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April 2009
College News
Spring 2009 Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards
Each academic year, the UF Graduate School recognizes the best,
brightest and most industrious of the University of Florida's graduate
teaching assistants for their work as instructors in the classroom and
laboratory.
CLAS is proud to announce that 18 out of 23 of this year's Graduate Teaching Assistant Award winners are from our college. Award winners are chosen based on excellence in teaching. The TAs are nominated by their department, and a faculty committee makes the selections. This year's Graduate Teaching Award winners from CLAS are:
- Emily Casey, History
- Andrew Fisher, Mathematics
- Jason Harrington, Mathematics
- M. Joy Hayes, Philosophy
- Britta Herdegen, Languages, Literatures and Cultures
- Sébastien Inagaki, Chemistry
- Caroline Isaacs, Linguistics
- William Jawde, Sociology and Criminology & Law
- Cari Keebaugh, English
- Bryan Miller, Sociology and Criminology & Law
- Rachel Organes, Linguistics
- Juan Rodríguez, Spanish and Portuguese Studies
- Mustapha Sami, Languages, Literatures and Cultures
- Rachel Slivon, University Writing Program
- Randi Smith, English
- Natalie Wright, Biology
Among the award winners, the most outstanding ones receive the Calvin A. VanderWerf Award, established in memory of the former CLAS dean and chemistry professor. This year, both award winners are from CLAS. Andréa Ferreira from Spanish and Portuguese Studies and Robert McEachnie from History are this year's recipients.
Academic Advising
Glenn Kepic Assumes Leadership Role for the National Academic Advising
Association
Glenn Kepic, Academic Adviser in the Academic Advising Center of the
University of Florida, has been elected to the board of directors for
the National Academic Advising Association
(NACADA). Kepic will assume
his duties at the end of the NACADA Annual Conference being held in San
Antonio, Texas in October, and will serve in this position until October
2012. Kepic will be responsible for providing leadership to NACADA in
establishing the vision, strategic plan, and special initiatives of the
association.
NACADA was charted as a non-profit organization in 1979 to promote quality academic advising and professional development in order to ensure the educational development of students. Since then, NACADA has grown to nearly 11,000 members. Today it hosts conferences, publishes a scholarly journal, offers training materials, funds research grants and scholarships, and provides a network for academic advisers.
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Communication Sciences and Disorders Website
- A journal article by associate professor Kenneth J. Logan and two of his former students, Melody S. Mullins and Kelly M. Jones, dealing with the depiction of stuttering in contemporary juvenile fiction is currently featured on the lead webpage of The British Psychological Society’s Research Digest Blog.
- The local Student Academy of Audiology chapter organized the team of Doctor of Audiology students to raise funds and volunteer to walk during the Walk for Hearing, sponsored by the Hearing Loss Association of America. They had an impressive showing, bringing 56 team members and raising an impressive $2,650 (making them the second leading fundraising team). Hannah Siburt, a fourth year Au.D. student, received recognition as one of the top ten individual fundraisers, bringing in nearly $700. The Walk for Hearing is a national event that raises funds to provide education and support for people with hearing loss and increase community awareness regarding causes and consequences of hearing loss.
English
- Sid Dobrin delivered the 2009 Holder Memorial Lecture at Nebraska Wesleyan University on April 22. His and Sean Morey’s collection Ecosee: Image, Rhetoric, Nature has been published by SUNY Press.
- Pamela Gilbert’s essay “Feminism and the Canon: Recovery and Reconsideration of Popular Novelists” appears in Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth Century Women Writers, ed. Tamara S. Wagner, (Cambria Press, 2009). 19-35.
- Ed White’s translation of Hector St. John de Crevecoeur’s “Origin of the Settlement at Socialburg” appears in Early American Studies (Spring 2009).
- After presentations at both the Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels and the Marxist Reading Group’s annual conference, Phil Wegner gave the keynote address “Genre, Globalization, Politics: Toward a New Periodizing History of SF” at the University of Alabama, Huntsville’s first Graduate Student Conference. This event was organized by UF graduate, Eric Smith, now an assistant professor at UA, Huntsville.
News of Current Students
- Daniel Brown’s review of The Dao of Rhetoric by Stephen C. Combs appears in Issues in Writing 17.1/2 (2007/2008).
- Ramona Caponegro’s essay “Investigating Mysteries and Class in Three Series for Girls” appears in a special issue “The Girl Sleuth” of Clues: A Journal of Detection 27.1 (Spring 2009): 11–21. She served as the special assistant at the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival at the University of Southern Mississippi.
- Sara Dustin presented “Designing Web 2.0 Resources for the University Classroom” at the 2009 College English Association National Conference. Her paper was awarded an Honorable Mention for Outstanding Paper Presented by a Graduate Student.
- Cari Keebaugh presented “‘History, True or Feigned’: An Investigation of Young Adult Historical Fantasy Literature” at the 2009 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando. She presented “‘Dragonology’ and Children’s Literature: A Revisionist History” at the Eighth Biennial Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature in Nashville.
- Carolyn A. Kelley was named a finalist for the Madelyn Lockhart Fellowship.
- Amy Robinson’s essay “Margaret Oliphant’s Miss Marjoribanks: A Victorian Emma” appears in Persuasions 30: 67–75. Amy Robinson’s review of Peter Graham’s Jane Austen & Charles Darwin: Naturalists and Novelists, “A Conversation Between Austen and Darwin,” appears in JASNA News 25.1 (Spring 2009). Amy has accepted a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature position at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL.
- Kevin Sherman presented “Uncertain Visible Evidence: Assessing the Pedagogical Function of Documentary in the Digital Age” at Teachers, Teaching, and the Movies: Representations and Pedagogy in Film, Television, and New Media held at Saint Mary’s College of California.
- John Tinnell presented “Scripting the Sublime: Reading Postwar Drama with Lyotard” at Literature Since 1800: Transitions, Translations, and Transmission held at the University of South Carolina.
News of Former Students
- Saara Myrene Raappana’s (MFA, 2007) poem “72-Hour Observation Journal for Dr. Saper” appears in RHINO (2009). Her review of C.D. Wright’s Rising, Falling, Hovering appears in the American Book Review (March/April 2009).
Physics
- David Reitze has been elected to serve a second term as the Spokesperson of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC). He will continue to lead the LSC, a worldwide collaboration of almost 700 scientists and engineers engaged in the search for gravitational waves from cataclysmic astrophysical sources using the LIGO and GEO600 interferometers. For more information about LIGO visit http://www. ligo.org.
- Congratulations to Jim Dufty and Charles
Sommerfield on being selected
as
"Outstanding Referees" by the Physical Review. Refereeing is an important, but time-consuming task, and the Physical Review highlights the important contributions of outstanding referees. - Congratulations to new APS Fellow, Jacobo
Konigsberg has been named an APS Fellow for his
contributions to the discovery and studies of the Top quark,
and for his leadership in the CDF experiment.
- Bernard Whiting has been elected a Member-at-Large
of the Executive
Committee of the Topical group on Gravitation, the largest of the topical
groups of the APS. - David Tanner has been selected to receive a 2009-2011
University of Florida
Research Foundation Professorship. These three-year professorships recognize faculty who have established a distinguished record of research and scholarship that is expected to lead to continuing distinction in their field.
