John Romeiser, professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, recently accepted a 2009 Knoxville Metropolitan Planning Commission Excellence Award for the East Tennessee Veterans Memorial (ETVM). Romeiser led the effort to create the memorial and currently serves as ETVM Association president.

Robert Mee, professor in the Department of Statistics, Operations, and Management Science, recently published A Comprehensive Guide to Factorial Two-Level Experimentation. This book, which is available online through UT’s subscription to SpringerLink, will be useful for many who conduct research using factorial experiments.

Gregor Kalas, assistant professor in the College of Architecture and Design was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to conduct research at the Experiential Technologies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Kalas’ project, “Statues of the Late Antique Roman Forum: Historical Memory and Digital Reconstruction,” will digitally reconstruct ancient Rome.

Ben Feldmeyer, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, recently had his paper titled “Immigration and violence: The offsetting effects of immigrant concentration on Latino violence” published in the Journal of Social Science Research.

Itamar Arel, associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will be delivering an invited talk on the topic of artificial general intelligence at the 2009 Singularity Summit. Arel’s talk will address the convergence in technologies leading to the eventual construction of human-level intelligent systems.