Pomper, Kirk W. 2012. Pawpaw Production and New Cultivars. 103rd Annual Meeting Northern Nut Growers Association – Program July 23, 2012 Lexington, Kentucky.
Dr. Shannon M. Brogan and Dr. Erin E. Gilles recently presented a panel entitled "A Walk to Remember: Engaging Students through Art, Communication, and Service Learning" at the 2012 Kentucky Communication Association Conference in Carrollton, Ky. The panel, which earned the 2012 KCA Top Reviewed Panel Submission, was presented with three KSU undergraduate students, Julian Jeter-Davis, Lerone Simmons, and Suncearae Spears. The panel was centered on a service-learning project in which KSU Speech Communication and Journalism students worked with community organizations to create a cell phone tour of Frankfort historical and art sites. This panel will include an overview of the project and a slideshow of student interviews, artists, and artworks. Students were assigned artists and sites to research and document for the tour. Students were trained in collecting oral histories and capturing the experiences through photography. This project aimed to broaden the horizons of KSU students through engagement in an off-campus community arts project.
Dr. Sue Foege presented a “A Brief History of Rigidity” at the MAA MathFest conference, August 2-4, in Madison, WI.
Dr. Andrew Martin presented “Has an Upper Bound for Brun’s Constant been Found?” and “A Natural Truth about the Natural Numbers not Provable in Peano Arithmetic” at MathFest 2012, the summer national meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, Madison, WI, August 2012. He was also a judge for undergraduate talks at MathFest 2012. Dr. Martin also presented at the KSU Brown Bag Series on the topic “the strange and Twisted True Story of the Search for Brun’s Constant” September 21.
Dr. Thomas McPartland, Professor of Liberal Studies and Director of the Whitney Young School, had a paper on, “Historicity and Religious Experience,” accepted for presentation at the American Political Science Association (APSA) annual conference in New Orleans. The paper conducts a phenomenological investigation of the constants of religious experience (and political order) amid the changing circumstances and configurations of history. The conference was cancelled because of Hurricane Isaac. But he will present the paper at a makeup session, hosted by the Eric Voegelin Society, at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, October 20, 2012.
Dr. Mara Merlino presented “Validity, Reliability, and Accuracy in forensic Signature identification: A Research Demonstration” at the KSU Brown Bag Series, September.
Dr. Mara Merlino and Dr. Tierra Freeman with V. Dahir, V. Springer, D. Hammond, A.D. Dyer, and B.J. Found; Reliability and Validity in Forensic Document Examination: A Demonstration and Discussion of Eye-Tracking Output. Paper presented at the