Fall 2021 Arete Honors magazine

CLASS NOTES Faculty and Staff

The Honors College celebrated April Goers’ nine years as an Honors advisor and wishes Goers (front row, third from right) well in her new pursuits. Her numerous contributions include proposing and co-leading the Honors study abroad in Italy; launching and overseeing the Passport Scholarship; and proposing and co-leading the Honors Ambassadors.

Claudia Barnett

(English) had her play Witches Vanish published

by Carnegie Mellon University Press.

Nate Callendar (Aerospace) was an invited presenter at the Aerodynamics 2020 Webinar in September 2020. He made a presentation titled “Autonomous Lecture Capture in Undergraduate Aerodynamics: System Description, Demonstration, and Benefits for Traditional and Remote Instruction.” Callendar also had an article accepted for fall 2020 publication in the Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics titled “A Möbius Analogy to the Trinity.”

David Carleton (Global Studies

and Human Geography) received the 2021 Honors Outstanding Honors Faculty Award.

Laura Clippard (Honors College,

Undergraduate Fellowships Office) was selected as a national Critical Language Scholarship final reader and was chosen as a member of the national Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) review and interview panel.

Lara Daniel (Accounting),

pictured above, was recognized as a Trailblazer at the opening ceremony for MTSU’s National Women’s History Month on March 3, 2020. The theme, Nevertheless She Persisted: Valiant Women of the Vote, honored “the brave women who fought to win suffrage

rights for women and the women who continue to fight for the voting rights of others.”

Laura Dubek (English) wrote

an article on Toni Morrison’s children’s book, Remember: The Journey to School Integration, which appeared in a special issue on Toni Morrison and Adaptation in College Literature: A Journal of Critical Studies in fall 2020.

Morrison’s book commemorates the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. Dubek’s article titled “Black Writers Matter: Frederick Douglass in the Literary Present” appeared in Critical Insights: Frederick Douglass, a series published by Salem Press in July 2020.

Mary Evins (History), director of

the American Democracy Project at MTSU, received the 2019–20 Exemplary Faculty Service Award for the University Honors College.

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