Stretching Our Minds: A Collective Adventure

Stretching Our Minds: A Collective Adventure

Office of Academic Research 2012

greetings from the associate vice president for research It has been an exciting year, with AY12/13 initiated at the Norwich University Convocation. I can think of no better way to welcome you to this report than by presenting excerpts from the Convocation address to the community and the Class of 2016 from the dean of the newly established College of Liberal Arts, Dr. Andrea Talentino.

Prof. David S. Westerman Associate vice president for research

excerpts “We are starting together as freshman, you and I, and though I have now been here for just over a month, I still feel much like you do; excited, uncertain, confident, at times nervous.”

table of contents Dana Professor Woolf Teaching: a source of limitless inspiration. ...................................2

“Although much of your time will be taken up by your classes, or sports, or the Corps, or campus clubs, you will find the ultimate form of freedom here; the freedom of thought. There [will be] times, over the years, where you may scream for relief from critical thinking, and where you may wish, for a moment, that just showing up was good enough. But a university is, most fundamentally, about the process of thought, of challenging yourself with questions and problems that you don’t know how to answer.”

“You may study long hours; flip frantically through books in the library. You may shed tears. And then, with some time and thought, you will discover. And in that process you will be gaining freedom … thinking, carefully and objectively, engaging in debate and opening your mind to new questions and ideas … the ultimate freedom … jealously protected by our Founding Fathers.”

Elizabeth Wuorinen Much to uncover about appetite studies....................................... 4

Dana Research Fellowships............................................6 Curriculum Development Fellowships.........................7 Student Research............................................................8 rT90

“Captain Partridge’s view of an “American education” was rooted in this concept of education as freedom and as contribution. He sought to move thinking out of quiet libraries and sophisticated parlor conversations to society at large. Being a good citizen, in his view, meant both thinking and doing, and those two acts were also his key ingredients for leadership and character.”

“And please remember, I, your fellow freshman, will be learning, stumbling, and advancing along with you. But more importantly, remember that every member of this community is on a common adventure. All of us … are confronting challenges, becoming better thinkers, and learning to contribute to our larger community.”

Pushing the envelope on energy, efficiency and affordability............ 12

Independent Study Leaves........................................... 14 New Faculty Biographies............................................. 16 Release Awards............................................................. 20 External Grants 2011-2012.......................................... 22

Dean Andrea Talentino Professor of Political Science

Faculty Research........................................................... 24 1

By Andrew Nemethy

Dana Professor David Woolf finds teaching a source of limitless inspiration

Norwich University architecture Prof. David Woolf ’s full life has gone in so many directions it makes one dizzy: Architect, painter, sculptor, designer of landscapes, interiors and furniture, lecturer, thinker and writer.

To his résumé, add the honor of being named one of Norwich’s prestigious Charles A. Dana professors, a position that recognizes distinguished achievement and professional accomplishment.

For Woolf, a practicing architect and teacher in the School of Architecture + Art, the honor reflects the joy he finds in teaching young creative minds, which he says with all sincerity “is a pleasure and a privilege.”

The title also reflects an inquisitive intellect and his myriad interests, which allow him to bring a depth and broad real-world understanding to his interactions with the graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in the Architecture + Art programs.

It’s clear that teaching for Woolf, 61, is anything but a one-way street.

“Almost daily, I have an interaction with a student that is exciting,” said Woolf, sitting in his spacious, book-filled second-floor office in Chaplin Hall overlooking the University’s historic parade ground. As he talks, classical music from his desk mixes with the sounds and cadence of marching Cadets, drifting from outside through an open window in the handsome renovated red-brick building that houses the school.

“The students here bring their own agenda and vision to the table. There’s something really inspiring about that,” he explained.

Woolf ’s own vision for a career took an unexpected turn when he decided to “dabble” in teaching college-level courses while working as an architect in New York City in the early 1980s. When he moved up to Vermont, where he has family connections, he continued to teach. In 1991, he signed on as a full-time professor.

He remains a multi-faceted Renaissance man. He’s a practicing architect, consultant, thought-provoking lecturer—one of his recent topics was McMansions & the Dissolution of the Family—as well as an artist (he has a bachelor’s degree in design and Master of Fine Arts to go with his Harvard architecture degree.)

Though he has spent 22 years as a professor, Woolf said his enthusiasm for teaching remains fresh, thanks to a strong mentoring focus at Norwich.

Norwich has one of the smallest five-year architecture programs at any college, which allows him to “nurture and encourage” his 17 thesis students and the other budding architects he teaches.

While Woolf brings extensive experience and discipline to the table, his

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students reward him in turn with the new ideas they propose and develop.

“They bring stuff to the table that I don’t know anything about, so I’m always learning along with them,” he explained.

Architecture is an exceptionally exciting and fertile field today, he said, due to innovation in building techniques and materials, renovation and “green” energy.

He notes that Norwich has been “ahead of the curve” in teaching conservation and sustainability. “It’s part of the zeitgeist here,” he said, explaining it is reflected throughout the programs taught by the school’s faculty—all of them practicing architects.

For Woolf, the Dana professorship is an affirmation of why he decided to teach and mentor at Norwich. “A lot of emphasis is placed on teaching and the quality of teachers,” he said, contrasting it to schools that place a premium on research and “publish or perish.” That in turn attracts students with passion and drive, fueling the interactions that make his teaching such a pleasure.

“The students here really want to be here. They want to go out and start a career; to get out and be in the world,” he said.

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Elizabeth Wuorinen

believes there is much to uncover about appetite studies

For a dozen years, Associate Professor Elizabeth Wuorinen has been painstakingly piecing together a complex research puzzle, trying to see the big picture on how exercise and diet affect hunger and weight.

A professor of biology and physical education at Norwich University, Wuorinen’s research has taken her deep into the gastrointestinal world, where peptides, fatty acids, hormones and neural pathways all tie into the relationship between exercise and hunger. It’s an area that she says is fascinating, satisfying and remarkably unstudied.

“We just know surface stuff right now,” she explained, sitting in her office in Bartoletto Hall surrounded by books, photos of her husband, three children and a Norwich hockey jersey with autographs (she’s faculty adviser to men’s club hockey). “Nobody does a lot of research on exercise and appetite. This is a huge, huge thing that needs to be looked at.”

Wuorinen will get a chance to do that, thanks to a proposal that won the annual faculty development prize awarded by Norwich’s Board of Fellows. She will be on sabbatical during Fall 2012 and Fall 2013, and head to Australia to work with Christine Feinle-Bisset, a highly regarded nutrition scientist, teacher and researcher whose gastrointestinal research is complementary in many ways.

Using the lab at Adelaide University, Wuorinen will conduct more experiments she hopes will lead to a better understanding of how exercise may suppress hunger in women.

“I want to see if exercise blocks signals so the stomach doesn’t contract following exercise,” she said, explaining that a suppressed contraction keeps appetite in check.

To a non-scientist the issue may sound arcane, but understanding how exercise deflects hunger pangs could have enormously positive health ramifications for dieting and obesity. Her proposal to the Board of Fellows notes an estimated 199 million adults—35.3 percent of women and 33.3 percent of men in the United States—are considered obese, with the highest rates found in women between the ages of 40 and 59. That epidemic has enormous consequences for the U.S. health system.

For years, Wuorinen has explored the interplay among exercise, energy, hunger, diet and weight fluctuation with experiments in her lab on Norwich’s campus. Her main goal, she said, is to eventually provide practical information that helps women lose weight and maintain weight loss.

The concentration on middle-aged women evolved because their physiology and hormonal differences are considerably different. Most studies so far have involved young, fit men, she explained.

Board of Fellows Faculty Development Prize Recipient

Wuorinen’s scientific bent got an early start and melds her love of sports— she played hockey and basketball and ran track as a teen and now is an avid distance runner—with her fascination with the human body. She is a reader who had intended to major in English, but fell in love with science.

“I think what got me initially interested in this particular field was taking an anatomy and physiology course when I was in high school,” she said.

A Middlebury, Vermont native, she earned degrees in Michigan in health fitness and promotion, and a PhD in exercise science, before landing at Norwich. Here, she leads a busy two-track life of research and teaching three classes each semester.

“I came to Norwich because I love to teach. I love to see it when the kids ‘get’ it,” she said.

In the Adelaide lab, Wuorinen will put wired-up volunteers through exercise protocols, looking at breath, blood and gastrointestinal reactions and chemistry, and then measuring their hunger levels and what they eat. When she returns, she’ll do more statistical analysis at her lab in Bartoletto Hall.

While anxious about traveling in a country she’s never visited, she is undaunted by the prospect of dead ends and upturned hypotheses in what she says is a “challenging” field filled with variables and complexities.

“I think, for me, doing the research and getting the data is the most exciting part,” she said. “You start down one path and you find either you’re getting great results or you’re finding something else it might lead to.”

By teasing out one hormone’s function or finding a pathway’s purpose, the big puzzle slowly takes shape and understanding grows, she said, “Who knows, maybe in 10 years, I’ll have the whole puzzle together,” she laughed.

“I want to see if exercise blocks signals so the stomach doesn’t contract following exercise” 4

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2012 Dana Research Fellowships Jack Hayes Wildfires and Fire Culture in Modern China: Government, Science and Environment in Chinese History This research, conducted during summer 2012 in China, supported development of a monograph-length project on fire and fire culture(s) in modern Chinese history. Chinese fire history synthesizes limited Chinese-, English- and German-language research and challenges North American interpretations of global fire-environmental history and its linkages to policymaking and statecraft. For China in particular, this research challenges assumptions about environmental stewardship, ecological issues and their link to modern local and national administrations.

Kurt Peters The Asymmetric Influence of Quantification on Dual-Process Cognition Two experiments are proposed to test a new theory of quasi-process cognition.

Two theories dominant in the field distinguish two kinds of cognition based on sensitivity to situation context or to the perceived validity of information. The proposed theory suggests that the fundamental distinction between kinds of cognition lies in the nature of the underlying mental representations: specifically, that early cognitive processing relies upon context-dependent instances whereas downstream processing is capable of representing information more abstractly. This theory is consistent with the findings that challenge dominant theories, makes unique predictions, and integrates recent findings in the dual-process literature that lack a coherent explanation.

Michael Prairie Ensemble Embedded Control Embedded systems are becoming ubiquitous in the development of new products and systems. Our students have not developed a comfort level with this technology — which would give them an advantage in the work force — due to limited exposure. We need an effective and efficient method to engage students in embedded-systems technology. The proposed research is to develop a test bed that is useful for teaching embedded systems to ECE and ME students.

A unique aspect of the project is in developing modules of different levels of difficulty appropriate to the range of students from freshmen to seniors. The modules will be chosen to efficiently expose the students to a comprehensive collection of fundamental principles used in embedded systems. The process is expected to be useful to any small, undergraduate engineering program with limited faculty resources.

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Gina Sherriff Franco’s Monsters: The Fantasy of Childhood in El laberinto del fauno and Balada triste de trompeta This article creates a critical dialogue between two recent Spanish films: Álex de la Iglesia’s Balada triste de trompeta (2010) and Guillermo del Toro’s El laberinto del fauno (2006). The critical analysis focuses on the ways in which each film’s central figure, the child, is used to represent the nation during the Spanish Civil War. While on one hand, El laberinto del fauno fails to engage the political and psychological implications of the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship, Balada triste de trompeta underscores the traumatic nature of the period and its lasting effects on the current generation of Spaniards.

Xiaoping Song Textbook Writing, Volume I - Chinese Literature, Culture and Society (1911-Present) This textbook for advanced Chinese courses, the first in a three volume set, includes selected masterpieces in the original Chinese language such as excerpts or complete texts from selected fictional/non-fictional prose, poetry, and dramatic and cinematic transcriptions from the modern/contemporary period.

Since few students currently enrolled in Chinese courses have prior learning experience in the language or culture of China, they need an effective way to make the transition from non-literary language to the study of literary works and sophisticated language. Volume I, Chinese Literature, Culture & Society (1911-Present) will include masterpieces by writers, essayists, poets, playwrights, and filmmakers before 1949, as well as selections from after 1949, including works from Taiwan and Hong Kong. One advantage of this text will be the inclusion of “vocabulary texts” that will guide student reading through texts.

2012 Curriculum Development Fellowships Tara Kulkarni Service-Learning-Based Curriculum for an Introductory Course on Environmental Engineering

Christine Latulippe Secondary Mathematics Methods Course Research and Development

This project is to develop a new “Introduction to Environmental Engineering” course and lab for CE seniors with service-learning-based curriculum coursework. This course will include modules on air, water, waste and noise pollution, and risk assessment with project based service-learning to meet community needs. Four labs will be designed to complement this course.

A secondary mathematics methods course is essential to math majors who are pre-service teachers as they transition to classrooms. The primary result of this Curriculum Development Fellowship will be a course description, objectives and outline for a methods course to be piloted in Spring 2013. This researchbased course will stem from investigations of national trends in methods courses for math majors, the new Common Core Standards, and current licensing practices in Vermont.

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Student Research

“A university is, most fundamentally, about the process of thought, of challenging yourself with questions and problems that you don’t know how to answer.” —Dr. Andrea Talentino

Katherine Anderson Architecture in Havana, Cuba and San Juan, Puerto Rico: Comparison of United States Impact Pre and Post-1960

Elizabeth Chapdelaine Functional Investigation of Novel Phosphotyrosine Residues in the Src Family Kinase Fyn

Antonio Diaz The Search for Vertex-Magic Total Labeling of Regular Graphs

Mentor: Prof. Karen Hinkle

Mentor: Prof. Dan McQuillan

The overall goal of this project was to test whether these novel tyrosine phosphorylation sites (Y185, Y213 and Y214) in the Fyn SH2 binding domain are involved in regulating its kinase activity and/or substrate binding. Enzymes are proteins found in all cells that function to catalyze chemical reactions.

Background for this work includes that one specific family of enzymes, kinases, functions to covalently add phosphate (PO4) chemical groups to other proteins (substrates), a modification that can dynamically alter the target protein’s structure and function.

This work investigates vertex-magic total labeling of regular graphs to settle two conjectures that current research suggests are both true. The first states that every regular graph has a vertex magic total labeling, besides the multi-complete graph nk2 and the multiple complete graph 2k3. The second conjecture claims that the spectrum for all complete graphs kn is the entire feasible spectrum for those that can be labeled. The solutions to these problems will further develop our understanding of graph labeling and will stand as significant mathematical accomplishments.

Justin Cosgrove Hydrological Analysis of Possible Future Housing Expansions on the Norwich University Campus

Zac Fulton Functional Investigation of Src-1 in C. elegans

Mentor: Prof. Tara Kulkarni

Fyn is a Src Family Kinase, and when over-expressed it can create functional abnormalities such as cell proliferation, development and growth. Like its homolog v-Src, it can lead to aberrant cell growth and even tumor formation.

It is possible to analyze the functional role of SFK regulatory enzymes by observing the migratory effect in mechanosensory neurons. The overall goal of this research project is to replace a nonfunctional protein (Src-1) with the human protein Fyn wild type, with the hypothesis that it will rescue the aberrant mechanosensory migrations.

Mentor: Prof. Lisa Schrenk Cuba and Puerto Rico both had strong relations with the United States in the first half of the 20th century. Cuba lost its support through the embargo after the 1959 Cuban Revolution while Puerto Rico continues as a friendly commonwealth today. With this divergent support from the United States, was there a change in the architecture of Havana and San Juan? I will study the architecture within these two capitals pre- and post-1960, comparing housing, preservation and infrastructure to answer this question.

Christopher Bock Mexican Drug Cartels: Should They be Labeled a Foreign Terrorist Organization?

Mentor: Prof. Travis Morris This work investigates the central arguments surrounding the Mexican drug cartels and whether or not to label them as foreign terrorist organizations.

The purpose is to discover the total number of arguments in the Mexican drug cartel/FTO debate and categorize the arguments into a typology, and analyze how the arguments have changed from 2008 to 2012.

Robert Butts (Engineering Management), Tyler Hermanson (Geology), Brian Demers (Environmental Science), Anthony Mushaw (Civil Engineering) Use of Technology to Improve Underground Utility Safety Mentors: Profs. M. Puddicombe, A. Sevi An interdisciplinary team carried out this project using available Ditch Witch™ locator technologies to identify and document underground infrastructure that provides public services. Ground penetrating radar and other remote sensing technologies were merged with a global positioning system to make accurate maps in a GIS framework. These technologies were used to improve methodologies for identifying and locating underground utility lines for water, gas, sewer, and fiber optic communications.

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Two stormwater analysis techniques for water runoff have been used to analyze future expansions to the NU campus. The project compares the two applications and techniques to determine which is more accurate, reliable and practical. These analysis methods will also be used to create a spreadsheet application for use in the future.

Caleb Burrington, Douglas Nelson, Victoria Sabel (Architecture), Taylor Hinkle (Civil Engineering), Richard Armstrong, Crandall Miller, Sean Wynot (Engineering Management) SOLAR DECATHLON 2013: Designing the Delta T-90 House Mentors: Profs. S. Fitzhugh, M. Lutz, J. Mountain, J. Patterson, M. Puddicombe, E. Schmeckpeper and Dr. K. Andrésen The goal of the 10-week summer research period was to finalize a design for the Delta T-90 House and create a near-complete set of construction documents in Autodesk’s Revit. We are designing and building everything ourselves, and strive to crack the code of efficient, high performance, solar powered dwellings.

Saul Costa Investigating an Intrusion Detection System for Brain-Computer Interfaces

Mentor: Professor Karen Hinkle

Mentor: Prof. Jeremy Hansen Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have developed to the point of allowing devices to be implanted to help with medical problems. At the same time, headsets allow interaction with games and detection of a user’s facial expressions, emotional state and basic thoughts. Combining such technologies can be potentially dangerous and may affect the state of the brain. This research aims to develop a software framework that allows for filtering of malicious content input to BCIs.

Adam Kocienski Sustainable Power Generation at the Residential Level Through Steam Produced by Solar Energy Mentor: Prof. Michael Prairie This research explored the feasibility of power generation at the residential level through steam produced by solar energy. It sets itself apart because the steam is used to power a modified household engine. Mathematical models representing energy transfers throughout the system were created to represent the physical prototypes, and three prototypes were constructed. A Fresnel lens was utilized and theoretically modeled using assumed material properties.

Physical testing was done with a pyranometer, and results were compared.

The lens performed better than expected.

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Student Research (continued) Dan Le Sediment and Stratigraphic Characteristics and Basin Evolution of North Pond, Central Vermont Mentor: Prof. Richard Dunn The goal of this project was to determine the sedimentary and stratigraphic setting and evolution of the Twin Pond basin, and from that to develop hypotheses for conditions in the basin for the last 12,000 years (including changing climate, vegetation and hydrology). Using piston cores, grain size analysis, determinations of organic and carbonate content, and magnetic susceptibility measurements, we concluded that following deposition of glacial-derived clays in the basin and removal of the glacial source, CaCO3-rich mud, or marl, was precipitated.

Kimberly Martin Deconstructing the Honor Code in Crónica de una muerte anunciada

Mary Seaburg Exclusion of Racial Cultural Minorities in Mass Media Reports of Missing Children

Mentor: Prof. Gina Sherriff

Mentor: Prof. Wendy Fuller

The honor code in Crónica de una muerte anunciada by Gabriel García Márquez, as well as the honor code in Latin America, were explored in this research. Initial efforts examined the origin of the honor code as it pertains to murder and violence as retribution for stolen virginity and, therefore, stolen honor. The understanding gained was applied to the novel in which the character Santiago Nasar was murdered by the Vicario brothers because their sister, Ángela, claimed that Nasar stole her virginity, destroying the Vicario family honor.

This study concludes that there is a media bias toward young, missing white females, many of those from affluent neighborhoods. This bias is formed from an invisible “policy,” often referred to as “The Missing White Girl Syndrome,” that newspaper workers create. The discourse used in these articles usually sensationalizes a young girl who is missing. The effectiveness of approaches such as shaming the media and fully telling the stories of victims are explored.

Abraham Mauricio Dystopia Still Matters: A Case Study on the Cultural Impact of P.D. James’ The Children of Men

Mentor: Prof. Gary Lord

Mentor: Prof. Amy Woodbury Tease This study found that the genre of dystopian literature is most viable in its focus on global social and political critiques, and remains useful for reading our 21st-century moment. This study also asked if dytopian literature has undergone significant changes in the modern era. Using Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go as a case study, the project examined how the novel repositions dystopia as a powerful force for social critique in the contemporary age.

Andrew Roberts The Value of Life: Analysis of Compensation Funds for Victims of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and September 11th Terrorist Attacks on the World Trade Center Mentor: Prof. Rowly Brucken

Jeremy Legendre Whitelist-Based Virus Protection in OSX Mentor: Prof. Jeremy Hansen This project was designed to build and test a whitelisting anti-virus software package on Mac OSX Lion, something that has not been done previously.

This research investigated both the practicability and efficiency of protecting a computer from viruses by whitelisting rather than backlisting applications.

The software will work by having a user input applications they would allow to operate.

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Compensations given to the victims of the 9/11 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire were compared to those given to the victims of the terrorist attacks on 9/11.

This research sought to find the qualifications of the victims in terms of the amount to give them. In addition, it focuses on determining who qualified for the compensation and compares the two disasters for similarities and differences across the 90-year time frame.

Jessie Rodiman Evolution of Game-Playing AIs for Dou Shou Qi Mentor: Prof. Jeremy Hansen The research focused on utilizing genetic programming to develop a strong game-playing artificial intelligence (AI) for the classic game Dou Shou Qi. The technique used to develop the game-playing AI was genetic programming.

Dustin Shimkus History of Norwich University Baseball: 1860-1942 This project examines the history of the Norwich University baseball program from its founding in 1860 until World War II. Specifically, the project focuses on primary archival sources to research the organization of the clubs and teams, the organization of leagues, the record of games, the development of coaching and facilities, and the role that baseball played in student life and culture.

Caroline Thomas Leonard Wood and Norwich University: Inspiration for Reserve Officer Training Corps Mentor: Prof. Gary Lord The focus of this work was on the influence of Norwich University in the creation of R.O.T.C. as a result of the relationship between Gen. Leonard Wood, Army chief of staff, and Capt. Ralph Barker, Norwich commandant. It explores how Wood’s interest and approval of Parker’s training program was directly connected to the passage of the 1916 legislation enacting the R.O.T.C. The role that Norwich played in the creation of this legislation has not been previously recognized.

Kevin Waters Macrofossil Identification and Vegetation Change since the Late Pleistocene (and of the “ice age”) at North Pond, Central Vermont Mentor: Prof. Laurie Grigg This study shows how environmental factors contribute to the formation of marl (calcium carbonate mud) in lakes underlain by the Waits River Formation of Central Vermont. Aquatic and terrestrial macrofossils in lake sediments reflect former aquatic conditions, such as biological productivity, water depth, water temperature, and inflow as well as, the make-up of the surrounding vegetation.

Gregory Wider Norse and Viking Lore; Historical Fiction Mentor: Prof. Carl Martin Two areas of English literature have been combined in this project; creative writing and historical analysis of early Scandinavian works and culture, both undertaken to develop a sturdy base for the beginning of a historical novel.

The research pointed out misconceptions about the vastness of Viking expansion, and about their dress. Leading into the Modern Age, authors such as J.R.R. Tolkien, Neil Gaiman, and Bernard Cornwell have used Scandinavian-influenced literature to represent different angles of Northern life and lore.

Lauren Wyatt K-BEVS: Kinect Based Expression and Voice Detection Software Mentor: Prof. Jeremy Hansen This project utilizes the skeletal tracking and pattern recognition of the Kinect 2010 gaming device, and takes it a step further. Instead of just recognizing skeletal figures, reprogramming Kinect reveals its potential to focus on the face and the micro-expressions produced by a user. The next logical step in this research would be to work on coding to get the Kinect to recognize simple movements such as a smile, and work up to more complex expressions such as an eyebrow twitch.

Joseph Young Peak Time of Human Performance and the Vigilant-State Status as a Result of Varying Workout Times Mentor: Prof. Elizabeth Wuorinen A series of experiments has been designed to explore the effects of exercise at different times of the day on the circadian rhythms, specifically those involving wakefulness. Subjects include 10 active males who exercise aerobically once a day (45 minutes at 60-70 percent of max heart rate) for three non-consecutive days each week. Data from the subjects will be organized and compared to the control, and the information from the survey will be analyzed for any correlation in times of inactivity or activity with feelings of tiredness and alertness.

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rT90 is an ambitious project to design and build a house that pushes the envelope on

both energy efficiency and affordability.

Norwich University Architecture, Engineering, Business and Management, and Construction Management students have been working with faculty to build a dwelling that stays comfortable in -20 degrees F. with no net loss in energy, yet can be purchased by a family with an average Vermont income. After witnessing first hand the effects of Tropical Storm Irene, the sudents are driven to create long term solutions for those displaced by the storm.

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In January 2012, the project was awarded a spot in the 2013 Solar Decathalon, a U.S. Department of Energy competition. Norwich is one of 20 colleges and universities that have until fall 2013 to build a solar-powered house to take to Irvine, California , where it will be showcased for a month of public display and scrutiny by judges. The house that does the best job of blending affordability, energy efficiency and attractiveness wins.

The goals of the challenge are innovation and education.

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Independent Study Leaves Wendy Cox TAC(T): Beginnings of the Architects Collaborative and Early Housing Project Six Moon Hill This project generated a manuscript titled, “Collaborative Diversity: Origins and Inspirations of TAC,” submitted to the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. The work documents insights gleaned from interviews with the two remaining founding partners of the mid-20th-century American precedent for a collaborative architectural design process, The Architects Collaborative (TAC). These partners believe in a supportive rather than competitive world, and that most successful design solutions to complex issues are achieved through collaboration while forgoing individual fame. The goal of this study is to highlight the impact of this philosophy, and raise questions about the relationship between the individual and the collective in achieving humanity’s highest aspirations.

Kathleen McDonald In Their Own Words: The Private Writings of 18-Century Bostonian Women This project focuses on developing a book based on the personal letters and diaries of four women connected to Boston, Mass., during the period of 1755 until about 1815, namely Esther Edwards Burr, Anna Green Winslow, Abigail Smith Adams and Elizabeth Cranch Norton. The project explores the influences of religion, writing and reading, sex, marriage, motherhood, the domestic working world, and home goods and bartering.

Natalia Blank Asymmetric Synthesis: Stereoselectivity or Organolithium Additon to Diimine Substrates in the Synthesis of Chiral 1,2-Diamines Dr. Blank spent her ISL release writing and performing organic/organometallic synthesis in the laboratory of Dr. David S. Glueck in the Department of Chemistry at Dartmouth College, where she has accepted a continual appointment as Visiting Scholar. Their collaboration in the areas of catalytic asymmetric synthesis of amines and phosphines led to submission of papers to the Journal of Undergraduate Chemical Research, ACS Organometallics, and the Journal of Chemical Education. She also continued her consulting relationship with Dr. George Preti of the Monell Chemical Senses Center by contributing research into the structure of olfactory chemical compounds.

Stephen Fitzhugh Electric Power Distribution System Automation This project involves investigation of load flow, voltage and frequency control for microgrids to permit continued operation after widespread outages that affect surrounding sections of the electric power grid. The work explores ways to develop a sustainable microgrid-implementation model. Concurrent work will include tracking and reporting the build and impact metrics of the eEnergy Vermont Smart Grid Investment Grant project, funded by the U.S Department of Energy.

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Karen Hinkle Functional investigation of the role of novel phosphotyrosines in the Src Family Kinase Fyn on neuronal development.

This research addressed the role of the Src Family Kinase, Fyn, in brain development. In these studies, I analyzed the importance of newly-identified chemical modifications within Fyn on neuronal migration events in the nematode worm, C. elegans. Using a C. elegans genetic mutant strain that has significant abnormalities in neuronal migration and development, my students and I added back transgenic forms of Fyn in this mutant to see if Fyn rescues the abberant migration. I worked during the year in the laboratory of Dr. Bryan Ballif, an expert in protein biochemistry, in the Department of Biology at the University of Vermont. I also collaborated with Dr. Peter Juo, an expert in C. elegans and neurophysiology, at Tufts Medical Center. This work may reveal novel therapeutic targets within Fyn, a protein known to be implicated in cancer.

Stanley Shernock Conflict and Compatibility Between Military and Police: A Study of the Effects of Military Service and Deployment on Law Enforcement Officers in Small Town and Rural Policing Using data from quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews, this study examines the effects of military service and combat deployment on policing in Vermont. More specifically, it analyzes how Vermont police officers and supervisors with and without military background and deployment experience differ in their perspectives regarding military characteristics and influences on policing, aspects of policing affected by deployment and consequences of the military model on policing.

Arthur Schaller Translation of 2D Collage to 3D Spatial Constructs in Mixed Media This project involves the speculative translation of several of the completed collages from the latest series Billboard Buildings, depicting tall, narrow architectural forms supported on multiple “legs,” into three-dimensional constructs or models in painted wood, paper and found materials. These models will be in slices or sections that can be assembled into various linear configurations. These assemblages will be photographed to document the interior spaces behind the billboard facade. Conventional architectural drawings (plan, section, and elevation) will be produced also in collage format, along with photographic documentation of the series, its translation, and sets of spatial interiors in the form of a printed monograph/portfolio.

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New Faculty Biographies

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David Blythe Associate Professor of Management

Robert Knapik Assistant Professor of Physics

Specialty: Environmental Law Degrees: JD, 1986, Vermont Law School. BA Agricultural Science, 1981, Rutgers University.

Specialty: Particle Physics Dissertation: The Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum Measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory Degrees: PhD Physics, 2009, Colorado State University. MS Physics, 2004, Colorado State University.

BS Physics and Mathematics, 2001, James Madison University

Marilyn Crane Associate Professor of Nursing

G. Christopher Koteas Assistant Professor of Geology

Specialty: Nursing Midwifery Dissertation: The Level of Importance and Level of Confidence that Midwives in the United States Attach to Using Genetics in Practice Degrees: DNP (Doctorate in Nursing Practice), 2010, Case Western Reserve University. MS Nursing, 1977, University of Utah. BS Nursing, 1975, Montana State University.

Specialty: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology Dissertation: Analysis of the Gouldsboro Pluton and the Fehr Granite: Understanding the Scales of Magmatic Processes and Partial Melt Generation from the Deep to Shallow Crust Degrees: PhD Geology, 2010, University of Massachusetts Amherst. MS Geology, 2005,Vanderbilt University. BA Government and Geology 2002, College of William and Mary.

Seth Frisbie Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Yangmo Ku Assistant Professor of Political Science

Specialty: Drinking Water and Public Health Dissertation: The Oxidation of Benzene in Aquifer Water Using Fenton’s Reagent: A Feasibility Study Degrees: PhD Environmental Chemistry, 1992, Cornell University. MS Analytical Chemistry, 1989, Cornell University. BS Plant and Soil Science, 1986, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Specialty: International Relations, Asian Politics Dissertation: Dealing with Historical Issues in Japan and Germany: Ruling Coalitions, Transnational Activism, and Conservative Reaction Degrees: PhD Political Science, 2010, George Washington University. MA International Relations, 2002, George Washington University. BA, German Language and Literature, 1999, Sogang University, South Korea

Elizabeth Gurian Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Ernest LaPierre Assistant Professor of Nursing

Specialty: Homicide and Partnered Offending Dissertation: Serial and Single-Incident Acts of Murder: An Exploration of Women’s Solo and Partnered Offending Degrees: PhD Criminal Justice, 2012, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK. MS Criminal Justice, 2006, Northeastern University. BS Human Physiology, 2001, Boston University

Specialty: Psychiatric Mental Health Dissertation: Differences in Attitudes by Therapists Toward Gay and Lesbian Recovering Alcoholics Degrees: DSN Nursing Education Administration and Community Mental Health Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham. MS Nursing, Rutgers University. BS Nursing, The College of New Jersey

Laura Gross Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Dalyn Luedtke Assistant Professor of English

Specialty: Community Corrections Dissertation: Struggling for Success: The Role of Social Support in Female Reentry Pathways Degrees: PhD Criminology, 2012, Northeastern University, MA Criminology, 2007, University of Pennsylvania. BA Sociology, 2005, Bates College.

Specialty: Digital Literacy and Composition, Rhetorics of Popular Culture, Visual Rhetoric, Cultural Studies Dissertation: Reality TV and the Rhetoric of Play: What Happens When Old and New Media Converge Degrees: PhD Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English, 2012, University of Arizona. MA English, 2005, University of Arizona. BA Literature and Writing, 2002, California State University San Marcos

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New Faculty Biographies (continued) Seth Marineau Assistant Professor of Education

Karen Supan Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Specialty: Teaching and Learning Methods, Rural Education Dissertation: Substance and Development of the Aspirations of Rural High School Students Degrees: EdD Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, 2008, University of Vermont. MEd Educational Leadership, 2004, University of Vermont. BS French, Secondary Education Licensure, 1999, University of Vermont.

Specialty: Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, and Fluid Mechanics Dissertation: Model for Suspended Gate Field Effect Transistors Used in Laboratory Animal Cage Monitoring Degrees: PhD Mechanical Engineering, 2005, University of Florida. MS Pulp and Paper Science, 2002, Georgia Institute of Technology. BS Mechanical Engineering, 2000, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Arthur Pallone Assistant Professor of Physics

Moses Kwame Tefe Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

Specialty: Applied Physics/Condensed Matter Physics Dissertation: Low Energy Proton Transfer Reactions by Deuterons on Light Nuclei with Astrophysical Applications Degrees: PhD Applied Physics, 2000, Colorado School of Mines. MS Applied Physics, 1995, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. BS Aerospace Engineering, 1991, University of Michigan

Specialty: Transportation Planning Dissertation: Integration of Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Urban Transportation Planning in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Accra, Ghana Degrees: PhD in Civil/Transportation Engineering, 2012, The University of Alabama. MS Civil Engineering, 2010, The University of Alabama. MS Civil Engineering, 2004, UNESCO-IHE, the Netherlands. BS Civil Engineering, 1992, University of Science and Technology, Ghana

John E. Patterson Assistant Professor of Engineering Management

Andrea Talentino Dean of the College of Liberal Arts; Professor of Political Science

Specialty: Built Environment Dissertation: A Hurricane Loss Evaluation Model (HURL) to Quantify the Relationships between Hurricane Forces and the Damage Inflicted Upon Residential Structures in Kure Beach, North Carolina.

Degrees: PhD The School of the Built Environment, 2006, Heriot-Watt University; MS Construction Science and Management; 1996, Clemson University; BS Vocational Education, 1993, Clemson University

Specialty: International Relations Dissertation: Intervention After the Cold War: The Motivations and Goals of Contemporary Multilateral Intervention Degrees: PhD Political Science, 1998, University of California Los Angeles. MA Political Science, 1994, University of California Los Angeles. BA Political Science, 1989, Yale University

Kyle Pivetti Assistant Professor of English

Sarah Henrich Director of the Sullivan Museum and History Center

Specialty: 17th and 18th Century English Literature Dissertation: “We’ll Remember with Advantage” National Memory and Literary Form in Early Modern England Degrees: PhD English, 2010, University of California Davis. BA English, 2003, University of California Los Angeles

Specialty: Art History/ Museology (Museum Studies) Thesis: Museum Architecture: An Analysis of Selected Museums Designed by Philip C. Johnson Degrees: MFA Museology,1982, Syracuse University. BA Art History, 1977, Muhlenberg College

Sean Prentiss Assistant Professor of English Specialty: Creative and Environmental Writing Thesis: Pantheon of Loss (a collection of essays) Degrees: MFA Creative Writing, 2005, University of Idaho. BA Business, 1994, Western State College

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Release Awards Jacques Beneat Star Tracker for Autonomous Attitude and Positioning Determination System In this project we develop a novel attitude- and position-determination system based on camera images for the autonomous navigation of miniature spacecrafts such as a CubeSat lunar lander. By investigating and adapting commercial products and attitude and positioning techniques used in other engineering fields or used aboard larger spacecrafts, this new CubeSat system will work autonomously with limited onboard computing power.

Daniel McQuillan Vertex-Magic Labelings or Regular Graphs A vertex-magic total labeling (VMTL) of a graph is an assignment of the positive integers (or labels), 1,2,3,... to the vertices and edges of a graph, such that at each vertex, the sum of its label together with its incident edge labels always adds up to the same number. The main goal of this project is to construct suitable magic labelings for as many 2-regular graphs as possible.

Lea Williams Ellen N. LaMotte: The Making of a Nurse, Activist and Writer This project will produce a cultural biography focused on Ellen N. LaMotte’s life and writings that stemmed from her nursing experiences during World War I. What made her a nurse, a suffrage activist, and a writer? Her early life will be examined against the backdrop of cultural forces that were operating in the late 19th century and shaped available choices. The final part of the project will document La Motte’s last years with Emily Crane Chadbourne, and examine how the two women were able to live outside of the expectations of their time and class.

Kathleen McDonald In Their Own Words: The Private Writings of 18-Century Bostonian Women This project centers on the personal writings of women in the Boston area in the 18th century, and provides for a wide reading of the issues of gender, economy and the cultural influences that dominated middle-class society. The project examines religion, domesticity, economy, marriage and child-rearing, as well as the public/private sphere question, ever popular in 18th-century studies.

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Patricia Ferreira Irish Merchant Princess and Abolitionist: The Story of Isabel Jennings This project involves the transcription of approximately 30 letters written

by Isabel Jennings to various members of the American Anti-Slavery Society, namely Maria Weston Chapman, but also William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass. Because the letters are the only known primary source of Jennings’ involvement in anti-slavery efforts, they constitute a significant part of my on-going efforts to uncover the story of Isabel Jennings. Once transcribed, they will append my cultural biography that demonstrates Jennings’s spirited abolition work as well as circumstances that account for the fact that Cork women, through her leadership, played a prominent role in international anti-slavery efforts.

Emily Gray Misunderstandings and Appalling Disunity: The Politics of Church Construction I propose to examine some of the competing political, confessional, financial and aesthetic interests that gave rise to the design and decoration of the Lutheran Heilig­Kreuz church in Augsburg. Complicating the infighting among Lutheran stakeholders, local and regional Catholic leaders challenged every aspect of the proposed building, which had clear symbolic significance in a city forced to adapt itself to a new political system based on religious parity.

This paper will explore relations within the two officially-recognized religions in Augsburg, as well as relations between the city and the Empire. This church –like other significant early modern construction projects– must be understood as the product of multiple, competing ideologies that continue to affect perceptions of its meaning, significance, and function over time.

Ethan Guth Mechanistic Characterization of the Bacterial Transamidase GatCAB Nearly four decades after the discovery of amidotransferase activity on the part of GatCAB, the detailed mechanism of enzyme action remains largely unknown. This research will use biochemical and biophysical approaches to develop novel assays for the dissection of the coordinated individual steps of the GatCAB reaction pathway, and provide mechanistic characterization of the coordination of GatCAB activity. Analysis of this sort will greatly aid in the directed design of inhibitor compounds for GatCAB and, additionally, will provide critical insight into the evolution of this diverse family of enzymes.

After the amidation reaction is characterized, the coordination between amidase and amidation activities will be investigated.

Tara Kulkarni A Research Program in Environmental Health Engineering This project develops the framework for a research program in environmental health engineering and creates a clear research strategy. Two primary areas of research include Green and Sustainable Remediation (GSR) and Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in soils and waters.

Both areas of research will apply Physiologically Based Toxicokinetic (PBTK) modeling approaches. The report will include strategies to integrate research findings into the curricula of courses taken by civil and environmental engineering students and to involve undergraduate students.

Joe Latulippe A Study of Wrist Oscillation Mechanics Using Perturbation Models This project focuses on the development of a wrist oscillation model that incorporates physiological factors resulting from wrist reconstructive surgery after a dislocation. The goal of the project is to better understand how the postoperative healing process affects the range of motion of the wrist. To analyze nonlinear models, perturbation methods are used to approximate solutions when disparate scales are present in the model. The main goal is to establish a procedure for analyzing an expanded “hybrid” model using a multiple-scales approach that will be conducive to perturbation analysis.

William Morris Examining Prognostic and Diagnostic Frames in Neo-Nazi and Violent Jihadi Propaganda This research focuses on neo-Nazi and violent jihadi propaganda and its role in defining social boundaries. Frame analysis is used to gain a deeper understanding of how neo-Nazis and violent jihadis construct propaganda to neutralize objections and radicalize toward violence. Specifically, diagnostic frames are analyzed for 10 “effective” propagandists and two “ineffective” propagandists in a comparative framework. Qualitative and quantitative methods are used to analyze how neo- propagandists incorporate diagnostic frames as techniques of neutralization. The results will provide a better understanding of propaganda can be used to inform future research and policy decisions.

Amy Woodbury Tease Muriel Spark and Media Culture Muriel Spark and Media Culture contributes to a growing body of scholarship on Muriel Spark, as well as to the broader critical movement of the New Modernist Studies, as it examines her literary oeuvre through the lens of contemporary media culture. I argue that Spark’s interrogation of media challenges the way we think about history, community and meaning-making.

More specifically, I read the telephone in Spark’s postwar novels as an antagonistic medium of communication whose technical difficulties expose a culture of surveillance that anticipates the way we live now.

Carl Martin ‘Par Destresce e par poür’: Bisclavert’s Constrained Bodies Part of an ongoing set that explores the contradictions of medieval aristocratic ideology, this article looks at the ways in which the feudal warrior-nobility justifies its status, privilege and monopoly of violence within a contentious society. It explores, in the French poem Bisclavret, how the ready use of torture against the vulnerable reveals how an aristocracy claiming to guarantee social order actually generates disorder.

Christine Mc Cann Response to Desert: Spiritual Mentoring in the Latin West This long-range project investigates the variety of ways that Latin Christians of the late fourth and early fifth centuries sought to adopt and to adapt the models of spiritual mentoring as practiced in the deserts of the Eastern Roman Empire to the society and physical environment of the Latin-speaking Western Empire.

Key individuals in this transition include Augustine of Hippo, Jerome, and John Cassian. These three men represent the range of responses possible, from rejection to nearly complete adoption of the desert model as they strove to construct Christian identity and community in the later Roman Empire.

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External Grants Funded During Academic Year 2011-2012 Principal Investigator Bandy, Carole (and student) Project Vigilance and Threat Perception in Military Veterans and Cadets Grantor Vermont Genetics Network Amount $28,668 Principal Investigator Byrne, Joseph National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program: 2006-2011 Grantor NASA Amount $138,500 Principal Investigator Byrne, Joseph Project National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program: 2011-2015 Grantor NASA Amount $25,000 Principal Investigator Fitzhugh, Stephen Project SmartGrid Grantor Vermont Transco Amount $32,761 Principal Investigator Hicks, Rodney Project Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship Grantor US Health Resources and Services Administration Amount $20,595 Principal Investigator Hicks, Rodney Project Nurse Faculty Loan Program Grantor US Health Resources and Services Administration Amount $153,421 Principal Investigator Hinkle, Karen (and student) Project DNA Damage and Repair Analysis in TFM-treated S. cerevisiae and X. laevis cells Grantor Vermont Genetics Network Amount $66,000 Principal Investigator Kulkarni, Tara Project Environmental Service-Learning Teaching Mini-Grant Grantor Vermont Campus Compact Amount $600

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Principal Investigator Lutz, Matthew Project Solar Decathlon Grantor Department of Energy Amount $100,000 Principal Investigator Meyer, Marguerite Project Transcendental Meditation Grantor Educational Foundation of America Amount $40,000 Principal Investigator Moaveni, Saeed Project Engineering for Innovation Entrepreneurship Program Grantor Kern Family Foundation Amount $49,725

Principal Investigator Schmeckpeper, Edwin Project Contextual Research - Empirical: A Direct Method for Teaching and Measuring Engineering Professional Skills Grantor National Science Foundation Amount $41,270 Principal Investigator Stephenson, Peter Project Information Assurance Undergraduate Scholarship Grantor Department of Defense/National Security Agency Amount $48,000

Vermont Genetic Network Bioinfomatics Specialist

Principal Investigator Moaveni, Saeed Project Collaborative Research: An Interactive Steel Connection Teaching Tool - A Virtual Structure Grantor National Science Foundation Amount $40,216

Bioinfomatics Analyst

Principal Investigator Olsen, Darlene Project Modeling Long Time-Series Gene Expression Data with the KZ Algorithm Grantor Vermont Genetics Network Amount $14,500

Amount $485,192

Principal Investigator Page, Scott Project VGN Coordinator Grantor Vermont Genetics Network Amount $23,940 Principal Investigator Puddicombe, Michael Project Interdisciplinary Environmental Entrepreneurship Grantor National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Amount $26,500 Principal Investigator Puddicombe, Michael Project Damage Prevention Grantor Vermont Department of Public Service Amount $95,000

Outreach Technician Outreach and Administration Photometrics and Microarray Project

Principal Investigator Westerman, David Project Collaborative Research: Field-based Projects Exploring Geophysical Methods, with Applications to the State of Vermont Grantor National Science Foundation Amount $89,486 Principal Investigator Westerman, David Project Geologic Mapping, Landslide Analysis, Seismic Data Collection, and Groundwater Resource Mapping Grantor Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation Amount $60,913

GRANT TOTALS

$1,680,287

Principal Investigator Robertson, Stewart Project Project GO - ROTC Language and Culture Project Grantor Institute of International Education Amount $100,000 23

William Barnard

Carl Martin

Barnard, W. H., Mettke-Hofmann, C. and Matsuoka, S. M., 2010, “Prevalence of Hematozoa Infections Among Breeding and Wintering Rusty Blackbirds:” The Condor, 112(4), 849-853.

Martin, C., 2010, “The Awntyrs off Arthure, An Economy of Pain:” Modern Philology, 108(2), 177-198.

Jeannie Beckwith

Daniel McQuillan

Kathleen McDonald

McQuillan, D., 2010, “A Technique for Constructing Magic Labelings of 2-Regular Graphs:” Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing 75, 129-135.

Armstrong, A. McQuillan, D., 2011, “Vertex-Magic Total Labelings of Even Complete Graphs:” Discrete Mathematics, 311(8-9), 676-683.

McDonald, K. A. (Ed.), 2011, Americanization of History: Conflation of Time and Culture in Film and Television: Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 288.

Jeffrey Olson

Adam Sevi

Olson, J., 2011, “Fixed Elements in Involutive Residuated Lattices:” Algebra Universalis, 65(1), 9-19.

Book Editorships and Chapters

Beckwith, J., 2010, “Lion in the Street,” in Snodgrass, K. (Ed.), Boston Theater Marathon XII 2010 Anthology, 17-25.

Sevi, A. (Ed.), 2011, Advances in Pile Foundations, Geosynthetics, Geoinvestigations, and Foundation Failure Analysis and Repairs: ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication 220, 329.

Emily Gray Gray, E., 2011, “Von der Ottmarskapelle zur Gemeindekirche:” Heilig Kreuz: in Kießling, R., Safley, T.M. and Wandel, L.P. (Eds.), Im Ringen um die Reformation: Kirchen und Prädikanten, Rat und Gemeinden in Augsburg, Epfendorf/Neckar: Bibliotheca Academica, 215-240.

Ellen Hall Hall, E., 2012, “Searching for Research Evidence:” in Brown, S. J. (Ed.), Evidence-based Nursing: the Research-Practice Connection 2nd ed, Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 285-300.

Kathleen McDonald McDonald, K. A., 2011, “The More Things Change: Buffy and Angel Enact a Modern-Day Sentimental Novel:” in McDonald, K. (Ed.), “Americanization of History:” Conflation of Time and Culture in Film and Television. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 108-132.

Melvin Miller Miller, M., 2011, “Mature Transformations in Adulthood Facilitated by Psychotherapy and Spiritual Practice:” in Hoare, C. H. (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Reciprocal Adult Development and Learning 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Jeannie Beckwith Doll Hospital, performed at the Boston Theater Marathon XIII. Opportunity of a Lifetime performed at Nicu’s Spoon Theater, New York City.

Brett Cox Consider the Services of the Departed, performed at Vermont Playwright’s Circle Ten-Fest 10-Minute Play Festival, Waitsfield, VT, August 18-21, 2011.

Lisa Schrenk Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s, an exhibition of the National Building Museum, Washington DC, October 2010 – July 2011.

Reina Pennington Pennington, R., 2011, “Russian Military History,” “Women in Military History,” and “Battle of Stalingrad,” for Oxford Bibliographies Online (2011)

Brett Cox Cox, B., 2011, “Serpent and the Hatchet Gang:” in Langan, J. and Tremblay, P. (Eds.), Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters, Prime Books, 246-259.

Cox, B., 2011, “Up Above the Dead Line:” in T.J. McIntyre (Ed. Kindle Edition), Southern Fried Weirdness: Reconstruction, Southern Fried Weirdness Press, 1st Digital Edition.

Exhibitions and Performances

Peer-reviewed Papers Richard Dunn Beness, J.L., Dunn, R., Hillard, T. and Sprent, A., 2011, “The Coastal Topography of Ancient Torone:” Mediterranean Archaeology, 22/23, 2009/2010, 69-100.

Seth Frisbie Mitchell, E., Frisbie, S. and Sarkar, B., 2011, “Exposure to Multiple Metals from Groundwater—a Global Crisis: Geology, Climate Change, Health Effects, Testing, and Mitigation:” Metallomics, 3, 874–908.

Laurie Grigg Jimenez-Moreno, G. G., Anderson, R. S., Desprat, S. S., Grigg, L. D., Grimm, E. C., Heusser, L. E., Jacobs, B.F., López-Martinez, C., Whitlock, C.L. and Willard, D. A., 2010, “Millennial-Scale Variability During the Last Glacial in Vegetation Records from North America:” Quaternary Science Reviews, 29 (21-22), 2865-2881.

Jeremy Hansen Hansen, J., 2010, “Taxonomy of Vulnerabilities in Implantable Medical Devices:” Proceedings of the Second Annual Workshop on Security and Privacy in Medical and Home-care Systems, 13-20.

Michael Puddicombe Puddicombe, M.S. and Johnson, B., 2011, “Research and Theory Building in Construction Management:” International Journal of Construction Education and Research, 7(2), 126-142.

Lisa Schrenk Schrenk, L., 2010, “Modernism and the International Exposition:” Modernism, Fall 2010, 68-77.

Judith Stalllings-Ward

Editorships

Stallings-Ward, J., 2011, “Imaging Satyagraha: The Personal Effects of Buenaventura Durruti and Mahatma Gandhi:” International Journal of the Image 1(2), 185-196.

Jack Hayes

Heidi Steiner

Associate Editor, Journal of Adult Development

Steiner, H., 2011, “Bridging Physical and Virtual Reference with Virtual Research Consultations:” Reference Services Review, 39(3), 439-450.

Lisa Schrenk

Spring Ulmer

Images Editor, Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive

Ulmer, S., 2011, “Behind the Place of Nothingness:” Spoon River Poetry Review 36(1), 80-85

David Westerman

Book Review Editor, Environmental History

Melvin Miller

Associate Editor, Terra Nova

Jason Jagemann Jagemann, J., 2011, “Abortion Politics in the Courts: New Judicial Federalism or the Federal Courts?:” Vermont Bar Journal, 36(4), 46-52.

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