Connections—October 2008
In addition to new buildings, parking lots, and organizational changes, Appalachian welcomes 2,775 new freshman and over 154 new faculty members. New faculty are faced with navigating a new campus, a new town, and new courses, and often miss opportunities to meet or interact with other faculty. This newsletter strives to connect some of our new faculty members with other faculty across campus by highlighting their teaching, research, and personal interests. As you read this issue, you may find a common teaching or research interest, discover a shared alma mater, or even locate a new tennis partner!
Featured in this issue:
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Bernard Anderson, Mathematical Sciences
PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 2007
Previous teaching experience: Eight semesters as a graduate student instructor and one semester as a full instructor at Berkeley. I taught pre-calculus, calculus, and discrete mathematics.
Teaching interests: Core level math courses and courses in mathematical logic
Research interests: Mathematical Logic, Computability Theory (Recursion Theory)
Hobbies: Violin, board games (Chess, Go, Diplomacy)
Hiu-Wah Au, Hayes School of Music
PhD, University of Rochester, 2003
Previous teaching experience: Elizabethtown College in PA for six years
Teaching interests: Music theory and piano
Research interests: Variation form, meaning in music
Hobbies: Swimming, hiking, movies, travel
Les Bolt, Leadership and Educational Studies
PhD, University of Virginia, 1984
Previous teaching experience: I taught 30 years at James Madison University various subjects related to research and statistics and education foundations. Before that I taught marketing and coached basketball and football at the middle and high school level.
Teaching interests: Research, statistics, evaluation, and assessment
Research interests: I enjoy collaborating with different content areas including mathematics, special education, language arts, etc. and am currently working on data I collected during the last year as Director of Institutional Research and Effectiveness at a community college in Virginia.
Hobbies: I enjoy watching most sports, hiking and playing bad golf.
Family: I am here with my wife, Jenny and have two sons in college in Virginia (one in law school and the other an undergraduate in finance).
What else would you like others to know about you? I enjoy helping other folks actualize their research interests by helping them design their research, collect data and make some sense out of it.
Tony Carey, Academic Affairs/History
PhD, Emory University, 1992
Previous teaching experience: 17-18 years at Emory University and Auburn University; taught American and World History, focus on southern history.
Teaching interests: Historical methods, college teaching, Old South, slavery
Research interests: Pretty much the same as above
Hobbies: Poor woodworking, poorer golf, pretty decent bridge
Family: Layne McDaniel (spouse), Ketchel Carey (daughter, 8), Betty McDaniel (mother-in-law), Lawrence (dog, c. 15)
Lisa Emery, Psychology
PhD, Washington University, 2005
Previous teaching experience: I taught Psychological Statistics at Washington University and Adult Development and Aging at University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Teaching interests: Research methods in psychology, aging and development, emotion, cognition
Research interests: Working memory and intelligence, emotion regulation, aging
Hobbies: Gardening, reading, animals
Family: My husband Rob Mosher, and dog Gracie
Jennifer Gray, Communication
PhD, University of Kentucky, 2008
Previous teaching experience: I taught freshman writing at several levels at two community colleges in New Orleans, Louisiana and Lexington, Kentucky. I also taught public speaking and interpersonal communication as a teaching assistant while completing my doctorate at University of Kentucky in Lexington.
Teaching interests: My teaching interests center around my specialty area, health communication, as well as research methods and core courses in communication such as theory and interpersonal communication. I am leading the development of a health communication concentration in my department's bachelor's degree program in communication, a charge I am exceedingly excited about.
Research interests: I am interested in several areas of health communication, including persuasive message design in health behavior change contexts, patient-provider communication, and health presentations in the mass media. Several health issues including obesity, women's health concerns, and addiction are of interest in the context of communication. I am interested in both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
Hobbies: I like to hike, read, see films and go to the theatre. I'm very much interested in taking up a few of the outdoor opportunities available in the Boone area, such as skiing.
Family: I came here with my husband, Neal. He is new faculty at Lenoir Rhyne University.
What else would you like others to know about you? I am interested in integrating my teaching, research, and service interests, and in collaborating with other faculty in the near future. I look forward to the beginning of my academic career here at Appalachian!
Robert Heath, Curriculum and Instruction
PhD, University of South Carolina, 1999
Previous teaching experience: Ten years adjunct professor for the University of South Carolina and Winthrop University and twenty-nine years as teacher and administrator in South Carolina public schools
Teaching interests: Middle grades teacher education, teacher leadership
Research interests: Teacher leadership and school learning communities and their impact on student performance and continuous school improvement
Hobbies: Hiking, photography, writing, traveling
Family: Wife, Nora; two Maltese dogs, Bailey and Princess
What else would you like others to know about you? I am thrilled to be at Appalachian State University!
Barbara Howard, Leadership and Educational Studies
EdD, Appalachian State University, 1997
Previous teaching experience: Middle grades science and social studies in Stokes County Schools
Teaching interests: Leadership; personnel and program evaluation; professional development
Research interests: I have several, but my primary one is the impact of effective personnel evaluation on teacher efficacy, school climate and student achievement. The impact of collaborative teaming among teachers and the role principals and central office administrators play in creating the collaborative culture for professional learning.
Hobbies: Oil painting; maintaining a fish aquarium; playing the clarinet; and traveling with husband; and anything to do with my children and grandchildren
Family: My children are both grown, married and on their own. We live on a farm with our dog, Leo, and several black Angus cows.
Monique Lanoix, Philosophy and Religion
PhD, Université de Montréal, 2000
Previous teaching experience: Concordia University
Teaching interests: Political philosophy, ethics, feminist philosophy
Research interests: Disability, justice, care
Hobbies: Film
Donovan Leonard, Physics and Astronomy
PhD, North Carolina State University, 2007
Previous teaching experience:
Duke University Talent Identification Program-Nanotechnology
Lehigh Microscopy School-Atomic Force Microscopy Laboratory
Teaching interests: Integrating technology like scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy to promote active learning in the basic sciences. Developing online courses for asynchronous learning.
Research interests: Structure property relationships of nanomaterials, nanostructured solid state lighting and photovoltaic materials, noble metal nanoparticles for fuel cell catalysis and bionanotechnology applications, Pb-free solder for advanced interconnects and microelectronic packaging
Hobbies: Snowboarding, road biking, camping, hiking.
Family: Wife, Jennifer
What else would you like others to know about you? I enjoy interdisciplinary collaborations and opportunities for outreach for K-12 schools.
Scott Marshall, Geology
PhD, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2008
Previous teaching experience: Geology labs at the University of Idaho, and taught the Introduction to Geology lecture at the University of Massachusetts Fall 2007
Teaching interests: Geophysics, structural geology, numerical methods, computers in geology
Research interests: Numerical modeling of fault mechanics
Hobbies: Hiking, biking, tinkering with computers, music (listening and playing guitar/bass)
Family: My partner's name is Karen. We have no pets; I have allergies :(
What else would you like others to know about you?
Not sure...come and meet me in person to find out about me!
Jack Reeves, Communications
BA, Occidental College, 1965
Previous teaching experience: Not in academia, only in industry
Teaching interests: Advertising, public relations, creative writing
Research interests: Advertising
Hobbies: Golf, walking, fishing, antiques
Family: I live in Boone with wife, Jill, and border collie, Panda. I have three grown daughters, one of whom (Samantha) recently retired from the WTA Tour and was ranked as high as #50 in women's singles in the world.
What else would you like others to know about you? I have three decades of advertising experience with some of world's largest ad agencies. Most recently, I was Creative Director for Lowe's Companies Inc. in Mooresville, NC and retired in December 2007.
Sarah Sexton, Family and Consumer Sciences
MEd, Bank Street College of Education, 2001
Previous teaching experience:
Lenoir Rhyne College: Parent Teacher Interactions and Child Development
Bank Street College: Parent Child Teacher Interactions in Diverse and Inclusive Settings
Teaching interests: Family centered practices, child development, teaching methods
Research interests: Resource based intervention, early intervention, family helpgiving, adult learning
Hobbies: Cooking/baking, writing, foster parent
Family: Brandon 18 yrs, son and Angel, dog
The Hubbard Center electronically publishes our newsletter, Connections, three times each semester. Please contact Kathy Isaacs, editor, with any comments or questions.
