Longwood Biology students study Rainwater Harvest Project at farm in Prospect, VA

Posted on September 21, 2011 by David Buckalew

Rainwater harvesting is a clean, low-energy source of water that can reduce demands of groundwater wells and water treatment plants for a wide variety of applications.  The Center for Watershed Protection (CWP) (Ellicott City, MD) and Rainwater Management Solutions (RMS) (Charlottesville, VA) teamed together to develop a project that illustrates how such water can be used in an agricultural setting in Virginia.  The site chosen, a broiler chicken farm in Prospect VA, led CWP personnel to Longwood’s Dept of Biological and Environmental Sciences where Dr. David Buckalew and his students have monitored streams in the Appomattox River watershed for coliform bacteria and E. coli for most of the last 12 years.  CWP contracted Dr. Buckalew to collect and process bacterial samples from several points within the large 22,000 gallon cistern system that RMS designed and installed at the farm site.  The Longwood team will also determine pH and water turbidity as well as assist in collecting water samples for laboratory tests of other parameters such as nutrients and metals.

 

 

Longwood Biology students Sarah Lucento and Timothy Smith sample for nutrient elements and bacteria from large cistern tank at rainwater harvesting site at Goins Farm in Prospect, VA. 

 

 

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McRae Amoss

Posted on September 19, 2011 by McRae Amoss

McRae Amoss, Professor of French, published an article in the Spring-Summer 2011 issue of Nineteenth-Century French Studies.  “La Question sociale et la recherche de soi dans Lucien Leuwen de Stendhal” shows how the incipient labor movement and the claims of the working class become an aspect of society against which the sensitive individual in search of his social identity must define others as well as himself in Stendhal’s posthumously-published novel of July Monarchy France.  Next month Mc will deliver a paper on “Marriage and Social Reform in Sand’s Le Compagnon du Tour de France and Balzac’s Les Paysans” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium in Philadelphia.  Research for both studies was made possible by a 2004-05 sabbatical leave.

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Jennifer Capaldo

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Jennifer Capaldo

Jennifer Capaldo, Assistant Professor of Music, has written an article which has been accepted for publication in the Fall 2011 edition of the Journal for the International Association of Women in Music (Volume 16, No. 2). “Tracking the Herstory cycles of Elizabeth Vercoe” focuses on four dramatic song cycles by the New England composer Vercoe and introduces privileged information that a fifth such-named cycle is in-progress. Jennifer has developed a professional and personal relationship with Vercoe, who has also written a cycle of humorous songs for Capaldo to perform, entitled True Remarkable Occurrences.

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Kerri Cushman

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Kerri

  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 of Perkolator Press. The artist book Balanced, was the result of combining handmade paper and traditional etching with letterpress printing in a contemporary, non-adhesive book structure.

Balanced was also featured in the exhibition, BookOpolis, at the Asheville Bookworks Gallery in North Carolina, September 23-24, 2011.

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M. Leigh Lunsford and Marcus Pendergrass

Posted on September 15, 2011 by David Shoenthal

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

Posted on September 15, 2011 by David Shoenthal

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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Ed Kinman

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Edward Kinman

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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Keith Rider

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Joanna Baker

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 there have been few improvements in conventional explosives since the invention of TNT in the nineteenth century.  Many metals can release large amounts of heat as they oxidize, which makes them an attractive, energy dense additive for conventional explosives, but there are two critical technological problems that must be overcome before metallic additives can be widely used.  First, metal particles usually oxidize spontaneously by reaction with air.  If a significant fraction of each particle is oxidized, then the amount of energy that is released during the explosion is reduced.  Second, metal oxidation reactions are significantly slower than the decomposition reactions that drive conventional explosives.  For metals to react quickly enough to be useful, the particles must be extremely small so that the oxidation reaction can take place simultaneously for most of the material in the particles.  Researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate are developing a method for producing nanometer-sized metal particles that may be able to address both problems.

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Christopher M. Register

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Joanna Baker

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, now entering its 36th year, is a tri-annual, non-profit, multicultural literary and arts magazine based in St. Louis. Issues run 100-120 pages, 6×9, perfect-bound, with glossy four-color covers and 15-20 pages of visual art in each issue. River Styx publishes the work of approximately 60 poets, 20 fiction and essay writers, and 20 visual artists yearly.” (http://www.riverstyx.org)

In addition, in February, five other pieces were accepted to the “Faces” international online exhibit at the Upstream People’s Gallery. Two of those prints received special recognition from juror Larry Bradshaw.

In April 2011, two Scoundrel prints were accepted to the 31st Annual National Print Exhibition at Artlink in Fort Wayne Indiana. The engraving, “R.R. Barnett” won one of 15 awards from juror Randy Bolton, Head of the Print Media Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art.

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Leigh M. Lunsford and Phillip Poplin

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Joanna Baker

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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