Faculty Development Newsletter October 2002
LeAnn Binger (Psychology) attended the Fall Convention of the Virginia Psychological Association
held on October 17 & 18 in Richmond, VA.
Michelle Delano (Art) recently exhibited in the Faculty Show at the
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where she also taught a class in Creative
Thinking this semester.
Alexandra Duckworth (English) spoke on “Language in the Digital Age” in a Math
Monday talk given in the Ernst Lecture Hall on October 28.
She
and Elizabeth Rescher (English) took several students to see Nobel
Prize-winning author Toni Morrison read from her work at Virginia Commonwealth
University on October 2.
Rachel Finney (Spanish) attended a Teaching Foreign Languages with Technology conference held at Goucher College in Baltimore, MD. The conference was sponsored by Houghton Mifflin, the ACTFL (American Council on Teaching Foreign Languages) and IALLT (International Association for Language-Learning Technology). Conference participants examined and experimented with various language-learning software products and learned how to better manage foreign language Internet assignments and student activities.
Roland
Havis (Psychology and Sociology) is
involved with ongoing research on Jungian Personality
Theory and related academic variables. This semester he is collecting data on Teacher Evaluation, Math Anxiety, Creativity, and Social Exchange.
Alenka
Hlousek-Radojcic (Biology) attended the 2002 Virginia Biotechnology Summit and
Governor’s Conference on Technology Transfer and University Research held
October 14-16 in Tyson’s Corners, VA.
Keynote speakers were S. Collins, a physicist-geneticist who is Director
of the National Genome Research division of the National Institute of Health,
and Kary Mullis, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist.
Linda Jefferson (English) and Williabel
Davis (English) attended a talk by Toni Morrison given at the University of
Richmond on October 3. Morrison
addressed the cultural and moral roles played by fiction-writing today.
Jeremy Jordan
(Mathematics) and Margo Sommer
(Mathematics) are sponsoring BoogieBaBa, a group of those interested in
learning dance techniques, which meets in the Student Center on Thursdays at
3:00. Interested individuals are urged
to either attend, or speak with the sponsors.
Tom Milton (Biology) attended a
seminar at the University of Richmond
on "The Case for a Non-Native Oyster in the Chesapeake Bay: Science and Policy" on October 9,
2002. The seminar was given by Dr.
Eugene Burreson, a researcher at VA Institute of Marine Science.
Mary Monroe (Biology), Tom Milton (Biology) and Lee
Woodruff (Biology) attended the Virginia
Association of Biology Education fall meeting in Danville, VA on October 17 and
18. Milton and Woodruff went
with the group for a tour of the Carolina Biological Company in Burlington,
NC. The tour involved discussion of procedures and research and an introduction to the
electrophoresis of DNA.
Elizabeth Rescher
(English) has been invited to join the American Association of Literary Scholars and
Critics for 2002.
Charlotte Rhodes (Physical Education and Wellness) accompanied two students to the 17th Annual College
Conference on Binge Drinking presented by the Virginia Department of Alcoholic
Beverage Control in conjunction with the VA College Alcohol Leadership Council
on October 17-19 in Chesapeake, VA. One interesting program they feel would be
of value for Richard Bland is “Alcohol 101,” an interactive program created to
reduce the harm associated with the misuse of alcohol and help college students
make responsible decisions about drinking or abstention. We could offer 1
credit for the program. The students
brought back an abundance of other ideas for the campus as well.