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Scholarly Books and Papers
College of Liberal Arts
Brown, Alan
1. Book manuscript titled
Haunted Georgia is being reviewed by Stackpole
Press.
2.
Ghost Hunters of the South was published by
University Press of Mississippi in October 2006.
Edwards, Tim
1. “The Real Prayer and the
Imagined: The War against Romanticism in Twain,
Howells, and Bierce,” Mark Twain Studies 2
(2007): 71-74.
2.
“The Immanence of Death in Everything: Evelyn Scott
and the Female Gothic”
is in progress. “Battlestar
Gothica: 9/11 and the Narrative of Fear in the New
BSG,” is under review for a forthcoming book
by Barbara Silliman and James Iaccino, eds.
Larson, Erik
“Facilitating the Recreational
Oboist,” Lines and Spaces.
Riser, Rob
1. Forthcoming article titled
“Disfranchisement, the U.S. Constitution, and the
Courts: Alabama’s 1901 Constitutional Convention
Debates the Grandfather Clause,” American Journal
of Legal History.
2.
Completed two manuscripts’ “Prelude to the Movement:
Black Voting Rights Activism in the Disfranchisement
Era” and “Judges and Historically Significant
Decisions of the United State Court for the Middle
District of Alabama.”
3. Manuscript under review at
the Journal of Southern History.
4. “Convict Leasing,” The
Encyclopedia of Anti-Slavery and Abolition.
Taylor, Joe
“Lover’s Paradox,” Quarterly
West and “The Tree of Knowledge,” Lake
Effect.
College of Natural
Sciences and Mathematics
Bailey, David J.
Bailey, David J., L.A. Riddle,
R. M. Connatser, M.J. Sepaniak, “A Comparative Study
of the Enantiomeric Separation of Labeled Amino
Acids with Cyclodextrins and Mixed Micelles in
Capillary Electrophoresis,” Journal of
Chromatographic Science.
Beaird, Janis
Beaird, Janis, Stec, David E.,
Kimberly Gannon, & Heath Drummond,
“20-Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic Acid (20-HETE)
stimulates migration of vascular smooth muscle
cells,” Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry,
19: 121-128 (2007).
Curry, Michael
1. Michael Curry, J.
Zhang, X. Li, M.L. Weaver, and S.C. Street,
“Structural characterizations of dendrimer-mediated
Metallic Ti and Al thin film nanocomposites,”
Thin Solid Films 515 (2007): 3567-3573.
2. Michael Curry, X.
Li., F. Huang, M.L. Weaver, and S.C. Street, “A
tribological study of kinetically influenced ultra
thin Au and Cu metal over layers grown on
dendrimermediated Si,” Tribology Lett. 25
(2007), 133-140.
3. Michael Curry, Vishal Warke,
Martin G. Bakker, David E. Nikles, Kunlun Hong,
Jimmy Mays and Phillip Britt, “Development of Block
Co-Polymers as Self-Assembling Templates for
Patterned Media,” Nanostructured and
Patterned Materials for Information
Storage, edited by Z.Z. Bandic, M. Rooks. R.
Berger, T. Ando (Mater. Res. Soc, ymp. Proc. 961E,
Warrendale, PA, 2007), 0961-001-07.
Duckworth, Tracy
“Hematozoa from Birds of
Southwestern Alabama,” The Journal of
Parasitology, submitted 06/11/07.
Jun, Younbae
1. Jun, Younbae and Mai,
Tsun-Zee, “Rectangular domain decomposition method
for parabolic problems,” J. Korea Society of
Mathematics Education. Ser. B: Pure and Applied
Mathematics. 13 (2006) 281-294.
2. “Numerical analysis of the
rectangular domain decomposition method,” In
review.
Keener, Brian R.
1. Keener, Brian R. and L.
J.Davenport, “A new name for the well-known
Asplenium (Aspleniaceae) from Hale County,
Alabama,” Journal of the Botanical Research
Institute of Texas 1: 345-350 (2007).
2. Keener, Brian R. Sorrie,B.A.,
and A.L. Edwards, “Reinstatement of Sagittaria
macrocarpa (Alismataceae),” Journal of the
Botanical Research Institute of Texas 1: 345-350
(2007).
3. “Noteworthy Collections:
Alabama,” Castanea 72 (2007): 47-48.
4.
Keener, Brian R.,Lindqvist, C., J.D. Laet, R.R.
Haynes, L. Aagesen, and V.A. Albert, “Molecular
phylogenetics of an aquatic plant lineage,
Potamogetonaceae,” Cladistics 22 (2006):
568-588.
Ratkovich, Thomas J.
Ratkovich, Thomas J., Corson,
Jon M.,“Strong Form of Residual Finiteness for
Groups,” Journal of Group Theory, 9.4 (2006):
497-505.
Rindsberg, Andrew
1. Rindsberg, Andrew Bertling,
Markus, Simon Braddy, Richard Bromley, Georges
Demathieu, Jorge Genise, Radek Mikulas, Jan Nielsen,
Kurt Nielsen, Michael Schlirf, and Alfred Uchman,”
Names for trace fossils: a uniform approach,”
Lethaia 39.3 (2006): 265-286.
2. Rindsberg, Andrew, Genise,
Jorge F., Ricardo P. Melchor, Renata G. Netto, eds.,
“Ichnotaxonomy: the foundation of the building,”
Ichnos 13.4 (2006): 230-280.
3. Rindsberg, Andrew, Irvin, G.
Daniel, W.E. Osborne, “Geology of the Birmingham
North 7.5 minute quadrangle, Jefferson County,
Alabama,” Geological Society of Alabama.
Quadrangle Series 45: 1-21. 2006.
4. Rindsberg, Andrew K. and
Uchman, Alfred, “Bibliographia Ichnologica
2005-2006, with complementary data since 1990,”
Ichnology Newsletter 27 (2006): 59-141.
5. Rindsberg, Andrew, and
Martin, Anthony, “Arthropod trace makers of
Nereites: neioichnological observations and
their paleoichnological applications,” Miller,
William, III, ed., Trace Fossils: Concepts,
Problems and Prospects. Elsevier, 2007.
6. Rindsberg, Andrew, and
Martin, Anthony, “Neoichnological novelties from
Sapelo Island (Georgia) and their applications to
the fossil record,” Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, 2007.
7.
Rindsberg, Andrew and David C. Kopaska-Merkel,
Douglas Wymer and John C. Hall, A
Guidebook to Creataceous Rocks and Fossils
of West –Central Alabama (revised edition),
Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs, 2007.
8.
Rindsberg, Andrew K. and Anthony
Martin, “Ichnodiversity does not equal
biodiversity: bivalve trace fossils from the Upper
Mississippian Pennington Formation of Georgia,”
Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs, 2007.
9.
Rindsberg, Andrew K. Larry J. Rheams and Willard
Ward, “Geological map of the Birmingham South 7.5
minute quadrangle, Jefferson County, Alabama,”
Geological Survey of Alabama, Quadrangle
Series.”
10. Rindsberg, Andrew Mikulas,
R., eds. Abstract book: Workshop on Ichnotaxonomy
III, Prague and Moravia, Czech Republic, September
2006. Prague: Institute of Geology, Academy of
Sciences of the Czech Republic, 37 pp. 2006.
Rogers, Frank D.,
and Jun, Younbae, “Method for
optimizing a linear program with fuzzy
constraints.”
College of Education
Gibbs, Beth
Co-authored an article
published in Education.
Hocutt, Martha
Co-authored “Teacher Created,
Teacher Centered Web Logs: Perceptions and
Practices,” Journal of Computing in Teacher
Education.
Nursing
Cannon, Martha
Co-authored a chapter entitled
“Caring for a Child with a Neurological or Sensory
Condition,” Maternal and Child Nursing: Mothers,
Children and Families across Care Settings (F.A.
Davis Co.).
Scholarly Papers and
Presentations
College of Liberal Arts
Brown, Alan
1. Read papers at the annual
conferences of the Popular Culture Association of
the South, the Alabama Association of Developmental
Education, the Mississippi Philological Society, and
the Delta Blues Conference.
2. Preparing a paper, “Merlin’s
Influence on the Harry Potter Novels,” for meeting
of Popular Culture Association of the South.
Edwards, Tim
Presented papers at the annual
conferences of the American Literature Association
in Boston, Massachusetts, The Cormac McCarthy
Society in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the Mississippi
Philological Association in Greenwood, Mississippi.
Riser, Rob
Delivered three formal papers at three academic
conferences and gave four invited talks.
Taylor, Joe
Presented a paper titled “A Homage to Jerry Stern”
at the AWP Conference in Atlanta.
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Duckworth, Tracy
“Occurrence of Chaetogaster
sp. (Oligochaeta) among Physas sp. (Gastropoda)
from Lake LU in Livingston, Alabama,” Poster
presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of
the Alabama Academy of Science, Tuskegee, Alabama,
and 1 March 2007.
1. Kim, Yun Ho,
Gogerty, David and Plapp, Bryce presented a poster:
“Alcohol dehydrogenase dynamics and catalysts,”
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology (ASBMB), Washington, D.C., April 28-May 2,
2007.
2. Kim, Yun Ho,
and Plapp, Bryce, “Mutating the buried glutam
ate-267 in horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase
activates the enzyme and locks it in the open
confirmation,” Biocatalysis Conference, University
of Iowa, October 2006.
3. Kim, Yun Ho.,
Gogerty, David; Plapp, Bryce presented a poster,
“Alcohol ehydrogenase dynamics and catalysts,”
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology (ASBMB), Washington, D.C., April 28-May 2,
2007.
Rindsberg, Andrew
1. “Fixing types in
ichnotaxonomy,” Third Workshop on Ichnotaxonomy,”
Prague, Czech Republic, September 2006. Dr.
Rindsberg was also co-organizer of this meeting.
2. “Ichnodiversity does not
equal biodiversity,” Annual Meeting, Southeastern
Section of the Geological Society of America, March
26-30.
3. “Fixing types in
ichnotazonomy,” Third Workshop on Ichnotazonomy,
Prague, Czech Republic, September, 2006.
College of Business
Bedford, Wayne, Moore,
Bradley, and Todd, Jim
Paper accepted for presentation
at the annual Academic Business World Conference in
Nashville.
College of Education
Edison, Dionne
“Financing Classroom Extras,”
Alabama Education Technology Conference, Birmingham.
Floyd, R. T.
1. “The Shoulder Laboratory”
was presented at the Southeast Athletic Trainers’
Association Athletic Training Student Symposium,
Atlanta, Georgia.
2. “Athletic Training Pearls I”
and “NATA Update,” presented at Gulf South
Conference Athletic Trainers Meeting in Birmingham,
Alabama.
3. “Heat Illness,” “The Injury
Cycle,” “Rehabilitation,” “Hand and Wrist Injuries,”
and “Emergency Action Plan,” presented at the
University of Southern Mississippi Athletic Training
Workshop.
4. “Evaluation of the Knee and
Hip Laboratory,” presented in two sessions at the
DCH SportsMedicine Symposium, DCH Regional Medical
Center, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Gibbs, Beth
1. Gibbs, J. Elizabeth
“Effectively Meeting the
Challenges of School District Information Systems,”
presentation for the University of Alabama’s
Superintendents’ Academy and Alabama Educational
Technology Conference, Birmingham, Alabama.
2.
Rice, Margaret L., Gibbs, J. Elizabeth, & Lewis,
Timothy “Opening the Classroom Walls: Using Virtual
Reality in the Classroom,” presented at the National
Educational Computing Conference Atlanta, Georgia.
3. Rice, Margaret L., Gibbs,
J., Elizabeth, and rice, Richard L., “Evaluating
Educational Training Programs Using the Kirkpatrick
Model,” presented at the Mid-South Educational
Research Association’s (MSERA) Annual Conference,
Birmingham, Alabama.
Hocutt, Martha
Supervised research conducted
by Muskie Scholar Denys Lupshensyuk that was
presented at the 2007 World Conference on
E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and
Higher Education, Quebec City, Canada.
Montgomery, Brad
“Baseball Throwing and
Conditioning Programs,” 2007 Thomasville, Alabama
Little League Baseball Clinic. Administered a
clinical lab on “Helmet Facemask Removal Techniques”
and “Case Studies on Lower Extremities,” at the 2007
MS Athletic Trainers’ Association’s Symposium.
Library
Brannan, Joyce
“Using the National Archives,”
the Tuscaloosa Computer Assisted Genealogy Group.
Grants
College of Liberal Arts
Brown, Alan
Awarded $4,300 by Alabama State
Council on the Arts.
Davis, Mark
Wrote and submitted several
funded grant proposals designed to improve the
psychology program.
Jones, Tina
Recipient of $18,900 from the Alabama Cooperative
Extension Services to host the Heritage Development
Institute and $500 to attend the “Your Town Alabama
Workshop.”
College of Natural
Sciences and Mathematics
Department of Physical
Sciences
Received an Instrument Grant from Turner Biosystems
Also, will receive software to
run the new LC/MS system at UA via the internet at
UWA. The funding was part of a grant received by UA
Department of Chemistry.
College of Business
Howell, Sheffield, McClusky,
Maxine,
Kent, Martha, Tucker, Ken
Fleming, Sieglinde, Carr, Linda, Cook, Charlie,
Ward, Bill, Stipe, Sharon
Received money smart
certificates to be trained in Financial Literacy.
College of Education
Gibbs, Beth
Received over $288,000 in grants for assisting
schools in Hale, Greene, and Sumter
Counties and Tuscaloosa in website development.
Smith, Louis
Along
with Dr. Elizabeth Gibbs,
received an $11,000 grant to develop an online civic
education teacher training program.
Ongoing Scholarly Research
College of Liberal Arts
Riser, Rob
Continued research on Alabama’s
1901 constitution and efforts of blacks to win
voting rights during the era of Segregation.
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Beaird, Janis
Continues research in
Cardiovascular-Renal at the University of
Mississippi Medical Center.
Curry, Michael
Research involves the synthesis
of block copolymers that self-organize.
Duckworth, Tracy
Investigating a number of
questions related to parasite loads of area animals.
Keener, Brian
Continues work in Systematic
Botany. Collects and catalogs plants from the area.
Working with Elizabeth Harrell
for thesis work that involves the characterization
of the flora of the Choctaw National Wildlife
Refuge.
Kim, Yun Ho
Research involving the
isolation and purification of anti-aging compounds
from plants, and the investigation into protein
activity.
McCall, John
Conducting student-oriented
research in the area of aquatic ecology.
Ratkovich, Thomas J. and
Jon Corson; joint research project on Group Theory.
Rindsberg, Andrew
1. Project working with
students on collecting field data on land snails in
Sumter County.
2. Investigating modern and
ancient traces on the Georgia Coast and documenting
butterflies on the island.
Library
Brannan, Joyce
Continues research in making basic genealogical
research accessible to beginners.
Limerick, Shelia
Research in the areas of record
management and the establishment of records
management at UWA, conservation and preservation and
processing archival collections. Received a
University Research Grant for the purpose of
conducting oral interviews of UWA alumni along with
past/present faculty, staff and other affiliates.
2006-2007 University
Research Grants
Dr. David Bailey
“Fast Enantiomeric Separation
of Amino Acids.”
Dr. Alan Brown
England Ghost Story Collecting
trip.
Mr. Mark Davis
“Investigation of Emotions in
Response to Intergroup Threat.”
Dr. Younbea June
“Domain Decomposition
Algorithms for Parabolic Partial Differential
Equations with Neumann Boundary Conditions.”
Dr. Donald W. Salter
“Evaluation of New and Old
Primer Sets to Determine the Identity of the Source
of Fecal Contamination of Alabama and Wisconsin
Environmental Waters and Fresh Foods.”
Dr. Keita L. Shumaker
“A Search for Lead
Phytoaccumulators in Alabama’s Blackland Prairie.”
Ms. Jessica Smith
“A Sense of Place.”
Dr. Douglas Wymer
“Blackland Prairie
Restoration.”
Awards and Honors
College of Liberal Arts
Davis, Nick
Took part in two group exhibits
and juried groups, received honorable mention awards
for both exhibits.
Jones, Tina
2007 winner of the Gilbert
Award for Outstanding Teaching.
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Hunt, Mose
Inducted into Kappa Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honor
Society in 2007.
McCall John
2006-2007 Loraine McIlwain Bell Trustee Professor
Award.
Rindsberg Andrew
Elected to membership in Phi Kappa Phi.
Rogers, Frank
Inducted into Kappa Mu Epsilon
Mathematics Honor Society in 2007.
Smith, Jessica
Exhibited artwork at the
McHenry County College Art Gallery and took
honorable mention award for an exhibit at the Altman
Riddick Museum.
College of Business
Day, Richard
Selected Fellow of British
Computer Society.
College of Education
Smith Mickey
Named “Outstanding Instructor
of the Year” by the Alabama Onsite Wastewater
Association.
Miscellaneous
College of Liberal Arts
Blackwell, Manley and
Kudlawiec, Nancy
Performed “The Nutcracker
Suite” at the 2006 Department of Fine Arts Christmas
Concert.
Blackwell, Manley
Performed the “Recital of Music
for Violin and Piano” at the faculty recital at the
University of Alabama; acted as adjudicator for the
final round of the “Etude Invitational” and Piano
Miniature division of the World Piano Pedagogy
competition in October 2006.
Brown, Alan
Participated on panels for the
Mississippi Writers’ Guild and was a judge for the
Kelly Land Writing Contest and the Mississippi
Community College Creative Writing Association.
Served as Corresponding Secretary for the Alabama
Association of Developmental Education, President
of the Faculty Senate, and professional consultant
for the Alabama Humanities in the fall of 2006.
Davis, Nick
Participated as judge for the
Alabama State Council on the Arts and the Kentuck
Festival of the Arts 2006.
Griffith, Mark
Continued service on Governor
Riley’s Black Belt Action Committee.
Jones, Gerald
Judge and editor for the
Tartt’s short fiction contest and collection with
the Livingston Press. Held the position of
Co-editor for the Livingston Press.
Jones, Tina
Co-chair of the Governor’s
Black Belt Action Committee’s Heritage Area Task
Force; chaired the Sucarnochee Folklife’s Festival;
second vice-president of the Alabama Trust for
Historic Preservation.
Larson, Erik
Performed as principal or
substitute principal oboe player for the Knoxville,
Oak Ridge and Columbus, Georgia, Symphonies.
Myers, Fred
Continued service on Governor
Riley’s Black Belt Action Committee.
Pagliero, Mary
1. Prepared and submitted a
successful application to host a second Edmund S.
Muskie Fellow.
2. Served as Chair of the
Fulbright Lecture Series and participated in the
organization and development of the Friends of the
UWA International students and served as President
of the Friends and Chair of the International House
Subcommittee and oversees the house and its
operation.
3. Accompanied two UWA students
to the International Student Conference “E-education
Without Borders,” in Abu Dhabi, United Arab
Emirates.
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Curry, Alicia
1. Held several workshops on
motivation for Student Services.
2. Served as a literary
consultant for Livingston Elementary School.
Giles, Kim
Alpha Chi Chapter Recording
Secretary and newsletter editor, AISA District
Mathematics Tournament Host, team leader at AASCU
Remedial Mathematics Conference.
Graham, Becky
In charge of the Regional
Science Fair in March 2007.
McCall, John
University’s liaison with the
Marine Environmental Sciences.
Massey, Judy
Alabama State Corresponding Secretary for the Delta
Kappa Gamma Society International 2007-2009.
Rindsberg, Andrew
1.
Worked with John Hall to conduct a field trip
to Old Bluffport for the University of Alabama
Honors Program.
2. Rindsberg, Andrew and
Wymer, Doug
Organized and helped conduct workshop on Fossils of
the Black Belt to train science teachers.
Shumaker, Kelia
1. Conducted two Science
Olympiad Coaches’ Workshops
2. Conducted workshop on water
quality testing for Alabama high school science
teachers through the Alabama Science in Motion
Program.
3. Served as Director of UWA’s
Elementary Science Olympiad.
Wymer, Doug
University Representative to
the Alabama Environmental Consortium and Alabama
Representative on the Executive
Board of the Coastal Plains Chapter of the Society
for Ecological Restoration.
College of Business
Green, Mitzi, Stipe, Sharon,
and Kent, Martha
Worked on Accounting Club
activities and took field trip to accounting firms
in New Orleans with seniors; attended interview day
in Montevallo.
Shelton, Jim
Conducted Hazardous Waste
Operations and Emergency Response Workshop and also
Hazardous Waste Refresher Workshop.
College of Education
Brown, Tammy
1.
Assisted local teachers with National Board
Certification portfolios
2.
Conducted workshop at the Early Childhood Conference
held in Livingston.
Edison, Dionne
1. Worked with the Greene
County Head Start as a Child Development Advisor and
assisted with “Kids and Kin Program” and the “Family
Care Partnership”; was on the Council for
Exceptional Children and president of the UWA Lions
Club.
2. Presented the “Need for
Collaboration with Early Childhood Care” and
“Bullying” to local schools.
Floyd, R.T.
1. Served as a professional
sports medicine and athletic training consultant to
over forty area high schools, three junior colleges,
the Alabama Independent School Association and
several area physicians and hospitals as well as
Rock-Ten Corporation.
2. District IX Director of the
NATA Board of Directors, Director of the SE Athletic
Trainer’s Association Athletic Training Workshop,
Member Development Chair on the National Athletic
Trainers Association Research and Education
Foundation Board, Past President of the Alabama
Council of University Faculty Presidents, Technology
Committee member for the Commission on Accreditation
of Athletic Training and on the Advisory Board of
the Collegiate Sports Medicine Foundation.
3. Presented on a variety of
topics at the University of Southern Mississippi
Athletic Training Student Workshop.
Green-Burns, Barry
1. Counseling Consultant for
Livingston Elementary School.
2. Held a workshop with Judy
Spree for faculty, students, and the community
called “Ticket to Work.”
Minus, Martha
Offered reading and writing workshops for local
schools.
Montgomery, Brad
1. Taught American Red Cross
Standard First Aid and CPR to all UWA Athletic
Department Staff and Athletic Training Department
Staff.
2. Served as President of the
Alabama Athletic Trainers’ Association, on the
Alabama Board of Athletic Trainers as a member of
the SE Athletic Trainers’ Association (SEATA)
Executive Board.
Smith, Louis
1. Held two workshops to train
teachers in the use of the “We, the People” and
“Project Citizen” curricula.
2. U.S. History table leader at
the Education Testing Service Readings in Louisville
Kentucky; Represented Alabama at the 11th
World Congress on Civic Education in Buenos Aires,
Argentina;
served in several leadership
roles: Member of the State Board of the Alabama
Center for Law and Civic Education, District 7
Coordinator for the “We the People” program, State
Coordinator for the “Project Citizen Program,” and
chapter counselor for the local Kappa Delta Pi
chapter.
Tatum, Shonna
Conducted the UWA Health Fair,
the Run to the Sun Fitness Incentive Program and the
UWA Biggest Loser’s Contest.
Nursing
Homan, Sylvia
Served as a member of the
Alabama Board of Nursing.
Library
Limerick, Shelia
Advisor, Montgomery Network of
Alabama Academic Libraries State Publications Pilot
Project Committee; President, of the local chapter
of Alpha Delta Kappa.
Snider, Neil
1. Served as a consultant to
school systems in the area that is seeking SACS
accreditation.
2.
Served as Vice-President for Grants for the SCFAC.
Upchurch, John
Representative to the Alabama
Libraries Exchange Service (ALLIES); Secretary, of
the Alabama Library Association’s New Members
Roundtable.
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