Fall 2008

Valarie Adams, library, 2008/2009 President of the Chattanooga Area Library Association Member of the Tennessee Library Association Board of Directors

Jooyong Ahn, music, served as a juror for Techers del Norte-Pianists del Sur competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina August 25-September 2, 2008 along with the faculties from The Juilliard School, Eastman School of Music and former faculty from University of Utah. Ahn hosted 35 high school music students from Kangwon Arts High School, Gangnung, Korea, for master classes, attending classes, private study, rehearsals and concerts September 8-September 12, 2008.

Nesli Alp, engineering management and graduate programs, received $150,000 from the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of East Tennessee to establish the first four-year Construction Management program in the state of Tennessee. The program began in fall 2008 as a concentration in the Engineering Technology Management (ETM) program in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.

Alp successfully represented UTC at the Linden International Recruitment Fair in India, organized in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Hyderabad. She was also invited to speak at the UT Nuts and Bolts Conference. There, Alp discussed the partnership between the Internal Medicine Department of the UT Medical School at Erlanger and the College of Engineering and Computer Science at UTC, developed to improve patient safety. She was invited as a panelist to discuss Engineering Management Education at the American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM) Conference.

Sybil Baker, English. Her recent publications include a short story, “The Cape of Good Hope” in upstreet and an essay, “In Defense of Telling: How to put ideas in your short fiction” in Segue Writers on Writing, available at http://www.mid.muohio.edu/segue/wow/baker-defense.pdf.

Her short story “Dog House” will be published by Casperian Books this fall in an anthology titled And Now for a Story. Her essay titled “Earl Braggs: Poet of Place” will also appear this fall in Alehouse.

In September she will present at the Tennessee Council of Teachers of English Conference in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Her presentation is titled “The Pinwheel Approach: How to Organize Small Groups and Develop Writing Projects for Maximum Learning and Interaction.”

Boris Belinskiy, mathematics, published the paper “The Energy of the Stochastic Wave Equation Driven by a Fractional Gaussian Noise” (with P. Caithamer), Random Operators and Stochastic Equations, 15, 303-326 (2007); had the paper “The Schwarz Reflection Principle for Harmonic Functions in R2 Subject to the Robin Condition” (with T.V. Savin) accepted at J. Math Analysis and Applications; prtesented a paper “On Stochastic Wave Equation” at Vanderbilt Univ., April 2008; refereed a paper for SIAM Undergaradfuate Research.

Tom Buchanan, sociology, published two articles. “Race and Gender Differences in Self-efficacy: Assessing the Role of Gender Role Attitudes and Family Background?” was published in June 2008 issue of Sex Roles: A Journal of Research (with Nikesha Selmon) and “The Same Sex Referent-Work Satisfaction Relationship: Assessing the Role of Distributive Justice Perceptions” in May 2008 issue of Sociological Focus.

Tom Buggey, education, and Grace Hoomes, Research Graduate Assistant presented Video Self-Modeling Applications with Children with Autism at the Annual Autism Society of America Conference in Orlando in July.

Tom Buggey, education, delivered the keynote address “The Magic of RTI” at the Annual Beyond Access Conference in Memphis on Sept. 26

Susanne Burgess, Southeast Center for Education in Arts, presented a conference session for the International Society for Music Education in Bologna, Italy: An Integrated Approach to Music and Reading -Building Expressive Readers and Singers

Andy Carroll, Academic and Research Computing Services, has been certified as a GIS Professional by the GIS Certification Institute (GISCI). He joins the ranks of 35 other GIS Professionals (GISP) actively practicing in the state of Tennessee.

Sandy Cole, Center for Community Career Education, has served on two federal grant panels this year: The Department of Labor’s Community-Based Job Training and the Department of Education’s Smaller Learning Communities.

The Center for Community Career Education was also mentioned in the April 2 USA Today issue as a winner in the national Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility competition.

Marisa Colston, health and human performance, submitted a 1,600 page self-study over the summer for continued accreditation by the Committee on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education. The accreditation site visit is scheduled for October 5-7, 2008.

Rebecca Cook, English, published poems in Diode and Poet Lore. She also published a short story in New England Review. A piece of her creative nonfiction is due in October in Northwest Review.

Gloria Deml, nursing, received master’s degree in Christian Counseling in 2008.

Ken Dryden, WUTC-FM, the University’s public radio station, recently published liner notes for two new Jazzed Media CDs, including vocalist/lyricist Lorraine Feather’s Language and guitarist Jeff Barone’s Open Up.

In addition to his duties soliciting business support for WUTC-FM, Dryden has been a free lance jazz journalist for over 20 years, writing reviews, articles, liner notes and press bios. He is a regular contributor to All Music Guide (www.allmusic.com), All About Jazz New York, Hot House and Coda. Dryden is a member of the Jazz Journalists Association.

Leroy Fanning, health and human performance, was invited Keynote Speaker for the Baltimore County Schools Health, Physical Education and Dance teachers. The title of his keynote address was “Think change: Adapt and Thrive or Fall Behind.” In addition, the American Association for Physical Activity and Recreation (AAPAR) elected Fanning to its 2008-09 Board of Directors. His responsibilities will be the development of a Market Driven Strategy and increasing membership for AAPAR.

Kevin Ford, music, presented a session on “Fund raising for Community Based Choral Organizations” at the Southern Division Conference of the American Choral Directors Association in Lousiville, KY.

Kevin Ford, music, was elected as the College Representative for the East Tennessee Vocal Association.

Kevin Ford, music, presented a literature reading session and also directed the UTC Master Chorale in a concert during the Tennessee state conference of the American Choral Directors Association.

Kristi Gibbs, education, co-authored “Sanding in Supervision.” In A. Drews & J. Mullen (Eds.), Supervision Can Be Playful: Techniques for Child and Play Therapist Supervisors. Published by Jason Aronson. This work was co-authored with Eric Green from Johns Hopkins University.

Greg Grant, chemistry, served as guest co-editor on a special issue of the journal Main Group Chemistry which was devoted to the chemistry of sulfur and selenium. Grant also published a paper in the issue entitled: “Contrasting Arsine and Phosphine Coordination Behavior: Heteroleptic Palladium(II) Complexes with Triphenylarsine and a Crown Thioether.” UTC chemistry student Desiree Biggers appeared as a co-author. Grant recently published a second paper in the journal Polyhedron. The paper was titled “Hg(II) and Cd(II) Complexes with Mixed Donor Macrocyclic Thioethers: The Oxophobicity of Mercury(II)” and UTC chemistry graduates Makiel Botros and Jared Hassler appear as co-authors on the paper.

Diane Halstead, marketing and entrepreneurship, has published the following journal articles in 2007-2008:

Halstead, Diane, Michael A. Jones, Vance P. Lesseig, and Thomas I. Smythe (2008), “Customer Orientation of Financial Advisors,” Journal of Financial Services Marketing, in press.

Becherer, Richard C., Diane Halstead and A.J. Taylor (2008), “Auction Characteristics and Outcomes: An Empirical Examination of eBay,” Journal of Internet Commerce, 7 (3), 1-22.

Brockman, Beverly K., Melissa E. Rawlston, Michael A. Jones and Diane Halstead (2008), “An Exploratory Model of Interpersonal Cohesiveness in New Product Development Teams,” Journal of Product Innovation Management, in press.

Halstead, Diane, Michael A. Jones, and April N. Cox (2007), “Satisfaction Theory and the Disadvantaged Consumer,” Journal of Consumer Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction and Complaining Behavior, 20 (December), 15-35.

Bryan Hampton, English, humanities, “‘new Lawes thou see’st impos’d’: Milton’s Dissenting Angels and the Clarendon Code, 1661-65.” Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books: Essays on the 1667 First Edition. Eds. John Shawcross and Michael Lieb. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2007. 141-58.

“Infernal Preaching: Participation, God’s Name, and the Great Prophesying
Movement in the Demonic Council Scene of Paradise Lost.” The Uncircumscribed Mind: Reading Milton Deeply. Eds. Kristin A. Pruitt and Charles W. Durham. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 2008. 91-112.

Awarded UC Foundation Assistant Professorship, 2008

June Hanks, physical therapy, achieved two certifications: Certified Wound Specialist and Certified Lymphedema Therapist. She also led a team of physical therapy department graduates on a two-week cultural immersion experience to Les Cayes, Haiti where the team worked in a rehabilitation clinic & brace shop, conducted a three-day seminar for persons with stroke, and held rehabilitation clinics in the countryside. The team worked alongside the Haitian staff and expatriate staff that June directs as part of the Advantage Program, an assistance program for persons with disabling conditions in Haiti.

Colleen Harris, library, will present two sessions at the Internet Librarian conference in Monterey, California in October 2008. She will co-present a preconference workshop title “Dance, Dance, Library Evolution” focused on how libraries are utilizing new technologies to reach their communities, as well as a program titled “2.0 Learning and 1.8 Users: Bridging the Gap” with Rudy Leon (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), addressing how academic libraries can bridge the skill gap between underskilled students and the newest research technologies.

Karen Henderson, theatre and speech, performed in two productions at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre this year - SEE ROCK CITY (Main Stage) and WONDER OF THE WORLD (Circle Series).

Debbie Ingram, physical therapy, is the 2008-09 Past President and Chair of Annual Giving for the University of Tennessee Alumni Association. She and three UTC PT graduate students were recently notified of the acceptance of a research study presentation at the upcoming American Physical Therapy Association meeting in Las Vegas.

Richard Jackson, English, had his edition of Alexsander Persolja’s book of poems from the Slovene, Potovanje Sonca (Journey of the Sun) published by the Slovene Cultural Association. Jackson’s own poems have appeared recently or will soon appear in Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Cave Wall, Ecoline, Asheville Review, Crab Orchard Review, Poems and Plays, Rattle, Atlanta Review, 101 Odes and several anthologies. His poems were translated and appeared recently in journals in Finland, India and Slovenia. He has recently given readings and presented workshops at the University of Iowa, the Prague Summer Programs, the Vermont College Slovenia Program, the American School at Leysin Switzerland, Austin Peay University, and the Vermont Writers’ Conference, and will appear soon at Durango (CO) Community College, Bridgewater College (VA), Cleveland (OH) State University, and other venues. He will appear on a panel on Slovene Literature in New York in September, and recently chaired a panel and participated in another at the annual Associated Writing Programs Conference in New York. He recently edited an edition of Poetry Miscellany, and has written an essays for Literary Encyclopedia (London) and a book on Weldon Kees for the University of Nebraska. In May he led a group of UTC students to Switzerland, Italy and Slovenia where they conducted workshops, presented readings and participated in UTC workshops held by himself and Prof. Sybil Baker. He is directing the UTC Meacham Writers’ Workshops this October and March.

Mike Jaynes, English, continues building a national reputation in the animal rights and advocacy field. Already an internationally published animal advocacy writer, he continues to contribute to the humanities as well with the following twelve essays, interview, and four speaking appearances placing publications in national outlets such as ABCNews.com, National Public Radio, The Washington Post, and Dissident Voice:
*Essay “I believe elephants are worthwhile” published by National Public Radio’s(NPR) historic This I Believe essay series
*Controversial essay “Life as a Cog” Published in Dissident Voice
*Editorials on shark finning and elephants appeared in ABCNEWS.com
*Essay “Whale Sharks and Callous Anthropocentrism” published by the Animals’ Voice.
*Essay “Aggressive Posturing does not Create Vegetarians” published by the award- winning The Vegetarian Site.com / August 14, 2008
*Essay “Elephants Never Forget: Never Forget Elephants” published by The U.S. of Oz
*Essay “Fear and Leading in the Classroom: The Contemporary Gay Male University Student and His Success” forthcoming from Bent Magazine issue 7, September 2008
*Essay “Humanity’s Enslavement of Nonhuman Animals: Why Human Nature is not Inherently Flawed” appeared on the peer-reviewed About.com. He was also permanently added as a guest writer and contributing expert to About.com
*Essay “I am no better than a Pig” forthcoming from Paragon Magazine
*Essay “Cultural Traditions Engendering Abuse: Elephant Crushing and Street Elephants in Thailand” featured on animalwritings.com
*Essay “University Apathy Toward Dog Fighting: Some Brief Facts” published by Saving Animals Via Education (S.A.V.E.)
*Essay “Longline Fishing in the World’s Oceans” published by All-Creatures
*Essay “The Inhumanity of Humanity: Historical Human Abuse of Elephants” published by All-Creatures
*Interviewed by The Washington Post on the plight of performing elephants
*Lectured on behalf of performing elephants and the abuse of animals in western humanities at the National Animal Rights Conference in Washington D.C. in August of 2008
*Will deliver the lecture “The Finning of Sharks: The Failure of Humanity” in conjunction with the first annual Lewis-Jaynes Awake and Engage(d) Documentary Film Series in October of 2008
*Invited lecture on behalf of Farm Animals during Farm Sanctuary’s activities for World Farm Animals’ Day in Chattanooga by invitation of Saving Animals Via Education
*Will be presenting the invited lecture “Porn and Meat: An EcoFeminist Perspective on Connected Cruelty” by invitation of UTC Womens Studies in early October.

Sagar Kapadia, engineering, presented a paper titled, “Sensitivity Analysis of Three-Dimensional Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Model” at the 6th International Fuel Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, Denver, June 16-18, 2008.

Bryon Kluesner, Office for Students with Disabilities, received funding for and organized the implementation of Braille/tactile UTC campus maps. Maps will be unveiled October, 2008.

Kluesner was elected Education Chair for the Tennessee Association on Higher Education and Disability (TN-AHEAD).

Kluesner received his Assistive Technology Applications Certification through California State University, Northridge Center on Disabilities.

David Levine, physical therapy, presented “Assessment of Impulse Duration Thresholds for Electrical Muscle Stimulation” at the Fifth International Symposium on Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota. This paper is accepted for publication in the American Journal of Veterinary Research, and was a collaborative study between UTC, The University of Lyon (France), and North Carolina State University.

John Lynch, chemistry, together with student Ivan Zubkow, had the paper: “Development of Algorithms for Automated Spectrophotometric Titrations,” published in the Microchemical Journal, in August 2008.

Darrell Meece, education, co-authored a publication resulting from an inter-disciplinary examination of correlates of informal child care among low-income families with Ellen Kossek and Shaun Pichler of Michigan State University, and Marguerite Barratt of George Washington University. This research, funded by the Gerber Foundation, reflects collaboration of management, labor and industrial relations, early childhood education, and family and child social policy perspectives. Data from interviews conducted with 187 family, friend and neighbor child care providers receiving public subsidies indicated that, even after controlling for familial status or household income, caregiver perceptions of higher quality care were associated with higher education levels, greater attachment to child care as a job; and lower provider depressive symptoms. Further, findings from the study suggest that mothers who have providers with whom they have good caregiving interactions may experience positive social support and psychological crossover dynamics associated with mother well-being. The reference for the publication is:

Kossek, E. E., Pichler, S. M., Meece, D., & Barratt, M. E. (2008). Family, friend and neighbour child care providers and maternal well-being in low-systems: An ecological social approach. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 81, , 369-391.

Additional findings from this study also were presented this fall:

Kossek, E. E., Pichler, S. M., Meece, D., & Barratt, M. E. (2008, August). Child Care Providers and Maternal Well-Being: The Missing Link in Work-Family Research. Presented as part of the symposium “Low wage work and families” at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Anaheim.

Vicki Petzko, education, will have an article published in the September 2008 volume of the quarterly research journal of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. The article, “The Perceptions of New Principals Regarding the Knowledge and Skills Important to their Initial Success”, was based on research conducted with a national sample of principals and assistant principals in the first 3 years of their appointment as a school leader.

Oralia Preble-Niemi, foreign languages and literatures, was elected President of the the Phi Beta Kappa Association during the summer meeting of the Association.

Lynn Purkey, foreign languages and literatures. “Spanish Pacifist and Soviet Civil War Prose” will appear in the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Vol. 85. Issue 5, 2008), and “Anarchists as Ethical Models in Valle-Inclán’s Ruedo ibérico” has been accepted for publication by España Contemporánea (forthcoming).

Lynn Purkey, foreign languages and literatures, will present two papers in the fall, “Alberti and Mayakovsky: Subverting Religious Emblems of the Medieval Mystery Play” as part of “Comparative Literature and World Literature: Textual, Visual, Aural Interconnections and Interfaces” in Auburn, Alabama, and “Mothers and Daughters in the Social Prose of the Second Republic,” in “18th Conference of the International Association of Hispanic Women Writers,” Atlanta, Georgia, accepted/forthcoming (Oct. 16-18, 2008). In addition, “Spanish Pacifist and Soviet Civil War Prose” will appear in the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Vol. 85. Issue 5, 2008), and “Anarchists as Ethical Models in Valle-Inclán’s Ruedo ibérico” has been accepted for publication by España Contemporánea.

Irven M. Resnick, Chair of Excellence in Judaic Studies, philosophy and religion, has published (with Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr.) Albert the Great’s Questions Concerning Aristotle’s ‘On Animals’, Fathers of the Church, Medieval Continuation 9 (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2008). On June 23, 2008 he presented a lecture, “Mark of Distinction: Circumcision in medieval Jewish-Christian Debate,” at Trinity College (Dublin) and from 9 July-12 August 2008 he co-directed (with Professor Jeremy Cohen of Tel Aviv University), a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, “Holy Land and Holy City in Classical Judaism, Christianity, and Islam,” at Oxford University’s Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

Sydney Roberts, theatre and speech, designed costumes this past summer for Georgia Shakespeare’s production of AS YOU LIKE IT. She also worked on the designs for the Chattanooga Bicycle Club’s new kits and event t-shirts.
Upcoming projects include an original adaptation of Sophocles’ ANTIGONE at Georgia Shakespeare and the world premiere of Andre Benjamin’s new children’s play CLASS OF 3000 LIVE at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. Visit her website at http://web.mac.com/sydneylenoir

Carolyn Schreeder, nursing, published dissertation “Chief Nurse Executive Perceptions of Leader Practices and Organizational Factors on Organ Donation” in UMI ProQuest, July, 2008.
Lead facilitator for Research Council at Erlanger. Accomplishment:Implementation of Culture of Safety Program at Erlanger with preliminary data registered with the Tennessee Hospital Association in conjunction with the AHRQ and Johns Hopkins

Janet Secrest, nursing, Secrest, J. (2008). Rehabilitation and rehabilitation nursing. In, K. Mauk (Ed.), The specialty practice of rehabilitation nursing: A core curriculum. 5th Ed. Glenview, IL: Association of Rehabilitation Nurses

Janet Secrest, nursing, Matthews, S., Secrest, J., & Muirhead, L. (2008) The Interaction Model of Health Behavior: A model for advanced practice nurses. Journal of the Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 20, 415-422.

Janet Secrest, nursing, Secrest, J. (2008). Tool development in an Orem curriculum. Self-Care, Dependent-Care & Nursing, The Official Journal of the International Orem Society. 16(2),

Janet Secrest, nursing, Wildman, S., Secrest, J., & Keatley, V. (2008). A concept analysis of control in the perianesthesia period. Journal of Perianesthia Nursing

Janet Secrest, nursing, 2008 Implementation of an Orem-based Nursing Curriculum: The Role of Tool Development. (Paper presentation). Vancouver, BC, Canada. International Orem Society World Congress

Chris Smith, nursing, is serving as a reviewer for Topics in Advanced Practice Nursing, a peer reviewed journal for advanced practice nurses. She has recently published “Traveling to Developing Countries. Understanding The Risks For Malaria For Your Patients” in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners> This article is based on her travels to Haiti as part of a medical mission team for the Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti. She has accompanied Dr. Mitch Mutter and other providers on three trips this year providing medical care to residents of outlying villages. She is currently working with the Dean of the School of Nursing, Hilda Alcindor, in Leogane, Haiti to provide course content for their BSN program. The goal is to begin a Nurse Practitioner concentration at some point in the near future.

Ed Smith, UTC Counseling and Career Planning Center, says the Center is hosting the 45th annual Southeastern Conference of Counseling Center Personnel (SCCCP)Nov. 5-7. This conference is made up of psychologists, social workers, professional counselors and other mental health professionals whose primary responsibilities involve providing individual and group counseling/psychotherapy to students on campuses throughout the Southeast. UTC was previously the host institution in 1988 and 1991. Smith is the Chair of the Conference Committee and Conference Coordinator.

Felicia Sturzer, foreign languages, delivered a paper on “The Subversive Dynamics of Myth, Gender, and Sexuality–The Fairy Tales of Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy” at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, November 7 - 9, 2008. She is also on the Editorial Board of XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century and Women In French Studies. She reviewed articles for both journals.

Alice Tym, sociology anthropology & geography, was inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Hall of Fame as a player and a coach on September 19, 2008 in Williamsburg, VA.

Shela Van Ness, sociology, served on the selection committee for the outstanding paper award for the Society for the Study of Social Problems annual meeting in Boston. She also presented a paper titled “Shifting the Paradigm: Blending Restorative Justice in Community-Managed Corrections”.

Judith H. Wakim, nursing, journal contributions from Summer 2007- Present:

Smith, J. Wakim, J. Hill, L, “Evaluation of esophageal/precordial stethoscope earpeice use by anesthesia providers.” AANA Journal, accepted for publication January 2009.

Ramsey, J, Hill, L. Wakim, J. “Therapeutic induction of mild hypothermia post cardiac arrest.” Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, submittted

Thompson, C.P. Wakim, J. , Keatley, V. “Factors affecting the bispectral index monitor.” Anesthesia and Analgesia submitted.

Langford, R. Wakim, J., Hill, L. “A state of the science study on the Perioperative use of dexmedetomidine for coronary artery bypass graft.” AANA Journal submitted.

Lambert, K.G., Wakim, J., Lambert, N. “Reduction of PONV in patients undergoing laparoscopic gynecological surgery who receive preoperative fluid boluses.” AANA Journal , accepted for publication, January 2009.

Nunley, C., Wakim, J., Guinn, C. “The effects of stimulation of acupressure point P 6 on postoperative nausea and vomiting: A review of literature.” Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing 23, (4) 247-261.

Kiser, M. , Wakim, J., Hill, L. “The accuracy of fingerbreadth measurement for thyromental distance estimates.” AANA Journal, submitted.

Hickam, D., Wakim, J., Monterde, S. “Total intravenous anesthesia on an efgg allergy patient.” AANA Journal, submitted.

Humphreys, C., Wakim, J., Monterde, S. “Airway management of the pediatric patient with Treacher Colllins Synddrome and/or Pierre Robin Sequence:A case report.” AANA Journal, submitted.

Broome, M., Wakim, J., Hill, L. “The appropriate timing for discontinuing angiotensin converting Enzyme-inhibitors prior to induction ,” AANA Journal, submitted.

Smith, S., Wakim, J., Guinn, C. “The efficacy of music therapy on anxiety levels in clinical settings where anesthesia is provided.” Journal of Perianesthia Nursing , submitted.

Other Written Work

Prentice Hall – Study questions for Nieswiadomy R. Foundations of Nursing Research – Listed as contributor – 2007
Jones & Bartlett – Review questions for Houser, J. Using Research: Reading, Using and Creating Evidence – Listed as contributor - 2007

Sandy Watson, education, presenter: Asian Studies Conference (Hilton Head Island, South Carolina). Teaching about Japan. Japan In-service/Pre-service Teacher Module
-Presenter: ESL Summer Institute, UTC: Diversity and Equity Issues
-Presenter: THEC workshop (Dr. Kay Cowan): Differentiating Reading Across the Curriculum (science).
Authored articles:
-Watson, S. & Bradley, J. (2008) Modeling Secondary Instructional Strategies in a Teacher Education Class. Education. (in press)
-Watson, S. (2008) Teaching Science Investigation with Discovery Bottles. Science and Children, 45(9).
-Miller, T., Watson, S. & Rutledge, V. (2008). Message Tees and Hidden Curriculum. Education Research and Perspectives, 34(2), pp. 91-103.
Other accomplishments/honors:
-Institutional Representative for American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)
-Council of Scholars

Dan Webb, human resources, taught Model-Netics at Daystar University in Nairobi, Kenya, during first two weeks of June,2008, under the auspices of UTC Continuing Education. Course materials were provided by grant from Chancellor’s Office. Model-Netics is a comprehensive management program in use on all UT campuses for nearly 30 years. MN presents a broad range of organizational and managerial concepts through models which function as guides to individual thought and action.

Kim Wheetley, Southeast Center for Education in the Arts, has been selected to serve on the College Board’s National Task Force on the Arts in Education. The purpose of the Task Force is to articulate a vision for arts education in the United States, which the College Board will use to launch a national discussion about the role of the arts in education and the meaning of citizenship.

Kim Wheetley, Southeast Center for Education in the Arts, has been invited to serve on Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga’s new Arts Education Cabinet. Focus group meetings will explore the areas of In-School Arts Programs, Out-of-School Arts Programs, Adult Learning, and Hamilton County Department of Education Support.

Gary Wilkerson, health and human performance, received the designation of “Fellow” from the Research and Education Foundation of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association at the organization’s annual meeting in St. Louis. He delivered a presentation entitled “Evaluation and Management of Ankle and Subtalar Joint Instability” at the same meeting. He was also the lead author of a research report that was recently published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine entitled “Health-Related Factors Associated With the Healthcare Costs of Office Workers.”

Li Yang, computer science and engineering, Teaching Database Security and Auditing, submitted.

Li Yang, Managing Secure Database Systems, Readings and Cases in MoIS, Vol II, book chapter, accepted.

Li Yang, Lu Peng, and Balachandran Ramadass, SecCMP: Enhancing Critical Secrets Protection in Chip-Multiprocessors, International Journal of Information Security and Privacy, accepted.

Hong Qin, Li Yang, Detection of changes in transitive associations by shortest-path analysis of protein interaction networks integrated with gene expression profiles, The International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI), IEEE publisher, Hainan, China, May, 2008.

Li Yang, Raimund Ege, Lin Luo, Aspect-Oriented Analysis of Security in Object-Oriented Distributed Virtual Environments, Handbook of Research on Information Assurance and Security, Information Science Reference, ISBN: 978-1-59904-855-0, 2008.

Li Yang, Chang Phuong, Andy Novobilski, and Raimund Ege, Trust-based Usage Control in Collaborative Environment, International Journal of Information Security and Privacy, Volume 2, Issue 2, April-June 2008.

Summer 2008

Karen I. Adsit, Walker Teaching Resource Center, (March 2008). iPods in Paris - Learning French culture in an authentic environment. Presentation at the West Tennessee Technology Symposium, Martin, TN.

Jooyong Ahn, music, has debuted his Italian opera conducting in Milan, Italy, to celebrate Giocomo Puccini’s 150th birthday. He conducted two performances of La Boheme in Milan and Masate, Italy, May 24th and 29th, 2008, with singers from the Accademia Donizetti and the Lirico sinfonica provincia di Lecco.

Deborah Arfken, The Graduate School, served as a SACS site reviewer for two universities during spring 2008. She served on the substantive change team for Georgia State and was the lead reviewer for substantive change at The University of Texas Brownsville/Texas Southmost College.

J. Ronald Bailey, engineering, presented two papers and chaired a session at the international Electric Vehicle Symposium held in Anaheim, California. He has also been named Editor-in-Chief of the Journal: World Electric Vehicle Association which consists of the World Electric Electric Vehicle Association of the Asia Pacific, the Association for Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (Europe) and the Electric Drive Transportation Association (US).

Bailey was elected President of the Chattanooga Engineers’ Club for 2008.

Thomas P. Balázs, English. His short story, “Sea of Faith,” appears this summer in the literary journal RiverSedge. Along with his wife, Merav, he has recently translated into English poems from Hebrew for Ambassador Reda Mansour, poet and consulate general in Atlanta for Israel. The translations appeared along with other works at an exhibition of Middle Eastern poetry at the Jewish Community Federation in Chattanooga December 2007, and more recently, May 2008, at a reading given by Ambassador Mansour at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, North Carolina.

Barbara Webb, IT Specialist, graduated with an MS in Criminal Justice in May 2008.

Lisa Burke, management, has the following publication forthcoming: Burke, Lisa A., & Hutchins, H. A study of best practices in training transfer and proposed model of transfer. Human Resource Development Quarterly.

Lisa Burke, management, was awarded the 2007-2008 Professor of the Year Award by the UTC Student Government Association (SGA), April.

Toni Carter, library, Reaching Your Millenials: A Fresh Look at Freshman Orientation. Tennessee Libraries 57.2 (2007) (co-author Beverly Simmons)

J.R. Clark, Probasco Chair of Free Enterprise, had four articles published in the 2007-2008 academic year, “Economic Freedom, Entrepreneurship, Migration, and Economic Growth” Clarion Business and Economic Review Journal, “To Whom Does Wealth Belong? An Economic Perspective” Journal of Lutheran Ethics, “Freedom, Barriers to Entry, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Progress” Review of Austrian Economics, and “The Politics of Poverty and the Poverty of Politics” Journal of Private Enterprise. A fifth article, “Government Transfers and Inequality: An Anatomy of Political Failure,” co-authored with Dwight R. Lee, has recently been accepted for publication in the journal of Public Finance and Management. Clark was also selected to serve as judge for the Atlas Foundation’s Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award, an international award that recognizes the single publication for 2008 that made the greatest contribution to world understanding of a free society. Clark serves as Secretary/Treasurer for both the Association of Private Enterprise Education and the Southern Economic Association, organizing both associations’ annual international conferences and publishing their respective professional journals. The 2008 APEE conference, featuring keynote speakers Arnold Harberger and John Stossel, of ABC’s 20/20 News, attracted record attendance. Clark also serves on the board of directors of the Mont Pelerin Society and organized academic sessions for its international conferences in Kenya and Japan.

Susan Davidson, nursing, had an abstract accepted to the 19th International Nursing Research Congress: Focusing on Evidence-Based Practice, which will be held in July of this year in Singapore.

Gene Ezell, health education, was inducted into the North American Society of Health and Physical Education in April 2008. The award represents a lifetime of achievement in the fields of health and physical education. Ezell was the only health educator honored from all of Canada and the United States.

Ezell has co-authored “Teaching Today’s Health, Ninth Edition” for Benjamin Cummings Publishing, San Francisco, California. This book is due to be published in January 2009.

Lisa Pinckney Flint, business, has been promoted to Assistant Dean in the College of Business.

Tim Gaudin, biological & environmental sciences, published a paper entitled “A new pangolin (Mammalia: Pholidota) from the Pliocene of Langebaanweg, South Africa” in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in collaboration with Dr. Jennifer Botha, a colleague from South Africa [Botha, J. and T. J. Gaudin. 2007. J. of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27(2):484-491.]. He also co-authored a chapter in a book entitled “The Biology of the Xenarthra” recently published by the University of Florida Press, in collaboration with Dr. Greg McDonald of the U.S. Park Service [Gaudin, T.J. and H.G. McDonald. 2008. Chapter 3. Morphology-based investigations of the phylogenetic relationships among extant and fossil Xenarthrans. Pp. 24-36 in: J. Loughry and S. Vizcaíno (eds.), The Biology of the Xenarthra, University of Florida Press, Gainesville, FL]. He published a brief taxonomic note in collaboration with a UTC adjunct faculty member, Matt Smith, and departmental colleague Tom Wilson [Smith, M.B., T.J. Gaudin, and T.P. Wilson. 2007. Geographic distribution. Ambystoma opacum (Marbled Salamander). New County Record, Hamilton Co., TN. Herpetological Review. 38:347]. This past summer Dr. Gaudin was invited to give a presentation in a symposium entitled “Recent Advances in Xenarthran Studies,” organized by Drs. Gerry DeIuliis (University of Toronto) and Greg McDonald (Curator of Natural History, U.S. National Park Service), and held at the 8th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology in Paris, France [Gaudin, T.J. 2007. Xenarthran phylogeny and relationships to non-xenarthran placentals. Journal of Morphology 268(12): 1076]. He also presented a poster at the conference in collaboration with a UTC Adjunct faculty member [Bramblett, J.L. and T.J. Gaudin. 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of extant armadillos (Xenarthra: Dasypodidae) based on postcranial data. Journal of Morphology 268(12): 1053].

Christopher Hensley, criminal justice, co-wrote the following peer-reviewed journal article that was published in 2008:

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, 52(2), 175-184.

Julie Hobbs, music, published the following article: “Adding Theory to Private Lessons” Flute Talk Magazine, May 2008.

Debbie Ingram, physical therapy, co-authored “Generic Inabilities and the Use of a Decision-Making Rubric for Addressing Deficits in Professional Behavior” published in the Winter 2007 issue of the Journal of Physical Therapy Education. This work was completed with university faculty from Shenandoah,Wichita State, Duke and Virginia Commonwealth Medical College of Virginia.

Mike Jaynes, English, is emerging as a new voice in the animal rights world and has recently published several articles and creative pieces on various topics.

His paper “From Achilles to House: The Social Freedom of Not Giving a Flying Rip (And Being Good Enough)” has been selected for inclusion in Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference to be held in Cincinnati this October.

His paper entitled “The Saddest Show on Earth: Elephant (Ab)use in Traveling Circuses” has also been selected for the MPCACA conference and he has been asked to serve as Panel Chair for the Plants and Animals in Pop Culture panel.

His article “The Rhetoric of Hunting and Whaling: Sustainable Abuse” has been selected for publication by Abolitionist Online out of Sydney, Australia.

His freelance magazine article “The Suffering of Animals: The Public’s Hatred of Animal Rights Activists.” was selected as Cover Story of the forthcoming Summer 2008 issue of the nationally circulated award winning The Animal’s Voice Magazine.

His freelance article “Anthropormophism and Sentimentality: Flawed Rhetoric Harming Animals” appeared on the animal rights media site All Creatures.

His freelance magazine article, “The Logos of Abduction: A Logical Defense of Abductees” is forthcoming in the May 2008 issue of nationally circulated and industry leading UFO Magazine.

His article “Avoid Factory Farms at All Costs” was published by All Creatures.

His freelance magazine article, “Holding Fast: A Southeastern Tattoo Icon Tells it Like it is” was selected for publication forthcoming this summer by Prick Magazine, the world’s only free tattoo and body piercing lifestyle magazine.

His essay “A Braver, Newer World.” was published by the Animal Liberation Front on their Worldwide News and Information Resource about the A.L.F. (March 22, 2008)

An excerpt from his essay “Vegeveganism: A Call for the Unification of the Animal Rights World.” was published by the Animal Liberation Front on their Worldwide News and Information Resource about the A.L.F. (March, 2008)

Interviewed as featured guest by Chattanooga,Tennessee, radio personality Jeff Styles during his acclaimed F.R.E.D. the show (WGOW 102.3 FM) regarding animal rights issues regarding mass confinement factory farming on Earth Day, 2008. 4-22-08 11:00 a.m.

Abolitionist Online (Sydney, Australia) will be interviewing him regarding several facets of the Animal Rights world this summer.

His guest editorial “No ‘Green’ Eggs and Ham: Another Way to not Destroy the Earth While Saving Animals” appeared in the April 17th, 2008 edition of the University Echo: Student newspaper of The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga summer edition.

His article “Teaching Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use’: Employing Race, Class, and Gender, with An Annotated Bibliography. ” with Marcia Noe was published in “Alice Walker: New Edition” released by Bloom’s Modern Critical Views Infobase Publishing: New York, 2007

His essay “A Case for Shelter Adoption: Sir Brutus Maximus, Eater of the Treats, King of all Romp.” was published in March, 2008 on The Animal Rescue Site.com

His essay “A Coyote and Coy Dog Defense” was published in April, 2008, in All Creatures and all-creatures.org

His creative non-fiction piece “A Small Grey Ghost” was published by the Animal Liberation Front on their Worldwide News and Information Resource about the A.L.F. (April, 2008)

He was interviewed by a member of UTK’s Marketing Ph.D. program regarding “Going Green” in contemporary society. Interview will be included in a published project in a Marketing industry peer reviewed journal.

His previously published article “A Braver, Newer World” was translated into Portuguese and published by a Brazilian animal rights organization called Red Pill Vs. Blue Pill.

His previously published articles “A Braver, Newer World”,”Vegeveganism: A Call for the Unification of the Animal Rights World”, and “A Small Grey Ghost” were picked up for distribution by the official website of the Animal Rights Militia.

He has also published various editorials in online media sites regarding animal rights, direct action animal groups, university student apathy regarding the Michael Vick dog fighting case, Speciesism, the suffering of circus elephants, mass confinement factory farming operations, and free speech issues regarding the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA).

Jaynes has also been invited to speak at the nation’s largest Animal Rights conference. His presentation is on the plight and suffering of performing circus elephants. AR2008 will take place in Washington D.C. on August 14-18.

Wes Moore, athletics, was named Southern Conference Coach of the Year for Women’s Basketball in March, 2008. He led the Lady Mocs to the Southern Conference regular-season and tournament titles and the NCAA Championships.

Chris Bono, athletics, was named the Southern Conference Coach of the Year for Wrestling in March, 2008. He led the Mocs to their 23rd SoCon Championship.

Nora Kile, music, has had two more of her flute choir arrangements published this spring, one by ALRY Publications, Inc. in Charlotte, N.C., and the other by Falls House Press in Nashua, New Hampshire. This brings to a total of 15 works for various combinations of instruments, published by three different publishers. She was also the guest clinician at the recent Flute Choir Workshop of the Upper Midwest Flute Association in Minneapolis, MN. She is finishing up a five-year appointment as Exhibitors Concert/Exhibitors Showcases Coordinator for the National Flute Association.

David Levine, physical therapy, published the article “The Canine Shoulder: Selected Disorders and Their Management with Physical Therapy” in Clinical Techniques in Small Animal Practice, 22:171-182; 2007. Also published was “The Effects of the Five Ballet Positions on Posture of the Lumbar Spine, Pelvis, and Hip” in the Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy, 2008:38(1);A54 with Debbie Ingram and Randy Walker from Physical Therapy.

John Lynch, chemistry, presented the paper “Automation of Spectrophotometric Titrations” at the 59th Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 3, 2008. The “Pittcon” is the premiere conference for the subspecialty of Analytical Chemistry. This paper was coauthored by students William M. McGee and Ivan P. Zubkov.

Darrell Meece, education, was named to the editorial board of the journal Early Child Development and Care, an international, peer-reviewed journal focusing on early childhood education. He presented results of two research projects in April:

Meece, D., (2008, April). One state, two state, red state, blue state: Education funding accounts for outcome differences. Presented to the biennial meeting of the Conference on Human Development, Indianapolis.

Meece, D., & Mize, J. (2008, April). Father-child interaction: Associations with self-control and aggression among 4.5 year olds. Presented to the biennial meeting of the Conference on Human Development, Indianapolis.

Andy Novobilski, computer science and engineering, served as a proposal reviewer for the ICT and COPD health care research program of the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw).

Oralia Preble-Niemi, foreign languages & literatures, read a scholarly paper titled, “Meditaciones ante el cadaver de un desconocido” at the annual meetings of the Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana (International Conference on Central American Literature), in Nicoya, Costa Rica, April 16-18, 2008.

Cairon Reagan, UTC Educational Talent Search Project, has been named Eastern Representative of the Tennessee Association of Special Programs. TASP is dedicated to addressing barriers to postsecondary education opportunity for its low-income, first generation students. Reagan serves as Education Specialist to participants demonstrating potential for success in several area inner-city schools.

Valerie Rutledge, education, was named to the Tyner Academy Hall of Fame (formerly Tyner High School) as a part of the 100 year anniversary celebration of this institution. Rutledge, a 1970 graduate, was honored along with 14 other individuals as a member of this initial group.

Valerie Rutledge, Linda Johnston and Ted Miller, education, along with Alvena Kaffman presented on the topic “Response to Intervention” at the annual Statewide Reading First Meeting held in Nashville. The presentation consisted of implementation at both the local education agency and higher education levels related to implementation of Response to Intervention for the identification of students with a Specific Learning Disability.

Felicia Sturzer, foreign languages, evaluated an article for Women in French Studies and New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century. She is on the Editorial Board of both journals.

Jim Tucker, education, has been named co-editor of Ethical Human Psychiatry and Psychology, the peer-reviewed journal of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology. Tucker has also been appointed to the advisory board of the Early Learning Success Initiative, Early Learning Foundation, Brighton, MI. Tucker’s recent publications include:

Norm reference as it applies to abilities and disabilities: Reflections of a former
state-government official. Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 9(3).

School psychology in a land of blended professions: The ultimate flavor of effective response. NASP 2007 Distinguished Lecture. Communique, 35(8), 48-52.

(with R. Sornson) One student at a time; one teacher at a time: Reflections on the use of instructional support. In Jimerson, S. R., Burns, M., & Van Der Heyden, A. (Eds.). Handbook of response to intervention: The science and practice of assessment and intervention. New York: Springer

Tucker’s recent professional presentations include the following:

The normal child: Creating abnormality through educational processes. Presentation at the annual conference of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology, Arlington, VA, October 14, 2007

Instructional support and Response to Intervention: Critical connections and profound differences. Keynote presentation, Superintendent’s Conference Day, Mahopac Central School District, Mahopac, NY, November 6, 2007.

Tucker is currently serving as an expert witness in two cases in Federal Court: 1) Expert for the plaintiffs in Linda Finch, as Next Friend of Johnny Ebert vs. Texarkana School District No. 7 of Miller County. 2) Expert for the plaintiffs in Jamie S., et al., v. Milwaukee Public Schools, et al.

Kim Turner and John Fulmer, business, have an article forthcoming in The National Accounting Journal. The article is entitled, “Code of Professional Conduct and Professional Advice in an Introductory Accounting Course.”

Debbie Archambeault, Rick Turpin, and John Fulmer, business, published an article in the March-April edition of The Commercial Lending Review. The article is entitled “The Changing Components of the Corporate Annual Report; An Update.”

Bart Weathington, psychology, published the following articles:

Hoiness, A.R., Weathington, B.L., & Cotrell, A.L. (2008). Perceptions of Female Athletes Based on Observer Characteristics. Athletic Insight, 10(1), 43-54.

O’Leary, B.J., Vande Walle, H.A., & Weathington, B.L. (2008). Series Sweeps in Competitive Situations: The Line between Can and Can’t. Athletic Insight, 10(1), 55-65.

Trumpeter, N.N., Watson, P. J., O’Leary, B. J., & Weathington, B.L. (2008). Self-Functioning and Perceived Parenting: Relationships of Parental Empathy and Love Inconsistency with Narcissism, Depression, and Self-Esteem. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 169, 51-71.

Cecelia Wigal, engineering. In April, Wigal completed a year as President of the Southeastern Section of the American Society for Engineering Education. She is now serving as Immediate Past President.

Cecelia Wigal, engineering. In April 2008 Wigal received the Outstanding Paper Award for the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Southeastern Section Conference for her paper titled “The Use of Engineering Design Projects for Student Understanding of Engineering’s Societal Impact and Global Responsibility.”

Wayne K. Williams, geology, has participated in two school job fair presentations this year. The first was at Hixson High School’s first ever job fair and the second was at CSAS. These presentations were to promote jobs in the geosciences as well as recruitement for the UTC Geology Department. Several hundred students were exposed to the possibility of seeking a career in the geosciences at each of these fairs.

Alma Cemerlic, Li Yang, Joseph M. Kizza, computer science, Network Intrusion Detection Based on Bayesian Networks, Proceedings of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE06), July 2008, accepted.

Li Yang, Raimund Ege, Integrating Trust Management into Usage Control in P2P Multimedia Delivery, Proceedings of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE06), July 2008, accepted.

Li Yang, Kathy Winters, Joseph M. Kizza, Biometrics Education with Hands-on Labs, Proceedings of ACM Southeast Conference, ACM Digital Library, March, 2008.

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).