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News Archives -> 2002-2003 Archives
AASU Releases Annual Publication on "Excellence in Research and Scholarship"
Savannah, GA—Armstrong
Atlantic State University has published its sixth annual report on "Excellence
in Research and Scholarship," showcasing the compelling research and scholarship
produced by its faculty and students during the 2001-02 academic year.
Participants
represent the colleges of arts and sciences, education, and health professions
and the School of Computing.
The report features research
and scholarship works in the categories of publications, presentations,
and other scholarly activity; external funding for the calendar year 2001;
internal faculty grants; graduate student theses; and a student exhibition. It is published by the Armstrong
Atlantic Research and Scholarship Committee, which solicits research proposals
throughout the academic year.
This year the following eight
faculty are profiled in recognition of the outstanding quality of their
research and scholarship:
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Hassan Aziz,
assistant professor of medical technology, is working in partnership
with St. Joseph’s/Candler and Memorial Health University
Medical Center to bring a program on molecular testing to
the region. Molecular testing is the latest development in
medical technology that can be used in the diagnosis of disease.
Aziz and Lester Hardegree, head of the medical technology
department, conducted research that became instrumental in
obtaining the ICAPP Advantage Medical Technology grant awarded
by the University System of Georgia. The grant will ensure
state-wide delivery of education services to address the shortage
of more than 600 medical technologists in the state.
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William
Daugherty, professor of political science, is one of the
American CIA agents taken hostage by Iran in 1979. His CIA career
spanned eighteen years, during which time he served as military
political affairs officer and trainer for field officers. After
retiring in 1996, he joined Armstrong Atlantic State University
and by 2001 had published a book, In the Shadow of the Ayatollah,
recounting his first account of the embassy takeover. Daugherty
is currently finishing a book about CIA covert action with an
emphasis on White House policy. He also plans to author a biography
of Lafayette McLaws, a Confederate general from Savannah. |
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Raymond
Greenlaw, dean of the School of Computing, is also the regional
coordinator for Yamacraw, Georgia's economic development initiative to make Georgia a world leader
in the design of broadband communication systems,
devices, and chips.
Greenlaw's research interests are in the areas of algorithms,
complexity theory, limits, networking, parallel computation,
and statistical physics. He has written over forty-five technical
papers in these areas and co-authored fourteen books with translations
in Italian and Chinese. Greenlaw is currently working on Graph
Theory with Applications to be published this spring. |
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Randall
Reese, assistant professor of music, has written
pieces performed by I Cantori of Savannah and at the Festival
of the Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy .Composition, and particularly
choral composition, has become the focus of his professional
life for the past couple of years. Reese has written for the
Spivey Hall Children's Choir in Atlanta. He is presently working
on a setting of Psalm 100 for the children's choir with a brass
quintet. |
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Daniel
Liang, professor of computer science, has written twelve
books that are now being used for instruction in thirty countries.
He continues to improve the existing books and is now working
on a new book, Data Base Application Development Using JAVA
and Oracle, due out this summer. Liang's research interests
include object-oriented programming, database administration
and applications, design and analysis of algorithms, and parallel
processing. Liang earned his doctoral degree from the University
of Oklahoma. |
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Michelle
Sisson, associate professor of adult education, studies
Savannah's reading clubs for African American women as part
of a research project on reading habits and minority populations.
As a professor she cautions against ethnocentricity and making
assumptions about others based on age, gender, race, or other
cultural differences. Sisson believes that workplaces are in
great need of employees who have an understanding of human interactions
and are skilled at mediating problems across racial, gender,
and cultural groups, especially in the area of adult literacy.
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Sandy Streater,
department head of health sciences, participates in compiling
the Chatham County/Savannah Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance
Report, which is presently sponsored by the Chatham/Effingham
Tobacco Use Prevention Coalition. The survey, given every
other year to ninth grade students throughout the county,
monitors their engagement in risky behavior patterns.These
data are shared with health care and government agencies so
they can design public health programs that are tailored to
specific needs in the community. Streater actively serves
in the community as a member of Partners for Community Health
and on SAFE Kids Savannah.
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Meg Walworth,
assistant professor of education, is a teacher of reading
and believes this skill changes lives and unlocks doors of
access. She started the Book Cart, a mobile library of books
for pediatric patients recovering at the Children's Place
at Candler Hospital. She recently became a member of the pediatric
ward's advisory board. Walworth has successfully developed
courses on reading endorsement at the graduate level with
the support of the Georgia Reading Council. She also is a
literacy consultant for MedBank project (2001-2002) and recently
served on the editorial advisory board of the Georgia Journal
of Reading.
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January 10, 2003
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