workshop course on “Plague and Community.”
Gretchen Potts, chemistry, organized a workshop titled “No time? No Money? No Problem: Solutions for Innovative Analytical Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions” for the 2008 Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, the premier analytical conference for more than 20,000 attendees from 80 countries in industry, academia and government.
M. D. (Peggy) Roblyer, education, graduate studies, has published an article (Roblyer, M.D., Freeman, J., Donaldson, M.B. & Maddox, M. (2007). A comparison of outcomes of virtual school courses offered in synchronous and asynchronous formats. The Internet and Higher Education), and has the following in press: an article (Roblyer, M. D., Davis, L., Mills, S., Marshall, J., & Pape, L. (2008). Toward practical procedures for predicting and promoting success in virtual school students. The American Journal of Distance Education), and a book chapter (Roblyer, M. D. (2008). Virtual schooling: Redefining a place called “school.” In J. Voogt & G. Knezek (Eds.), International Handbook of Information Technology in Education. Amsterdam, NL: Springer-Verlag). She has also had four papers accepted for presentation in March, 2008 at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association in New York, where she will also chair the annual meeting of AERA’s Education and the Internet Special Interest Group (SIG-WWW). She is the featured speaker at Covenant College’s 2008 Educators Conference (http://www.covenant.edu/news/08.30.07.php).
Valara Sample, housing, was awarded the Service Award at the TACUHO Conference (Tennesseee Association for College and University Housing Officers) held in Martin, TN on October 22-23, 2007.
Mina Sartipi, computer science and engineering, F. Delgosha, F. Fekri, “Two-Dimensional Half-Rate Codes Using two-Variable Finite-Field Filter Banks,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 55, Issue 12, pp.5846-5853 December 2007.
M. Sartipi, B. N. Vellambi R, N. Rahnavard, F. Fekri, “DSCM: An Energy Efficient Multicast Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Distributed Source Coding,” IEEE Infocom, April 2008.
M. Sartipi, F. Fekri, “Distributed Source Coding in Wireless Sensor Networks using Rate-Compatible LDPC Codes: The Entire Slepian-Wolf Rate Region,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, March 2008.
Booker T. Scruggs, II, sociology, anthropology, and geography, received the Community Service Award from the Unity Group of Chattanooga at the recent M.L. King Celebration held at the Tivoli Theatre.
Beverly Simmons, Lupton Library, published the following: “Academic Users’ Interactions with ScienceDirect in Search Tasks: Affective and Cognitive Behaviors.” Information Processing & Management 44.1 (January 2008): 105-121 (co-authors Tenopir, Wang, Zhang, and Pollard); “Reaching Your Millenials: A Fresh Look at Freshman Orientation.” Tennessee Libraries 57.2 (2007) (co-author Carter); and, “E-Mail is SO 5 Minutes Ago: Implementing IM Reference at UTC Lupton Library.” Tennessee Libraries 57.1 (2007) (co-author Cairns.) Simmons made two presentations at the Tennessee Library Association’s 2007 Annual Conference. Simmons has been invited to present at the national LOEX 2008 Annual Conference and the 2008 Tennessee Library Association Annual Conference.
Cathie Smith, physical therapy, presented a full day preconference and a concurrent session at the national Developmental Interventions for Neonatal Care sponsored by Contemporary Forums in Las Vegas. The preconference examined “The Role of Movement and Posture in Promoting Efficient Physiologic Performance in Preterm Infants” and the topic of the concurrent session was “Movement and Posture: Identifying Adaptive and Maladaptive Motor System Markers in Preterm Infants.” Smith presented a half day conference at the fall state Tennessee Physical Therapy Association meeting entitled “Hands on Help: Manual facilitation techniques designed to enhance positive neural adaptation in young children with movement system dysfunction.” She has been invited to present two sessions at the national Young Child with Special Needs conference in May addressing the topics of “To touch or not to touch: How do you decide?” and “Learning to listen and speak more effectively with your hands: A different perspective on communication.” During summer, 2008 she will co-direct an international faculty/student exchange to Romania, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.
Ron Smith, mathematics, has been awarded a THEC Grant of $74,993 to co-direct (with Francesco Barioli, mathematics) a summer workshop for algebra teachers entitled “Applications of Algebra and Statistics IV.” He also published the articles “Path Product Matrices and Eventually Inverse M-matrices” (joint with C.R. Johnson), SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 29, no. 2, (2007), 370-376 and “Positive, Path Product, and Inverse M-matrices” (joint with C.R. Johnson), Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 421, (2007), 328-337. He gave the talk “Some Remarks on Inverse M-matrices” at the Robert C. Thompson Matrix Theory Symposium, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, March, 2007, and the invited talk “Schur Complements and Eigenvalue Inequalities” at the mini-symposium Schur Complements and their Applications (held in honor of Hans Schneider) at the 14th Annual Meeting of the International Linear Algebra Society, University of Shanghai, Shanghai, China, July, 2007.
Joanie Sompayrac, accounting, has co-authored an article with Linda Christiansen (from Indiana University) and former MBA student Arie Veltenaar, Minimizing the Effect of the Federal Estate Tax on Family Farms: A Continuing Issue, is scheduled to be published this spring in Todays CPA.
Joanie Sompayrac’s article, written with D. Michael Costello, Thinking Merger? A Proper Courtship Can Avert A Nasty Divorce, was published in January in The CPA Journal, Vol. 78, Issue 1, January 2008, pgs. 63-65.
Felicia Sturzer, foreign languages, published the paper “Writing the Self and Textual Authority in the Letters of Julie de Lespinasse” in New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 5(Feb., 2008). She also published a review of Mary Sheriff’s book, Moved by Love: Inspired Artists & Deviant Women in 18th Century France (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2004) in the same journal. She delivered a paper, “Villains, Heroes, Turkish Pirates, Gladiators, and Fairy Tales: Madame d’Aulnoy’s Novel Histoire d’Hypolite, Comte de Duglas” at the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Auburn University, February 14 - 16, 2008. At the same meeting, she chaired two sessions on “French ‘Letters’ I: Influences and Intersections” and “French ‘Letters’ II: Real and Fictional Contexts in Art and Literature”. She is on the Editorial Board of Women in French Studies and Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century.
Gary Wilkerson, health and human performance, is the lead author of a research report to be published in the March 2008 issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (co-authors Nicholas Boer, Chris Smith, and Greg Heath): Health-Related Factors Associated With the Healthcare Costs of Office Workers. He is also the lead author for two research reports to be presented at the Second International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health in Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 13-16, 2008: 1) Self-Reported Physical Activity Level is a Key Predictor of Metabolic Health Risk and High Healthcare Cost Cases among Office Workers (co-authors Greg Heath and Nicholas Boer) and 2) Validation of the Patient-Centered Assessment and Counseling for Exercise (PACE) Survey as a Useful Tool for Worksite Assessment of Employee Physical Activity Level (co-authors Greg Heath and Burch Oglesby).
Anne Wilkins, accounting, was a presenter on current developments in income taxes for the Chattanooga Chapter of the Governmental Accountants Association and the Chattanooga Chapter of the Association of Women Accountants. Wilkins was appointed to the Board of Directors of Northwest Georgia Bank.
Li Yang, computer science, published the following in 2008: “Detection of changes in transitive associations by shortest-path analysis of protein interaction networks integrated with gene expression profiles,” in proceedings of the International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI), accepted, 2008. (Co-authors: Hong Qin); “Trust-based Usage Control in Collaborative Environment, International Journal of Information Security and Privacy,” April 2008, to appear. (Co-authors: Chang Phuong, Andy Novobilski, and Raimund Ege); “Aspect-Oriented Analysis of Security in Object-Oriented Distributed Virtual Environments, book chapter in handbook of Research on Information Assurance and Security,” in press. (Co-authors: Raimund Ege, Lin Luo).
