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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jan. 23, 2004
Contact: Anika Mitchell Perkins
(662) 329-7124
MUW faculty recognized for their accomplishments
MUW faculty recognized for their accomplishments
COLUMBUS, Miss. – Mississippi University for Women faculty have received
noteworthy achievements in their respective areas.
Joy Bailey, instructor in the speech-language pathology/audiology
program, has been appointed to a three-year term as a licensed
speech-language pathologist member of the Council of
Advisors-Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology by the Mississippi State
Board of Health.
Bailey becomes part of the seven-member Council, which considers
questions related to professional licensure such as reciprocity from
other states, complaints against a practitioner within the state and
clarification of regulations.
She joins Dr. Bob Oyler, who serves on this Council as a licensed
audiologist member. Oyler is professor and director of the
Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology Program and director of the MUW
Speech and Hearing Center.
At the November meeting of the Legislative Council of the American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in Chicago, Oyler was elected
to a one-year term as coordinator of the Audiology/Hearing Science
(A/HS) Assembly. The Legislative Council is the policy setting body of
ASHA and is divided into two assemblies, one representing the
audiologists and hearing scientists and the other representing the
speech-language pathologists and speech and language scientists. As
coordinator, He will chair all meetings of the A/HS Assembly, provide
verbal and written reports of A/HS Assembly proceedings to the entire
Legislative Council and serve as a member of the agenda setting group of
the Legislative Council.
Dr. Michael Burger, professor of history, edited primary sources for the
book “History of Western Civilization, ” which was published by
Broadview Press. The two-volume book documents the history of the West,
from the second millennium BC through the 20th century.
Burger specializes in the medieval period.
Kristen Chase, assistant professor of music and director of music
therapy, had an article published in Music Therapy Perspectives, one of
two scholarly journals of the American Music Therapy Association. The
article was titled “Multicultural Music Therapy: A Review of
Literature.”
Dr. Janice Unruh Davidson, professor of nursing and graduate program
director, was selected through a national competitive process as a
fellow in the 2004 “Leadership for Academic Nursing Fellowship Program”
of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN).
The national leadership program is supported by the Helene Fuld Health
Trust of New York and will focus on developing and enhancing leadership
skills in new and emerging administrators of baccalaureate and higher
degree nursing programs.
Her fellowship will begin March 2004 in Washington, D.C., and continue
through the fall semester 2004. AACN is the national voice for
university and four-year college education programs in nursing,
representing more than 570 member schools of nursing at public and
private institutions nationwide.
Dr. Bonnie Oppenheimer, associate professor of mathematics, presented
“Attitudes About Teaching Mathematics Among Elementary Preservice
Teachers” at the Hawaii Second International Conference on Education in
January. The conference covers all fields of education from kindergarten
to college.
Preliminary results from a longitudinal study funded by a faculty
research grant from MUW were presented. Alisha Long Williams, coauthor,
was a MUW summer research experience for undergraduates student
partially funded by the NASA Space Grant Consortium.
The main goal of the conference was to provide an opportunity for
academicians and professional from various education related fields from
all over the world to come together and learn from each other. More than
1,100 participants, representing more than 40 countries, attended.
Dr. James Roth, assistant professor of education, was selected for
inclusion in the eighth edition of “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers
2004.”
Only high school and college students who have been cited for academic
excellence themselves in Who’s Who Among American High School Students
and The National Dean’s List are invited to nominate one teacher from
their entire academic experience.
Dr. Shaochen Yang, professor of mathematics, and Dr. Oppenheimer
attended the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Phoenix, Ariz.
More than 4,500 mathematicians attended the annual meeting of the
American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of
America.
Researchers presented approximately 1,500 papers from all specialties of
mathematics, including biology, business, sports, elections and the
arts.
Yang attended the “Visual Linear Algebra” mini-course, and Oppenheimer
attended the “Hands-On Discrete Math with Technology” mini-course.
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