Faculty Development Leave awardee Donald Ryder, associate professor in music, will write a new music conducting text to prepare students who become middle and high school teachers falling under the new education standards called “Goals 2000: Educate America Act.” The book will present a unique approach to undergraduate conducting that focuses on rehearsal techniques, pedagogy, and error detection. Ryder will prepare the book in spring 2011.

Stefanie Ohnesorg, associate professor of German, received the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association’s Jacqueline Elliott Award for Teaching and Service in Higher Education. The award recognized Ohnesorg’s outstanding contributions to her institution, to her colleagues, and to foreign language organizations.

Harriet Wood Bowden, assistant professor of Spanish, has been awarded a Chancellor’s Grant for Faculty Research. She will receive a one-course release in Spring 2010 in order to write external grant proposals for her research. She also had a paper accepted in the journal Language Learning, to be published in March. The title of the article is “Verbal Inflectional Morphology in L1 and L2 Spanish: A Frequency Effects Study Examining Storage versus Composition.”

Recognizing Robert L. Williams for publishing five articles in peer-reviewed journals this year.

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