Faculty and staff news
Writing Fellows Anna Dounce, ’09, and Caitlyn Paley, ’09, with faculty mentor Dr. Joe Essid, director of the writing center, presented their projects at a workshop at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in New York City in March. The students’ projects, “On the Road: A Multimedia, Multigenre Writing Project in a Gen-Ed Lit Class,” were part of a half-day faculty-student workshop about multi-media learning in the college classroom. Dr. Richard Selfe, a pioneer in the field of computers and writing, invited the Richmond team to participate.
University Librarian Jim Rettig organized and spoke in a panel presentation “The Reference Question: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?” during the Association of College and Research Libraries’ biennial national conference in Baltimore on March 30. His chapter, “Reference Service: From Certainty to Uncertainty,” appeared in vol. 30 of the annual Advances in Librarianship.
The American Philosophical Society has awarded Dr. Carol Summers, professor of history, a sabbatical fellowship to support her research and writing on colonial Uganda.
Each fellow is given a $30,000–$40,000 stipend, which Summers will use during her 2007–08 sabbatical to finish her book, tentatively titled Restless Tongues: Radical Politics in Late Colonial Uganda. It examines the moral claims and political values of Uganda’s 1940s and 1950s opposition activists.
The society awards about 20 sabbatical fellowships annually out of hundreds of applications and has granted fellowships in the humanities and social sciences since 1998.
Porcher Taylor, associate professor of paralegal studies, was interviewed and quoted in a front-page story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch about business ethics and national security in an article on the ITT corporation criminal case. ITT is the first major U.S. defense contractor to be convicted of violating the Arms Export Control Act, when it illegally sent classified night-vision technology used by the U.S. military to China, Singapore and the United Kingdom. He was a guest analyst on the same topic during a live broadcast on WRVA Radio.
Several members of University Communications won awards in the CASE District III competition. Winning an Award of Excellence for the law magazine were Dan Kalmanson, Rob Walker, Tim Roberts, Gordon Schmidt and Sam Tannich. Winning an Award of Excellence for the alumni magazine were Dan Kalmanson, Karl Rhodes, Tim Roberts, Sam Tannich and Gordon Schmidt. The alumni magazine also won a special merit award for magazine publishing improvement.
The University’s annual report won a special merit award. Contributors included Dan Kalmanson, Tim Roberts, Jan Hatchette, Sam Tannich, Phillip Gravely, Gordon Schmidt, Mary Jane Mann and Debbie Hardy.