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- Dr.
Adrienne Critcher, professor of computer science,
presented a paper "At the Crossroads of Traditional
Computing and Applied Computing" at the Information
Systems Education Conference 2001 in Cincinnati in
November. Drs. Krishna Agarwal, John Sigle
and Dave Foley, all in the Department of Mathematics
and Computer Science, were co-authors of the paper.
ISECON annually brings together information systems
educators and technology experts from around the world
to share information about current and emerging technology,
a variety of curricular issues, and development techniques,
while establishing and strengthening industry and
academic relationships. ISECON is sponsored by the
Foundation for Information Technology Education, which
serves as the research and development arm of the
Association of Information Technology Professionals.
Critcher is the faculty advisor for the student chapter
of AITP.
- Dr.
Marguerite Plummer, assistant professor of history
and director of the Pioneer Heritage Center, successfully
completed the requirements for a doctorate in humanities
- history of ideas from the University of Texas at
Dallas. "Marguerite is a valued member of our
university community and a proven scholar," Chancellor
Vince Marsala said in announcing Plummer's doctorate.
"In the late 70s, she gave up cattle-raising
and enrolled at LSUS." In 1981, Plummer received
a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from LSUS.
She earned a Master of Business Administration degree
from LSUS in 1984, and a Master of Liberal Arts degree
from LSUS in 1987.
- Dr.
Dorie LaRue, professor of English, had a book
review, Understanding Fred Chappell, published in
the Spring 2002 issue of Southern Quarterly,
and two poems, "Life Among the Natives"
and "Watch What You Meditate For," in an
upcoming issue of Into the Teeth of the Wind.
- Dr.
Lisa Burke, assistant professor of management,
received the 2001 Professional Trainer of the Year
Award from the Northwest Louisiana Chapter of the
American Society for Training and Development.
- Dr.
Helen C. Taylor, professor of English and director
of the Master of Liberal Arts program, was selected
as the recipient of the 2001 Faculty Research Award
sponsored by the International Lincoln Center for
American Studies. The subject of her proposal was
"Integrating
 the
LSUS MLA Program with the International Lincoln Center's
annual Washington, D.C., Mini-Semester." Designed
as the premier academic honor awarded at LSUS, the
International Lincoln Center's annual award carries
with it a $7,000 stipend to recognize the achievements
of its faculty and to encourage contributions to the
development of its year-round award-winning components:
the Abraham Lincoln distinguished lecture series,
the Washington, D.C. mini-semester in May - the first
of its kind in the South and the least expensive in
the nation - and the triennial presidential conference
series. A native of England, Taylor received her Ph.D.
from the University of Connecticut in 1991. She has
taught at LSUS since 1990 and served with the MLA
program since 1993.
- Dr.
Sura Rath,
professor of English, has been elected vice president
of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association.
He will serve as vice president, president and past
president over the next three years. The RMMLA is
a non-profit membership organization, established
in 1947, that promotes the study and teaching of language,
literature, and culture. It is one of six regional
but independent branches of the Modern Language Association
of America headquartered in New York City. Rath published
"Prahlada Natak," a miracle play based on
the Brahma Purana of the Hindu Mythology, in
South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia; "V.
S. Naipaul: Three World," a critical essay appearing
together with the author's Nobel Prize acceptance
speech in Dictionary of Literary Biography,
and "V. S. Naipaul: New Horizons of Time and
Space" in Literature of Travel and Exploration.
He also presented two papers: "Flannery O'Connor:
Catholic Writer in a Protestant Region," at the
Society for the Study of Southern Literature national
convention in Lafayette in March, and "Flannery
O'Connor's Constructions of the Other," at the
Northeast Modern Language Association annual convention
in Toronto in April.
- Dr.
Martha Mangin, associate professor of education;
Candi Bagley, assistant professor of education;
Dr. Patricia Stanley, professor of psychology,
and Dr. Cay Evans, professor of education,
presented "The Effective Teacher: The Development
of a Practical Classroom Management Course for Pre-service
Elementary Teachers" at the 2001 Summer Conference
of the Association of Teacher Educators last August
in Portland, Ore. Mangin and Bagley presented "3
Bears, 7 Dwarves, and a 100-foot Beanstalk - Adventures
in Problem Solving" at the Louisiana Association
of Teachers of Mathematics annual conference in Alexandria
in November.
- According
to Dr. Cran Lucas, professor of biological sciences
and president of the Shreveport-Bossier Astronomical
Society, the society and the College of Sciences will
sponsor these free public star parties: Aug. 12 (Perseid
Meteor Shower) and Oct. 12. The star parties are held
at the Worley Observatory and start at sunset. The
observatory is located eight miles south of LSUS on
La. Hwy. 175 about 1.7 miles west of La. Hwy. 1.
- Dr.
Julien Doucet, assistant professor of mathematics,
presented two talks, "Making Trigonometry Easier,"
and "Polynomial & Rational Functions,"
at the LATM 2001 State Conference in November. His
paper, "Roger's Factoring and Lifting Theorems,"
was published in the "Proceedings of the Louisiana-Mississippi
Section of the Mathematical Association of America"
on December 14, 2001. "The Sum of the kth Powers
of the First n Positive Integers," a joint paper
by Doucet and Abolghassem Saleh-Jahromi, Loyola Marymount
University, was published in Volume II, Number 5 (Fall
2001) of The Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, the official
publication of the National Honorary Mathematics Society.
- Dr.
Lynn Walford, associate professor of Spanish,
presented a paper, "'El Gusto Real de Ese
 Animal
Desconocido': Cannibalism in Juan Jose Saer's El Entenado,"
at the Conference on Food Representation in Literature,
Film and the Other Arts at the University of Texas-San
Antonio in mid-February. In April, she presented a
third paper, "Poetry and Totalitarianism in the
Novels of Milan Kundera and Mario Vargas Llosa,"
at the annual meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association at the University of Puerto
Rico in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. She also published
two articles, "Beyond Chaos: El zorro de arriba
y el zorro de abajo" in Hispanic Journal,
and "Flirting with Postmodernism in Los rios
profundos and La casa verde" in Hispanofila.
- Drs.
Ron Byrd, professor of health and physical education,
Jack Slaybaugh, associate professor of education,
and Cay Evans, professor of education, co-authored
three papers with Amanda Holland presented last fall,
"New Teachers' Mentoring and Retention, a View
over Time," "New Teachers, Profiles in Commitment"
and "Time Spent by Elementary School Students
in Selected Activities." Byrd authored an article,
"Barbell Trajectories: Three Case Studies,"
and was co-author with Evans, Suzette McNew and Becky
Tunkle on two articles, "Guided Discovery Reading
Strategies for Solving Mathematics Word Problems"
and "Middle and High School Students' Perceptions
of Teaching as a Career." Byrd and Tom Carmody
won the gold medal in badminton doubles at the Senior
National Championships, winning eight straight matches.
- Baseball
coach and Interim Athletic Director Rocke Musgraves
spoke about "Infield Play" at the Prairie
Baseball Academy in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada in
January. Other speakers at the clinic included Cleveland
Indians pitcher Jarred Riggins, former Montreal Expos
manager and general manager, Jim Fanning; and Alex
Augostino of the Montreal Expos.
- Dr.
Rick Mabry,
professor of mathematics, coauthored an article, "Asymptotic
Symmetry of Polynomials," during his sabbatical
last year at Stetson University. His collaborator
was Dr. Paul Deiermann, who was a member of the LSUS
Mathematics Department from 1989 until 1996 and is
now with the Department of Mathematics and Computer
Science at Southeast Missouri State University. Their
article was accepted for publication in the April
issue of Mathematics Magazine. Mabry refereed an article
for the same journal during the winter semester break.
- Members
of the LSUS Mathematics Department were honored by
Volunteers of America for
 providing
tutoring services. With Ron Anderson (left), executive
director of The Lighthouse, and Chuck Meehan (right),
executive director of VOA, are (from left) Conway
Link, Rogers Martin, Dr. Julien Doucet
(behind Martin), Dr. Mary Ellen Foley, Dan
Goodwin and Dr. Carlos Spaht.
- Dr.
Meredith Nelson, assistant professor of psychology,
had an article, "A Survey of Counselor Attitudes
Toward Sex Offenders," published in the January
issue of the Journal of Mental Health Counseling.
She also presented two education sessions at the American
Counseling Association Annual Conference in New Orleans
in March.
- Carol
Hoort, of Ionia, Mich., toured the Pioneer Heritage
Center on a recent visit to Shreveport. She wrote
to Center Director Dr. Marguerite Plummer:
"We enjoyed our tour of the Pioneer Heritage
Center on Jan. 25 and learned so many things. Our
group consisted of just three people; our son who
lives in Shreveport, my husband and myself. We …
were visiting a short while in the area. I found the
Center when looking on the Internet to find interesting
things to do and see in the area. (Center Assistant
Director) Marty (Young) did an outstanding
job of teaching by way of sharing many interesting
facts about life in Northwest Louisiana. We were impressed
and I find myself sharing tidbits with friends and
family here in Michigan that we learned from our time
there. That is what is prompting this note. We're
home....way up North....but we're still recalling
our tour. You have a 'good thing going' with Pioneer
Heritage Center. What a wonderful tool it is for children
in your area and visitors from far away."
- Dr.
Terry Harris,
associate professor of English, ran in his 13th Boston
Marathon April 21. He
 finished
the famed 26-mile run in 2:56:39 (net 2:55:47), placing
him 772nd of 14,582 finishers overall. In his division,
Harris placed 16th of 1,423 finishers. (For the record,
he wore bib No. 2832.) Harris also published "Joseph
Butler British Philosophers, 1500-1799,," in
Volume 252 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
The item is an article on the life, works, and contributions
of Joseph Butler, an 18th-Century philosopher and
theologian, with an extensive bibliography. Harris
was on a sabbatical leave during the spring semester.
- The
Admissions and Records Office will participate in
the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life for the
third consecutive year. This year's relay will be
July 19. Team coordinator Alison White said
each team member raises money, then the team hosts
a booth at the relay to raise additional funds. It
is a 12 hour event that helps raise awareness of cancer,
celebrate survivors and gain funding for research.
White is seeking volunteers to be on the team, and
hopes to have five to eight members. For further information,
contact her at 797-5112 or awhite@lsus.edu.
- Rebecca
M. Carrigan, a graduate student in physiology,
discusses the subject of her College of Sciences Student
Research Forum presentation with Ben Liscano,
a sophomore
 biochemistry
major. Carrigan's presentation, "Behavioral Biophysics
of African Elephants...at Zoo Atlanta: Quantifying
Shade Use," described a joint research project
with Vaughan A. Langman and Micheal F. Rowe.
Other topics discussed at the forum were "Robotic
Control Link Software," "The Effects of
Mistletoe on the Eating Habits of Fall Armyworms"
and "Design of an Advanced Enzyme Kinetics Laboratory
for the Biochemistry Curriculum at LSUS."
- Geoff
Mangin, an adjunct in the Department of History
and Social Sciences, has been elected treasurer of
the North Louisiana Historical Association.
- Drs.
Pat Stanley
and Merikay Ringer,professors of psychology,
presented a paper to the National Association of School
Psychologists Feb. 28 in Chicago. Dr. Yong Dai,
associate professor of psychology, was also co-author.
The paper reported results of a study in which Stanley
and Ringer presented 12 training workshops on behavior
management to six groups of teachers in three Caddo
Parish elementary schools. Classroom behaviors of
"challenging students" were assessed both
before and after the teachers received the training.
- The
LSUS Institute of Human Services and Public Policy
has been admitted to the Nonprofit Academic Centers
Council. Institute Director Dr. Norm Dolch
said the council is a group of about 40 centers throughout
the country and represents the major programs in nonprofit
graduate education.
- Dr.
Elizabeth Zippi¸ associate professor of
chemistry and physics, had two articles published
in the Journal of Labeled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals:
"Synthesis of 13C-Labeled Cinnamonitrile"
and "Synthesis of [13C6]Styrene." Former
LSUS student Evan Kamperman was a co-author
on the first article. Current student Gavin Jones
presented "Thermal Analysis of 13C-Enriched Styrene-Based
Polymers," research he and Zippi conducted, at
the Louisiana Academy of Sciences meeting.
- The
faculty, staff and patrons of the Noel Memorial Library
appreciate the support and generosity of the following
persons and organizations making donations of books
or periodicals to the library: October
- Pearla Despot, Don Hall, Joseph A. Harris, Chengho
Hsieh, Marilyn Joiner, Edna Yarbrough, Greg Guirard
Photography, St. Martinville, anonymous donor (1)
and Foundation of Islamic C.P.W., Iran; November
- John Kolyer, Lynn Lloyd, William Pederson and Will
Smolenski; December - Conway Link, Michael
H. MacRoberts, William D. Pederson and Robert Pitts;
January - Donna M. Austin, Larry R.
Marshman, William McCleary, Joe Patrick, Marguerite
R. Plummer, Mike Powell, Fabia Thomas, John Vassar,
David Wells, Michael V. Williams, American Electric
Power, Columbus, Ohio, and Foundation of Islamic C.P.W.,
Iran.; February - Richard L. Colquette,
Laurie Conerly, Norman Dolch, John T. Goorley, Carol
Hall, Jack Harchas, Stuart L. Parkerson, Rich Walker,
Wesley M. Wilson, anonymous donations (3), The Foundation
for Science & Theology, Inc., Hauppauge, NY, and
the LSUS chapter of Kappa Delta Phi; March
- Pearla T. Despot, John Kolyer, Larry Marshman, William
D. Pederson, Gary Rush, Wilfred H. Smolenski, J. Woodfin
Wilson, anonymous donations (2), and Foundation of
Islamic C.P.W. - Iran; April - Norman Dolch, David
Duggar, Michael T. Ferrell, Lillian Hall, Mary Jarzabek,
William E. McCleary, Jacqueline Smith, Carlos Spaht,
one anonymous donation, and Negative Population Growth,
Washington, D.C.
- Retirements
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Vince Marsala (above) congratulates four
retirees from the College of Education. Pictured
are (from left) Dr. Jim Sabin, Dr.
Larry Marshman, Marsala, Dr. Gary
Rush and Dr. Jack Slaybaugh. College
of Business Dean Charlotte Jones (upper
right) congratulates Dr. Mel Harju on
his retirement as his wife, Gwen (left), and
daughter Candi Baldwin, a spring MBA graduate,
look on. College of Liberal Arts Dean
Merrell Knighten (left in photo at right)
holds one of two plaques Richard Georgia
received on his retirement. Department of History
and Social Sciences Chair Dr. Milton
Finley congratulates Georgia at his retirement
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