Faculty & Staff Notes
Jon Charles Acker, coordinator for student assessment; William Hughes, programmer analyst senior; and Dr. William R. Fendley, Jr., director, all of the Office of Institutional Research, were recently awarded the Southern Association for Institutional Research (SAIR) 2001 award for Best Paper for their work, entitled "Implementing a recursive retention assessment system for engineering programs." Winning authors will receive travel support from SAIR to attend the 2002 AIR Forum in Toronto, Canada. Winners will also receive an invitation from AIR to present their winning paper at the AIR Forum.
Dr. Sharon E. Beatty, Reese Phifer Fellow and professor of marketing, recently received the prestigious Distinguished Scholar Award from the Society for Marketing Advancement. Beatty was presented the award for "substantive and sustained scholarly contributions to marketing thought and practice."
Dr. J. Gordon Coleman, Jr., library and information studies, was the invited keynote speaker for the Alabama Library Association's Public Library Mini-Conference at the Homewood Public Library. His speech was entitled "Mirthful Management: You too can Laugh and be a Leader at Work."
Jean Foster Herron, program manager for distance education, recently received the Distinguished Non-Credit Award for her development of the "Alabama Community College Leadership Academy." The award was presented to Herron as part of the Association for Higher Education's annual meeting.
Dr. David H. Maxwell, staff physician at Russell Student Health Center, was recently re-certified as a Diplomate of the American Board of Family Practice for 2001-2008. Requirements include maintaining 150 hours of Continuing Medical Education every three years and passing the national re-certification exam every sixth year.
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| Dr. Doru M. Stefanescu |
Dr. Doru M. Stefanescu, University research professor of metallurgical and materials engineering, recently served as chairman of the International Organizing Committee for the International Conference on Solidification held in Bangalore, India. He was a member of the International Advisory Committee and a session chair at the first International Materials Symposium in Coimbra, Portugal. Stefanescu was also the conference chairman of the Science of Casting and Solidification conference in Brasov, Romania. After the conference, he was awarded an honorary degree by the University Transilvania, Brasov.
Dr. Annabel Stephens, library and information studies, was recently named this year's recipient of the Alabama Library Association's Humanitarian Award. She has helped establish a fund for scholarships for Alabama librarians.
Dr. Dennis L. Peck, sociology, was appointed to another term as associate editor of Sociological Spectrum, the official journal of the Mid-South Sociological Association. Peck was also appointed to an associated editor position for the forthcoming The Handbook of Thantology, to be published in 2003 by Sage Publication.
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| Dr. William D. Samson |
Dr. William D. Samson, Roddy-Garner professor of accounting, was recently elected president of the Academy of Accounting Historians for 2002. Formed in 1973, the Academy objectives are to encourage research, publication, teaching and personal interchanges in all phases of accounting history and its interrelation with business and economic history. It has 800 members representing more than 34 countries.
Dr. Steve Thoma, human development and family studies, recently assumed presidency of the Association for Moral Education.
Dr. Dennis L. Peck, sociology, recently edited Extraordinary Behavior: A Case Study Approach to Understanding Social Problems, 2001, Praeger Publishers.
... Also edited the second volume of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior, 2001, Brunner-Routledge/Taylor and Francis Publishers.
... Also edited a thematic issue of Sociological Inquiry, the international journal of Alpha Kappa Delta, called The Sociology of Civility, to be published in 2002.
Dr. Paul Stuart, social work, has been named co-editor of the first Encyclopedia of Social Work History, to be published by Sage Publishing.
Gerald R. Webster, geography, recently edited a series of six essays on the 2000 presidential election in the journal Political Geography, including "The U. S. presidential election and the Bush v. Gore supreme court decision," Political Geography, Vol. 21(1): 99-104.
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| Dr. Stephen Cary |
Dr. Stephen Cary, music, recently was the tenor soloist with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra for a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Ghany, consumer sciences, recently co-authored "Lottery Expenditures in Canada: Regional Analysis of Probability of Purchase, Amount of Purchase and Incidence," in Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1, Sept. 2001, 64-78.
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| Carol Rice Andrews |
Carol Rice Andrews, law, recently had published "Highway 101: Lessons in Legal Ethics That We Can Learn on the Road", 15 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 95 (2001).
Dr. Stanley L. Brodsky, psychology, recently co-authored "Toward a Taxonomy of Unwillingness: Initial Steps in Engaging the Unwilling Client," in Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (2001).
Alfred L. Brophy, law, recently had published Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921 -- Race, Reparations, Reconciliation, Oxford University Press (2001).
Dr. Tony A. Freyer, University research professor of history and law, recently had published "Reaction and Reform: Transforming the Judiciary Under Alabama's Constitution 1901-1975," in the Alabama Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 1, Fall 2001.
David Gamble, case advocate, ADAP, Law School Clinical Program, recently had published "A quantitative analysis of client and service data from a PAIR program" in the Journal of Rehabilitation, 67(4), 31-37.
Dr. Thomas E. Harris, communication studies, recently co-authored "Small Group and Team Communication, 2e," published by Allyn & Bacon.
Dr. Lisa J. LeCount, anthropology, recently had published "Like Water for Chocolate: Feasting and Political Ritual among the Late Classic Maya at Xunantunich, Belize," in American Anthropologist, Vol. 103(4).
Lisa Mills, nursing, recently had published "A Holistic Approach to Promoting Success on NCLEX-RN," in Journal of Holistic Nursing, Vol. 19, No. 4, Dec. 2001, 360-374.
Martha I. Morgan, Robert S. Vance professor of law, recently had published "The Tangled Web of Alabama's Equality Doctrine After Melof: Historical Reflections on Equal Protection and the Alabama Constitution," in the Alabama Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 1, Fall 2001.
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| Dr. Kathryn S. Oths |
Drs. Kathryn S. Oths, anthropology, Linda Dunn, nursing, and Nancy Palmer, nursing, recently co-authored "A prospective study of psychosocial job strain and birth outcomes," in Epidemiology, 12(6):744-746.
Dr. Dennis L. Peck, sociology, recently had published "Teaching Introduction to Sociology: A Reintroduction to the Student World-view," 2001 in Quarterly Journal of Ideology vol. 24 (June).
... Also had three entries published in Vol. 1 (of four volumes) of the Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior (2001), published by Brunner-Routledge/Taylor and Francis: "Positive School of Crime," Vol 1: 273-276; "Classical School of Crime," 43-45; and "Typological School of Crime," 409-411.
... Also had published "Argot, Criminal," in the Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior (2001), published by Brunner-Routledge/Taylor and Francis, Vol. 2: 20-23.
Dr. Robert F. Potter, telecommunication and film, recently had published "Effect of the presence and pacing of dialogue in radio messages on tonic attention," in Psychophysiology, 38 (S1), 78.
... Also recently co-authored "The effects of message valence and listener arousal on attention, memory, and facial muscular responses to radio advertisements," in Communication Research, 28, 627-651.
Drs. Steven Prentice-Dunn and Mark R. Klinger, psychology, and James M. Flournoy, Jr., graduate student; recently had published The Role of Prototypical Situations in the Perceptions of Prejudice of African Americans (2002).
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| Kenneth Randall |
Kenneth Randall, dean of the school of law and the McMillan Professor of Law, recently had published "The Dean As Fundraiser", 33 University of Toledo Law Review 149 (2001).
Drs. David R. Roskos-Ewoldsen, communication, and Beverly Roskos-Ewoldsen, psychology, recently co-authored "Media Priming: A Synthesis," in Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research, 2nd Ed., eds. J. Bryand and D. Zillman, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum (2002).
Dr. Dan Royall, geography, recently had published "Use of mineral magnetic measurements to investigate soil erosion and sediment delivery in a small agricultural catchment in limestone terrain," Catena 46, 15-34.
Dr. Randall T. Salekin, psychology, recently had published "Psychopathy and theraputic pessimism: Clinical lore or clinical reality?" in Clinical Psychology Review, 22, 79-112.
Dr. James M. Salem, American studies, recently had published "First Wave American Youth Culture in the Season of 1954-55: Youth and the Mass Media," in American Studies Journal, 47 (Summer 2001): 41-50.
Dr. David Shankman, geography, recently co-authored "Appalachia and the Eastern Cordillera" in The Physical Geography of North America, ed. A.R. Orine, Oxford University Press (2002).
Dr. Carl W. Stock, geological sciences, recently co-authored "Random sampling of carbonate mounds: an example from the Upper Ordovician of Alabama," in Sedimentary Geology.
... Also had published "Stromatopo-roidea, 1926-2000," in the Journal of Paleontology.
John C. Watkins, criminal justice, recently had published his third book in juvenile justice, Centenial Sourcebook on Selected Juvenile Justice Literature: 1900-1999, A Transdiciplinary Index, Carolina Academic Press (2001). This work includes over 4,000 citations to juvenile history justice literature from such fields as law, sociology, psychology, education, social work, medicine and other sources.
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