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Meet Our New
ABAS Chair
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METS in NYC 1
Judy and J.C.
Hankins Annual
Scholarship
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Our Best 2
Meet Our New ABAS Chair
Volume 8, Issue 8, August 2007
The Basic Facts, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
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D r. Warren Gill
comes to CBAS from
a family with a long
association with
MTSU. His mother,
sister, and brother all
attended MTSU, so he has a longheld
respect for this great University.
Dr. Gill’s personal interest and
experience in a wide cross section
of agriculture has made him a natural
"fit" for this position. His primary
interest is to be an educator,
and his most significant farm interest
is beef cattle. He has also had
experience with dairy cattle, sheep,
goats, swine, and horses. Dr. Gill
shared, “As a ruminant nutritionist,
it is natural for me to be interested
in forages, but my interest has expanded
into many aspects of forage
production. I think that is why I'm
excited to be teaching the ABAS
Forage Crop (4310) class this fall.”
He shared that “the strength of
the ABAS program includes:
• a strong faculty with extreme
A lumnus Mike Barrett (B.S.
‘84) and his classmates from the
‘80’s have decided to create an
endowed scholarship to honor
two of their beloved professors–
Drs. Judy and J.C. Hankins. The
Hankins have been on the MTSU
faculty for over 25 years. Dr.
J.C. Hankins retired in 2004 for
health reasons. CBAS hosted a
reception August 5 at which the
• dedication to students;
• a strong horse program that
seems to get stronger all the
time;
• farm laboratories that offer
as much or more practical,
hands-on experience in beef,
dairy, and swine as can be
found anywhere in our region;
• a fine, working dairy processing
unit, and many other
things. ”
“ABAS is strong and getting
stronger . I just want our alumni
and friends to know more about
us,” said Dr. Gill.
Dr. Gill can be reached at ext.
2404, wgill@mtsu.edu, or box
#5. More information
about his
career is available
in the July 16 edition
of The Record
located at:
(http://www.mtsu.edu/
~proffice/Record/Rec_v16/rec1602/
rec1602_p2.pdf).
Judy and J.C. Hankins Annual Scholarship
Pictured L to R Front: Judy Hankins, J.C. Hankins,
Mario Randolph, Mike Barrett.
Pictured L to R Back: Richard Detmer, Tom Cheatham.
METS in NYC
T he New York METS play baseball
in New York City. The MTSU
Educational
Talent
Search
(METS)
program
that serves
6 th to 12 th
grade students in Coffee, Grundy,
and Warren Counties also plays in
New York City. Rising seniors visited
the Big Apple in July and enjoyed
two Broadway shows and all
the sights. Debbie Frisby, Lana
Creek, and Megan Benton serve students
in the three-county METS area.
For more information, please contact:
• Coffee County
(Lana Creeklcreek@mtsu.edu),
• Grundy County
(Megan Bentonmbenton@mtsu.edu),
and
• Warren County (Debbie Frisbydjfrisby@mtsu.edu).
first scholarship award was presented
to a new freshman, Mario
Randolph. If you would like to
contribute to the scholarship
fund, please make your check
payable to the MTSU Foundation
and note that it is for the
Judy and J.C. Hankins Annual
Scholarship. The Hankins have
touched many lives during their
tenure at MTSU, and this is a
fitting tribute.

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C hemistry
Judith Iriarte-Gross and Jessica
Swoner, senior education major, represented
the MTSU SENCER team at
the 2007 SENCER Summer Institute
in Portland, Maine. In addition to
attending SENCER workshops and
plenary lectures, they presented a
poster titled "What We Have Learned
from SENCER Since SSI 2005."
This poster was also co-authored by
Martha Weller, Department of Physics
and Astronomy, and Toto Sutarso,
Information Technology Division.
Gary Wulfsberg has been elected
chairman of the International Coordinating
Committee for Nuclear Quadrupole
Interactions at the XVIII International
Symposium on Nuclear
Quadrupole Interactions Conference
held August 5-10 in Foz do Iguassu
(Iguassu Falls), Brazil. On August
10, he gave an oral presentation titled
“Silver Dichloroacetate: A Compound
with an Extraordinary Range
of NQR Frequencies” and a poster
presentation titled “35Cl Nuclear
Quadruple Resonance Studies of the
Chlorinated Weakly Coordinating
Anions, TRISPHAT and Tristibate:
A Progress Report.”
Gary Wulfsberg was elected to the
Executive Committee of the International
Conference on Hyperfine Interactions
at its meeting in Foz do
Iguaçu (Iguassu Falls), Brazil on
August 9.
What’s
Cookin’? A
new recipe
for GRITS
involves
high school
girls who
can participate in a GRITS EYH
conference set for October 27 allowing
for more in-depth hands-on
experiences and more opportunities
to network
with
female
STEM
professionals.
Video conferences for middle and
high school girls have been scheduled
for September 25 and October
16 (9:00-10:00 a.m.) and for teachers
and parents on September 27
(3:30-4:30 p.m.). Memphis, with
the help of the local Memphis
AAUW branch, will be hosting an
EYH conference October 18, 2008.
Check out the dynamic GRITS
Web site at www.mtsu.edu/~grits.
C omputer Science
Medha Sarkar has been promoted
from assistant professor to associate
professor
and has also
received
tenure.
Ralph Butler
and Chrisila
Pettey
coauthored
"A Bilingual Theorem Prover for
Evaluating HPC Systems" which
was presented at the 2007 World
Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied
Computing Conference held
June 25-28 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Al Cripps presented "Fuzzy Lattice
Reasoning with Delta Measure" at
the same conference, and Sung and
Jungsoon Yoo presented "Student
Performance Monitoring in Classroom
Teaching."
Al Cripps presented “Fuzzy Lattice
Clustering Using Weighted
Cosine” at the Joint Conference on
Information Science 2007 held in
Salt Lake City, Utah on July 18-20.
Roland Untch and Brenda Parker
attended the “Alice and Media
Computation Workshop” held in
Atlanta, Georgia on July 31-
August 3.
Faculty and Friends
College of Basic and Applied Sciences
Al Cripps and Nghiep Nguyen coauthored
“Fuzzy Lattice Neurocomputing
Using Weighted Cosine Similarity
Measure” which was presented
at the 2007 International Joint Conference
on Neural Networks held
August 10-17 in Orlando, Florida.
M athematical Sciences
Anhua Lin attended the Fifth International
Bioinformatics Workshop
on June 24-26 at Shandong University
in Weihai, China. Dr. Lin also
traveled to Shanghai Jiaotong University
to collaborate with mathematicians
as well as give talks.
Abdul Khaliq was an organizer for
a mini symposium titled "Advances
on Modeling in Financial Mathematics"
at the Sixth International Congresson
Industrial and Applied
Mathematics Conference held July 16
-20 in Zurich, Switzerland.
Don Hong and Yu Shyr
(Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University)
edited a volume of books on
"Quantitative Medical Data Analysis
Using Mathematical Tools and Statistical
Techniques." The book has been
published recently by World Scientific
Publisher, New Jersey, 2007
(ISBN: 9812704612).
Don Hong received an NSF award
for organizing a workshop on Quantitative
Proteomic Data Analysis at
MTSU from November 1-2.
Don Hong also received a grant
from the Casualty Actuaries of the
Southeast (CASE) to enhance and
develop the Actuarial Sciences
(ACSI) Program at MTSU.
M ilitary Science
Saeed Foroudastan (CBAS) and
Sharon Salyer (Nursing) observed
MTSU cadets and cadets from all
over the nation during their visit at
the Leadership Development and
Assessment Course (LDAC) at FT
Lewis, Washington
in July.
Seventeen
MTSU cadets
(Barrett, Bonney,
Burrows,
Causey,
Eaves, Flerchinger, Huggins, McDevitt,
Garrett, Gomez, Gregory, Kidd,
Overstreet, Wallace, Watson, Weber,
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and Wiles) graduated from LDAC
and will return as seniors. Three
cadets (McNeal, Campbell, Clark)
graduated from LTC and will return
as juniors. Cadets Eaves and Weber
continued on an internship after
LDAC with U.S. Army
units. Additionally, six cadets
(Causey, Dang, Overstreet, Stumph,
Houston, Daniel) completed the U.S.
Army Paratrooper School. One
MTSU cadet was commissioned this
August as Second Lieutenant Donald
Cain. These MTSU cadets carried
on a strong “Blue Raider” tradition
of perseverance and excellence.
P hysics and Astronomy
Vic Montemayor attended the
annual national meeting of the
American Association of Physicists
in Medicine in Minneapolis in
July. He was sent under the auspices
of the Department of Radiation Oncology
of the Vanderbilt Medical
School and the MTSU Department
of Physics and Astronomy.
C BAS
The MTSU Solar Boat Team participated
for the second time in the
14 th Annual American Society of
Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Solar
Splash, the World Championship
of Intercollegiate Solar Boating. The
competition was extremely challenging
involving 19 national and international
teams. MTSU won first
place in
Outstanding
Drive Train
Design,
third place
in Outstanding
Technical Report, fourth
place in Visual Display, sixth place
in Workmanship, and scored 85 out
of 90 points in Technical Design.
The faculty advisors for the team are
Saeed Foroudastan (CBAS) and Ken
Sergeant (ETIS).