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Scholarly Activity

August 2005-August 2006

The following is an alphabetical listing by faculty member of scholarly activity. These listings include books, chapters and entries in books, articles in journals, professional presentations, proceedings and other research.

Stephen Anderson
“You Can Produce a Video Tutorial in Under an Hour, Even Your First!” Proceedings of the Association for Small Computer Users in Education national computer conference, Myrtle Beach, SC, June 2006; “You Can Produce a Video Tutorial in Under an Hour, Even Your First!” To be presented in the Computers on Campus track at Innovations 2006, a national multi-faceted conference; The Tablet PC and Multimedia Presentations, a half-day hands-on workshop to be presented at the Innovations 2006, a multi-faceted national conference; "Developing Media-Rich On-Line Learning Materials... Camtasia™ / SnagIt™” Hands-on workshop to be presented at the 2006 Innovations Conference, a multi-faceted national conference.

Ellen Arl
A Poetry Reading: Defining the Poet as Midwestern Event: Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Conference May 2006

Dr. Michael Bacon

Topics in Mathematics and Music “The Goedel Incompletness Theorem” Sumter High School Honors Class Fall 2005; “Algebraic Topology and Group Theory” Sumter High School Honors Class Spring 2005 Sumter, Fugue in D12 Minor AMS/MAA National Meeting. New Orleans, LA. January 2006; A Scholars’ Tea Mathematics and Music USC Sumter.

Dr. Michael Becker
The College Mathematics Journal , Prob.#789 (with C.Cook); Prob.#812; Prob.#817; The Math. Mo. , original problem submitted; The Fibonacci Quart. , Prob. #B-987 (with M.Rose).

Dr. Mary Ellen Bellanca

Revised content of book manuscript, Daybooks of Discovery: Nature Diaries in Britain, 1770-1870, as recommended by referees for University of Virginia Press; edited and formatted MS as required by Press specifications; Contract in hand for 2007 publication by University of Virginia Press of book manuscript Days of Green Discovery: Writing Nature in Nineteenth-Century British Diaries and Journals; "Daphne du Maurier's 'The Birds,'" lecture presented during USC Sumter's Natural Reflections series, October 2005;
Chaired interdisciplinary panel discussion with John Logue and Pearl Fernandes on Daphne du Maurier's "The Birds" during Natural Reflections series, October 2005; Chaired panel at British Women Writers Conference, University of Florida, March 2006;
"Wet and Wild: Bridging the Gap Between English and Biology" (with Pearl Fernandes and Michael Bacon), SENCER Summer Institute, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Cal., August 2006.

Dr. Park Bucker
"`That Kitchen with the Shining Windows': Willa Cather's ‘Neighbour Rosicky' and the Woman's Home Companion," with Appendix of Selections from Concordance of "Neighbour Rosicky" in Willa Cather and Material Culture: Real World Writing, Writing the Real World, Ed. Janis Stout. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005; "The Collision of Public and Private Spaces in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window," Invited Panelist for Architecture Film Series, Columbia, SC, October 2005; Pischik in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (Director Jim O'Connor), Theatre South Carolina, University of South Carolina, November 2005; "‘My Beautiful Protagonists': The Visual Presentation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Magazine Fiction." Accepted for American Literature Association Annual Conference, scheduled for May 2006; Quack in The Country Wife by William Wycherley (Director Jim Sullivan), Theatre South Carolina, University of South Carolina, February 2006; Director for "Stupid Cupid: A Staged Reading against Valentine's Day” as Compiled and Performed by Students of THEA 340," USC Sumter, February 2006; Concordance, The Country Wife by William Wycherley, compiled 2006; Concordance and collation for Our Town by Thornton Wilder, compiled 2006.

Dr. Pearl Fernandes
An NSF-CCLI grant for $75,920 was awarded to Meredith College, of which $10,656 has been subcontracted to USC Sumter; Scientific Abstracts/Proceedings Reynolds J, Fernandes PR. 2006. Peromyscus gossypinus from Poinsett State Park: Molecular and Phenotypic Characterization. Abstract of presentation to the South Carolina Academy of Sciences, Vol LXVIII, Pg. 104; Fernandes PR, Bellanca ME, Bacon M, West CA, Logue JF. 2005. Wetlands from the Literary, Biological, Mathematic and Economic Perspectives. Abstract of poster presentation at the Emerging Issues along Urban/ Rural Interfaces Conference, Book of Abstracts, Pg. 117; Fernandes PR, Bellanca ME, Bacon M, West CA, Logue JF. 2005. Wetlands from the Literary, Biological, Mathematic and Economic Perspectives. Abstract of poster presentation at the Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities Summer Institute. Poster Abstracts. Fernandes PR, Smith B, Palchinsky J, Mecham J. 2006. “HIV/AIDS in a Global Context.” Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities Conference, San Jose, CA; Fernandes PR, Bellanca E, Logue J, Bacon M. 2006. “Wet and Wild: Bridging the Gap between English and Biology.” Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities Conference, San Jose, CA; Fernandes PR. 2006. “HIV/AIDS from the classroom to the field.” Invited Classroom Presentation. School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; Fernandes PR. 2006. “Coordinated Natural History Courses- Bridging the Gap between English and Biology.” Science Education Conference, Duke University, NC; Fernandes PR. 2005. “Connecting Contexts to Content to Improve Learning.” Invited Panel. Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities Conference, San Jose, CA.

Bernard Fitzgerald
Translation of seven poems by Francisco Alvarado Juarez from Spanish to English

Dr. Rigoberto Florez
Introduction to matroids I. USC Columbia College of Mathematics, September 2005;
Introduction to matroids II - USC Columbia College of Mathamatics, September 2005;
Rigoberto Flórez, "Lindstrom's conjecture on a class of algebraically non-representable matroids". European Journal of Combinatorics 2005; Rigoberto Flórez and D. Forge, "Minimal non-orientable matroids in a projective plane," submited 2005; Found a new type of matroid called "harmonic matroids," of which full algebraic matroids are an example. Discovered how to construct a projective plane in harmonic matroids. Have a construction of projective plane in full algebraic matroids as a corollary of this construction. (This paper was mostly written at SUNY.); Working on representations of the "complete lift matroid" and "Bias matroid" as a subgeometry of a finite projective plane, for which I found a characterization for the representability for these matroids in a projective plane. (About 80% of this project has been made at SUNY); (Next project 2006) The harmonic conjugate is a very good tool for working in algebraic matroids, but it is not well understood how and why this concept works. Plan to study this concept and try to make some advances on the following problem: Given three collinear points in a full algebraic matroid, does there always exist a harmonic conjugate of one of them with respect to the other two remaining points? Want also to find a combinatorial formula for the harmonic conjugate; “Harmonic Matroid as a Tool to Prove a Lindstrom Conjecture” (presentation of a paper) USC Columbia, College of Mathamatics, September 2005; Harmonic Conjugation in Harmonic Matroids. (Submitted to be published December 2005.); “A Construction of a Projective Plane in a Harmonic Matroid.” The Mathematical Association of America, Joint mathematics meeting 2006. San Antonio, TX; Rigoberto Flórez and D. Forge, "Minimal non-orientable matroids in a projective plane". This paper was accepted to be published. Journal: Journal of Combinatorial Theory (JCTA). October 2005; Minimal Non-orientable Matroids in a Projective Plane.” Meeting: The XXVIII Ohio State-Denison Mathematics Conference, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH May 2006; Writing a book about intermediate algebra with Professor Rose. Currently completed 2 chapters of 10. It is a two year project.

Cara-Lin Getty
Scholarship: Exhibits, Galleries, Museums visited "Clay, Fire, Salt and Wood: Don Reitz," Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC, December 2005; Artist Grant, Sumter County Cultural Commission, Sumter, SC, July-September 2005; "USC Sumter Collects", Umpteenth Gallery, University of South Carolina Sumter, August - October, 2005. Painting from the collection of Dr. Eric Hauser; Scholarship: Exhibits/ Galleries/Museums Viewed "Visual Voices...Multimedia Narratives: Pat Fowl" Florence Museum, Florence, SC, November 2005; Scholarship: Exhibits/Galleries/Museums viewed "Seventeen Annual Miniature Art Competition Exhibit," Florence Museum, Florence, SC, November 2005; Scholarship: Exhibits/Galleries/Museums visited "The Collector: Mark Schieferstein," Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville, NC, December 2005;
Scholarship: Exhibits/Galleries/Museums visited "The Sumter Artists Guild Show," Sumter Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC, October 2005; Scholarship: Exhibits/Galleries/Museums visited "Rococo to Renaissance: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art," The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, December 2005; Scholarship: Exhibits/Galleries/Museums visited "Thirties Glamour and the Allure of Bakelite: Selections from the Patty Gorelick Bakelite Collection," Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC, December 2005; Scholarship: Exhibits, Galleries, and Museums Viewed: " My America: Art from The Jewish Museum Collection 1900-1955," Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, January 2006; Scholarship: Exhibits, Galleries, and Museums Viewed: "My America: Art from The Jewish Museum Collection 1900-1955," Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, January 2006; Scholarship: Exhibits, Galleries, and Museums Viewed: "Juan Logan: Close Inspection, Sumter Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC, December, 2005; Scholarship: Exhibits, Galleries, and Museums Viewed: "The South Carolina WaterColor Society Traveling Exhibit," Sumter Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC, January 2006; Scholarship: Exhibits, Galleries, and Museums Viewed: "Thirties Glamour and the Allure of Bakelite: Selections from the Patty Gorelick Bakelite Collection," Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC, December 2005;

Dr. Jean-Luc Grosso
“Boycotts Around the World: What Would Lord Boycott Think?” with Smith, T. Proceedings of the 4th Global Conference on Business & Economics, 2005, Oxford, England; “Negotiating for Equality: The Role of Bargaining in the Male-Female Wage Differential,” with Smith, T. Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference of the International Association of Business and Public Administration Disciplines Proceedings;
“From Lord Boycott to Mickey Mouse: A classification model to analyze the impact of consumer boycotts around the world,” with Smith, T. European Journal of Scientific Research, 9(3), 2005, 51- 57; “Green Hair Need Not Apply,” with T.L. Smith. Invited Lecture presented at the monthly meeting of the Sumter Kiwanis Club, November 2005;
“The influence of culture on the gender wage gap: Have we been lost in translation?” with Smith, T. Accepted for publication in A. Gupta, (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2006 Global Conference on Business and Economics, Cambridge, England, June 2006;
“The influence of culture on the gender wage gap: Have we been lost in translation?” with Smith, T. Accepted for presentation at the 2006 Global Conference on Business and Economics, Cambridge, England, June 2006; "Messy learning: Incorporating technology into business courses and making it work,” with Smith TL and Grosso SL, Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Conference of the International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines, Orlando, FL. January 2006; “The Effects of Dismissals Protection on Employment: Another Look;” “A decaf latte will do: Innovation keeps your business students awake.” with Smith, T. L. and Grosso, S.S. International Journal of Education Research, 1 (1), 2006, 9- 18; “Explaining the gender gap: Is culture the missing link?” with Smith, T. L. International Journal of Business and Economics.

Sheryl S. Grosso
“A decaf latte will do: Innovation keeps your business students awake.” with Smith, T. L. and Grosso, J-L. International Journal of Education Research, 1 (1), 2006; “Messy learning: Incorporating technology into business courses and making it work,” In A. Hagen, (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Conference of the International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines, Orlando, FL, January 2006. with Smith, T. L., Grosso, J. L.

Dr. Hayes Hampton
Article on Bengali poet Ramprasad Sen for Dictionary of Literary Biography volume on Southeast Asia; “Women and Literacy.” Invited Lecture. Phi Delta Kappa (association for professional educators). Sumter, SC, March 2006.

Dr. Rebecca Ann Hillman
Submitted a solution to problem B-1008 in The Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 43, No.4, November 2005; Hillman, Rebecca A., "Symmetric Brace Algebras and A-infinity Structures", National Conference, Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 2006, San Antonio, TX; Met in San Antonio with Mohomed Elhamdadi from the University of South Florida on possible correspondences between Symmetric Brace Algebras and Quandle Knot Theory; Submitted a solution to problem 818 in The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 37, No.1, January 2006. Coauthored with Charles K. Cook; Spoke at the North Carolina State University Alumni Panel. February 2006; Rebecca A. Hillman, mathematics and Charles K. Cook, mathematics emeritus, USC Sumter, "Some Jump Sum Patterns for the Rows of Pascal's and Related Triangles," Twelfth International Conference on Fibonacci Numbers and Their Applications, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA; Submitted a solution to problem 11233 in The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 113, No.6, June-July 2006. Coauthored with Charles K. Cook.

Dr. Andrew Kunka
"Fritz Lang's Metropolis." Invited presentation. 35mm Architecture Film Series. Nickelodeon Theatre, Columbia, SC. September 2005; Essay on May Sinclair and Modernist Illness. Seminar on Modernism and Illness. Hillary Clark, chair. The Seventh Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association; Chicago, Illinois, November, 2005; Chair. Panel on Illness as Modernity: Images of Hysteria, 1865-1913. The Seventh Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association; Chicago, Illinois, November, 2005; Review of Dynamic Psychology in Modern British Fiction by George M. Johnson. Modern Fiction Studies, forthcoming; "Getting It Straight: Heterosexuality as a Cure for Shell Shock in Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey Novels." First World War and Popular Culture Conference. Newcastle, UK. March-April 2006.

Dr. Nancy MacDonald
Macdonald, N. E.(Spring 2006) "Reflections on being named SCPA's Outstanding Teacher of the Year", in Teaching Psychology Matters, an edited column of Feedback, a publication of the South Carolina Psychological Association

Dr. Salvador Macias
”We Know That Animals Can Think. The Question Is, Do They (Know It)?” Review of the book The Missing Link In Cognition: Origins Of Self-Reflective Consciousness. Psyc CRITIQUES- Contemporary Psychology, APA Review of Books, 50 (40), Article 2. October 2005; Column Editor (2005). Teaching Psychology Matter’s Feedback: Newsletter of the S.C. Psychological Association. Issues: Spring, Summer, Fall & Winter;
”What I Did On My Summer Vacation.” Teaching Psychology Matters. Feedback: Newsletter of the S.C. Psychological Association. p 10. Fall 2005; “Random Thoughts: Teaching Resources and Other Professional Interests.” Teaching Psychology Matters, Feedback: Newsletter of the S.C. Psychological Association. p. 7. Winter 2005; Granting Agency: Society for Teaching of Psychology (American Psychological Association) Small Grants Program. Title: "Sumter Area Consortium of Psychology Teachers." Principle Coordinator: Salvador Macias, III, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology. Impacted Programs: Sumter Area Consortium of Psychology Teachers (In development) PACE (Program of Accelerated College Education) Planned Purpose of Grant: Facilitate the development and implementation of Psychology Teachers’ Consortium; ”Psychology Teachers' Consortium: A Preliminary Report.” Meeting of the South Carolina Psychological Association, Greenville, SC. April 2006; ”Item Development Workshop: Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards, Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology.” Thirteen Continuing Credit hours. Clemson, SC. May 2006;
Test Reader/Grader/Table Leader (Supervisor position). Advanced Placement Psychology Exam, Educational Testing Service. (2006, May 30-June 9). Daytona Beach, FL; ”An Introduction to Cognitive Development for the (Very Advanced) Beginner.” Review of the book Introduction to Cognitive Development. PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology, APA Review of Books, 51 (14), Article 13. April 2006; Psychology Teachers Consortium. Organizer and chair for meetings of high school and college psychology teachers for purpose of professional exchanges and teaching support. Supported by STP (Society for the Teaching of Psychology, APA, Division 2) Small Grants Program. April 2006; Column Editor Teaching Psychology Matters, Feedback: Newsletter of the S.C. Psychological Association. Issues: Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter 2006; Introductory Psychology Syllabi. In Kristin Whitlock (ed.) AP Psychology Teacher's Guide. Princeton, N.J., Educational Testing Service; (In press). Course Organization: Psychology 101 Syllabus, In K. Whitlock & The College Board (Eds.), AP Psychology Teacher's Guide. New York: The College Board.

Dr. Robert Nerbun
A Study of Classical Mechanics, Lab Manual for General Physics I Lab, Eighth edition, Aug. 2005 A Study of Classical Mechanics, Lab Manual for Essentials of Physics I Lab, Eighth edition, Aug. 2005 A Study of Waves, Electromagnetic Theory, and Modern Physics, Lab Manual for General Physics II Lab, Eighth edition, Jan. 2006. A Study of Waves and Electromagnetic Theory, Lab Manual for Essentials of Physics II Lab, Eighth edition, January 2006; Provided to Family Honor, a non-profit pro-chastity organization in Columbia, SC, approximately 60 hours of mentoring and two four-hour program presentations ad a part of the Real-Love and Real-Life Program; Physics 101 Lecture Notes: Physics of How Things Work, Bob Nerbun, 1st edition, August 2006; Physics 201 Lecture Notes: Classical Mechanics, Bob Nerbun, 1st edition, August 2006; Physics 211 Lecture Notes: Classical Mechanics, Bob Nerbun, 1st edition, August 2006;

Dr. James Privett
President for the South Carolina Academy of Science

Dr. Eric Reisenauer
"Millennialism and Modernism in Great War Britain," accepted for delivery to the First World War and Popular Culture Conference, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, England, March-April 2006; Conducted research at the British Library, Colindale Newspaper Library , and private collections in England, May-June 2006; Received SPAR Grant to conduct research in Great Britain for Project entitled "Of Arms and Armageddon."

Dr. Michele Reese
Following Phia, a book of poems, by WordTech Editions, published August 2006; “Stargate Atlantis Reality Check” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in the South’s Annual Conference; "Much Ado: A Celebration of Women" at the Columbia Museum of Art; Research and Productive Scholarship Grant for "Over Her Shoulder;" Featured Poet for the 2006 Poetry Summit: Poetry and Writing South Carolina at the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; "Documenting Bruises." Desire Street, forthcoming August 2006; "Battling the World of Publishing in the 21st Century," 2006 Poetry Summit: Poetry and Writing South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia SC.

Dr. Maitland Rose
Maitland Rose and Michael Becker, "Another Toss", Problem 987, The Fibonacci Quarterly, 43(3), 279-280, August 2005; Problem H-635 The Fibonacci Quarterly Journal; Finite Mathematics. Three chapters completed; College Algebra. One chapter completed.

Dr. John L. Safford
Invitation to Philosophy: Issues and Options, 10th edition. (With Stanley Honer, Thomas Hunt, and Dennis Okholm.) Wadsworth, 2006; How Should I Know: A Brief History of Epistemology. (Manuscript complete. Seeking publisher); A Philosopher Goes to Vietnam. Anthology Project Shaw Library. (Published in electronic format: pdf. Pending hard copy publication); "T.V. show had educational value." The Item. Letter to the Editor. January 2006. p.6A; Honor, Hunt, Okholm, Safford. Invitation to Philosophy: Issues and Options, 11th edition. Belmont, CA. Thomson-Wadsworth, pending.

Dr. Teresa Smith
“From Lord Boycott to Mickey Mouse: A classification model to analyze the impact of consumer boycotts around the world,” with J.L. Grosso. European Journal of Scientific Research, 9(3), 2005, 51- 57; “Green Hair Need Not Apply,” with J.L. Grosso. Invited Lecture presented at the monthly meeting of the Sumter Kiwanis Club, November 2005;
“Messy learning: Incorporating technology into business courses and making it work,” with J.L. Grosso and S.S. Grosso. In A. Hagen, (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Conference of the International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines, Orlando, FL, January 2006; “The influence of culture on the gender wage gap: Have we been lost in translation?” with J.L. Grosso. In A. Gupta, (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2006 Global Conference on Business and Economics, Cambridge, England, June 2006; “Explaining the gender gap: Is culture the missing link?” International Journal of Business and Economics, with Grosso, J. L.; “A decaf latte will do: Innovation keeps your business students awake.” International Journal of Education Research, 1 (1), 2006, 9- 18.with Grosso, J. L. and Grosso, S.S.

Presentations in Science Education and Research

Fernandes PR, Smith B, Palchinsky J, Mecham J. 2006. “HIV/AIDS in a Global Context.” Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities Conference, San Jose, CA; Fernandes PR, Bellanca E, Logue J, Bacon M. 2006. “Wet and Wild: Bridging the Gap between English and Biology.” Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities Conference, San Jose, CA; Fernandes PR. 2006. “HIV/AIDS from the classroom to the field.” Invited Classroom Presentation. School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; Fernandes PR. 2006. “Coordinated Natural History Courses- Bridging the Gap between English and Biology.” Science Education Conference, Duke University, NC; Fernandes PR. 2005. “Connecting Contexts to Content to Improve Learning.” Invited Panel. Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities Conference, San Jose, CA.

SOURCE: USC SUMTER OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND EFFECTIVENESS