Learn about James Monroe’s involvement in the American Revolution in this video created by Scott Harris, director of the James Monroe Museum:
Sheckels Presents on Flipped Classroom
On Jan. 18, 2014, Marie Sheckels gave the presentation “Lessons Learned: A First Attempt at Using a Flipped Classroom Model” at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore, Md. Dr. Sheckels described course modifications she made to “flip” one of her classes and the course outcomes.
Denhere Presents at Joint Mathematics Meetings, Serves as Poster Judge
On Jan. 15, 2014, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Melody Denhere gave the presentation “Robust Penalized Functional Logistic Regression” at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in Baltimore, Md. This paper is continuing work from her doctoral dissertation and was coauthored by Nedret Billor, her dissertation adviser at Auburn. Dr. Denhere also served as a judge for the annual Student Poster Competition at the Joint Meetings.
Hydorn Presents Paper, Has Artwork in Mathematical Art Exhibition
On Jan. 16, 2014, Dr. Debra Hydorn, Professor of Mathematics, gave the presentation “Infographics Activities to Promote Graphical and Quantitative Literacy” at the 2014 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore, Md. The presentation described activities from her First-Year Seminar on Infographics. Dr. Hydorn also had the artwork “Gnomon Board” accepted for the Exhibition of Mathematical Art of the Joint Meetings and she served as a judge for the annual Student Poster Competition.
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Whalen Presents at MLA Conference
Zach Whalen, Assistant Professor of English, participated in three events at the recent Modern Language Association conference in Chicago. On Friday, Jan. 10, he was part of a reading of electronic literature, where he and colleagues read from twitter bots in a “Bot Choral.” On Saturday, Jan. 11, he was a panelist on the roundtable discussion “Electronic Literature after Flash.” His remarks were titled “Lexia to Perplexia (2000-2013)” and addressed the obsolescence of a key piece of second-generation electronic literature. Finally, on Sunday, Jan. 12, he presented the paper “Ebooks, Typography, and Twitter Art” in the session “Lit Misbehavin.” This paper addressed the poetics of twitter bots.
Foss Contributes to Essay Collection
Chris Foss, Professor of English, recently published a chapter entitled “Building a Mystery: Relative Fear and the 1990s Autistic Thriller” in Bloomsbury Press’s Kidding Around: The Child in Film and Media, a collection of essays edited by Alexander N. Howe and Wynn Yarbrough.
McClurken Discusses Digital Humanities
Jeff McClurken, professor and chair of history and American studies, lead a daylong workshop at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. on Friday, Jan. 10. He spoke to faculty, librarians, and administrators about the wide-ranging aspects of digital humanities.
Read more here: Jeffrey McClurken Workshop at Dickinson.
Gaines Publishes Translation of “Moving In”
Professor Jim Gaines of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures has published a translation of Alphonse Daudet’s tale “Moving In” in the December 2013 issue of Eerie Digest/TAEM, an online journal originating in Washington with a large worldwide readership. The story, one of a series translated by Gaines from the book Letters From My Mill, deals with Daudet’s description of his home and the return of local shepherds from their summer pastures in the late 19th century.