Scholarship and Recognition
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, associate professor of English reports that of the 25 children's books she recommended for 2008 award considerations, 19 made the Notable Book for a Global Society award list; 2 made the Caldecott honor award list; 1 made the Newbery honor award list; 2 made the Coretta Scott King award list, and one made the Theodor Seuss Geisel award list. She received more than two hundred and fifty books from several publishers from across the nation to review for this purpose. She is currently reviewing books for the Children's Africana Book Award. This award will be announced in May.
Eric Rawson
Eric Rawson, associate professor of exercise science and athletics, recently published the paper "Creatine supplementation does not reduce muscle damage or enhance recovery from resistance exercise" in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. Michael Conti, M.S., a graduate of the BU exercise science graduate program was a co-author. The research was funded by a BU Research and Disciplinary Grant (to Rawson) and grants from the National Strength and Conditioning Association, the Gatorade Sports Science Institute, and the BU Graduate School (to Conti).
Mark Noon
Mark Noon, assistant professor of English, had an article, "'It ain't your color, it's your scabbing': Literary Depictions of African American Strikebreakers," selected to be reprinted in a forthcoming book, Social Issues in Literature: Workers' Rights in Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle." The book will be published in the second quarter of 2008 by the Gale Group, a division of Cengage Learning. Social Issues in Literature is a new series of books focused on the intersection of literature and sociology in major works of literature. Noon's essay originally appeared in African-American Review in 2004.
Lee Millard
Lee Millard, Haas Gallery associate, has work in two included in two shows. One is the International Contemporary Art Gwangju Artvision at the Gwangju Museum of Art in Korea until Feb. 20. And the o.ther is Fakes at the Red Saw Gallery in Newark, N.J. until Feb. 21.
Marilyn K. Miller
Marilyn K. Miller, associate professor of exercise science, is a contributing author on the newly revised textbook: "Total Fitness & Wellness" published by Pearson/Benjamin Cummings. In addition, Miller consulted with the Pearson/Benjamin Cummings company to produce a set of 80 exercise videos to accompany the textbook.
Roy Smith
Roy Smith, director of Quest and the Corporate Institute, gave the keynote talk at the meeting of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources meeting in State College. His talk was about explorations in Omo River Valley in Ethiopia and the first ascent of the last unclimbed 20,000 foot mountain in the Andes.
Gifford Howarth
Gifford Howarth, assistant professor of music, spent January 18-20, in Phoenix, Ariz., presenting several percussion workshops throughout the area. These included a session on 4-Mallet technique for the School of Music at Arizona State University, an adjudicating workshop for the state wide WGAZ indoor percussion circuit, and hands-on clinics at two area high schools.
William Calhoun and John Polhill
A paper by William Calhoun (right) and John Polhill (left), associate professors of mathematics, was recently accepted for publication. Their article, "Perfect Distance Forests," will appear in the Australasian Journal of Combinatorics.
Ralph M. Feather
Ralph M. Feather, Jr., assistant professor of educational studies and secondary education, is an author of the supplemental materials for the 2009 edition of The Act of Teaching by Cruickshank, Jenkins, & Metcalf. Dr. Feather wrote all chapter questions, PowerPoint presentations and Praxis questions material. The material is published by McGraw-Hill and it the textbook used for the Principles of Teaching course at Bloomsburg University.