Fall 2003
Congratulations to the following faculty who were awarded tenure or
promotion recently by the UT Board of Trustees.
Tenured as Professor
were:
Roger Briley, Computational Engineering
Bill Harman, Philosophy and Religion
Henry McDonald, Computational Engineering
Timothy Swafford, Computational Engineering
Dave Whitfield, Computational Engineering
Tenured as Associate Professor were:
Hill Craddock, Biological and Environmental Sciences
Matt Greenwell, Art
Kay Lindgren, Nursing
Claire McCullough, Engineering
Tenured as Assistant Professor were:
Lee Harris, Music
Terri LeMoyne, Sociology, Anthropology, and Geography
Craig Laing, Sociology, Anthropology, and Geography
Kyle Knight, Chemistry
Melanie McCoskey, Accounting
Promoted to rank of Professor were:
Diane Halstead, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
David Levine, Physical Therapy
Deborah McAllister, Education
Gail Meyer, Chemistry
David Ross, Psychology
Promoted to rank of Associate Professor were:
Richard Allen, Management
Robert Bailey, Engineering
Stephen Eskildsen, Philosophy and Religion
Lee Harris, Music
Michael Jones, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Kyle Knight, Chemistry
Melanie McCoskey, Accounting and Finance
Joseph Owino, Engineering
Joanie Sompayrac, Accounting and Finance
Cecelia Wigel, Engineering
The campus community extends warm wishes and thanks to Durwood
Harvey for teaching accounting over 50 years at UTC!
Harvey became a full-time assistant professor at UC from 1948 through
1951. After entering public
accounting for four years, he taught as an adjunct professor continuously.
Dr. Kaye McClung, Head of the Department of Accounting and Finance,
expresses her deep appreciation for Harvey’s contributions.
Michael Bell has agreed to serve as Acting Dean of the Lupton Library.
Sandy Cole, Bradley/Walker GEAR UP program, has been appointed by the
Board of Directors of the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence
to the 2003 Board of Examiners. The Center’s Award Program annually
recognizes organizations demonstrating the highest levels of performance
excellence. Cole is responsible for reviewing and evaluating applications
submitted in the award process. Established in 1993, the objective
of the Award Program is to promote economic development by helping
companies grow more competitive in today’s global market.
Linda Collins, biological and environmental sciences, is the 2003 recipient
of the Dr. Jane Worth Harbaugh Teaching and Service Award. This distinction
honors Guerry Professor Emeritus of History Dr. Jane Worth Harbaugh.
Collins was selected by UTC faculty and administration as a means of
recognizing a member of the UTC faculty who truly gives of self to
others.
Lisa Pinckney Flint has been promoted to Director of External Affairs
in The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s College of Business.
Lee Harris has agreed to serve as Acting Head of the Music Department
in the absence of Jocelyn Sanders, who is serving as serve as Acting
Associate Provost for Academic Affairs.
David Levine, physical therapy, has been awarded the
2003 Tennessee Occupational Therapy Association (TOTA) Award of Excellence.
Members
of TOTA honored Levine’s work in assisting TOTA members toward
becoming certified in Physical Agent Modalities or PAMS, used to control
pain and reduce swelling.Deborah A. McAllister, Teacher Preparation
Academy, led a group of local teachers this summer on a math trail,
a collection of community mathematics modules. The teachers were participating
in the UTC Summer Urban Institute.
Harry McDonald, SimCenter, was named interim vice president for research
of the UT system. McDonald succeeds T. Dwayne McCay, who has accepted
the position of provost at Florida Institute of Technology.
Jonathan McNair, music, served as composer-in-residence
for the VivaVoce Summer Choral Music Camp, a pilot program of Spivey
Hall. Spivey Hall
is a performing arts venue at Clayton College & State University,
which sponsored the camp along with the Athens Young Women's Christian
Organization Camp for Girls, the Atlanta Chapter of the American Composers
Forum and the Horizons Program. McNair also composed a new commissioned
work for the Chattanooga Clarinet Choir titled "A Wood-Carved
River," which premiered Sunday, Sept 7 at First-Centenary UMC.
The piece is dedicated to Jay Craven, the founder of the clarinet choir.
While he composed the clarinet piece, McNair participated in a two-week
workshop, the Conductor-Composer program of the Conductor's Institute
at Bard College in New York. McNair’s solo baritone saxophone
piece "Galapagos Lions" was performed at the World Saxophone
Congress in Minneapolis, and an earlier work was issued on CD, on the
Capstone label. "Huckleberry Finn in the Museum of Art",
for clarinet and prepared piano had been chosen for the Society of
Composers, International, CD series, and was also released last summer.
McNair’s Coolidge Park sculpture Heavy Metal was featured
in TREN D, a publication of the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce.
Dan Quarles, Acting Associate Provost, was appointed to the Erlanger
Hospital Board of Trustees by the Hamilton County Commissioners.
Meredith Perry, grants and program review, and John Schaerer, special
projects, have contributed a chapter to the book University Efforts
to Encourage Smart Growth. This case study explores the partnership
forged between UTC and its central city neighbor, the MLK District.
Verbie Prevost, English, serves as chair of the Steering Committee
of “A Tale for One City,” a program embraced by the city
of Chattanooga to promote literacy.
Richard Rice, history, organized the Lupton Faculty Seminar for 20
colleagues, allowing discussions with four invited speakers who addressed
different aspects of globalization. Two UTC professors, Steve
LeWinter,
art, gave a presentation on International Graphic Art, and Judith
Wakim,
nursing, discussed the global aging crisis. The seminar was held during
the UTC Fall Break. The Lupton grant will also fund two Globalization
Lectures in the Spring semester that will include a faculty seminar
followed by a talk for the campus and the public in the evenings.
Jocelyn Sanders, Head of the UTC Department of Music, has agreed to
serve as Acting Associate Provost for Academic Affairs.
Felicia B. Sturzer, foreign languages, presented a paper, “Reciprocity, Spontaneity, and Authority in the Letters of Julie de Lespinasse” at the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference August 3 - 9 in Los Angeles, CA. She served on the Editorial Board of Women in French Studies as well as the Prize Committee for Best Graduate Student Essay for the journal. She also served on the Prize Committee for Best Graduate Student Essay for the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
James Ward, history, has written Three Men in
a Hupp: Around the World by Automobile, 1910-1912, Stanford University Press.
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga remained in the second tier
of Southern schools without doctoral programs in U.S. News and World
Report’s annual college rankings released in August, 2003.
The UTC Department of Communication and the West Chair of Excellence
presented the Eleventh Annual Symposium on the 19th Century
Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression.
In its first faculty recital for tuba, the UTC Department of
Music presented Kenyon Wilson, adjunct professor and principal tubist with
the Augusta Symphony Orchestra and with the Charleston-based Atlantic
Southeast Ballet Orchestra. Accompanying Wilson was Alan Nichols of
Chattanooga State and the UTC Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble under the direction
of William R. Lee, a professor of music. David Butler was featured
in a duet with Wilson. Butler teaches at the Chattanooga School of
the Arts and Sciences where he is the band director. He graduated Tennessee
Technological University and has done graduate work at UTC.
