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College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Interdisciplinary Studies (CASSIS) Dr. George Shields, Professor in the Division of Literature, Languages and Philosophy authored “Quo Vadis?: On the Current Status of Process Philosophy and Theology” published in The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy (May 2009). This article represents a near-monograph length, sociology of process philosophy and is part of a special issue on the Status of Process Philosophy. Dr. Shields is also the author of a Studio Logica Supplement, which accompanies the McGraw-Hill Primis Online Edition of S. F. Barker's The Elements of Logic.

Dr. Tierra Freeman, Assistant Professor in the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences, recently published an article with one of her former students, “The Relationship Between Resilience and Anger in University Students,” in the journal Prevention in Counseling Psychology: Theory, Research, Practice, & Training. Dr. Freeman also attended the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Diego, where she chaired the New Faculty Mentoring Program of Division C: Learning and Instruction.

Professor Alvin M. Seals, Associate Professor of Sociology and adviser of the Kappa Nu Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society, attended the national convention of the Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society in April. The convention was hosted by Alcorn State University and Mississippi Valley State University. Mr. Seals serves on the National Executive Committee of Alpha Kappa Mu and is a regional director for the states of Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas and Tennessee.

Four Whitney Young School of Honors and Liberal Studies (WYS) faculty members presented papers or conducted presentations at the annual meeting of the Association of Core Texts and Courses. Paper presentations included: Dr. Ronald Mawby, "Questioning Looks"; Dr. Tucker Landy, "Toward a Post-Straussian Reading of Plato"; and Dr. Edwin Conner "A New World... Fit to be Transmitted: Wordsworth on Mt. Snowdon." Dr. Gary Elliott gave a presentation on the work of Euripides, which was a follow-up to an earlier paper on Euripides as part of his study of the playwright.

Dr. Thomas McPartland served as a moderator for a panel on “Obama: Race and International Relations” at the Southern Interdisciplinary Roundtable on African Studies (SIRAS) conference at Kentucky State University. Dr. McPartland also presented a paper on “Politics and Metaphysics,” at the Fallon Memorial Lonergan Symposium. His book, Lonergan and Historiography: The Epistemological and Speculative Philosophies of History, was accepted for publication by the University of Missouri Press.

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