Faculty/Staff News

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
DAVID SHI served as keynote speaker for Founder's Day at Centre College in Danville, Ky., January 20 and received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. During 2001, Shi's columns appeared in numerous newspapers, including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Raleigh News & Observer, Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, Washington Times and Chicago Tribune. His book, The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture, has been reissued by the University of Georgia Press. Most recently, Shi has published columns in The Christian Science Monitor, The Greenville News, The Charlotte Observer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Philadelphia Inquirer. This spring, the University of South Carolina Press will publish a collection of Shi's speeches and essays titled Beyond the Bell Tower: Reflections on Learning and Life. A.V. HUFF, JR., presented a lecture at the Atlanta Furman Club's Winter Gala February 9. He will attend the Council of Deans Meeting of the Associated Colleges of the South at Centenary College February 22-23 in Shreveport, La. MICHELLE R. SHAIN, a Greenville City Council member-at-large, received the Leadership Greenville Platinum Award (2001) and was named one of Greenville's 25 Most Influential Leaders (2002) by The Greenville News.

ART
TERRI BRIGHT will have a solo exhibition of photographs at the Washington University School of Art in St. Louis, Mo., in March, and in September she had a photographic exhibition at the University of California, Berkeley Extension.

BIOLOGY
JOE POLLARD conducted research at Oxford University in England during a sabbatical from July through December. In December, he presented a paper titled "Spread of metals through an invertebrate food chain as influenced by a metal-hyperaccumulating plant" at the annual meeting of the British Ecological Society. Now on campus for winter term, Pollard will return to Oxford for five months beginning in March.

CONTINUING EDUCATION
BRAD BECHTOLD is pursuing his Ph.D. in education at Clemson University and recently received an education scholarship from The Carolinas Society for Training and Development. Scholarships are awarded on the basis of involvement in the organization and pertinence in degree to the training and development profession.

ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
TOM SMYTHE has an article in the winter issue of the Journal of Bank Accounting and Finance titled "Managing interest-rate risk with limited resources," which he co-authored with John Fulmer and Greg Henry. An article titled "Growing sales and losing cash: assisting your small business customer with cash flow management, written by Smythe and co-authors Fulmer, Howard Finch and Tom Payne, appears in the winter issue of the Commercial Lending Review. Smythe will have another article in the spring issue of the Journal of Financial Research titled "Gains to mutual fund sponsors offering multiple share class funds." Co-authors are Vance Lesseig and Michael Long.

EDUCATION
TOM CLOER presented a research paper, "The relationship of teachers' self-perceptions and classroom practices to children's self-perceptions as writers," at the annual conference of the American Reading Forum in December. It was co-authored by Furman senior Mary Ellithorp. Cloer's article, "Educating Esme: Trauma, travail, and treasures from the trenches," has been published in Multiple Perspectives in the Millennium, a publication of the American Reading Forum.

EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
JUDY BAINBRIDGE spoke on the history of the Greenville Woman's College at a Greenville Senior Action meeting December 7. Bainbridge's book, Building the Walls of Jerusalem: John DeWitt McCollough and his Churches, was dedicated at the Church of the Advent in Spartanburg December 9.

ENGLISH
GILBERT ALLEN received the 2001 Porter Fleming Fiction Prize for his short story "Speed Dating" in September. Allen also had two new poems published in the fall issue of the Cumberland Poetry Review. NICHOLAS RADEL published an article in the fall issue of Cinema Journal titled "The transnational ga(y)ze: Constructing the East European object of desire in gay film and pornography after the fall of the wall." Radel also published "Perestroika?: (Dis)articulating gay identity in American film and drama at the Millennium" in Essays on American Studies at the Millennium. His book review of Introduction to English Renaissance Comedy by Alexander Leggatt was published in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England.

HEALTH & EXERCISE SCIENCE
SI PEARMAN gave a presentation titled "Epidemilogy of melanoma patterns" with 2001 Furman graduate Carley Howard at the American Public Health Association in Atlanta, Ga., in the fall. He also made a presentation at the American Public Health Association titled "Health habits of academically talented minority students," with Brandi Marsh'01, Cristina Achem '02, Kelly Rook '02, and Judith Chandler of Continuing Education.

HISTORY
DAVID SPEAR co-edited the fourth edition of Medieval Europe: A Short Sourcebook.

MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
JOHN ROBERTS is chairing the United Way of Greenville County's Community Involvement and Awareness Committee for the year 2002. Twelve people serve on the committee.

MATHEMATICS
DOUGLAS RALL attended a conference titled "Recent trends in graph theory, algebraic combinatorics, and graph algoriths" in Bled, Slovenia, September 24-28. He presented an invited talk titled "On bounds for dominating Cartesian products," based on research conducted during the fall with Bert Hartnell of Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Rall gave the presentation again at a special session of the American Mathematical Society meeting at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga on October 6. DAVID PENNISTON's research paper, "3-regular partitions and a modular K3 surface," appeared in the journal Contemporary Mathematics in January. The paper was co-authored by Jeremy Lovejoy of the University of Wisconsin.

MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
BILL PRINCE conducted Spanish oral proficiency interviews in Alicante, Spain, December 10-16, for a research project sponsored by the American Council on The Teaching of Foreign Languages and Council on International Educational Exchange. On January 19, Prince presented a workshop titled "Interpersonal and presentational modes: Teaching and evaluating speaking and writing in the foreign language classroom" at Coastal Carolina University.

MUSIC
JOHN BECKFORD attended the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Nashville, Tenn., November 15-17. Five Furman students accompanied him for the event. ROBERT CHESEBRO conducted three performances of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker at the Peace Center for Performing Arts with the Carolina Youth Symphony and the Carolina Ballet Theatre November 24-25. On January 19, JAY BOCOOK conducted the Lassiter High School Band (Atlanta), and CHESEBRO was clarinet clinician/guest artist for a three-day symphonic band clinic. MARK KILSTOFTE has been selected as a finalist for the Dale Warland Singers' (DWS) 2002 Choral Ventures program. Chosen from over 250 applicants from 43 states, Kilstofte and three other composers will receive commissions to write choral works for the ensemble's Choral Ventures Reading Session, after which one of the composers will win a $7,000 commission for a new work to be premiered during DWS' 2003-04 season.

PHILOSOPHY
THOMAS O. BUFORD presented a paper titled "Institutions, background, and trust" to the Personalist Discussion Group of the American Philosophical Association, in Atlanta, Ga., on December 28. Buford has also been appointed to a three-year term on the Committee for the Teaching of Philosophy for the American Philosophical Association.

PHYSICS
DAVID MOFFETT attended the 199th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C., the week of January 7. In collaboration with the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) in Rosman, N.C., Moffett joined in two presentations: a report on the astronomical facilities at PARI and, a report on the School of Galactic Radio Astronomy (SGRA). Moffett is currently implementing a radio pulsar-monitoring project in collaboration with BILL BAKER on one of PARI's two 85-foot radio antennas. It will also be used by Furman physics students and visiting astronomers. For more information on PARI and the SGRA, visit www.pari.edu.

POLITICAL SCIENCE
ELIZABETH SMITH co-authored a paper with Eric Riedel titled "Persistence of political attitudes: Symbolic versus nonsymbolic attitude stability" that was presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco, Calif., August 29. BRENT NELSEN, JAMES GUTH and CLEVE FRASER co-wrote an article titled "Does religion matter? Christianity and public support for the European Union," published in European Union Politics. TY TESSITORE directed a seminar titled "Socrates on law, piety and freedom," in Charleston, S.C., January 17-20.CHRISTOPHER BLACKWELL (Classics) also participated.

POLITICAL SCIENCE/ASIAN STUDIES
KATE KAUP presented a paper titled "Empowering the disabled: The China disabled persons' federation" at the Southeastern Conference of the Association of Asian Studies January 19 in Chattanooga, Tenn. She also served as chair and discussant on a panel titled "Religious Diversity and Cultural Differences in Asia."

PSYCHOLOGY
CHARLES BREWER is serving a three-year term as chair of the Advanced Placement Psychology Test Development Committee. He was a keynote speaker for the Education Leadership Conference sponsored by the American Psychological Association in Reston, Va. "An interview with Charles L. Brewer" appeared in the Journal of Psychological Inquiry. GIL EINSTEIN was appointed to a second term on the editorial board of the Journal of Experimental Psychology. Einstein and Mark McDaniel (University of New Mexico) recently received a one-year, $130,000 extension on their research grant from NASA. In January, Einstein presented a colloquium at Georgia State University. Einstein and JOHN BATSON wrote biographical chapters about Charles Brewer for The Teaching of Psychology: Essays in Honor of Wilbert McKeachie and Charles Brewer. PAUL RASMUSSEN wrote an article on depression published in the January issue of the Greenville Magazine.

RELIGION
SHELLY MATTHEWS presented a paper in November at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Denver, Colo., titled "Persecution Complex: Understanding Matthew's rhetoric of violence without positing 'the Jews' as agents of violence." DAVID RUTLEDGE presented a paper in June at the Polanyi Society Symposium in Chicago, Ill., titled "'Conquer or Die?' Intellectual controversy and personal knowledge." The paper will be published in the proceedings of the symposium Tradition and Discovery in the spring. Rutledge and MARK STONE (Philosophy) taught four sessions on "Environmental Ethics" for the River Basins Research Initiative program at Furman, and he will be on the leadership staff of A Vital Faculty Institute February 22-24, sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) at California State University, Long Beach.

STUDENT SERVICES
J. SCOTT DERRICK presented leadership workshops titled "Two hours to a team" and "Fanning the values flame" at the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) Southeast Regional Conference in Birmingham, Ala., October 4-7. Derrick will present "Two hours to a team" at the NACA National Convention in Indianapolis, Ind., in February. Derrick hosted the NACA Southeast Regional Showcase Selection Meeting June 20-24, where 55 performance showcases for the Southeast Regional Conference were selected from an applicant pool of 400 submissions.