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College of Arts & Sciences
School of Communication and Social Sciences
Deborah Taylor Tate executive-in-residence in the Lipscomb University Department of Communication and Journalism and former Federal Communications Commissioner in the Bush administration, has been invited by NBC News to join its first annual “Education Nation,” during the week of Sept. 27, 2010. “Education Nation” is a nationally broadcast in-depth conversation about improving education in America, beginning with an interactive two-day summit on Rockefeller Plaza. In addition, Tate has been appointed to the board of directors for HealthStream, Inc., a leading provider of learning and research solutions for the health care industry.
School of Fine Arts
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Dr. Sally Reid’s “Fiuggi Fanfare” has just been released on the Navona label. The recording, Mosaic, is part of the Society of Composers Inc. compact disc series. “Fiuggi Fanfare,” a work for saxophone quintet, was recorded in Nashville.
Dr. Jerome Reed was named in May 2010 Teacher of the Year by the Nashville Area Music Teachers Assocation, a group of more than 80 college and independent music teachers. At the Tennessee Music Teachers Association state convention in June, he was named Tennessee Teacher of the Year. This selection is based on artistic accomplishment, student achievement, and service to the teaching profession. Colleague Helen Gleason noted that Dr. Reed is ". . . an esteemed teacher, known among professionals across the state as a gifted, hardworking academic musician dedicated to performing and teaching music." NAMTA and TMTA are the state and local affiliates of the Music Teachers National Association.
School of Humanities
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Dr. John Parker, professor of English, authored Abide with Me: A Photographic Journey through Great British Hymns, bringing unique insight to 24 British hymns sung by Christians in Britain and America for 300 years. Color photographs by famed Irish photographer Paul Seawright and in-depth articles provide a glimpse into the lives of the hymn writers and into their home sites. A CD of the hymns is included in the book.
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Dr. Richard Goode, professor of history, edited Writings on Reconciliation and Resistance, a recent release of writings by Will D. Campbell, a Baptist preacher from Louisiana who worked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement. The book presents Campbell’s views on Christians’ involvement with politics and resistance against powers that would divide man from reconciliation with Christ.
Dr. Richard Goode, professor of history, also edited Crashing the Idols: The Vocation of Will D. Campbell (or any other Christian for that matter), an anthology of Campbell's writings diagnosing a problem afflicting much of the church today: how to deal with the power of legislation and enforcement.
Dr. Kimberly Reed, professor of English and foreign languages, edited The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories, revealing both the thematic and narrative levels of James's deepest concerns as a writer.
Dr. Tim Johnson, professor of history, edited Notes of the Mexican War, 1846-1848, the war journal of Jacob Oswandel a volunteer soldier from Pennsylvania. Co-editors Johnson and Nathaniel Hughes have added explanatory notes and an index, which enhance the book's usefulness and accessability.
School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Dr. Alan Bradshaw, chair of the physics department and who holds a joint faculty appointment with Vanderbilt University, presented a plenary lecture based on his work in gastrointestinal biomagnetism at the 5th Congress of Medical Physics in Sau Paulo, Brazil. He also presented an invited lecture at the annual meeting of the German Physical Society in Regensburg, Germany.
More about Bradshaw’s work…
More about Bradshaw’s work…
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College of Business
Accounting chair highlighted as “Mover and Shaper” in local media
Dr. Charles Frasier, accounting professor and chair and member of the national Auditing Standards Board, was highlighted in the Nashville Post’s May/June magazine in a news package about “Accounting’s Finest.” Frasier has been listed among the top 50 accountants in Tennessee in BusinessTN magazine in March/April 2009 and has been published in the Tennessee CPA Journal.
Click here to see a reprint of the entire article
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Lipscomb University College of Business Dean Turney Stevens was named one of 2009’s Most Influential People in Business Ethics by the Ethisphere Institute, a leading international think-tank dedicated to the advancement of best practices in business ethics. In Feburary 2010, Stevens was selected as one of the keynote speakers at the 2010 Global Ethics Summit, hosted by Dow Jones and Ethisphere, in New York City.
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Dr. Allison Duke, assistant professor of management and the recipient of the Academy of Management’s 2009 Best Paper Award, worked with local women’s organization Nashville CABLE to continue research showing the women are vastly underrepresented on the boards of directors and in the executive suites of Tennessee’s publicly traded companies. More…
Dr. Ray Eldridge has been appointed by the director of the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to the 2010 Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The award, created by public law in 1987, is the highest level of national recognition for performance excellence that a U.S. organization can receive. As an examiner, Eldridge is responsible for reviewing and evaluating applications submitted for the award. The board is composed of approximately 500 leading experts selected from industry, professional and trade organizations, education and health care organizations and nonprofits (including government).
Dr. Ray Eldridge, associate dean in the Lipscomb University College of Business, has also been selected as judge for the preliminary round of the International Team Excellence Award (ITEA) competition, an international competition held by the American Society for Quality (ASQ). ASQ is the world's leading membership organization devoted to quality improvement in business organizations. Companies from around the world can submit team projects that successfully improved the organization's goals, performance measures, and/or strategies.
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Dr. Joe Deweese, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences and adjunct assistant professor in biochemistry at Vanderbilt University, was published in June in the journal Nature, a weekly, interdisciplinary journal of science publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology. Deweese was the co-author, along with Dr. Neil Osheroff of Vanderbilt University, of a paper describing a method of crystallizing a specific protein in combination with DNA, allowing scientists to study the DNA/protein complex from a structural standpoint. Additional study of this protein will add to the knowledge needed to better target anti-cancer drugs and therapies. More…
Click here to see an abstract of the Nature article
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Dr. Holli Dilks, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, holds a joint appointment as research assistant professor at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Division of Human Genomics in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics. Dilks is the director of core services for the medical center’s Center for Human Genetics Research’s three core facilities: the Genetic Studies Ascertainment Core, the DNA Resources Core and the Computational Genomics Core. More…
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Jimmy Torr, instructor of pharmacy practice, received the American Pharmacists Association’s One to One Patient Counseling Recognition Award which honors exemplary patient counseling skills.
Click here to see cites for more Lipscomb College of Pharmacy published research.
Institute of Christian Spirituality (ICS)
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Dr. Earl Lavender, founding director of ICS and professor of Bible, visited Italy in summer 2010 to prepare to present a paper on the Council of Aquileia at the International Conference on Patristic Studies at Oxford University in August 2011. While in Italy, Lavender was invited by the city of Vicenza and the local Catholic diocese to speak at the three-day Festival Biblico. Lavender has written a commentary in Italian on the gospel of Luke, to be published in Rome this year.
Institute of Conflict Management (ICM)
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ICM Senior Fellow Larry Bridgesmith, has been elected as a fellow of the Tennessee Bar Foundation, an association of 710 attorneys across the state. Invitations to membership are an honor extended to only 35 attorneys this year by the board of trustees.
Institute of Sustainable Practice
Dr. Sandra Dudley and Margo Farnsworth, both adjunct faculty for the master of science in sustainability, have been accepted as fellows in the Biomimicry Fellows Program of the Biomimicry Institute, an international organization that seeks solutions to human needs by copying the inherent design approaches of nature. Dudley, director of the Dickson County Regional Water Authority, and Farnsworth, the TEEA 2009 State Environmental Educator of the Year, attended a Biomimicry Institute workshop in Costa Rica this past spring and were approved as fellows in summer 2010. Biomimicry Fellows are active in the Biomimicry Educators' Network and are committed to bringing biomimicry education to their respective institutions.