1999-2000
Reviewed
a new anthology on women's sport by Jolie Sandoz and Joby Winans for the Richmond
Times Dispatch. "Whatever It
Takes: Women on Women's Sport" was published this month by Farrar, Strauss and
Giroux and the review appeared on August 15, 1999.
*
Headed
the field hockey program at the Penn Monto Sports Camp held at Mercersburg
Academy in Pennsylvania the last week in July.
*
This
fall Jennifer will once again chair both the Southern Regional and the National
Division III Field Hockey All-America Committees for the National Field Hockey
Coaches Association.
*
Participated
in the "Spanish Faculty Development in International Business" seminar
coordinated by the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South
Carolina at Columbia from June 24 – July 1, 1999. The program is the result of a "CIBER"
grant given to the Business School by the federal government and has the
purpose of bringing together faculty in Spanish language, literature, and
culture, with faculty and professionals in the field of international
business. Pam received one of the
CIBER scholarships in the amount of $500 which was applied to her registration
in the program.
*
Finished
his book: "A Conductor's Guide to the Choral-Orchestral Works of J.S. Bach" in
May, 1999
*
Taught
the Graduate Seminar in Advanced Conducting Techniques at UNC-Greensboro
*
Taught
voice for the North Carolina Methodist Honor Choir, and performed on their
faculty recital at Greensboro College
*
Composed
a piano sonata for Rebecca McNutt and a song cycle for Allen Huszti, and is
finishing up a concerto grosso for brass quintet and band
*
Has
accepted a one-year appointment as Interim Music Director of the Greensboro
Concert Band, which is a community band sponsored by the city. He conducted a concert at the Guilford
Courthouse National Battlefield with them on August 1, 1999.
*
Received
another ASCAP Annual Award for Composition
*
Published
The Priestly Tribe: The Supreme Court's Image In The American Mind
*
Co-authored
with Steve Bragaw "Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Aren't Dead Yet: Understanding
the Evolving Federalism Jurisprudence of Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and
Anthony Kennedy" to be presented at the American Political Science Association's
annual meeting in Atlanta, September 1-5
*
Taught
in the Supreme Court Summer Institute for Teachers in Washington
*
Was
a guest commentator for Wisconsin Public Radio on the presidential pay raise
*
Wrote
and delivered a commentary on the 14th Amendment for "With Good
Reason" on Virginia Public Radio
*
Was
interviewed for a feature story on the Supreme Court by the Christian Science
Monitor and for a feature story on Congress by Knight-Ridder newspapers
During his sabbatical
and subsequent leave of absence, Steve:
*
Earned
an M.C.S. (Master's of Computer Science) degree from the University of Virginia
(May 1999);
*
Gave
an invited presentation entitled "The Mathematics of Palladio's Villas" at the
conference Nexus '98: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics, in Mantua, Italy (June
1998), the manuscript for which was published in the conference proceedings;
*
Received
a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts to
fund his participation as the leader of a research workshop, immediately
following Nexus '98, to study eight of Palladio's villas in situ with several conference
participants (June 1998);
*
Published
a report of the Palladio villa workshop in the online Nexus Network Journal (www.leonet.it/culture/nexus/network_journal/)
which included further discussion of the mathematical qualities of the
Renaissance master's designs (NNJ, v. 1, n. 2, April 1999)
*
Wrote
two papers, "Superexponentiation and Fixed Points of Exponential and
Logarithmic Functions" (favorably reviewed by the referees of Mathematics
Magazine)
and "Revisiting (and Renaming) a Family of Means" (submitted to the Mathematical
Intelligencer).
*
Was
the organizer and the chair of a special Italian session at the Northeast
Conference in New York, April 8-11.
She also read a paper on "Italian Language and Dialects".
*
Read
a paper on Gianni Amelio last movies during the annual conference of the
A.A.I.S. in Eugene, Oregon April 16-19, 1999.
*
"Defending
the Capacity to Govern: The Intergovernmental Lobby and the U.S. Supreme Court" was nominated by its
committee for the Edward S. Corwin prize of the American Political Science
Association Law and Courts Section for Best Dissertation, 1999.
*
Presented
a paper, "Understanding the Evolving Federalism Jurisprudence of Justices
Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy" with Professor Barbara Perry to the
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 4,
1999.
*
Presented
a paper "The Governors and Mayors as Intergovernmental Lobbyists of the
Supreme Court" to
the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 3,
1999.
*
Presented
a paper "The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the American Indian
Nations: The Reorganization Era, 1934-1980" to the Twentieth Century Supreme Court
History Seminar of the Supreme Court Historical Society/Georgetown University
Law Center Institute for Constitutional Studies, Washington, DC, June 14, 1999.
*
The
Habits of Democracy: Visions of
democratic citizenship from Aristotle, James Madison, and Alexis de Tocqueville. Presentation to the Virginia
Citizenship Institute Summer Seminar, June 2, 1999.
*
Presented
a paper "Zoning the City on the Hill:
The Lessons of City of Boerne v Flores for American Public Law
Litigation"
to the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society and Society Association, May 30,
1999.
Judith Evans Grubbs
*
Was
asked to give one of the keynote papers at the annual meeting of the
Association of Ancient Historians May 7-9 at Columbia University. Her talk was on "Sons or
Slaves? The Sale and Abandonment
of children by their parents in late antiquity."
*
Sang
the bass solos in the Schubert Mass in G Major with the Christ Church
Choir (Roanoke) and the Garth Newell Chamber Players on May 16 in Roanoke.
*
Attended
the Alexander Technique Workshop at Sweet Briar, July 13-18. Performed in a participants' concert at
the workshop.
*
Taught
harpsichord, organ and fortepiano at the Suzuki Institute, July 26-August 7, at
Sweet Briar and was the Institute's faculty accompanist. Performed in two Faculty Recitals.
*
Presented
a paper entitled "New Science and Sustainable Development" and chaired a session
at the 4th International Conference on Linking Systems Thinking,
Innovation, Quality, Entrepreneurship and Environment at the University of
Maribor, Slovenia. The paper was
published in the conference proceedings edited by Miroslav Rebernik and Matajz
Mulej. University of Maribor,
Slovenia.
*
Gave
an Invited Presentation on "General Evolutionary Theory and the Environment" at the 43rd
Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences in
Asilomar, California July 1999.
The paper entitled "A General Evolutionary Perspective on Sustainable
Development" was
published in the Conference proceedings.
*
Nominated
and Invited by United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) to be the Honorary Theme Editor for the Life Support
Systems project within the Global Sustainable Development area in June 1999.
Bessie Kirkwood
*
Co-author
with Jean-Yves Royer, Theodore C. Chang, and Richard G. Gordon of "Statistical
tools for estimating and combing finite rotations and their uncertainties", Geophysical Journal
International, March 1999.
*
Is
having a solo exhibition in the Babcock Gallery concurrently with her son Buck
Johnson's show in Benedict.
*
In
August and September, she participated in "In Ink" a group show at
Cudahy's Gallery in Richmond, Virginia, with One/Off Printmakers, of which she
is a founding member.
*
In
September, she participating in another group show, The Nimrod Hall Exhibition
at the James Center, also in Richmond.
*
Is
serving as Chair of the Fiddle Competition at the Richmond Highland Games and
Celtic Festival in October 1999.
*
Made
a joint presentation with Phil Riley of James Madison University on "The 100
Greatest Events in Twentieth Century World History: Adventures in Doing World
History" on
September 11, 1999. The
presentation was based on a book that Greenwood Press will publish, <Term
Paper Resource Guide to 20th Century World History>. The presentation was well received by the group,
the Southern Atlantic Region of the Historical Society (this was the inaugural
meeting for the Southern Atlantic Region).
*
Was
appointed to the Editorial Board of International Scope Review, an interdisciplinary
electronic journal of articles on social and economic transformations and
interpersonal relations in advanced industrial and post-industrial societies
(published in Brussels).
*
Was
appointed by the Council of the American Sociological Association to its Task
Force on the International Focus of American Sociology, made up of scholars
with expertise in international research and teaching who are charged with
making recommendations to the ASA about its teaching materials and annual
conference program.
*
Was
re-appointed Vice President of the board of governors of Ius Primi Viri, an international human
rights education association based on Rome.
*
Was
a delegate to the Annual Meeting of the American Association of University
Professors, Washington, DC, June 8-10.
*
Is
poet of the month (September).
This is the web site:
http://members.aol.com/poetrynet/month
*
Received
a Pushcart Prize, which is an award for the best poems, stories, essays
published in a calendar year. Her
award is for a poem published in Prairie Schooner. It will be included in the Pushcart
Prize Anthology next year.
*
The
Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets, to be published next year by
Wesleyan University Press, will include four poems by Reetika.
*
Ntozake
Shange, author of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The
Rainbow is not Enough, chose a poem by Reetika to be included in The
Beacon Best, to be released later this year by Beacon Press.
*
Received
a fellowship from The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the oldest sort of
writers' conference in the country.
August 1999.
*
Spent
a month in residence at Yaddo, an artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, New
York.
*
Edited
a book of conference proceedings entitled "Women Succeeding in the Sciences:
Theories and Practices Across Disciplines."
*
Presented
"Interest Group Litigation in the Court of the Conqueror: The Native American
Rights Fund in the Rehnquist Court, 1986-1999" to the Annual Meeting of the
Southern Political Science Association, Savannah, Georgia, November 4, 1999.
*
Presented
"Equal Protection: Gender and Sexuality Discrimination" to the "Bill of Rights,
the Courts, and the Law" series sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the
Humanities and Public Policy and Historic Christ Church, Irvington, Virginia,
October 21, 1999.
*
Served
as internal book reviewer for Superintending Democracy for Akron University
Press.
*
Served
as internal article reviewer for "Analyzing Policy Change by the United States
Supreme Court: Combining the Legal and Social Science Approaches" for Political
Science
Quarterly.
*
Performed
Election Day analysis and punditry for WLNI radio, November 2, 1999.
*
Is
the principal investigator for the Kennedy Space Center team responsible for
the calibration and testing of the MECA Electrometer, an instrument designed
jointly by Kennedy Space Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to fly on the
Mars Global Surveyor 2001 Mission lander
*
Gave
an invited talk at the Second Partners in Research and Education Conference,
Kennedy Space Center, October 5-8, 1999, entitled "Electrostatics of Dust in
Martian Atmosphere."
*
Recently
published the following papers:
-"Calle, C.I., "An Experimental Design to
Determine the Electrostatic Properties of Martian Simulant Dust Particles,"
1998 Research Reports, NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, NASA
CR-1999-208546, 1999.
-H.S. Kim, D. Jackson, A. Finchum, R. Gompf, R.
Lee, D. Lewis, M. Parenti, J. Bayliss, J. Rauwerdink, P. Richuso, and C. Calle,
"Study of the Electrostatic Charging and Discharging of Materials in a
Simulated Martian Environment," in Research and Technology 1998 Annual Report,
J. F. Kennedy Space Center, NASA Technical Memorandum 208545, 1998.
*
Presented
a paper "Korean Contributions to North Asian Culture," 4th Annual
International Korean Studies Conference on Koreans Abroad, Yonsei University,
Seoul, Korea, July 27-30, 1999
*
Published
a paper "Tracing the Historical and Cultural Roots of Korean Ethno-Nationalism,"
Acta Koreana,
Vol. 2, July 1999
*
Participant
in VFIC Technology Workshop on Video Technology, at the University of Richmond,
August 9-11, 1999
*
Presented
a paper "Changing Perceptions of U.S.-Korea Relations: From Cold War Big
Brother to Regional Arbiter," 14th Annual Conference of the
U.S.-Korea Security Studies Council, Arlington, Virginia, October 27-29, 1999
*
Presented
a Faculty Voice Recital on October 24, 1999 at Sweet Briar College. The program included the premiere of a
song cycle by Jonathan Green.
*
Ella
Magruder performed "Black Traveller", and Mark Magruder performed in
"Dad's Ties", choreography by Beverley Blossom, at the ContextTheatre
in New York City, Sept. 24-25, 1999.
*
Together
they performed with their dance company, Menagerie, for the Community Arts
Council of Buchanan County, on 5/6/99; for Virginia Highlands Community College
in Abingdon on 5/5/99; in Augusta County -three performances at Stuart's Draft
Middle School 3/3/99; three performances at Stewart Middle School. in Ft.
Defiance, VA 3/2/99; three
performances at Beverley Manor Middle School in Staunton, VA 2/26/99; and one
performance at Amelon Elementary in June 1999. They taught 60 workshops in dance for children in Augusta
Co. VA 6/17-30/99.
*
Gave
two public lectures for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities in October:
one in Orange on the public image of the Supreme Court and one in
Charlottesville on women and the law.
*
Published
an editorial, "Women Gain Rights Under the Constitution" in the Charlottesville Daily Progress.
Stephen Bragaw
*
Will
present a paper "Hawaiian Punch?
Understanding the implications of Rice v. Cayetano on Native American
Sovereignty and Voting Rights" to the Virginia Conference of Political
Scientists, December 4, 1999, Richmond, VA.
*
The
ethnoarchaeology of pastoral sites in the Grevena Region of Northern
Greece. In Transhumant Pastoralism
in Southern Europe: Recent Perspectives from Archaeology, History and Ethnology
edited by Laszlo Bartosiewicz and Haskel J. Greenfield. pp. 133-144. Budapest: Archaeolingua Series Minor 11.
*
Claudia
Chang and Fedor P. Grigoriev 1999.
A Preliminary Report of the 1994-1996 Field Seasons at Tuzusai, an Iron
Age site (ca. 400 B.C. – 100 A.D.) in Southeastern Kazakhstan. Eurasien Antiqua Volume 5, (pages
numbers unknown, pp. 1-20).(published in Berlin, Germany)
Pamela DeWeese
*
Book
manuscript has been accepted for publication by Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. in
New York
*
Will
present a paper at the Luis Goytisolo Seventh Annual International Symposium on
Hispanic Literature on Wednesday, November 24 entitled "El eroticismo y la
bœsqueda del yo en Cielo dividido de Reina RoffŽ." She will interview the author in Madrid on Sunday, November
21.
*
Will
moderate a round table discussion at the same symposium on November 25th.
*
Publication:
"Wilhelm von Polenz's ÔDer BŸttnerbauer' The German Farmer Confronts the Modern
World," Politics in German Literature Festschrift for Frank Ryder. Edited by Beth Bjorklund & Mark F.
Cory, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1998.
*
Publication
with Ralph GrŸneberger, a poet from Leipzig, of a bilingual edition of
GrŸneberger's poetry: Du Bist und Du Bist Nicht (You Are and You are Not). Professor Horwege translated the poems
into English and wrote a commentary about them. The book is available in the Book Shop.
*
Participated
in a seminar on German Script at Moravian College, summer 1999.
*
Traveled
in May to Leipzig to complete editorial work on the above-mentioned
publication.
*
Participated
in a seminar on Teaching German Culture in Charlottesville May 8, 1999.
*
Organized
and Co-Directed the fourth Sweet Briar-Goethe Institute Immersion Weekend for
Germany Teachers in October 1999.
*
Hosted
the poet Ralph GrŸneberger in October 1999. With GrŸneberger he participated in several discussions with
students and in two poetry readings, one at Sweet Briar College and one at the
VCCA.
*
With
Ralph GrŸneberger he participated in the annual Conference of the Foreign
Language Association in Richmond in October, where they presented two sessions
together.
*
Has
recently been elected for a third term as President of the Virginia Chapter of
The American Association of Teachers of German.
*
Organized
and participated with Birgit Schweckendiek from the Goethe Institute and German
writer Sabine Appel in a forthcoming discussion of Appel's recent work: "Goethe
und die Frauen." (December 8, 1999).
*
Chairman
of the Selection Committee for the AATG-PAD scholarship trips to Germany for
high school students.
*
Reviewer
of intermediate German text "Kaleidoskop" for Houghton Mifflin Company,
November, 1999.
*
Outside
consultant and evaluator for German Program self-study at Mary Washington
College, November, 1999.
*
Attended
the 1999 meeting of the Southern Historical Association where he chaired
session number 41 "Belief Systems and Ideologies in Twentieth-Century Europe."
*
Has
been granted a judges license from the American Horse Shows Association (AHSA),
the national equestrian federation of the United States. After being reviewed by the Licensed
Officials Committee she was approved to judge in Hunter and Hunter Seat
Equitation divisions.
February 2000
*
Has
a paper entitled "The Governors and Mayors as Intergovernmental Lobbyists of
the Supreme Court" that has been nominated as Best Paper presented to the 1999
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Federalism and
Intergovernmental Relations Section.
*
Presented
"American Indian Tribal Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court" to the "College
for a day" program co-sponsored by the SBC Denver Colorado Alumnae Association.
*
Appointed
as outside curriculum advisor to the ABA Street Law/Supreme Court historical
Society program for revamping the teaching of civil rights and liberties in the
Washington D.C. public school system.
*
Has
been nominated for the Mednick Memorial Fellowship, Virginia Foundation of
Independent Colleges.
*
In
December, he did a residency in the music department at the University of
Massachusetts that included giving a lecture on his music, conducting
rehearsals, and conducting two of his works on a concert there.
*
In
January, he attended the annual conference of the Conductors Guild in New
York. The Guild is the principal
organization for conductors with membership in all 50 states and 30 other
countries. At that conference, he
was appointed editor of "Podium Notes," their quarterly newsletter. This comes with a concurrent seat on
their board of directors.
*
He
also completed a horn sonata entitled "Hubert's Vengeance," and a cantata for
the spring ensembles' concert called "Shards of Beauty," and will finish a
re-orchestration of another work for that concert during the week of January
24, 2000.
*
Scott
Hyman and collaborators at the Naval Research Laboratory, Caltech, and Kennesaw
State University have had two articles accepted for publication in The
Astronomical Journal: "Discrete Radio Sources in NGC 6946" and "A Wide
Field 90 cm Image of the Galactic Center". The Galactic Center image (http://rsd-www.nrl.navy.mil/7213/lazio/GC/index.html)
also appears in the December 1999 issue of Discover Magazine and October
1999 issue of National Geographic.
*
Conducted
a discussion and book-signing for her two new books on the Supreme Court, The
Priestly Tribe: The Supreme Court's Image in the American Mind and "The
Supremes": Essays on the Current Justices of the Supreme Court of the United
States at Hawley-Cooke Booksellers in Louisville, Kentucky
*
Served
as a panelist on "Media Coverage and the Relationship of the Press to the
Federal Judiciary" at the Judicial Fellows' Reunion in Washington (broadcast by
C-SPAN)
*
Was
elected Vice President of the new Judicial Fellows' Alumni
*
Association
*
Was
appointed Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Program in Health Care, Center for
Human Values in Health Care, Medical College of South Carolina (Charleston), a
program providing clinical experience to mid-career professionals in
health-related careers.
*
Was
appointed co-Editor, International Scope Review, an interdisciplinary
journal of articles on social and economic transformations and interpersonal
relations in advanced industrial and post-industrial societies (published in
Brussels).
*
Has
been invited to present a paper on health and well being at the Tenth World
Congress of Rural Sociology, Rio de Janeiro, August 2000.
*
(Paige Critcher, Joe Monk, John Morgan, and
Laura Pharis)
*
Are
presenting a group art exhibition in the duPont Gallery at Washington and Lee
University from January 17th – February 17th. The faculty presented an artists' talk
on January 17th in connection with the opening.
March 2000
Carlos Calle
*
Carlos
Calle and Martin Buehler of JPL presented a paper entitled "Exploiting the Mars
Surveyor Electrometer for Single Charge Measurements," at NanoSpace 2000
– Nano, Micro Technologies for Space Applications, Johnson Space Center,
Houston, January 24, 2000.
*
Has
been awarded a NASA Kennedy Space Center Grant for $75,000 to undertake a
research project entitled "Electrostatic Properties of Lunar Soil and Dust."
Paul Cronin
*
Judged
the Annual Warrenton Hunter Trials in Warrenton, VA , Saturday, November 27
1999.
*
Gave
two lectures (History of Educated Riding) at the annual meeting of the U.S.
Pony Club held in Baltimore, MD on January 26, 2000
*
Had
an article "The Predicament of Dress: Polyvalency and the Ironies of Cultural
Identity" in American Ethnologist 26, 2 (1999):389-411.
*
Had
a chapter "Civil Lives: Leadership and Accomplishment in Botswana" pp. 192-217
in John and Jean Comaroff, eds., Civil Society and the Political Imagination
in Africa: Critical Perspectives, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,
1999.
*
Book
review of Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent: A South Korean Social
Movement, by Nancy Abelmann (University of California Press, 1996) for American
Ethnologist 26, 1 (1999): 230-231.
*
Book
review of In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African
Community, by Anne M.O. Griffiths (University of Chicago Press, 1997) for American
Ethnologist 25, 4 (1998): 752-753.
*
Screened
applications for the International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships for
the Social Science Research Council in December 1999-January 2000.
*
Presented
the paper "The New Intercalary Headman: Tribes and Electoral Policy in Botswana" for a panel on
Botswana at the African Studies Association annual meeting in Philadelphia,
November 13, 1999.
*
"I
think it must be tribalism': Fighting for Citizenship in Democratic Africa" Paper read at a
session on ÔPostcolonial Subjectivities in Africa' at the 50th
Anniversary ÔJamboree' Conference of the Dept. of Anthropology at The
University of Manchester, October 27, 1999. (The session will be published in an edited volume.)
April 2000
Jim Alouf
*
Walker,
D.C., Gill, C.H. & Alouf, J.L. has in press an article "Mentoring: A bridge
between theory and practice" in the SRATE Journal.
*
In
April 2000, will present a paper at the annual meeting of the American
Educational Research Association.
The paper is entitled "Problems of Beginning Teachers: Insights from
principals, mentors, and beginning teachers" by Walker, D.C., Alouf, J.L.,
& Gill, C.H.
*
Presented
a paper at the Association of Teacher Educators in Orlando, Florida in February
2000. The paper was entitled
"Creating powerful teachers for the 21st century" by Alouf, J.L.,
Gill, C.H., & Walker, D.C.
*
Presented
a paper at the Southeastern Regional Association of Teacher Educators in
Mobile, Alabama in October 1999.
The paper was entitled "Mentoring: A bridge between theory and practice"
by Walker, D.C., Gill, C.H., & Alouf, J.L.
*
Has
been appointed Chair, Legislative and Governmental Relations Committee of the
Association of Teacher Educators for 2000-2003.
Stephen Bragaw
*
Has
received a Mednick Fellowship to partially support his research to study the
development of American Indian tribal sovereignty in the Supreme Court of the
United States.
*
Presented
a paper entitled "States' Rights in the Court of the Conqueror: The Marshall
Court, the Cherokee Nation, and the Nullification Crisis of 1832" to the annual
meeting of the Western Political Science Association in San Jose, California
March 25, 2000.
*
Will
present a paper entitled "Tribal Sovereignty versus State Autonomy in the
Rehnquist Court" to the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association in Chicago, Illinois on April 27, 2000.
*
Was
guest American politics commentator for two 90 minute segments on "The Morning
Line" WLNI radio in Lynchburg, Virginia on March 1st and March 15th.
Carlos Calle
*
Carlos
Calle's group at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and Martin Buehler's group at
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), presented a paper entitled "From Order to
Flight in 18 Months: The Mars 2001 Electrometer Case Study," at the 2000 IEEE
Aerospace Conference in Big Sky, Montana, on March 20.
*
His
project, "Electrostatic Properties of Lunar Soil and Dust," which was approved
in February, has been extended for 2 years and funded for $150,000.
*
Carlos
Calle with Dr. Martin Buehler of JPL put together a team from several NASA
centers (KSC, JPL, and Langley) and academic institutions (Ohio University, the
University of Central Florida, and Colorado State University) to write a
proposal for the Advanced Cross-Enterprise Technologies for NASA Missions. Their proposal, entitled "Dust Free
Surface Research," requests $890,000 to undertake a three-year research program
to develop new technologies for the construction of space materials with low
affinity for dust. The proposal,
written by Carlos Calle with input from the team members, was submitted in
February.
*
Walker,
D.C., Gill, C.H. & Alouf, J.L. has in press an article "Mentoring: A bridge
between theory and practice" in the SRATE Journal.
*
Has
published an article entitled "Creating equity and excellence: Collaborative
teaching in a Ôlinked' field-based setting by Walker, D.C. & Anderson, P.J.
in 1999 in the SRATE Journal. 8(2), 23-27.
*
Published
in 1999 "Putting something in their hands: Teaching planning skills to
preservice teachers (Monograph)." by Anderson, P.J., & Walker, D.C. In C. Penny & W.S. Thomson (Eds.), Excellence
through partnerships: Research in action (pp. 159). (East Carolina
University and Bell South Monograph No. 1). Greenville, N.C.: East Carolina University Central Printing.
*
In
April 2000, will present a paper at the annual meeting of the American
Educational Research Association.
The paper is entitled "Problems of Beginning Teachers: Insights from
principals, mentors, and beginning teachers" by Walker, D.C., Alouf, J.L.,
& Gill, C.H.
*
Presented
a paper at the Association of Teacher Educators in Orlando, Florida in February
2000. The paper was entitled
"Creating powerful teachers for the 21st century" by Alouf, J.L.,
Gill, C.H., & Walker, D.C.
*
Presented
a paper at the Southeastern Regional Association of Teacher Educators in
Mobile, Alabama in October 1999.
The paper was entitled "Mentoring: A bridge between theory and practice"
by Walker, D.C., Gill, C.H., & Alouf, J.L.
May 2000
*
Organized
a session and read a paper "Osservazioni Sull'Approccio Critico E Letterario
Alle Antichita' Romane" during the annual convention of the American
Association for Italian Studies held in New York from April 12-16, 2000.
*
Has
also been able to secure several grants for her students who will spend the
month of August at the University of Lecce taking Italian courses. Tuition,
books, excursions, trips, and room will cost them only $150.00!
*
Delivered
a lecture on the Supreme Court at the Thomas Jefferson Center for the
Protection of Free Expression in Charlottesville in April 2000.
*
Gave
a talk on Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Sweet
Briar Class of 1944 at their reunion in Wintergreen in April 2000.
*
Was
a guest on "Colorado Close Up," an interview-format radio program, discussing
the Supreme Court in April 2000.
Published
an article on John F. Kennedy in THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS (Garland Publishing)
in April 2000.