Spring 2008

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).

Fall 2007

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.

Spring 2007

Deborah Elwell Arfken, graduate school and political science, public administration, and nonprofit management department, recently served as a member of the SACS reaffirmation on-site team for Kennesaw State University. A member of the board of directors for the Partnership for Families, Children, and Adults, she has recently been elected vice president of the organization. She continues to serve as chair of the personnel committee and a member of the executive committee. She is also a member of the board of directors for the Council of Graduate Schools, the national organization that represents graduate schools in the United States and Canada. As a board member, she will attend biannual meetings in Washington, D.C., and the 2007 summer deans conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Richard Becherer, business and entrepreneurship, has been selected by the J. William Fulbright Foreign scholarship Board (FSB) as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair for Entrepreneurship in Central Europe. Becherer will teach in the Czech Republic in spring semester, 2008, at the Prague University of Economics, Faculty of Business Administration and at the Czech University of Agriculture in Prague. The goals of the two institutions are to train the elite of successful managers and entrepreneurs through master’s programs in economics and management with a specialization in entrepreneurship and innovation.

Richard Brown, finance and operations, has been awarded the Trail Blazer Award by 100 Black Men of Chattanooga, Inc. The award recognizes Brown’s outstanding contributions to higher education.

Roland Carter, music, has been awarded the Trail Blazer Award by 100 Black Men of Chattanooga, Inc. The award recognizes Carter’s outstanding contributions to higher education.

James R. Cunningham, engineering, was named Engineer of the Year by the Chattanooga Engineers Club. Founded in 1924, The Chattanooga Engineers Club membership includes engineers and scientists from various technical disciplines in the Chattanooga area.

Joseph Migga Kizza, computer science, has been appointed by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), a subsidiary of the World Bank, together with the African Training and Research Centre in Administration for Development (CAFRAD) to be a research advisor in Information and Telecommunications Technology (ICT) to nine African countries. Kizza will visit these countries two to three times a year to: assist the research teams with their research instruments; recommend additional material for inclusion in their literature review and capacity building advise as required; and provide linkages into international research networks, including through identification of resources and scholarly publishing and conference presentation opportunities.

Charles Lippy, philosophy and religion, was honored at the opening session of the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion (SECSOR) Southeastern Regional Meeting 2007 in Nashville when a panel of four scholars appraised his professional life and work. The theme of the panel discussion was entitled Contributions to the Study of American Religion: Honoring the Work of Charles H. Lippy with Sean McCloud, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, presiding. Panelists include: John Corrigan, Florida State University; Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University; Amanda Porterfield, Florida State University; and David G. Roebuck, Dixon Pentecostal Research Center, Lee University.

Wilfred McClay, humanities, presented “Academic Strategy Reconsidered: The Work of George Keller,” at a conference entitled “Rethinking Management,” held at the Witherspoon Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. McClay presented “Freedom and Autonomy in The Lonely Crowd” at the Department of American Studies, University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy. McClay wrote a paper for the annual Bradley Symposium in Washington, DC cosponsored by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the Hudson Institute, entitled “Who Are We Today? American Character and Identity in the 21st Century.” The paper was read in his absence, due to a series of Fulbright lectures McClay gave on David Riesman at the Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. Presentations were entitled “David Riesmanand and the Concept of Autonomy” and “David Riesman and the Problem of Diversity in Higher Education.”

McClay presented “Progress in History: Revisiting Butterfield, Dawson, and Niebuhr” at a conference held at the Crowne Plaza St. James in London, sponsored by the Historical Society and the John Templeton Foundation, entitled “British Abolitionism, Moral Progress, and Big Questions in History.” The event was timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Great Britain’s decision to abolish the slave trade. McClay gave a lecture on “Freedom and Autonomy in The Lonely Crowd,” delivered to the Division of Philosophy and Letters, University of Catania in Catania (Sicily), Italy.

Melanie McCoskey, business, organized a tax clinic which prepared 418 tax returns and generated $753,000 in refunds, all for low-income residents. McCoskey, Joanie Sompayrac and Kaye Sheridan, also of the College of Business, checked tax forms prepared by students at the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance at the Brainerd Recreational Complex on Moore Road.

Andrew Novobilski, computer science and electrical engineering, has been selected by The American Council on Education (ACE) as one of 39 college and university senior faculty and administrators for the 2007-08 ACE Fellows Program. Established in 1965, the ACE Fellows Program—the longest running leadership development program in the United States—focuses on identifying and preparing senior leadership for the nation’s colleges and universities.

Gretchen Potts, chemistry, was invited to speak at the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, the premier conference for more than 20,000 attendees from 80 countries in industry, academia and government. The Pittsburgh Conference is a Pennsylvania not-for-profit, educational corporation organized by the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh (SSP) and the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP).

Irven Resnick, philosophy and religion, was recognized by Chattanooga Sister Cities with the Citizen Diplomacy Award for beginning a summer abroad program at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in Oxford, England. Resnick has held the status of Senior Associate at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies since 2003, and recently was appointed an associate faculty member of Oxford University, giving him full faculty status at Oxford University. The appointment lasts until August 2008, and may be renewed. Beyond teaching courses, Resnick has full access to all university facilities and faculty support services.

Manuel Santiago, chemistry, has been selected to join the editorial board of the prestigious Journal of Applied Sciences, which covers a wide range of topics including biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine, and physics. As a member of the editorial board, Santiago will be responsible for assessing submitted research papers and observing the refereeing process. Santiago will work with professionals across the nation, motivating other scientists to submit their research findings for publication and recommending referees to evaluate submitted manuscripts.

Charlene Simmons, communication, will be recognized in August 2007 during the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC) for her paper, “The interconnected Web: Media consolidation, corporate ownership, and the World Wide Web.” Simmons’ paper is one of the top three faculty papers in the Communication Technology division.

Felicia B. Sturzer, foreign languages, was elected to the Council of Scholars at UTC. She participated in a Roundtable discussion on “Pitching the Eighteenth Century” and presented a paper on “The Discourses of the Age of Enlightenment” at the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 22-25, 2007 in Atlanta, GA. She chaired a session at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies on “French Ties that Bind: Real and Fictional Friends and Family Relationships”, held jointly with SEASECS, March 22-25, 2007 in Atlanta, GA. She also published a solicited review article in The French Review (Vol. 80, #3, Feb. 2007) on a book by Amy Wyngaard: From Savage to Citizen: The Invention of the Peasant in the French Enlightenment. Newark: U of Delaware Press, 2004. She served on the Editorial Boards of Women in French Studies and XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century.

Robert Swansbrough, political science, was presented the General William E. DePuy Award by the U.S. Army Cadet Command (USACC) at a Fort Monroe ceremony. The DePuy Award is considered the most prestigious award given by Cadet Command, the parent organization of the Army ROTC program. It honors annually an individual who has provided significant support to the local or national Army ROTC program, demonstrated support during the past year and provided service or achievement resulting in tangible or intangible benefits to the Army ROTC program. Swansbrough earned the award for his tireless efforts to return an Army ROTC unit to the UTC campus. He was selected from 11 other nominees from around the country.

James Tucker, graduate studies, addressed the 39th Annual National Association of School Psychologist’s Convention in New York City, New York. He was presented with the National Association of School Psychologists certificate of appreciation as the 2007 Distinguished Lecturer. Tucker’s presentation was entitled “School Psychology in a Land of Blended Professions: The Ultimate Flavor of Effective Response.”

Five faculty members who have served the University for many years were honored by the Faculty Senate at a retirement dinner recently, held at the Chattanooga Golf and Country Club. The five are:

• Dan Baker (Teacher Preparation Academy)
• Eugene Bartoo (Education Graduate Studies Division)
• Gary Litchford (Biological and Environmental Sciences)
• Thomas Waddell (Chemistry)
• Thomas Ware (English)