Dr. Thomas Wears, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, presented Lorentzian Ricci Solitons on Solvable Lie Groups at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta, GA in January 2017.
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Ms. Virginia Kinman, Assistant Vice President for Accreditation and Compliance, and Dr. David Shoenthal, Professor of Mathematics, presented Teaching Load: Faculty Adequacy and Program Improvement at the SACS-COC Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA in December 2016.
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Dr. Leigh Lunsford has had her article “Slide-and-Divide: Using a Slick Trick to Dive into Deeper Mathematics” published in the MathAMATYC Educator (Volume 7, Number 1), September 2015.
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Dr. Wendy Smith, Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, had her book, “Math & Me: Embracing Success“, reviewed in the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) journal Mathematics Teacher, Volume 9, No. 2 (September 2015). The book was co-written with Dr. B. Sidney Smith.
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Dr. Elif Guler has recently co-edited (with Beth Hewett and Kevin DePew) Foundational Practices in Online Writing Instruction, published by Parlor Press and The WAC Clearinghouse on February 21, 2015. The book addresses the questions and decisions that administrators and instructors most need to consider when developing online writing programs and courses. The editors hope that the […]
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Professor Steven Isaac has contributed a chapter, “Medieval Terrorism: the Seeds of Later Developments,” to a volume that has just appeared, The Routledge History of Terrorism, edited by Randall Law. The promotional blurb from the publisher claims: “Though the history of terrorism stretches back to the ancient world, today it is often understood as a […]
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Steven Isaac has published an article in The Journal of Military History 79 (April 2015) titled “The Role of Towns in the Battle of Bouvines (1214).” Bouvines has long been recognized as “the battle that made France,” but this article looks at the social dynamics leading up to the day of actual fighting. The article […]
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Dr. Consuelo Alvarez and 6 BES alumni are the coauthors of the article: “The Drosophila Muller F elements maintain a distinct set of genomic properties over 40 million years of evolution” to be published in mid spring in the . For immediate access, the online version could be accessed in PubMed. This work is a […]
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Register of Professional Archaeologists Field School Certification Program Dr. Brian Bates, Director of the Dr. James W. Jordan Archaeology Field School, is pleased to announce that the Field School has been successful in earning certification by the Register of Professional Archaeologists (RPA), making it one of only 18 field schools in the world to be […]
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Sunday afternoon, October 26, Chris Swanson had his debut performance with the Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra as the conductor and artistic director. He conducted Les preludes by Franz Liszt, An American in Paris by George Gershwin and the “Eroica” Symphony by Beethoven. While it was Swanson’s first concert with the orchestra, the LSO has been around for 32 years. Swanson […]
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