Faculty & Staff Notes

FACULTY & STAFF NOTES

AWARDS

Michael J. Schoenfeld, vice chancellor for public affairs, was elected chairman of Nashville Public Radio.

PAPERS &

PRESENTATIONS

Barz

Gregory Barz, assistant professor of musicology (ethnomusicology),was the keynote speaker at a conferenceof the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. He also presented his research at a conference sponsored by the U.S. Secretariat of the International Centre for African Music and Dance at the University of Michigan. He traveled to West Africa this summer for field research and to purchase instruments for the new African Performing Ensemble offered by the Blair School of Music.

Franz Baudenbacher, research assistant professor of living state physics, presented an invited talk titled "The Role of Tissue Anisotropy in the Generation of the MagentoCardioGram" at the Herman-von-Helmholtz-Symposium on "New Frontiers and Opportunities in Biomagnetism" that was held at the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt in Berlin Aug. 21, 2000. The presentation is available via the Web at www.vanderbilt.edu/lsp/baudenbacher.htm.

Raymond A. Friedman, associate professor of management (human resources/organization studies) and associate editor of the International Journal of Conflict Management, will have his article "What Goes Around Comes Around: The Effects of Conflict Style on Work Environment and Stress" published in the journal. Friedman has also been invited to speak to the Equal Employment Advisory Council about religious employee network groups.

Amar Gande, assistant professor of management (finance), presented a paper he co-authored, "The Role of Incentives in the Prevention of Financial Crises in Emerging Economies," at the sixth biennial Symposium on Crisis Events in Financial Intermediation and Securities Markets at Indiana University. Gande presented "Raising Capital with Ownership Restrictions: The Case of Resurgent India Bonds" at the sixth annual International Finance Conference in Atlanta.

Luigi Monga, professor of French and Italian, presented two papers at professional meetings in France this summer. He presented "Aurelio Scetti, galérien de la flotte toscance Lépante: une autobiographie (1566-1577)," at the 13th International Meeting of the Centre de Recherche sur la Littérature des Voyages, in the Chateau de la Napoule, Mandelieu, France held May 27, 2000. Monga also presented "Hypnerotodoeporicon Poliphili: Voyage onirique et voyage initiatique dans le Songe de Poliphile," at a meeting organized by the Bibliothéque Municipale in Auxerre, France June 17, 2000.

Clifford S. Russell, director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, professor of economics and professor of public policy, will present "Monitoring Considerations and the Choice of Environmental Policy Instruments" at a quadrennial conference titled "Monitoring Tailor Made, III: An International Workshop on Information for Sustainable Water Management" to be held in the Netherlands at Nunspeet Sept. 25-28, 2000.

von Raffler-Engel

Walburga von Raffler-Engel, professor of linguistics, emerita, and senior research associate at VIPPS, recently had an article titled "Personality formation during the pre-natal stage" published in Becoming Loquens: MoreStudies in Language Origins, edited by Bernard H. Bichakjian, et al. The book is first in a series from Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics

In June, the Office of Special Education Projects at Peabody College held a Leadership Project Directors' Conference in Washington, D.C. Vanderbilt participants included Georgine M. Pion, research associate professor of psychology and human development; Deborah Smith, research professor of special education and director of the Alliance Project; and Naomi C. Tyler, research assistant professor of special education. Together, they presented "Integration of Two Studies: Leadership Supply and Demand and Conditions in Special Education." Pion and Smith were two of three people to present "The Implications of a Supply and Demand Imbalance on the Special Education Professoriate," and Tyler presented "Effective Doctoral Recruitment Strategies: Targeting Specific Populations," with two other presenters.

A Research Project Directors' Conference, chaired by Douglas Fuchs, professor of special education and co-director of the Research Program on Learning Accommodations for Individuals with Special Needs, followed the leadership conference, and Craig H. Kennedy, associate professor of special education, conducted a session on "Functional Assessment."

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