Kerri Cushman, Associate Professor of Art, received a faculty research grant to study copperplate etching and letterpress printing at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. An edition of five books was produced in the summer of 2011 under the instruction of Bill Hall, master printer at Pace Prints in NYC, and Amy Pirkle […]
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Associate Professor of Mathematics M. Leigh Lunsford presented “Bayesian Inference Using Data from a Real Galton Board” with Dr. Marcus Pendergrass (associate professor of mathematics at Hampden-Sydney College). This was a peer-reviewed contributed poster at the United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, May 19-21, 2011.
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Robert Marmorstein, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, was published in a refereed conference proceedings over the summer. His contribution, “Open Source Contribution As An Effective Software Engineering Class Project,” was published in the Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Comptuer Science, June 27-29 2011, pp. 268–272.
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Associate Professor Edward Kinman presented a paper at the National Conference of Geographic Education Annual Meeting in Portland, OR on August 4, 2011. Entitled, “Exploring Public Issues: A Geo-Literacy Approach,” the presentation discussed how the Exploring Public Issue through Writing course (GNED 495) promotes geo-literacy by engaging students in the analysis of contentious public issues.
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Dr. Keith Rider has been accepted for participation in the Research Associateship Program sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. As part of the program, he will work on a research project at the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop metallic explosive additives. Compared to nuclear explosives, conventional explosives have a relatively low energy density and […]
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Professor of Art, Christopher M. Register, completed his series of relief engravings: Scoundrels: 25 portraits of the Human Contradiction. In October the entire series was previewed in a one-man show at the JFergeson Gallery in Farmville Virginia. In December, five of the portraits were selected for publication in issue #84 of the River Styx. “River Styx, […]
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Lunsford, M. L. and Poplin, P., “From Research to Practice: Basic Mathematics Skills and Success in Introductory Statistics,” Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 19, Number 1 (2011), www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v19n1/lunsford.pdf
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First-year faculty member Casie Legette has won the University of Michigan’s Proquest Distinguished Dissertation award — $1,000 prize and trip to campus for a dinner and reception.
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