Summer brings focus on academic research for faculty
Janel Shoun |
Listed below are seven project chosen summer fellowship grants for 2007:
Dr. Phillip Camp plans to write a commentary on Deuteronomy aimed at a non-specialist but educated Christian audience, discussing the meaning and theology of the biblical text and highlight the implications for today’s Christian readers.
Dr. George Goldman has been asked to contribute a chapter to a book on New Testament ecclesiology which will discuss the concept of the early church in the books of Luke and Acts.
Dr. Gary Hall will spend the summer adding a computer component to the College Algebra course. This component will incorporate work outside of class allowing the course to be reduced from four hours to three without eliminating any of the topics needed by the many majors it serves.
Dr. Kent Johnson will spend the summer reviewing literature and published results from the Center for Disease Control and other universities which have used the College Health Risk Behavior Survey on their campuses. He will then seek approval from the Lipscomb Institutional Review Board to administer the survey to students on our campus next year with hopes of publishing an article and making a national presentation from this study.
Kelly Kidder will convert findings from her dissertation research into articles to be published in the field of Foreign Language Education and Second Language Acquisition. Her research relates to the challenges many foreign language literature teachers face when attempting to address both language and content goals in the classroom
Dr. Earl Lavender will research, write, and present a paper at the International Patristics Conference at Oxford, England in August. The paper is titled “Pelagius on Spiritual Formation: Over Optimistic Anthropology or Hopeful Eschatology?”
Dr. John Parker, in a joint effort with international photographer Professor Paul Seawright, is writing a book on the composers of great British hymns and the sites with which they were associated. The project involved approximately 50-75 hymns.