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11/11/02
Appointments
Mark A. Cohen,
professor of management and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental
Management Studies, was appointed to the International Board of the “Ius
Et Lex” Foundation and magazine in Warsaw. The purpose of the foundation
and its magazine is to broadly promote the latest academic research and
thinking on the appropriate application of law in democratic societies,
with particular emphasis on the role of law in Poland. Cohen recently
chaired a session and presented two papers at the Penal Responsibility
in Liberal Democratic Systems Conference Sept. 27-29 at Warsaw University.
The papers were titled “An Economic Approach to Crime: Balancing
the Costs and Benefits” and “Corporate Criminal Liability
and Punishment: An Economic Approach.”
Alex Hurder, clinical professor of law, was appointed
co-chair of the Committee on Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the
American Bar Association Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities
for 2002-03.
Papers
and Presentations
Craig Anne
Heflinger, associate professor of human and organizational development,
was invited to present at a national conference of state Medicaid and
mental health directors and mental health advocates at the Medicaid and
Mental Health Services Conference, Baltimore, Md., Sept. 17. The presentation
was titled “What Do We Know About the Impact of Managed Medicaid
Care on Behavioral Health Services for Children and Adolescents?”
Oct. 9, Heflinger presented a paper co-authored with human and organizational
development research associate Robert Saunders at the
European Evaluation Society’s Annual Meeting in Seville, Spain,
“Integrating data from multiple existing sources to evaluate publicly-funded
substance abuse services for adolescents.”
Barry D. Lichter, professor of mechanical engineering,
materials science and management of technology, emeritus, presented an
invited paper, “The Role of Texture in Stress-Corrosion Cracking
of Metal and Alloys,” at the 13th International Conference on Texture
of Materials, held in Seoul, Korea, Sept. 26-29. The paper was co-authored
with William Flanagan, professor of mechanical engineering
and materials science, emeritus, and Dong Nyung Lee,
professor of materials science and engineering at Seoul National University.
Lee received his doctorate in materials science at Vanderbilt in 1971.
The paper has been included in the published proceedings as Materials
Science Forum, Vols. 408-412 (2002), pp. 991-998, Trans Tech Publications,
Switzerland. Lichter, Flanagan, and H. Lu, post-doctoral participant,
Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, co-authored a paper,
“Strain-Enhanced Dissolution: A Model for Transgranular Stress-Corrosion
Cracking.” The paper was included in the proceedings of ESCCD 2001,
a conference held in Hiroshima Japan, Oct. 29–Nov. 2, 2001, and
published as Proceedings, Second International Conference on Environment
Sensitive Cracking and Corrosion Damage (2001), pp. 271- 278, Nishiki
Printing Ltd., Hiroshima, Japan.
Ronald D. Schrimpf, professor of electrical engineering,
presented an invited talk, and Kenneth Galloway, dean
of the School of Engineering, chaired a session of the RADECS Workshop
on Radiation Effects on Components and Systems, held Sept. 19-20 in Padua,
Italy. Schrimpf’s talk concerned “Radiation-induced degradation
of bipolar transistors and linear integrated circuits,” and Galloway’s
session covered basic mechanisms of radiation effects. Schrimpf and Galloway
also presented a paper on “The energy dependence of proton-induced
degradation in AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors.”
Thomas Schwartz, associate professor of history, delivered
the paper, "Lyndon Johnson, West Germany, and the American Push Toward
Detente, 1964-1968," at the international conference "NATO,
the Warsaw Pact, and the Rise of Detente." It was sponsored by the
Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies at the Cultural Center, Dobbiaco,
Italy, Sept. 26-28. His new book, Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the
Shadow of Vietnam, will be published by Harvard University Press
in February 2003.
Professional
Activities
Susan DeMay, senior lecturer in art and art history,
recently had her ceramic platters on display at the Messages from the
Heart exhibit at the Madison Arts Center. She was also featured artist
in the “Off the Beaten Path” studio tour in Dekalb and Cannon
counties Oct. 26-27.
Marilyn Murphy, professor of art, had her work chosen
for the 106th Annual Exhibition, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe National Arts
Club in New York City. The exhibition ran until Oct. 25. A hand-colored
etching and a relief print will be in the exhibit What's My Line?
which accompanies the exhibition, James McNeill Whistler: Prosaic
Views, Poetic Vision running until Jan. 5, 2003 at the Frist Center
for the Visual Arts. Her work, “Box of Hot Ideas,” has been
acquired by the Huntsville Museum of Art for its permanent collection.
Richard Alan Peters II, associate professor of electrical
engineering, served on the Special Panel Session on Humanoid Robots in
May during the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in
Washington, D.C. He worked this summer as a faculty fellow at NASA Johnson
Space Center in Houston on the Robonaut project, which uses a short-term
memory structure that he devised. In June, he gave a NASA seminar presentation
“Bootstrapping Intelligent Behavior: The Development of Natural
Intelligence by an Electro-Mechanical Agent.” |
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