Vanderbilt University Register: Faculty Staff Notes

FACULTY & STAFF NOTES

AWARDS and HONORS

Thomas A. McGinn, associate professor of classics, received the inaugural award for Outstanding Publication from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South at its 2002 meeting in Austin. The award is given for the best first book by a member. McGinn's Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome (Oxford, 1998) was described in the citation as "a major work of scholarship and one that will be indispensable to students of various areas -- Roman law, Augustan history, the study of women and sexuality in antiquity."

Charles B. Myers, professor of social studies education, was selected to receive the 2002 Excellence in Education Award from Pennsylvania State University's College of Education and its Alumni Society. The award is the highest honor bestowed upon an alumnus of the College of Education. He was invited to Penn State for a series of programs, presentations and honors Oct. 23-26.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Susan M. Barone and Linda S. Roth, language teaching specialists in the English Language Center, presented "Reality English Through Technology and Simulation" at the 35th Annual International Teachers of English for Speakers of Other Languages Convention in Salt Lake City April 12.

Janet Eyler, professor of the practice of education, was the keynote speaker for the March 28 Service-Learning Symposium sponsored by the School of Education at Florida State University. Participants included faculty from FSU as well as local teachers and administrators from the Tallahassee school system. She also delivered a daylong workshop on service learning for the faculty of the Business School at Seattle University on April 12.

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James W. Guthrie, professor of public policy and education, addressed the states' attorneys general at a Washington, D.C., meeting April 5. His topic was "New Interpretations of Equal Protection and their Consequences for Education Litigation."

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Helmut Pfanner, professor of German, presented a paper on the Austrian writer Franz Werfel at the International Conference on "Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung" in Austrian post-1945 literature at the University of Pennsylvania April 12-14. He also recently published papers on two other Austrian writers: in Modern Austrian Literature on Felix Mitterer and in Colloquia Germanica on Lilian Faschinger.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Robert E. Bodenheimer, assistant professor of computer science, and Greg Walker, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, participated in the invitation-only "Scientists Helping America" conference, March 11-13, in Washington, D.C. They were two of approximately 200 whose applications to attend the conference were accepted. The conference, hosted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the United States Special Operations Command and the Naval Research Laboratory, was held to showcase and stimulate new ideas for breakthrough technologies to benefit national defense and the national economy. Technologies highlighted included underwater communications systems, advanced training systems, directed energy weapons and chemical-biological warfare defense.

Camille Holt, senior lecturer in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Ellen Goldring, professor of educational leadership, and Ken Wong, professor of public policy and education, were invited by Pedro Garcia, Metro Public Schools director, to serve on the Director of School's Research Advisory Committee. The committee will provide timely advice on Metro Nashville's school reform efforts. The committee had its first meeting April 9.

Amy Kirschke, assistant professor of art and art history, delivered the MLK Graduate School of Art lecture at University of Georgia, this spring, on the cartoons of the NAACP's CRISIS Magazine. Kirschke was appointed as Chair of the National Committee on Cultural Diversity, for the College Art Association, a three-year term.

PUBLICATIONS

James W. Ely Jr., Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise, professor of law and professor of history, has edited and coauthored A History of the Tennessee Supreme Court, which has just been published by the University of Tennessee Press. The book is the first comprehensive history of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and in it the authors chart the evolution and organization of the court and its predecessor, the Superior Court of Law and Equity, and assess the work of the court within the larger context of the legal history of the South.

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