Dear Colleagues:

I am pleased to announce this year's selected participants for the UHON
Student Assistant Program. They are (in no particular order):

William Tompkins, who will work with Professor Gavin Townsend (Art) in
preparing a guide book to Chattanooga architecture.

Emily Campbell, who will help Professor Robert Keller (Biology and
Environmental Sciences) mammal surveys for the Environmental research and
Mapping Facility.

Alma Cemerilic, who will assist Professor Andy Novobilsky in a project
applying virtual reality technology to enhance the utility of open source
flight simulators.

Rachel Williams, who will work with Professor Annie Holmes (Geology) in
scanning and designing presentation graphics.

Corrine Vitek, who will help Professor Michelle Vineyard (Human Ecology) in
research and design of presentation graphics.

Erin Hodges, who will assist Professor John Graef (Mathemetics) with
editorial work on several professional and scholarly journals.

Rachel Dinsmore, who will work with Professor Kevin Ford (Music-Choral
Activities) to organize and catalog the UTC Choral Music Library.

Autumn Dolan, who will work with Professor Sandy Watson (TPA) in research on
teaching science in the ESL classroom, and on gender stereotyping in
magazine advertisements.

Whitney Cothran, who will assist Professor William Harman (Philosophy and
Religion) in editing and finalizing for publication a book on comparative
religion.

Eric Fox, who will help Professor David Carrithers (Political Science) with
research on translating political, economic, and religious tracts by
Montesquieu.

Sarah Price, who will work with Professor Nicky Ozbek (Psychology) on
research toward updating literature reviews.

Lisa Vu, who will assist Professor Tom Buchanan (Sociology) in transcribing
and analyzing data for a study of Mississippi Delta labor culture.

Andy Basler, who will help Professor Deborah McAllister (TPA) to design Web
Quests for use in the K-12 classroom.

Shana Wolstein, who will assist professor Marcia Noe (Women's Studies) as a
communications assistant in the Women's Studies program.

Tangee Davis, who will help Professor Margaret Kovach (Biology) with
laboratory maintenance and research in molecular biology and genetics.

Michael Hamrick, who will work with Professor Ellen Neufeldt (Student
Development) research, design and publicizing of student resources.

Because of some carry-over funds from last year, the UHON Program is pleased
to be able to fund sixteen projects this year, up from thirteen the previous
year. This is a good thing considering the demand for student help this
year; we received no fewer than thirty-five proposals, all of them involving
interesting projects.

To select which students would work with which faculty, the UHON staff
posted all of the applications and allowed the honors students to indicate
their preferences. The staff then took into consideration such factors as
student seniority and preparation, specific faculty preferences, and our
feelings for which students would benefit the most from which faculty
members. We also considered how committed the students seemed to certain
projects and whether or not they were already over-scheduled. Naturally, we
tried to disperse the awards across the variety of disciplines.

I want to thank the faculty members who went to the trouble of submitting
applications. If you submitted an application and yet were not assigned an
assistant, you should know that this in no way poorly reflects on your
proposal or work; it just means the students preferred to work in other
areas. Assuming the program is funded again next year, I hope you will
resubmit applications not filled this year.

Student assistants will be contacting their faculty directors very soon to
discuss the projects and their duties.

Thanks again,

Greg O'Dea


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Dr. Gregory O'Dea
UC Foundation Associate Professor of English
Interim Director of University Honors
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN 37403  USA