Vanderbilt University Register: Faculty Staff Notes

FACULTY & STAFF NOTES

AERA PARTICIPANTS

The American Educational Research Association held its annual meeting April 1014 in Seattle. Throughout the summer, the Register will list faculty and students who participated in the conference and the titles of their presentations.

Jacob E. Adams Jr., associate professor of education and public policy, presented "Education Finance Development in the

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John D. Bransford, Centennial Professor of Psychology, professor of teaching and learning, co-director of the Learning Technology Center and a senior fellow at the Kennedy Center; Xiaodong Lin, assistant professor of education; Jeff Holmes, graduate student; and Dan Schwartz of Stanford University presented "Collaborative Lesson Planning and Teaching in an Online 3D Multi-user Virtual Learning Environment."

Melinda Hall Bray, research associate, and Susan R. Goldman, professor of psychology, presented "Renegotiating Expectations to Facilitate Teacher Learning and Leadership." Bray and Goldman also presented "Teachers Learning to Lead the Collaborative Inquiry of Their Peers" with Linda Zech, senior research associate. Bray and Zech presented "Revisioning Understanding in Mathematics."

APPOINTMENTS

Kenneth F. Galloway, dean of the school of engineering and professor of electrical engineering, was appointed to the board of directors for the Nashville Technology Council.

Diane R. Neighbors, director of Vanderbilt University and Hospital Child Care Centers, was elected chairperson of the Metro Social Services Commission during the June board meeting. Neighbors began the two-year term in July.

AWARDS

John Halperin, Centennial Professor of English, has been selected as a 2002 Outstanding Educator honoree of Peabody College. Halperin will be honored by a gift to Peabody's donor society, The Roundtable. The Roundtable includes Peabody alumni, friends and parents of students, all of whom contribute annually to support the College's essential work in teacher education, school reform, social policy and human development.

PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

Douglas P. Hardin, associate professor of mathematics, presented a talk titled "Orthogonal wavelet on irregular grids" at the International Conference of Computation Harmonic Analysis in Hong Kong June 2-9.

Janet R. Hirt, Alyne Queener Massey Law Library librarian and lecturer in law, delivered a four-hour Continuing Learning Education presentation titled "Utilizing Legal Resources on the Internet" to the Tennessee Juvenile & Family Court System Workshop held in Nashville at the Andrew Johnson Tower, June 21-22.

Ralph McKenzie, distinguished professor of mathematics, presented a plenary talk titled "How difficult is Tarski's finite equational basis problem?" at the Alfred Tarski Centenary Conference held in Warsaw, Poland, May 28-June 1.

Anthere Nzabatsinda, assistant professor of French, participated in three international conferences at which he delivered three papers. Nzabatsinda presented a paper titled "Representations du clerge indigene et missionnarie chez l'Abbe Alexis Kagame, poete du Rwanda" at Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland, June 14-16. He presented "Francophonie et postcolonialité faceaux littératures nationals" at the Colloquim on Globalization and plurality in the World of la Francophonie in Sorbonne, Paris, France, May 17-20. He presented "Guelwaar: du film au roman, langues en question chez Ousmane Sembene" at the Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones, Portland, Maine, May 26-June 3.

Glenn F. Webb, professor of mathematics, presented a talk titled "Semi-group Theory for Population Dynamics" at the European Society of Mathematical & Theoretical Biology in Siguenza, Spaixn, June 15-26.

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