Faculty kudos

 

College of Business and Economics

George C. Georgiou, Economics, published an article, "Cyprus: Economic Consequences of Reunification," in Mediterranean Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 3, Summer 2009. Duke University Press.

College of Fine Arts & Communication

Peter Lev, Electronic Media and Film, is the 2009 winner of the Jim Welsh Prize for Excellence in Adaptation
Studies. The prize recognizes scholarly work on film and/or television adaptations of literature, drama, and history, and is awarded for cumulative achievment in the field, not for a single work, creative project, event, or short-term effort. The prize was awarded at the Literature/Film Association Conference, which was held Oct. 15-18 at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.

Thom Lieb, Mass Communication and Communication Studies, attended the Online News Association's 10th anniversary conference in San Francisco earlier this month. At the conference, ONA announced a new partnership that Lieb helped launch with the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The project will include video interviews and Web tours of select winners of the annual Online Journalism Awards (given out at the ONA conference).The videos will be featured in a kiosk at the Newseum as well as on sections on both the ONA and Newseum's Web sites. Lieb is tracking down the winners of previous years' competitions and working with ONA board members and judges to pick the best of the best for the exhibit. He also took part in the interviews with this year's winners during the conference. In addition, he helped two TU students through the process of being selected to work in the multimedia student newsroom and getting undergraduate research grants from TU to cover their expenses. Nicole Fallek and Melissa Hale created slide shows, videos and portraits that won accolades from the ONA team. For more information, go to OJA winners a memorable group and Meet the ONA09 Student Newsroom.

College of Liberal Arts

Edwin Duncan, English, was a plenary speaker at the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Texas Medieval Association, held at the University of Texas at Austin, October 23-24. The title of his address was “The English Language: Using the Past to Project the Future.”

Karl Larew, Professor Emeritus, History, has written several novels in retirement. His historical novels—-Paul, Betty, and Pearl; Daddypaul and the Yo-yo War, and Gran'paul's Family—-are a trilogy/family saga covering WWII, Korea and Vietnam. All can be purchased from Amazon and Kindle.

Alan P. Marcus, Geography and Environmental Planning, presented a paper, "The Jeito, Gerson’s Law, and Brazil’s Identity Crisis: Creative Geographies within Brazilian Migration Processes," at the Unsettling Decadence: Crisis in Latin America Conference, held at Johns Hopkins University on Oct. 23.

Fisher College of Science and Mathematics

Honi Bamberger, Mathematics, reports that more than 100 TU students—-a remarkable number of attendees—-preregistered to attend The Maryland Council of Teachers of Mathematics (MCTM) annual conference at NorthWest High School in Germantown, Md., on Oct. 16. Two TU undergraduates, the only pair of student presenters at the conference, conducted a one-hour session.