All Faculty Highlights

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November 2009:

Kevin Thomas an undergraduate in the UCF Physics Department, earned an American Physical Society Fellowship. The $4,000 award will go toward his work with Professor Costas Efthimiou. They are looking at how the study of films can help or hinder the understanding of scientific theories.

November 2009:

Kimberly Voss,  an assistant professor of Journalism in the Nicholson School of Communication, has been awarded one of four grants by the American Journalism Historians Association. Voss’ grant will support a multimedia encyclopedia for the teaching and research of women in journalism history.

October 2009:

Pam Thomas was one of two University faculty members selected as Large Class Faculty Fellows by the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning.  Pam was selected along with Alisha Jonowsky from Psychology.  They will provide support for those who teach large classes (defined as >100 students) through workshops, consultations, and by facilitating a teaching circle. Teaching Circles meet bi-monthly in the Faculty Center.  Meetings include the sharing of ideas and conducting discussions of the literature on how to be successful with large class instruction.

October 2009:

Pam Thomas was one of two University faculty members selected as Large Class Faculty Fellows by the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning.  Pam was selected along with Alisha Jonowsky from Psychology.  They will provide support for those who teach large classes (defined as >100 students) through workshops, consultations, and by facilitating a teaching circle. Teaching Circles meet bi-monthly in the Faculty Center.  Meetings include the sharing of ideas and conducting discussions of the literature on how to be successful with large class instruction.

September 2009:

In July, Dr. Graham Worthy, Biology traveled to Haulien, Taiwan to represent UCF at the official signing of a Memorandum of Agreement with Far Glory Ocean Park.  This MOA will facilitate joint research activities and the exchange of researchers and open up new opportunities for marine research in Taiwan.

September 2009:

Dr. Robert C. Chandler, director of the NSC, delivered a General Session presentation titled Pandemic! Crisis Communication Challenges and Solutions, at the 2009 Fall World Conference on Disaster Recovery.   The conference was held September 13-16 in San Diego, Calif.  The theme was Strategies for a Successful Business Continuity Program.

September 2009:

Social Science Research, edited by Jim Wright in the UCF Department of Sociology, has just experienced its 6th “impact factor” increase in a row.  The ISI impact factor score is based on citations to work appearing in a journal and is the most widely accepted indicator of journal quality.  SSR now ranks 15th among the 100 journals in sociology included in the Thompson/ Web of Science rankings, 4th if specialty journals such as Demography, Criminology, Marriage and the Family, and the like are excluded.

August 2009:

Dr. Sen Shivamoggi gave a lecture on Hall Magnetohydrodynamics at University of Tromso, Norway. He have a lecture on Hall Magnetic Field Reconnection at University of Umea, Sweden.

August 2009:

Dr. Arlen F. Chase, Pegasus Professor & Chair, was recently interviewed on Fox news about the Maya 2012 prophecy. Please click here to watch the footage.

July 2009:

In July, Dr. Graham Worthy was an invited participant in an international symposium on “Developing Conservation Strategies for *Sousa chinensis* in Taiwan” held at National Taiwan University in Taipei.  He presented a paper on “The application of stable isotope and fatty acid signature analysis to assessing habitat utilization and feeding habits of *Sousa* in Taiwan” and participated in 2 days of planning sessions.

July 2009:

In July, Dr. Graham Worthy, Biology traveled to Haulien, Taiwan to represent UCF at the official signing of a Memorandum of Agreement with Far Glory Ocean Park.  This MOA will facilitate joint research activities and the exchange of researchers and open up new opportunities for marine research in Taiwan.

July 2009:

In July, Dr. Eric Hoffman and his student Rosanna tursi were written up in several news article about their work on the conservation genetics of the Lower Keys Marsh Rabbit (AKA, the Playboy bunny).

July 2009:

Mr. George Bagley and Dr. Tim Brown have co-authored a manuscript "Words on the Market: Consent Theory and the Public Interest," which has been accepted for publication in the "Communication Law Review."  The paper addresses the conceptual paradigm for public interest regulation in electronic media.

July 2009:

Dr. Harry Weger attended the Smart Marriages Conference held at the Shingle Creek Resort in early July.  At the conference he received training to teach the PREP marriage education curriculum from the founders of the program, Howard Markman and Scott Stanley. The PREP curriculum teaches communication skills that help married couples manage conflict, helps increase intimacy and commitment, and improves couples' overall satisfaction with their marriage.

July 2009:

Dr. Kimberly Voss and UCF Journalism Graduate Christine Harper co-authored a paper Litigation Rather than Enlightenment: Unlocking the News-room Doors for Women Journalists in the 1970s and 1980s.  The paper has been accepted for presentation at the 2009 American Journalism Historians Association Confer-ence October 7 - 10.

July 2009:

Dr. Sally Hastings paper, "E-Priming the Listener: Sensitizing Students to Listening for Verbal Aggression," will be published in the upcoming issue of the International Journal of Listening.  This pedagogical essay describes a method for teaching interpersonal commu-nication students to effectively recognize verbally aggressive cues that sometimes preceed physical aggression.

July 2009:

Dr. Robert Chandler has been selected for the Cambridge WHOS WHO, among Executives, Professionals and Entrepreneurs.

July 2009:

Dr. Kimiko Akita's paper "The Japanese Dowry Ritual of Tansu: Dehistoricising Women's Lives " was accepted to the 32nd annual Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender conference at Loyola Marymount University, in Los Angeles, Calif., Oct. 15 - 18.

June 2009:

Dr. Rosalyn Howard has been featured in a news article entitled: Uncovering St. David's Native Indian Heritage.

June 2009:

Dr. Sen Shivamoggi gave a lecture on Two-dimensional Hydrodynamic Turbulence at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. He gave a lecture series on Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence and Magnetic Field Reconnection at Riso National Laboratory, Denmark. He gave a lecture on Hall Magnetic Field Reconnection at University of Oslo, Norway.

June 2009:

In 2008/2009 Harry Weger published three refereed journal articles, won two competitive paper awards and chaired two thesis defenses. He joined the editorial boards of Argumentation and Advocacy as well as Communication Research Reports and served as the NCA representative to the Alta Conference on Argumentation steering committee. Dr. Weger also served on the UCF Faculty Senate and on the College of Science Graduate Studies and Research committee.

June 2009:

Congratulations to Dr. John Schultz for being promoted to Associate Professor effective Fall 2009.

June 2009:

Congratulations to Dr. Tosha Dupras, Associate Chair & Graduate  
Coordinator, on being awarded the Teaching Incentive Program [TIP]  
Award for 2008.

June 2009:

Dr. Robert Chandler has been invited to address managers at the recently merged Delta Airlines and Northwest Airlines Management Conference on July 17. His “Disaster Recovery Strategy and Emergency Crisis Communication” and “Effective Distance Communication and Issue Resolution” presentations will draw upon his research in emergency and crisis communication.

June 2009:

Chandler presented an international Webinar "Brand Rehab:  How to Restore your Reputation after a Crisis" on June 16.

June 2009:

Ann Miller is spending three weeks in Nairobi conducting research on the impact of ethnicity on patient-provider communication in Kenya, a year after post- election violence brought the nation to the brink of civil war along ethnic lines.

June 2009:

Dr. Kimberly Voss's article, "Carol Sutton and the Louisville Courier-Journal: The Problem of Being First," has been accepted for publication in the journal American Journalism (scheduled for Winter 2010 publication).

June 2009:

George Musambira and Jonathan Matusitz have had the following two refereed papers accepted for presentation at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) annual conference in Boston, Mass. to be held August 5-8:

George Musambira and Jonathan Matusitz’s International Communication Division (ICD) paper "Communication Technology and Culture: Analyzing Selected Cultural Dimensions and Human Development Indicators" examines the extent to which Hofstede's cultural dimensions of Individ-ualism/Collectivism and Masculinity/ Femininity predict global penetration of communication technology and global human development patterns.

Jonathan Matusitz and George Musambira's Communication Technology Division (CTEC) paper "Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance, and Technology: Hofstede's Dimensions and Human Development Indicators" investigates how much Hofstede's cultural dimensions of power distance and uncertainty avoidance account for the global diffusion of communication technology and global human development patterns.

June 2009:

Dr. John Malala is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, speaking on the relationship between work and national development. Two of his many conference presentations were based at the Central University of Science and Technology and a four-day seminar at a church in Kinshasa. Malala's itinerary also includes a presentation at Milundu College in the Bandundu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on June 13, another conference presentation at Bulungu on June 16, a conference presentation at Kinshasa on June 24, a presentation at Matadi on June 27, and finally a paper presentation at the International Conference on Learning July 1-5 in Barcelona, Spain.

June 2009:

Dr. Kimiko Akita and Dr. Rick Kenney are co-authors of a proposed chapter titled, “A ‘Vexing Implication’: Siamese Cats and Orientalist Mischief-Making,” which has been accepted for publication in the forthcoming anthology Film, Disney, Diversity, to be published by McFarland.

June 2009:

Dr. Kimiko Akita’s paper “Social Interactions Among Japanese Expatriates in the U.S., and the Challenges They Face” was accepted to the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies conference at Kumamoto Gakuen University, in Kumamoto, Japan, Sept. 18-20.

June 2009:

Dr. Chandler participated in the "Institute for Academic Leadership" chairs and directors workshop held in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla. June 7-10.

May 2009:

Dr. Jim Katt presented his co-authored paper at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in San Diego. The paper "What to Do? Examining the Effects of Different Types of ADLs on Geriatric Well-Being" was written in collaboration with Linda Speranza (Valencia Community College), Wendy Shore (Johns Hopkins University), E. Lea Witta (University of Central Florida, College of Education), and Karen Saenz (University of Alabama-Birmingham).

Katt was also elected chair of AERA’s Adulthood and Aging Special Interest Group.
The latest issue of Communication Education (Volume 58; Number 2; April, 2009), a publication of the National Communication Association (NCA) and the premier educational communication journal, features an article by NSOC’s Jim Katt, and co-author Steve Condly. The article, entitled "A Preliminary Study of Classroom Motivations and De-motivators from a Motivation-Hygiene Perspective," applies Fredrick Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene Theory to the classroom setting.

May 2009:

Kimberly Wilmot Voss and Lance Speere’s paper, "Where She Stands: Ruthe Deskin and Her Place in the City of Bright Lights and Bigger Personalities After 50 Years at the Las Vegas Sun," was recently accepted for publication in the Nevada Historical Quarterly.

May 2009:

Dr. John Malala will present a paper at the 16th International Conference on Learning to be held in Barcelona, Spain, July 1-4. Dr. Malala's paper, "The Role of Interactive Games and Entertainment in the Creation of Lasting Knowledge" discusses the importance of digital interactive games in education.

May 2009:

Dr. M.C. Santana was selected Research Paper Competition Chair for the Gender Studies Division of the Broadcast Education Association during their annual convention in Las Vegas, Nev., in April. Santana has been a member of BEA since 2001.

May 2009:

Dr. Will Kinnally is lead author of a scholarly paper, "Reactance and the Hostile Media Effect: Placing the Effect Within the Theory," with Dr. Laura Arpan of FSU, that has been accepted to the Communication Theory and Methodology Division at the AEJMC annual conference in August.

May 2009:

Dr. Rick Kenney’s paper "‘They are Romanies’: Social Construction of an Oppressed Minority for an Elite Audience," has been named winner of the James E. Murphy Top Faculty Paper Award by the Cultural and Critical Studies Division of AEJMC and is one of four refereed papers Kenney will present at the annual convention in August. The other papers are "Before (and after) Kerner: Paul Swensson and the News- paper Fund," accepted by the Minorities and Communication Division; "Recall of and Attitudes Toward Brand Placement in Reality TV Programming," co-authored with former graduate student Temitayo Fayemi (M.A., 2006) and accepted by the Advertising Division; and "Max Weber, the Protestant Ethic, and the Corporatization of College Media," co-authored with Journalism alumna Christine Dellert (B.A., 2006) and accepted to the College Media Advisers/Council of Affiliates panel on the theme of "Issues and Challenges Facing Campus Media." Additionally, Kenney’s lesson plan "The Keys to the Kingdom: How to Teach Information Fluency Through a Campus Sunshine Audit to Unlock the Secrets of Govern-ment" won an AEJMC Great Ideas for Teaching (GIFT) award and will be presented in Boston at a poster session. It is Kenney’s second GIFT prize in three years. Another of Kenney’s lesson plans, "Thinking Globally, Writing Locally: The Real Dirt on Environmental Journalism," co-authored with Dr. Kimiko Akita, has been accepted for publication in a forth-coming booklet, Teaching News Terrifically in the 21st Century, sponsored by AEJMC’s Newspaper Division. Kenney also will participate on a panel, "The Future of Editing," during the preconvention at AEJMC in August.

May 2009:

Ms. Shari Hodgson is the originator and Chairperson of the Leadership Winter Park Youth Leaders program. It is an exclusive program designed to expose young people to opportunities for leader-ship within their community.  The program is open to students entering their sophomore, junior or senior year in high school. 

May 2009:

Dr. Steve Collins is first author of a scholarly paper, "Who is Minding the Storm: Hierarchical Regression Analysis of Factors Predicting Hurricane Preparedness," with Dr. Harry Weger of Interpersonal Communication and Dr. Mark Johnson of the UCF Statistics Department, that has been accepted for presentation and placed on the top paper panel to the Science Communication Interest Group at the AEJMC annual convention.

May 2009:

Dr. Robert Chandler, pandemic communications expert, presented two world-wide webinars.  The first on "Swine Flu Communication Best Practices" was presented April 29 and "Employee Communication: Truth and Transparency" on May 6.

Chandler was also interviewed by Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), a global integrated media company.  The interview regarding the pandemic was in the featured article "Expert: Technology Can Help and Harm During Swine Flu-Like Scare" on May 5. 

May 2009:

Professors Rick Brunson, Rick Kenney, Joan McCain and M.C. Santana have each been awarded a UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award. 

April 2009:

Dr. Tim Brown and Dr. Steve Collins are co-authors of a scholarly paper, "A Tale of Two Sites: Comparing New Media Use at Television News Operations and Newspapers," accepted for presentation to the Radio-Television Journalism Division at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication  in Boston this August.

April 2009:

Dr. Rick Kenney and Journalism alumna Christine Dellert are co-authors of a paper accepted to the 2009 AEJMC annual convention in Boston in August. Their paper, "Max Weber, the Protestant Ethic, and the Corporatization of College Media," will be presented to a special session titled "Issues and Challenges Facing Campus Media," co-sponsored by the College Media Advisers and The Council of Affiliates.

April 2009:

Dr. Rick Kenney will participate on a teaching panel, "Teaching Communication Ethics in the 21st Century: What remains stable? What changes?" sponsored by the Communication Ethics Division at the NCA annual convention in Chicago in November.

April 2009:

Dr. Sally Hastings and Dr. George Musambira co-authored an article with a colleague from another university, Judith Hoover, that will appear in the spring issue of Women & Language.  The article "Opening a Gap" in Culture:  Women's Uses of The Compassionate Friends Web site.  The article is part of their ongoing research program addressing issues of communication and bereavement.

April 2009:

Dr. Denise DeLorme is co-author of a manuscript, "DTC Advertising Skepticism and the Use and Perceived Usefulness of Prescription Drug Information Sources" that has been accepted for publication in "Health Marketing Quarterly."

April 2009:

Dr. Kimiko Akita has had two chapters, "Rescuing Cats, Rescuing One Another" and "Feminist Trash Talk: Why I Pick Up Your Litter," accepted for publication in a scholarly book, Beyond "Burning Bras": Feminist Activism for Everyone, which is tentatively scheduled for publication by Praeger Press in fall 2009.

April 2009:

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah (Stacy) Barber on receiving a $7,500 grant for her research project entitled, "Redefining the Ancient State: Early Political Centralization in Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico"

April 2009:

Congratulations to Dr. Joanna Mishtal on receiving a $7,500 grant for her research project entitled, "Understanding Declining Fertility in Poland: Integrating Demographic and Anthropological Methodologies"

April 2009:

Congratulations to Dr. Tosha Dupras, Associate Chair & Graduate Coordinator, for her publication on her research in Egypt being published at the attached link (in German):

 http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1237228872170

April 2009:

Congratulations to Ronald Wallace for achieving VPs Emeritus Status. Ronald Wallace, professor emeritus, retired in 2007 after a 32-year career at UCF. One of UCF’s first Anthropology faculty members, he later studied biobehavioral anthropology and neuroanatomy. His recent publications have culminated in his third book, titled “Membrane Microdomain Regulation of Neuron Signaling.” He is an interdisciplinary fellow in the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning. Wallace served as associate chair for the Department of Anthropology, formerly the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, from 2004 until his retirement.

March 2009:

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March 2009:

Grant award was given to Elizabeth Stephens last spring.
She received the Florida Native Plant Society Endowment Grant Research Award in May 2008.

March 2009:

Dr. M. C. Santana took journalism majors Sarah Rogers and Shaun Bevan on a nine-day excursion through Italy including Venice, Florence, Verona, Assisi and Rome as part of a longer project called Travel Photography started by Santana during her sabbatical. They joined 31 other college students from North and South Carolina.

March 2009:

Professor George Bagley, an Associate Professor in the R/TV program, has been awarded the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching award.  He was one of 18 selected for the award in the College of Sciences.  This is the third time he has been a recipient of the award.

March 2009:

NSOC welcomes Rebecca Morales as our new Coordinator
of Academic Support Services. She provides advising assistance and helps students meet their educational goals. She will also be overseeing the development of the Nicholson Academic Student Services Center (NASSC) in room 143.

March 2009:

Dr. Robert C. Chandler, NSOC Director has co-authored (with
Dr. J. D. Wallace Lubbock Christian University) an article “The Role of Videoconferencing in Crisis and Emergency Management,” in the February 2009 issue of the Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning.

March 2009:

Dr. Kimiko Akita’s article "Bloopers of a Geisha: Male Orientalism and Colonization of Women’s Language" will be published in Women and Language, 32(1), in spring 2009.

February 2009:

Congratulations to Dr. Tosha Dupras for being awarded the College of Sciences' 2009 Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award

February 2009:

Dr. Barfield is serving on the Board of Directors for the Osceola County Health Department Healthy Start Coalition as well as on the Board of Directors for the Early Learning Coalition.

Barfield is a member of the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare (AACH) and on the membership committee of the organization. He is recruiting Florida Hospital faculty and other health professionals in the Orlando/UCF community to help grow membership.

February 2009:

Dr. Steve Collins and Dr. Tim Brown will present their paper, "What 'they' want from 'us': What newspapers and television newsrooms want from college graduates," at the 2009 Broadcast Education Association Convention in Las Vegas on Friday, April 24th. That paper took first place in the Courses, Curriculum, and Administration division of the BEA Research Paper Competition.

February 2009:

Dr. Denise DeLorme is co-author of a manuscript, "Evaluation, Use, and Usefulness of Prescription Drug Information Sources among Anglo- and Hispanic-Americans." The paper has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Health Communication.

February 2009:

Dr. Kimberly Voss’ article "The Short but Promising Career of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Bobbi McCallum," has been accepted for publication in Columbia, the Magazine of Northwest History.

Voss is also presenting the paper, "Edee Greene: Fort Lauderdale Editor and Advocate," later this month at the Florida Conference of Historians.

February 2009:

Dr. Akita will conduct a workshop for the Multicultural Student Center on Japanese culture and intercultural communication, "A Taste of Japan," 12:30-2:30 p.m., March 26, in the Garden Key Room 221AB.

February 2009:

Dr. Rufus Barfield is in the NASA Faculty Kennedy Internship Program (KIP) at Kennedy Space Center (KSC). His participation in this program began in the summer of 2008 as one of five faculty interns selected from various universities around the United States. He was the only communication faculty intern. All the other faculty interns were in engineering fields.  Barfield was invited to participate in the spring 2009 program.  His task in the summer was to develop an Upward Communication Strategic Plan for the senior level management/leadership at KSC. Currently he is implementing the strategic plan with KSC senior management. 

February 2009:

Dr. Akita will lead an event, "East Meets West: Japanese Musical Excursion," with other Japanese music performers in the DiversiTea sponsored by the Office of Diversity Initiatives at UCF, at the Barbara Ying Center, noon - 1 p.m., March 4.

February 2009:

Dr. Akita will give a talk on Japanese culture and perform koto with other Japanese music performers for the Learning Institute for Elders at UCF (LIFE@UCF) on March 3.

February 2009:

Dr. Kimiko Akita’s paper, "The chrysanthemum, transplanted: How Japanese and Japanese-Brazilian Immigrants Face Challenges on New Soil," has been accepted to the third Annual Asian Pacific American Studies Conference at Michigan State University in April.

January 2009:

Dr. Kimberly Voss’ article, "Forgotten Feminist: Women's Page Editor Maggie Savoy and the Growth of Women's Liberation Awareness in Los Angeles," has been accepted for publication in the March 2009 issue of the journal "California History."

In addition, Voss’ article, "The Florida Fight for Equality: The Equal Rights Amendment, Senator Lori Wilson and Mediated 'Catfights' in the 1970s," has been accepted for publication in Florida Historical Quarterly.

January 2009:

Dr. John Malala travelled to Germany (December 1-4, 2008) to present a paper at the "European Conference for Academic Disciplines" which was organized by the International Journal of Arts and Sciences. The title of his paper was "The New Information Technology and the Danger of a Vicious Cycle in the Publication of Biographical Books." This refereed conference was attended by academics from over 30 countries.

January 2009:

Dr. Will Kinnally’s article titled "Getting Up on the Download: College Students’ Motivations for Acquiring Music via the Web" was recently published in the journal "New Media & Society."

January 2009:

Dr. Ann Miller has had an article accepted by African Journal of AIDS Research. Title and co-authors are as follows: Miller, A.N., Golding, L., Nugla, K., Wambua, M. A., Kizito, M. N., Mutua, E., Odondi, C., Booker, N.A., Mwithia, J.K., and Rubin, D. L. "Couples communication on sexual and relational issues in Machakos District, Kenya"

January 2009:

Deborah C. Beidel was appointed as an Advisor to the Childhood Anxiety Disorders Workgroup for the upcoming revision of the American Psychiatirc Associatins's "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fifth Edition."

December 2008:

Congratulations to Dr. John Schultz, Associate Professor (effective Fall 09), on being awarded the Teaching Incentive Program Award and the Research Incentive Award for 2008.

December 2008:

Congratulations to Dr. John Schultz for being awarded $231,000 from National Institute of Justice for his project titled "Detecting Buried Remains Using Ground Penetrating Radar

November 2008:

Congrats to Eduardo Salas, for being inducted into the Millionaires club. A recognized achievement for reasearch in his field of Psychology. The sole criteria for entrée into the exclusive order is external sponsored research funding of $1 million or more during a given fiscal year.

November 2008:

Professor Alexander Katsevich will present at "The Huangguoshu International Interdisciplinary Conference on Biomedical Mathematics" on November 3-9, 2008, The Huangguoshu National Park of China, Guizhou. He will be talking about: Motion compensated image reconstruction in tomography. 

November 2008:

Ms. Christine Hanlon will discuss "clickers" during a panel at the National Communication Association's annual convention in San Diego, California, this November.

October 2008:

Dr. Denise DeLorme is coauthor on an article "Operationalizing
the Second-Person Effect and Its Relationship to Behavioral Outcomes of Directto-Consumer Advertising,"which was recently published in the American Behavioral Scientist.

October 2008:

Dr. Rick Kenney and Dr. Kimiko Akita are co-authors of “When West Writes East: in Search of an Ethic for Crosscultural Interviewing,” which has been accepted for publication in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics. The article resulted from their funded collaborative research, which was accepted to the Media Ethics Colloquium 2007 at the University of Hawaii.

October 2008:

Dr. Kim Voss presented her paper, "Powerful Partnership: Florida Women's Page Editors and Club Women," in early October at the American Journalism Historians Association convention in Seattle. The paper received honorable mention for the Beasley Prize which recognizes research on women in journalism history. At the end of October, Voss will be presenting "A Toolbox for Women in the College Newsroom" at the College Media Advisers convention in Kansas City.

October 2008:

Dr. Harry Weger recently had two manuscripts published.The first, with co-author and former grad student, Melissa Emmett,"Associations Among Romantic Intent, Relationship Uncertainty, and Relationship Maintenance in Young Adults’ Cross-Sex Friendships" in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. The second,"Impression Management in Televised Debates: The EffectAudience Perceptions of Debaters’ Likability"was published with co-authors John Seiter, Harold Kinzer and Andrea Jensen in the journal Communication Research Reports. Weger was interviewed by Jim Turner from WDBO radio in Orlando regarding nonverbal behavior in presidential debates.

October 2008:

New $1.8 Million 4-Year Collaborative Research in Chemistry Grant from the National Science Foundation!

Self-Organized Aggregates in Photonics (SOAP): A Comprehensive Approach to Multiphoton Absorbing Supramolecular Assemblies.

A comprehensive Nanoscience & Molecular Engineering research program.

Principal Investigator: Kevin D. Belfield, Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry and CREOL: The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Belfield@mail.ucf.edu , http://belfield.cos.ucf.edu/ .

Co-Principal Investigator: Florencio E. Hernandez, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and CREOL: The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, florenzi@mail.ucf.edu, http://chemistry.cos.ucf.edu/faculty_hernandez.php.

Co-Principal Investigator: Artëm E. Masunov, Assistant Professor, Nanoscience Technology Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Central Florida, amasunov@mail.ucf.edu, http://chemistry.cos.ucf.edu/faculty_masunov.php.

Co-Principal Investigator: Tatiana V. Timofeeva, Research Professor, Department of Chemistry, New Mexico Highlands University, tvtimofeeva@nmhu.edu, http://its.nmhu.edu/personal/chemistry/personal-tatiannatimofeeva.html

October 2008:

Faculty members Carol Bledsoe, Christine Hanlon, Jim Katt and Steve Neel will conduct a panel session Tailoring the Public Speaking Course: Increasing Relevance & Visibility at the Florida Communication Association's annual convention in Gainesville, Florida October, 18-20.

October 2008:

The Institute’s long-time project manager, Amy Donley, received her PhD degree in August, 2008, and was immediately hired as the very first ISBS post-doctoral fellow. She was also promoted to Senior Research Associate.

Dr. Donley’s PhD dissertation was entitled THE PERCEPTION OF HOMELESS PEOPLE: IMPORTANT FACTORS IN DETERMINING PERCEPTIONS OF THE HOMELESS AS DANGEROUS.

Several portions of the dissertation have already been published as chapters in Robert McNamara (ed.), Homelessness in America, Volumes 1-3 (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2008). Way to go, Amy! Make that Doctor Amy.

September 2008:

Dr. Kimberly Wilmot Voss and co-author Lance Speeres article, "Way Past Deadline: The Women's Fight to Integrate the Milwaukee Press Club," has been published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History. http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wmh/currentissue.asp.1

September 2008:

Physics Associate Chair Lee Chow

and his team have penned three research articles that are among the most popular this year in three journals. The online database Sciencedirect.com ranks the papers among the top 10 for each journal for the first quarter of the year. The team includes UCF Assistant Professor Beatriz Roldan and former graduate student Guangyu Chai, among others. Their research focused on single ZnO branched nanorods.  

September 2008:

Dr. Rick Kenney has been selected as the faculty advisor for the UCF chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists.

Ms. Joan McCain has been appointed Area Coordinator for the Advertising/PR program.

Dr. Kimberly Voss has just been named a national winner in the annual National Federation of Press Women (NFPW) Communications Contest.  Voss received first place for communications research for her article "Vivian Castleberry: A Case Study of How a Women's Page Editor Lived and Translated the News of a Social Movement."  The article was published last Spring in Southwest Historical Quarterly.  Dr. Voss is currently working on a book about Vivian.

September 2008:

Dr. Mark Johnson (PI) received a matching grant ($10,000) from FHTCC for his project entitled, "Statistical Analysis for Return Periods in the Carribbean with KAC," beginning December 2007.

September 2008:

Dr. Liqiang Ni (PI) received funding ($61,594) from the NSF for his grant proposal entitled, "Model Free Variable Selection in Sufficient Dimension Reduction," beginning September 2008.

September 2008:

Dr. Mark Johnson (CoPI) received funding ($889,902) from the NSF for his grant proposal entitled, "Water's Journey through the Everglades," beginning March 2008.

August 2008:

Dr. Ann Neville Miller was funded by the University of Georgia Center for Health and Risk Communication to attend the National Summit on Poverty and Health Communication August 11-12 and the National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media August 12-14. Both were held in Atlanta, Georgia.

June 2008:

Congratulations to Drs. Chow and Lupan for the ranking in Science Direct's Top 25 Hottest Articles.

The professors and their co-workers ranked:

• Number 2 in TOP 25 Hottest Articles Microelectronics Journal January-March 2008 (jumped from #4 to #2)
• Number 8 in TOP 25 Hottest Articles Materials Science and Engineering B (jumped from #16 to #8)
• Number 6 in TOP 25 Hottest Articles Superlattices and Microstructure January-March 2008 (fresh paper jumped directly to #6)

June 2008:

 Dr. Masa Ishigami's article entitled Charged-impurity scattering in graphen was published in the May issue Nature Physics Journal.The physics department would like to congratulate Dr. Ishigami for his recent accomplishments.

The article can be viewed at the following link http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v4/n5/full/nphys935.html

May 2008:

Dr. M.C. Santana's work was chosen to be displayed in in the Orlando Museum of Art. The title of the exibit is Art < 12 Small Works/Large Images will be displayed on June 5 from 6 pm to 9 pm and will be for one night only.

May 2008:

Director and Professor Mary Alice Shaver and husband, Assistant Professor of Journalism Dan, are leaving the School and Florida to move to the Media Management and Transformation Centre located in the Jonkoping International Business School in Jonkoping, Sweden. Both will be professors in the Business School while working at the centre for the next five years. The NSOC wishes them both well as they begin their new adventure.

Dean Peter Panousis recently announced that Dr. Bruce Whisler will assume the position of Interim Director for NSOC. He is a former chair of the Music Department at UCF, has served as Assistant to the Dean and more recently has been Budget Coordinator for Academic Affairs. Whisler began as Interim Director on April 28th and will continue until the search has closed and a new Director appointed. Welcome, Dr. Whisler.

April 2008:

Dr. Fred Fedler was awarded emeritus status on April 2nd at UCFs Founders Day ceremony. This honor acknowledges the many contributions he has made to NSOC during his career.  He joined the faculty in 1971, and has served as division head for 20 years.  Fedler has also published four books, including the textbook Reporting For The Media now in its eighth edition and 66 articles.

April 2008:

The NSOC has awarded scholarship grants up to the amount of $5,000 each to:

Dr. Kimiko Akita who plans to further her study of womens lives: how womens behaviors and fortunes are influenced by hegemonic patriarchy, and how western reputations of them have exoticized and sexualized them.

Dr. Kristen Davis will use the funds to advance knowledge regarding Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Syndrome sufferers and the impact their illness has on their social network, primarily family members, partners and friends.

Dr. Jim Katts grant title is Big Three vs. Big Five: A side-by-side test of trait measures and their usefulness in identifying relationships between personality traits and communication variables.

April 2008:

Dr. Kimiko Akita presented a series of four interactive lectures about Japanese culture to LIFE (Learning Institute for Elders) at UCF in March and April.

April 2008:

Drs. Kimiko Akita and George Musambira were accepted to participate in the Diversity Track of the 2008 Summer Faculty Development Conference, UCF, which will be held in April 29-May 2, 2008.

April 2008:

Mr. George Bagley's article "A Presence in Time and Space:  Authority and Meaning in the Reception Complex" has been accepted for publi-cation in the Spring 2008 issue of "Kinema: Journal of Film and Audiovisual Media."

April 2008:

Dr. Rufus Barfield conducted workshops at the 2008 South Carolina Obesity Prevention Summit, presented by the Eat Smart Move More Coalition on March 6 and 7.  The work-shops included Coalition Building and Evaluation and Coalition Development. The workshops focused on how to form community coalitions in pursuit of South Carolina Department of Health grant funding and on community health intervention in obesity.

In April, Dr. Barfield will attend the 2008 Scholarly Conference on College Sport Issues in College Sport symposium.  He will serve as a panelist on Conducting the Business of College Sport Well trends and Issues in College Sport, sponsored by the University of Memphis and the College Sport Research Institute. 

April 2008:

Dr. Kristin Davis attended the Southern States Communication Associations 78th Annual Convention in Savannah, GA on April 3-6. It was held at the Hyatt Regency in beautiful historic, downtown Savannah. This years theme was Communicating to Change the Human Condition. She was invited to present on two spotlight panels: (1) Spotlight on Scholarship: Celebrating Scholars New to SSCA II; (2) The Job Search: Advice for Candidates and Employers from New Faculty

April 2008:

Dr. Denise DeLorme has been awarded a nationally competitive research fellowship from the American Academy of Advertising for her co-authored proposal, "Prescription Drug Information-Seeking Behaviors and DTC Advertising Effects among Asian American Consumers."

DeLorme also received an Honorable Mention Award for Best Reviewers of 2007 on the Journal of Advertising Editorial Review Board.

April 2008:

Dr. Rick Kenney taught more than 100 of the nations professional copy editors at the annual meeting of the American Copy Editors Society in Denver in early April. He led a session titled All This and Ethics, Too? The Moral Imperative of Copy Editing and moderated and presented in a session titled Stop Plagiarism Before It Gets to Print. Kenney was recognized at the ACES banquet for his work as a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund residency director and as an alumnus of the funds editing intern program the only person to have achieved both distinctions.

Kenneys article The Real Gender-Bender: The Curious Case of Coverage of the Steve Stanton Story appears in the Spring 2008 issue of the Florida Communication Journal.

April 2008:

Dr. Harry Wegers manuscript that he co-authored with John Seiter, The Effect of Generalized Compliments, Sex of Server, and Size of Dining Party on Tipping Behavior in Restaurants, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

April 2008:

After more than 100 years of teaching excellence, three very distinguished professors will be retiring from the NSOC this May. Doctors Bob Davis, Fred Fedler and Tom Morgan, who joined the university when it was Florida Technological University, were essential to the development of the advertising/public relations, journalism and radio/television programs. Decades later the Nicholson School has grown to produce thousands of successful graduates in Central Florida and around the world. As a final salute and heartfelt farewell, UCF alumni, students and faculty gathered on Wednesday, April 9 at the FAIRWINDS
Alumni Center. The Swinging ‘70s celebration transported party-goers back in time to an era of tie-die, go-go boots and peace and love – when Davis, Fedler and Morgan first joined the university. Dr. Bob Davis is the division head for the advertising/public relations division and was essential in developing the program into what it is today. He taught his first class at UCF in 1977.

April 2008:

This year the Nicholson School of Communication has awarded two Grasty Awards to outstanding faculty members. The awards, named in honor of Bill Grasty, a former chair and UCF vice president were awarded for Excellence in Teaching and for Outstanding Research to:

Dr. Jonathan Matusitz, Outstanding Research

Dr. Maria Cristina Santana, Outstanding Teaching

April 2008:

The Media Management and Transformation Center at Jönköping International Business School is pleased to announce the hiring of two of the world*s leading scholars on advertising and media management. Mary Alice Shaver, a specialist in advertising and media competition, has been named Hamrin Professor of Media Economics. She is formerly chair and professor of the Department of Advertising at Michigan State University, professor and head of media doctoral studies at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and professor and director of the Nicholson School of Communication at the University of Central Florida. Dan Shaver, a specialist in media and management and digital media, has been name an associate professor of media economics. He received an M.B.A. from Wake Forest University and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina and has been on the faculties of Michigan State University and University of Central Florida. Dr. Shaver was formerly a newspaper editor and executive.The willingness of Mary Alice Shaver and Dan Shaver to join the faculty show the importance of MMTC to media economics and management scholarship and underscore its extraordinary global reputation.

April 2008:

The National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) selected the University of Central Florida, and four other institutions nationwide, to participate in the second round of the Colleagues Committed to Redesign (C2R) program as part of the mathematics, statistics and computer science cluster. The redesign program which is part of a Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) grant, focuses on redesigning existing courses to immprove student learning outcomes and reduce instructional costs. The team members are Piotr MIkusinski, Chief Academic Officer, Tammy Muhs and Maria Capursi , Lead Faculty Members, and Walter (JP) Peters, Chief Techonology Officer.

April 2008:

The National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) selected the University of Central Florida, and four other institutions nationwide, to participate in the second round of the Colleagues Committed to Redesign (C2R) program as part of the mathematics, statistics and computer science cluster. The redesign program which is part of a Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) grant, focuses on redesigning existing courses to immprove student learning outcomes and reduce instructional costs. The team members are Piotr MIkusinski, Chief Academic Officer, Tammy Muhs and Maria Capursi , Lead Faculty Members, and Walter (JP) Peters, Chief Techonology Officer.

March 2008:

Dr. Kimiko Akita's paper "Curious yellow: Challenges of a Japanese Woman Teaching in the Sunshine State" has been accepted to the Eastern Communication Association Conference, Pittsburgh, Pa. May 1-4. She will present her paper on the panel "Making a Difference: Connecting Culture and Community in Predominantly White Classrooms by Understanding Teaching Frameworks Among Four Faculty of Color."

March 2008:

Dr. Jeff Butler was selected to give a presentation on Listening Skills to all the university advisors at the monthly meeting on February 29. "He gave some very helpful, informative tools to practice when advising, and it was well received by the group", said Ms. Susan Jefferson.

March 2008:

Dr. Denise DeLorme has a co-authored article titled, "Seniors' Uncertainty Management of DTC Prescription Drug Advertising Usefulness," accepted and forthcoming in the national, refereed journal "Health Communication". DeLorme has also recently been elected to serve as secretary of the American Academy of Advertising for 2009.

March 2008:

Research Grant, University of Central Florida, College of Science; Summer Research Fellowship, Marine Biological Laboratories; Research Grant, National Park Service, Cape Cod National Seashore; Research Grant, Florida Department of Environmental Protection

March 2008:

At "Women making History Celebration 2008" ceremony the following faculty were recognized as women that enhance research and leadership capacity of UCF. Kimiko Akita (Communication), Archana Dubey (Physics), Cherie Geiger (Chemistry), Linda Walters (Biology), Jane Waterman (Biology) and Cynthia Young (Math). We honor them during Women's History Month at the Women Making History Luncheon.

March 2008:

At "Women making History Celebration 2008" ceremony the following faculty were recognized as women that enhance research and leadership capacity of UCF. Kimiko Akita (Communication), Archana Dubey (Physics), Cherie Geiger (Chemistry), Linda Walters (Biology), Jane Waterman (Biology) and Cynthia Young (Math). We honor them during Women's History Month at the Women Making History Luncheon.

March 2008:

At "Women making History Celebration 2008" ceremony the following faculty were recognized as women that enhance research and leadership capacity of UCF. Kimiko Akita (Communication), Archana Dubey (Physics), Cherie Geiger (Chemistry), Linda Walters (Biology), Jane Waterman (Biology) and Cynthia Young (Math). We honor them during Women's History Month at the Women Making History Luncheon.

March 2008:

At "Women making History Celebration 2008" ceremony the following faculty were recognized as women that enhance research and leadership capacity of UCF. Kimiko Akita (Communication), Archana Dubey (Physics), Cherie Geiger (Chemistry), Linda Walters (Biology), Jane Waterman (Biology) and Cynthia Young (Math). We honor them during Women's History Month at the Women Making History Luncheon.

March 2008:

At "Women making History Celebration 2008" ceremony the following faculty were recognized as women that enhance research and leadership capacity of UCF. Kimiko Akita (Communication), Archana Dubey (Physics), Cherie Geiger (Chemistry), Linda Walters (Biology), Jane Waterman (Biology) and Cynthia Young (Math). We honor them during Women's History Month at the Women Making History Luncheon.

March 2008:

An Undergraduate Teaching Equipment grant was recently awarded to the NSOC. The $4,990 grant was the result of a proposal by Dr. Joe Hall, the R/TV Area Coordinator. This grant will provide for the acquisition of one of the critical missing elements in our HD system a broadcast quality HD monitor to view and evaluate the HD video students are shooting and editing.

March 2008: Professor Eduardo Salas of the Department of Psychology, together with researchers from UCF Institute for Simulation and Training, Harvard University, University of Maryland, Columbia University, George Mason University, and Naval Postgraduate School, recently received a coveted MURI (Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative) grant funded by the US Army for the Fiscal Year 2008. The grant was awarded to support research aiming at understanding cultural influences on basic psychological and social processes in negotiations and collaborations across a wide range of cultures.

March 2008:

Dr. Jim Katt will be presenting a paper titled "Doing Well: A SEM Analysis of the Relationships Between Various Activities of Daily Living and Geriatric Well-Being" at the annual convention of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in New York City during the last week of March.

March 2008: Dr. Alvin Wang, Professor at the Department of Psychology and Dean of the Burnett Honors College, was recently elected to be the 2008 President-Elect of Psi Chi (the National Honors Society in Psychology). Further details can be found here

February 2008:

Dr. Stephen M. Kuebler was awarded a CAREER Grant by the National Science Foundation. This award (no. 0748712) is supported jointly by the Division of Materials Research and the Chemistry Division of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate. The award, entitled "CAREER: Three-Dimensional Multi-Scale Metallodielectric Materials", provides support over a period of five years for the investigation of new processes for creating optically functional three-dimensional metallo-dielectric meta-materials.

February 2008: The following people were participants of the CASTL grant.Twelve proposals were submitted, and three were chosen for an award of $2,500 each. The three proposals that were chosen are the following: Drs. J Katt, S Hastings, and J Butler; Nicholson School of Communication, College of Sciences; "The Honors in the Major Thesis Experience". Dr. R Kenney; Nicholson School of Communication, College of Sciences; "How High-Achieving Undergraduate Researchers Describe Their Experience" Drs L Walters and J Waterman; Department of Biology, College of Sciences; and Dr. L Nadelson; Department of Educational Studies, College of Education; "Including Research in Upper-Division Science Courses at Large Universities: Does It Maximize Student Learning and, If So, What Formats are Most Effective?" Congratulations to all!

February 2008: The following people were participants of the CASTL grant.Twelve proposals were submitted, and three were chosen for an award of $2,500 each. The three proposals that were chosen are the following: Drs. J Katt, S Hastings, and J Butler; Nicholson School of Communication, College of Sciences; "The Honors in the Major Thesis Experience". Dr. R Kenney; Nicholson School of Communication, College of Sciences; "How High-Achieving Undergraduate Researchers Describe Their Experience" Drs L Walters and J Waterman; Department of Biology, College of Sciences; and Dr. L Nadelson; Department of Educational Studies, College of Education; "Including Research in Upper-Division Science Courses at Large Universities: Does It Maximize Student Learning and, If So, What Formats are Most Effective?" Congratulations to all!

February 2008:

Biology professor Dr. John Weishampel received a NASA Space Archaeology Program & UCF-UF Space Research Initiative grant for $412,000 entitled, "Remote sensing of ancient Maya Land use features at Caracol, Belize related to tropical rainforest structure". Co-PIs Arlen and Diane Chase (UCF-Anthropology). Using canopy-penetrating LiDAR remote sensing, we will simultaneously map new Maya ruins while simultaneously detailing the above forest structure. Thus, we will assess forest recovery patterns in relation to a variety of ancient land use legacies. This is the most extensive use of LiDAR to detect below-canopy archaeological features to date.

February 2008:

Biology professor Dr. John Weishampel received a NASA Space Archaeology Program & UCF-UF Space Research Initiative grant for $412,000 entitled, "Remote sensing of ancient Maya Land use features at Caracol, Belize related to tropical rainforest structure". Co-PIs Arlen and Diane Chase (UCF-Anthropology). Using canopy-penetrating LiDAR remote sensing, we will simultaneously map new Maya ruins while simultaneously detailing the above forest structure. Thus, we will assess forest recovery patterns in relation to a variety of ancient land use legacies. This is the most extensive use of LiDAR to detect below-canopy archaeological features to date.

February 2008:

Funded proposal: Remote sensing of ancient Maya land use features at Caracol, Belize related to tropical rainforest structures.NASA Space Archaeology Program & UCF-UF Space Research Initiative ($412K) Co-PIs Arlen and Diane Chase (UCF-Anthropology) Using canopy-penetrating LiDAR remote sensing, we will simultaneously map new Maya ruins while simultaneously detailing the above forest structure. Thus, we will assess forest recovery patterns in relation to a variety of ancient land use legacies. This is the most extensive use of LiDAR to detect below-canopy archaeological features to date.

February 2008:

Jan Nadeau in Biology has been awarded an NSF grant for $250,427 by the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The title of the proposal is "Evolution of Receptor-like Protein Function in Stomatal Development"

January 2008:

Dr. Waterman and Dr. Walters; Two Biology Women Faculty members have been selected to be honored at the Women Making History: The Faculty Women of Prominence Project luncheon on March 05. The project is honoring UCF women faculty and administrators who have had significant national and/or international recognition in 2006-2007.They are among 20 women selected across campus for this honor.Congratulations to our awardees!! .

December 2007:

The Provost awarded the Nicholson School of Communication an annual stipend of $2,500 through the Winter Park Health Foundation. This is in recognition for our contribution to Junior Achievement of Orlando. Steve Neel, who teaches one section of Introduction to Communication, earned this award through his successful implementation of an optional unit of study in which students may elect to go to one of Orlando's public schools to teach a five-week civics unit to a 5th grade class. After their experience, students are required to write a paper reflecting upon their experience and connecting it to one of the communication theories studied in the course. Last semester, 115 students from Mr. Neel's class participated in this initiative.

December 2007:

Dr. Fred Fedler from the Nicholson School of Communication: Honorary membership in Lambda Pi Eta Communication Honorary

November 2007:

Robert H. Davis from the Nicholson School of Communication: Honorary membership in Lambda Pi Eta Communication Honorary

November 2007: Dr. Ed Salas was appointed to one of the most influential medical scientific agencies, the Institute of Medicine. This is part of the National Academy of Sciences and is a quite an honor.

November 2007:

Ms. Christine Hanlon received a $500 grant for the NSOC from The Learning Institute for Elders at University of Central Florida.

October 2007:

Congratulations to two NSOC faculty who received awards at the Florida Communication Association Convention. Jim Katt received the FCA Annual Award for Outstanding Scholarship. This award is given to someone who has shown outstanding scholarly achievements. Shari Hodgson received the FCA Annual Award for Outstanding in Teaching.This award is given to someone (at any level of teaching speech communication) that has demonstrated outstanding ability in the classroom.

October 2007: Ryan Sheehy, Membership Chair 2007-2008 Alumni Chapter Ryan graduated in 2000 she currently teaches in the Advertising and Public Relations Department at UCF.

October 2007:

Andrew Schrock (MA '06) presented two papers at the 2008 Convergence and Society: Media Ownership, Consolidation, and Control Conference at the University of South Carolina, Oct. 11-13, 2007. The papers titled "MySpace Dependency: Why Consumers are Using Social Networking Sites" (a paper from his Master's thesis, directed by Dr. Brown) and "Convergent Technology Use: Instrumental, Contextual, and Socially Mediated" (part of his current work at California State University-Long Beach).

October 2007: Betsy Von Holle has been noted for her paper on "Ecological resistance to biological invasion overwhelmed by propagule pressure". This paper has been identified by Essential Science Indicators as a Fast Breaking Paper in the field of Environment/Ecology, which means it is one of the most-cited papers in this field published in the past two years. Essential Science Indicators is a resource that enables researchers to conduct ongoing, quantitative analyses of research performance and track trends in science. Covering a multidisciplinary selection of 11,000+journals from around the world, this in-depth analytical tool offers data for ranking scientists, institutions, countries, and journals. To see more about this click here.

October 2007: Journalism Professor Rick Brunson (UCF Class of 1984) has been named the top Society of Professional Journalists campus chapter adviser in the country. Brunson, who had already planned a trip with student chapter members to the national convention in Washington, D.C., next month, learned in August 2007 that he would be honored with the David L. Eshelman Award at the Mark of Excellence luncheon on Oct 5th, 2007.

October 2007: Ed Salas received the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 2007 Best Ergonomics in Design Article Award. This award is presented in recognition of his article with Katherine Wilson, C. Shawn Burke, Dennis C. Wightman, and Will R. Howse, "A Checklist for crew resource management training," which was judged the best article in the 2006 volume of Ergonomics in Design. The award was presented at the Opening Plenary Session of the HFES 51st Annual Meeting, Oct 2, 2007.

October 2007: Ed Salas received the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 2007 Jack A. Kraft Innovator Award, which honors accomplishments in applying the principles of human factors to a new area of endeavor. "This award is presented in recognition of your many cutting-edge accomplishments, and specifically for your research on team performance and training." this was presented at the Opening Plenary Session of the HFES 51st Annual Meeting, October 2.

September 2007: Congrats to Rick Brunson, The Society of Professional Journalists is pleased to honor him with the David L. Eshelman Outstanding Campus Adviser Award. For the 2007 academic year, Brunson also received the Student Adviser of the Year Award from the University of Central Florida Knights of the Round Table, an advisory council that honors outstanding members from the university's registered organizations. Brunson will be recognized Friday, Oct. 5 during a luncheon at the 2007 SPJ Convention & National Journalism Conference in Washington, D.C. at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill.

September 2007: On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, the US EPA will honor Penelope Canan with the "Best-of-the-Best" Award in the "Individual" category (as opposed to corporate or government) for "Path-Breaking Sociological Research on Montreal Protocol Networks."Penelope Canan has served as a member of the Protocol's Technology & Economic Assessment Panel/Economic Options Committee since 1990. In addition, with the support of the National Science Foundation, Dr. Nancy Reichman (University of Denver, Sociology) and Penelope Canan researched and wrote about the formation, maintenance, and performance of expert networks in global environmental governance. The book is called Ozone Connections (2002, Greenleaf) which also appears in Japanese (2005, Nihon Hyoron Sha). She also received this past August at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, the "Distinguished Career" Award from the Environment and Technology Section.

August 2007: Saleh Naser (Biology) received a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the bacterium that may cause Crohn's disease.

August 2007: Ms. Shari Hodgson was honored on August 9th with the "Community Service" award from the Center for Drug Free Living.

August 2007:

Congratulations to Amy M. Donley and James D. Wright, whose paper "For Richer or for Poorer: The Impact of State Level Legislation on Marriage, Divorce and Other Outcomes" has been accepted for publication in Sociological Spectrum.

August 2007: Peter Hancock of the Department of Psychology and IST has been awarded the John C. Flanagan Lifetime Achievement Award from the Military Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association. The Flanagan Award recognizes career-long achievements in military psychology, including advancement of the profession of military psychology, improved effectiveness of military psychology systems, or service on behalf of the welfare of military personnel.

August 2007: Deborah Beidel of the Department of Psychology has received the 2007 Samuel M. Turner Clinical Research Award from the American Psychological Association. The Samuel M. Turner Award honors a psychologist who has made an outstanding contribution in applied clinical research. Dr. Beidel is an internationally known scholar in the area of child and adult anxiety disorders. She holds the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) Diplomate in Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Psychology and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. She was the 1990 recipient of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy's New Researcher Award. She is a past Chair of the American Psychological Association's committee on Accreditation and the 1995 recipient of the Distinguished Educator Award from the Association of Medical School Psychologists. She has recently joined UCF as a Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training.

July 2007:

Dr. Jim Katt recently served as Technical Advisor for the 2007 National Lutheran Youth Gathering in Orlando (July 28 - August 1). This gathering brought together 27,000 high school age youth and adult leaders from all over the country for the five-day, triennial event.

July 2007: Congratulations to Dr. Penelope Canan! The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) selected Dr. Canan to receive the 2007 Best-of-the-Best Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award. The Award is being presented in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Montreal Protocol, and distinguishes the highest caliber recipients from over 500 individuals, organizations and teams who have earned annual Stratospheric Ozone Protection awards from 1990 to 2007. The Best-of-the-Best Award nominees were evaluated by US EPA staff and judged by an international panel representing industry, government, and non-governmental organizations. US EPA officials made the final selection of award winners.

May 2007: UCF Physics Professor Joseph Harrington and his team have measured the hottest planet ever at 3, 700 degrees Fahrenheit. 'HD 149026b is simply the most exotic, bizarre planet,' Harrington said. 'It's pretty small, really dense, and now we find that it's extremely hot.'

May 2007: UCF Researcher says Saturn's largest ring made of clumps Saturn's largest and most densely packed ring is composed of dense clumps of particles separated by nearly empty gaps, according to new findings from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

May 2007: This year the Nicholson School of Communication is proud to announce that Mr. George Bagley, Dr. Rita Graham and Dr. Burt Pryor are each recipients of the Teacher Incentive Program (TIP) $5,000 award.

May 2007: Math Department: Barry Griffiths, Marianna Pensky and Cynthia Young received the UCF Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award.

May 2007: Math department: Alexander Katsevich received the UCF Research Incentive Award.

May 2007: David Kaup has been appointed as a member of the scientific committee for the international conference "Nonlinear waves- theory and applications" to be held in Beijing, China from June 9 - 11, 2008.

May 2007: Melissa Patterson - College Journalist of the Year competition in the Sunshine State Awards, sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists' 3rd place.

May 2007: Biology Department: Walter Sotero and Laurie Von Kalm recently won TIP awards.

April 2007:

Congratulations! for those who won the Grasty Awards- NSOC outstanding faculty members

Rick Brunson: Excellence in Service Award
Denise DeLorme: Outstanding Research
Rick Kenney: Excellence in Teaching

April 2007: 30 year Service Awards: Dr. Joe Hall and Dr. Bob Davis

April 2007: Congrats! NSOC Hall of Fame
Inductee: Joan McCain
Honorary Inductee: Tom Morgan

April 2007: Kuppalapalle Vajravelu and Cynthia Young received the UCF Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award.

April 2007: Marianna Pensky, Jian-Jian Ren and David Rollins were promoted to the rank of Professor.

April 2007: Cynthia Young was elected a Fellow of the Society of Optical Engineers.

April 2007: Stephanie Rice received a grant from College of Arts and Humanities for an interdisciplinary project to produce a documentary DVD/cd on Jazz legend, Sam Rivers.

April 2007: Christian Clausen, Cherie Geiger and Debra Reinhart, professors at UCF, will be inducted in the Space Technology Hall of Fame next week for their role in developing the Emulsified Zero-Valent Iron, or EZVI. They worked with NASA scientists at the Kennedy Space Center to develop the technology that cleans contaminated sites and is environmentally friendly. The professors teach in the chemistry and civil and environmental engineering departments.

March 2007:

Betsy Von Holle- Research Grant, Florida Department of Environmental Protection

March 2007: This spring the panel of judges for the Roast and Toast scholarship program at UCF selected six winners. The Advertising PR majors chosen were April Colasurdo, Kevin Felker, Brittany Miller and Claudia Rosario. The two Journalism majors selected were Brandon, Bielich, and Jessica Tuggle. Each winner will be presented with plaques at the March OAC/FPRA meeting and will receive a $1,000 stipend.

March 2007: Mourad Ismail received funding in the amount of $20,000 from the National Science Foundation for his project entitled "Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions, and Applications".

March 2007: Constance Schober received funding in the amount of $54,716.00 from the National Science Foundation for her project entitled "Dynamical systems methods and geometric integrators for nonlinear wave equations".

March 2007: Cynthia Young received the University Excellence in Professional Service Award.

March 2007: MC Santana was invited by the National Education Association to participate in the panel "Tenure, Promotion and Faculty of Color" during their convention in San Diego, CA on March 2-4, 2007. Santana is a founding Board Member of the UCF Latino/a Caucus which was featured in the article "At Central Florida, Hispanic Women Give Each Other Advice and a Sympathetic Ear" by Robin Wilson for The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 26, 2006.

February 2007: Wu Jing chosen for Outstanding Dissertation Award for Mathematics Doctorate Program.

February 2007: Department of Mathematics, Tomasz Wlodarczyk chosen for Award for Excellence by a Graduate Teaching Assistant.

February 2007: For the first time ever, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured enough light from an exoplanet, a planet outside our solar system, to spread it apart and find signatures of molecules in the planet's atmosphere.

UCF Physics Professor Joseph Harrington was a member of one of three teams that made similar observations. The landmark achievement is a key step toward being able to detect life on alien worlds ' and comes years before astronomers had thought possible.

February 2007: Biologist Linda Walters, with funding from the National Park Service,is studying the damage by powerboat wakes to oyster beds in Mosquito Lagoon at the Canaveral National Seashore.

February 2007: 2007 Research Grants - $15,000 - awarded to: Dr. Tim Brown and Dr. Steve Collins, Dr. Kenney, Dr. DeLorme and Dr. Dan Shaver.

February 2007: Tammy Muhs received a grant from UCF Undergraduate Studies to "Enhance General Education Programs" in the amount of $5,000.00.

January 2007: 2007 Research Grants - $15,000 - awarded to: Dr. Tim Brown and Dr. Steve Collins, Dr. Kenney, Dr. DeLorme and Dr. Dan Shaver.

January 2007:

Congrats! Dr. Jeff Butler received Lead scholars faculty improvement grant, $2000.

January 2007: Dr. Ty Matejowsky received a UCF In-House research grant to support his research on fast food in the Philippines. His article "SPAM & Fast Food 'Glocalization' in the Philippines" will be coming out in the Spring 2007 edition of the journal, Food & Culture. Additionally, Dr. Matejowsky's book chapter entitled "Global Tastes, Local Contexts: An Ethnographic Account of Fast Food Market Expansion in San Fernando City, the Philippines" was just published in the book, "Fast/Slow Food".

December 2006: Teaching Award from Chi Omega Fraternity- 2006: George Bagley

November 2006: UCF's Industrial-Organizational Psychology faculty ranked first nationally in overall productivity in a study reported this spring at the 20th annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

October 2006: Dr. Sally Hastings attended the Florida Communication Association Conference in October of 2006, where she was involved in three panels. In November of 2006, she attended the National Communication Association conference in San Antonio, TX, where she was involved in four panels.

September 2006:

Sociological Spectrum at UCF! Drs. David Gay and John Lynxwiler have taken over as editors for Sociological Spectrum. Sociological Spectrum is the journal for the Mid-South Sociological Society

September 2006: Dr. Stephen Kuebler's research group has developed a new approach for fabricating three-dimensional metal-polymer composite micro-structures. The approach opens new routes to photonic materials and devices with novel optical properties. This research was featured on the Aug. 2006 cover of "Advanced Functional Materials". To learn more about the Kuebler group, go to their home page at http://npm.creol.ucf.edu.

August 2006: Welcome to Mr. Pete Sinelli who joins the anthropology faculty as a fulltime Instructor in the fall of 2006. Mr. Sinelli is currently finishing his Ph.D. at the University of Florida.

August 2006: Welcome to Dr. John Walker who joins the anthropology faculty as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2006. Dr. Walker, who specializes in archaeology, comes from the University of Pennsylvania

June 2006: Dr. John Walker is featured in the May issue of Science, discussing "Early American Astronomy". Press here to link to this story.

June 2006: Leslie Sue Lieberman, Professor of Anthropology received the prestigious Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramburger Award from the Croatian Anthropology Society (CAS) for contributions to Croatian anthropology. Gorjanovic-Kramburger discovered the famous Neandertal site of Krapina and was a founder of the CAS.

May 2006:

Congratulations to Dr. Rosalyn Howard who received promotion to Associate Professor and tenure in May, 2006. Dr. Howard was also awarded a Teaching Incentive Award in 2006. The Looking for Angola Project that she is part of received a $10,000 grant from The History Channel for public anthropology programs in the Sarasota and Manatee county schools, and another to conduct underwater archaeology.

April 2006:

Advisor of the Year Award: Given to Rick Brunson by the UCF Office of Student Involvement.

April 2006:

TIP Awards 2006-2007: Mr. George Bagley , Dr. Rita Graham and Dr. Burt Pryor

March 2006: Dr. Peter A. Hancock has been selected as one of four total College of Science researchers to receive a 2005-06 Research Incentive Award. This award honors Dr. Hancock's commitment to scholarship and proven abilities as a researcher.

February 2006: Bruce Wilson, an associate professor of Political Science, will serve as an official observer of the Costa Rican presidential election on Feb. 5.

January 2006: Dr. Gabriel Braunstein (Associate Professor, Physics) has received a $ 100,000 grant, from the National Science Foundation, to organize a Pan American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI). The PASI, entitled Ion Nanobeams: Focused Ion Beams for the Nano Era, will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from February 20th to March 3rd, 2006. About 50-60 participants from North, Central, and South America (graduate students and junior and established investigators), covering a broad spectrum of disciplines, will meet to review the basic theoretical principles, and practical applications, of ion-solid interactions, for reduced dimensionality applications, and to explore the process of transformation and change, of ion beam methods, necessary to deal with the reduced dimensionality, and novel methodologies of production, of nano-systems, as well as perceived limitations of ion beam systems to achieve these goals. Further information about this event is available at the web site: www.nanobeam-pasi.org.

January 2006: Bruce M. Wilson was invited to join an international group of scholars examining the impact of judicial reform on the lives of marginalized groups in less developed countries. The most recent meeting was in Santiago, Chile in December 2005. Dr. Wilson's paper, entitled "What Happens when Marginalized Groups Win Constitutional Decisions Evidence from Costa Rica," was presented at the "Courts and the Marginalized: Comparative Experiences" workshop, December 1-2, 2005, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile.

December 2005: 2005 Outstanding Four Year College Teacher Award , Orlando Chapter of the American Chemical Society.

November 2005: Associate Professor Bruce M. Wilson was recently invited to give a presentation at Costa Rica's leading research think tank, Programa de la Nacion, on November 4, 2005. His presentation was entitled "el acceso de los grupos minoritarios al sistema de justicia costarricense" [Minority group access to Costa Rica's judicial system].

October 2005: Kevin D. Belfield (PI) and Andres D. Campiglia (co-PI) received the Type H award from The Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society. The endowment includes $31,080 for "Optical, Photonic, and Electronic Materials ACS-PRF Summer School." The objective of the ACS PRF Summer School on Optical, Photonic, and Electronic Materials, to be held at UCF in June 2006, is to bring aspiring chemists at relatively early stages of their careers, along with faculty from two-year colleges, for an intensive educational experience in cutting edge materials that are used in a number of emerging technologies.

October 2005: Eric W. Van Stryland (PI), along with Kevin D. Belfield (co-PI) and David J. Hagan (co-PI), received a research grant from the National Science Foundation entitled "Nonlinear Spectroscopy: Absorption and Refraction," award number ECS-0524533, 8/2005-7/2008, $240,001.

September 2005:

Listed in Who's Who Among America's Teacher's, 2005

August 2005: Otto Phanstiel (PI) and Saleh Naser were awarded a grant renewal from the Broad Medical Research Program for their work on polyamines and inflammatory bowel disease ($50,000).

August 2005: Dr. Peter Hancock received the 2005 Jack A. Kraft Innovator Award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. The award is presented in recognition of Dr. Hancock's exceptional and innovative efforts to extend theory and application of Human Factors principles and methods in many new areas of endeavor, as well as to integrate multi-disciplinary approaches in the human factors and ergonomics field.

July 2005: Otto Phanstiel (PI), Thomas Selby and Martin Richardson were awarded funding from Mannkind Biopharmaceuticals to study proprietary drug delivery technologies ($184,551).

June 2005: Provost's Distinguished Research Professor Peter Hancock was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Society. "Fellow" status is awarded to APS Members who have made sustained and outstanding contributions to psychology research, teaching, service, and/or application. Candidates are only generally considered after 10-15 years of postdoctoral work. [ More Information ]

June 2005: Michael Dunn, along with James Schaus, M.D., his colleagues from Student Health Services, and Mary Sole from the School of Nursing, received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to test the effectiveness of alcohol screenings and interventions for high-risk college students.

June 2005: Psychology Chair Robert Dipboye was elected as a Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) representative to the American Psychological Association council.

May 2005: Joan Morris and Elayne Zorn have been recommended as 2005 CAS Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) award recipients. The TIP program rewards faculty for teaching productivity and excellence. Selection criteria include teaching quality and effectiveness, commitment to instruction, innovation, creativity, and productivity based on a portfolio of assignments and evaluations collected over the previous 4 academic years.

May 2005: Susan Schott has been recommended as a 2005 CAS Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) award recipient. The TIP program rewards faculty for teaching productivity and excellence. Selection criteria include teaching quality and effectiveness, commitment to instruction, innovation, creativity, and productivity based on a portfolio of assignments and evaluations collected over the previous 4 academic years.

May 2005: Howard Miles has been recommended as a 2005 CAS Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) award recipient. The TIP program rewards faculty for teaching productivity and excellence. Selection criteria include teaching quality and effectiveness, commitment to instruction, innovation, creativity, and productivity based on a portfolio of assignments and evaluations collected over the previous 4 academic years.

May 2005: Gabriel Braunstein, Costas Efthimiou, and Hari Saha have been recommended as 2005 CAS Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) award recipients. The TIP program rewards faculty for teaching productivity and excellence. Selection criteria include teaching quality and effectiveness, commitment to instruction, innovation, creativity, and productivity based on a portfolio of assignments and evaluations collected over the previous 4 academic years.

May 2005: Joan Morris and Elayne Zorn have been recommended as 2005 CAS Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) award recipients. The TIP program rewards faculty for teaching productivity and excellence. Selection criteria include teaching quality and effectiveness, commitment to instruction, innovation, creativity, and productivity based on a portfolio of assignments and evaluations collected over the previous 4 academic years.

May 2005: David Rollins has been recommended as a 2005 CAS Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) award recipient. The TIP program rewards faculty for teaching productivity and excellence. Selection criteria include teaching quality and effectiveness, commitment to instruction, innovation, creativity, and productivity based on a portfolio of assignments and evaluations collected over the previous 4 academic years.

May 2005: Pamela Thomas, Jane Waterman, and John Weishampel have been recommended as 2005 CAS Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) award recipients. The TIP program rewards faculty for teaching productivity and excellence. Selection criteria include teaching quality and effectiveness, commitment to instruction, innovation, creativity, and productivity based on a portfolio of assignments and evaluations collected over the previous 4 academic years.

May 2005:

Dr. Elayne Zorn received a sabbatical leave for 2005-2006 to work on a book on culture and ethnonationalism in contemporary Bolivia, and will be doing library research in Gainesville, Pittsburgh and Austin, and ethnographic fieldwork in Bolivia.

May 2005: Dr. Kerstin Hamann and Philip Pollock have each been honored with a 2005 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award. The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) can be defined as research into teaching methods and effectiveness, with the ultimate goal of evaluating student learning. Each year, UCF sponsors 10 SoTL awards funded by the Office of Academic Affairs. Award recipients are chosen for the value and impact of their scholarship and creative efforts on the teaching and learning community.

May 2005: Shari Hodgson and Jim Katt have been recommended as 2005 CAS Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) award recipients. The TIP program rewards faculty for teaching productivity and excellence. Selection criteria include teaching quality and effectiveness, commitment to instruction, innovation, creativity, and productivity based on a portfolio of assignments and evaluations collected over the previous 4 academic years.

May 2005: Kimberly Renk has been recommended as a 2005 CAS Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) award recipient. The TIP program rewards faculty for teaching productivity and excellence. Selection criteria include teaching quality and effectiveness, commitment to instruction, innovation, creativity, and productivity based on a portfolio of assignments and evaluations collected over the previous 4 academic years.

May 2005: Dr. Barbara Fritzsche has been honored with a 2005 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award. The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) can be defined as research into teaching methods and effectiveness, with the ultimate goal of evaluating student learning. Each year, UCF sponsors 10 SoTL awards funded by the Office of Academic Affairs. Award recipients are chosen for the value and impact of their scholarship and creative efforts on the teaching and learning community.

May 2005:

Congratulations to Dr. Tosha Dupras who received tenure and promotion in May, 2005.

May 2005: Instructor Cindy Benson won the first annual Outstanding First-Year Advocate Award given by the LINK First-Year Experience Program. The award is based on student nominations.

April 2005:

UCF Honors Outstanding Faculty, Students at Founders- Day 30-Year Service Awards: College of Arts and Sciences: Ron Wallace (Sociology and Anthropology)

April 2005:

TIP Awards 2005-2006: Christine Hanlon, NSOC

April 2005:

Teacher Incentive Program Awards 2004-2005
The University of Central Florida Teaching Incentive Program (UCF-TIP) rewards faculty for teaching productivity and excellence. UCF-TIP was developed through a joint effort between the Office of Academic Affairs and the Faculty Senate. Selection criteria include teaching quality and effectiveness, commitment to instruction, innovation, creativity, and productivity based on a portfolio of assignments and evaluations collected over the previous 4 academic years. The selection committee is comprised of faculty members and one student within the College. Award recipients receive a $5,000 salary increase.
Shari Hodgson, Nicholson School of Communication
Jim Katt, Nicholson School of Communication

April 2005:

Davis-Shine Endowed Professor Reed Noss received a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the amount of $615,594.

April 2005: Pedro Quintana-Ascencio received a scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Education to work in collaboration with researchers from the University of Valladolid at Soria.

April 2005: Professor Philip H. Pollock received a University Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award in April 2005.

April 2005: Otto Phanstiel and Todd Meyer were each awarded the Florida Hospital Gala Endowed Award for Oncological Research ($7500).

April 2005: Associate Professor John Weishampel was selected as a Fulbright Scholar to Canada for the 2005-06 year.

April 2005: Pedro Quintana-Ascencio in collaboration with Chris Parkinson received a research grant in the amount of $127,691

April 2005:

Dr. Elayne Zorn was interviewed on the Augustana Public Radio program "About Books" by co-host Faye Clow, of the Bettendorf Public Library Information Center of Augustana College. Dr. Zorn discussed her new book on Andean weaving, Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island (University of Iowa Press, 2004). The interview is available on the Internet during April 2005 at http://www.augustana.edu/wvik/listings-aboutbooks.htm.

April 2005: Davis-Shine Endowed Professor Reed Noss received a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the amount of $615,594.

April 2005: Associate Professor Kerstin Hamann received the CAS College Excellence in Professional Service Award and the University Excellence in Professional Service Award. Dr. Hamann also was also awarded a University Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award in April 2005.

March 2005: Elayne Zorn was interviewed on the Augustana Public Radio program "About Books" by co-host Faye Clow, of the Bettendorf Public Library Information Center of Augustana College. Zorn discussed her new book on Andean weaving, Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island (University of Iowa Press, 2004). The interview is available on the Internet during April 2005 at http://www.augustana.edu/wvik/listings-aboutbooks.htm.

March 2005: Assistant Professor Annabelle Conroy received an in-house Research Grant from UCF's Office of Research and Commercialization. The title of her project is "Latino Political Participation in Central Florida."

March 2005: Assistant Professor Barbara Kinsey received an in-house Research Grant from UCF's Office of Research and Commercialization. Her project title is "Casting the Anti-Immigrant Vote in Fortress Europe: Power Theory of Inter-group Relations."

March 2005: Jonathan Knuckey was awarded tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor.

March 2005:

Li Zhang (completed Industrial Chemistry MS in Fall 2004) was selected by the College of Arts and Sciences to receive an Honorable Mention for Outstanding Master's Thesis.

February 2005: Kerstin Hamann and Bruce Wilson helped set up a new journal, Journal of Political Science Education (JPSE), and they are part of that journal's editoral board. The first issue of the JPSE was published in February 2005, and it also contains an article by these two faculty members and fellow professor Philip Pollock. [ Journal ]

February 2005: Humberto Campins, director of the Space and Planetary Sciences program, has been invited as speaker (one of 20 selected worldwide) for a conference in Italy about water and the origin of life. This conference is funded by the Tempelton foundation.

February 2005: Bruce M. Wilson was invited to present his research on Judicial Reform in Latin America to the faculty and students at the Universidad Estatal a Distancia in San Jose, Costa Rica. The invited presentation took place February 10, 2005.

January 2005: Beatriz Roldan Cuenya received a 5-year NSF CAREER grant of nearly $600,000. These grants are perhaps the most prestigious individual grants the Foundation makes and they very rarely go to first-time applicants, such as Cuenya.

January 2005: A panel of experts, including anthropologist Rosalyn Howard, spoke about their preliminary archeological findings on Angola, on January 28, 2005 at the University of South Florida Sudakoff Auditorium. This event was covered by the Bradenton Herald [ See Press Release ] and WUSF 89.7 FM [ See Press Release ].

January 2005: Edgard Maboudou-Tchao: 2005, Winner of American Statistical Association Student Scholarship award to attend the Quality & Productivity Research Conference in Minneapolis, MN.

January 2005:

Constance Cutchins was the UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award Recipient 2005-06

January 2005: Mike Sigman and his co-investigators, Andrew Campiglia and Kevin Belfield, received a contract for a grant from DARPA.

January 2005: Associate Professor Bruce Wilson, Professor Philip H. Pollock and Associate Professor Kerstin Hamann received the American Political Science Association Undergraduate Education section's Best Paper Award presented at the 2004 APSA meeting (The award was announced in March 2005 and will be presented in September 2005 at the APSA meeting). The paper title was "Teaching and Learning Online: Assessing the Effect of Gender Context on Active Learning". A revised version was subsequently published as Teaching and Learning Online: Assessing the Effects of Gender Context on Active Learning in the Journal of Political Science Education in January 2005.

January 2005: Mourad Ismail has been elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (United Kingdom).

January 2005: Dr. Florian Jentsch was awarded a $271,000 contract with the U.S. Army.

January 2005: Dr. Jeffery Bedwell received a $96,000 President?s equipment award.

January 2005:

Congratulations to Dr. Tosha Dupras who received a Research Incentive Award in 2005.

December 2004:

John Weishampel received one of three 'Master Juggler' awards from the Office of Research and Commercialization. This award is presented to faculty who have successfully juggled eight funded projects this year.

December 2004: Peter Hancock received a 'Three-Timer' award from the Office of Research and Commercialization. This award is presented to faculty who have received $1 Million or more in research funding for three consecutive years.

December 2004: James Szalma has been appointed to director the MURI-OPUS Research Lab. This is a virtual lab, which includes labs at the University of Central Florida, the Human Factors Research Lab at the University of Minnesota, the Cognitive Sciences Lab at the Catholic University of America, and University of Cincinnati.

October 2004: The prestigious and highly selective Society for Organizational Behavior met at UCF in October, 2004. UCF has more faculty that are members of SOB than any other psychology department: Rob Folger, Gene Stone-Romero, Ed Salas, Ambrose, Robert Dipboye, Robert Pritchard.

October 2004:

Mark Johnson and Charles C. Watson, Jr. (Kinetic Analysis Corporation, Savannah, Georgia), wrote an article on hurricane research, which is featured on the cover of the November 2004 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

July 2004:

John Weishampel and Lew Erhart wrote an article on nesting turtles, which was published in August issue of Global Change Biology, along with a picture of the loggerhead turtle that appeared on the cover. Global Change Biology is the number one journal in Environmental Sciences.

May 2004:

Dr. Llewellyn Ehrhart is name the Carnegie Florida Professor of the Year Educator. View Press Release

May 2004: Dr. Richard D. Gilson's research into haptic-communication for soldier was once again published nationally. The Associated Press ran articles about it in the St. Petersburg Times, the Miami Herald, Tampa Bay Online, WINK-TV CBS 11 Fort Myers, and the Jacksonville Florida Times-Union. [ View UCF Press Release ]

May 2004: The London Sunday Telegraph, Scientific American, and WebMD ran articles about Professor Stacey Tantleff-Dunn's research on how men become depressed and dissatisfied with their bodies when they see many TV ads that feature men whose muscularity is unattainable for them. [ View UCF Press Release ]

May 2004: The Washington Post quoted UCF psychology professor Janan Awar Smither in a story about Floridians' reactions to the abuse of Iraqi detainees.

April 2004:

At the Founder's Day Celebration Drs. Arlen and Diane Chase, for their 20 years of service to UCF and undergraduate Anthropology student Zachary Blair who was one of the top one percent of students in the College of Arts and Sciences.

April 2004:

Dr. Tosha Dupras was awarded the University Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award at the 16th annual Founder's Day Honors Convocation Ceremony held on April 7th. Dr. Dupras was also presented with an award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for the College of Arts & Sciences.

April 2004:

Dr. Llewellyn Ehrhart (Biology) was appointed as Senior Research Fellow at the Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute.

May 2003:

Congratulations to Dr. Diane Chase who has been selected as one of two Pegasus professors for 2003-04. At the 2003 Founders Day Awards Ceremony, Dr. Diane Chase was presented with the Pegasus Professor Award by Dr. Gary Whitehouse.

January 2003:

Look for Dr. Tosha Dupras on the Discovery Channel.

January 2003:

Dr. Rosalyn Howard has been appointed as the new director for the minor in North American Indian Studies.

January 2003: David M. Nickerson: TIP Award

June 2002:

In the summer of 2002, Dr. Constance Schober received a 3-year research grant from National Science Foundation. Her project title is: Dynamical Systems Methods and Geometric Integrators for Nonlinear Wave Equations.

June 2002:

In the summer of 2002, Dr. Alexander Tovbis received a 3-year research grant from National Science Foundation. His project title is:Asymptotic Methods for Singularity Perturbed Nonlinear Systems.

June 2002:

In the summer of 2002, Dr. Jian-Jian Ren received a 3-year research grant from National Science Foundation . Her project title is:Weighted Empirical Likelihood.

June 2002:

Cultural anthropologist Dr. Elayne Zorn carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Peru and Bolivia during July 2002 as part of a long-term project with the Brooklyn Museum of Art, which is preparing to reinstall its spectacular Hall of the Americas. In this photograph Zorn is speaking Quechua (Inca) with indigenous weavers in Pitumarca, Cusco, Peru, interviewing them about how they set up a loom to weave an exceptionally complicated textile technique called discontinuous warp and weft. This technique was perfected more than a thousand years ago by ancient Andean weavers, but it was believed that knowledge of this technique was lost after the Spanish Conquest of Peru in the 16th century. Zorn's research interests focus on contemporary peoples of highland Peru and Bolivia, in the areas of political economy, tourism, weaving, gender, and writing. She teaches undergraduate anthropology courses that include Peoples of the World, Cultures of Latin America, and the Incas, as well as a graduate course on the Contemporary Maya.

April 2002:

In April of 2002, Dr. Y. Nick Zhao received a 2-year Young Investigator Research Grant from National Security Agency. His project title is: Further Investigations on the Discharging Method in Graph Theory.

January 2001:

Dr. Leslie Sue Lieberman,Professor of Anthropology was elected Chair of the Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association.

January 2000:

2000-01 UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award Recipient

April 1998:

Listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 1998

September 1997:

1997 Teacher Appreciation Award, Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.

January 1996: Edgard Maboudou-Tchao: 1996,Distinguished Instructor Award; ENSI, Lome-Togo

January 1996: David M. Nickerson: TIP Award

December 1994:

1994-95 UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award Recipient.