Faculty & Staff Notes

FACULTY & STAFF NOTES

AWARDS

Lin

Xiaodong Lin, assistant professor of education, has been selected to receive the American Educational Research Association/Jan Hawkins Early Career Award for Humanistic Scholarship in Learning Technology. This award is based on a committee's analysis of her research published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals. She will receive the award at the AERA's annual meeting, to be held April 23-29 in New Orleans. She will also present "Reflective Adaptation to a Technological Artifact" at the conference.

APPOINTMENTS

Barz

Gregory Barz, assistant professor of musicology, has been elected secretary of the governing council for the Society of Ethnomusicology.

PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

Roberta B. Bradley, assistant professor of the practice of nursing, and Catherine E. Reisenberg, instructor in the practice of nursing, presented a paper titled "Tennessee Families First: Impact on One Inner City Day Care Center" at the 25th Annual Nursing Research Conference on April 7 in Nashville, Tenn.

Collier

Simon Collier, professor and chair of history, was one of the guests of honor March 24 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, when Argentina's President Fernando De la Rúa inaugurated a statue of the tango singer Carlos Gardel. Collier, author of a best-selling biography of the singer, has been on the executive committee of the commission sponsoring the new monument since 1994.

Jackson

Dasha Jackson, a joint law and Ph.D. student in English, presented her paper "Negotiating Race, Class and Gender in Maya Angelou's Poetry" at the 10th annual graduate student conference "Artful Negotiations: Text, Context and Culture," held March 2-3 at Louisiana State University. Jackson also presented her paper "Images of Women in the 20th Century as Reflected in Maya Angelou's Poetry" at the annual conference of the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, held in March at the University of Southern Colorado. Jackson also presented her paper "Middle Class Passing" April 7 at the Minnesota State University literary conference "Time of Transition." She will present her paper "Masquerading Masculinity: Cary Grant and the Male Identity" in August at a conference on "Posting the Male: Representations of Masculinity in the Twentieth Century," to be held at John Moores University in Liverpool, England.

Myers

Charles Myers, professor of social studies education, will present "A Study of the Practice-based Professional Improvement Project: Teachers Improving Their Own Practice" at AERA's annual meeting, to be held April 23-29 in New Orleans. Myers will also present "Standards-Driven, Practice-Based Assessment of Preservice Teacher Education" with graduate student Alicia Crowe and "Using Teacher Performance Standards to Measure Subject Matter Knowledge and Competence."

Items for the Faculty and Staff Notes column should be sent to Amy Pate by campus mail to 708 Baker Building, by e-mail to amy.pate@vanderbilt.edu or by fax to 343-7313.