were assigned into one of four groups: Chemistry, Earth and Space Science, Life Science, and Physics. The purpose of the institute was to get professional feedback from Lead Partner State representatives in the areas of NGSS Middle School and High School Standards in one of the four aforementioned subject areas.
Dr. G. Todd Davis, Associate Professor of English and chair of the Division of Literature, Languages, and Philosophy has been invited to review two books for Review-19: An Online Review of New Books by the Founding Editor James Heffernan, Professor Emeritus from Dartmouth College, which are now available online at: http://www.nbol-19.org/. The review titles are as follow: Rev. of Romantic Women Writers Reviewed and Rev. of Romanticism and the Object.
Dr. Mara Merlino, assistant professor of psychology and sociology, gave an invited presentation titled “Validity and Reliability in Forensic Document Examination” on Thursday, June 28 at the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory in Atlanta, Ga. The presentation, which was attended by members of various forensic disciplines and graduate students working on internships in the forensic sciences, discussed the research currently being conducted by Dr. Merlino and Dr. Tierra Freeman about the reliability, validity, accuracy, and various forms of bias found in the research methodology currently used by forensic document examiners. The second phase of this research, during which forensic document examiners from across the United States are coming to Kentucky State University to participate in eye-tracking and other research-related tasks, is currently under way in the Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Sciences Laboratory located in Hathaway Hall. Undergraduate research assistants currently working on this project are lead project assistant Cierra Alexander, Melissa Pickett, TaJa Sneed, Kara Francis, and Nicholas Williams. The project is funded by the National Institute of Justice.
Kentucky State University's College of Agriculture, Food Science and Sustainable Systems will begin offering a bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Food and Environment in the fall semester of 2012. The AFE degree program will offer four individual concentrations or options in agricultural, food, environmental and aquaculture systems. Courses to be offered in fall 2012 include AFE 116 Introduction to Agriculture, Food and Environment; AFE 217 Plant Science; AFE 311 Practicum; AFE 450 Human Health and Environment; AQU 480 Introduction to Geographic Systems; AQU 407 Fish Genetics; AQU 411 Fish Diseases; AQU 422 Principles of Aquaculture; AQU 427 Fish Reproduction and Spawning Techniques; AQU 451 Survey of Production Methods; and AQU 491 Internship in Aquaculture.
Dr. James Tidwell, chair of the Division of Aquaculture, recently had an article published titled “Current Status and Prospects of Farming the Giant River Prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) in the United States.” The paper was published in a special issue of the journal Aquaculture Research, which features papers from the international symposium Giant Prawn 2011, held in Kochi, Kerala, India, in January 2011. Tidwell was one of the invited speakers at the symposium.