2000-2001
*
Presented a
paper "Models of Citizenship and Sovereignty in the Aboriginal Constitutional
Politics of the United States and Canada" to the tri-annual meeting of the
International Political Science Association, Quebec City, August 1, 2000.
*
Will
present a paper "The Political Safeguards of Federalism and the Nations Within"
to the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Washington, D.C., September 1, 2000.
*
Panel
Chair, APSA "Critical Perspectives on the Political Safeguards of Federalism."
*
"The Native
Hawaiian Sovereignty Case and the Supreme Court" presentation to the SBC Alumni
College, May 13, 2000.
*
Article
Manuscript review for State Politics and Policy Quarterly.
Jonathan
Green
*
Was voice
instructor at North Carolina United Methodist Youth Choir, summer 2000
*
Composed
the following: "Come in Speaking Silence of a Dream" (soprano and piano), "Ecce
homo" (string quartet and piano), and "Study on the Life Cycle of the Phoenix"
(piano solo).
*
Has begun
composing "Necropolis Concerto" (piano and orchestra)
*
Has begun
composing "Rage" (wind ensemble)
*
Arranged
"Standing Here" (Greensboro) by Gregory Brown which was a chorus and orchestra
for Greensboro Millenium Committee premiered July 4 2000, Jamison Stadium.
*
Had the
following Music Publications:
1.
"Arcangelo's
Garden", brass quintet and symphonic band, Bernel Music, Ltd.
2.
"Atanos",
trombone octet, Bernel Music, Ltd.
3.
"Hubert's
Vengeance", horn sonata, Bernel Music, Ltd.
4.
"Hyacinthus",
trombone quartet, Bernel Music, Ltd.
5.
"Rondo
Ricercar", tuba choir, Bernel Music, Ltd.
*
Has
completed the audio recording of "Ecce homo", a CD-ROM project.
*
Performed
in the Greensboro Concert Band Opus Concert Series at Guilford College, May 13,
2000.
*
Performed
in the NCUM Youth Choir faculty recital at Greensboro College on June 12, 2000.
*
Performed
for the First Presbyterian Church as a guest soloist in Westfield, New York on
July 2, 2000.
*
Performed
in the Greensboro Concert Band MUSEP Series at Battleground National Park on
July 23, 2000.
Alix Ingber
*
Alix
Ingber's translation of a Lope de Vega's sonnet has been published in World
Poets, ed. Ron Padgett, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (The Scribner
Writers Series), vol. 3,
p. 320.
October 2000
*
Was a
featured speaker at the Virginia Association for the Gifted Conference October
2, 2000 in Williamsburg where she will be conducting a full-day session on "The
Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners".
*
Is working
with schools in Missouri, Indiana, and Virginia on concept-based curriculum
design.
*
Has been
invited to serve for the 2nd year on the NSF graduate research
fellowship panel in Computer Science.
He will be going to DC in early February.
Ella
and Mark Magruder
*
In May and
June 2000, Mark and Ella Magruder performed and toured "Stars and
Constellations" with their duet dance company, "Menagerie." They presented: a performance at
Nansemond Suffolk Academy on May 4; 9 elementary and middle school performances
for the Blue Ridge Arts Council in Front Royal May 24-26; 2 performances for
the South Hill Performing Arts Council in Mecklenburg County on May 31; 1
performance for Seaford Elementary in Newport News on June 9; and taught
numerous workshops in creative dance to Gifted and Talented students in Augusta
County Schools Summer Arts Program June 19-30.
*
Attended
the 8th "Dance and the Child" international conference at the
University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada July 30-August 5, 2000. Ella Magruder read her paper "M.F.A.'s:
Missionaries for the Arts, Touring Dance in the Schools" which was selected by
blind review to be included in the Proceedings for the conference, "Extensions
and Extremities: Points of Departure."
Mark Magruder taught a workshop in dance improvisation at the "Dance and
the Child" conference.
November 2000
*
"The
Supreme Court in the Presidential Election of 2000: What's at Stake"
Presentation at the Election 2000: Decisions and Consequences Conference,
Baylor University, Waco, TX, October 17, 2000.
*
Interviewed
by CBS affiliate in Waco, TX for commentary on the presidential debates.
*
Guest for
Wisconsin Public Radio WHAD for a one hour call in show (with Barbara Perry) on
the Supreme Court's Term, October 2, 2000.
*
Guest for
WLNI Radio "The Morning Line" for 90 minute call in shows on September 6, 20,
October 4, 12, 18.
*
Abstract of
research on responsive teaching accepted for the Research Division of the
National Association for Gifted Children's refereed research conference
journal. Won an NAGC Research and Evaluation Award for her research work which
will be presented at the conference in Atlanta.
*
Presenting
the following at the annual conference of the National Association for Gifted
Children (NAGC) in Atlanta, November 3-5, 2000:
*
Present
research on preservice/inservice teacher professional development on
differentiating instruction that will spotlight a collaborative program started
at SBC in 1999.
*
Present on
a curriculum unit entitled "Visions and Voices: Humanism in the Renaissance
1350-1650". This unit won a 1999
National Curriculum Award from NAGC.
*
Invited to
lead a panel discussion on graduate programs in gifted education with
representatives from graduate schools across the country.
*
Invited to
participate in a panel discussion entitled "Standards and Issues in Education"
with other state and university educators.
*
Spent two
weeks in Germany in March. While
there he participated in the activities at the Leipzig Bookfair. Presented with
Ralph Gruneberger a poetry reading during one of the sessions.
*
Following
activities in Leipzig he traveled to Heidelberg, where he met with Dr. Gerke,
the Director of the Foreign Studies Office of the University of Heidelberg and
discussed arrangements for a two-way student exchange. He also visited with Tamara Trout, who
spent a year in Heidelberg.
*
Traveled in
June to Berlin to participate in a seminar on modern German literature. Following the seminar he visited
briefly with Ralph Gruneberger in Leipzig to work on plans for an upcoming
project.
*
In April he
participated in the Annual German Teacher's Conference in Charlottesville and
presided over the Spring Meeting of the Virginia Chapter of the AATG.
*
In March he
participated in a meeting of the Executive Board of the Foreign Language
Association of Virginia.
*
In May he
participated in the DuPont Seminar on advanced webpage development at
Randolph-Macon Woman's College and Sweet Briar.
*
He also
participated during the semester in a conference on language Laboratory
management held in Charlottesville.
*
In August
he presided over a meeting of the Executive Council of the Virginia Chapter of
AATG at Randolph-Macon College.
*
Organized
and directed the Fifth Annual Sweet Briar-Goethe Institute Immersion Weekend
for German Teachers on September 15-17.
Twenty teachers from throughout Virginia participated in the program.
*
Will
participate in the Annual Meeting of the Foreign Language Association of
Virginia at the end of October. He
will participate in the meeting of the Board of Directors, present a paper on
the Use of Technology in German Teaching and preside over the meeting and
program of the Virginia Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of
German.
*
Became
certified as an American Red Cross Workplace First Aid and Safety Instructor.
*
Coached the
Forest Area Swim Team – a Lynchburg Aquatic League team of 105 children
*
Became
certified as a SwimAmerica Program Director and organized and supervised the
first SwimAmerica learn to swim program in the Lynchburg area.
Barbara
Perry
*
Presented a
paper "Symbols and Images in the Israeli Supreme Court: Legitimizing Messages'
or Irrelevant Architecture?" at the 2000 meeting of the American Political
Science Association in Washington, D.C.
The paper has been accepted for publication by the journal, Review of
Politics.
*
Presented a
co-authored paper, "Judicial Activism and Restraint at the Dawn of the Third
Century," at the 2000 Forum sponsored by Louisiana State University-Shreveport.
*
Another
co-authored paper, presented at the 1998 LSU-S Forum, has just been published
(in a book on the conference); the chapter is entitled "The Father of Our
Country as Court-Packer-in-Chief: George Washington and the Supreme Court."
*
Barbara
Perry and Steve Bragaw were guests on Wisconsin Public Radio for a show on the
opening of the Supreme Court's 2000-01 Term.
*
Has been
asked to chair a new committee, Teaching and Mentoring, established by the Law
& Courts Section of the American Political Science Association.
*
Delivered a
paper entitled, "From Narrative to Drama: The Transformation of the Gospel of
Nicodemus,'" at the annual conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association,
held this year at the University of North Carolina at Asheville at the end of
September.
December 2000
Stephen
Bragaw
*
"A Plea for
Election Commonsense" Morning Edition Radio Essayist, WVTF/Virginia Public
Radio, November 15, 2000.
*
American
Politics/Election commentary, "The Morning Line" WLNI Radio Lynchburg, November
2, 6, and 16 for 1 _ hours each and November 8th for 4 hours.
*
His book, Modern
Guide to Physics – From Quarks to Superstrings (406 pp., color
plates), is being published by the Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol,
UK. The book, currently in
production, will be in bookstores in March 2001.
*
Published
an article entitled "Electrostatic Discharge of Materials in a Simulated
Martian Environment," (with H. Kim, D. Jackson, R. Gompf, P. Richiuso, P.
Parenti, J. Bayliss, and M. Buehler), NASA Technical Memorandum 208567, p. 44,
Kennedy Space Center, 2000.
*
Presented a
paper entitled "Electrostatic Charging and the Mars Ascent Vehicle," at the
Winds and Electrostatic Charging Issues for the Mars Ascent Vehicle Meeting at
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, April 10, 2000.
*
Presented a
paper entitled Electrostatic Sensors," at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Joint
Centers Meeting, Pasadena, August 16, 2000.
*
Presented a
paper entitled "Neutralizing Triboelectrically Generated Charge under
Martian-Like Atmospheric Conditions (with J. Mantovani, E. Groop, and M.
Buehler), at the 32nd Meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences
of the American Astronomical Society, Pasadena, October 27, 2000.
*
Presented a
paper entitled "Triboelectric Charging of an Insulator's Surface Using Martian
Soil Simulants," (with J. Mantovani, E. Groop, and M. Buehler), at the 67th
Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society,
Mississippi State University, November 4, 2000.
*
Keynote
speaker at the VIII Annual International Symposium on Contemporary Hispanic
Literature sponsored by the Luis Goytisolo Foundation in El Puerto de Santa
Maria, Spain, November 15, 2000.
The theme of the symposium was "Essay and Literature" and Professor
DeWeese's topic was "El ensayo como tcnica narrativa en Estatua con palomas de
Luis Goytisolo."
*
Was an
invited guest speaker and round-table participant on the topic of Luis
Goytisolo's novels at the Centro Juan Carlos at New York University, November
29, 2000. Topic: "The Singularity
of the Number 9." The event was
co-hosted by New York University and the Cervantes Institute.
Allen
Huszti
*
Attended an
Alexander Technique Workshop in Madison, VA (June 12-16, 2000).
*
Attended
the Bela Bartok International Choir Festival in Debrecen, Hungary (July 4-9,
2000).
*
Attended
the York Early Music Festival in York, England (July 10-15, 2000).
*
Taught
harpsichord, fortepiano and organ at the Central Virginia Suzuki Institut (July
24-August 5, 2000).
*
Performed
at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church as part of the American Guild of Organists's,
"World's Largest Organ Recital" (October 15, 2000).
*
Presented
an Alexander Technique Workshop for voice students at Randolph-Macon Woman's
College (October 24, 2000).
*
"The Public
Trust is at Stake" Op/ed piece (co-authored with Barbara Perry) New York
Newsday, November 30, 2000, p. A51
*
"The
Supreme Court in American Politics" Presentation to the Public Leadership
Education Network (PLEN) "Women and Public Policy" Seminar, Washington, D.C.,
January 5, 2001.
*
Manuscript
review for Publius: The Journal of Federalism (January).
*
Guest
Supreme Court commentator, WHAD-Wisconsin Public Radio afternoon call-in show
(1 hour), December 4, 2000.
*
Guest
Supreme Court commentator, KNOW-Minnesota Public Radio morning call-in show
(1/2 hour), December 1, 2000.
*
Guest
American politics commentator, WLNI Lynchburg "The Morning Line" (1 hour
segments) November 27, December 11, 13, 18 and January 19 and 22.
*
Has been
named NASA Technical Representative for the development, under a NASA grant, of
Field Emitting Nanoparticle Coatings for Spacecraft. This work will be performed between February 16, 2001 and
August 17, 2001.
*
Has had two
papers accepted for presentation at the 38th Space Congress in May
of 2001:
"Performance Status of the Mars
Environmental Capability Assessment Electrometer" and "Capabilities of the Mars
Electrostatics Chamber at the Kennedy Space Center."
*
Served on
the NSF panel for the International Research Postdoctorate Fellows in
Arlington, Virginia on January 4-5.
She served on the panel for Social and Behavioral Sciences.
*
In
November, he was elected President-Elect of the Virginia Theatre Association.
*
In January,
he delivered a lecture "It's All in the Delivery: How Performers Communicate
Through Text and Subtest," at the Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida for
their Humanities Lecture Series.
In
December and January, Barbara Perry:
*
Gave a talk
on the Israeli Supreme Court at the Agudeth Sholom Synagogue in Lynchburg.
*
Organized
the Henry J. Abraham Distinguished Lecture (with General William Suter, Clerk
of the U.S. Supreme Court), sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Center in
Charlottesville.
*
Was a guest
commentator twice on Wisconsin Public Radio (on the Bush Cabinet appointments)
and on KMOX Radio in St. Louis (on Sandra Day O'Connor).
*
Attended
the Judicial Fellows' Alumnae Association meeting at the U.S. Supreme Court.
February 2001
*
"The Public
Trust is at Stake" Op/ed piece (co-authored with Barbara Perry) New York
Newsday, November 30, 2000, p. A51
*
"The
Supreme Court in American Politics" Presentation to the Public Leadership
Education Network (PLEN) "Women and Public Policy" Seminar, Washington, D.C.,
January 5, 2001.
*
Manuscript
review for Publius: The Journal of Federalism (January).
*
Guest
Supreme Court commentator, WHAD-Wisconsin Public Radio afternoon call-in show
(1 hour), December 4, 2000.
*
Guest
Supreme Court commentator, KNOW-Minnesota Public Radio morning call-in show
(1/2 hour), December 1, 2000.
*
Guest
American politics commentator, WLNI Lynchburg "The Morning Line" (1 hour
segments) November 27, December 11, 13, 18 and January 19 and 22.
*
Has been
named NASA Technical Representative for the development, under a NASA grant, of
Field Emitting Nanoparticle Coatings for Spacecraft. This work will be performed between February 16, 2001 and
August 17, 2001.
*
Has had two
papers accepted for presentation at the 38th Space Congress in May
of 2001:
"Performance Status of the Mars
Environmental Capability Assessment Electrometer" and "Capabilities of the Mars
Electrostatics Chamber at the Kennedy Space Center."
*
Served on
the NSF panel for the International Research Postdoctorate Fellows in
Arlington, Virginia on January 4-5.
She served on the panel for Social and Behavioral Sciences.
*
In
November, he was elected President-Elect of the Virginia Theatre Association.
*
In January,
he delivered a lecture "It's All in the Delivery: How Performers Communicate
Through Text and Subtest," at the Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida for
their Humanities Lecture Series.
In
December and January, Barbara Perry:
*
Gave a talk
on the Israeli Supreme Court at the Agudeth Sholom Synagogue in Lynchburg.
*
Organized
the Henry J. Abraham Distinguished Lecture (with General William Suter, Clerk
of the U.S. Supreme Court), sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Center in
Charlottesville.
*
Was a guest
commentator twice on Wisconsin Public Radio (on the Bush Cabinet appointments)
and on KMOX Radio in St. Louis (on Sandra Day O'Connor).
*
Attended
the Judicial Fellows' Alumnae Association meeting at the U.S. Supreme Court.
March 2001
Steve
Bragaw
*
Was a guest
on the "Kathleen Dunn Show" Wisconsin Public Radio February 28 (1
hour) discussing the President's tax & budget proposals.
Carlos
Calle
*
Had a paper
entitled "Martian Regolith Simulant Particle Charging Experiments in a Low
Pressure Environment" accepted for publication in the Journal of
Electrostatics.
Claudia
Chang
*
Was awarded
a Franklin Research Grant (total of $6000) for summer research in Kazakhstan in
2001 and 2002 from the American Philosophical Association.
*
Publications: The Kazakh-American Talgar Project
Archaeological Field Surveys in the Talgar and Turgen-Asi Areas of Southeastern
Kazakhstan: 1997-1999 by Claudia Chang and Perry A. Tourtellotte. In Kurgans, Ritual Sites, and
Settlements Eurasian Bronze and Iron Age edited by J. Davis-Kimball, E.M.
Murphy, L. Koryakova, and L.T. Yablonsky.
BAR (British Archaeological Reports) International Series 890, pp. 83-88.
Deborah
Durham
A) Appeared in print:
-"Introduction: Youth and the Social
Imagination in Africa."
Introduction to a double theme issue for Anthropological Quarterly,
vol. 73, numbers 3 & 4 (July and October 2000).
-Book review of Richard Werbner, ed., Memory
and the Postcolony: African Anthropology and the Critique of Power (Zed Press, 1998). African Studies
Review 43 (3) [2000]: 147-149.
-Book review of Roy Willis (et al.), Some
Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance: A Journey into Selfhood in an African Village (Berg, 1999). African Studies Review
43 (3) [2000]: 149-151.
-Book review of Christianity in South
Africa: A Political, Social and Cultural History, ed. Richard Elphick and T.R.H.
Davenport (University of California Press, 1998) for the Religious Studies
Review.
-Book review of Music, Modernity, and
the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West by Veit Erlmann (Oxford University
Press, 1999). African Studies Review 42 (3) [1999]: 202-204.
B) Accepted for publication:
-Entry on "Botswana"for Countries and
their Cultures (Encyclopedia of National Cultures), ed. Melvin Ember and
Carol R. Ember (under auspices of HRAF), Macmillan Reference. Expected
publication spring 2001.
-"Uncertain Citizens: The new intercalary
subject in postcolonial Botswana."
Chapter in Postcolonial Subjectivities in Africa ed. Richard
Werbner, Zed Press. (expected publication late 2001).
-"Passports and Persons: The Insurrection
of Subordinated Knowledges in Southern Africa."
Chapter in volume edited by Clifton Crais
(tentatively titled Passes, Passports, and the State: Rethinking Political
History in Southern Africa) Social History of Africa series, Heinemann.
C) Presented at conferences:
-"Did You Bathe This Morning? Baths, Dirt
and Morality in Botswana." Paper presented at a panel on Dirt and Nudity in
Africa, at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting, 19
November, San Francisco. Edited
book planned.
-"Funerals and the Public Space of
Mutuality in Botswana." By Deborah Durham and Fred Klaits. Paper for the
conference, Minorities in Botswana, Gaborone Botswana, 19-23 May 2000. Revised
version submitted to the Journal of Southern African Studies.
-"Mmankgodi Burns: Youth in Botswana."
Paper for discussion at symposium on New Directions in Anthropology, convened
by Brad Weiss, Sonoma Valley, California, 19-21 November 2000.
-Participant and presenter (on narrative
and biography) in the (Isaac) Schapera Legacy Workshop, Gaborone Botswana,
25-26 May 2000.
D) Evaluator for SSRC International
Dissertation Research Fellowships January 2001.
Scott
Hyman:
*
Received a
National Science Foundation supplemental grant in Jan. 2000 for $6,562 to
support research in radio astronomy.
*
Publications:
a.)
"Radio Continuum Imaging of the Spiral
Galaxy NGC 4258," Hyman, S.D., Calle, D., Weiler, K.W., Lacey, C.K., Van Dyk,
S.D., and Sramek, R.A., Astrophys. J., in press.
b.)
"Discrete
Radio Sources in the Spiral Galaxy NGC 6946," Hyman, S.D., Lacey, C.K., Weiler,
K.W., and Van Dyk, S.D., Astron. J., 119, 1711, 2000.
c.)
"A
Wide-Field 90 cm VLA Image of the Galactic Center Region," LaRosa, T.N.,
Kassim, N.E., Laxio, T.J.W., and Hyman, S.D., Astron. J., 1729, 207, 2000.
April
2001
Activities
during sabbatical
*
March 2000:
Invited to give a paper: "Sons or Slaves? The Sale and Abandonment of
Children by their Parents in the late Roman Empire" at Washington and Lee
University.
*
April 2000:
Delivered a paper: "The Slave who Avenged her Master's Death" at the
Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Knoxville, TN.
*
July 2000:
Invited to give a talk on "Roman Women: Law and Reality" at the
Governor's Latin Academy (for high school students), Hollins University.
*
September
2000: Invited to give a talk on "The Roman Family in Law and Reality"
at the University of Richmond.
*
October
2000: Delivered a paper: "The Enslavement of Freeborn Children in the
Roman Empire" at the American Society for Legal History conference,
Princeton, N.J.
*
October
2000: Published an article, "The Slave who Avenged her Master's
Death" in the Ancient History Bulletin vol. 14, pp. 81-88.
May 2001
* Has been invited to present a special lecture entitled "Measuring Electrostatic Phenomena on Mars and the Moon" at the plenary session of the Annual Meeting of the Electrostatics Society of Japan in September 2001.
* Has submitted a patent application for a Low Pressure Particle Impeller, a device to accelerate micrometer-sized particles at large speeds under atmospheric pressures equivalent to those found on Mars (one-hundredth of an atmosphere).
* Has received a $98,000 grant from NASA (Kennedy Space Center Director Discretionary Fund) for a project entitled "Aerodynamics of Electrostatically Charged Dust Particles."
* Presented five papers:
o Calle, C.I., D.C. Lewis, R.K. Buchanan, and A.C. Barnett, "Capabilities of the Mars Electrostatics Chamber at Kennedy Space Center," 38th Space Congress, Cape Canaveral, FL, May 2-5, 2001.
o Mantovani, J.G., C.I. Calle, E.E. Groop, A.W. Linville, R.H Gompf, and M.G. Buehler, "Performance Status of the Mars Compatability Assessment Electrometer," 38th Space Congress, Cape Canaveral, FL, May 2-5, 2001.
o Buchanan, R.K., A.C. Barnett, and C.I. Calle, "Controlling Cryogenics for Creating a Mars Environment," International Instrumentation Symposium, Colorado Springs, May 6-10, 2001.
o Calle, C.I., "Particle Electrostatic Studies at Kennedy Space Center," National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center, Particle Science and Technology, University of Florida, April 18, 2001.
o Calle, C.I. "Electromagnetic Physics Testbed Overview," Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center, University of Central Florida, February 2001.
* Had three papers accepted for presentation:
o Calle, C.I., J.G. Mantovani, E.E. Groop, and C.R. Buhler, "Studies of the Electrostatic Properties of Martian and Lunar Simulants," 52nd International Aeronautical Congress, Toulouse, France, October 1-5, 2001.
o Calle, C.I., J.G. Mantovani, E.E. Groop, and C.R. Buhler, "Performance of the NASA JPL/KSC Electrometer in a Simulated Martian Environment," 52nd International Aeronautical Congress, Toulouse, France, October 1-5, 2001.
o Calle, C.I., J.G. Mantovani, C.R. Buhler, M.D. Hogue, A.W. Nowicki, and E.E. Groop, "Electrostatic Charging of Polymers by Particle Impact at Low Pressures," 4th International Conference on Applied Electrostatics, Dalian, China, October 2001.