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MEGHAN MCGLINN MANFRA, assistant professor of educational curriculum and instruction, appointed co-editor of the instructional technology section of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies.
GARY R. EDGERTON, chair of communication and theatre arts, first place in the 2008 John G. Cawelti Award of the American Culture Association for the Best Textbook in American Cultural Studies for “The Columbia History of American Television.” BEVERLY FORBES, director of experiential education, Career Management Center, an $11,000 grant from the Virginia Space Grant Consortium for the Engineering Early Advantage Program for Women for summer 2008. FRANKLIN ROSS JONES, professor emeritus of educational leadership and counseling and dean emeritus of the Darden College of Education, inducted into the Brewton-Parker College (Mount Vernon, Ga.) 2008 sports Hall of Fame, along with the players from the school’s 1946 football team. Jones was the head coach. POORNIMA MADHAVAN, assistant professor of psychology, the Outstanding Professional Paper award at the Southeastern Psychological Association 2008 conference, for her paper, “Training Modules that Incorporate Diversity Improve Quality of Airline Luggage Screening.” NANCY TAYLOR MINGUEZ, senior lecturer of Spanish, a $2,500 Professional Development Scholarship from the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese to study in Madrid for two weeks in summer 2008. KARIN ORVIS, assistant professor of psychology, the 2007 Edwin A. Fleishman Dissertation Award for her dissertation, “Supervisory Performance Feedback as a Catalyst for High Quality Employee Self-development.” ROSEANN RUNTE, president, the Girl Scout Woman of Courage, Confidence and Character Award from the Girl Scout Council of Colonial Coast. ALAN SAVITZKY, professor of biological sciences, the Robert K. Johnson Service Award from the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
WILLIAM G. CUNNINGHAM, eminent scholar of educational leadership and counseling, and Paula A. Cordeiro, “Educational Leadership: A Bridge to Improved Practice,” fourth edition (Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2008). SHARON RAVER-LAMPMAN, professor of early childhood special education, “Early Childhood Special Education (0-8 Years): Strategies for Positive Outcomes” (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Merrill, 2009). EVELYN M. THOMSON, senior lecturer of dental hygiene, “Case Studies in Dental Hygiene,” second edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2009). LARRY WEINSTEIN, University Professor of physics, and JOHN ADAM, University Professor of mathematics, “Guesstimation: Solving the World’s Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin” (Princeton University Press, 2008). The book includes artwork by PATTY EDWARDS, lecturer of art education.
JOEY BALLENGER, graduate student, HANK LIAO, lab scientist, and CYNTHIA JONES, eminent scholar, Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology, “Length-weight, Age and Growth of Sheepshead in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia” at the March meeting of the Tidewater chapter of the American Fisheries Society. STACY BEHARRY, graduate student, and CYNTHIA JONES, eminent scholar, Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology, and Jacques van Montfrans, VIMS scientist, “Quantifying the Value of a Nursery Habitat Using the Spotted Seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus) in an Estuarine System” at the March 2008 meeting of the Tidewater chapter of the American Fisheries Society. JANET BING, graduate program director for applied linguistics, “Feminist Humor as ‘Thought Experiment’: Blended Spaces and Improbable Worlds as Subversive Humor” at the International Society for Humor Studies in Newport, R.I. FAYE COLEMAN and SCOTT SECHRIST, associate professors, medical laboratory and radiation sciences, and TERRELL PERRY, instructional designer, Center for Learning Technologies, “Meeting Biohazard Training Requirements of Medical Laboratory Students via an Online ToolBook Module” at the 24th annual Clinical Laboratory Educators’ Conference in Savannah, Ga. BILLY CULVER, undergraduate student, JASON SCHAFFLER, postdoctoral researcher, and CYNTHIA JONES, eminent scholar, Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology, “Cost-time Efficiency of Aging Menhaden (Brevortia tyrannus): Scales Versus Otoliths” at the March 2008 meeting of the Tidewater chapter of the American Fisheries Society. GARY EDGERTON, chair of communication and theatre arts, “Living Large in the Suburbs: The American Dream According to The Sopranos” at the Annual Conference of the American Culture Association in San Francisco. TODD EGERTON, graduate student of biological sciences; ROBERT MORSE, graduate student of oceanography, HAROLD MARSHALL, professor emeritus of biological sciences, and MARGARET MULHOLLAND, associate professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, a poster, “Daily Variability in Environmental Conditions and Phytoplankton Composition During Two Bloom Events in the Lafayette River” at the 2008 Oceans Sciences Meeting in Orlando, Fla. Also, EGERTON and ROBERT JOHNSON, graduate student of biological sciences, and MARSHALL, “Extended Blooms of the Potentially Harmful Dinoflagellates Karlodinium veneficum and Cochlodinium polykrikoides” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists in Spartanburg, S.C. BETTY ROSE FACER, director of the Language Learning Center, “The Impact of Academic Podcasting on Student Learning Outcomes: A National Endowment for the Humanities - Digital Humanities Initiative” at the SEALLT & MAALLT 2008 Conference at Pine Crest School in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. ADRIAN GHEORGE, endowed chair in system of systems engineering, “Homeland Security Related Issues with ‘Minor League’ Nuclear Infrastructures: Critical Topics on the Decommissioning of Research Reactors” and “New Methodologies for Understanding the Trans-boundary Risks of Aging Critical Infrastructure: Innova-tions in Vulnerability Assessment and Decision Support Systems for Homeland Security Education” at the Homeland Security Education Summit in College Park, Md. DENNIS GREGORY, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, “Understanding FERPA: Student Educational Records Privacy in an Increasingly Public World” at the 2008 Conference of the Association on Higher Education and Disability in Richmond. Also, he also developed a presentation for the NASPA conference in Boston, “Charting a Course for International Understanding – Study Abroad and Professional Exchanges,” which was presented by his colleagues. Also, at the Association for Student Judicial Affairs International Conference, he co-presented “Writing for Publication: Creating Professional Materials for the Present and Future,” “Judicial Officer as ‘Advocate’: Court Approved Fundamental Unfairness” and “Understanding Parental Notification’s Past: Firm Policies for Our Present and Thoughts for Our Future Empowerment of Practice.” GREGORY LEFFLER, doctoral student, and KARIN ORVIS, assistant professor, psychology, “Effects of Situational Factors on Quality of Employee Self-development,” a poster, at the 29th Annual Industrial/Organi-zational-Organizational Behavior Conference in Denver. POORNIMA MADHAVAN, assistant professor of psychology, “Are we Safe? Evidence for Automaticity Development in Airline Luggage Screening” and “Training Modules that Incorporate Diversity Improve Quality of Airline Luggage Screening” at the 54th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Psychological Association. LUCY MANNING, assistant professor of music, “From Mannheim to the Mannheim Steamrollers: The Role and Development of the Pops Orchestra” for the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast College Music Society Conference at Gettysburg College. HAROLD MARSHALL, professor emeritus, and TODD EGERTON, ROBERT JOHNSON, MATTHEW SEMCHESKI, NATHAN BOWMAN and NOREEN MANSFIELD, graduate students, biological sciences, a poster, “Re-occurring Harmful Algal Blooms in the Tidal Rivers of Virginia” at the 2008 Oceans Sciences Meeting in Orlando, Fla. GARRETT MCAULIFFE, University Professor of educational leadership and counseling, “The Cultural De-Centering Project: Qualitative Study of a Developmental Intervention” at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Adult Development in New York. SUEANNE MCKINNEY, assistant professor of educational curriculum and instruction, “Using Error Patterns to Improve Mathematics Instruction” to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Salt Lake City. CHRISTINA MORGAN, lab scientist, NUNO PRISTA, graduate student, CYNTHIA JONES, eminent scholar, HANK LIAO, lab scientist, and JAMES DAVIES, undergraduate student, Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology, “Providing Quantitative Metrics for Marginal Increment Analysis to Validate Annulus Formation,” a poster, at the March 2008 meeting of the Tidewater chapter of the American Fisheries Society. KARIN ORVIS, assistant professor of psychology, “A Content Analysis-based Approach to Understanding Leader Self-development, with co-authors G.M. Wood and C. McCauley, at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology in San Francisco. Also at the conference, with four co-authors, a poster, “Providing Performance Feedback to Stimulate Effective Self-development.” NUNO PRIESTA, J.L. COSTA and M.J. COSTA, graduate students, and CYNTHIA JONES, eminent scholar, Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology, “Commercial Mark-Recapture: A New Methodology for Studying Large, Valuable Fish” at the March 2008 meeting of the Tidewater chapter of the American Fisheries Society. ZHONGTANG REN and STEVE MYRAN, research scientists, PETER BAKER, graduate student, and DAVID BLACKBURN, director of Program for Research and Evaluation in Public Schools, Darden College of Education, “Effects of Student-written Wiki-based Textbooks on Pre-Service Teachers’ Epistemological Beliefs” at the 2008 American Educational Research Association annual conference in New York. J. SCHAFFLER, postdoctoral researcher, and CYNTHIA JONES, eminent scholar, Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology, “Spatial Variability in Otoliths Chemical Signatures of Juvenile Menhaden in Chesapeake Bay” at the March 2008 meting of the Tidewater chapter of the American Fisheries Society. SIMON SERFATY, eminent scholar of international studies, “Russia and the West: What Next” at the Heritage Foundation. Also, with former French Prime Minister Edouard Baladur, a discussion/debate on “U.S.-E.U. Relations” at the French National Assembly in Paris. ANDREAS TOLK, associate professor of engineering management systems and systems engineering, “Model-based Data Engineering for HLS Applications” at the Homeland Security Education Summit in College Park, Md.
DENNIS GREGORY, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, a book review of “The Law and Higher Education: Cases and Materials on Colleges in Court” (3rd edition) in the NASPA Journal; “Control Cyber-Cheating and Plagiarism” in the NASPA Leadership Exchange; a book chapter, with Steve Janosik from Virginia Tech, “The Influence of the Clery Act and Crime Reporting on Student Affairs Practice” in “Campus Crime” (2nd edition) by J.J. Sloan III and B.S. Fisher (Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher); and “Current Issues in Academic Misconduct and Intellectual Property” in the proceedings of 17th Annual University of Vermont Legal Issues in Higher Education Conference. FRAN HASSENCAHL, assistant professor of communication, “Editorial Cartoonists Use Metaphor to Portray George W. Bush as a Cowboy” in the “5th International Symposium on Communication in the Millennium” (Anadolu University Press, 2007). CINDY LITTLE, senior lecturer of nursing, and Judith Lewis, “Newborn Screening” in vol. 8, no. 1 of Newborn & Infant Nursing Reviews. FREDERICK LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, a series of German poems (in German) titled “Goethe’s Poetry and Truth: ‘What Remains ...’” in vol. 14, no. 1 of Trans-Lit2, Journal of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German. SUEANNE MCKINNEY, assistant professor of educational curriculum and instruction, and W. Frazier, “Embracing the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics: An Inquiry into the Instructional and Pedagogical Practices of Middle School Teachers in Urban High-poverty Middle Schools” in the 2008 issue of The Clearing House. Also, with M. Haberman, D. Stafford-Johnson, and JACK ROBINSON, associate professor of early childhood education, “Developing Teachers for High-poverty Schools: The Role of the Internship Experience” in vol. 43, no. 1 of Urban Education. Also, with R.Q. Berry, DANIEL DICKERSON, assistant professor of ECI, and G. Campbell-Whately, “Addressing Urban High-poverty School Teacher Attrition by Addressing Urban High-poverty Shool Teacher Retention: Why Effective Teachers Persevere” in vol. 3, no. 1 of Education Research and Reviews. Also, with Berry and JOAN JACKSON, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, “Preparing Mathematics Teachers for Elementary High-poverty Schools: Perceptions and Suggestions from Preservice Teachers” in vol. 3 of Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research. ZHONGTANG REN, research scientist, Program for Research and Evaluation in Public Schools, “Culture and Moral Sense: What They Mean to Today’s Prospective Teachers” in the proceedings of the 6th Hawaii International Conference on Education. Also in the proceedings, with STEVE MYRAN, research scientist, and DAVID BLACKBURN, director, Program for Research and Evaluation in Public Schools, “Addressing Values: Promoting Deliberative Democratic Evaluation for Educational Problems” in the proceedings of the 6th Hawaii International Conference on Education 2008. Other co-authors are Shaoan Zhang and Sybil Young. Also, “Effects of Wiki-Textbook Writing on College Students’ Epistemological Beliefs” in the proceedings of the 19th Annual Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference. Co-authors are Xiaochao Dang, Shaoan Zhang, PETER BAKER, graduate student of education, and DWIGHT ALLEN, professor of educational reform. SIMON SERFATY, eminent scholar of international studies, “A Bad War Gone Worse” in the spring 2008 issue of The Washington Quarterly and “Globaliser l’OTAN” in the March 2008 issue of Politique Etrangere. |