Faculty Notes Dr. Doug Oetter, assistant professor in the Department of History and Geography, received a Fulbright Hays fellowship for a professional development seminar titled “Historical and Contemporary Aspects of Argentina and Chile.” He traveled during the summer to Buenos Aires, Iguazu Falls, Cordoba, Mendoza, Santiago, Valparaiso, Concepcion, and La Serena. He developed a curriculum model in the fall based on his experience.
Dr. Hedwig Fraunhofer, associate professor of French and German, was invited to present a paper at the 1st Global Conference - Exploring Critical Issues: Sex and Sexuality to be held Oct. 14-16 in Salzburg, Austria. The international conference is dedicated to issues of sexuality and gender, which is Fraunhaufer’s primary teaching and research area. The papers presented at the conference will be published in a book project.
Dr. Fadhili Mshana, assistant professor in the Department of Art, presented a paper titled “European Missionaries and Zaramo Artists in Tanzania” at the 13th Triennial Symposium on African Art titled “African Arts: Roots and Routes,” sponsored by the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research and the Department of African and African American Studies, both at Harvard University.
Bryson R. Payne, assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems and Communications, presented research at two conferences in Los Angeles in August. Payne presented a paper at the ACM Workshop on General Purpose Computing on Graphics Processors, a work based on his at SIGGRAPH 2004, the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.
Beate Czogalla, assistant professor of design in theatre, had her images of GC&SU theatre’s fall 2000 production of The Glass Menagerie published in the second edition of Another Opening, Another Show by Tom Markus and Linda Sarver. The textbook is used in many colleges and universities for their Intro to Theatre courses. The second edition was published in the fall by McGraw-Hill. Dr. Lila Roberts, chair and professor of mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, was named associate editor of The Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications, a publication of the Mathematical Association of America. Roberts also participated in the launch of The Math Gateway, a project that has been funded through a National Science Foundation Pathways Grant. Dr. Mary Magoulick, assistant professor in the Department of English, Speech, and Journalism, was selected to teach in the University of Pittsburgh’s Semester-at-Sea program in the spring. Dr. Jane Rose, assistant to the vice president for academic assessment and professor of English, was accepted as a participant in the prestigious Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. Dr. J.J. Arias, Dr. Sandra Godwin, and Dr. Mary Magoulick attended a University System of Georgia faculty development seminar in Hungary in May. Arias is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics and Finance; Godwin is assistant professor in the Department of Government and Sociology; and Magoulick is assistant professor in the Department of English, Speech and Journalism. Dr. Sheree Barron, chair and professor in the Department of Psychology, was elected treasurer of the American Psychological Association, Division 2 Society for the Teaching of Psychology. She also received an award for being selected at Board Member of the Year for 2004 in the State of Georgia for her participation on the Baldwin County Department of Family and Children Services Board.
Dr. Andrei L. Barkovskii, assistant professor of the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, was invited to contribute to the Encyclopedia of Water scheduled for publication in 2005 by John Wiley & Sons. Dr. Mathew Joseph, associate professor of marketing in the J. Whitney Bunting School of Business, was nominated as the executive director for the Society for Marketing Advances, one of the leading marketing organizations, with members from all around the world. Dr. Mehenna Yakhou, professor of accounting in the J. Whitney Bunting School of Business, and business graduate students Kelly Mahan, Christina Brookings, and Laura Poyner, presented a paper at the 16th International Conference of the Association for Global Business, Nov. 8-21, in Camino Real Cancun, Mexico. Susan Darby, assistant professor of adult and gerontological nursing, raised $2,000 for breast cancer by walking more than 60 miles over three days in Boston, Mass. The net proceeds will support breast cancer research, education, and services through the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and the National Philanthropic Trust. Dr. Barbara Funke, professor of health education in the School of Health Sciences, received the Georgia Association for Volunteer Administration Group Leadership Award for Baldwin County presented by the Baldwin County Council of Volunteers for her work with the American Cancer Society as the chairman for the Community Health Coalition. Dr. J. Noland White, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, was awarded the Joel F. Lubar award for service to the organization and the field at the International Society for Neuronal Regulation conference. White was elected to the board of directors of the society and will serve as sergeant at arms for two years. Dr. Carol Bader, assistant dean of the John H. Lounsbury School of Education, was selected as one of the seven new Fellows of the American Council of
Developmental Education Associations, a consortium of professional associations concerned with learning assistance and developmental education in colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and Canada. Bill Richards, collection development librarian and professor of library science, received an Award for Advocacy from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board. He also recently passed the exam for re-certification administered by the Academy of Certified Archivists, of which he has been a member since 1991. Dr. Anne Bailey, professor in the Department of History and Geography, was selected to deliver the 14th annual Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecture Series in October at Georgia Southern University. The theme of her lectures was “Invisible Southerners: Ethnicity in the Civil War.” Richard Lou, chair of the Department of Art, had a solo exhibit in September and October at the Richard E. Peeler Art Center at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. Dr. Santiago García-Castañón, professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages, recently published an historical novel, El castillo de los halcones (The Castle of Hawks). His annotated edition of Francisco Bances Candamo’s Selected Poems will also be published in Spain. He was invited to give two lectures in Spain in mid-October, at the Real Instituto de Estudios Asturianos in Oviedo and La Nueva España Press Club in Avilés. Daniel Fernald, assistant professor of philosophy, had a book titled Spirit’s Philosophical Bildung: Image and Rhetoric in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and Science of Logic published by the University Press of America. Jared Johnson, assistant professor of mass communication in the Department of English, Speech, and Journalism, was selected as one of the conferees for the International Radio and Television Society Faculty/Industry Seminar in November at the New York Marriott East Side. Dr. Martha Allen, Dr. Hugh Sanders, Dr. Lila Roberts made presentations at the 45th Annual Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle, the annual meeting of the Georgia Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Allen is an assistant professor of mathematics, Roberts is professor of mathematics and department chair, and Sanders is associate professor of mathematics. Bill Bragg, assistant professor of history, had a book, Joe Brown’s Pets: The Georgia Militia, 1861-1865, written with William R. Scaife, published by the WatsonBrown Foundation and Mercer University Press. Bragg and Scaife have produced the first history of the Georgia Militia during the Civil War, a revised and expanded edition of their earlier privately published study.
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