Awards and Honors
Elizabeth Boyd, senior lecturer
of American and Southern studies, has been awarded a visiting
fellowship by Australian National University to take part in its 2006
research seminar on biography, memory and commemoration.
David E. Cliffel, assistant
professor of chemistry, received the 2005 Young Investigator Award at
the Pittsburg Conference held in Orlando, Fla. This award is presented
annually by the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry and is
sponsored by ESA, Inc.
Alison Piepmeier, lecturer in women’s studies, was recently recognized as one of Nashville’s “Top 40 Under 40” by The Tennessean.
Ned A. Porter, the Stevenson
Professor, Chair of the Chemistry Department and Associate Director of
VICB, is the 2004-05 winner of the Christopher Ingold Award from The
Royal Society of Chemistry. As the recipient of this award, Porter will
participate in the Christopher Ingold Lecture Tour in May, lecturing at
many universities throughout the United Kingdom, including the
University of Warwick, the University of Manchester, the University of
St. Andrews, the University of Bristol and University College London.
Papers and Presentations
Jimmy L. Davidson, professor of
electrical engineering and materials science and engineering, presented
“Direct Energy Conversion with Diamond Electron Emitters” to the
International Workshop on Accelerated Radical Innovation. The workshop,
attended by scholars and industrial innovation practitioners from
around the world, was held to generate ideas and articulate goals
leading to achievement of radically accelerated technological
innovation, breakthroughs and development.
Earl E. Fitz, professor of
Portuguese, Spanish and comparative literature, lectured at the Center
for Jewish History in New York City on “Clarice Lispector and the
Politics of Dislocation: Ways of Being Jewish in Brazil.”
Edward H. Friedman, professor
of Spanish and comparative literature, participated in a colloquium on
“400 Years of Reading Don Quixote” at Princeton University as part of
the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Part 1
of Cervantes’s Don Quixote. His talk was titled “Will Success Spoil Don
Quixote?” Friedman also delivered the annual presentation in the Modern
Languages and Literature Distinguished Lecture Series at Trinity
College in Hartford, Conn., on “Cervantes’s Homage to Cervantes,” and
spoke on “The Birth and Rebirth of Don Quixote” at Central Connecticut
State University in New Britain.
Larry Helfer, professor of law,
recently co-chaired the program committee for the 99th annual meeting
of the American Society of International Law in Washington, D.C. The
ASIL Annual Meeting is the leading conference for scholars and
practitioners of international law in the United States. The theme of
the meeting was “A New World Order or a World in Disorder? Testing the
Limits of International Law.”
John Sloop, associate professor of communications studies, and Jim Parker,
senior web project strategist,both presented at the Southern States
Communication Association Conference in Baton Rouge, La. Sloop’s paper
was titled “People Shopping,” and Parker spoke about “Virtual
Communities: New Directions for the 21st Century.”
Professional Activities
James H. Clarke, professor of
the practice of civil and environmental engineering, has been named a
Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. The AAFS is an
international organization that represents physicians, attorneys,
engineers, criminalists and others involved in applying science to
examine issues of interest to the legal system.
Kenneth F. Galloway, dean of
engineering and professor of electrical engineering and computer
science, served on the Engineering Deans’ Forum at the National Society
of Black Engineers national convention held in Boston. The forum was a
key part of the NSBE Graduate School Conference and was designed to
give prospective graduate students opportunities to prepare for
graduate school in engineering.
Publications
Stacy S. Klein, research assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and Robert D. Sherwood,
associate professor of education, co-wrote “Biomedical Engineering and
Your High School Science Classroom: Challenge-Based Curricula That
Meets the NSES Standards,” a chapter in the book, Exemplary Science in
Grades 9-12: Standards-Based Success Stories. The National Science
Teachers Association Press published the book, and the chapter’s
inclusion represents the Association’s selection of the Vanderbilt
Instruction in Biomedical Engineering for Secondary Science program as
one the 15 best practices in secondary science.
Posted 04/18/05
