{"id":198776,"date":"2010-01-19T12:03:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T17:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.utk.edu\/tntoday\/?p=18325"},"modified":"2010-01-19T12:03:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T17:03:55","slug":"faculty-news-and-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/198776","title":{"rendered":"Faculty News and Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Ayres Hall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.utk.edu\/tntoday\/images\/ayres_hall_bc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"281\" \/>Michael Handelsman, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and professor in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (Spanish), is the co-editor of a book, &#8220;Globalization and its Apparitions (La Globalizaci\u00f3n y sus Espejismos),&#8221; recently published by the distinguished Ecuadorian publisher El Conejo. The work is a collective effort by 13 humanists from five different countries, reflecting upon the contradictory and conflicted nature of globalization.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Haitao Liao, joint professor in Industrial and Information Engineering and Nuclear Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Norman Magden, professor in the School of Art, has received a First Place in Experimental Film award for his film, &#8220;CAF\u00c9,&#8221; at the Los Angeles Reel Film Festival. The film also was selected for screening at festivals in Hollywood, New Orleans, Denver, and Quito, Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Adboulaye Yansan\u00e9, GTA in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (French), has just had his first novel, &#8220;Destin\u00e9es,&#8221; published with\u00a0Editions Phoenix.\u00a0In this novel, Amidou Camara, after the violent arrest of his father, leaves his native Guinea at the age of 5 and begins a long journey into exile.\u00a0In Mali, then in Senegal, he leads a picaresque life under the protective gaze of his mentor, Maam Matty Diop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Dolly Young, professor in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (Spanish), has just published <em>\u00a1V\u00edvelo!<\/em> with John Wiley and Sons, Inc.\u00a0 This first-year comprehensive textbook and program includes an electronic activities manual, self-tests and assignment questions, animated grammar tutorials, voice-recording questions and voice boards powered by Wimba. The entire textbook is also digitized with audio and video. The textbook takes an anthropological and socio-cultural approach to content for the purpose of breaking down stereotypes and broadening students&#8217; perspectives so they are less ethnocentric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Handelsman, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and professor in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (Spanish), is the co-editor of a book, &#8220;Globalization and its Apparitions (La Globalizaci\u00f3n y sus Espejismos),&#8221; recently published by the distinguished Ecuadorian publisher El Conejo. The work is a collective effort by 13 humanists from five different countries, reflecting upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}