Faculty Emeritus
2005-2006
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2004-2005
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2003-2004
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NOTEWORTHY FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2007-2008
PUBLICATIONS, EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES
Dr. Keith Aufderheide, Professor of Chemistry, publishedan article, "Trafficking in Civic Engagement," in the January, 2008, SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) E-newsletter. The article is available online at http://www.sencer.net/ Resources/pdfs/Newsletters/January2008.pdf.
Dr. Roarke Donnelly, Assistant Professor of Biology, serves as Associate Editor for Animal Conservation (2007-present).
Dr. Robert Hornback, Associate Professor of English, has published or will have forthcoming publications as follows: “Reassessing Gammer Gurton’s Needle: Reformation Satire, Scatology, and the Aesthetics of Iconoclasm,” The Blackwell Companion to Tudor Literature and Culture, 1485-1603, ed. Kent Cartwright (forthcoming, 2008); “Blackfaced Fools, Black-Headed Birds, Fool Synonyms, and Shakespearean Allusions to Renaissance Blackface Folly,” Notes & Queries (forthcoming, June 2008); Review, of David Ellis, Shakespeare’s Practical Jokes: An Introduction to the Comic in His Work (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2007), in Renaissance Quarterly (forthcoming, 2008); “‘Extravagant and Wheeling Strangers’: Early Blackface Dancing Fools, Racial Representation, and the Limits of Identification,” EXEMPLARIA 20.2 (Spring 2008); “The Reasons of Misrule Revisited: Evangelical Appropriations of Carnival in Tudor Revels,” Early Theatre 10.1 (Summer 2007): 35-65; “The Folly of Racism: Enslaving Blackface and the ‘Natural’ Fool Tradition,” Medieval andRenaissance Drama in England 20 (2007): 46-84; “Lost Conventions of Godly Comedy in Udall’s Thersites,” Studies in English Literature 47.2 (Spring 2007): 281-303.
Dr. Joseph Knippenberg, Professor of Politics, has published the following articles: “J.R.R. Tolkien and Bioethics,” The City I (Spring, 2008), 47 – 58; “Introduction to Deneen Symposium,” Perspectives on Political Science XXXVI (Fall, 2007), 197; “Deneen on Faith, Reason, and Humility,” Perspectives on Political Science XXXVI (Fall, 2007), 204 – 206; Review of Lew Daly, God and the Welfare State, Journal of Markets and Morality X (Spring, 2007), 173 – 176; “The Personal Is (Not?) the Political: George W. Bush’s Mission and America’s,” in John von Heyking and Ron Weed, eds., Civil Religion Then and Now: The Philosophical Legacy of Civil Religion and its Enduring Relevance in North America (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming);“Ancient Historians and Modern History: Herodotus and Thucydides on Patriotism,” in J. Scott Lee, ed., The Place of Core Texts (Association for Core Texts and Courses, forthcoming.); “Barack Obama’s Perfect Union,” www.ashbrook.org (March 20, 2008); “Homeschoolers and the Law in the Golden State,” www.firstthings.com (March 19, 2008); “Barack Obama and the Tyranny of the Majority,” www.ashbrook.org (February 18, 2008); “Barack Obama: A Faithful Democrat,” www.ashbrook.org (February 4, 2008); “Huck Must Wait until Wednesday to Make Hay in South,” Marietta Daily Journal (January25, 2008); “Faith (and Faithlessness?) in America,” www.ashbrook.org (December 7, 2007); “The Speech Romney Ought to Give,” www.ashbrook.org (December 4, 2007); “It Takes a Nation to Raise a Citizen,” Marietta Daily Journal (November 15, 2007). “Leisure, Busyness, and the Aims of Liberal Education,” www.ashbrook.org (November 14, 2007); “Civic Literacy in America,” www.ashbrook.org (September 25, 2007); “Sweet Land of What?,” The American Spectator Online (September 19, 2007); “Rip van Knippenberg on the New Europe,” www.ashbrook.org (August 29, 2007); “Poll Ppoints to Rosy Future for Ga. School Choice,” Marietta Daily Journal, April 12, 2007.
Dr. Dimitri Liebsch, Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities, co-edited Visual Culture Revisited: German and American Perspectives on Visual Cultures. Herbert von Halem Verlag, Koeln 2007. He wrote “Pictorial Turn and Visual Culture,” in: Visual Culture Revisited…12-26; “Zum Verhaeltnis von Philosophie und Film,” in: Philosophie des Films [Philosophische Diskurse. Vol. 8], ed. Birgit Leitner, Lorenz Engell. Verlag der Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar, Weimar 2007, 34-53; “Im Bermudadreieck von Paris, Weimar und Tuebingen: Forsters verschollene Bildungstheorie,” in: Georg-Forster-Studien 12 (2007) 281-303, “Rhetoric of Seeing: Considering the Relationship Between Spectator and Object,” in: Seeing Perception, ed. Silke Horstkotte, Karin Leonhard. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2007, 24-39; and a review of Ursula Franke, Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert, eds., Kulturpolitik und Kunstgeschichte: Perspe.
Mr. Alan Loehle, Associate Professor of Art, exhibited his work in the International Exhibitions Year 2007, sponsored by Keith Talent Gallery in London, England (2007), and Flow, sponsored by Marcia Wood Gallery in Miami Florida. (2007). Museum exhibitions include the Mobile Museum of Art’s The Howard and Judith Tullman Collection; and The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia’s Drawn in Georgia (2007). His work was also selected for inclusion in the online Artist’s Registry at the Drawing Center in New York City.
Dr. Jeanne McCarthy, Assistant Professor of Freshman Core, published or has forthcoming publications as follows: “‘The Sanctuarie is become a plaiers stage’: Chapel Stagings and Tudor ‘Secular’ Drama,” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England (forthcoming, Winter 2008); Review, Resurrecting Elizabeth I in Seventeenth-Century England, Elizabeth H. Hageman and Katherine Conway, eds. (Cranbury, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007) in Sixteenth Century Journal (forthcoming, 2008); “Drama ‘in the Kynges absens’: Revisiting Pageantry, Playing, and Patronage in the Court of Henry VIII,” English Literary Renaissance (forthcoming 2008).
Dr. Douglas McFarland, Professor of English, has published the following articles:
“Translating Daisy Miller,” in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 146-160; “Philosophies of Comedy in O Brother Where Art Thou?” in Philosophy and the Coen Brothers (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2008); “No Country for Old Men and Moral Philosophy,” in Philosophy and the Coen Brothers (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2008); “The Case of the Sardonic Psychopath,” Hitchcock at the Source (SUNY University Press, 2008).
Dr. Viviana Plotnik, Associate Professor of Spanish, published the article, “State Terrorism and Memory: Children of Victims in Recent Argentine Fiction” (in Spanish, “Terrorismo de Estado y memoria transgeneracional: hijos de víctimas en la ficción argentina reciente.” Hispamérica. Year XXXVI. Number 107. August 2007: 111-116, and the book review, “Corbatta, Jorgelina. Juan José Saer: Arte poética y práctica literaria.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 41.3 (2007): 466-68.
Dr. W. Irwin Ray, Jr., Director of Musical Activities, was appointed a member of the planning committee for the finale concert session of the American Choral Directors Association divisional conference in Louisville, KY by the Association’s Executive Director. Subsequently he was chosen by peer members of the Association as a guest conductor for the event which entailed conducting two music graduate school choirs and a chorus of approximately 300 choral conductors. Additionally, Dr. Ray will also be a guest conductor of the Georgia Philharmonic this spring.
Ms. Anne Salter, Director, Philip Weltner Library, published the following articles:
History of Oglethorpe University. Anne Salter and Laura Masce. Arcadia Press, 2007; and,
“Are We Becoming an Aliterate Society? The Demand for Recreational Reading Among Undergraduates at Two Universities. “ Anne Salter and Judith Brook. College and Undergraduate Libraries. Vol. 14 (3) 2007. Ms. Salter also contributed study research information on reading to the Scottish Centre for the Book, Napier University, Edinburgh; contributed research information on reading to the European Union study on book usage and, contributed research information on reading to Newcomb Archives and Vorholl Library, Newcomb College, Tulane.
Dr. Daniel Schadler, Professor of Biology, is Associate Editor of The Chrysanthemum, the Journal of the National Chrysanthemum Society.
Dr. W. Bradford Smith, Professor of History, published Reformation and the Territorial State in Upper Franconia, 1300-1630 (Rochester, NY: University of RochesterPress, 2008). His book reviews (both for Sixteenth Century Journal) are as follows: Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany. Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to his Time. Gerhild Scholz Williams. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006; Communal Christianity: The Life and Loss of a Peasant Vision in Early Modern Germany. David Mayes. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
Dr. Brad Lowell Stone, Professor of Sociology, has written two articles: “The Evolution of Culture and Sociology,” in The American Sociologist (March 2008), 39, 68-85, and “The Most Unique of all Unique Species,” in Society (April 2008), 45, 146-151.
Dr. Miriam Strube, Visiting Assistant Professor of German, published the following article: “Flippin da script: Supa Sistas und Rap Musik,” in HipHop Meets Academia: Globale Spuren eines lokalen Kulturphänomens. Ed. Karin Bock, Stefan Meier and Gunter Süß. Bielefeld: Transcript 2007: 139-156, and wrote a book review on T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting’s Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women. New York and London: New York University Press, 2007, in Particip@tions: International Journal of Audience Research, Vol. 4, Issue 2 (November 2007; manuscript accepted for book publication: Subjekte des Begehrens: Zur sexuellen Selbstbestimmung der Frau in Literatur, Musik und visueller Kultur. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2008; four articles accepted for publication: “When you get to the fork, take it: From Edgar G. Ulmer’s Yiddish Cinema to Woody Allen,“ in Detour to Poverty Row: The Films of Edgar G. Ulmer. Ed. Bernd Herzogenrath. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008; “Relationale Autonomie und Weibliches Begehren,” in Lust? Darstellung von Sexualität in der Gegenwartskunst von Frauen. Ed. Bettina Bannasch and Stephanie Waldow. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2008; “Of Baggy Monsters and Beautiful Women: Homonormativity and The L Word,” in Out of Place: Interrogating Queerness and Raciality. Ed. Adi Kunstman and Esperanza Miyake. York: Raw Nerve Books, 2008; “Sexing Up Sounds: Women’s Empowerment Through Music,” in Sounding Out. Ed. Martin Shingler and Ulrike Sieglohr. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.
Dr. Linda J. Taylor, Professor of English, published the following poems this year: “New Years Day,” Coal City Review, 24:2007; “Cave, Art, Words,” The Georgia Review, Volume LXI, Number 2 (Summer 2007), 399-400; “Zen Calligraphy,” and “Process: The Tao,” Tar River Poetry, 47, Number 1 (Fall 2007), 10, 11; “Berry Vines: Dear Louise,” Cimarron Review, forth-coming.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
Dr. John Carton, Associate Professor of Psychology,and senior psychology major Jessica Graner presented a paper titled "Perceptions of the mentally ill with affective disorders and schizophrenia" at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association in Charlotte, NC.
Dr. Lynn Gieger, Assistant Professor of Education, presented “A Model of Academic Choice for Mathematically Talented College Women” at the Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), San Diego, CA.
Dr. Robert Hornback, Associate Professor of English, presented or will present at the following conferences: Putting Terence ‘in the Mire’: Tudor Evangelicals’ Anti-Terentian Comedy,” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Session Sponsor: Medieval & Renaissance Drama Society, (upcoming) May 10, 2008. Kalamazoo, MI; “‘By the mass ... —ich must beray the hall!’: Performing Scatological Iconoclasm in Tudor Evangelical Comedy,” Fourth Blackfriars Conference, The American Shakespeare Center, Oct. 26, 2007. Staunton, VA.;
“Terence ‘in the Mire’: Iconoclasm in Tudor Roman Comedy,” Scholarly Sustenance Series,
Huntington Library, July 12, 2007. San Marino, CA; “Down ... on thy knees I say!”: Performing Edwardian Iconoclasm, Scatology, and Mock-Ritual in Gammer Gurton’s Needle,” 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Session Sponsor: Comparative Drama, May 11, 2007. Kalamazoo, MI; “Terence ‘in the Briers’: Nicholas Udall’s ‘Romish’ School Drama,” Renaissance Society of America, Mar. 23, 2007. Miami, FL.
Dr. Joseph Knippenberg, Professor of Politics, has presented at the following conferences:
Comments on Deneen, “Virtue, Technology, and Wendell Berry,” Conference on “The Science of Politics and the Politics of Science,” Berry College, March 26, 2008; Paper, “Tolkien and Bioethics,” Conference on Politics, Philosophy, and Contemporary Culture,” Mercer University, Macon, GA, November 28, 2007.
Dr. Dimitri Liebsch, Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities, presented “Truffaut’s ‘Paradoxon’: From A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema to Jules and Jim” at the Second Annual Meeting of the Association of Literature on Screen Studies, Atlanta, GA, September 20-22, 2007.
Dr. Jay Lutz, Professor of French, presented papers at the following conferences: “On Translating Lars Forssell’s ‘Nijinsky Suite,’” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, March 15-16, 2008; “Caricaturing the 1888 Duel of Boulanger and Floquet and Its Aftermath,” Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, University of South Alabama, October 18-20, 2007; “Bonniers Series of Young Writers in 1969: Ronnie Busk, Olof Moberg and Victor Herbert Tyus,” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, April 26-28, 2007; “Teaching Lyric Poetry in the Core,” Association for Core Texts and Courses, Williamsburg, VA, March 29-April 1, 2007; “Language and Culture Learning at the Museum,” Southern Conference on Language Teaching, Atlanta, GA, March 1-3, 2007 (with Lloyd Nick and Stephen Germany).
Dr. Jeanne McCarthy, Assistant Professor of Freshman Core, has presented or will be presenting at the following conferences: “‘Wilt thou hear now of his schools?’:John Skelton's Magnyfycence, Educative Drama, and Alternate Playing Traditions,” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Session Sponsor: Medieval & Renaissance Drama Society, May 10, 2008. Kalamazoo, MI; “Skelton’s Magnificence and the Monastic Playing Tradition: Implications for Early Modern Staging Practices,” Fourth Blackfriars Conference, The American Shakespeare Center, Oct. 26, 2007. Staunton, VA; “Epicenter, Liminal, or in-Between: Writing Centers and the Campus Disciplinary Map,” International Writing Centers Association, Apr. 13, 2007. Houston, TX; “Magnyfycence and Henrician School Boy Drama,” Renaissance Society of America, Mar. 23, 2007. Miami, FL
Dr. Douglas McFarland, Professor of English, presented and participated in the following conferences: “Hitchcock Does Highsmith,” Literature on Screen Conference, Oglethorpe University, Sept. 2007; Conference Organizer: Literature on Screen, Oglethorpe University, Sept. 2007.
Dr. Viviana Plotnik, Associate Professor Spanish, was organizer and chair of a panel titled “Urban Imaginary and Social Relations: Buenos Aires in Recent Cultural Production.” Latin American Studies Association, XXVII International Congress. Montreal, September 5-8, 2007.
Dr. Plotnik read her papers, “Urban and Suburban Itineraries: Public Space and Community in Post-2001 Argentine Novels” (in Spanish) at the Latin American Studies Association, XXVII International Congress in Montreal, September 5-8, 2007, and “Dictatorship and Memory” (in Spanish) at the XXVIII Conference of Spanish and Latin American Literature in Context: Framing the Past. Fiction, Film and Memory at Montclair State University, NJ, April 20, 2007. Previously, Dr. Plotnik presented her paper, “The Death of General Peron in Fiction: Class Displacement and Variations to the Invasion Motif” (in Spanish) at the International Conference on Peronism: Cultural Policies (1946-2006). Institute Octubre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 3-5, 2006.
Dr. W. Irwin Ray, Jr., Director of Musical Activities, has been appointed a member of the compilation and editing committee for a book: “A Festschrift in Honor of Donald Paul Hustad on the Occasion of his Ninetieth Year as Scholar, Author, Conductor, Organist, Hymnist, and Educator.”
Ms. Anne Salter, Director, Philip Weltner Library, presented “Are We Becoming an Alierate Society?” at Beyond the Book: Contemporary Cultures of Reading. Conference 31 August-2 September, 2007, University of Birmingham, England; and she contributed book reviews for CHOICE – 3 for 2007-2008.
Dr. W. Bradford Smith, Professor of History, presented “From Thomas Müntzer to Christian Rosenkreutz: Sedition, Heresy and the Occult in Counter-Reformation Historiography,” at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 26, 2007. Dr. Smith was chair and presented comments on “Ritual, Identity, and Liturgy in the European Reformation,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 27, 2007.
Dr. Victoria Weiss, Professor of English, will be presenting "A Tale of Two Diplomats: Chaucer and Ibn Khaldun at the Court of Pedro 'the Cruel' of Castile in the 1360's," in the session, "Chaucer and the Crusades," at theXVI International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Swansea, Wales, July 18-21, 2008.
COMMUNITY SERVICE AND OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Dr. Keith Aufderheide, Professor of Chemistry, has accepted an invitation to join the Leadership Council of the SENCER Center of Innovation - South, housedat the University of North Carolina at Asheville. SENCER is an acronym for Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities. Dr. Aufderheide has been appointed toCASA (the Consortium for the Assessment of Student Achievement), a new initiative of the National Science Foundation and SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities). CASA is comprised of a small cohort of 50 cooperating faculty who are committed to improving student success, particularly in science. Dr. Aufderheide and his colleagues Dr. Lynn Gieger, Assistant Professor of Education, Dr. John Nardo, Associate Professor of Mathematics, and Dr. Michael Rulison, Professor of Physics, attended the 2007 SENCER Summer Institute in Portland, ME, August 3-6. Afterward, the group applied for and received a post-institute implementation award to 1) help defray costs associated with the conference “Conversations on Engagement (Civic and Otherwise)” held in Macon, GA in April 2008 and 2) help develop a new course that will increase the engagement of science and mathematics students by teaching basic science in the context of an issue of public policy or concern.
Dr. John Carton, Associate Professor of Psychology, was nominated for, and admitted to, the Georgia Psychological Association Board of Ethics.
Dr. Roarke Donnelly, Assistant Professor of Biology, was awarded the following grants: Field Research Grant, Turner Enterprises Inc. (2008); Field Research Grant, Georgia Ornithological Society (2007-2008).
Dr. Lynn Gieger, Assistant Professor of Education, and her colleagues, Dr. Keith Aufderheide, Professor of Chemistry, Dr. John Nardo, Associate Professor of Mathematics, and Dr. Michael Rulison, Professor of Physics, attended the 2007 SENCER (Science Educationfor New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) Summer Institute in Portland, ME, August 3-6. Afterward, the group applied for and received a post-institute implementation award to 1) help defray costs associated with the conference “Conversations on Engagement (Civic and Otherwise)” held in Macon, GA in April 2008 and 2) help develop a new course that will increase the engagement of science and mathematics students by teaching basic science in the context of an issue of public policy or concern.
Dr. Robert Hornback, Associate Professor of English, has achievements that include:
Alternate, Folger Shakespeare Library Long-term Fellowship, Washington, D.C., 2007-09;
Francis Bacon Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 2007-08;
Folger Shakespeare Library Short-term Fellowship, Washington, D.C., 2007-08;
Author, Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Grant, $10,000, supporting “Shakespeare in
Performance, in Context, and in England,” Oglethorpe University, London and Oxford (upcoming) Summer 2008; Lecture, “Lost Comic Traditions in Shakespeare,” English-Speaking Union, St. Phillip’s Cathedral, Mar. 11, 2008. Atlanta, GA; Directed staged scene-readings from Gammer Gurton’s Needle and Thersites, Fourth Blackfriars Conference, The American Shakespeare Center, Oct. 26, 2007. Staunton, VA; Recipient, Summer Research Grant, Oglethorpe University, June-August 2007; Member, Renaissance Society of America, 2007-08; and, Member, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society, 2007-08.
Dr. Joseph Knippenberg, Professor of Politics, has participated in the following activities: Conference organizer, “The Future of Liberalism and Conservatism,” Oglethorpe University, February 6th, 2008; Lecture, “Tocquevillian Reflections on Teaching Civic Engagement,” Table Topics, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA, November 9, 2007; Member, On-Site Evaluation Team, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, King College, Bristol, TN, February 18–21, 2008; Member, Council of Scholars, American Academy for Liberal Education (2007- ); and, Member, American Academy for Liberal Education Evaluation Team, Accreditation of Holy Spirit College, Atlanta, Georgia, April 22 – 24, 2007.
Mr. Alan Loehle, Associate Professor of Art, was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for Painting in 2007.
Dr. Jeanne McCarthy, Assistant Professor of Freshman Core, has participated or currently is participating in the following activities: Recipient, Summer Research Grant, Oglethorpe University, Summer 2007; Recipient, Faculty Development Grant, Oglethorpe University, Spring 2007, Fall 2008; Member, Renaissance Society of America, 2007-08; and, Member, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society, 2007-08.
Dr. John Nardo, Associate Professor of Mathematics, and his colleagues, Dr. Keith Aufderheide, Professor of Chemistry, Dr. Lynn Gieger, Assistant Professor of Education, and Dr. Michael Rulison, Professor of Physics, attended the 2007 SENCER (Science Educationfor New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) Summer Institute in Portland, ME, August 3-6. Afterward, the group applied for and received a post-institute implementation award to 1) help defray costs associated with the conference “Conversations on Engagement (Civic and Otherwise)” held in Macon, GA in April 2008 and 2) help develop a new course that will increase the engagement of science and mathematics students by teaching basic science in the context of an issue of public policy or concern.
Dr. W. Irwin Ray, Jr., Director of Musical Activities, is the Director of “Jubilate,” a symposium on Music and Worship for Metro-Atlanta churches to be held in May. He continues as co-founder and co-producer of “Music on the Hill” chamber music series—a
community-based chamber music organization designed to support and presentyoung Atlanta chamber musicians in performance. He also serves as a member of the Music and Worship Committee, Northside Drive Baptist Church, and serves as the church’s professional advisor to their Music Search Committee.
Dr. Michael Rulison, Professor of Physics, reviewed PhysicsPortal to accompany the sixth edition of the Tipler/Mosca text Physics for Scientists & Engineers. This is simulation software used by students to improve their physical reasoning in connection with introductory physics.
As a Senior Reviewer for the Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC) and the Center for Educational Policy Research at the University of Oregon, Dr. Rulison completely revised the evaluation criteria for the ongoing AP Physics course audit process conducted by the College Board. Dr. Rulison participated for a twenty-fifth year in the College Board’s AP Physics Reading as a Table Leader. He has worked with the College Board's AP and GRE physics programs since 1983 as a Reader, Table Leader, and Chief Faculty Consultant, as well as a member of the Test Development Committee and a AP workshop and Summer Institute consultant. Dr. Rulison has been selected to serve as a Specialist for the Texas College Readiness Project. This project will develop standards, instruments, and comparability studies to determine the science and math readiness of Texas students for college work. Dr. Rulison, along with his colleagues, Dr. Keith Aufderheide, Professor of Chemistry, Dr. Lynn Gieger, Assistant Professor of Education, and Dr. John Nardo, Associate Professor of Mathematics, attended the 2007 SENCER (Science Educationfor New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) Summer Institute in Portland, ME, August 3-6. Afterward, the group applied for and received a post-institute implementation award to 1) help defray costs associated with the conference “Conversations on Engagement (Civic and Otherwise)” held in Macon, GA in April 2008 and 2) help develop a new course that will increase the engagement of science and mathematics students by teaching basic science in the context of an issue of public policy or concern.
Ms. Anne Salter, Director, Philip Weltner Library, designed and implemented new faculty research web page and faculty reach services for Oglethorpe University faculty. Other activities are as follows: Elizabeth Goudge Society – provided research for article on Forward Article by Dee Gaudin, Great Britain; membership in AMPALS, GPLS, GFIC (Librarians Council); ARCHE - Librarian’s Council; designed and taught 18 Fresh Focus Library Orientation and Database Searching classes 2007; implemented one day staff-development workshop for Library Staff, led by Cal Shephard of SOLINET, January 2008; organized faculty workshop on database searching of Wilson products lead by Leonard DiSanto, 2008; created Staff Development booklet for library assistants, 2008. Ms. Salter also participated in the SOLINET Workshop “The Place of the Library on Campus, lead by David Greenbaum, November 13, 2007, Atlanta, GA; the DeKalb County Public Library and Oglethorpe University Library liaison planning, 2007; and the GPLS (Georgia Public Libraries) Strategic Planning Committee 2007-08. She is a member of the Southeastern Library Association 2003-present and the Georgia Library Association 2003- present. Also, Ms. Salter received a faculty research grant to attend a conference in England and present a paper at the “Beyond the Book,” in September, 2007.
Dr. Daniel Schadler, Professor of Biology, served as a judge for the Horticulture Division of the North Carolina Chrysanthemum Society 30th Annual Show on October 27-28, 2007, at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville. Dr. Schadler is an Accredited Chrysanthemum Judge with credentials from the National Chrysanthemum Society.
Dr. W. Bradford Smith, Professor of History, participates in the Society for Reformation Research and is corresponding secretary and executive board member. Dr. Smith is manuscript reviewer for the Sixteenth Century Journal and the University of Rochester Press, and is a reviewer of applications for the Miriam Chrisman Usher Graduate Fellowship. Dr. Smith is a volunteer for the Atlanta Colts Youth Football Association and Murphey Candler Little League.
Ms. Ginger Williams, Lecturer in Education and Director of Field Experiences, is serving as President of the GA Field Directors, 2008-2010.
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