The following faculty members presented at the 35^th Annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference on March 23-25 at Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Cece Conway, convener for North Caroline Mountain Apprenticeships and Face-to-Face Transmission and Exchanges, and presented “Black Banjo Gathering Reunion—Farthing Concert 2010 (Video) and Presentation”

Donna Corriher presented “Superstition or Biblical Instruction: Grandma Had it All Figured Out”

Lisa Baldwin presented “Amy Michels: Continuing the Western North Carolina Traditions Learned from the Hicks Family and Other Friends”

Katherine Ledford, featured presentation convener for Delaware Indian ancestry and from the Endless Mountains region of Appalachia—“The Significance of Powwows to Native Americans in Pennsylvania’s Appalachia,” and presented “The Wide Reach of the First Appalachian Studies Program: Thirty-Three Years of Teaching, Learning, and Community Engagement at Appalachian State University”

Janice Pope, convener for Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mountaintop Removal Convener and presented “Mining the Issues for Coal for General Education”

Dave Haney, convener for Inside and Outside: Bluegrass Music in the Academy, and presented “Teaching and Learning Bluegrass at Appalachian State: Practical and Theoretical Issues”

Tom Hansell presented Appalshop Media in Times of Transition: Documenting the Moment and Engaging Residents in Conversations for the Future

Charna K. Howson (Office of Research and Sponsored Programs) has been appointed chapter advisor for the Society of Research Administrators International (SRA) Board of Directors. Howson is one of four non-voting advisors who will meet with the SRA board during regular board meetings. She will be responsible for communicating board decisions to SRA chapter presidents and for communicating chapter concerns to the board.

Barbara H. Zaitzow (Government and Justice Studies) attended a symposium at Duke Law School (April 12-13) where she participated in the “Realizing Criminal Justice Reform Together” event. The two-day event involved the preview screening of a documentary on wrongful convictions in North Carolina and attendance at professional workshops on legislative and legal advocacy. The goal of the symposium was to link student leaders from North Carolina with mentors and to unify criminal justice organizations across the state that are working toward criminal justice reform throughout North Carolina. Zaitzow, who also serves as the faculty advisor for the Appalachian Student Chapter of the American Correctional Association (ASCACA), recently returned from a special tour of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola Prison) that she organized for five ASCACA members as well as students and faculty from Grambling State University (April 19-22).

Terry Edwards (Office of Internal Audits) and his wife, Debra, were named Volun­teers of the Year by the N.C. Department of Public Safety’s Adult Correction Division. Nineteen other volunteers from across the state were nominated for the award from among the thousands of individuals who serve in the state’s 66 prisons. Edwards is one of the founding members of High Country Prison Ministry, which supports a community-funded chaplain for the prison.

Dr. Michael Lane (FL&L) was honored for his contributions to French language education at the statewide meeting of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) held March 31 in Concord.  Lane is an associate professor of Francophone studies. He received the N.C. AATF chapter’s French Teacher of the Year award for his work with students at all levels, including students studying French in classes linked to general education, advanced-level French honors students, and for his teaching in Francophone language and cultural studies at the master’s level.

In addition to his commitment to quality teaching and learning, Lane was praised for his contributions outside the classroom, including his recent work co-authoring a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad grant with the U.S. Department of Education. The grant funded 12 North Carolina teachers of French in a one-month cultural and language immersion in Senegal, where participants developed multiple curricular projects now being implemented in K-12 French and area studies programs across the state.

Andrew Ferguson’s (sociology and government and justice studies) and Barbara H. Zaitzow’s (government and justice studies) co-authored article “Ronin: A Police Officer’s Fall into the Federal Correctional System” was published in the most recent issue of Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (Vol. 20, No. 2):77-95.

Phillip Russell (physics and astronomy) is co-editor of “Nanofabrication Using Focused Ion and Electron Beams: Principles and Applications” with Ivo Utke and Stanislav Moshkalev. The text has been published by Oxford University Press.

Alan J. Hauser’s (philosophy and religion) article “Reformed Christian Interpretation” will be published in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation in 2013. He also published an article derived from his current research for Logos, an electronic media publisher, titled “A Brief History of Biblical Interpretation.”

Edelma Huntley (Research and Graduate Studies) was elected vice president and president-elect of the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools (CSGS) at the annual meeting in February. CSGS is an organization of more than 200 graduate schools in 15 Southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Huntley also has been appointed to the 11-member Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Services Committee for a three-year term.

Timothy J. Smith (anthropology) has been selected as the next book review editor for American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association (starting January 2013).

Sarah Greenwald and Jill Thomley (mathematical sciences) co-edited the 3-volume work titled the Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society, which was published by Salem Press in October 2011 and has been named a “Best Reference 2011″ by Library Journal in their March 1, 2012 issue. Among the approximately 200 authors of individual articles, those from Appalachian State University include Mark Ginn, Greg Rhoads and Kevin Shirley of Mathematical Sciences, Jeff Goodman of Curriculum and Instruction, Holly Hirst, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, and Phillip Johnson, Director of the Math and Science Education Center. For more information, see
http://salempress.com/store/reviews/lj_math_society.htm

Dan Caton (physics and astronomy) is writing a monthly column for the Charlotte Observer’s SciTech section.  His first column is available at www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/03/18/3108599/facebook-fact-defies-gravity-and.html

Albert L. Harris (CIS) served as lead guest editor of Volume 23(3) of the Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE). The topic of the special issue was “Ethics and Social Responsibility in IS Education.” Joining him as guest editors were Michael Lang from the National University of Ireland and Dave Yates, from the University of Maryland. JISE is the leading academic journal on Information Systems Education and is sponsored by the Education Special Interest Group (EDSIG) of the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP). Harris serves as the secretary of the International Academy of Information Management (IAIM) and is a Fellow in AITP’s EDSIG.

Matthew Robinson (GJS) recently attended the annual meeting of the North Carolina Criminal Justice Association (NCCJA), where he served on the NCCJA Board of Directors as immediate past president. He also presented his paper, “Just the Facts: North Carolina’s Death Penalty System According to the Data,” to the panel titled “Issues in Corrections and Punishment,” a panel he also chaired. Robinson also presented the plenary session titled, “Innovative Uses of Technology to ‘Teach’ Controversial Material.” Robinson will be leading a revision of the organization’s constitution and by-laws as well as serving as webmaster of the organization’s website.

Zack Murrell (BIO) and Michael Denslow (GHY) held a technical workshop for 26 museum curators and young scientists from around the country Feb. 27-29. The three-day workshop was held in the Geographic Information Science Teaching Laboratory in Rankin Science Building. The topic was georeferencing of museum collections. Georeferencing is the process of converting a text description of a place into geographic coordinates (latitude, longitude). The instructors came in from University of California Berkeley and Tulane University.

Andrew M. Koch (GJS) and Paul H. Gates (COM) recently published “Medieval America: Cultural Influences of Christianity in The Law and Public Policy,” Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books (2012).

Kim Q. Hall (P&R) gave an invited lecture titled “On the Subject of Hormones: Female Masculinities, Queer Phenomenology, and Aging” at the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics at UNC-Charlotte Jan. 26. The lecture was part of the center’s series on Advancing Women and Minorities in the Academy: Feminism and Critical Race Theory. In addition, Hall’s article, “‘Not Much to Praise in Such Seeking and Finding’: Evolutionary Psychology, the Biological Turn in the Humanities, and the Epistemology of Ignorance,” has been published in Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy.

Charles Oswald (Walker College of Business) has been named an inaugural member of the North Carolina Bar Association Pro Bono Honor Roll for providing legal services to those in the community who are unable to pay.

Mary M. Cavanaugh and Deborah P. Trivette ( Environmental Health, Safety, and Emergency Management) recently completed advanced respiratory protection training offered by the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) in Anniston, Ala. Their training included three days of lecture and hands-on practice with equipment such as supplied-air breathing apparatus (SCBA); chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE) respirator use and selection; and state-of-the-art fit-testing equipment.

Tim Ludwig (Psychology) is listed among 101 leaders in the field of industrial/environmental health and safety in the journal Industrial Safety & Hygiene News.

Matthew Robinson (GJS) had his chapter titled “Spatial Aspects of Campus Crime at a Regional Comprehensive University” accepted to appear in Campus Crime: Legal, Social, and Police Perspectives (3^rd Ed.), edited by John Sloan and Bonnie Fisher. The piece is co-authored with Sunghoon Roh, formerly of Appalachian.

Albert L. Harris (CIS) recently was elected secretary of the International Academy of Information Management (IAIM), the Special Interest Group for Education (SIG-ED) of the Association of Information Systems (AIS). AIS is an international organization of Information Systems educators with more than 6,000 members from around the world. As AIS’s SIG-ED, IAIM emphasizes the education mission of IS educators in AIS. As a member of the IAIM Board of Directors, Harris will participate in all governance activities of IAIM, in the planning of IAIM’s annual research conference, held every December, in SIG-ED’s efforts to emphasize education in AIS’s many conferences and activities, and in the other business of IAIM.

Lisa S. McAnulty (Nutrition and Health Care Management), David C. Nieman (HLES), Dru A. Henson (BIO), Alan C. Utter (HLES), and Steven R. McAnulty (HLES) published the “Effect of blueberry ingestion on natural killer cell counts, oxidative stress, and inflammation prior to and after 2.5 hours of running” in the Journal of Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism (2011) Dec 36(6): 976-84.

John Craft (TEC) was presented an award during the Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering Conference banquet on Nov. 11, 2011, in Cleveland, Ohio. He was recognized for exemplary contributions and service to the association as president of the Graphics Division during 2009–11.

The Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) sets standards for academic program accreditation, personal certification, and professional development for educators and industry professionals involved in integrating technology, leadership and design.

This organization facilitates interaction between industry and faculty who have specific research interests to advance technology commercialization. ATMAE also provides opportunities for industry to enhance accreditation standards and make a difference in educational outcomes.