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Schor Receives Grant

Dr. Larry Schor received a grant of $28,900 to develop an official disaster mental health website for the state of Georgia. Schor, associate professor of psychology, was given the grant based on his expertise in the field of disaster mental health. The website is under construction with the help of graduate and undergraduate students and will address mental health and disaster preparedness and recovery. The site will also contain links to services and organizations that offer beneficial information and assistance to people involved in disasters.

Trio Published in Journal

Dr. Frank Butts (pictured), assistant professor of physical education and recreation, Dr. Laura Hatfield, assistant professor of physical education and recreation, and Lance Hatfield, instructor of physical education and recreation, co-wrote the article “African – Americans in College Baseball,” which was published in The Sport Journal.

Kudos

The Journal of Business Research recently published “A Re-examination of Socially Responsible Consumption and Its Measurement,” by Dr. Deborah Webb, associate professor of marketing, in its February issue. The article is co-authored by Dr. Lois Mohr of Georgia State University and Dr. Katherine Harris of Babson University.
 
Mark McManus, associate director of the library, and Shirley Lankford, instruction librarian, co-wrote a chapter for “Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age: Educating College and University Students Online,” a book recently published by the Association of College and Research Libraries/American Library Association. The chapter title, “A Mature Information Literacy Program: Which Way Forward?” is part of a compilation authored by Alice Daugherty and Michael F. Russo.   

Dr. David Leach, assistant professor of mathematics, has two articles published in the Australasian Journal of Combinatorics. Leaches’ articles,  “2-Regular Leaves of Partial 8-Cycle Systems” co-authored with D.J. Ashe and C.A. Rodger, and “Equivalence Classes of 5-Bit Gray Codes” co-authored with Clay Culver, a former UWG student. Australasia is a term used to describe a region of Oceania that includes New Zealand, Australia and neighboring islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Brent Heidorn, assistant professor of physical education and recreation, wrote “Back to the Basics in Soccer: an Emphasis on Passing and Trapping,” which was published in Strategies.

Dr. Deborah Bainer Jenkins, interim chair of physical education and recreation, had her article “Cultural Barriers to Change in Assessment Practices in Higher Education” published in the Journal of Excellence in College Teaching in 2007.

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