David Magill

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Joanna Baker

David Magill’s article “How to Write a True Essay:  The Things They Carried in the Composition Classroom” appeared in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim O’Brien, edited by Catherine Calloway and Alex Vernon (Dec 2010).  He also had an essay “‘Border Panic’ and the Bounds of Racial Identity” accepted for publication in Profiling and Borders: Race, Repression and Resistance, edited by Jeffrey Shantz (forthcoming 2011).  David also gave the Faculty Colloquium Lecture this semester: “The Lost Boys and Masculinity Found.”

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Leigh Lunsford and Alix Fink

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Joanna Baker

Leigh Lunsford and Alix Fink co-authored “Water Taste Test Data,” in the Datasets and Stories section in the peer-reviewed online Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 18, Number 1 (2010).  More information is available at the folowing link:  www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v18n1/lunsford.pdf

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Heather Lettner-Rust's

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Joanna Baker

This summer, Heather Lettner-Rust’s article about the rhetorical foundation of Goal 14 titled “Making Rhetoric Visible:  Re-visioning a Capstone Writing Seminar” was published in the inaugural issue of *Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, http://www.presenttensejournal.org, an online  journal published at Purdue University.  Continuing to spin out work from her dissertation, she will present qualitative data from her interviews with English 400 students in a poster session titled “The Moment of Erasure: When Transfer Doesn’t Happen,” at Virginia Tech’s Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy February 4, 2011.  May the dissertation continue to spin!

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Steven Isaac

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Joanna Baker

On Sunday, 14 November, at the North American Conference on British Studies in Baltimore, Steven Issac presented a paper, “The Role of Urban Forces in Plantagenet Warfare, 1140—1216” as part of a panel on Aspects of Medieval Warfare.  The commentator, Prof. Richard Abels, was impressed by Steven’s contention that as early as the twelfth century, British towns were producing cavalry contingents for the kings in contradistinction to the usual model of seeing knight based upon rural fiefs.  Steven has also been invited to be a featured speaker at a series of lectures at the University of Trondheim in Norway in the spring semester.

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Brett Hursey

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Joanna Baker

Thus far in 2010,  Brett Hursey’s plays have won 22 awards and appeared on stage 33 times including 11 off/off-off Broadway productions, as well as international productions in Canada and Belgium.

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Tim Holmstrom

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Joanna Baker

Working with collegues at Fermilab, Tim Holmstrom has published “Study of the rare hyperon decay Omega- -> Xi- pi+ pi-.” in Physics Letters

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Ryan Hebert

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Joanna Baker

Ryan Hebert, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities won a choral composition competition sponsored by the Jefferson Choral Society of Lynchburg.  The competition was open to all composers residing in the commonwealth of Virginia.  The winning piece, composed this fall by Hebert, is a setting of the famous poem, “i carry your heart” by E.E. Cummings.  The piece will be premiered by the Jefferson Choral Society in Lynchburg during the last weekend of February, 2011.

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Steve Faulkner

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Joanna Baker

The filming of the movie based on Steve Faulkner’s book Waterwalk: A Passage of Ghosts, is about 90 percent complete. A second edition of the book will be published with the movie, for which he has written an Afterword. A short documentary about the journey of the French-Canadians Joliet and Marquette is being shot in conjunction with the movie. He also did an interview about the book that the movie producers have posted on Youtube which can be accessed at:  http://www.waterwalkthemovie.com/

Steve also has an essay coming out this fall in the Texas Review entitled “On Silence,” which is a meditation on that rare commodity.

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Suzanne Donnelly

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Joanna Baker

Suzanne Donnelly will be presenting a poster entitled “Beyond the textbook: Reconfiguring textbook and online resources to promote student engagement in the introductory college physics classroom” at the annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy sponsored by the Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research (CIDER) in February 2011.

She will also be presenting two papers, “Comparing physics content and representations across four introductory college physics textbooks” and “Multimodal generative learning theory: A new model of evaluating representations of science principles,” at the annual conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) in April 2011.

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Kerri Cushman

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Joanna Baker

Kerri Cushman had a solo exhibition at Wichita State University, KS. As a visiting artist she gave a lecture and held a workshop on Eastern papermaking methods. Her artist books were exhibited internationally in the U.K. and nationally in MD, IL, TN, MI, CA, and Richmond, VA.

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