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A vision for TU as an internationalized institutionAs reflected in its mission statement, The University of Tulsa educates “men and women of diverse backgrounds and cultures” to “welcome the responsibility of citizenship and service in a changing world.” As part of this mission, TU has identified internationalization as an institutional priority. It should be noted that in this context, internationalization is defined as “the process of integrating an international, intercultural, or global dimension into the purpose, functions, or delivery of post-secondary education.” Internationalization initiatives already flourish throughout the campus: The university is home to a diverse international population of students and faculty; students are choosing to study abroad in record numbers; and faculty are developing international research and teaching collaborations that advance their scholarship in important ways.

In order to remain competitive, however, the faculty, staff, and students of the university must change the ways we engage with the global community, both outside the borders of the U.S., as well as on our own campus. As it continues on this path, the university has committed to the ideal that

this international, intercultural, and global dimension will permeate all aspects of the institution.

Internationalization will provide both direct and indirect benefits for The University of Tulsa and for the greater Tulsa community. The successful internationalization of the university will be marked by the development of a more collaborative faculty and staff and the emergence of a more globally aware and engaged student body. Direct, tangible benefits include the ability to attract and retain higher-caliber students and faculty and to prepare them to be more competitive for external funding. Another benefit of internationalization is the cultivation of a student body prepared for the realities of a changing world. Finally, with more focus on internationalization, the university situates itself to provide leadership in local, national, and global communities on crucial questions facing world societies today, especially as related to some of the university’s key interdisciplinary initiatives such as energy, technology and the environment, cybersecurity, indigenous populations, community health, and entrepreneurship.

Strategic Plan for Comprehensive Internationalization, May 2011

This report documents progress during Academic Year 2013 on the major recommendations identified in the Strategic Plan for Comprehensive Internationalization. The SPCI was developed over a 16-month period in 2009-2010 and involved more than 80 faculty and staff in the process for developing the key recommendations. As adopted by TU in May 2011, the SPCI identified six strategic recommendations for successfully promoting comprehensive internationalization, as follows:

Establish centralized leadership for TU’s internationalization plan

Develop international activities that support the university’s leadership with interdisciplinary initiatives

Deepen university programs in strategic geographic regions

Enhance recruitment of international students

Create programs that will support TU’s activities to competitively recruit top academic students

Infrastructure issues

The SPCI is a guide for TU’s international activities and continues to evolve to reflect changes in the campus, national, and international environment. This report reviews internationalization initiatives as related to the strategic plan, and summarizes the international teaching, research, service, and programs conducted by faculty and staff that, while not directly a result of the SPCI, reflect the diverse and robust international activities of the university.

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Develop International Activities that Support the University’s Leadership with Interdisciplinary Initiatives

“The University provides leadership in local, national, and global communities on crucial questions facing world societies today, as related to the University’s key interdisciplinary initiatives: energy, technology and the environment; cybersecurity; indigenous populations; community health; and entrepreneurship. Each of these areas is inherently global: it both influences and is influenced by government, politics, and economies in other countries. We see opportunities for TU to develop distinctive programs that position us to address global issues.” SPCI, Recommendation #2

Faculty Internationalization Grants (FIG): The ILC awarded $40,000 for grants to support activities related to the improved internationalization of the curriculum, the development or set-up of international experiences (credit-bearing or noncredit-bearing) for students and faculty, international research projects, and other projects related to the SPCI. Faculty members were invited to submit proposals to support projects related to curriculum development, interdisciplinary collaborations, and strategic partnerships.

Faculty Internationalization Grants 2013 Miriam Belmaker, Anthropology: “The feasibility of setting up an international research and education collaboration

between The University of Tulsa and Yerevan State University on the archeology and geology of the Lori Plateau,” Armenia

Michael Formolo, Geosciences: “Internationalization through Geosciences Research — How ancient sediments can provide a modern graduate level education,” China

Elana Newman, Psychology: “Occupational Health of Journalists in Japan and China”

Benjamin Peters, Communications; Jeffrey Drouin, English; Huiwen Zhang, Languages: “Keywords in Digital Translation,” Interdisciplinary Conference in the Digital Humanities

John Powell and Roger Price, Music: “Two Americans in Warsaw: Musical/ Cultural Exchange with Fryderyk Chopin University of Music,” Poland

Laura Stevens, English; Matt Drever, Philosophy & Religion; Stephanie Schmidt, Languages: “The Theology, Practice & Literature of Global Christian Prayer, 1500-1800,” Germany

Internationalization Leadership CouncilThe ILC includes representation from each college and the Division of Enrollment Management and Student Services. The members of the ILC have specific responsibility to serve as the ‘internationalization liaison’ for their respective colleges or division; to award the Faculty Internationalization Grants; and to review proposals for new academic partnerships. The ILC members have also assumed key leadership positions with the projects described in this report and implemented as part of the SPCI. Members of the ILC were nominated by their respective dean or vice president for terms of 2 years (renewable for 1 term) or 3 years (non-renewing).

Chair .....................................................................................Cheryl Matherly, Vice Provost, Global Education

Collins College of Business ..............................................Mark Collins (3 year, non-renewing)

Engineering and Natural Sciences .................................Bryan Tapp (2 year, renewing)

Enrollment and Student Services ....................................Pam Smith (3 year, non-renewing)

Graduate School ................................................................Richard Redner (2 year, renewing)

Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences ................Bruce Willis (2 year, renewing)

Law .......................................................................................Rex Zedalis (3 year, non-renewing)

Dr. Miriam Belmaker on excavation in Kurtan, East Armenia.


LL.M. degree in American Law with a concentration in Sustainable Energy & Resources Law: The Master of Laws (LLM) in American Law for Foreign Lawyers with an “Energy Law” concentration was announced in January 2012 and formally launched in the 2012-13 academic year. One foreign lawyer from Nigeria matriculated in fall 2012; and in a special 2013 spring admission cycle, three more students from Nigeria and Venezuela entered the program. The energy law program’s first LLM graduate, Dennis Otiotio, is now pursuing his Ph.D. degree in oil & gas law at The University of Aberdeen, Scotland. During the course of this first year, the law school signed two formal agreements and MOUs with two foreign university partners, the China University of Geosciences and Beijing Normal University, to facilitate their students’ applications in the energy law program. The agreements also facilitated faculty exchanges between the institutions, and two visiting scholars from the Geosciences University are in residence at the law school during the 2013-14 academic year. In fall 2013, five students from Germany, Nigeria, and the Ivory Coast matriculated.

Deepen University Programs in Strategic Geographic Regions

“Deepen TU’s concentration in Asia and Southeast Asia: In the last five years, the University has invested in academic programs and partnerships in Asia at the same time as enrollments of students from this region have increased.” SPCI, Recommendation #3

India: The internationalization strategic plan specifically calls for TU to develop a long-term strategy for becoming an active player in the Indian higher education market. A small delegation of TU staff and faculty, all members of the India Working Group, traveled to India in March 2013 to explore specific opportunities for cooperation with current and prospective partner institutions and launch the first TU International Alumni Club. The delegation met with representatives from the Institute for International Education, the University of Delhi, Lady Shri Ram College (Delhi), Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, the National Law School of India University Bangalore, Infosys and Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University. The delegation also hosted university receptions in Delhi, Pune, and Bangalore, where the TU Alumni Club was officially launched.

Following this trip to India, TU is pursuing a three-pronged strategy for partnering in India: develop partnerships that assist with building institutional capacity at Indian institutions; identify programs that encourage student mobility; and establish procedures for supporting individual faculty collaborations with institutions related to their own scholarship.

China: TU continues to explore opportunities to deepen and strengthen existing partnerships with Chinese institutions, specifically the China University of Petroleum Beijing. The fifth cohort of students participating in the undergraduate dual-degree program with petroleum engineering, geosciences, chemical engineering, and finance/accounting arrived at TU in June 2013. Including this cohort, 60 students have been selected for this program since the agreement was signed in 2009.

“Establish a strategic focus on the Americas: TU’s agreement to assume management and stewardship of the Gilcrease Museum creates an opportunity to establish a coherent strategic focus on the Americas, from Argentina to Canada and including a specific focus on Native American tribes. Such a focus would enhance existing academic programs (anthropology, history, museum science) and build on the large Spanish language programs.” SPCI, Recommendation #3

Brazil: TU joined the International Academic Partnerships Program –Brazil, sponsored by the Institute for International Education (IIE), in order to deepen involvement with Brazil in two areas that figure among the university’s strategic interdisciplinary initiatives: energy and entrepreneurship. Dr. Bruce Willis chaired a Brazil Working Group that examined opportunities for partnership with Brazilian institutions. In the fields of energy, technology, and the environment, the Working Group recommended strategies for building on a history of educating Brazilian petroleum engineers, many of whom are now in senior positions with Petrobras and related companies; and by forging stronger research and instruction alliances with one or more Brazilian institutes in the Rio de Janeiro area, hub of Brazil’s pioneering pre-salt petroleum industry. Regarding entrepreneurship, the group sought to build on the interdisciplinary International Business and Language program and expand the university’s Portuguese language instruction (in place since 2005) by partnering with a Brazilian university for language and business-related exchange or perhaps a dual degree program. Willis, Dr. Mauricio Prado from petroleum engineering, and Dr. Cheryl Matherly traveled to Brazil in May 2013 as part of an IIE sponsored study tour to meet with Brazilian partner universities.

As one outcome of participation with the IAPP-Brazil, TU is host to its first Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant in Portuguese. Mayara Tsuchida Zanfra is developing programs to increase interest in Brazilian culture and Portuguese language. TU continues to receive students through the Brazil Scientific Mobility Program (formerly Science Without Borders).

The College of Law signed an agreement with Beijing Normal University and the China University of Geosciences for cooperation with the LL.M. degree in American Law with a concentration in Sustainable Energy & Resources Law. The College of Law is hosting two visiting scholars from the Geosciences University in Fall 2013 under the terms of this agreement. Dean Janet Levit is shown following the signing ceremony with representatives from Beijing Normal University.

TU Alumni at launch of alumni club in Bangalore, India. The TU delegation included Dr. Cheryl Matherly (Center for Global Education); Dr. Kalpana Misra (College of A&S); Dr. Sandip Sen (Computer Science); Dr. Akhilesh Bajaj (MIS); Prof. Sam Halabi (Law); John Bury (Graduate School); and Amy Freiberger (Alumni Affairs).


Partnership agreementsEuropeAGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland

Humboldt Universität, Berlin, GermanyRobert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scot-land

Siegen Universität, Siegen, GermanyUniversity College Dublin School of Law, Dublin Ireland**

Universidad de Navarra – TECNUN, San Sebastián, Spain

Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France

University of Leicester, Leicester, EnglandUniversity of Zurich – Swiss Banking Insti-tute, Zurich, Switzerland

Vienna School of Economics & Business Administration, Vienna, Austria

AsiaBeijing Normal University, Beijing, China**China University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing, China**

Daming Palace Academy, ChinaPandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gujarat, India

PetroVietnam University, VietnamSeoul National University, Seoul, KoreaSingapore Management University, Singapore

The National Law School of India University Bangalore, Bangalore, India

AmericasUniversidad Central Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador**

Universidad Autonoma del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico

**New agreements signed AY2012-13

Enhance Recruitment of International Students“From its earliest days, TU has actively recruited international students. As TU continues to increase the number of international degree-seeking undergraduate students it admits, it is critical that the University develop and implement a comprehensive international student enrollment management plan consistent with university-wide internationalization strategies.” SPCI, Recommendation #4

International Student Services: International students made up more than 22% of the student body in AY2012-13. US News & World Report ranks TU 5th nationally in terms of the total percentage of international undergraduate students. The top five sending countries between AY08-AY13 (in order) were China, Saudi Arabia, India, Angola, Oman.

Fall 2012 961 total (689 UG, 268 GR, 4 LW)





The staff of International Student Services recruits and admits undergraduate students while providing immigration/SEVIS support and specialized student services for over 1,000 academic and English Institute international students. Staff increased the international undergraduate population by 28% in fall 2012, and in an effort to increase diversity, conducted recruiting trips to Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Honduras and Kazakhstan. David Kobel was hired as a second assistant dean of International Student Services in order to provide additional student support services in a variety of areas. He expanded student support and retention, conducted more comprehensive orientations and developed academic success seminars for graduate and undergraduate students. The ISS staff increased the number of one-on-one student support meetings and facilitated improved student communication with a variety of different University of Tulsa departments and offices. ISS advised a variety of international student organizations and The Association of International Students to provide events such as International Night, International Bazaar, Saudi Cultural Night, Kazakh Cultural Night, Omani Night, Angolan National Celebration, and

The Muslim Student Graduation Party. The English Institute for International Students provided language instruction for 163 students in 2012-13 while increasing the number of academic preparation and cultural enrichment activities.

Academic Writing programs: Dr. Adrian Wurr was hired in August 2012 to revise the sequence of writing and communications courses for undergraduate and graduate international students. Janice Willson, who was hired as coordinator of second language writing and assessment in February 2013, also provides additional support and leadership in managing the University Writing Center. In fall 2012, Wurr taught English 6033: Academic Writing for International Graduate Students for the first time. In spring 2013, the writing program began a review of undergraduate writing courses. Drs. Rob McAlear and Wurr each taught sections of English 1033: Exposition and Argumentation for native and non-native speakers of English and recommended a revised curriculum for the course that is being piloted AY 2013-2014.

Joseph Henry Sharp, War Bonnet Makeroil on canvas, GM 0137.309

Gilcrease Museum: The Gilcrease Museum was invited to exhibit 200 pieces of art and artifacts portraying Native American history and culture at the world famous Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy. La Nuova Frontiera or The New Frontier was organized in connection with events commemorating the 500th anniversary of the death of Amerigo Vespucci, the Florentine navigator and explorer for whom North and South America are named. The exhibit included fine art, photographs and ethnographic items. More than 300,000 visitors saw The New Frontier exhibition before it closed in January 2013. This painting by Joseph Henry Sharp, War Bonnet Maker, was among the items exhibited.

The Association of International Students, with support from the staff in International Student Services, hosts an annual International Bazaar, highlighting the nationalities of students studying at TU. This photo features students at the November 2012 event.

Ceramic JarAcoma Pueblo, early 20th century clay and pigment, GM 54.4394


Members of the Global Community Staff Development CommitteeKim Henderson, International Student Services

Mike Mills, Office of Public Affairs and Economic Development

Rick Arrington, Collins College of Business

Michael Greenlee, McFarlin Library

Jenny Minsberg, Housing and Dining Services

Laura Allen, Multicultural Affairs

Lindsey Perry, College of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Marty Phillips, Office of Human Resources

Anupama Narayan, Department of Psychology

Cheryl Matherly, Center for Global Education

In summer 2013, Wurr and Willson advised on the design of a summer program that integrated curricular and co-curricular activities to provide students with a more co-hesive and engaging experience. Thirteen students who were part of the dual degree program with the China University of Petroleum and four other international stu-dents enrolled in English 1004: Introduction to College Writing, CDSP 2013: Essen-tials of Spoken English for the International Student, and a noncredit co-curricular program, Explore Tulsa, offered by the Center for Global Education. The students applied course concepts in a service-learning project at a local retirement community. The students interviewed residents in the assisted living facility at Methodist Manor about their life and wrote memoirs for the residents. They also gave short presenta-tions on aspects of their culture such as traditional dances, tea service, wedding cere-monies, calligraphy, and martial arts. The students demonstrated gains in their spoken and written English. This program will be offered again in summer 2014.

Faculty and staff resources: Dr. Anupama Narayan, assistant professor in psy-chology, conducted a needs assessment with staff in spring 2013 as a first step for developing a training program to support the goals of the SPCI. The assessment was conducted as a project for her graduate seminar, “Survey of Organizational Psy-chology.” The students led all aspects of the study in which they conducted interviews with 30 TU staff members in order to understand cultural and language barriers that affect interactions of individuals from different cultural backgrounds and identify potential training that could improve interactions. As a second phase, Narayan and graduate student Kalli Hannan developed a survey based on the results of the interviews to further identify potential areas where knowledge, skills, abilities,

and other characteristics may benefit the staff in their daily interactions with diverse students. Using the results from Narayan’s and her students’ analysis, the Global Community Staff Development Committee developed a yearlong staff development program that will be coordinated by Human Re-sources and the Center for Global Education during the 2013-14≠≠ Academic Year.

At the same time as the staff needs assessment, Dr. Larry Braskamp, professor emeritus from the Department of Lead-ership, Foundation and Counseling Psychology at Loyola University of Chicago, was engaged to complete a similar needs assessment with faculty. Braskamp was retained in order to help understand the issues that faculty members identify as affecting the learning experiences of international and domestic students; recommend strategies, resources, or pro-grams for faculty seeking to teach classes more effectively with significant enrollments of international students, and advice on strategies for assessing progress by improving teaching and learning related to student global competency outcomes. Braskamp conducted interviews with over 40 faculty from all colleges and prepared his recommendations in May. The Internationalization Leadership Council is considering rec-ommendations for resources for best practices for engaging international and domestic students in the classroom. Bras-kamp’s complete report is available to TU faculty and staff via Campus Connections.

Jingming Hu demonstrates chop-stick technique to residents at Methodist Manor.

1st Place: Benjamin Noland

Ngorongoro, Tanzania.

2nd Place: David Stevens Mount Cook, New Zealand

3rd Place: Maggie TurekCapri, Italy

Winners of the 2013 Study Abroad Photo Contest

Create Programs that will Support TU’s Activities to Competitively Recruit Top Academic Students

‘TU is attracting stronger undergraduate students who enter the University with significant AP or IB credit, which allows them more course options in their degree plans. In addition, an increasing number of these students come to TU with the expectation that their educational experience will include an international component, especially since many TU undergraduates have already travelled abroad with family, high schools, or church and service groups prior to beginning college. We have identified opportunities for TU to establish distinctive experiences for undergraduate and graduate students that we think will contribute to the University’s recruitment goals.” SPCI Recommendation #5

TU Global Scholars: The TU Global Scholars, an innovative new interdisciplinary studies program that involves students from all undergraduate colleges to examine major drivers of global change, launched in summer 2013. Dr. Lara Foley was appointed the first director of the Global Scholars program and recruited the first cohort of 16 students.

The Global Scholars program is designed to engage students in a community of scholars examining “big global questions.” As part of the program:

Students take three interdisciplinary Global Scholars courses designed to examine major drivers of global change. The courses satisfy nine hours of Block requirements.


Each class of Global Scholars participates in an interdisciplinary, community engaged, experiential summer course abroad. The course for summer 2014 will focus on issues of sustainability and urban development in Germany and Hungary.

Students must demonstrate proficiency in a modern foreign language equivalent to four semesters of college-level study.

Students study abroad for at least one semester.

Each student develops an individual capstone project related to his or her study abroad experience that will be presented at the TU Research Colloquium in his or her senior year.

Global Scholars are eligible for up to $10,000 in travel scholarships during their time in the program.

The academic program uses the framework of the Seven Revolutions, seven key worldwide trends identified by the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS). The Revolutions consider the question, “What will the world look like in 2035?” An interdisciplinary faculty working group sponsored by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities developed an academic program based on the Seven Revolutions that will shape our world by the year 2035 as the following:

1. Population: What effects will population growth/decline, aging, migration and urbanization have on our future world?

2. Resources: What changes will we see in food, water & energy consumption/production?

3. Technology: What changes are we going to see in computation, robotics, biotechnology and nanotechnology?

4. Information: How does the vast amount of data change how we learn and govern in the future?

5. Economies: How is our economic landscape changing?

6. Conflict: How do we balance state competition/conflict with the increased pressures of transnational threats?

7. Governance: What is the role of leaders, corporations and NGOs in this new environment?

Study Abroad: 220 students participated in education abroad programs (for TU-sponsored credit and non-credit programs) in AY2013. Students studied abroad in 38 different countries; the top 7 destinations are the UK, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Ghana, Costa Rica, and China.

For credit Non-credit Total

Fall 2012 – Summer 2013 180 40 220

Fall 2011 – Summer 2012 148 27 175

Fall 2010 – Summer 2011 178 30 208

TU sent its 1,000th student abroad in summer 2013, following a campaign promoting accomplishments of study abroad alumni. The Center for Global Education tracked TU alumni who had studied abroad to highlight their accomplishments. Andrew Cressyman, a junior chemical engineering who studied abroad in Prague, Czech Republic, was the lucky 1,000th student. He won a travel scholarship to support his study abroad plans.

Looking aheadThe goal for campus internationalization is to increase the knowledge and appreciation of the interconnectedness of global systems as they relate to language and literature, economics, politics, religion, the environment, law, and all natural systems and processes. This will require a targeted and integrated approach that will encompass all levels of the university and community. Internationalization of the campus represents an opportunity for students, administration, faculty, staff, and other members of the campus community to learn new ways of thinking, to find new ways of communicating ideas, and to understand global systems.

As we look ahead to the future and the next phase of the strategic plan, the focus will be on several key indicators of success, including: 1) the expansion of curriculum in areas identified as priority in the SPCI; 2) the further reinforcement of university infrastructure required to sustain internationalization initiatives; and 3) evaluations of the outcomes of Year I&II initiatives.

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PublicationsJoseph Bradley. Obshchestvennye organizatsii v tsarskoi Rossii: Nauka, patriotism i grazhdanskoe obshchestvo. Novyi Khronograf Press, Moscow, 2012 (Russian translation of book, Voluntary Associations in Tsarist Russia: Science, Patriotism and Civil Society, published in 2009 by Harvard).

Joseph Bradley. “Russian Congresses, 1861-1904: Advocacy in the Public Sphere,” in Jörg Hackmann, ed., Vereinskultur und Zivilgesellschaft in Nordosteuropa/Associational Culture and Civil Society in North Eastern Europe: Regional Features and the European Context. Vienna and Cologne: Bohlau Verlag, 2012, pp. 547-592

Joseph Bradley. “Russkoe tekhnicheskoe obshchestvo,” in A. S. Tumanova, ed., Samoorganizatsiia rossiiskoi obshchestvennosti v poslednei treti XVIII-nachale XX v. Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2012, pp. 520-578

Robert H. Donaldson. “Russia and the States of the Former Soviet Union.” Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society. Eds. Graeme Gill and James Young. New York: Routledge, 2012, 432-443.

Eduardo Faingold. 2012. Language rights in the United States Constitution and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Readings in Language Studies, Volume 3. Language and Identity. Paul Chamness Miller, John L. Watke & Muguel Montero (eds.). Grandville, Michigan: International Society for Language Studies. pp. 447 – 457.

Eduardo Faingold. 2012. Official English in the constitutions and statutes of the fifty states in the United States. Language Problems and Language Planning 36: 136-148.

Russell Hittinger. “John Paul II’s Contribution to Social Doctrine.” The Thomistic legacy in Blessed John Paul II, to be published in Doctor Communis, by Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, Vatican City 2013.

Russell Hittinger.“Political Pluralism and Religious Liberty: The Teaching of Dignitatis humanae,” Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Acta 17. 39-55, 677-80.

Russell Hittinger. The Global Quest for Tranquillitas Ordinis: Pacem in Terris, Fifty Years Later. Eds. Mary Ann Glendon, Russell Hittinger, Marcelo Sánchez-Sorondo. The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Acta 18 (Vatican City 2013). “Introduction,” 19-20. “Quinquagesimo Ante: Reflections on Pacem in Terris Fifty Years Later,” 38-60. “Statement of the Plenary Session,” 631-635.

Grant Matthew Jenkins. “Beyond, Between, and Otherwise: Mark McMorris’s Postcolonial Poethics.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature [Manitoba] 45.1 (March 2012): 17-34.

Sean Latham. Editor, The Cambridge Companion to “Ulysses.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming, 2014.

Lamont Lindstrom. 2012 Urban(e) Tannese: Local Perspectives on Settlement Life in Port Vila, Vanuatu. Journal de la Société des Océanistes 133:18-29.

Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences

The following sections summarize the scholary activities of TU faculty, staff, and students from June 2012 – June 2013. The sections represent the diversity and depth of the international activities of the TU community, but given the dynamic

nature of faculty activities, may not be comprehensive. All submissions have been self-reported.

Lamont Lindstrom. 2012. Cultural Heritage, Politics, and Tourism on Tanna, Vanuatu. In E. Hviding and G. White (eds.), Pacific Alternatives. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Lamont Lindstrom. 2013. Cargo Cults. Oxford University Press Online Bibliographies.

Lamont Lindstrom. Prue Ahrens, Lamont Lindstrom, and Fiona Paisley. 2013 Across the World with the Johnsons: Visual Culture and American Empire in the Twentieth Century. Farnham (UK): Ashgate.

Benjamin Peters. (2013). “Toward a Genealogy of a Cold War Communication Science: the Strange Loops of Leo and Norbert Wiener.” The Russian Journal of Communication. 5:1, 31-43.

Benjamin Peters. (2012) “Normalizing Soviet Cybernetics.” Information & Culture. 47:2, 145-175.

Laura Stevens. “Healing a Whorish Heart: The Whore of Babylon and Protestant Interiority in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” In Anti-Catholicism in a Comparative and Transnational Perspective, 1750-2000, edited by Jonas Harvard and Yvonne Maria Werner, European Studies 31 (2013), 71-84.

Bruce Willis. Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature: Body Articulations. New York: Palgrave, 2013.

Andrew Wood. “Agustin Lara: A Cultura Biography.” Oxford University Press. 2013

Andrew Wood. “Latin American Migration to the U.S. Heartland.” University of Illinois Press 2013 (contributor and co-editor).

Andrew Wood. “Sound, Media and Culture” University of Pittsburgh Press 2012 (co-edited volume on sound in Latin American history and culture).

Adrian Wurr. Guest edited journals TESOL Journal 4.2. Special Issue, “Engaged Teaching and Learning: Service-Learning, Civic Literacy, and TESOL.” September 2013.

Adrian Wurr. “Learning Service and Service-Learning in Turbulent Times.” Michigan Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Conference Proceedings. [In Press]

Adrian Wurr. “Introduction” and “Service-Learning in TESOL Bibliography.” TESOL Journal 4.2. Special Issue, “Engaged Teaching and Learning: Service-Learning, Civic Literacy, and TESOL.” 2013: 397-401, 602-607.

Adrian Wurr. “Composing Cognition: The Role of Written Reflection in Service-Learning.” Co-authored with James M. Dubinsky and Marshall Welch. Paving the Way for Literacy (ies): Writing and Learning through Community Engagement. Ed. Isabel Baca. New York: Emerald, 2012: 155-180.


Presentations/LecturesMiriam Belmaker. Belmaker, M., Clark, J.L, Albert, M.R., Arpin, T.L., Cabanes, D., Hartman, G., Hourani, F., Rech, J.A., Shea, J.J., White, C.E., Stutz, L.N., and Stutz, A.J. (2013) Paleoecological evidence for humid and arboreal environment at the Levantine early UP and its implication for Modern Human dispersal from Africa: Micromammal evidence from the Mughar el Hamamah, Ajlun District, Jordan. Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Honolulu, Hawaii. 2013.

Miriam Belmaker. Hack, Kelsey A., and Belmaker M.,. Development of a Paleoclimatic Model through GlS Applications Based on Mesowear Analysis of Gazella gazella. Paper presented at the Archaeological Sciences of the America (ASAS) Symposium. Nashville, Tennessee. November 2012.

Miriam Belmaker. Belmaker, M., Krueger, K.L., and Bar-Yosef, O. (2012). Using Microwear Texture Analysis to Detect the Earliest Evidence for Non-dietary Anterior Tooth Use Behaviors in Homo. Paper presented at the Archaeological Sciences of the America (ASAS) Symposium. Nashville, Tennessee. November 2012.

Joseph Bradley. “Associations in Times of Political Turmoil: Science Societies and the Bolshevik Regime, 1917-1921,” for the conference “Cities and Societies in Comparative Perspective,” 11th International Conference on Urban History, European Association for Urban History, Prague. 29 August-1 September, 2012.

Mark Brewin. “The Obvious Aspects of Voting: Ritual and the Rationality of Going to the Polls,” International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Barcelona, Spain. June 2012.

Robert H. Donaldson. “NATO Enlargement and Missile Defense: Persisting Irritants for Russia’s Foreign Policy,” International Studies Association. 2013.

Eduardo Faingold. “Recuerdos del futuro: Devolution in Wales as a road map for the Southwest of the US.” 24th Conference on Spanish in the United States and 9th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages. McAllen, Texas. March 6 – 9, 2013.

Eduardo Faingold. “Language rights for Hispanics: Amend the US Constitution and/or the Civil Rights Act of 1964 NOW!” Special Panel Language Policies in the US: Political, Legal and Religious Perspectives. 41st Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest. Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Indiana. October 11 - 13, 2012.

Eduardo Faingold. “Official English in the 50 States in the Aftermath of the Mexican-American War.” 41st Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest. Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Indiana. October 11 - 13, 2012.

Eduardo Faingold. “From Greece to Argentina.” 54th International Congress of Americanists. Vienna, Austria. July 15 – 20, 2012.

Jamie L. Rhudy. Güereca, Y. M.*, Bartley, E.J.*, Palit, S.*, Martin, S.L.*, Kerr, K.L.*, Kuhn, B.L.*, DelVentura, J.L.*, Terry, E.L.*, & Rhudy, J.L. (October, 2012). The relationship between cortisol levels and emotional modulation of pain and the nociceptive flexion reflex in healthy women. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Jamie L. Rhudy. Terry, E.L.*, Bartley, E.J.*, Palit, S.*, Martin, S.L.*, Kerr, K.L.*, Kuhn, B.L.*, DelVentura, J.L.*, Güereca, Y. M.*,& Rhudy, J.L. (October, 2012). Menstrual cycle phases differentially influence pain and spinal nociception, but not emotional modulation of these outcomes. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Jamie L. Rhudy. Palit, S.*, Bartley, E.J.*, Martin, S.L.*, Kerr, K.L.*, Kuhn, B.L.*, DelVentura, J.L.*, Terry, E.L.*, Güereca, Y. M.*, & Rhudy, J.L. (October, 2012). Endogenous modulation of pain and spinal nociception across the menstrual cycle. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Jamie L. Rhudy. Simon, D.A.**, Bartley, E.J.*, Palit, S.*, Martin, S.L.*, Kerr, K.L.*, Kuhn, B.L.*, DelVentura, J.L.*, Terry, E.L.*, & Rhudy, J.L. (October, 2012). Pain catastrophizing across the menstrual cycle: Associations with menstrual distress and ovarian hormones. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Jamie L. Rhudy. Kuhn, B.L.*, Palit, S.*, Kerr, K.L.*, Terry, E.L.*, DelVentura, J.L.*, Bartley, E.J.*, Shadlow, J.O., & Rhudy, J.L. (October, 2012). Pain catastrophizing and experimental pain in Native Americans. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Laura Stevens. “What is Transatlanticism?” Public Lecture, Martin Luther Universität, Halle, Germany. December 2012.

Laura Stevens. “Why are You so Earnest to Persuade me? American Indians, Religious Contemplation, and British Missionary Fantasies.” English Literature Graduate Seminar, Martin Luther Universität, Halle, Germany. December 2012.

Laura Stevens. “The Biblical Deborah in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic.” European Early American Studies Association. Bayreuth, Germany. December 2012.

Bruce Willis. “Allegories of Ecology in the Plays and Performances of Jorge Bandeira.” Modern Language Association, Luso-Brazilian Section, Boston, January 2013.

Adrian J. Wurr. “Service-Learning in TESOL Teacher Education” with Kathy McCord, Michael J. Greces, and Nguyen Thi Quynh Hoa. The Third International Conference on Service-Learning in Teacher Education, Duke University. June 23, 2012.

Adrian J. Wurr. “Serving to learn & learning to serve: Service-Learning in TESOL” and “Can I say that? Google, corpus linguistics, and language use on the Internet.” Oklahoma Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages annual conference. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. November 10, 2012.

Adrian J. Wurr. “Learning Service and Service-Learning in Turbulent Times.” Keynote address at the Michigan Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages annual conference, Livonia, Michigan. October 13, 2012.

*Indicates Graduate Student Co-Authors **Indicates Undergraduate Student Co-Authors

Awards/GrantsMiriam Belmaker. Faculty Internationalization Grants for Interdisciplinary Development, 2013.

Miriam Belmaker. “Storage and Preservation of the Bioarchaeological Collections at the Yerevan State University” Principle Investigator American Institute of the South Caucasus, 2013.

Joseph Bradley research award from the TU Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.

Sean Latham received a two-year, $270,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities that was awarded to the Modernist Journals Project. The MJP formed a productive partnership with the Canadian-based Modernist Versions Project as well as with a newly funded NEH project based in Chicago called Modernist Networks.

Eduardo Faingold. Faculty Research Grant, The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, to research language policy in Switzerland.

Eduardo Faingold. Faculty Research Grant, The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, to research Jewish education in Berlin, Germany.

Benjamin Peters, Jeff Drouin, Helen Zhang. Faculty Internationalization Grant.

Laura Stevens, Matt Drever, Stephanie Schmidt. Faculty Internationalization Grant.

Laura Stevens. “Duels, Mohocks, and Moral Panic: Aristocratic Violence in Late Stuart London” received internationalization grant, Martin Luther University, Halle-Leipzig, Germany.

Adrian J. Wurr. Curriculum Development Grant, Teaching Second Language Writing.

ConferencesMark Brewin. Attended CIEE seminar in Istanbul, Turkey, on the “City as spectacle and as commodity.” June 2012.

Sandra Wright. International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. July 2012.

Eduardo Faingold. (with Megan Davies) “Direct Object את et Dropping in Modern Hebrew.” National Association of Professors of Hebrew International Conference on Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture. University of California, Los Angeles. June 25 – 27, 2012.

Eduardo Faingold. “Language policy, nativism, and the (in)ability of ethnic groups to reconcile.” Third Annual Symposium of the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation. Tulsa, Oklahoma. May 30 – June 1, 2012.

Russell Hittinger. Lectures on the “Evolution of Catholic Political Theology.” Dominican Priory, Krakow, Poland. July 2-11, 2012. Five lectures and four seminars.

Russell Hittinger. Lecture in Honor of Ambassador Mary A. Glendon. Florence, Italy. June 26, 2013.

Russell Hittinger. Lectures on the “State and Subsidiary Social Units.” Dominican Priory, Krakow, Poland. July 2-11, 2013. Five lectures and four seminars.

Russell Hittinger. “Polity and Subsidiarity, the Case of European Union.” Response to Cardinal Marx of Munich. Conference, Toward a Moral Economy: Policies and Values for the 21st Century. Sponsored by: The John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought (Univ. of Chicago), The Lumen Christi Institute (Univ. of Chicago), and The Katholische Sozialwissenschaftliche Zentralstelle. May 31, 2012.

Brian Hosmer. “Working for Art on Wind River.” 34th Annual American Indian Workshop, Helsinki Finland, 14-17 May 2013.

Sean Latham. “James Joyce and Video Games.” International James Joyce Symposium. Dublin, Ireland. June 2012.

Sean Latham. “Worlds of Wakecraft.” The Shanghai International James Joyce Symposium. Fudan University, Shanghai, China. June 2013.

Sean Latham. “How a Great Daily Organ Is Turned Out.” The Shanghai Book Fair. Shanghai, China. June 2013.

Benjamin Peters. “Infrastructure and Four Other Ways to Rethink Social Media,” The Beijing Forum, Peking University. November 6, 2012.

Benjamin Peters. “Saving Information: Mormonism and Open-Source.” International Communication Association, Phoenix, May 2012.

Benjamin Peters. “Technological Utopianisms in Early Soviet Networks.” The First Princeton Young Scholars’ Interdisciplinary Conference on Soviet Science and Technology: The Great Experiment Revisited: Soviet Science and Techno-utopianism. Princeton, N.J., February 2012, and International Communication Association, Phoenix, May 2012.


Dr. Joanne Davis taught “Responding to Interpersonal, Inter-cultural and Historical Violence” in Ghana in June 2013. This course was offered by the University of Tulsa Institute of Trauma, Abuse, and Neglect (TITAN) and cross-listed with Psychology, Sociology, and Women’s and Gender Studies. The course topics addressed experiences of interpersonal violence, individual and community experiences of war and displacements, and the historical violence of the slave trade in Ghana. In summer 2013, the students completed a service-learning project with a school, Favour Prep. Dr. Davis is now working with faculty in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Business to develop ad-ditional service learning projects related to Favour Prep’s needs and is planning a fourth program to Ghana in Summer 2014. This photo features TU students and teachers at Favour Prep.

New CoursesJosephy Bradley taught “Topics in European History: Nazi Germany,” spring 2012.

Laura Stevens. ENGL 3723.01/ REL 4863.01/ HIST 4843.01 /ARTH 4403.01 London 1713: Church, Crown, Conflict, and Culture: Team taught this spring with Dr. Clare Haynes, Bell Visiting Professor of Anglican and Episcopalian Studies.

OtherJoseph Bradley and Christine Ruane are co-editors of Russian Studies in History, a journal of translations published by M.E. Sharpe. The editorial board and guest editors are Russian scholars.

Machele Miller Dill spent 4 weeks in Dublin, Ireland, from early July to early August 2012, working on an original, one-woman show with an Irish playwright. The play was

performed in August 2013 in Dublin.

Machele Miller Dill toured Israel in November 2012 as part of a 10-day performance tour of the new musical, “The Unwitting Wife.” The musical was performed at the Tiberias Theatre Festival in Tiberias, Israel, at the sister school to Tulsa’s Carver Middle School, and in Jerusalem.

Robert H. Donaldson is the director of the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations.

Robert H. Donaldson. “Tulsa and the New Russia,” inaugural Faculty Great Lectures Series, 2013.

Robert H. Donaldson brought the former Ambassador of Pakistan, Husain Haqqani, now a professor at Boston University,

to TU for class presentations and a public lecture in the Lorton Performance Center, March 2013.

Eduardo Faingold is associate editor, International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest.

Sean Latham served as an external dissertation examiner at the University of Toronto.

Sean Latham is co-editing a book series that will be published by Bloomsbury (London) and will include at least five authors working outside of the United States.

Sean Latham is the editor of the James Joyce Quarterly.

Brady McElligott. The School of Music hosted pianist Eunju Chang from South Korea on October 24, 2012.

Brady McElligott. The School of Music hosted Daniel Becton, of Project Ubuntu, on January 30, 2013.

Brady McElligott. The School of Music presented the vocal/instrumental group, Vintage Wildflowers, which specializes in traditional Irish music, on February 13, 2013.

Lowell Baker. The School of Art hosted Angel Oliva Lloret, Cuban national educator, ceramic artist and sculptor, for a two-week long workshop.

Tom Buoye is on the editorial board of Qing History Research.

Tom Buoye. The Department of History hosted Professor Peng-sheng Chiu, Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, for a lecture, “The Chinese Way to Modern Economy? The Construction of Markets in the Eighteenth Century China,” November 12, 2012.

Lara Foley. The Department of Sociology invited TU alum and doctoral candidate at Emory University Leslie Watson to give a talk “A New Me in My Old Home: Identity Process Among Returning International Volunteers.” Jake Turner, BA Sociology, on study abroad in Uganda.


Lamont Lindstrom did field work in Port Vila and Tanna Island, Vanuatu in July 2012.

Benjamin Peters co-taught short graduate seminar, Understanding Media (Media between Nature and Culture), at Hebrew University, January 2013.

Benjamin Peters was appointed to editorial board of the Russian Journal of Communication and to editorial board of the Vestnik Samarskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta (Herald of the Samara State University).

John Powell. The School of Music hosted Polish pianist, Agnieszka Przemyk-Bryla, professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University in Warsaw, April 24, 2013.

Laura Stevens. Co-chair, Program Committee, Society of Early Americanists conference on London and the Americas, 1492-1812.

Laura Stevens. International appointments to Editorial Board of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature: Siao-Chen Hu, Research Fellow, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwain; Jacqueline Labbe, professor of English and comparative literary studies and chair of graduate studies, University of Warwick, UK; Joanne van der Woude, Rosalind Franklin Fellow, University of Groningen, Netherlands.

Andrew Wood traveled to Rio de Janeiro (city and state) in June 2012 to do research on Brazilian anthropologist (and former director of the national museum) Heloisa Alberto Torres.

Andrew Wood traveled to Mexico City, port of Veracruz and Xalapa, Veracruz in November 2012 for research on the history of tourism in México (publications forthcoming).

Adrian J. Wurr. “Faculty Forum Panel on Internationalization.” The University of Tulsa. November 2012

Adrian J. Wurr.“Tutoring Multilingual Writers” at a professional development workshop for Writing Center Tutors at The University of Tulsa. August 22, 2012.

Adrian J. Wurr. “Teaching/Tutoring ESL and ELL Students Roundtable.” Professional development workshop for teaching assistants in the writing program at The University of Tulsa. August 17, 2012.

Adrian J. Wurr. “Working with ESL Student Writers.” Professional development workshop for teaching assistants in the writing program at The University of Tulsa. August 14, 2012.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet Laureate of Russia, was elected to the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame. His poetry reading at the Unesco Palace in Paris in January drew an audience of 3,000. Five new books of his poetry were published in Russia, and he won an important Italian Prize, the Lerici Pea, for the Italian translation of his new poem “Dora Franco.” April of 2013 saw the premiere in Moscow’s Taganka Theater of his poetic drama There Are

No Years. He won the “Poet” prize of $50,000 in Russia.

Visiting ScholarDr. Clare Haynes, Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Arts, Culture and Environment at the University of Edinburgh, visiting scholar in English.

Distinguished Student ActivityColleen Bell. Bell, Colleen A., Henry, D.O. and Belmaker, M., (2013) Symmetry in Levantine Mousterian Levallois points and the implication for Neanderthal cognition: Comparison between two analytical methods. Annual meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society. Honolulu, Hawaii, 2013.

Colleen Bell. Bell, Colleen A., Belmaker, M., and Henry, D.O. (2013). Comparison between 3D Geometric Morphometric Analysis over Traditional Linear Methods in Lithic Assemblages: Tor Faraj, Jordan, a Middle Paleolithic Site as a Case Study. Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Honolulu, Hawaii, 2013

Colleen Bell. Student “The feasibility of setting up an international research and education collaboration between The University of Tulsa (TU) and Yerevan State University (YSU) on the archeology and geology of the Lori Plateau.” TU Graduate Research Grant.

Kelsey Clardy. Clardy, K. & Belmaker, M. (2003). “Development of a Paleoclimatic Predictive Model Based on Gazella gazella Mesowear of the Last Glacial in the Levant.” Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Honolulu, Hawaii, 2013.

The James Joyce Quarterly has a significant international reach. In the last year, the JJQ published over 30 items by scholars working outside the United States, from countries including Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Germany, Serbia, Italy, Greece, Canada, and China among many others. (One of these issues had a special section on translation with work by scholars from Poland, Hungary, Italy, and China.) The JJQ regularly reviews books published in different languages, and it is considered the international journal of record for Joyce studies. In the last year, for example, the first Chinese translation of Finnegans Wake appeared and became a surprise best seller in Shanghai. The JJQ editorial staff assisted the translator with the flood of publicity that followed and provided background information for stories that appeared from the BBC World Service as well from the Chinese bureaus for several newspapers including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Kelsey Clardy. Cooper, Alex M., Leichliter, J., Hack Kelsey A., Belmaker, M. and Sponheimer, M. J. (2013). Investigating paleoclimate in the Levant: carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of gazelles and rodents. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Special Issue: Program of the 82nd Annual Meeting of The American Association of Physical Anthropologists 150 (S56) pp. 105. Paper presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Knoxville, Tennessee.

Cara Dublin, senior history major and member of Phi Beta Kappa, was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in Victorian Studies at the University of Leicester, UK.

Sungjin Jang, English Ph.D. student, published an article entitled “’My Name is Arthur Gordon Pym’: the Fragmented Subject’s Entrance into the Symbolic in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Nantucket” in Korea.

Sungjin Jang is translating Jesper Juul’s Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds into Korean. This translated book is under contract and was published in December 2013.

Matthew J. Kochis, doctoral candidate in English, presented a paper, “What Can the Modernist Versions Project do for Joyce Studies?” at the James Joyce Symposium in Dublin, June 2012.

Matthew J. Kochis attended a 5-week NEH Summer Seminar, “James Joyce’s Ulysses: Texts and Contexts,” one of only two graduate students admitted.

Matthew J. Kochis finished digitizing the 1922 edition of Ulysses for the “Year of Ulysses” initiative run by the Modernist Versions Project (Canada).

Shreela Palit. European Pain School Scholar – selected scholars receive advanced training in brain modulation of pain experience in Siena, Italy.

Bill Quinn received a fellowship to attend the T.S. Eliot Summer School at the University of London.

Morgan Richardson was selected to participate in the Russian-American Youth Summit (RAYS), which brought together 80 students and young professionals from Russia and the United States at the University of Washington, Seattle, August 26-29, 2013.

Ellen Terry. European Pain School Scholar – selected scholars receive advanced training in brain modulation of pain experience in Siena, Italy.

Jake Turner, BA Sociology, received a Fulbright Teaching Award to Bulgaria.

Lauren West, BA Russian Studies, received a State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) 2013. She studied for 10 weeks, from June 16 through August 17, in Ufa, Russia.


PublicationsAkhilesh Bajaj. (2012). “Mitigating Data Ownership And Exploitation Issues in Cloud Computing Services.” Global Science & Technology Forum e-Journal on Information and Computing Technologies.

Wen-Chyuan Chiang. “Investigating the impact of operational variables on manufacturing cost by simulation optimization, International Journal of Production Economics, with R. Zhang and C. Wu. (forthcoming)

Wen-Chyuan Chiang. “Service Guarantee and Optimal Payout Models,”International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 141, Issue 2, February 2013, pp. 519-528, with G. Cai, X. Xu, and X. Chen.

J. Markham Collins. Collins, J. Markham & H. Kacsó Erzsébet, “The Regional Currency Area and Economic Sustainability,” Periodica Oeconomica, April, 2013, pp. 145-155.

Jose Miranda-Lopez and Linda M. Nichols. “The Use of Earnings and Cash Flows in Investment Decisions in the U.S. and Mexico: Experimental Evidence,” Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, 21 (2012), pp. 298-208.

Lee Anne Nichols. Nichols, L. & Lowe, J. “Utilization of a Native American Nursing Conceptual Framework: Implications for Practice and Research,” Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing.

Linda Nichols. “International Financial Reporting Standards Update for the Energy Industry,” Petroleum Accounting and Financial Management Journal, Spring 2013, pp. 40-49.

Michael Troilo. “Policy Guidebook for SME Development in Asia and the Pacific.” (2012). Michael Troilo and Masato Abe (Eds.). Abe, M., Troilo, M., Juneja, J.S., and Narain, S. United Nations Press: New York, N.Y. 424 standard pages.

Michael Troilo. (2012) “Market orientation of SMEs in Southeast Asia,” Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 30(1), pp. 53-79.

Michael Troilo. Troilo, M. and Zhang, J. (2012). “Guanxi and entrepreneurship in urban China,” Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 17(2), pp. 315-331.

Eric Wickel. Wickel EE, Issartel J, Belton S. Longitudinal change in active and sedentary behavior during the after-school hour. Journal of Physical Activity and Health. 2013;10(3):416-422.

Eric Wickel. Belton S, O’Brien W, Wickel EE, Issartel J. Patterns of non-compliance in adolescent field based accelerometer research. Journal of Physical Activity and Health. In press.

Eric Wickel. Sieverdes JC, Wickel EE, Hand GA, Bergamin M, Moran RR, Blair SN. Reliability and validity of the My wellness key physical activity monitor. Clinical Epidemiology. 2013;5:13-20.

Collins College of Business PresentationsWen-Chyuan Chiang. “Designing A Stochastic Discount Policy for the Self-Storage Industry,” invited presentation, E-Commerce/Supply Chains Management Workshop, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai China, July 2012, with L. Chen and S. Li.

Wen-Chyuan Chiang. “Pricing Decisions in the Self-Storage Industry,“ invited presentation, The Fifth Annual Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association in Management Science and Engineering, Suzhou China, July 2012, with L. Chen and S. Li.

J. Markham Collins. “The Financial World: Through the Professor’s Glasses,” China University of Petroleum Beijing, May 11, 2012.

J. Markham Collins. “The Regional Currency Area and Economic Sustainability,” with Erzsébet Kacsó, PhD,. Sustainability 2012: Regional Aspects, Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, Hungary, June 2012.

Greg Gardner was an invited speaker at the Pan Pacific Conference on Medicine and Science in Sport in Honolulu, Hawaii, hosted by the Sports Medicine Council of Alberta, February 2013.

Mike Troilo. Council on International Education Exchange (CIEE) Annual Conference, Shanghai, China: November 2012. Session chair and presenter for “Culture and Language in Business: Developing Competency through Diverse Initiatives.”

Eric Wickel. “Variables associated with active and inactive behavior during the after-school period.” 2012 Annual Meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.

Award/GrantsWen Chiang received a joint grant from National Natural Science Foundation of China with a professor from East China University of Science and Technology.

Mike Troilo. Research proposal “Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Policy and Economic Development in Small Nations” recommended for Fulbright Research Award. Selected as alternate.

CoursesLinda Nichols developed MEB7043 - Energy Accounting and Financial Reporting. The course contained a significant amount of material involving the accounting implications of exploring for oil and gas in foreign countries with contractual systems under production sharing agreements with those governments.

Visiting ScholarsDr. Zhu Sun, China University of Petroleum Beijing.

Chante’ Clarkson participated in three internationally focused webinars (one sponsored by TU; two sponsored by NACADA).

J. Markham Collins was a contributing researcher to “Managing the Safety Chain,” Rita Marcella, presented at OPITO Safety and Competence Conference 2012, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, November 2012, and published in the proceedings.

J. Markham Collins is the associate editor and member of the Editorial Board of Periodica Oeconomica, jointly published by University of Paris-Sorbonne IV and Eszterhaz.y Karoly College.

J. Markham Collins taught short courses at Siegen University (December 2012) and China University of Petroleum Beijing (May 2012 and 2013).

Greg Gardner advised on curriculum development at Hashemite University in Amman, Jordan.

Richard Gebhart chaired the supplier survey working group for the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef.

Wen-Chiyuan Chiang organized E-Commerce/Supply Chains Management Workshop, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai China, July 2012.

OtherRichard Arrington traveled to China in January 2013 to help recruit/interview business students from the China University of Petroleum Beijing for our “2+2” program. He also presented at an IB schools in Beijing about TU and our IB credit policy.

The Collins College of Business hosted its annual tailgate party for international students.

Greg Gardner and Robin Ploeger taught “Global Practice Analysis in Sports Medicine” and traveled with students to Edinburgh, Scotland in March 2013.

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College of Engineering and Natural SciencesPublicationsJingyi Chen. Gulsah M., Chen J. and Ozsoy C. (2013). Application of nearly perfectly matched layer with second-order acoustic equations in seismic numerical modeling. J. Geol. Geosci., 2: 120. doi: 10.4172/2329-6755.1000120.

Jingyi Chen. Han M., Li G. and Chen J. (2013). Assimilating microseismic and welltest data using EnKF for accurate reservoir characterisation. IPTC 16725, 1-24.

Jingyi Chen. Chen J. (2012). Nearly perfectly matched layer method for seismic wave propagation in poroelastic media. Can. J. Explor. Geophys., 37, 24-29.

Jingyi Chen. Li G., Chen J., Han M. et al. (2012). Accurate microseismic event location inversion using a gradient-based method. SPE 159187, 1-12.

Jingyi Chen. Chen J. and Zhao J. (2011). Application of the nearly perfectly matched layer to seismic wave propagation modeling in elastic anisotropic media. Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 101 2866-2871.

Jingyi Chen. Chen J. (2011). Application of the nearly perfectly matched layer for seismic wave propagation in 2D homogeneous isotropic media. Geophys. Prosp., 59, 662-672.

Jingyi Chen. Chen J. (2011). Joint inversion of seismic reflection travel times and wave polarizations for anisotropic parameters using simulated annealing: a modeling study. J. Seism. Explor., 20, 91-104.

Christian Constanda. Differential Equations: A Primer for Scientists and Engineers, Springer, New York, 2013.

Christian Constanda. Thermoelastic plates with arc-shaped cracks, in Integral Methods in Science and Engineering. Computational and Analytic Aspects, Birkhauser, Boston, 2011, 129–140.

Christian Constanda. Bilateral estimates for the solutions of boundary value problems in Kirchhoff ’s theory of thin plates, Applicable Analysis 91 (2012), 1661–1674.

Christian Constanda. The null field equations for flexural oscillations of elastic plates, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences 35 (2012), 510-519.

Christian Constanda. The transmission problem for harmonic oscillations of thin plates, IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics 78 (2013), 132–145.

Christian Constanda. Integral equations of the first kind in the theory of oscillating plates, Applicable Analysis 91 (2012), 2235–2244.

Christian Constanda. Uniqueness of analytic solutions for stationary plate oscillations in an annulus, Applied Mathematics Letters 25 (2012), 1050–1055.

Parameswar Hari. On the growth of ZnO nanorods on electrospun TiO2 fibers, Journal of the American Ceramic Society - Manuscript ID JACERS-31615 (submitted, under review).

Parameswar Hari, Thushara Athauda, and Ruya Ozer. Growth of ZnO Nanostructures on Cellulosic Substrates Thushara J. Athauda, Umaiz Butt, Parameswar Hari, and Ruya R. Ozer, 10.1557/opl.2012.844R, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 1439 (2012)

Parameswar Hari. Cobalt Doped ZnO Nanorods Fabricated by Chemical Bath Deposition Technique, Advances in Science and Technology, 77, 280 (2012)

Brett A. McKinney. N.A. Davis, C.A. Lareau, B.C. White, A. Pandey, G. Wiley, C.G. Montgomery, P.M. Gaffney, B.A. McKinney. “Encore: Genetic association interaction network centrality pipeline and application to SLE exome data,” Genetic Epidemiology. Accepted manuscript 30 April 2013.

Brett A. McKinney. A. Pandey, N.A. Davis, B.C. White, N.M. Pajewski, J. Savitz, W.C. Drevets, B.A. McKinney. “Epistasis network centrality analysis yields pathway replication across two GWAS cohorts for bipolar disorder,” Translational Psychiatry. 2, e154; doi:10.1038/tp.2012.80 2012.

Brett A. McKinney. B.S. Briney, J.R. Willis, B.A. McKinney, J.E. Crowe Jr. “High-throughput antibody sequencing reveals genetic evidence of global regulation of the naïve and memory repertoires that extends across individuals,” Genes and Immunity (Nature Publishing). doi:10.1038/gene.2012.20; 2012.

Brett A. McKinney. B.A. McKinney and N.M. Pajewski. “Six degrees of epistasis: Statistical network models of GWAS,” Frontiers in Statistical Genetics and Methodology. 2 (109). doi: 10.3389/fgene.2011.00109; January 2012.

Brett A. McKinney. P. Crooke, J. Hotchkiss, Y. Lenbury, and B.A. McKinney. “Mathematical Modeling of Patient Care,” Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. Article ID 563287, 2 pages doi:10.1155/2012/563287; 2012

Brett A. McKinney. Louie R.J., Guo J., Rodgers J.W., White R., Shah N., Pagant S., Kim P., Livstone M., Dolinski K., McKinney B.A., Hong J., Sorscher E.J., Bryan J., Miller E.A., Hartman J.L. 4th. “A yeast phenomic model for the gene interaction network modulating CFTR-DeltaF508 protein biogenesis,” Genome Med. 2012 Dec 27;4(12):103.

Brett A. McKinney. Savitz J., Frank M.B., Victor T., Bebak M., Marino J.H., Bellgowan P.S., McKinney B.A., Bodurka J., Kent Teague T., Drevets W.C. “Inflammation and neurological disease-related genes are differentially expressed in depressed patients with mood disorders and correlate with morphometric and functional imaging abnormalities,” Brain Behav Immun. 2012 Oct 12. doi:pii: S0889-1591(12)00469-2. 10.1016/j.bbi.2012.10.007; Oct 12, 2012. PMID: 23064081

Brett A. McKinney. N.M. Pajewski, S. Shrestha, C.P. Quinn, S.D. Parker, H. Weiner, B. Aissani, B.A. McKinney, G.A. Poland, J.C. Edberg, R.P. Kimberly, J. Tang, and R.A. Kaslow. “A Genome-wide Association Study of Host Genetic Determinants of the Antibody Response to Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed,” Vaccine. 30(32):4778-84; 2012.


Peter Michael. Bendtz, K., Milstead, D., Hächler, H.-P., Hirt, A. M., Mermod, P., Michael, P., Sloan, T., Tegner, C., and S. B. Thorarinsson (2013) Search for Magnetic Monopoles in Polar Volcanic Rocks. Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 121803. doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.121803. PACS:14.80.Hv, 91.25.-r, 91.35.Gf, 93.30.Li

Peter Michael. Escrig, S., Bézos, A., Langmuir, C.H., Michael, P.J., and R.J. Arculus, (2012) Characterizing the effect of mantle source, subduction input and melting in the Fonualei Spreading Center, Lau Basin: Constraints on the origin of the boninitic signature of the back-arc lavas. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst.,13, QXXXXXdoi:10.1029/2012GC004130

Peter Michael. Tivey, M.K., E. Becker, R. Beinart, C.R. Fisher, P.R. Girguis, C.H. Langmuir, P.J. Michael, and A.-L. Reysenbach. (2012). Links from mantle to microbe at the Lau Integrated Study Site: Insights from a back-arc spreading center. Oceanography 25(1):62–77, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2012.04.

Peter Michael. Resing, J.A., Rubin, K.H., Embley, R.W., Lupton, J.E., Baker, E.T., Dziak, R.P., Baumberger, T., Lilley, M.D., Huber, J.A., Shank, T.M., Butterfield, D.A., Clague, D.A., Keller, N.S., Merle, S.G., Buck, N.J., Michael, P.J., Soule, A., Caress, D.W., Walker, S.L., Davis, R., Cowen, J.P., REysenbach, A.-L., Thomas, H., (2011), Active Submarine eruption of boninite in the northeastern Lau Basin. Nature Geoscience 4, 799-806 doi:10.1038/ngeo1275

Peter Michael. Timm, C., Hoernle, K., Werner, R., Hauff, F., van den Bogaard, P., Michael, P., Coffin, M.F., and Koppers, A., (2011) Age and Geochemistry of the oceanic Manihiki Plateau, SW Pacific: New Evidence for a Plume Origin. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 304, 135-146.

Peter Michael. Mottl, M.J., J. Seewald, C.G. Wheat, M.K. Tivey, P.J. Michael, G. Proskurowski, T.M. McCollom, E. Reeves, J. Sharkey, C.-F. You, L.H. Chan and T. Pichler. (2011) Chemistry of hot springs along the Eastern Lau Spreading Center. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 1013-1038.

Peter Michael. Michael, P.J., 2011, “A Backarc in Time” – News and Views Commentary. Nature, v. 469, pp. 170-171.

Kevin O’Neil. “Stationary states of identical point vortices and vortex foam on the sphere,” Proceedings of the Royal Society A 469:20120622. December 2012.

Kevin O’Neil. “Singular continuation of point vortex relative equilibria on the plane and sphere,” Nonlinearity 26, 777-804 (2013)

Kevin O’Neil. “Stationary vortex sheets in a stirring flow,” Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics doi:10.1007/s00162-013-0300-7 (2013)

Todd Otanicar. Taylor R.A., Coulombe S., Otanicar T., Phelan, P., Gunawan, Lv.W., Rosengarten, Prasher R., Tyagi H., “Small Particles, Big Impacts: A Review of the Diverse Applications of Nanofluids,” Journal of Applied Physics 113, 2013.

Todd Otanicar. Taylor R.A., Otanicar T.P., Herukerrupu Y., Bremond F., Rosengarten G,. Hawkes E.R., Jiang X., Coulombe S., “Feasibility of nanofluid-based optical filters,” Applied Optics 52(7), 2013.

Todd Otanicar. Lv W, Phelan P.E, Swaminathan R., Otanicar T.P., Taylor R.A., “Multifunctional Core-Shell Nanoparticle Suspensions for Efficient Absorption,” Journal of Solar Energy Engineering 135, 2013.

Todd Otanicar. Khullar V., Tyagi H., Phelan P.E., Otanicar T.P., Singh H., Taylor R.A., “Solar Energy Harvesting Using Nanofluids-Based Concentrating Solar Collector,” Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine 3(3), 2012.

Todd Otanicar. Taylor R.A., Phelan P.E., Otanicar T., Prasher R., Phelan B., “Socioeconomic impacts of Heat Transfer Research” International Communications in Heat Transfer Research, 39(10), 2012.

Todd Otanicar. Taylor R.A., Otanicar T., Rosengarten G., “Nanofluid-based optical filter optimization for PV/T systems,” Light: Science & Applications, 1(10), 2012.

Mauricio Papa. P. Hawrylak, C. Hartney, M. Papa and J. Hale, Using Hybrid Attack Graphs to Model and Analyze Attacks against the Critical Information Infrastructure, to appear in Critical Information Infrastructure Protection and Resilience in the ICT Sector, S. Bologna and P. Theron (Eds.), IGI Global, pp. 171–195, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2013.

Mauricio Papa. M. Brundage, A. Mavridou, J. Johnson, P. Hawrylak and M. Papa, Distributed Moni- toring: A Framework for Securiing Data Acquisition, Securing Critical Infrastructures and Critical Control Systems: Approaches for Threat Protection, C. Laing, A. Badii and P. Vickers (Eds.), DOI:10.4018/978-1-4666-2659-1.ch006, IGI Global, pp. 144–167, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2012.

Mauricio Papa. C. Mueller, J. Daily and M. Papa, Assessing the Accuracy of Vehicle Event Data based on CAN messages, Accident Reconstruction 2012 (SP-2335), SAE International, ISBN 978-0-7680-7616-5, DOI: 10.4271/2012-01-1000, 2012.

Mauricio Papa. P. Hawrylak, N. Schimke, J. Hale and M. Papa, RFID and E-Health: Technology, Implementation, and Security Issues, Telemedicine and E-Health Services, Policies and Applications: Advancements and Developments, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Isabel de la Torre Diez, and Beatriz Sainz de Abajo (Eds.),ISBN 978-1-4666-0890-0, IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania, pp. 347–368, 2012.

Mauricio Papa. A. Mavridou, V. Zhou, J. Dawkins and M. Papa, A Situational Awareness Framework for Securing the Smart Grid using Monitoring Sensors and Threat Models, International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics – Special Issue on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability, Vol. 4, Nos. 2/3, pp. 138–153, 2012.

Mauricio Papa. P. J. Hawrylak, J. Hale and M. Papa, Security Issues for ISO 18000-6 Type C RFID: Identification and Solutions, Developments in Wireless Network Prototyping, Design and Deployment: Future Generations, ISBN 978-1-4666-1799-5, M. A. Matin Ed., IGI Global, pp. 38–55, 2012.

Kumar Ramachandran. K. Ramachandran, R.D. Hyndman (2012), The Fate of Fluids Released From the Subducting Slab in Northern Cascadia, Solid Earth, 3, 121–129, 2012 www.solid-earth.net/3/121/2012/doi:10.5194/se-3-121-2012 .

Kumar Ramachandran. Ramachandran, K. (2011), Constraining Fault Interpretation Through Tomographic Velocity Gradients: Application To Northern Cascadia, Solid Earth, 3, 53-61, 2012, www.solid-earth.net/3/53/2012/doi:10.5194/se-3-53-2012.

Kumar Ramachandran. Ramachandran, K., (2012), Regularized Inversion of Controlled Source and Earthquake Data, Journal of Geophysics and Engineering 9 (176) doi:10.1088/1742-2132/9/2/176.

Kumar Ramachandran. Ramachandran, K., Gilles Bellefleur, Tom Brent, Michael Riedel, Scott Dallimore, Imaging Permafrost Velocity Structure Using High Resolution 3D Seismic Tomography, Geophysics 76, B187 (2011); doi:10.1190/geo2010-0353.1

Kumar Ramachandran. Ramachandran, K., Bryan Tapp, Tayler Rigsby and Erin Lewallen (2012), Imaging of Fault and Fracture Controls in the Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer, Southern Oklahoma, USA, Through Electrical Resistivity Sounding and Tomography Methods, International Journal of Geophysics Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 184836, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/184836.

Robert Scott. Scott, R. W., Formolo, M., Rush, N., Owens, J.D., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F. 2013. Upper Albian OAE 1d event in the Chihuahua Trough, New Mexico,U.S.A. Cretaceous Research 46 (2013) 1-15.

Robert Scott. Scott, R.W., Wan, X., Wang, C., Huang, Q., 2012, Late Cretaceous chronostratigraphy (Turonian–Maastrichtian): SK1 Core Songliao Basin, China, Geoscience Frontiers, 3:357-367; (2012), doi: 10.1016/j.gsf.2012.02.004.

Robert Scott. Chen, Ruiqian, Scott, R.W., 2012, Sedimentology of the Upper Pennsylvanian Bigheart Sandstone Member, Tallant Formation, Pawnee and Osage Counties, Oklahoma: Shale Shaker, 63 (2):124-143.

Robert Scott. Scott, R.W. and Edwards, W., 2012, Sequence Stratigraphy: Lower Cretaceous Goodland and Kiamichi Formations, Southeastern Oklahoma. Oklahoma City Geological Society Field Trip, 49 p.

Robert Scott. Wan, Xiaoqiao, Jing Zhao, Robert W. Scott, Pujun Wang, Zihui Feng, Qinghua Huang, Dangpeng Xi, 2012, Late Cretaceous Stratigraphy, Songliao Basin, NE China: SK1 Cores: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeocology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.10.024.

Sanwu Wang. Shi-Yu Liu, Shiyang Liu, Dejun Li, Tara M. Drwenski, Wenhua Xue, Hongli Dang, and Sanwu Wang, “Oxidation mechanism of the intermetallic compound Ti3Al from ab initio thermodynamics,” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 14, 11160 (2012).

Sanwu Wang. Shi-Yu Liu, Jia-Xiang Shang, Fu-He Wang, Shiyang Liu, Yue Zhang, Dejun Li, Darwin Shields, Wenhua Xue, Yingdi Liu, Hongli Dang, and Sanwu Wang, “Oxidation of the two-phase Nb/Nb5Si3 composite: The role of energetics, thermodynamics, segregation, and interfaces,” Journal of Chemical Physics 138, 014708 (2013).

Conference Presentations/ProceedingsJingyi Chen. Lan H., Chen J., Zhang Z., Liu Y. and Zhao J. (2013). Application of the perfectly matched layer in numerical modeling of wave propagation with an irregular free surface. Expanded Abstract, SEG Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, 2013.

Jingyi Chen. Chen J., Ozsoy C. and Metin G. (2013). Second-order seismic wave equations with the implementation of the nearly perfectly matched layer. 2nd International Conference on Earth Science & Climatic Change, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 22-24, 2013.

Jingyi Chen. Durrani M.Z.A., Wilson K., Chen J., Tapp B. and Jubran A. (2013). Rational Rock Physics for Improved Velocity Prediction and Reservoir Properties Estimation for Granite Wash (Tight Sands) in Anadarko Basin, Texas. American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Annual Convention & Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 19-22, 2013.

Jingyi Chen. Han M., Li G. and Chen J. (2013). Assimilating microseismic and welltest data using EnKF for accurate reservoir characterisation. International Petroleum Technology Conference, Beijing, China, March 26-28, 2013.

Jingyi Chen. Ozsoy C., Chen J., Metin G. (2012). Application of second-order anisotropic equations with NPML to prestack reverse-time including surface topography, AAPG-SEG Student Expo, Houston, Texas, September 17-18, 2012.

Jingyi Chen. Li G., Chen J., Han M. et al. (2012). Accurate microseismic event location inversion using a gradient-based method. SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas, October 8-10, 2012.

Jingyi Chen. Metin G., Chen J. and Ozsoy C. (2012). Pre-stack reverse-time migration using second-order acoustic wave equations with nearly perfectly matched layer. AAPG/SEG Student Expo, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, March 14-16, 2012.

Jordan Hoyt was selected for the National Science Foundation funded program NanoJapan International Research Experience for Undergraduates. He conducted Terahertz research at Osaka University in summer 2013.


Jingyi Chen. Sun P., Fan W. and Chen J. (2012), Lithofacies and Pore-fluid distributions using model-based impedance inversions and statistical rock physics: A case study from Yong’An and Caozhuang oilfields in China. AAPG/SEG Student Expo, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, March 14-16, 2012.

Jingyi Chen. Chen J. (2011). The application of the nearly perfectly matched layer to numerical modeling in poroelastic media, SEG International Exposition and Eighty-First Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, September 18-23, 2011.

Christian Constanda. Modified Integral Equation Method for Stationary Plate Oscillations, IMSE 2012, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Christian Constanda. Nonstandard Integral Equations for the Harmonic Oscillations of Thin Plates, IMSE 2012, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

J.C. Díaz. Kyle D. Johnson, J.C. Díaz and Robert B. Pickering, Virtual Tours for Museum Exhibits, Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2012), London, UK, 10 - 12 July 2012.

Mohamed K. Fakhr. Abdalrahman, L.S., A. Stanley, and M.K. Fakhr. 2012. MRSA in retail meats; Is it really a threat? Proceedings of The BIT’s 1st Annual World Congress of SQ Foods-2012. Shenzhen, China. November 1- 3.

Parameswar Hari. Cobalt Doped ZnO Nanorods Fabricated by Chemical Bath Deposition Technique: CIMTEC Conference, Italy, June 10-14, 2012. P. Hari, J. Seay, K. Farmer and K.P. Roberts, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104. http://www.cimtec-congress.org/2012/.

Parameswar Hari. Modification Of The Absorption Profile Of Zno Nanorods By Cobalt Doping: Farmer, Kevin (University of Tulsa), Parameswar Hari (University of Tulsa), Special Topic Symposium: Growth Of Metal Oxide Nanostructures For Energy Applications; SWARM conference, TU (TU graduate and undergraduate symposium), April 1, 2012.

Peter Michael. Park, S.H., Langmuir, C.H., Lin, J., Kim, S.S., Hahm, D., Michael, P.J. and Baker, E.T., 2012, Geochemistry of lavas from the Australian-Antarctic Ridge, easternmost Southeast Indian Ridge. Abstract V11D-2807, presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 3-7.

Peter Michael. Loewen, M.W., Kent, A.J., Duncan, R.A., Lrawl, K., Michael, P.J. and Graham, D.W., 2012, Geochemical Uniformity over 30 Million Years of Volcanic Activity in the Caribbean Large Igneous Province: Evidence from Curacao and Haiti. Abstract DI51A2336, presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 3-7.

Peter Michael. Michael, P.J., Graham, D.W., and Perfit, M.R., 2012, Vesiculation and degassing in the 2005-6 submarine flow at 9°50’N, East Pacific Rise: Implications for volatile fluxes and CO2:He kinetic fractionation Abstract V24B-04, presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 3-7.

Peter Michael. Michael, P.J., Escrig, S., Bézos, A., Langmuir, C.H., Arculus, R.J., and Goddard, C.I., 2011, Along- and Across-arc Basalt Geochemical Trends of Seamounts in Lau Basin: Evidence for Fluid Components and Mantle Melting, Abstract V54B-02, presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 5-9.

Peter Michael. Bézos, A., Escrig, S., Langmuir, C.H., and Michael, P.J., 2011, The role of subduction fluids and mantle sources in the petrogenesis of Eastern Lau Spreading Center magmas, Abstract V41D-2547, presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 5-9

Peter Michael. Cai, Y., Goldstin, S.L., Langmuir, C.H., and Michael, P.J., 2011, Melting and refertilization of the Arctic mantle from the ultra-slow spreading Gakkel Ridge, Abstract V31D-2564, presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 5-9.

Peter Michael. Park, S.H., Langmuir, C.H., Lin, J., Hahm, D., Kim, S.S., Hong, S.G., Lee, Y.M. and Michael, P., 2011, Preliminary results of a recent expedition to the Australian-Antarctic Ridge, Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Prague, August, 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, p. 1600.

Peter Michael. Lundstrom, C., Gajos, N., and Michael, P., 2011, Production of the Cordillera del Paine Igneous Complex by Thermal Migration Zone Refining, Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Prague, August, 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, p. 1366.

Mauricio Papa. P. J. Hawrylak, M. Haney, M. Papa, and J. Hale, Using Hybrid Attack Graphs to Model Cyber-Physical Attacks in the Smart Grid, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Resilient Control Systems, pp. 161–164, August 14-16, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2012.

Robert Scott. Chen, Ruiqian and Scott, R.W., 2012, Sedimentology of the Upper Pennsylvanian Bigheart Sandstone, Pawnee and Osage Counties, Oklahoma: AAAS SWARM Division, 86th Annual Meeting, v. 86, p. 145.

Parameswar Hari. Investigations Of Surface Properties And Depth Changes In Zno Nanorods By Chemical Etching, Jared Seay (University of Tulsa), and Ken Roberts (University of Tulsa); Jared Seay, (University of Tulsa) and Parameswar Hari (University of Tulsa) Special Topic Symposium: Growth Of Metal Oxide Nanostructures For Energy Applications; SWARM conference, TU (TU graduate and undergraduate symposium), April 1, 2012.

Parameswar Hari. Investigation Of Surface Morphology Of Zno Nanostructures Growth On Cotton Substrate According To Seed: Growth Ration Concentration. Athauda, Thushara (University of Tulsa), Parameswar Hari (University of Tulsa), and Ruya Ozer (University of Tulsa) Special Topic Symposium: Growth Of Metal Oxide Nanostructures For Energy Applications; SWARM conference, TU (TU graduate and undergraduate symposium), April 1, 2012.

Parameswar Hari. Cotton Substrate According To Seed: Growth Ration Concentration, Gosavi, Pallavi (University of Tulsa), Hari Parameswar (University of Tulsa), and Ruya Ozer (University of Tulsa).

Parameswar Hari. Special Topic Symposium: Growth Of Metal Oxide Nanostructures For Energy Applications; SWARM conference, TU (TU graduate and undergraduate symposium), April 1, 2012.

Parameswar Hari. Fabrication And Characterization Of Zinc Oxide Nanostructured Solar Cells, Jordan Occena (University of Tulsa), Jared Seay (University of Tulsa), and Parameswar Hari (University of Tulsa): Jordan Occena won the Third Prize for the Best Undergraduate Paper. Special Topic Symposium: Growth Of Metal Oxide Nanostructures For Energy Applications; SWARM conference, TU (TU graduate and undergraduate symposium), April 1, 2012.

Parameswar Hari. Invited Seminar, OU condenser matter physics, Superhydrophobic Nanostructured ZnO on Cotton substrates for device application, April 12, 2003.

Parameswar Hari. Wettability studies on Functionalized ZnO nanorods Grown on Cotton Substrates, T. Athauda, K. Farmer, K. Roberts, R. Ozer and P. Hari (presenting author), The 7th World Congress on Biomimetics, Artificial Muscles and Nano-Bio (BAMN2013), Aug. 26-30, 2013.

Parameswar Hari. pH dependence of ZnO nanorod growth by chemical bath deposition, K. Farmer, P. Hari and K. Roberts, The 7th World Congress on Biomimetics, Artificial Muscles and Nano-Bio (BAMN2013), Aug. 26-30, 2013.

Peter Michael. Michael, P.J., Bezos, A., Langmuir, C., Escrig, S., 2012, Control of copper enrichment in Lau Basin magmas by sulfide segregation and sulfur degassing. Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference 2012, Abstract 02668.

Peter Michael. Gajos, N., Lundstrom, C., Michael, P., 2012, Non-traditional isotope variations in the Cordillera del Paine Pluton. Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference 2012, Abstract 01449.

Robert Scott. Rush, Natalie, Formolo, Michael, and Scott, Robert, 2012, Upper Albian oceanic anoxia in the Chihuahua Trough, south-central New Mexico: AAAS SWARM Division, 86th Annual Meeting, v. 86, p. 160-161.

Robert Scott. Scott, R.W., 2012, A Cretaceous chronostratigraphic database: Construction and Applications: Geological Society America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7, No: 206254.

Robert Scott. Scott, R.W. , Rush, Natalie K., Formolo, M.J., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., Owens, J.D., 2012, Late Albian oceanic anoxia in the Chihuahua Trough, south-central New Mexico: Geological Society America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7, Abstract No: 206251.

Robert Scott. Chen, Ruiqian, Scott, R.W., 2012, Depositional Environment of the Bigheart Sandstone, Upper Pennsylvanian in Pawnee and Osage Counties, Oklahoma: Geological Society America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7, Abstract No: 204931.

Sanwu Wang. Wenhua Xue, Hongli Dang, Darwin Shields, Yingdi Liu, Friederike Jentoft, Daniel Resasco, Sanwu Wang, “Decarbonylation of furfural on Pd(111): Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations,” The American Physical Society March Meeting 2013, March 18–22, 2013. Baltimore, Maryland.

Sanwu Wang. Hongli Dang, Wenhua Xue, Darwin Shields, Yingdi Liu, Friederike Jentoft, Daniel Resasco, Sanwu Wang, “Ab initio study on the dynamics of furfural at the liquid-solid interfaces,” The American Physical Society March Meeting 2013, March 18–22, 2013. Baltimore, Maryland.

Rami M. Younis. “A sharp analytical bound of the spatiotemporal locality in general two-phase flow and transport phenomena,” to appear in Procedia Computer Science. International Conference on Computational Science, Barcelona, 2013.

Rami M. Younis. “A benchmark for implicit petroleum reservoir simulation Jacobian construction with Automatic Differentiation,” to be presented 13rd European Workshop on Automatic Differentiation, INRIA Sophi-Antipolis, 2013

Rami M. Younis. “Precisely, how fast is your Newton-like solver?” to be presented at the SIAM Conference on Computational Geosciences, Padua, 2013

Rami M. Younis. Session Chairperson “CP3: Iterative Solution Models,” SIAM Conference on Computational Geosciences, Padua, 2013

Faculty GrantsTodd Otanicar was awarded an Australian Solar Initiative titled Micro Urban Solar Integrated Concentrators grant.

ConferencesJerry McCoy attended the annual Global Engineering Education Exchange in NYC April 7 -10.

John Tindle, majoring in biology, received the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad in Bonaire.


Visiting International ScholarsDr. Kun Bo – Jilin University, China (Host: Hong-Quan Zhang)

Mr. Mingon Chu – Seoul National University (Host: Cem Sarica)

Mr. Jaejun Kim – Seoul National University (Host: Cem Sarica)

Dr. Haiqiang Lan – Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Host: Jinyi Chen)

Dr. Xuhui Liu – Yangtze University, China. (Host: Hong-Quan Zhang)

Dr. Nuong Nguyen – Petrovietnam University (Host: Bryan Tapp)

Mr. Maher Sharif – Saudi Aramco (Host: Cem Sarica)

Dr. Sy Le Van – Petrovietnam University (Host: Ram Mohan)

Dr. Yongxue Zhang, China University of Petroleum Beijing (Host: Brenton McLaury)

Partnerships/ CollaborationsParameswar Hari is collaborating with Dr. R. P. Singh, University of Hydrabad, Graphene-ZnO Light Emitting Diodes (2012-2013).

Peter Michael is collaborating with Dr. Sung-Hyun Park of the Korean Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) on a study of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge. He is also collaborating on a study of Lau Basin (Tonga) with Prof. Antoine Bézos (Universite de Nantes) in Nantes, France; Dr. Stéphane Escrig of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland; Prof. Charles Langmuir, Harvard University; and Prof. Richard Arculus, Australia National University.

Cem Sarica continues to work on a jointly funded project with Seoul National University. As part of the program, he visited Seoul National University for one week in March 2013.

Sanwu Wang International collaboration with a research group in Tianjin Normal University, China.

OtherChristian Constanda is the chairman of the International Consortium on Integral Methods in Science and Engineering (IMSE).

Distinguished Student ActivitySloan Anderson. Kerr, D., and Anderson, S., 2013, Meandering Fluvial Facies Architecture: Insights from the Ferron Sandstone of Utah. AAPG 2013 Annual Convention and Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 19-22, 2013. Abstract #1161817.

Oluwasegun Abatan. Abatan, O., Kerr, D., and Ramachandran, K., 2013, Meandering Channel Facies Architecture Using Ground Penetrating Radar, Ferron Sandstone (Upper Cretaceous) Emery Co., Utah. AAPG 2013 Annual Convention and Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 19-22, 2013. Poster #41134.

Caitlin Pegg. The Royal Society of Chemistry’s flagship journal Chemistry Communications published TURC student Caitlin Pegg (Biochemistry, Chemistry) as lead author in the article: Pegg, Caitlin E., et al. “Facile preparation of ammonium alginate-derived nanofibers carrying diverse therapeutic cargo.” Chemical Communications (2013).

Mohammed Zahid Durrani. Durrani, M.Z.A., Wilson, K., Chen, J., Tapp, B., and Jubran, A., 2013, Rational Rock Physics for Improved Velocity Prediction and Reservoir Properties Estimation for Granite Wash (Tight sands) in the Anadarko Basin, Texas. AAPG 2013 Annual Convention and Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 19-22, 2013. Abstract # 1164673.

Ahmed El-Kishky, Stephen Macke and Roger L. Wainwright, “A Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Generating Minimal Perfect Hash Functions,” International Conference on Soft Computing and Software Engineering (SCSE 2013) March 1-2, 2013, San Francisco, CA.

Katie Garret and Jerissa Valdez attended field camp in Ireland last summer (2012). Both received McMahon scholarships for the camp.

Jordon Hoyt was selected for the NanoJapan International Research Experience for undergraduates. He conducted research, “Macro-scale Bubbles for Aligning Carbon Nano-Tubes” at Osaka University.

Dr. Laura Ford advised students participating in the Engineers Without Borders project in Cotani, Bolivia. As part of the on-going projects in this community, students designed and built eco-latrine systems. Left to right. Back Row: Zach Bunnell (ME); Weston Knightlinger (ChE); Chris Cochran (Tri-State Engineering); Tori Weber (EE); Chris Cauthon (Guy Engineering); Laura Ford (ChE Faculty); Front Row: Marcos Robinson (Engineers in Action); Daniel Cheng (ChE).

Weston Kightlinger, a junior in chemical engineering, won the First Place Outstanding Paper Award and the Best Zone Paper for Zone III at the American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section 2012 Annual Conference, Sept. 19 – 21, 2012, at Missouri S&T, Rolla, Mo. His paper was about the Engineers Without Borders USA project. He won First Place Outstanding Paper Award. He presented again June 24, 2013, at the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition in the Best Zone Paper Competition. “Solar Water Heaters for Showers and Sinks: An EWB-USA Project.”

Weston Kightlinger was selected for the DAAD, RISE, Research Internship Summer Experience in Germany in summer 2012. Caleb Lareau was selected in summer 2013.

Brice Otto attended field camp in Turkey with Dr. Nuri Uzunlar. He received a McMahon scholarship and a fellowship from the Geophysical Society of Tulsa to attend.

John Tindle won a Benjamin Gilman Scholarship for study abroad at the marine biology field station in Bonaire.

Seven students in the Department of Geosciences competed in the AAPG Imperial Barrel Award Program this year. The Competition Team was Akinbobola Akintomide (Nigeria), Mohammed El Waraky, (Egypt), Xin Lai (China) and Peng Shang (China). The Production Team included Jean Dudek, Tyler Tripplehorn and Ming Wu (China).

TURC math and computer science students entered an international competition in summer 2012. For the first time, a TU team qualified for the Association for Computing Machinery’s International Collegiate Programming Contest Finals. Three TURC students, Alex Ruff, Logan Brooks and Stephen Macke travelled to Warsaw accompanied by their mentor, Sandip Sen, for an intense two days of competition against teams from more than 140 universities.


Robert Spoo participated as a legal respondent for the panel on “The Cats of Copenhagen: Issues and Consequences.” XXIII International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 13, 2012.

Robert Spoo participated in a roundtable presentationm “Returning to the Unpublished Letters.” XXIII International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 14, 2012.

Bill Rice attended, spoke at, and moderated a panel at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law’s Indian Law Conference focusing on the implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, April 18-20, 2013.

Bill Rice spoke at the Muscogee (Creek) Nation District Court’s 11th Annual Doing Business in Indian Country CLE Seminar on the subject of the Future of Tribal Court Jurisdiction under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples May 9-10, 2013.

Rob Webber presented at the 2012 Young Leaders Conference put on by the Council for the United States and Italy in Trieste, Italy, in October 2012.

AwardsSam Foster Halabi received a Faculty Development Summer Fellowship for his work-in-progress Abstention, Parity, and Treaty Rights: How Federal Courts Regulate Jurisdiction under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

ConferencesSam Foster Halabi attended the American Society of International Law Annual Meeting April 3-6, 2013.

Tamara Piety participated in the Critical Legal Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, September 14-16, 2012.

Bill Rice attended and participated in the Expert Seminar on Access to Justice for Indigenous Peoples, including Truth and Reconciliation Processes at Columbia University, February 26-March 2, 2013. His participation was at the invitation of the chairman of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (which reports to the UN Commission on Human Rights), the chief of the Indigenous Peoples and Minorities Section of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the director of the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Program, Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University.

OtherKristine Bridges traveled to China with Dean Janet Levit for the signing of the agreements with Beijing Normal University.

Robert Butkin taught International Sale of Goods at the College of Law’s Dublin Program, summer 2012.

Lyn Entzeroth taught International Law and the Death Penalty, at the College of Law’s Dublin Program, summer 2012.

College of LawPublicationsSam Foster Halabi. Constitutional Borrowing as Jurisprudential and Political Doctrine in Shri DK Basu v. State of West Bengal, 3 Notre Dame J. Int’l. & Comp. L. 73 (2013).

Sam Foster Halabi. The Supremacy Clause as Structural Safeguard of Federalism: State Judges and International Law in the Post-Erie Era, 23 Duke J. Comp. & Int’l. L. 63 (2012).

Robert Spoo. “Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain” (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).

Robert Spoo. “‘Ah, you publishing scoundrel!’ A Hauntological Reading of Privacy, Moral Rights, and the Fair Use of Unpublished Works.” Law & Literature, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Spring 2013): 85-102.

Robert Spoo. “Introduction: Futures of Fair Use,” in id. at 1-9. [Coauthored with Saint-Amour and Jenkins.]

Robert Spoo. “Three Myths for Aging Copyrights: Tithonus, Dorian Gray, Ulysses.” Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2012) (special issue on literary estates): 77-112.

Robert Spoo. “Ezra Pound’s Copyright Statute: Perpetual Rights and the Problem of Heirs.” Copyright Law Volume II: Application to Creative Industries in the 20th Century, ed. Brian Fitzgerald and Benedict Atkinson (Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate, 2012).

Robert Spoo. “Publishing the Unpublished Correspondence [of James Joyce].” James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 49. [Coauthored with Kevin J.H. Dettmar and William S. Brockman.

Robert Spoo. “Samuel Roth: Discourteous Reprinter.” Dublin James Joyce Journal, No. 5 (2012): 99-111.

Robert Spoo. “Can we end the copyright Tower of Babel?” Publishers Weekly (London Show Daily) (Apr 17, 2013): 10. [Discussing EU and U.S. copyright laws.]

Presentations/LecturesMarianne Blair. “Immigration Hurdles in Intercountry Adoption,” American Bar Association, Section of International Law, program on International Families – Money, Children, and Long Term Planning, May 25, 2012, Washington D.C.

Marianne Blair. “Transnational Adoption: Does our Cup of International Law Runneth Over?,” United Nations Association of Eastern Oklahoma, February 12, 2013.

Marguerite Chapman “Adverse Events, Medical Errors, and Patient Communication: Ethical and Legal Issues Involving Disclosure and Apology.” The World Congress on Medical Law Maceio, Brazil, in August 2012.

Marguerite Chapman “End of Life Care: A Comparative Analysis of Ethical and Legal Issues involving Hydration and Nutrition.” The World Congress on Medical Law Maceio, Brazil, in August 2012.

Marguerite Chapman “The Use of Case-Focused Student Research Projects to Illuminate Ethical and Legal Issues in State Licensure Board Discipline of M.D.s, D.O.s, and R.N.s in the U.S.” 8th UNESCO International Conference on Bioethics Education: Contents, Methods, Trends, held in Tiberias, Israel, in September 2012.

Lyn Entzeroth. Democratic Changes in Capital Punishment in U.S., University College Dublin, Ireland, June 2012.

Robert Spoo. “The Public Domains: Copyright After Copyright.” XXIII International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 11, 2012.

Robert Spoo. “Without Copyright: Joyce and the Courtesy of the Trade.” Panel on “Intellectual Property in Joyce from Copyright to Branding, and Beyond.” XXIII International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 11, 2012.

Robert Spoo participated in a roundtable presentation. “The Scandal of Ulysses II.” XXIII International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 12, 2012.

College of Law and University College DublinThe College of Law offered the summer study abroad program, the Institute in European and International Law, on the campus of University College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland from June 1-July 1, 2012. Thirty-four U.S. law students, 21 from TU College of Law and 13 from 10 other U.S. law schools, were enrolled in the program. Twenty-six of the students participated in internships through the program with:

the Office of the Attorney General of Ireland

the Office of the Chief State Solicitor

Senator Brian O Domhnaill, Irish Seanad (Senate)

the Irish Business and Employers’ Confederation

the Health and Safety Authority of Ireland

the Children’s Rights Alliance

the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine of the Republic of Ireland

the Director of Public Prosecutions

EMI Music Ireland

the Irish Refugee Council

Beauchamps Solicitors

Barristers at the Four Courts and Ireland’s Criminal Court of Justice

The summer course has encouraged additional collaborations with UCD. The College of Law signed Memorandum of Understanding between the TU College of Law and The University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, School of Law on June 2012. Under this agreement, eight UCD law students attended TU College of Law’s Institute in European and International Law. TU sponsored a joint colloquy with the faculty of UCD on June 20, 2012, chaired by Professor Paul O’Connor, Director of Institute of Criminology at UCD in which Prof. David Doyle of UCD and Prof. Lyn Entzeroth of TU presented their recent research on death penalty issues.

In November 2012, an Agreement for Reciprocal Student Exchanges between the TU College of Law and University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, School of Law was signed by the deans of each college.

The University of Tulsa College of Law hosted United Nations Special Rapporteur James Anaya in May 2012, where more than 30 tribal leaders presented a formal update on the current human rights conditions on behalf of their people. Anaya’s visit to Tulsa was part of a five-state tour of the U.S., marking the first official visit by a U.N. Human Rights Council expert designated to report on the rights of indigenous peoples in this country. In 2007, the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples established a framework of minimum standards for the survival, dignity, well-being and rights of indigenous people around the world. Mr. Anaya’s visit was the first formal assessment of progress that has been made to date and will establish areas in need of further attention based on first-hand accounts from the tribal leaders.


Walker Womack, a 1st year Honors Scholar was awarded a UK Summer Institute Fulbright to participate in archaeological research in the UK.

Six other Honors Scholars studied abroad Spring 2013.

KWGS: KWGS, in collaboration with the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations aired the following interviews on StudioTulsa:

“Diplo-Mapping: The Maps Diplomats Draw and Their Consequences,” Janet Bogue, Visiting Scholar at the South Asia Institute at UT-Austin

Middle East Journalist Barbara Slavin: “Iran Gets a New President, But Will It Make a Difference?”

“Considering the Current State of US-Russian Relations”

Dr. Paula Newberg, of the University of Texas-Austin, on “Pakistan’s Elections: What Happens Now?

Ambassador Molly Williamson, formerly of the U.S. State Department, on “The Geopolitics of Oil”

Pakistan and the United States: Future of a Reluctant Alliance Husain, Haqqani, former ambassador of Pakistan

“The Importance of Democracy Promotion as a Pillar of U.S. Foreign Policy,” Richard Soudriette, president of the Center for Diplomacy and Democracy

“Behind the Scenes of American Diplomacy,” Nicholas Kralev, former correspondent for the Financial Times and the Washington Times

Cheryl Matherly is the board chair for the Tulsa Global Alliance and is on the Board for Cultural Vistas.

Laura Semenow was the NAFSA (International Education Association) Region III Team Communications liaison and the Region III Team Education Abroad Knowledge Community liaison.

PublicationsThe James Joyce Quarterly published essays by a professor at Goldsmiths College, London, and an independent scholar associated with the University of Kent, U.K.; a note by a professor at the University of Nantes, France; and book reviews by a senior lecturer at the University of Vigo, Spain, a professor at the University of Sheffield, U.K., a research associate at the University of Kent, U.K., a lecturer at the University of Bologna, Italy, a professor at Jagiellonian University, Poland, and an independent British scholar.

Nimrod International Journal published two new issues: Awards 34: It’s in the Cards: The Meeting of Risk and Skill, Fall/Winter 2012, and Lasting Matters: Writers 57 and Over, Spring/Summer 2013. Both issues contained work by international authors, some in translation, and artists. If you would like more detailed information about the specifics authors or artists, please let me know.

Cheryl Matherly. Nolting, W., Donohue, D., Matherly, C., and Tillman, M. (2013). Successful models and best practices for internships, service learning and volunteering abroad. Washington, D.C.: NAFSA.

Cheryl Matherly. (February 26, 2013). “Worldwise Commentary: Partnerships in India.” Chronicle of Higher Education online.

PresentationsCheryl Matherly. Matherly, C., Phillips, S., Brooks, E., and Ya-mada, M.. “A U.S. And Japanese Student Outlook On The Impact Of International Research Internships,” Third International Sym-posium on Terahertz Nanoscience, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 10 – 12, 2012.

Cheryl Matherly. Matherly, C., Bidanda, B., & Shuman, S. “Frontier challenges in science and engineering: Internationaliza-tion of STEM curricula.” Association for International Education Administrators, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 2013.

Cheryl Matherly. Matherly, C., Nader, R., Sutton, S.B. The SIO and the growth of international research collaborations. Associ-ation for International Education Administrators, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 2013.

Cheryl Matherly. “Internationalization of Higher Education: A US Case Study.” China University of Petroleum Beijing, January 2013.

Semenow, Laura; Moix, Laura; Lee, Brandon. “How user-friendly is your website?” NAFSA Bi-Regional conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2012.

Semenow, Laura; Braun, Laura; Pike, Kara; Rundstrom Williams, Tracy. “Back from Abroad, now what?” NAFSA bi-regional conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2012.

Wendy Sheets. “Education Abroad Hot Topics- Visa Updates,” Region III NAFSA conference, Puerto Rico, October 2012.

Wendy Sheets. “Health, Safety and Risk Management in Education Abroad.” NAFSA: International Education Association, St. Louis, Missouri, May 2013.

Wendy Sheets. “A Peer Program Survey: Implications for Your Education Abroad Program.” NAFSA: International Education Association, St. Louis, Missouri, May 2013.

Grants/AwardsCheryl Matherly. Cheryl Matherly is the education director for the NanoJapan International Research Experience for Undergraduates, funded by the National Science Foundation Partnerships in International Research and Education grant.

OtherNona Charleston advised the following students:

Critical Language Scholarship, 2013 Russia: Lauren West, CLS to Russia

Engineers Without Borders, International Scholarship, 2013: Weston Kightlinger

Fulbright Awards, 2013, Bulgaria and UK: Jake Turner, ETA Bulgaria, beginning in fall 2013; Cara Dublin, Research Grant to UK, beginning in fall 2013

UK Fulbright Summer Institute Awards, Durham, UK: Kyle Walker and Walker Womack

DAAD, RISE, Research Internship Summer Experience in Germany: Caleb Lareau, summer 2013

Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship: John Tindle, 2013

Denise Dutton: The Honors Program saw several of its Honors Scholars pursue international educational opportunities.

Graduating Honors Scholar Cara Dublin was awarded a Fulbright to study Victorian children’s literature in the UK

Graduating Honors Scholar Jake Turner was awarded a Fulbright to teach English in Bulgaria

7 of the 16 students who graduated as Honors Scholars spent at least one semester abroad; two more studied abroad over the summer. So over half of our graduating Honors scholars had an international educational experience.

Office of the ProvostLyn Entzeroth is senior editor on Amicus Journal, a journal based in London that provides information and scholarly articles on the death penalty around the globe.

Lyn Entzeroth is on the board of the UN Association of Eastern Oklahoma.

Sam Foster Halabi hosted Andrew Giddings, Associate Counsel, International Monetary Fund, March 22, 2013.

Sam Foster Halabi traded drafts of comparative law articles with Prof. Oran Doyle, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Bill Rice spoke at University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law on the occasion of the public release of the Report of the Special Rapporteur on his country visit to the United States of America in furtherance of his Mandate from the UN Commission on Human Rights.

Robert Spoo serves on Advisory Board, National Library of Ireland (Dublin, Ireland) since 2010.

Robert Spoo is General Legal Counsel to the International James Joyce Foundation since 2004.

Robert Spoo is on the Advisory Board and Financial Committee, Nimrod: International Journal of Prose and Poetry since 2008.

Ray Yasser taught International Sports Law in Lausanne and has developed teaching materials for International Sports Law which has been included in the 7th edition of his sports law casebook.

Professor Robert Butkin taught a course on the International Sale of Goods to Indian law students at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU), May 13-17, 2013. The focus of the course was on the comparison of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG); the Indian Sale of Goods Act, 1930; and Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code. The University of Tulsa College of Law has an MOU with NLSIU.

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Documents

Strategic Plan for Comprehensive … Plan for Comprehensive Internationalization, May 2011 This report documents progress during Academic Year 2013 on the major recommendations identified