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Catherine Freis (Classics) co-authored the classical Greek textbook Ancient Greek Alive, published by the University of North Carolina Press. “This book sparkles,” writes professor Elizabeth Lyding Will of Amherst College. “It is challengingly thorough, and the reading selections are not only lively and entertaining but very effective.”
Robert McElvaine (History) did behind-the-scenes work on the ABC News “The Century” episode of “Nothing to Fear: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Great Depression,” which was televised on April 8. The idea for one of the main approaches in the show, Letters to FDR, was from McElvaine’s book, Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the “Forgotten Man.” |
Al Bishop
and Eugene Cain (chem) represented
Millsaps at a two-day symposium held at USM to honor Dr. Charles McCormick (B.S.
1968) who was named Bennett Distinguished Research
Professor in Polymer Chemistry.
Kristen Brown (phil.) spoke to the Sartre
Society on “Sartre and Embodiment” at the May
meeting of the American Philosophical Association in New
Orleans. Christopher Brunt (music)
performed an all-Bach organ recital at Highland Park UMC
in Dallas, Texas. Gail
Buzhardt (mod. lang.) spoke at the State
Government Lawyers’ C.L.C. Seminar. Her lecture was
“French Colonial Life on the Mississippi Gulf
Coast.” David
Culpepper (Acct.) and Kimberly Burke (Acct.)
published “The Tax Theory of Executive Compensa-
tion: A Synthesis of Research Studies” in the
Journal of Account- ing and Finance Research. Don Fortenberry
(stud. aff.) is on the Mayor’s Millennium Committee
and the Minority Task Group of the Department of Mental
Health. Janice Jordan (core
curr.) was tapped into the theater honorary Alpha Psi
Omega. John Gaines
(Adm.) was quoted and Millsaps was mentioned in In Time
College Planner, published by Time magazine. Michael Galaty (Anthro.)
spent six weeks in central Albania directing fieldwork
for the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project, a
three-year project investigating patterns of interaction
between Greek colonists and native Illyrian tribes. Stan Galicki
(geo.) was a project geologist for ACS-sponsored
archeological field work in Elmali Plain, Turkey. Eric Griffin’s
(Eng.) dissertation, “The Temper of Spain: The
Forging of Anti-Hispanic Sentiment in Early Modern
England” is the University of Iowa’s entry in
the national dissertation competition sponsored by the
Council of Graduate Schools and University Microfilms
International. Shannon Grimsley and Shane
White (adm.) served as regional
Coordinators for the 1999-2000 Mississippi Association of
Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers PROJECT
ACCESS, a program to coordinate college recruiting and
college fairs. Jamie Harris
(geo.) participated in a Workshop for
Early Career Faculty in the geology sciences in Bozeman,
Mont. John McCarty and
Connie Schimmel (edu.) implemented a
reading remediation research project involving the
Special Education Teachers in the Dyslexia and Related
Disorders program for the Meridian Public Schools. Julie Maisel (Music)
has been awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts in Flute
Performance from Florida State University. Suzanne Marrs (Eng.)
made a talk entitled “Beyond Mississippi:
‘Other Places in Eudora Welty’s Photographs and
Fiction’” at the University of Chicago in
conjunction with an exhibition of Welty’s
photographs. Andrea Miller (Stud.
Aff.) was one of 12 facilitators chosen to work with
Greek leaders at the Undergraduate Interfraternity
Institute held at DePauw University in Green Castle, Ind.
Charles Moore
(pol. sci.) and his wife Patricia Hoban-Moore co-authored
“Inside Government Reinvention: HUD Community
Builders” which was presented to the American
Political Science Association annual conference in
Atlanta. Nash Noble (music)
performed for the Jackson Chaminade Music Club. Judith Page
(Eng.) published “Jerusalem and Jewish Memory:
Judith Montefiore’s Private Jour- nal” in the
1999 issue of Victorian Literature and Culture. Dora Robertson (divis.)
was an extra in the filming of The Rising Place. Connie Schimmel (edu.)
presented at the Convention of American Instructors of
the Deaf Biennial Meeting in Los Angeles. Schimmel, Marlys Vaughn (edu.),
and Carolee Larsen
(soc.) presented a symposium reviewing the Depart- ment
of Education’s assessment continuum at the
Conference of the Association for the Advancement of
Educational Research.Ed
Schrader (geo.) conducted a four-week
interdisciplinary field course in the Yucatan, Mexico.
Schrader, Jamie Harris, Lori Eversull, and Al Bishop (chem.)
conducted geochemical/geophysical investigations of the
Soda Butte Valley in Yellowstone National Park in
collaboration with NASA. Cindy
Strine (stud. aff.) was a facilitator at
the National Student Government South Workshop in New
Orleans. John Thatamanil
(rel. stud.) participated in a conference of the
Comparative Religious Ideas Project at Boston University.
The conference was the culmination of a four-year
research project that will result in three volumes with
SUNY Press. Thatamanil is a contributing author to Volume
1. Johnnie-Marie Whitfield (chem.),
Jim Purser (chem./comp.
stud.), Nona Olivia (class.),
and Bob Shive (math./comp.
stud.) presents at the Inaugural Symposium for the new
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