2002 MTSU Faculty Research Symposium
Cason-Kennedy Nursing Building
Thursday April 25, 2002, 8 AM - 4 PM
Preliminary Program


Time
Room 1
Room 2
8:00 - 8:20 Registration & Coffee
8:20 - 8:30 Welcome & Introductions
8:30 - 9:30 Keynote Session - Dr. Sidney McPhee, President of MTSU
A Future Vision for Research at MTSU
9:30 - 9:45 Break
9:45 - 10:45

Panel - Success with Extramural Funding
Cindy Smith-Walters, Myra Norman, others

 

Panel - Sharing Your Research through Public Media
Tom Tozer, Rich Hannah, and others

 

10:45 -12:00 Books About War, to be Read by Men: Reconstructing the American Civil War in Novels
Robert Petersen - English

America's First Newspaper Leak
Larry Burris - Mass Communication

Arizona Frontier Editors: Typesetters/Gunfighters: 1825-1900
Alex Nagy - Journalism & Jean Nagy - Art

View from an Online Learning Environment: Perceptions and Practices
Dorothy Craig - Educational Leadership

 

Effects of Facility Characteristics and Staffing Ratios on Nursing Home Inspection Outcomes
J. Brandon Wallace - Sociology & Anthropology

Single Mothers, Welfare Narratives, and the Growth of Social Violence
Ken Lancaster, Margaret Fontanesi-Seme -Social Work

Anthropometric Assessment and Life Satisfaction outcomes for Older Adults Participating in a Training Exercise Program at a Senior Center
Lisa Lewis - HPERS and Judy Campbell - Nursing

Leaders' and Workers' Perspectives of Health in the Nursing Environment
Anita Crockett - Nursing

 

12:00 -1:15 Lunch
1:15 - 2:30 The Geography of Nowhere
David Shaul - Art

The Compositional Process: Forms and Thematic Development
Paul Osterfield - Music

The Brain Compatible Foreign Language Classroom of the 21st Century: Stress Free?
Shelley Thomas - Foreign Language

Defect Modes and Tunneling in Periodic Acoustic Filters
William Robertson - Physics & Astronomy

 

Free-Living Amoebae as Opportunistic Hosts for Intracellular Bacterial Parasites
Anthony Newsome - Biology

The Ratchet and the Red Queen: the Maintenance of Sex in Parasites
R. Steven Howard - Biology

Using the Budding Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae as a Model Organism for Understanding Basic Cellular Processes
Matt Elrod-Erikson - Biology

Differential Effects Of Reovirus Type 3 On Transformed And Non-Transformed Cells
Anthony Farone - Biology

 

2:30 - 2:40 Break
2:40– 3:30 The Risk-Shifting Implications of Privatized Social Security with Bailout
Stewart Fowler- Business


The Meaning of Money and Leisure and College Student's Choice of Major
P. Cunningham, E. Frauman, M. Ivy, T. Perry, D. Shelar - HPERS

 

Northern New Mexico Prehistoric Quarrie sand XRF Analysis
Doug Heffington - Geosciences


University Writing Center - Panel Presentation
Jimmie Cain and others- English

 

3:30 Closing and Poster Reception Music Department Presentation