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Faculty Laurels 2005-2006
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Greensboro College Students and Professors at Assistive Technology Conference
Greensboro College Professor Contributes to Volume Titled ‘Scandalizing Jesus?’ Greensboro College Patrols ‘College Branch’ Stream
Greensboro College Professor Studies in Southwest China
Greensboro College Professor Recognized for Literacy Work
Greensboro College Presents Colloquium on Creative Writing
Greensboro College Theatre Professor Is SPAM Guest Artist Greensboro College Presents Colloquium on Body Marks
Greensboro College Professor Participates in Physics Workshop
Greensboro College Professor Presents Paper at Lincoln Center
Grant Awarded to Greensboro College Library McKirdy and Nayar of Greensboro College Recognized Professionally
Greensboro College Students and Professors at Assistive Technology Conference
Two education professors and three students from Greensboro College attended the 15th Annual North Carolina Assistive Technology Expo held in Raleigh Dec. 1 and 2.
The expo, titled “RecreATe the Possibilities,” featured two days of exhibits, workshops and other activities, with a keynote speaker from the National Center on Physical Activity and Disability in Chicago.
Greensboro College education students Laurie Wood, Pat Routh and Jacqueline Cianfrani attended the conference, along with education professors Beth Hair and Susan Hemphill.
Wood and Routh both were presenters in poster sessions. Wood, a senior special education major, prepared and presented the poster “Strategies for Using the Super Talker Communicator.” Routh, a graduate student in special education, presented her poster titled “Talking in Pictures.”
All the students were able to see and experience firsthand hundreds of examples of the latest assistive technology devices. Many conference attendees as well as some of the presenters had disabilities themselves and were using the technologies — vital in special education — that participants were there to learn about.
For more information about the expo or about special education at Greensboro College, contact Hair at 272-7102, Ext. 454.
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Greensboro College Professor Contributes to Volume Titled ‘Scandalizing Jesus?’
Greensboro College Jefferson-Pilot Professor of Religion W. Barnes Tatum has contributed to a collection of 18 essays commemorating the 50th anniversary of the publication in Greek of Nikos Kazantzakis’ novel “The Last Temptation of Christ.”
Recently released by the Continuum International Publishing Group based in London and New York, the volume of essays is titled “Scandalizing Jesus?”
Other contributors include Peter Bien, the translator of the novel into English in 1960, and Martin Scorsese, the adaptor of the novel to the screen in 1988. Tatum’s essay is titled “The Novel, the Four Gospels, and the Continuing Historical Quest.”
Tatum has written widely on subjects related to Jesus in history, in the gospels and in film. He has appeared as a television commentator on the American Movie Classics channel, The History Channel and EO television in the Netherlands.
He received the B.A. degree from Birmingham-Southern College, the M.L.S. degree from UNCG and the B.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University. He joined the faculty of Greensboro College in 1973.
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Greensboro College Patrols ‘College Branch’ Stream
Faculty and staff members joined 18 Greensboro College students and biology professors Calhoun Bond and Rich Mayes in patrolling the stream known as College Branch on Oct. 24.
The goals of the group were to record the stream’s overall condition, note any signs of wildlife and remove any trash from the stream banks.
The dedicated band of patrollers removed enough trash from the stream valley to fill 23 large trash bags in the first hour as part of the city’s Adopt-a-Stream program. Aside from the plentiful litter, some unusual items were found, including a foam boat gunwale bumper (six feet long) and lots of coaxial cable, a sign of the times.
Bond reported that the water was in generally good condition, with plenty of small fish in the deep riffles.
College Branch is a permanent stream on the eastern border of the main campus of Greensboro College. The college adopted College Branch in 2001 and patrols the stream twice a year.
Bond describes the stream to students this way: “College Branch is a rare bit of green space that has strategic proximity to downtown as well as a little-used railroad spur that runs along side its banks.”
“City plans are being developed to have the railroad and stream valley converted as part of an urban trail system for downtown Greensboro. Because it is a steward of its namesake stream, Greensboro College is an important stakeholder in the stream, its maintenance and its future.”
The Greensboro College biology faculty has used the stream for years as a resource for wildlife and other samples in several courses, including ecology, environmental science, natural history and ornithology.
Sponsored by the Greensboro College Department of Natural Sciences and Village 401, the college’s community outreach program, the stream walkers used trash bags provided by the city’s Water Resources Division.
For further information, contact Bond at 272-7102, ext. 353.
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Greensboro College Professor Studies in Southwest China
Greensboro College Professor of Psychology Ann Walter-Fromson has returned from studying in Southwest China this past summer.
Walter-Fromson visited and studied in China through a summer program of the Council on International Educational Exchange, with financial support from a Greensboro College Continuing Contract Summer Faculty Development Grant.
With a mission of helping people gain knowledge and develop skills for living in a globally interdependent and culturally diverse world, CIEE is the leading U.S. non-governmental international education organization. It offers educators a choice of 60 study-abroad programs in more than 30 host countries — including work programs in Australia, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand and teaching programs in China and Thailand.
Greensboro College is a member of CIEE through the college’s International Studies Program.
While in China, Walter-Fromson visited historic and sacred sites, went to five university campuses — attending lectures at four of them — and visited places of environmental significance, including the Moon Bear Protection Center, the Giant Panda Breeding Research Institute and an ancient irrigation site.
She was part of the CIEE seminar titled “China’s Southwest: Culture, Society and Environment.” According to CIEE: China’s southwestern provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan have often been described as the “real China” for their rich indigenous customs, colorful ethnic minority cultures, charming small towns and villages, and stunning landscape.
Since her return, Walter-Fromson has prepared digital slide-slow presentations for the Greensboro College community as part of the International Faculty Development Seminar (Sept. 2) and for the general public at the T. Gilbert Pearson Audubon Society evening program (Sept. 8).
Walter-Fromson earned the A.B. degree from Oberlin College and the M.Ed. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University. She joined Greensboro College in 1989.
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Greensboro College Professor Recognized for Literacy Work
Greensboro College Professor of English Judy Cheatham has been elected to the North Carolina Literacy Association Board of Directors and re-elected to the board of Reading Connections, which provides adult literacy programs for Guilford County.
Also a founding board member of Reading Connections, Cheatham currently serves as dean of the Greensboro College adult education and graduate programs.
She recently appeared on a UNC-TV education forum examining diversity and professional development, speaking about non-native English-speaking children and families in public schools across the state.
Cheatham also recently was the keynote speaker for Literacy Day at the N.C. State ESL Symposium in Raleigh, and she conducted an all-day workshop for new ESL teachers at the Southeastern Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Conference in Myrtle Beach on Sept. 24.
For more information about adult education at Greensboro College, contact Cheatham at 272-7102, ext. 212.
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Greensboro College Presents Colloquium on Creative Writing
Greensboro College Instructor in English Valentina Gnup will present the second faculty colloquium of the 2005-2006 academic year from 3-4:30 p.m. on Oct. 21 in Proctor Hall West 109.
Her presentation, titled “Stop Making Sense: A Case for Creative Writing,” is free and open to the public.
An accomplished author, Gnup earned the B.A. degree from California State University, Fullerton, and the M.F.A. degree from Antioch University. She joined Greensboro College in 2003.
For more information about the Greensboro College faculty colloquia, contact Dean of the Faculty Paul Leslie at 272-7102, ext. 276.
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Greensboro College Theatre Professor Is SPAM Guest Artist
Greensboro College Professor of Theatre John Saari was the guest artist at the Society of Props Artisan Managers conference July 30.
The conference, held at North Carolina School of the Arts in the Performance Place, attracted attendees with whom Saari had worked in regional professional theatres, such as Charles Killian from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Mark Bissonette from the Geva Theatre in New York, Mark Walston and Doc Manning from Actor’s Theatre of Louisville and Sandy Strom from Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. Others in attendance knew Saari from his work with the Oregon and Utah Shakespeare Festivals and with the American Repertory Theatre.
Saari taught about polymer coatings, primers, varnishes and scenic paint use on the myriad of substrates that the artisans find themselves employing in their creations for the stage.
Saari earned the bachelor of arts degree from Lake Superior University and the M.F.A degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He joined the Greensboro College faculty in 1990.
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Greensboro College Presents Colloquium on Body Marks
Greensboro College Director of Library Services Christine Whittington will present the first faculty colloquium of the 2005-2006 academic year from 3-4:30 p.m. on Sept. 16 in Proctor Hall West 109.
Her presentation, titled “From Ink to Ink: Adventures in Tattoo Research and Publishing,” is free and open to the public.
Whittington’s presentation will lead to a discussion of her book, coauthored with Kathlyn Gay, titled: “Body Marks: Tattooing, Piercing, and Scarification,” which was presented the 2004 Voices of Youth Advocacy Award from the American Library Association’s Young Adult Library Services Association.
The national School Library Journal deems the book “A compelling overview of tattooing, piercing, and other body modifications,” adding that its contents “trace the roots of body decorations and modifications from ancient cultures where tattoos were marks of ownership for slaves or punishment for criminals to today’s trends where celebrities and teens often sport both tattoos and piercings.”
There will be an informal book signing immediately following the colloquium.
Whittington earned the B.A. degree from Purdue University and the M.S.L.S. degree from Clarion University of Pennsylvania. She joined Greensboro College in 2002.
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Greensboro College Professor Participates in Physics Workshop
Greensboro College Physics Instructor Gordon Shepherd participated in the 2005 AAPT Summer Meeting, the semiannual meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, hosted by the University of Utah in Salt Lake City Aug. 6-10.
AAPT was established in 1930 to ensure the dissemination of knowledge of physics, particularly by way of teaching. The Association currently has more than 11,000 members in 30 countries.
Annual Meetings in January and August give members from around the world the opportunity to network, discuss innovations in teaching methods and share the results of research about teaching and learning.
Shepherd — who is the president-elect for the North Carolina section of the AAPT — participated in three of the workshops at this meeting.
Shepherd earned the B.S. degree from Guilford College and the M.Ed. degree from UNCG. He joined the Greensboro College faculty in 2001.
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Greensboro College Professor Presents Paper at Lincoln Center
Greensboro College assistant professor of English and communication studies Sheila Nayar recently presented her paper “Ecriture Aesthetics: The Literate Contours of Art-Cinema Narration” at the Media Ecology Association Annual Convention held at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus in midtown Manhattan.
Titled “The Biases of Media,” the meeting was the 6th annual convention of the MEA. Nayar presented her paper as part of the session titled “Media, Consciousness, and Culture.”
Media ecology looks into the matter of how media of communication affect human perception, understanding, feeling and value, as well as how our interaction with media facilitates or impedes our chances of survival.
During the conference, Nayar was presented the Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article in the Field of Media Ecology. She won the award for her article “Invisible Representation: The Oral Contours of a National Popular Cinema,” which presents the notion that the formula for the popular cinema in India has been shaped fundamentally by the thoughts and structures of oral language. It was published in the Spring 2004 edition of “Film Quarterly.”
In January of this year, Greensboro College awarded Nayar the Virginia Clarke Gray Award, designed to recognize an exemplary faculty member from among the junior faculty of the college.
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Grant Awarded to Greensboro College Library
The State Library of North Carolina has awarded Greensboro College a grant in the amount of $10,000 through its “Strengthening Public and Academic Library Collections Grant.”
Grant recipients were announced on June 10, and the funds will be dispersed later this summer. The grant is funded by the Library Services and Technology Act (managed by the Institute of Museum and Library Services), which distributes federal money to libraries and museums.
According to Jennie Hunt, reference librarian at the James Addison Jones Library at Greensboro College, the college plans to use the money to buy more print books for the Curriculum Materials Center, a library collection that focuses on teacher education.
Hunt referred to recent expansion of education programs at Greensboro College, including graduate programs in elementary education, special education and teaching English to speakers of other languages.
For more information, contact Hunt at 272-7102, ext. 378.
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McKirdy and Nayar of Greensboro College Recognized Professionally
Greensboro College Associate Vice President for Technology Pam McKirdy has been elected to serve as vice chair/chair elect of the NCREN (North Carolina Research and Education Network) Advisory Committee.
NCREN provides high-speed Internet, video, audio, data and computing services to universities and other institutions.
McKirdy has served on the committee as a representative of Greensboro College and North Carolina independent colleges and universities for several years, focusing her efforts on keeping costs affordable and services available for smaller member organizations.
McKirdy earned the B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the M.L.S. degree from Simmons College. She joined Greensboro College in 1994.
Greensboro College Assistant Professor of English and Communication Studies Sheila Nayar presented her paper “Inscrutable Reality: The Literate Contours of Art-Cinema Narration” at the MiT4: The Work of Stories conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May.
The fourth Media in Transition conference explored storytelling as a cultural practice, and participants were informed that Nayar’s latest article, “Dis-Orientalizing Bollywood: Incorporating Indian Popular Cinema into a Survey Film Course,” was recently published in the May 2005 issue of “New Review of Film and Television Studies.”
Nayar earned the B.A. from Concordia University and the M.F.A. from Columbia University. She joined the Greensboro College faculty in 1999.
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