See also Faculty Honors Day 2005
Fall 2005
Jooyong Ahn, music, served as juror at the annual Vakhtang Jordania International Conducting Competition held in Kharkov, Ukraine.
Richard Brown, finance and operations, defended his dissertation and the degree of Doctor of Education was conferred upon him by Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, where he was awarded the institution’s dissertation excellence award.
Roland M. Carter, music, was featured in a month-long festival of spirituals at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church. Abyssinian’s expanded choirs performed Carter’s arrangements at worship services.
Rebecca Cook, English, will have a chapbook version of The Terrible Baby published in February 2006 by Dancing Girl Press. Cook was named a semi-finalist in this year's Sarabande Books' Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. She also completed a residency at Dairy Hollow Writer's Colony in Eureka Springs, AR.
Steven Cox, library, was awarded one of four Outstanding Faculty Papers at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Thirteenth Annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression. His paper about the historical Civil War newspaper in Chattanooga was titled Rebel With A Cause: The Chattanooga Daily Rebel.
J. Kevin Ford, music, attended an intensive study of Russian Orthodox Choral Music at the Music Institute at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York.
WilliamHarman, philosophy and religion, spent a Semester At Sea last summer. Harman joined 53 faculty members and taught students on a ten and a half week cruise.
James Inman, English, was named the recipient of the 2005 Southeastern Writing Center Association Achievement Award, presented in Charleston, South Carolina. He has been invited to speak at the 2006 SWCA conference at Duke University.
Charles H. Lippy, philosophy and religion, was profiled in the May, 2005 issue of Religious Studies News, a publication of the American Academy of Religion.
Founded in 1909, the AAR is the world's largest professional association of academics who research or teach topics related to religion.
Jonathan McNair, music, composed “A City On A River” for the opening of the new Chattanooga waterfront. The Southern Saxophone Quartet recently performed the work at the Hunter Museum of American Art.
Jane D. Reagor, human ecology , Interior Design program, received the Interior Design Educator of the Year award from the Tennessee Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers.
Chris Smith, nursing, has been appointed the Coordinator of the MSN Family Nurse Practitioner program.
Jeff Stephens, dining services appeared on the television fishing show, Schooled by Denny Brauer.. Stephens is planning to compete in the next BassMaster Open Series.
Felicia B. Sturzer, foreign languages, served on the Editorial Board of Women in French Studies and XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century. She served on the Executive Board of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Monty Wilson, IT Division, was named the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award at the annual Tennessee Higher Education Symposium Information Technology meeting.
The 2005 Faculty Fellows are Obasi Akan, Management; Joyce Smith, English; Gavin Townsend, Art; Sandy Watson, Teacher Preparation Academy. They were chosen to become experts in teaching, learning and technology topics.
External evaluator Dr. Jack Heidl of the University of Nebraska-Omaha recently awarded the Department of Mathematics a perfect score of 100% based on criteria established by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, regarding the program’s curriculum, teaching quality, student engagement, and diversity.
The undergraduate and master’s accounting programs have joined an elite group of colleges worldwide to receive accreditation separate from the university’s other business programs. For several years, both UTC’s bachelor’s degree in accounting and Master of Accountancy have been accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International as part of the UTC College of Business’s overall accreditation. The AACSB accreditation process allows accounting programs to document superior performance beyond standard requirements and to achieve separate accreditation.
Kudos to all faculty and staff who contributed to Katrina relief efforts:
Tom Bissonette, Counseling and Career Planning, lead an Adult Debriefing Group for evacuees in their temporary housing.
Beth Dodd, continuing education, coordinated efforts to find clothing, shoes, transportation and meals for 30 hurricane evacuees.
Joe Dumas, computer science, collected water, food and supplies on campus for hurricane victims in Mississippi. He and his wife delivered the supplies over the Labor Day weekend.
Kristi A. Gibbs, graduate studies, practiced play therapy for children in shelters in Opelousas, Louisiana, in St. Landry Parish to address the needs of young Hurricane Katrina survivors. Along with two colleagues from Johns Hopkins University, Gibbs engaged the children in outdoor games and guided artwork.
Linda Hill, nursing, recently moved from Arlington, Tennessee near Memphis. Over Labor Day weekend, Hill worked at the American Red Cross chapter in Memphis, where evacuees were processed. She made medical evaluations, and helped recruit more nurse practitioners to provide assistance.
Robin Lee, graduate studies, has helped organize and coordinate counseling students to assist in local efforts supporting evacuees. The group met with the Red Cross to plan volunteer efforts.
Valerie L. Radu. social work, worked with the Red Cross to coordinate local professional social workers, who provided social services and mental health services at the Chattanooga shelter and at the Family Assistance Center. Additionally, Radu worked with the Partnership for Families, Children, and Adults to facilitate a weekly meeting with the social workers for training and debriefing purposes.
Cathie Smith, physical therapy, helped to register and work with the medical team at the South Chattanooga Recreation facility , where she evaluated and provided direct care services for evacuees with special needs. She provided direct services related to falls risk assessment, environmental and equipment modifications. Smith helped locate alternate housing for one individual who was intellectually challenged .
Rabbit Zielke, WUTC, Yvonne Kilpatrick, Physical Therapy, Steve Nikkel, COPC Coordinator, Tom Buchanan, Sociology, and Katie Harbison, Continuing Education, Mary Coleman, Politcal Science, and Sandy Watson, Science Education, all volunteered to assist at the Chattanooga Housing Authority warehouse, where donations were made to support relocation efforts for evacuees.
