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Faculty Accomplishments
Applauded Across MC Campus
For our final issue of the semester,
The Herald staff solicited reports
of faculty accomplishments from
departments across campus. By
printing these achievements on
the frontpage, we hope to con
gratulate these faculty members
and share their accomplishments
with the larger Meredith com
munity, in turn promoting an
atmosphere of research and de
velopment amongst the students,
faculty and staff,across campus.
-Amy Hruby, Editor-in-Chief
History and Political Science
Dr. Dan Fountain, Associate Professor
of History, has just had his research
published by LSU Press in a book
entitled Slavery, Civil War and Salva
tion, which examines how fully Chris
tianity replaced the African religions
the slaves had brought with them.
Mathematics and Computer
Science
Dr. Mike Johnson presented a talk titled
“Queuing Models with Unknown Ser
vice Parameters for Congested Systems”
at MathFest 2010 in Pittsburgh, August
5-7, 2010.
Foreign Languages and
Literatures
Dr. Jonathan Wade also headed up our
first ever ‘Noche de poesia’ (Spanish
Language Poetry Night) Thursday, No
vember 11th in the Cate Center. It was
a big success, with at least 70 people in
attendance.
Professor of Foreign Languages & ,
Literatures Brent Pitts’ critical edition
of a thirteenth-centuiy Anglo-Norman
Apocalypse poem, Revelacion, has been
published.
Dr. Gregory Vitarbo, Associate
Professor of History, has just signed Theatre
a contract with Peter Lang Press to
publish his research in a book ten
tatively entitled Army of the Sky:
Russian Military Aviation Before
the Great War, which explores how
the Russian government tried to find
common ground for the many differ
ent ethnic groups represented in the
officer corps of the fledgling imperial
air force.
Steven Roten has acted professionally
in two area productions this semester.
He played Malvolio in Shakespeare’s
Twelfth Night at the Kooka Booth Am
phitheatre in Cary and finished the run
of Mark Twain’s Is He Dead? at Deep
Dish Theatre in Chapel Hill.
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IN THIS ISSUE...
State & Local: Winter Holiday
Celebrations, Seeing Red, NC
Education Reform
Arts & Entertainment: Holiday
Movies, Avett Brothers
Campus Life: Three Sisters Garden
and Recipes, Classroom Recycling
Program, Exam Schedule
Opinion: Honor Code Overheard,
Habitat on Campus
Biological Sciences
Professor Erin Lindquist
presented a paper entitled
“Secondary coastal forest com
position relative to an environ
mental gradient and seed rain
distribution in Costa Rica” at the
annual meeting of the Ecological
Society of America in Pittsburgh, PA.
School of Business
A paper written by Dr. Jane Barnes and
Dr. Ying Liao has been selected by the
Decision Science Institute as the Best
Theoretical/Empirical Research Paper
at their annual meeting. The paper,
“Successful Supply Chain Manage
ment Systems: The Role of Individual,
Network and Collaborative Competen
cies,” will be presented at the DSI an
nual conference on November 20th.
CORRECTIONS:
In our last issue’s front page article, the Finanical Assistance Department was incorrectly referred to as
Financial Aid.
In our last issue’s Campus Life article “Religion and Ethical Studies: A Lesson in Learning,” the Religious and
Ethical Studies Department was incorrectly called the Religion and Ethical Studies Department. Additionally,
Dr. Steven Benko’s name was misspelled.
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