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Mike Fenster |
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M. Thomas Inge |
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Alphine Jefferson |
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Jack Trammell |
R-MC professors are going places.
Professor Michael Fenster (geology) attended a conference in Miami, Florida May 2-6, 2011. The Seventh International Symposium on Coastal Engineering and Science of Coastal Sediment Processes (Coastal Sediments ’11) provided an international forum for exchange of information among coastal engineers, geologists, marine scientists, shallow-water oceanographers, and others interested in the physical processes of coastal sediment transport and morphology change. Fenster gave a talk titled “A Field Test of the Theoretical Evolution of a Mixed‐Energy Barrier Coast to a Regime of Accelerated Sea‐Level Rise” and chaired a session on tidal inlets.
“The conference provided an excellent opportunity to present our new results on the impact of sea-level rise and climate change on coasts to our community, to stimulate new ideas, develop new collaborators, and to hear what other cutting edge research is going on in the coastal science and engineering fields,” says Fenster. “People from all over the world attended, including scientists and engineers from Japan who gave us an update on the magnitude of the Japanese tsunami and ensuing destruction.”
Fenster earned his B.S. and M.S. at the University of Mississippi and his Ph.D. at Boston University. In addition, he conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Virginia. He currently serves as the director of the
environmental studies program.
M. Thomas Inge, the Blackwell Professor of the Humanities, read a paper on Walt Disney and adaptation at a meeting of the Society for Animation Studies held in Athens, Greece on March 19, 2011. His illustrated article, “Li’l Abner, Snuffy, Pogo and Friends: The South in the American Comic Strip,” was published in
The Southern Quarterly, 48.2 (Winter 2011): 6-74. Inge earned his B.A. at Randolph-Macon College and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University.
Professor of Black Studies and History
Alphine W. Jefferson recently presented a paper entitled “More than a Haircut: An Oral History of the Black Barbershop as an Informal School and ‘Sacred Space’ for African American Males” at the annual convention of the National Council of Black Studies in Cincinnati, Ohio. Jefferson also published a review essay on Native Americans in the 2010 winter issue of
The Oral History Review. He earned his A.B. from the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University.
Director of Disability Support Services
Jack Trammell was a featured speaker on April 12, 2011 at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. The conference, “Breaking the Taboo: Mental Health Difficulties at University,” was a gathering of theorists, practitioners and faculty administrators who came together to discuss accommodating students with mental health-related disabilities on college and university campuses. Trammell’s paper, “Mental Health Disability Stigma and the American College Experience,” surveyed historical elements of the American experience and connected them to a global disability rights movement. Trammell earned his M.Ed. and Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University.