Academic Affairs Faculty News - December 2004

This is the first in a series of newsletters, to be published periodically, highlighting the accomplishments of our faculty and librarians. Please submit news items for publication to Lisa Shaw, Academic Affairs, 104 Boyden.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Mark Kemper informs us that two Bridgewater State College students gave outstanding performances at the Eastern Regional Moot Court Competition last month. Matthew Fabisch won as top orator and, as a team, Shannon Moriarty and Matthew Fabisch won first place. Matthew and Shannon will now move to the next level when they compete in the national Moot Court competition in Texas next month.

Amanda Anderson, an ATP student who graduated in 2003 with a Biology degree, is working on her Ph.D. at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is second author of an article that was published in the December issue of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

An unprecedented number of ATP undergraduate research students, 46, have submitted abstracts to the National Council on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) and the American Chemical Society for conferences in Spring 2005.

This fall, the Honors Program piloted the Honors Book Club. Faculty and students discussed Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia, recently performed under the direction of Dr. Henry Shaffer. After seeing the performance, Book Club participants discussed the play with director and cast.

APPOINTMENTS

Jeff Williams will be serving as Chair of the Committee on Undergraduate Education for the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT).

Ed Deveney has been selected to represent New England as an executive board member of the American Physical Society (APS), the national society of 40,000 physicists. Among its activities, the APS publishes the world's most prestigious and widely read physics research journal.

Greg Nelson was appointed to the Early Childhood Advisory Council by the Massachusetts Board of Education.

ARTICLES

Dr. Sandra Neargarder was the second author on a paper that was published in the journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Evelyn Pezzulich has published an article entitled "Coming of Age: The Emergence of the Aging Female Protagonist in Literature" in the 2004 Summer/Fall issue of Doris Lessing Studies.

AWARDS

Lucille Fortunato-De Lisle has been named to receive the 2005 University Instructor Kidger Award by the New England History Teachers Association. This award is one of the most prestigious history awards in the country. Luci will receive the award at the New England Regional Conference in Boston next March.

BOOKS

Dartmouth College Press has published John Kucich's book Ghostly Communion: Cross-Cultural Spiritualism in the 19th Century American Literature.

Aeon Skoble co-edited Woody Allen and Philosophy [You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong?], published in 2004 by Open Court as a title in the Popular Culture and Philosophy series. Aeon also contributed a chapter entitled "Integrity in Woody Allen's Manhattan."

Nancy Witherell co-authored, with Mary Lee Prescott-Griffin, Fluency in Focus, Comprehension Strategies for All Young Readers, which was published this year by Heinemann.

CONFERENCES

Sylvia Keyes and Margaret Landman gave an interactive presentation at the Teaching Economics Conference at California State University, Fullerton last October.

Robert Wolk's paper "Creating an Outcomes Assessment Instrument that Incorporates Information Technology Dimensions" was peer reviewed and accepted as a "faculty paper" for presentation and publication at the ISECON (Information Systems Educators Conference) in Newport last month.

GRANTS AWARDED (7/1/04-9/30/04)

Dr. Anna Bradfield and collaborators, Regional Pipeline Project - Phase II, Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, $238,251.

Dr. Anthony Cicerone, Canadian Studies Program Enhancement Grant, Canadian Embassy, $10,280.

Dr. Victor DeSantis, Turning Point Program, Plymouth County District Attorney's Office, $3,000.

Drs. Victor DeSantis and Michael Kryzanek, Community Development Work Study Program - Year Two, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, $45,000.

Drs. Helene Fine and Peter Sietins, Canada, Ireland, Portugal: Connecting Area Studies to Business Development in Southeastern Massachusetts through SACHEM, U.S. Department of Education, $16,165.

Dr. Diana Fox was awarded a $31,000 Fulbright Scholarship for her project entitled "AIDS, Gender and Economic Inequality" and she will be in Jamaica through March and in Trinidad through June.

Dr. Joshua Greenberg, Advocating "the Man": Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Market Revolution in New York, American Historical Association, $15,100.

Mr. Thomas Groh, CampusEAI Consortium's Oracle Portal Grant Program, CampusEAI Consortium, $291,000.

Mr. Larry Harman and Dr. Uma Shama, CCRTA - BSC Cape Cod WiFi Project, Federal Transit Administration, $100,000.

Dr. Margaret Lowe, Teaching American History through Discovery, Investigation and Participation, United States Department of Education, $240,000.

Dr. Roger Marshall, Fulbright Scholarship to India, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, $15,000.

Dr. Gregory Nelson, Jumpstart for Young Children - Year 4, Jumpstart, $50,276.

Drs. Gregory Nelson and John Marvelle, Building Careers in Early Childhood to Support Implementing Inclusive Programs and Curriculum, Massachusetts Department of Education $52,200.

Dr. Steven Young, Meet the Composer, New England Foundation for the Arts, $825.

GRANTS SUBMITTED (7/1/04-9/30/04)

Dr. Martina Arndt, Collaborative Research: Polarimetric Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Corona from 500-1500 nm During Solar Eclipses, National Science Foundation, $25,630.

Dr. Edward Brush, American Chemical Society Petroleum Fund Fellowship, American Chemical Society, $45,327.

Mr. Larry Harman and Dr. Uma Shama, Migrating e-Transit Databases and Web Services to a TerraService Model (Scientific Data Intensive Computing), Microsoft Research, $25,000.

Mr. Larry Harman and Dr. Uma Shama, Developing Wireless Laptop Applications for En-route Transit Planning & Personal Productivity Using Mobile Access Points within WiFi-enabled Transit Vehicles (eSciences Application), Microsoft Research, $50,000.

Mr. Larry Harman and Dr. Uma Shama, Joblinks One-Stop Transportation Project: Linking Transportation and One-Stop Services, Community Transportation Association of America, $75,000.

Drs. John Jahoda and Eric Johnson, Resources for the Preparation and Professional Development of K-12 Science Teachers, National Science Foundation, $40,000.

Ms. Robin Melavalin, Going Home: Cape Verdean Heritage and Society, NAFSA: Association of International Educators, $5,550.

Dr. Glenn Pavlicek, Improving Mathematics in Southeastern Massachusetts: Math Specialist Professional Development, Massachusetts Department of Education, $589,933.

Dr. Jeffrey Williams, Picturing Physics, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, $13,000.

INVITATIONS

Margaret Lowe spoke last month at the WNBA/Boston (Women's National Book Association) event entitled "The Big Dig-Research Tips for Writers and Other Information Hounds."

Thomas Mickey was chosen by the highly selective International Radio and Television Society for their annual Faculty/Industry Seminar in New York last month. Seventy-five professors selected from across the nation will meet for five days with key communication leaders.

NOMINATIONS

Dr. Jeff Williams has been nominated for the NSF Teaching Scholar Award.

Drs. Ed Brush, Margaret Lowe, and Lee Torda were nominated for U.S. Professors of the Year awards, sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

PERFORMANCES

Deborah Nemko joined ten pianists from throughout the nation in a performance at Carnegie Hall on November 13th. The program featured the music of contemporary composer Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee, from which Deborah chose three preludes for her performance.

 

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