ACS-Mellon Technology Fellows

[Spring 1999] [Summer 1999]

Philip Cline, pcline@wlu.edu (Economics)
Washington & Lee University
Business and Economic Data Analysis Competition for Undergraduates

This competition will invite ACS professors to involve their students of business and economics in the statistical analysis of a significant, real world data set under conditions that will simulate expectations placed on consulting statisticians. An entry in the competition will consist of ex post predictions of a dependent variable and a written justification of the chosen statistical model. Winning team members will receive an award and be publicly recognized.

Phillip Cline's Home Page: http://home.wlu.edu/~clinep
Project Home Page (not yet active): http://www.madison.wlu.edu/~clinep/acs.htm

Mark Garrison, mgarriso@trinity.edu (Classical Studies)
Trinity University
ACS Excavation Project

The ACS excavation project is a collaborative project with Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. The project seeks to bring together faculty and students from many disciplines in the ACS to reconstruct ancient life in the Elmali plain in southwest turkey. The project consists of an on-line course taught in the spring semester followed by a five week field school in Turkey during the summer. The project is especially interested in exploring the use of information technology in the teaching, collection and publication of archaeological data.

Project Home Page: http://sunoikisis.nitle.org/SUNOIKArchaeo.html

Ashan Hampton, ahampton@morehouse.edu (English)
Morehouse College
Addressing Black English Concerns with Web Based Technology

This project will be a web based tutorial, specifically designed to help students who have difficulties with slang and other dialect problems that impede their ability to write compositions in standard English.

Kokila Ravi, kravi@morehouse.edu (English)
Morehouse College
Integration of Technology into the English Composition Curriculum

This project attempts to integrate technology into the 101-102 English course curriculum primarily by incorporating available software for teaching principles of grammar and usage, mechanics, and punctuation. Also, websites that teach documentation guidelines will be explored to strengthen the research paper writing skills of our students.

Kevin Treu, treu@furman.edu (Computer Science)
Furman University
Inquiry-Based Learning via the World Wide Web

The objective of this project is to develop a set of interactive, on-line, exploratory activities which students will use to experiment with some of the basic principles of computer science, including finite automata, Turing machines and parameter passing. The idea is to encourage students to explore a topic before it is covered in class. Java will be used to implement the activities.

John C. Willis, jwillis@sewanee.edu (History)
University of the South
Reconstructing the South

In spring 1999 Professor Willis and a student intern will construct a web site to support a new history seminar for advanced undergraduates, "Reconstructing the South." In addition to a text archive of primary documents from the mid-nineteenth century, the site will also introduce a new, active learning pedagogy for use in the following school year.

John Willis's Home Page: http://itw.sewanee.edu/reconstruction/

A. Malcom Campbell, macampbell@davidson.edu (Biology)
Davidson College
The Big Picture for Cellular Aspects of Immunology

My goal is to supply students with a hyperlinked set of images and animations that will enable them to visualize where in the body the cellular processes of immunology take place. The main page will be a picture of a human body that highlights organs involved in the immune system (e.g. bone marrow, thymus, lymph nodes etc.). Using freeware called MapEdit, the body parts will be hyperlinked to the appropriate images and animations to help the students learn what happens at various locations in the body.

Project Home Page: http://www.bio.davidson.edu/courses/Immunology/hyperhuman/HHH.html
Main Immunology Home Page: http://www.bio.davidson.edu/Courses/Immunology/Bio307.html
Davidson College Biology Home Page: www.bio.davidson.edu

Connie Campbell, campbcm@millsaps.edu (Mathematics) and Carolee Larsen, larseca@millsaps.edu (Sociology-Anthropology)
Millsaps College
Multi-disciplinary Statistics Web Site

Our project will be to design, develop, and implement a Multi Disciplinary Statistics Web Site. This cross discipline resource for statistics will include tutorials, notes, applications of statistics from different disciplines, sample tests, and links to "real life" data sets. Once the web site is up and running, we will encourage others to submit links to projects they have found or designed which are particularly beneficial for students of statistics.

Connie Campbell's Home Page: home.millsaps.edu/~campbcm/

Donald Davison, ddavison@rollins.edu (Politics)
Rollins College
Quantitative Modules in Public Policy Analysis

This project will create modules that will enhance the study of public policy problems and improve students' quantitative reasoning skills. These modules will be based upon the quantitative analysis of substantive public policy problems. In addition to creating data sets in specific policy areas, an instructional supplement with guided computer exercises will be designed.

Report

Joe Essid, jessid@richmond.edu (Writing Center), with Marcia Whitehead (Boatwright Library), Martin Ryle (History) and Daniel Hocutt (Governor's School)
University of Richmond
On the Genealogy of Morals: A Hypertext

A team of University of Richmond faculty will develop a hypertextual reading lab based upon Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals, a text read by all UR freshmen. The lab will be available to other ACS institutions in the 1999-2000 academic year, at the same time it becomes an integral part of our freshman "Core Course."

Joe Essid's Home Page: http://writing.richmond.edu/jessid/index.html
Project Home Page: http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/core/nietzsche/index.html
Daniel Hocutt's Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5565/

Patricia Gray, gray@rhodes.edu (Music)
Rhodes College
Music History Revisited: A Collection of Online Tests for the Undergraduate

My project is designed to use JavaScript to created ten large interactive reviews for music history students preparing for graduate school. These will be available on the Rhodes music department server. However, because JavaScript is embedded into standard HTML documents these quizzes can be easily copied and modified to suit the needs of other institutions.

Patricia Gray's Home Page: http://www.patriciagray.net/index.html

Robert Huesca, rhuesca@trinity.edu (Communication)
Trinity University
Inventing the Journalistic Narrative for the Electronic Environment

Professional journalists are currently grappling with the technological impact of the World Wide Web on the practices of information gathering, processing, and delivery. This project explores these impacts by creating a Website that explains and critiques them while showcasing inventive examples of journalistic expression tailored for the new electronic environment. The content of the site draws heavily from a course at Trinity University, Reporting on/for the Internet.

Report
Robert Huesca's Home Page: www.trinity.edu/rhuesca/
Project Home Page: www.trinity.edu/rhuesca/hypr.html

Charles Mason, cmason@bsc.edu (Music)
Birmingham-Southern College
Computer Applications in Realizing Effective Vocal Performance Practice and Study

The goal of my project is to develop a technology-based laboratory for courses in voice instruction that would utilize software originally intended for speech analysis. My intention is to create a program that would aid in encouraging voice students to produce correct timbre/tone color while practicing outside of the voice studio.

Charles Mason's Home Page: http://panther.bsc.edu/~cmason/

Stephen Miller, smiller@sewanee.edu (Music)
University of the South
Developing Musical Literacy among Liberal-Arts Students

This project aims to take recent computer and music technologies and to deploy them in a way that can facilitate students' learning to read music. Since developing the ability to read music is the goal, the project primarily impinges on general college students, not those who are already musically skilled. One of the basic premises here is that much music in the Western classical tradition is more fully appreciated when conditions of its original composition are taken into consideration, including its written character. Techniques currently available in computer-equipped classrooms will make it possible to introduce far more students than ever before to the relationship between the aural and notational aspects of music.

Project Home Page: http://itw.sewanee.edu/Music111/
Report

Jennifer Muzyka, muzyka@centre.edu (Chemistry)
Centre College
Web-based Tutorial for Improving Visualization in Organic Chemistry

My approach to using the World Wide Web in organic chemistry will focus on improving students' ability to visualize molecules by using Chemscape Chime's ability to display molecules interactively, along with text and buttons that activate scripts to highlight structural features or start and stop appropriate animations. I plan to target a series of topics which students have difficulty visualizing, rather than making my whole course web-based. My tutorial will cover: conformations of alkanes and cycloalkanes, stereochemistry, and nucleophilic substitution reactions.

Report: http://web.centre.edu/muzyka/organic/organic.htm
Jennifer Muzyka's Home Page: http://web.centre.edu/muzyka/

Ken Ujie, kujie@wlu.edu (Japanese)
Washington & Lee University
Establishing Copyright Free Audio-Visual Library

The purpose of my project is to establish copyright-free audio visual library which contains both still pictures and videos. Whoever wants to use these visual images can download still pictures from my home page and obtain videos from our department upon request.

Ken Ujie's Home Page: http://home.wlu.edu/~ujiek

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