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Conference, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. (Invited presentation). • Beckford, F.A. and Alyssa Stott*. “Benzene-ruthenium organometallic complexes: synthesis, characterization and biophysical reactivity”. Presented at the 2011 Arkansas INBRE Research Conference, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. (Paper #: C11U. This paper was also presented in the poster format) • Beckford, F.A. and Marc-Andre LeBlanc*. “Halfsandwich ruthenium(II) complexes with a 1,4,7trithiacyclononane face and ancillary thiosemicarbazone ligands; chemical and biochemical reactivity.” Presented at the 2011 Arkansas INBRE Research Conference, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. (Paper #: C19-U. This paper was also presented in the poster format, winning first place in the undergraduate chemistry division). • Beckford, F.A. and P. Canisius Mbarushimana*. “A comparison of half-sandwich ruthenium-thiosemicarbazone complexes with [9]aneS3 or p-cymene facecaps”. Presented at the 2011 Arkansas INBRE Research Conference, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. (Paper #: C13-U). Poster Presentations: • Justin R. Moreira*, Alvin A. Holder, Rosella M. Taylor, Rodney Ballard, Antonio Gonzalez-Sarrias, Tiffany B. Edwards, Navindra Seeram and Floyd A. Beckford. “A Novel Chemotherapeutic Agent of Copper(II) With a Thiosemicarbazone as Ligand: Structural and in vitro Studies.” Presentation at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, St. Louis, November 2011. • Beckford F.A. “In pursuit of ruthenium complexes that are suitable for use as pharmaceutical agents.” Presented at the 2011 Southeast INBRE Regional Conference, New Orleans, LA, Sept. 22-24. (Paper #: CN4). Dr. Catherine Bordeau, Associate Professor of French Paper presentation: • “The Milieu in Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 27 – 29, 2011. Dr. Lise Bouchard, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages Articles: 18
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• “A linguistic approach for understanding pain in the medical encounter” in Culture, Brain, and Analgesia: Understanding and Managing Pain in Diverse Populations, M. Incayawar and Knox Todd, Eds., Oxford Univ P (in press). Mr. Dustyn Bork, Assistant Professor of Art Exhibits: • 2012 Delta Small Prints Exhibition, Arkansas State University (Jan-March), a national exhibition looking at contemporary trends in the field of printmaking, juried by Roberta Waddell, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the New York Public Library. • One of eight artists invited by curator and artist Dwayne Butcher to participate in an exhibition at Marshall Arts Gallery in Memphis, TN, called “Connections,” December 2011. Ms. Andrea Hollander Budy, Writer-in-Residence Poems published in literary journals: • “Taffeta” and “Photograph of Her Grandmother as a Young Woman.” Posse Review 29 (Summer 2011). • “Other.” Spillway 17 (Fall 2011). • “The Inconsolable” and “Drive-in, 1962.” Snake Nation Review 24 (Fall 2011) Poems published in anthologies and textbooks: • “Postcard from Taos.” Wingbeats: Exercises and Practice in Poetry. Dos Gatos Press, 2011. • “In the Garden,” “Ex,” “Nineteen-Thirty-Eight,” and “Graveyard Shift.” The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, 2nd edition, Michael Simms, Autumn House Press, 2011. • “Writing Studio.” Entering the Real World: VCCA Poets on Mt. San Angelo, Margaret B. Ingraham and Andrea Carter Brown, eds. Wavertree Press, 2012. Essays forthcoming in textbooks: • “Peter Abbs,” British Writers Series XIX. Jay Parini, ed. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2012. • “Stephen Dunn, the Ice Traveller, and the Other,” A Better Way to Be Alone: The Mind and Poetry of Stephen Dunn. Laura McCullough, ed., 2013 Readings, Lectures, and Workshops: • St. Philip’s School, Writer-in-Residence, Coral Gables, Florida, January 23 - 27, 2012. • Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Featured Poet, Chicago, Illinois, March 1, 2012. • Stonehenge Studios Reading Series, Featured Poet, Portland, Oregon, March 11, 2012. The Piper