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During winter break, Michael Veum (physics) visited a laboratory at National Central University in Jung Li, Taiwan, to lend expertise in the development of a high resolution calorimetry experiment. An Assistant Professor of Physics, Dr. Veum joined the Millsaps faculty in 1997. |
Sciences J. Michael Galaty (soc./anthro.) presented a slide lecture, “Archaeology in Albania: Challenges and Prospects,” as part of Mississippi Archaeology Week. Galaty has just published an edited book (with a co-editor) titled Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces: New Interpretations of an Old Idea, published in the University of California Institute of Archaeology monograph series. Nancy Hopkins (chem.) attended the North American meeting of the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics in Nashville where she gave a presentation titled “The Effects of the Phytochemical Glyceollin on Estrogen Receptor Binding and MCF-7 Cell Growth.” Sarah Lea McGuire (bio.) and one of her students, Brett Carter, presented their most recent findings on fungal cell cycle control at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in Wash- ington, D.C. Connie Schimmel (edu.) completed a presentation in Little Rock on deaf students titled “Tools and Techniques for Successful Mainstreaming.” Schimmel and Sandra Edwards (edu.), who teaches American Sign Language as an adjunct professor, completed a second training for the implementation of their reading program for deaf students at the Arkansas School for the Deaf. Bob Shive (comp. sci./math) gave the opening address at the ACS Symposium, “Toward Information Fluency in the Liberal Arts,” at the ACS Technology Center at South- western University. Debra Bagwell (comp. ser.), Tom Henderson (lib.), R. W. McCarley (com. sci.), and John Sandstrum (Lib.) also attended the ACS symposium. Tim Ward (chem.) was chosen Program Chair for the Mississippi Section of the American Chemical Society. Johnnie-Marie Whitfield (chem.) is on sabbatical at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. She was selected as one of the first two Chemical Education Scholars at CHF. Ward and Whitfield conducted four different workshops at the Mississippi Science Teachers Association annual meeting in Vicksburg with assistance of 21 K-8 science teachers with whom they have been working in the Millsaps Science Teachers' Institute program. PREVIOUS PAGE | PAGE 1 OF 1 | NEXT PAGE |
