Middle Tennessee State University Research Articles

ECR Spotlight – Jason Dallas

ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Jason Dallas is an author on ‘ Cross-species gut microbiota transplantation predictably affects host heat tolerance’, published in JEB. Jason conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Dr Robin Warne's lab at Southern Illinois University, USA. He is now a postdoctoral research assistant in the lab of Dr Donald Walker at Middle Tennessee State University, USA, investigating herpetofauna ecophysiology including thermal biology, host microbiome and responses to human activity.

The 51st Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium: An introduction to the special issue “Geomorphology in the Anthropocene”

The 51st Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium was held on October 15–17, 2021, at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Postponed from 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this symposium focused on the theme of Geomorphology in the Anthropocene while navigating the unique challenges presented by the waning pandemic. Despite these challenges, twelve live oral presentations were delivered either virtually or in-person and poster presentations were presented under the themes of Biogeomorphology, Climate Change, Land degradation and Erosion, Sedimentological Processes, The Critical Zone, and Natural Hazards. Through continued symposia and special issues such as this one, the Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium seeks to assess the rate of change of geomorphic processes, promote advancement through technological and scientific methodologies, and understand the new paradigms presented by the rapidly changing Earth surface. The authors of this introduction emphasize that, in light of the rapidly-changing geomorphic processes and feedbacks with the climate and biotic systems they affect, practicing geomorphologists and researchers must prioritize sharing our understanding of the natural world and the extent of humans' modifications of all its cycles with the general public and policy-makers: those with little or no formal training in geomorphology, yet who wield considerable power to alter geomorphic processes.

93 Comparison of physically conditioned and non-conditioned university horses after semester break

It is not uncommon for horses to receive breaks from riding that may last as long as several months. During this time of disuse, horses are likely to receive pasture turn-out while not being ridden. This pattern of cyclical work is especially common for horses used in university riding programs. This study aimed to evaluate fitness of physically conditioned and non-conditioned university horses after a semester break, hypothesizing that non-conditioned horses would have a lower level of fitness, resulting in higher resting heart rates and lower levels of muscling, compared with horses remaining in work during the 3-mo period between Spring and Fall semester. Twelve mature stock-type horses aged 16.4 ± 5 yrs at Middle Tennessee State University were divided into 2 groups, a conditioned group that maintained light-to-moderate riding and a non-conditioned group that received no ridden exercise during summer break. Research began at the beginning of the Fall semester and monitored horses for 28 d through their return to work in riding lessons and team practices. On d 0, 14, and 28 peak heart rate during submaximal exercise, resting heart rate, body weight, body condition score, topline muscling score, gaskin circumference, and forearm circumference were recorded. Heart rates were recorded using Polar Equine H10 monitors during rest in stalls and placed under tack while ridden innormal class use of light-to-moderate work. Topline muscling was scored on a previously published scale of 1–5 (1 poor for the breed, 5 exceptional for the breed). Data were analyzed using a mixed model, with effects of day and treatment, with repeated measures (SAS Ver. 9.4). Peak heart rate during submaximal exercise was not different between treatments (P = 0.17) but increased for both treatments through the 28-d study (P = 0.04). The resting heart rate of conditioned horses tended to be lower (P = 0.08). Heart rate results may be influenced by weather, as daily high temperatures decreased from 33°C to 19°C from d 0 to d 28. Forearm circumference was not different (P = 0.30), but gaskin circumference of non-conditioned horses was larger (P = 0.04), although the non-conditioned horses tended to have larger average body weight (P = 0.07). No difference was detected in BCS between groups (P = 0.22). Conditioned horses had higher topline muscling scores (P = 0.02). Compared with their non-conditioned counterparts, horses that were continuously conditioned over a summer semester break had mixed improvement in fitness, based on resting heart rate and topline muscling, suggesting that horses retain a degree of fitness during a 3-mo period of rest on pasture turn-out.

28 Effects of low-dose electrolyte supplementation to university horses in light to moderate exercise

Electrolyte supplementation is a frequent practice in human and equine athletes, as exercise in hot and humid weather can exacerbate electrolyte and fluid losses. Previous equine electrolyte research has focused on supplementation of horses in heavy or very heavy workloads with limited research in horses in light to moderate workloads. The objective of this research was to determine if a low-dose electrolyte supplement would benefit university horses in light to moderate exercise during hot and humid weather, with the intention to elucidate information regarding electrolyte supplementation to other lesson programs or horse owners. The study covered 5 consecutive weekdays during mid-September in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with record high temperatures (33 to 37°C) and humid weather. Eleven mature stock-type horses from the Middle Tennessee State University teaching and research herd were selected for the study, with 5 horses assigned to the treatment group and 6 horses assigned to the control group. Treatment horses received a low-dose oral electrolyte supplement daily for 5 d comprised of 0.07g NaCl/kg of body weight (BW) and 0.02g KCl/kg BW, and control horses received 0.09g/kg BW granulated sugar as a placebo. All horses received their normal diet of Purina Strategy concentrate and prairie grass hay. Measurementsincluded 24-h water intake, fasted blood glucose, and plasma concentrations of sodium, potassium, and chloride. Throughout the week studied, each horse was ridden daily. Riders for each horse were blinded to treatments and completed a Qualtrics survey following each ride to assess their perceptions of horse performance and willingness to work. Data were analyzed using a mixed model with repeated measures or a GLM procedure when appropriate (SAS 9.4) with significance set at P < 0.05. Rider-perceived horse fatigue (P = 0.23) and willingness (P = 0.47) were not different between treatments. Day had an effect on water consumption (P < 0.01), with average water consumption peaking at 37L on d 3 with the highest ambient temperature (37°C), while treatment did not affect water consumption (P = 0.94). Treatment did not affect horse weight (P = 0.66), or serum levels of sodium (P = 0.18), potassium (P = 0.92), and chloride (P = 0.26). Average blood glucose tended to be higher in control animals (P = 0.06), however they were receiving granulated sugar as a placebo. These results suggest that horses in light to moderate work receiving a commercial concentrate may not require additional low-dose electrolyte supplementation.

Queer Country, by Shana Goldin-Perschbacher

Review| April 01 2023 Queer Country, by Shana Goldin-Perschbacher Queer Country, by Shana Goldin-Perschbacher. Music in American Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. x, 268 pp. Kristine M. McCusker Kristine M. McCusker KRISTINE M. McCUSKER is Professor in the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University. She is the author of Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent: Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900–1955 (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming 2023) and of the essay “‘Dixie Chicked’: Sony vs. the Chicks and the Regendering of Country Music in the Early Twenty-First Century” in the edited volume Whose Country Music? Genre, Identity, and Belonging in Twenty-First-Century Country Music Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2023) 76 (1): 238–242. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2023.76.1.238 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kristine M. McCusker; Queer Country, by Shana Goldin-Perschbacher. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 April 2023; 76 (1): 238–242. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2023.76.1.238 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search I love Lil Nas X—an odd thing, perhaps, for a cisgender white woman in her fifties to admit. But his brilliance in bending genre boundaries, utilizing new technologies, and blending different musical strands is nothing short of genius. His phenomenally successful “Old Town Road,” recorded haphazardly and uploaded to TikTok, merges a Nine Inch Nails sample with trap music, which is, in itself, musically interesting. What is really interesting, however, is his use of nostalgia and cowboy imagery—both core themes in the country music genre and both associated with white, mostly male, conservative listeners. To make the country music connection even more obvious, Billy Ray Cyrus of “Achy Breaky Heart” fame sings the chorus. Other country artists, too, sing “Old Town Road” with Lil Nas X, as when, for example, Keith Urban appeared on stage with Lil Nas X and Cyrus at the 2019 CMA Fest.1 Through this appearance,... You do not currently have access to this content.

Dateline 1977: The LHRT as Connective Tissue

Events forty-five years ago qualify me, I suppose, to harken back to a previous generation. I accept that designation gratefully with the hope that these remarks might prove useful to a future historian. The story of the library, writ large, had been our central concern. We sought to examine the purpose and meaning of the library in society: the citizens we served, how we served them, how they were impacted, why we existed as a profession, who we were, and the values we adopted, revised, and promoted on behalf of the interests of our readers. The story of the library was our heart and soul, and the LHRT became the tissue connecting us one to another and thus enlivening our conversations over common pursuits.The year 1977 was one of those times when events coalesced to redirect my personal journey. I attended the ALA summer conference in Detroit, witnessing the ALHRT session, the Harris-Dain debate on factors motivating the founders of the American public library. On the podium were Michael Harris (University of Kentucky professor), Phyllis Dain (Columbia University professor), Ed Holley (North Carolina library school dean), and Peggy Sullivan (Chicago Public Library assistant commissioner). Harris had earlier launched the dialogue with “The Purpose of the American Public Library: A Revisionist Interpretation of History,” Library Journal 98 (September 1973): 2509–14, and he continued to develop the topic on this day forty-five years ago. He challenged the dominant view that the public library had emerged from democratic impulses, a desire to provide citizens with the tools that would grant them political access in an open society. Having studied the founders of the Boston Public Library, he offered an alternative, that the public library had been established by elites committed to maintaining political and economic privilege, and that the library was intended as a tool essential for social control. Dain responded that her study of the New York Public Library illustrated energetic interest in stories about migration to American shores as well as the plight of ethnic minorities in general, and that marginalized peoples who sought passage into American life had been welcomed and encouraged by the public library. In other words, library services to the disadvantaged—terminology popular in the 1960s and ’70s—were nothing new. Holley appreciated the lively dialogue, honored the concept of respectful disagreement, and urged scrupulous attention to primary sources. Sullivan described the importance of primary sources in researching her book, Carl H. Milam and the American Library Association (1976).Another event from 1977 was meeting Art Young (University of Alabama associate dean of libraries). Art had been the first student to write a doctoral dissertation directed by Donald W. Krummel at Illinois. Art provided wise counsel about the culture of the library school, about graduate research in general, and about the university library system. When the fall 1977 semester rolled around, Krummel conducted a doctoral seminar on the history of libraries, and seven of us engaged in our own versions of the Harris-Dain debate. I would eventually become the third student, following Young and Dave Zubatsky, to complete a dissertation under Krummel. Thus, with Dain, Harris, Holley, Sullivan, Young, and Krummel having begun the dialogue, ALHRT became my intellectual home at ALA. Many participants I met were people who taught in schools of library and information science; as an academic librarian (ACU, Purdue University, Wabash College), it was unlikely that I would have interacted with them had it not been for the round table.In 1980 I attended Library History Seminar VI, hosted by Don Davis at the University of Texas. Don enjoyed guiding younger scholars in the fields of librarianship, having acquired ideas about mentoring from another Illinois professor, Rolland Stevens, who had directed Don’s dissertation and with whom Don had coauthored Reference Books in the Social Sciences and Humanities (1977). Thus, as Rolland encouraged Don, so Don would encourage me, and together we produced American Library History: A Comprehensive Guide to the Literature (1989), a revision of the Davis-Harris tome, American Library History: A Bibliography (1978). Holley had graciously written introductions to both volumes.In the crusty old pre-internet, pre-email days, we conducted business by telephone and snail mail. We might have been better acquainted with one another than subsequent generations because we were meeting in-person twice a year, holding business meetings at both summer and midwinter ALA conventions. Thus in 1983, Holley, chair of the LHRT nominations committee, called and asked me to run for vice chair/chair elect. Like others, I had been blessed by Holley’s mentoring impulses—he and I had the same educational trajectory (Lipscomb for undergraduate, Peabody College for the MLS, and Illinois for the PhD)—so we knew some of the same people. I agreed to run against Laurel Grotzinger, one of my guiding lights at Illinois, and she won easily. This was better, no doubt, for LHRT but also for me personally since I needed to focus on finishing my dissertation. But I became fully engaged in LHRT; the conversations were stimulating, and I met remarkable professors and academic librarians. I served as membership liaison from 1985 to 1991, though I seem to have had minimal success at recruiting new members. I chaired the publications committee from 1991 to 1993, with the thoroughly thrilling task of revising and publishing bylaws.In the late 1970s and into the ’80s, the round table was pushing the boundaries of research interest. In 1979, for example, ALHRT morphed into LHRT, acknowledging the influence of international topics, and three years later the round table presented groundbreaking work on women in librarianship. We heard presentations by Barbara Brand (SUNY Stoney Brook library), Dain, Grotzinger (Western Michigan graduate dean), Suzanne Hildenbrand (SUNY Geneseo professor), and Mary Maack (University of Minnesota library school). This was 1982 in Philadelphia, and it was for me an unforgettable turning point, given its emphasis on applied theories and forgotten stories. The round table was trending steadfastly toward matters of gender, ethnicity, race, and inclusion and, over the next fifteen years, created programming on feminist theory and women in librarianship (six times), African Americans (four times), LesbiGay issues (once), and a much-needed comparative analysis of social service professions (once).By 1983 LHRT had added a research forum, at Maack’s suggestion as I recall, in addition to the program session for summer conferences. The forum typically featured a call for papers, expanding permanently the number of speakers and the range of subjects under consideration. To be able to connect program session and research forum papers was helpful to me when I chaired the round table a decade later. It was 1994 in Miami Beach, and we chose themes that coincided with the thirtieth anniversary of a major civil rights event, Mississippi Freedom Summer, designating them “Libraries, Books, and the Civil Rights Movement” and “The History of Black Librarianship in America.” The Black Caucus of ALA and the Social Responsibilities Round Table cosponsored our programs, and Eric Moon recommended them to conference participants. Presenters included Rosie Albritton on African American social libraries and historical societies, 1828–1918, Davis and Cheryl Knott on freedom libraries established by civil rights activists, and Jessie Carney Smith on Black women librarians. Holley and Charles Churchwell offered a retrospective on racial integration of faculty and staff at the University of Houston. My call for additional papers resulted in a cohort of eight Black and eight White contributors responding with essays grounded in oral history and other primary source materials. Thus, the contributors gave me the opportunity to edit Untold Stories: Civil Rights, Libraries, and Black Librarianship (1998).Over the years, my interests had tilted less toward narrative history and more toward editorial work, including Untold Stories, but also Festschriften for Frances Neel Cheney and Davis and anthologies of previously printed sources: User Instruction in Academic Libraries: A Century of Selected Readings (1986) and The Academic Library in the United States: Historical Perspectives (2022). The latter volume addresses the matter of public libraries overshadowing academic libraries as a subject of historical research (an intriguing irony given my impression that LHRT membership is constituted primarily of academic librarians and i-school professors). In The Academic Library in the United States, Mark McCallon and I acknowledge the relative popularity of the public library, but we also offer rationales for the academic library as meriting much closer historical attention than in the past. By editing collections I have followed, just a bit, the path taken by ALHRT cofounder John David Marshall, an accomplished anthologist and academic librarian (Middle Tennessee State University). I am deeply thankful to my coeditors for their diligence, academic savvy, and scholarly perspectives: Hermina Anghelescu, Don Davis, Ed Gleaves, Larry Hardesty, Cheryl Knott, Mark McCallon, and John Schmitt, four of whose personal stories are intertwined with LHRT. When I reflect on the resourcefulness of these scholars, I am reminded of the core values that brought members of the round table together, values that have sustained us and that promise to lead our community into a meaningful future.My participation in LHRT began in the 1970s, years immediately following major social movements and federal legislation from the 1950s and 1960s. Fresh emphasis on opportunities for women, people of color, and ethnic minorities had been challenging Americans to create a more open society, and academe likewise was changed by expanding research interests and curricular reform. In fact, journalist Fred Powledge has written that the civil rights movement was able to “generate a wave that washed over the entire nation, that spawned similar movements in a dozen fields.”1 In librarianship we had our own version of wider movements, depending on and promoting an open society, and thus the 1970s and ’80s constituted a period long overdue in addressing the intellectual interests of marginalized peoples. Despite the progress we have made, whether we seek to recover the past or to shape the future, the task ahead remains as complex and perilous as ever. We will continue to press these concerns and trust future generations to rise to the challenge.

First person – Aarthi Subramani

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Aarthi Subramani is first author on ‘ Regulation of macrophage IFNγ-stimulated gene expression by the transcriptional coregulator CITED1’, published in JCS. Aarthi is a PhD student, graduating December 2022, in the lab of David E. Nelson at the Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, USA, investigating the interaction of host and pathogen at the cellular and molecular levels, which has always piqued her interest. To be more specific, she is interested in the mechanisms/strategies utilized by either the pathogen or the host during infection and how they shape the outcome of an infection.

The Effects of a J-Band Warm-up on Muscle Activity of Colligate Baseball Players during Pitching

Lecturer in Health and Human Performance, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 37132, USA

Streamlining User Experiences with ScienceDirect Prepaid Articles

Two librarians from the James E. Walker Library at Middle Tennessee State University describe the implementation of prepaid article access to ScienceDirect content. An overview of the initiative is provided along with adjustments that were made to the implementation. Also included is a description on how the use of various tools streamlined the user experience. The authors describe the challenges of determining the levels of mediation that worked for the library and its users. Although the program will be discontinued due to costs and limited customization options, useful information was gathered about article use indicating the need for scholarly resources and document delivery services. This article is based on the lightning talk, Streamlining User Experiences with ScienceDirect Prepaid Articles, presented at the 2022 North Carolina Serials Conference.

Preface

International Conference on Animal Research for Eco-Friendly Livestock Industry (ICARELI) 2021 was held in Surakarta 23 November 2021. The scientific conference was performed by Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia in virtual platform due to COVID-19 pandemic. This international conference aims to explore recent researches on eco-friendly livestock industry which is in line with sustainable development goals.The conference consisted of plenary and panel sessions. During plenary session, all of the invited speakers from Japan, USA, South Korea, Germany and Indonesia were able to present live for discussions although there was time difference between continents. Professor Siti Nur Hidayati from Middle Tennessee State University, USA gave talk about impact of climate change to tropical biodiversity. Professor Heekwon Ahn from Chungnam National University, South Korea discussed about mitigation of livestock emission. Prof. Masato Yayota from Gifu University, Japan talked about eco-friendly animal feed resources. Professor Carlos Hermosilla from Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany made a talk about environmental effect on host-parasite interaction. Prof. Sutrisno Hadi Purnomo from Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta delivered a speech about crops-livestock integration for zero-waste farming.The Organizing Committee received 123 manuscripts. There 107 participants were able to give presentation during conference. The participants presented their scientific results live by zoom platform provided during conference. All talks and discussions during conference were well recorded. There were 7 breakout rooms of zoom provided according to conference scopes i.e.: eco-friendly animal feed resources; nutrition, forage and pasture, sustainable animal production system; animal biodiversity, ecology, and conservation, organic farming; eco-friendly animal products processing and technology; food safety and security of animal resources; animal waste management and bioenergy; socio-economic studies on sustainable animal farming; and animal health and welfare. The 55 presented manuscripts out of 107 total received were screened for IOP: EES publication and went through a double-blind review in the Morressier platform.The ICARELI 2021 was successfully held by all support from the university president, dean, students volunteering in the event, and all of third parties involved. We are very glad that although this conference held as the first time and during Covid-19 pandemics, the event was joined by all of the participants with enthusiasms. The editorial team, reviewers and participants were also able to learn fast in the Morressier platform during reviewing process with the responsive work of Morressier team. Therefore, the proceedings of ICARELI 2021 can be published and hopefully able to give values to the community.List of Editors, Scientific reviewers of proceeding, Scientific committee of conference, Organizing committee are available in this pdf.

Editorial Introduction

Editorial Introduction Edward Timke (bio) How can advertising be a force for social and cultural good? This question is a significant theme in this issue of Advertising & Society Quarterly. Harsha Gangadharbatla (University of Colorado, Boulder) and Deb Morrison (University of Oregon) provide a playbook for how advertisers can engage in social and environmental activism. They question the traditional view of advertising's core purpose of maintaining continuous growth without consideration of sustainability and concern for the environment. Martha Reeves, Deepthi Chandra, and Katharine Kim (Duke University) examine practitioners' perspectives on how companies take on cultural, political, and social issues, especially at a time when society is significantly polarized. They found that industry professionals feel cause-related work to be important and worthwhile, but they must make sure that their work is conducted from a place of sincerity and a deep commitment to any issues taken up. Shalini Shankar (Northwestern University) looks carefully at the advertising industry's shift in focus and nomenclature—from multiculturalism to diversity—and how attempts to correct deep-seated racial biases have failed to hit the mark. A group of advertising scholars and practitioners in this issue's roundtable examines how advertising has taken up taboo topics in various cultural and social contexts.1 Taboos are a fruitful area of discussion to demarcate the subjects that are not often talked about or seen in wider society. Taboo topics shed light on societal biases and anxieties and push advertisers and scholars to think about normalizing some everyday issues instead of frightening or threatening consumers. Alice Andersen and Beryl Chung (Media.Monks) share their work on building empathy in the advertising workplace through an interactive website called the Empathy Experiment.2 Having faced backlash about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training, Andersen, Chung, and colleagues in a women's employee resource group developed the website as a way to disarm the DEI training experience while elevating the voices of women working in technology and digital media. Continuing with the journal's increased focus on advertising's relationship to environmental and climate issues, a group of scholars met to discuss Jeffrey Stine's recent book Green Persuasion: Advertising, Voluntarism, and America's Public Lands (Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2021).3 The discussion centers on the history of public service campaigns to encourage the general public to be concerned about and take action to address environmental and climate issues. In addition to detailing effective ways to teach and communicate about climate change and the environment, the group focused on the need for public service campaigns to push beyond the rhetoric of solutions based solely on individual action, a deflection used by government and industry to avoid the need for systemic solutions to widespread problems. Two pedagogical articles provide professors and students with tools to make their work more relevant to the broader public. Tricia Farwell (Middle Tennessee State University), Richard Waters (University of San Francisco), and Zifei Fay Chen (University of San Francisco) take the common "SMART" approach (Specific, Measurable, Audience-focused, Realistic, and Time-bound) to strategic communication and show how to add equity and inclusion. Veteran podcaster Matthew Schwartz (Association of National Advertisers) gives an overview of how podcasts can be produced and distributed to share important information and stories about advertising and marketing. The journal's second Advertising in Popular Culture discussion assembled scholars with expertise and interest in science fiction's representations of advertising.4 In closely analyzing a sci-fi story from 1945 about using stars in the night sky for advertising purposes, the group explores popular literature's frequent critiques of advertising's place in society, society's views of science and scientific experts, and questionable advertising tactics.5 A new Advertising in the Archives article features the John G. Zimmerman Archive located near Monterey, California. John G. Zimmerman, one of America's prolific sports photographers and photojournalists working from the 1950s through the 1990s, had a successful, innovative, and well documented career in advertising photography. Written in collaboration with Linda Zimmerman, John's daughter and director of the archive, this article provides insights into the work of photographers in creating advertisements. A call is made for more research into photography's significant place in...

A Collaborative Service to the Community: A COVID Vaccine Clinic Provided by a Mid-State University

The opportunity to offer immediate service to a local community in need of an additional COVID Vaccine Clinic was welcomed by the School of Nursing (SON) at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). This opportunity not only opened a door by providing a much-needed community service but also afforded students an enriching opportunity to enhance their clinical skills in a venue not always recognized as an available or accessible resource. A COVID Vaccine Clinic was planned in collaboration with the School of Nursing, University Health Services, and the County Health Department to provide COVID vaccines to the Middle Tennessee area. A multidisciplinary committee met weekly to organize the COVID Vaccine Clinic opening this opportunity to the community two days per week. During the initial COVID Vaccine Clinic planning committee meetings, a variety of roles and responsibilities were identified to ensure the clinic would be planned, coordinated, and organized as efficiently as possible. When the clinic opened, weekly meetings continued to identify issues such as supply distribution problems, procedures related to various aspects of care, and debriefings describing the activities of each clinic day to note any areas in need of improvements. The School of Nursing Lobby, located on the MTSU campus, was the designated area chosen for the clinic. Many faculty and students along with numerous campus volunteers worked together enabling thousands of members of the community to receive vaccinations. The interdisciplinary experience was a success and served to bring positive learning outcomes to all members of the faculty and students involved.

Tennessee Academy of Science Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, May 2020

President Darlene Panvini called the meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science (TAS) Executive Committee to order at 1:00 PM CST via Zoom® video conferencing. Attendees were President-Elect Amy Thompson, Past President and Annual Meeting Coordinator J. Allyn Smith, Managing Editor of the Journal Justin Oelgoetz, Electronic Communications Director Gilbert Pitts, Treasurer Steve Murphree, Secretary Teresa Fulcher, Junior Academy of Science Director Preston MacDougall, Visiting Scientist Director Tony Johnston, Collegiate Division Director Fred Matthews, Publicity Chairperson Mandy Carter-Lowe, Membership Chairperson Karen Kendall-Fite, Necrology Chairperson Martin Stewart, State Department of Education Liaison Brian Caine, Chairs of the ETSU Local Arrangements Committee Gary Henson and Richard Ignace, guest Marcia Schilling, and Members-at-Large Gregory Vieira, Aruna Kilaru and Nikki Glenn. Following a welcome and introductions, Director Johnston made a motion to accept the minutes from the 22 November 2019 meeting with corrections. President-Elect Amy Thompson seconded the motion and the motion carried.Dr. Marcia Schilling, faculty member at Austin Peay State University, was welcomed to the meeting. Upon the resignation of Teresa Fulcher as Secretary, J. Allyn Smith made a motion to accept Dr. Schilling as Secretary. Director Gilbert Pitts seconded the motion and the motion carried by acclamation. Dr. Schilling will assume the position of Secretary following this meeting.J. Allyn Smith reported that the November 2020 meeting scheduled for East Tennessee State University (ETSU) is still planned but recommended considering contingencies based on COVID-19. The 2021 meeting is scheduled for Tennessee Tech University (TTU) and inquiries are out to Tennessee State University (TSU) for 2022. Past President Smith also reported that he contacted the Kentucky Academy of Science regarding a potential joint meeting and is waiting on a response. As Annual Meeting Coordinator, Smith is working to confirm the list of section chairs and gathering changes from the 2019 meeting (withdrawn or added papers). He is considering adding a form to be completed by section chairs following the technical sessions to report program meeting changes. Past President Smith noted that he will have a slate of potential 2021 officers ready for presentation at the 2020 Annual meeting.Amy Thompson reported that Dr. Lev Yampolsky, Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at ETSU, will be the keynote speaker for the 2020 meeting. His presentation will be titled “Detecting Selection: What Can Amino Acid Changes Tell Us about Evolution?”. The local arrangement chairs are Dr. Gary Henson and Dr. Richard Ignace. President-Elect Thompson suggested that the meeting might have a special emphasis on COVID-19 with a possible panel discussion. She also recommended considering an article or special edition of JTAS regarding COVID-19 with a historical summary of case trends and challenges in Tennessee. President-Elect Thompson proposed drafting a TAS statement or resolution regarding the importance of scientific data.After Executive Committee discussion, President Panvini and President-Elect Thompson agreed to draft a statement to present to the Executive Committee for approval regarding the importance of scientific inquiry during this pandemic. It was noted by Chairperson Stewart that the Academy held meetings in 1918 during the H1N1 influenza pandemic and it might be interesting to check the historical transactions of the Academy for details.Steve Murphree discussed the Treasurer's report provided below:Treasurer Murphree reported that a meeting to discuss the logistics of moving the Journal online will be happening soon with Past President Sandy Mehlhorn, Managing Editor Oelgoetz and Treasurer Murphree. Director Fred Matthews made a motion to approve the Treasurer's report and the motion was seconded by Chairperson Stewart. The motion carried.Fred Matthews reported that all three Collegiate Division meetings scheduled for April 2020 were canceled due to COVID-19 and there were no expenditures. President Panvini inquired regarding spring 2021 plans. Director Matthews indicated a preference for the Collegiate meetings to occur face-to-face. Managing Editor Oelgoetz stated that he is participating in the planning for the Computing Conference 2020 (which has moved online) and he will be able to report on best practices for online conferencing after the meeting (to be held July 17-18, 2020).Gilbert Pitts reported on updates to the Academy website including abstract submission forms for Collegiate meetings, payment pages for on-line registrations, banner and seal on the homepage, AJAS information and status of meetings. Director Pitts also shared website traffic data indicating a total of over 3000 unique visitors to the site since January, and over 100 hits on Journal articles since May. Director Pitts continues to work on building the online archive of past Journal articles which requires scanning individual pages from print issues. Director Pitts also reported plans to update the TAS Fellows list, create both Instagram® and Youtube® accounts.Justin Oelgoetz reported on behalf of Past Managing Editor Rachel Rigsby that JTAS 94:3, the Reelfoot Lake issue was published in early January. The final issue for 2019 (94:4) is set to be mailed in May. Managing Editor Oelgoetz indicated that plans for electronic publication of JTAS issues beginning 2020 are progressing, with manuscripts being published in print once a year. Managing Editor Oelgoetz noted the need for an Assistant Editor, preferably someone interested in working with meeting abstracts. Managing Editor Oelgoetz noted the upcoming meeting with Allen Press scheduled for the following week and indicated the following issues would be addressed: mechanism for purchase of individual articles for download and printing, mechanism of access for institutional members, advertising considerations, archival of online issues, log in protocol for members, and restructuring of page charges. President Panvini, Treasurer Murphree, and Electronic Communications Director Pitts will join Managing Editor Oelgoetz in this virtual meeting and will report to the Executive Committee at the next meeting.Preston MacDougall reported that the meeting of the Tennessee Junior Academy of Science was held via Zoom® video conferencing on 17 April 2020, continuing an unbroken series of meetings since 1942. Director MacDougall reported that 36 papers were submitted, and 24 outstanding papers were accepted for presentation. Judges included Dr. Gore Ervin, Dr, Paul Koehler, and Dr. Dorothy Phillips. Twelve schools were represented. Director MacDougall reported that both parents and students expressed gratitude that this event was not canceled, as were most other capstone senior events for high school students amidst COVID-19 concerns. Winning presentations were by Daniel Chizikov of White Station High School in Memphis on “The Effect of Different Dietary Fats on the Development of Obesity-related Health Problems and Lipid Metabolism Gene Expression in Drosophila” and Lydia Guertin of Fred Page High School in Franklin on “Dielectric Elastomer Actuators: Impact of Foam Tape Density on Flexibility and Feasibility of Future Prosthetics.” Director MacDougall noted that 2020 winners would not be traveling to the American Junior Academy of Science meeting originally scheduled for Phoenix in February 2021. That meeting will not be held in person, but virtually. Director MacDougall noted that this development may present the opportunity for additional attendees. Director MacDougall reported that student winners from the 2019 meeting from Weakley County were unable to attend the February 2020 meeting in Seattle, and he was unable to attend. Thus, there were no travel expenses for this meeting.Tony Johnston reported with increase use of virtual conferencing via Zoom® or Team® technology as a result of COVID-19, opportunities for revitalization of the Visiting Scientist program are presented. It is now feasible for scientists to “travel” into the K-12 classroom without traveling. TAS members from across the state could virtually step into any classroom and present their research, tips for science fair projects, and be available for question and answers periods or discussions with students on current topics. Director Johnston noted that our database of members willing to participate needs to be updated and we need to work on web-based mechanisms for promoting this among K-12 educators. President Panvini recommended that Director Johnston meet with Brian Caine of the Tennessee Department of Education to discuss opportunities for engagement with teachers.Brian Caine submitted no report.Preston MacDougall noted that the 2021 meeting of the American Association for the Academy of Science would be held through virtual video conferencing.Gary Henson and Richard Ignace of East Tennessee State University, site of the 2020 Annual meeting, deferred their report to New Business.Allyn Smith reported that a slate of officers for 2021 would be presented at the November meeting of the Executive Committee.vacant. President-Elect Thompson offered to coordinate recruitment of an individual to serve as chair of this committee but asked for guidance on the specific role of the committee and the committee chair, which is a member of the Executive Committee per TAS constitution. Secretary Fulcher agreed to research from past TAS minutes.Dr. Charles McGhee submitted no report.Treasurer Murphree noted that due to suspension of on-ground classes at Belmont due to COVID-19, Professors Wooten's accounting class audit of the TAS books was not completed.Karen Kendall-Fite submitted not report but asked for feedback on the role of the membership committee moving forward.Martin Stewart noted the passing of Dr. Curtis Mason, and Dr. James Cook, both retired physics professors from Middle Tennessee State University and asked that Treasurer Murphree check the membership records for these individuals. Chairperson Stewart encouraged members to contact him at mstewart@mtsu.edu with information on the passing of Academy members.Mandy Carter-Lowe reported that certificates for student winners of the 2019 November meeting at Columbia State Community College were printed on site and delivered to section chairs for distribution. One request was received after the meeting for a certificate to be mailed. Pictures of student winners were posted on Facebook® by TAS members and some were widely shared. Chairperson Carter-Lowe suggested increased use of social media for sharing meeting photos, speakers, and student presenters to increase engagement on the site and publicize TAS events. Chairperson Carter-Lowe reminded ETSU local arrangement committee members of the need for space with a printer for preparation of certificates on site should the meeting be held in person.Preston MacDougall invited suggestions for potential resolutions for fall.President Panvini invited reflections on the 2019 Annual meeting. It was agreed that the option for online registration continued to work well, and the roll out of online abstract submission was largely a success. President Panvini inquired as to the desire for T-shirt sales at the Annual meeting. It was suggested that this might occur on a biannual basis. President Panvini inquired as to the status of the publication ethics statement for the Journal and membership in COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). Secretary Fulcher indicated that the publication ethics statement had been approved by the Executive Committee and suggested that Managing Editor Oelgoetz investigate membership in COPE.President Panvini also asked for input on the proposal to host a continuing education program for health and medical science professionals. No action was taken.President Panvini introduced Dr. Gary Henson and Dr. Richard Ignace of ETSU, serving as Local Arrangement Chairs for the 21 November 2020 meeting. Dr. Henson indicated that ETSU has not yet formally announced fall campus plans though research labs would be opening in June. Dr. Henson noted that space at ETSU to host the meeting has been identified along with a commitment to host the Executive Committee dinner. However, space cannot be reserved until July 2020. Brown Hall has adequate space to host afternoon technical sessions and the Student Center has an area for a luncheon. A firm location for the plenary address is still under discussion. The largest auditorium on campus seats 650. Managing Editor Oelgoetz noted that with potential budget cuts, funding for student travel could be unavailable. Contingency plans for hosting a virtual meeting were discussed. President Panvini appointed a task force to investigate the logistics of hosting a 2020 virtual meeting. Members of the task force include Local Arrangement Chairs Dr. Henson and Dr. Ignace, President Panvini, Annual Meeting Coordinator Smith, President-Elect Thompson and Electronic Communications Director Pitts. Secretary Fulcher made a motion to authorize the task force to determine the nature of the fall meeting based on fall access to the ETSU campus, the health and safety concerns of TAS members and guests, and information available regarding COVID-19. The motion was seconded by Chairperson Stewart and carried. Annual Meeting Coordinator Smith stated that development of protocols for placement of presentations into specific technical sections continues. Managing Editor Oelgoetz asked to be included in these efforts. President Panvini appointed an ad hoc committee to work on these protocols as well as protocols for submitting and accepting abstracts and identifying minimum qualifications for section chairs. Members of this ad hoc committee include President Panvini, Annual Meeting Coordinator Smith, Past President Sandy Melhorn, Managing Editor Oelgoetz and Publicity Chairperson Carter-Lowe.President Panvini entertained a motion to adjourn, made by Managing Editor Oelgoetz and seconded by Director Matthews. The motion carried and the meeting was adjourned at 3:04 CST.Respectfully SubmittedTeresa L. FulcherPellissippi State Community CollegeKnoxville, TN

Tennessee Academy of Science Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, November 2021

President Amy Thompson called the meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science (TAS) Executive Committee to order at 2:32 PM CST via Zoom® video conferencing. In attendance were President-Elect Greg Vieira, Past President Darlene Panvini, Treasurer Steve Murphree, Secretary Marcia Schilling, Managing Editor of the Journal Justin Oelgoetz, Electronic Communications Director Gilbert Pitts, Junior Academy of Science Director Preston MacDougall, Visiting Scientist Director Tony Johnston, Annual Meeting Coordinator J. Allyn Smith, Publicity Chairperson Mandy Carter-Lowe, Membership Chairperson Karen Kendall-Fite, TSU Local Arrangements Chair Thomas Byl, State Department of Education Liaison Brian Caine, and Members-at-Large Nikki Glenn and Maryam Farsian.Director Pitts moved to accept the minutes from the April 9, 2021 Executive Committee meeting, and Director Johnston seconded the motion. The minutes were approved by a unanimous vote.President Thompson introduced Dr. Theresa Barke as a candidate to the executive committee to serve as Chairperson of Education. Dr. Barke earned her BS in Microbiology from Kansas State University and PhD from Vanderbilt University with a focus on infectious diseases. She currently is a full-time teacher at Northeast High School in Clarksville, Tennessee, and an adjunct for Austin Peay State University. The executive committee unanimously voted in favor of her appointment.President Thompson included a report of her continuing activities. “I have thoroughly enjoyed my time as President of the Tennessee Academy of Science. This year has been very busy. Since the April meeting, I worked with Gilbert Pitts to make updates to the website, including adding several president names from the gavel stands. I have the list of three names that need to be added to the newer gavel stand and have been looking for someone to create a new metal plate. Marcia Schilling and I discussed various logistical issues related to procedures and methods of the Academy and worked to resolve several issues. I helped plan the Annual Meeting with Allyn Smith, Greg Viera, Darlene Panvini, Steve Murphree, and Jeff Boles including helping to edit the program. I discussed the TAS Awards with Darlene and helped design and order a custom plaque for our Distinguished Professor Award from the APSU GIS Center. I also continue to try to recruit new members from underrepresented schools and recently invited scientists from Nashville State Community College to get involved with the Academy. I also have told several teachers in the Clarksville area about the Visiting Scientist Program and offered to help them get involved. As I transition to Past President, I look forward to continuing to serve the Academy and of course to sharing time with my wonderful TAS colleagues.”Darlene Panvini nominated officers for the next year. Dr. Clint Ary, Associate Professor of Animal Science from UT-Martin with expertise in veterinary medicine was nominated for President-Elect. Dr. Marcia Schilling was nominated to continue as Secretary. Dr. Steven Murphree was nominated to continue as treasurer. Following a motion from J. Allyn Smith to accept the nominated candidates, and Director Pitts seconded the motion. The committee voted unanimously to accept the candidates to present to the members for service into their intended positions.Past President Panvini presented the following report:“Since the April 2021 Executive Committee meeting, I have worked with Amy Thompson on committee descriptions and filling open positions. I responded to various emails regarding the Journal, the upcoming fall Annual Meeting, and various other TAS details. I re-created the Google form to collect abstracts for the Annual Meeting and organized the submissions to send to Allyn Smith, Annual Meeting Coordinator.“I sent a proposal to the Executive Committee in December 2020 recommending that we revitalize the TAS Awards and change the structure for how those are determined. The recommendation is that the Past President would oversee this as chair of the Nominating Committee. Proposals for awards would be sent to the Past President by early April to be reviewed by the Nominating Committee for presentation to the Executive Committee at the spring Executive Committee meeting. A call for nominations was sent to the TAS membership in March and two nominations were received. These were discussed at the spring 2021 Executive Committee meeting. Following that meeting, I created a Google form for Executive Committee members to vote on the TAS awards. I worked with Amy and Marcia on the details of presenting awards at the Annual Meeting.“Based on this process, I submit the following two proposals to the EC for consideration.“Proposal #1: Award descriptions are at: https://www.tennacadofsci.org/about_TAS/awards.php“I propose that we amend this language for the Distinguished College/University Scientist Award, Distinguished Industrial Scientist Award, and Distinguished College/University Teacher Award as follows. Proposed changes are in bold.“By April 1 send the nomination packet to the Past President Nomination packet should include the following items:[No changes to items #1 &amp; 2]“3. Letters of recommendation from one to five professional colleagues well acquainted with the candidate's qualifications, with at least two letters from the candidate's current institution.”“4. Self-nominations will not be accepted.”“Proposal #2: Change the Past President's duties to include in the section on the Nominating Committee:“In January, send out a call for nominations for the TAS Awards Distinguished College/University Scientist Award, Distinguished Industrial Scientist Award, and Distinguished College/University Teacher Award. Receive application packets and work with the nominating committee to present nominees to the Executive Committee at the Spring Executive Committee Meeting. “Greg Vieira reported Associate Professor of Physics Dr. Adam Holley would deliver the keynote address “The Tortoise and the Hare: A Race for Anwers to Big Questions about the Universe” for the 131st Meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science at Tennessee Tech University. The 2022 meeting would be held at Tennessee State University, and Dr. Tom Byl, Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, would serve as Local Arrangements Committee Chair. The provost at Rhodes College verbally committed to hosting the 2023 133rd meeting to be held in West Tennessee region.Marcia Schilling met with Past Secretary Teresa Fulcher in Knoxville in early August. The Tennessee Academy of Science records in Teresa's care remained in secure storage pending completion of construction at Pellissippi State Community College, anticipated to be completed by the start of the fall 2021 semester. Secretary Schilling also emailed action items to Executive Committee members, and offered to send reminders of duties as indicated in the Operations Manual. Executive Committee members could opt out if they were not interested in regular reminders.Steve Murphree reported a successful audit of the accounts for the fiscal year of 7/1/2020 to 6/30/2021 (Table 1), as well as fiscal transactions between 7/1/2021 and 11/4/2021 (Table 2):Justin Oelgoetz reported Volume 95 was the first issue of the Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science published both online and in print. He was preparing Volume 96, with 5 articles accepted, undergoing edits, or under review. Editor Oelgoetz was working with Treasurer Murphree to get an updated list of institutional members to submit to Allen Press.Preston MacDougall included in his reports the press release for the winner of the 2021 Tennessee Academy of Science Distinguished Science Teacher Award who was Megan Pitts from Clarksville Christian School.“The 2021 recipient of the Distinguished Science Teaching Award, which is sponsored by the Tennessee Academy of Science, is Ms. Megan Pitts, from Clarksville Christian School.In 2012, after earning her Bachelor's Degree in Marine Science, with a concentration in Biology, from Eckerd University in St. Petersburg, Florida, and then a Master of Arts degree in Teaching from Austin Peay State University, Megan began her teaching career in Kenwood High School's STEM Academy. As a Lead Instructor at Kenwood, she taught Biology, Chemistry, and General Science for grades 7 thru 12. In 2017, she changed her focus and her locus with a move to Clarksville Christian School where she was Lead Instructor for its Engineering and Technical Institute. Her diverse teaching responsibilities are Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, Ecology, Algebra I, and Middle School Math, but her focus is on teaching problem-solving skills.Megan Pitts believes that students best learn problem-solving skills when they are “given the freedom to think creatively and learn from their mistakes.” She proudly says that “In my classroom, we learn by doing and we celebrate failures as growth opportunities.”She also celebrates the success of her students, as members of the American Junior Academy of Science couldn't help but observe when she accompanied one of her students to a joint meeting of the AAAS and the AJAS in Washington, DC. The young man, then a grade 10 student, credited his teacher with inspiring him to think creatively, and to look for opportunities in obstacles. Modeling the teacher he admires so much, his poster presentation was so engaging that a Community College Instructor invited him to teach his Arduino programming tricks to his engineering class via Skype!Please join us in recognizing and thanking Megan Pitts for her Distinguished Science Teaching efforts!”Director MacDougall indicated plans to return to an in person format for the 2022 Junior Academy of Science, which had been held in virtual format for the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He hoped to receive confirmation to hold this meeting once again at Belmont, pending approval from Belmont University's new president. President Amy Thompson offered to read the award citation for the Distinguished Science Teacher Award and the Resolutions, as Director MacDougall would not be in attendance the next day's meeting at Tennessee Tech University.As Fred Matthews stepped down as Collegiate Division Director in April, Darlene Panvini reported interest in assuming the duties as her responsibilities as Past President were concluding at the 131st Meeting, November 6, 2021. Past-President Panvini reported receiving a copious number of relevant documents from Fred Matthews regarding his past activity to support effective transitioning to her new role.Gilbert Pitts reported updating the Tennessee Academy of Science web pages, to include more names and images to the Past Presidents page. Director Pitts requested additional images of the past presidents, and asked for help identifying past presidents featured in a photo taken at the TAS Centennial Meeting held at Vanderbilt University as a potential source of images. Despite server interruption with MidPhase (most recently in September), assistance from computer science students attending Austin Peay State University resulted in resolving issues with missing graphics. Web statistics indicated an increase in activity from 10,000 to 11,500 hits. Views of monthly web traffic for 2021 and 2020 (for comparison) are shown below.Comparing September activity, the web page was visited 9000 times in 2021 compared to only 5000 the prior year. In contrast, the Facebook page was not well utilized despite almost 170 followers. Director Pitts suggested that a low number of posts to the Facebook page was likely the reason for low interest. Although a Google business account had been generated and invitations sent to visit the account, only Past President Panvini and President Elect Vieira had visited it. The person designated to generate the Instagram account for TAS had not yet done so, and the YouTube account had not been created. However, Director Pitts voiced concerns about a lack of information that would be shared on these. Finally, he appealed to the Executive Committee Members to keep him informed when updates regarding meeting dates, forms, and changes were needed for the website.Tony Johnston submitted the following report,“Covid-19 continued to wreak havoc on in-person education across the US at all levels between our last meeting (Nov 20, 2020) and the present, making it difficult, if not impossible to execute significant interaction between TAS members and classrooms of students. Despite these difficulties, progress has been made toward revitalizing the TAS Visiting Scientist Program. Most recently (Oct 28, 2021), I made a presentation to the Tennessee Science Education Leadership Association (TnSELA) on the TAS Visiting Scientist Program and emphasized our collective desire to interact with STEM teachers in their classrooms. The ease of utilizing Zoom and similar technologies to facilitate such interactions was discussed, especially with respect to its elimination of the need for TAS members to physically travel to interact with students across the state. TnSELA met in association with the Tennessee State Teachers Association (TSTA) at their 2021 annual meeting, which started that day.“In addition, work resumed on a coordinated document that combines considerations, proposals, and brainstorming thoughts on interaction between TAS and the State Department of Education, TSTA, TnSELA, and other related agencies within TN. I have attached this document to my electronic annual report for Board review and comment. I solicit input from all Board members as we seek to create a new framework for interaction and better facilitate TAS- K-12 STEM teacher and student interaction.“As we consider re-envisioning the Visiting Scientist program, it is critical to repeat several points presented at last year's meeting. TAS continues to need to:“My primary objective for the upcoming year is to utilize the previously discussed coordinated document to create a comprehensive plan for TAS – K-12 STEM education that has been vetted by the appropriate educational agencies across the state. Assuming this objective can be achieved, the plan will be presented to the TAS Board for approval at the 2022 Annual Meeting.”Director Johnston indicated that continued input from the committee and TAS members were welcomed to generate an efficient framework to better facilitate TAS interactions with K-12 STEM teachers and students.J. Allyn Smith reported that the November 2021 meeting was scheduled for Tennessee Tech University, 2022 at Tennessee State University, 2023 at Rhodes College, and then two years would follow in the Middle Tennessee region. For the November 2021 meeting, a total of 165 abstracts were submitted (74 for oral presentations; 91 for poster presentations). Annual Meeting Coordinator Smith had formatted the abstracts to prepare for printing in the upcoming volume of the Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science, but the section chairs at the TTU meeting would need to notify him of any abstracts that should be deleted if not presented.Brian Caine reported that he was working with Director Johnston to clarify associations of K-12 STEM educators and help revive the Visiting Scientists program.Preston MacDougall reported that the 2021 meeting of the American Association for the Academy of Science was held through virtual video conferencing. The student representative presented work on elastomers used in prosthetics. The upcoming February meeting was anticipated to be held in person.Jeffrey O. Boles reported plans for the meeting at Tennessee Tech University were going well. Although TTU rescinded the campus mask mandate, the meeting would support mask use for participant safety for the 131st Meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science. Chair Boles indicated exit 286 (Willow Road) along I-40 was the most direct route to TTU. Rooms for oral presentations had been tested, but IT personnel would be present for ongoing support throughout the day. The College of Arts and Sciences were providing continental breakfast for the morning. Lunches were ordered with 25 extras for purchase at registration. Coffee would be available throughout the day.The 2022 Local Arrangements Committee Chair Tom Byl shared that Dr. Chandra Reddy was eagerly awaiting the opportunity for Tennessee State University to host the main meeting. Chair Byl indicated that the College of Agriculture would be the main host for the 2022 meeting. The intended campus area would be easily accessed near the entrance right off the highway with easy parking on a Saturday or even a Friday. He offered a potential tour of the Research Farm which recently added bioremediation processing to reduce algal blooms. He indicated the Publicity Chair Mandy Carter-Lowe had already shared information for hosting the future meeting, and he welcomed additional input. Steve Murphree would transport TAS materials from TTU to TSU following the 2021 meeting.Past President Darlene Panvini mentioned that chair positions for Long Range and Strategic Planning, as well as Nominating Committee were expected as part of the duties of past presidents. She submitted the following report:“I contacted colleagues at Cumberland University and Belmont University to inquire about hosting the Annual Meeting in the future but have not heard back from either. In addition to planning for future meeting sites, I wanted to explore what other long-range planning should occur to strengthen TAS but made no progress on this. Upcoming conference sites are:For the record: the Cumberland Mountains and TN River have traditionally been the dividing line for the three divisions.” Prior host sites could be found on the TAS web site.Dr. Theresa Barke introduced herself as being new to TAS, but was excited to serve as Chair of the Research and Education Committee. Chair Barke was previously a clinical trial coordinator at Vanderbilt University up until 2018, and more recently transitioned to education as an adjunct at Austin Peay State University, as well as a full time teacher in the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System in both middle and high schools. Chair Barke welcomes guidance and information to best serve in her role for TAS.Dr. Charles McGhee submitted no report, and no fellows nominations were submitted to Secretary Schilling.Tommy Wooten's accounting class audit of the TAS books fully reconciled the accounts of TAS for the fiscal year 7/1/2020 to 6/30/2021.Karen Kendall-Fite had nothing to report regarding the Membership Committee.Martin Stewart retired from Middle Tennessee State University. Chair MacDougall indicated that communications with Chair Stewart had ceased. President Thompson suggested that Roger Jackson from Cumberland University was willing to serve in this capacity and Past President Panvini offered to confirm the appointment with Roger. President Thompson reported the passing of Dr. A. Floyd Scott (1944-2021), herpetologist for the Center of Excellence in Field Biology at Austin Peay State University. Secretary Schilling had written a short passage in his honor that would be read at the meeting the next day. Local Meeting Arrangements Chair Boles reported the passing of Dr. Eugene A. Kline (1940-2020), organic chemist at TTU and President of TAS in 1998. Dr. Kline had retired in 2015 and moved to his family farm in Pennsylvania.Mandy Carter-Lowe reported that a printing station was set up at TTU to print award certificates. Section chairs would report winners via a spreadsheet, they would be printed on site, and given to students at the award ceremony at the end of the meeting. This process would minimize the number of award certificates needing to be mailed to student winners.Preston MacDougall reported two resolutions were planned for the meeting the following day. The first would be presented to Local Arrangements Chair Dr. Jeffrey Boles to honor the host institution, Tennessee Tech University. The second resolution would honor Dr. Fred Matthews, 2016 President of TAS and Collegiate Division Director for the past 17 years. The resolutions would be presented by President Thompson at the business meeting of the members the following day.Resolution of the Tennessee Academy of Science“Whereas, the Tennessee Academy of Science is enjoying the most pleasant and profitable series of meetings, organized during the exceptionally challenging and final (hopefully) course of the Coronavirus pandemic, by Tennessee Technological University andWhereas, the success of these meetings has resulted mainly from the efforts of the Chairs of the respective sections; the Local Arrangements Committee Chair Dr. Jeffrey Boles; Local Arrangements Committee members Drs. Gilbert Pitts, Amy Thompson, Justin Oelgoetz, Steve Murphree, Darlene Panvini, and Annual Meeting Coordinator Dr. Allyn Smith; the 2021 TAS officers and Executive Committee; and from the recognition given the meeting by the host university, thereforeBe it resolved that the Tennessee Academy of Science expresses its sincere appreciation to these and all others who contributed to the success of the meetings.”Signed by the President of the Academy, Amy ThompsonTennessee Academy of Science Resolution of Appreciation for Fred Matthews' Service to the Academy as 2016 President and 2003-2020 Collegiate Division Director“Whereas, almost 50 collegiate meetings from all across Tennessee were held under the auspices of the Tennessee Academy of Science during Dr. Matthews' tenure as Collegiate Division Director; andWhereas, as President of the Tennessee Academy of Science in 2016, Dr. Matthews safely steered the Academy through very litigious waters; andWhereas, at the end of his Presidential term, when Dr. Matthews was called on to lead the Academy into ‘overtime', he cheerfully did so;Now therefore, be it resolved that the Tennessee Academy of Science makes official recognition of seventeen years (2003 - 2020) of generous time commitment to the oversight of collegiate meetings of the Academy, another one-plus year of service as its fearless President, and extends to Dr. Fred Matthews, Professor of Chemistry at Austin Peay State University, this statement of appreciation for his cheerful and dedicated service to the Academy;And be it further resolved that this statement of appreciation be appropriately inscribed and conveyed to Dr. Fred Matthews, with a copy to be included in the official minutes of the November 6, 2021, meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science.”President Thompson reported that open leadership positions had been filled with the exception of an Assistant Editor and member-at-large. Collegiate Division Director duties would be assumed by Past President Darlene Panvini. Necrology Chair would be assumed by Roger Jackson. Research and Education Chair was now Dr. Theresa Barke. Greg Vieira would find a member-at-large.Managing Editor Oelgoetz reminded the Executive Committee of the desire to replace a single Assistant Editor with an Editorial Board to oversee manuscript reviews. He also suggested proposing an amendment to the Constitution in the future that would allow Executive Meeting and Business Meeting minutes to be published on the TAS web site rather than in the journal. President Thompson encouraged a meeting with a journal editorial subcommittee to write the appropriate language to formally propose this change, so that the Constitution and Operations Manual could be updated with approval of voting members after formal notification. Past President Panvini voiced concerns for submission to publication turnaround time for submitted manuscripts. Managing Editor Oelgoetz assured her that increasing the depth of the pool of reviewers would improve the process, but also indicated manuscript submission to the journal was very low.President Thompson intended to continue to work closely with Past President and Collegiate Division Director Panvini to clarify the selection process for committee chairs in the Operations Manual with intentions to present the information to the Executive Committee at the April 2022 meeting.A constitutional amendment would be proposed for a vote by the members to better reflect the publication practices of the Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science. The amendment would replace the language in the Constitution of the official publication of the academy “shall normally be published as four issues per year”, and change it to “shall publish at least one volume per year”. Electronic Communications Chair Pitts clarified wording in the constitution indicating that since the amendment was presented at the November 2020 meeting, the vote to amend could be added to the Business Meeting agenda for the following day. The supporting rationale for the amendment was that few manuscripts had been submitted to the journal in recent years for publication. The amendment was proposed to reflect more recent publications (including the 2020 volume when only one manuscript had been submitted), while maintaining the freedom to publish more issues with an increase in manuscript submissions. Furthermore, it would alleviate a requirement for publishing 4 issues per year when only a few manuscripts would be submitted.Past President Panvini presented nominees for TAS awards. The Executive Committee voted in favor of Dr. Gore Ervin receiving the Distinguished College/University Teacher Award and Dr. Aruna Kilaru receiving the Distinguished College/University Scientist Award.Annual Meeting Coordinator Smith recognized that guidelines for nominating and submitting professional packet for consideration of awards given by Tennessee Academy of Science were not dictated in the Constitution nor Operations Manual. Tony Johnston requested that nominating and award decisions should be less complicated.Past President Panvini proposed that the language in the submission packet guidelines for the Distinguished College/University Scientist Award, Distinguished Industrial Scientist Award, and Distinguished College/University Teacher Award, and (after discussion for best wording) be amended to:“By April 1 send the nomination packet to the Past President.Nomination packet should include the following items:(No change to guidelines 1 and 2)3. Letters of recommendation from 2-5 professional colleagues well acquainted with the candidate's qualifications, with at least 1 letter from someone at the candidate's current institution”,and an added guideline “4. Self-nominations will not be accepted”. Greg Vieira moved to accept the change in wording regarding the letters of recommendation. J. Allyn Smith seconded the motion. The motion carried with a unanimous vote. Regarding self-nominations, J. Allyn Smith moved that the number 4 guideline be added and Preston MacDougall seconded the motion. The Executive Committee voted to add the fourth guideline stating:“4. Self-nominations will not be accepted,”with 7 in favor of the added guideline; 4 not in favor. Junior Academy of Science Director Preston MacDougall moved to clarify the Industrial Scientist Award to include under qualifications:“Contribution should be interpreted broadly to mean contribution directly to Commerce or Industry, or research at a non-academic institution, or the improvement of the quality of life in the State.”Visiting Scientist Program Coordinator Tony Johnston seconded the motion, and a unanimous vote carried the motion.Guidelines for these awards would be changed on the TAS Awards web page, as well as added to the Operations Manual. President-Elect Vieira suggested that a simple majority vote or consensus be clarified to determine agreement when approving an award or not. Treasurer Murphree voiced concerns for a time line allowing deciding votes on nominees in time to generate and present a plaque or physical award at the Business Meeting.One final proposal to include that the Nominations Committee would receive and review awards nominations packets to present to the Executive Committee members was presented by Past President Panvini. Visiting Scientist Coordinator Tony Johnston suggested to informally try this model out before officially voting on adding these duties to the Operations Manual. The process would then be reconsidered at the April Executive Committee Meeting in 2022.A request from Anthony Delman to collect opinion surveys on an iPad at the 131st Meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science was considered. The request was approved by a 8 to 3 vote, provided an IRB approval had been secured from the individual's institution. Since TAS did not currently have a policy in regards to collecting survey responses, clarification would be addressed in new business at the April 2022 Executive Committee Meeting.President Thompson entertained a motion to adjourn from Visiting Scientist Program Coordinator Tony Johnston, and the meeting was adjourned at 4:45 pm CST.Respectfully Submitted,Marcia M. SchillingSecretary, TASAustin Peay State University

Richard E. Jackson, JD: 5th District

Richard E. Jackson, JD:5th District Judson L. Jeffries Richard E. Jackson, a son of Nashville, has made a lasting imprint on higher education administration, the legal community, and a number of grassroots efforts. For the past seven years Jackson has served as the executive vice president for Administration, Finance, and Legal Affairs at American Baptist College in Nashville, Tennessee, where he has oversight of all the college's non-academic operations. Prior to that, he was special assistant to the president at Middle Tennessee State University where he oversaw issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion. For eight years, Jackson was Austin Peay State University's vice president for legal affairs and strategic planning and before that its senior advisor to the president for Diversity, Affirmative Action and Legal Affairs. One would be remiss if I did not call attention to Jackson's major contribution to one of the nation's most prestigious medical schools—serving as the vice president for Policy Management and Legal Affairs as well as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at historically Black Meharry Medical College during David Satcher, MD's, presidency (former US Surgeon General). As general counsel Jackson coordinated the negotiations with the city of Nashville, resulting in the historic consolidation of the city's acute care hospital services into renovated facilities on the campus of Meharry. Finally, Brother Jackson is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, one of the nation's oldest honor societies for leadership. Below is an interview that spanned over the course of a week in mid-April of 2021. Judson L. Jeffries: Good Evening Brother Jackson, I appreciate your willingness to be a part of this project. Richard Jackson: Thank you very much for including me, I'm humbled, I really am. JLJ: Let's get right to it if you don't mind. RJ: I don't mind at all. JLJ: You're a graduate of Vanderbilt University, aka the Harvard of the South [laughter]. What was your major Brother Jackson? RJ: Political science. [End Page 309] JLJ: You must have had really good grades to have been accepted into Vanderbilt. RJ: Yes, I did, I graduated as my school's valedictorian. JLJ: Whaaat? You were your school's valedictorian Brother Jackson? RJ: In fact, I was the first African American ever to graduate number 1 in his class at an integrated high school in Nashville. JLJ: What high school was that Brother Jackson? RJ: Nashville Maplewood High School. JLJ: With those kinds of credentials, you could have gotten into darn near any college in the country. RJ: I'd like to think so. JLJ: So, what year do you enroll in Vanderbilt? RJ: 1968. JLJ: And graduated four years later? RJ: Right, graduated in 1972. JLJ: What was it like going to a lily-white southern school like Vanderbilt University? Now, we all know that Vanderbilt is located in the city of Nashville, but it certainly didn't and still doesn't reflect the city's racial composition. RJ: No, it didn't, not even close. JLJ: What was it like being a student at Vanderbilt during the late 1960s and early 1970s? RJ: It wasn't easy, that's for sure. At any one time there probably were no more than 60 Black students during a given year and may have been as few as 25 during a given year. One year, and I'm positive about this, there were fewer than 20 Black men in the student body. JLJ: Talk a little bit about the climate, Brother Jackson, if you would please. RJ: Not a comfortable environment Brother Jeffries, not a comfortable environment at all. But let me just say this—I had attended a summer program at Vanderbilt, so I knew something about Vanderbilt, the school wasn't a total surprise to me. I had made up my mind that Vanderbilt was not going to affirm my self-worth. JLJ: What did you do in order to mitigate the kind of impact that a school like Vanderbilt could have had on your psyche? RJ: I decided that I wasn't going to live on campus, I wasn't going to be a resident student...

Hidden Town in 3D

This article presents a case of collaborative pedagogy of digital humanities involving a virtual version of historic Salem, North Carolina. “Hidden Town in 3D” is a partnership between Middle Tennessee State University’s Public History, Animation, and Aerospace programs, and Old Salem Museums and Gardens. The object of Hidden Town in 3D is to use digital technologies to recover and represent the stories of the African Americans of Salem. The anticipated outputs for this project are an augmented reality application that can be used on-site at Old Salem, allowing visitors to see slave dwellings where they once stood and a virtual tour using gaming technology of the entire town in the year 1860 with African-American stories and homes reintegrated. Along with enhancing the museum’s visitor experience, these outputs enhance the educational experiences of undergraduate and graduate students through interdisciplinary, project-based learning. Thus, the technical work of modeling, animating, and augmented reality benefits teaching, historical scholarship, and museum offerings.

Review of “Violent Manhood”

Reviewer: Ashleigh E. McKinzie, Middle Tennessee State University, USA Violent Manhood by J. E. Sumerau is an accessible monograph that details hegemonic definitions of what it means to be a man in contemporary US society. The book is particularly compelling as Sumerau includes discussions of #Metoo and Black Lives Matter in their analysis of violent manhood, making the manuscript important for instructors and students alike. Based on interviews with young, white, heterosexual, middle class men, Sumerau interrogates how conceptualizations of manhood include violence toward others, violence toward women, and toward people who are LGBTQ. After summarizing the book’s theoretical frameworks, mostly drawn from symbolic interactionism, Sumerau dedicates a chapter to participants’ responses to the question “what does it mean to be a man,” and investigates topics about manhood and violence such as violence and firearms, how men excuse violence, and then studies participants’ ideas about social movements. The book’s overall...

Gavin E. Townsend (1956–2018)

Gavin E. Townsend (1956–2018) Robbie D. Jones Longtime SESAH member Dr. Gavin E. Townsend passed away on June 3, 2018. Gavin had been diagnosed with late stage pancreatic cancer only a few days earlier and died at his home in Chattanooga surrounded by his family. All who knew Gavin were stunned by the devastating news, particularly his students and colleagues at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where Gavin taught art and architectural history for over thirty years. After spending the first part of his life in California and New York, Gavin landed in Tennessee in 1986. A member of SESAH since 1987, Gavin served as the Tennessee representative on the SESAH board of directors from 2007–2012 and as our treasurer and membership chair from 2013 until his death. Gavin chaired the 2010 SESAH conference in Chattanooga, which was remembered by many for the adventures of chasing down the elusive Richard Neutra-designed Livingston House. He presented scholarly, yet always entertaining, papers on his work at our SESAH conferences, chaired conference sessions, and published several articles in Arris. Gavin was also an advocate of historic preservation and served on the board of Cornerstones, Chattanooga’s local preservation nonprofit, from 1998–2003, and Tennessee Historical Commission’s State Review Board from 2000–2010. He led campaigns, often behind-the-scenes, to document and save architectural landmarks across his adopted hometown of Chattanooga. Click for larger view View full resolution Gavin on one of his many adventures of chasing architecture with his wife, Bonnie. (Source: Bonnie Townsend). From 2014–2018, Gavin served as the Tennessee coordinator for the SAH Archipedia project, a labor of love that he completed on behalf of SESAH along with fellow SESAH board members Claudette Stager and myself. Together, we selected 100 architectural landmarks that best represented the Volunteer State and then set out to visit each one with cameras and notebooks in hand. As part of the SAH Archipedia project, Gavin traveled to Memphis, Knoxville, Jellico, and throughout southeast Tennessee—tracking down iconic and little-known architectural jewels that tell Tennessee’s story. Gavin often had his wife, Bonnie, in tow on his long road trips across Tennessee. Gavin and I also served as co-authors of the Tennessee Green Book poster project, which documented over 200 historic African American roadside landmarks under the leadership of fellow SESAH members Catherine W. Zipf in Rhode Island and Susan Knowles at Middle Tennessee State University. 1 All the while, Gavin simultaneously kept SESAH’s books, balanced our budget, maintained the membership roster, created the conference registration forms, paid the bills, grew our savings, and maintained a thousand other tasks that kept our [End Page 2] little all-volunteer nonprofit organization up and running. A model example of service work in action, Gavin wore many SESAH hats. He always maintained his trademark wit, charm, and humble personality. With the blessing of his family, SESAH has established the Gavin Townsend Memorial Fund, which, to date, has raised twenty-five hundred dollars for funding student travel grants to the annual SESAH conference. In 2018, we provided two travel grants for students from the University of Delaware and Texas A&M University to travel to the conference at Manhattan, Kansas. We will continue to provide student travel grants in Gavin’s honor as long as there are monies available in this fund—as a tribute to Gavin’s love of teaching students. Gavin will be sorely missed by all who had the pleasure of knowing him. ARRIS ESSAYS BY GAVIN TOWNSEND “The Tudor Houses of the Prairie School.” Arris 3 (1992): 35–47. “Frank Forster and the French Provincial Revival in America.” Arris 6 (1995): 46–57. “Mario Bianculli: Chattanooga’s First Modernist.” Arris 21 (2010): 4–20. ENDNOTES 1. The Green Book poster project is led by Anne E. Bruder, Susan Hellman, and Catherine W. Zipf, as noted in the Field Notes of this volume; Susan Knowles directed the Tennessee effort. Copyright © 2019 The Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians

Teaching TRIOs: Using Peer Observation to Initiate Department Change

ABSTRACT An important step to achieving a sustainable department culture that encourages innovation in teaching is the alleviation of the isolation that teaching faculty experience. Decreasing this isolation should be accomplished in a manner that respects all instructors’ classroom practices while simultaneously exposing faculty to new ideas. In this article, we describe the initial design and evolution of Teaching TRIOs — a Time-sensitive, Reciprocal, Inclusive, and Operative process of peer observation intended to respect all teaching practice while promoting a culture of sharing, dialogue, and innovation in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Middle Tennessee State University.

James M. Buchanan centennial birthday academic conference: an introduction to the special issue

This special issue brings together the papers presented and discussed at the James M. Buchanan Centennial Birthday Academic Conference hosted at Middle Tennessee State University. The papers appraise and extend Buchanan’s contributions to the fields of public choice and constitutional political economy. This special issue demonstrates that Buchanan’s scholarship continues to be relevant and fruitful for scholars working on modern scholarship in these fields.