Dear Colleagues:

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

Shelby Kain, who will work with Professor Stephen LeWinter (Art) in
researching environmental, health, and safety practices in art classrooms
and studios.

Rachel Dinsmore, who will assist Professor Rebecca Targ (Art) in developing
a course on graphic design history.

Elizabeth Wheeler, who will help Professor Rebecca Cook (English) in
preparing manuscripts of poetry and prose for publication.

Shana Wolstein, who will assist Professor Rick Jackson (English) in
co-ordinating the several programs of the twentieth annual Meacham Writers'
Workshops.

Randy Van Dolson, who will work with Professor Melissa Anyiwo (History) to
relaunch and promote UTC's Africana Studies minor.

Natasha Romanova, who will assist Professor Margaret Takeda (Business
Management) to design, develop and implement a study of spirituality in
management policy and practice.

Sarah Thompson, who will help Professor David Sachsman (West Chair of
Excellence in Communications) with research on environmental reporters at
newspapers and television stations, and will also help organize the twelfth
annual Symposium on the Nineteenth-Century press, the Civil War, and Free
Expression.

Ashley Rousselle, who will work with Professor George Helton
(Education-Graduate Studies Division) with research on authority dilemmas
experienced by school personnel.

Eric Cohen, who will assist Professor Gene Ezell (EHLS) in designing
evaluation reports for a grant involving teacher training on blood-borne
pathogens and HIV/AIDS prevention.

Tara Rogers, who will help Professor Betty McNulty (EHLS) with
administrating the 2004 Conference on Tennessee Association for Health,
Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, to be held here at UTC.

Christy Collier, who will work with Professor Janet Secrest (Nursing) on a
longitudinal study of stroke survivors, investigating aspects of life
following rehabilitation.

Nick Fiacco, who will assist Professor June Hanks (Physical Therapy) with
research on wound healing and therapy.

Sheena Kelly, who will work with Professor Sean Richards (Environmental
Sciences) to research the effects of pharmaceuticals on aquatic organisms.

Ryan Van Dolson, who will help Professor Tatiana Allen (Physics) with
research on amorphous/microcrystalline silicon films.

Katie Broderick, who will work with Professor Lynn Ourth (Psychology) to
prepare and distribute a bi-monthly newsletter entitled "The Spectrum Autism
Report."

Kimberly Mathis, who will assist Professor Amye Warren (Psychology) with a
project on the development of false and accurate memories.

Rachel Williams, who will work with Professor Zibin Guo (Sociology and
Anthropology) with research for a contracted book on Asian Americans'
cultures and history.

Corrine Vitek, who will assist Professor Nick Honerkamp (Sociology and
Anthropology) with archaeological artifact analysis and inventory, and with
web site work for the Archaeological Field School Project.


Because of some carry-over funds from last year, the UHON Program is able to
fund eighteen  projects this year, up from sixteen last year. This is a good
thing considering the demand for student help; we received thirty-one
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.

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, as always, for your interest and support,


Greg O'Dea

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