College of Fine and Applied Arts

Dr. Glenda Treadaway, dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts at Appalachian State University, has announced that Dr. Garner Dewey, associate professor in the Department of Technology, has been named the associate dean for the College, effective Jan. 1, 2010.

Dr. Dewey will succeed Dr. Nina-Jo Moore, professor of communication, who has served as the College’s associate dean since 2003. Dr. Moore will return to full-time teaching in the Department of Communication in the spring.

In his role as associate dean, Dr. Dewey will oversee student records, coordinate the College’s scholarship program, maintain contact with College alumni, organize college functions and increase international programs in the College.

“I would like to thank Dr. Moore for her service and dedication to the College for the past six years,” said Dr. Treadaway. “We are very excited to have Dr. Dewey join the Dean’s Office. He has a wealth of experience in international programs and an excellent rapport with students. He will be a great asset to the College.”

Dr. Dewey joined the Appalachian faculty in 2003 in the undergraduate industrial design program and graduate industrial technology program. Previously, he taught high school and middle school students as well as in a high school equivalency program tutoring migrant workers preparing the GED test. He also was a professional educator faculty member for the National Training Institute at the University of Tennessee and University of Michigan.

The international travel liaison for the Department of Technology since 2008, Dr. Dewey has traveled with University delegations to Costa Rica to explore opportunities for a general education course for incoming freshmen and to visit Costa Rican institutions with which Appalachian has agreements and to explore other opportunities. He initiated and developed an official exchange agreement between Appalachian and Universidad Veritas in Costa Rica and has organized and participated in several international community service trips.

Dr. Dewey also has been successful in obtaining grant funding and donations to the University and the Department of Technology. Since 2004 he has assisted in bringing in more than $70,000 in funds and software.

Dr. Dewey has been very involved in service and leadership activities at Appalachian. He is a member of the Department of Technology Personnel Committee, the Chancellor’s Task Force on Diversity for Appalachian, the International Studies Council and is a member and chairperson for the Faculty Development Committee in the Department of Technology. He is the developer and webmaster of the Council on Technology Teacher Education and was a member of the review panel for new international summer course proposals, chaired the faculty search committee for a building science faculty position and served as a member of the Department of Technology chair search committee.

Dr. Dewey holds a Ph.D. in occupational studies with a functional minor in instructional technology and interdisciplinary qualitative studies graduate certificate from the University of Georgia. He received a Master of Science degree in technology education and a Bachelor of Science in industrial education with a concentration in technology education from the University of Tennessee. An avid photographer, Dr. Dewey was the winner of the 2004 Appalachian Outdoor Photography Contest in the Environment Category and had a photo published for the month of July in the 2004 Ray’s Weather Calendar Photography Contest.

“I am grateful and excited to accept the position of associate dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts,” said Dr. Dewey. “I look forward to working with the qualified personnel in serving our students. By striving to expand the international focus of our college, I hope to increase the value and meaning of student, faculty and staff educational experiences here at Appalachian.”

The College of Fine and Applied Arts is currently comprised of eight departments: Art; Communication; Family and Consumer Sciences; Health, Leisure and Exercise Science; Military Science and Leadership; Nursing; Technology; and Theatre and Dance. It has more than 3,800 undergraduate and graduate majors, 150 faculty and staff, and 10,000 alumni from all over the country and the world.

Photo by Marie Freeman, Appalachian State University photographer

The Office of General Education at Appalachian State University recently honored Dr. Paulette Marty, assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance, with the Wayne D. Duncan Appalachian State University Faculty Enrichment and Teaching Fellowship.

The Wayne D. Duncan Appalachian State University Faculty Enrichment and Teaching Fellowship is named for Duncan, a past chairman of Appalachian’s Board of Trustees and a current member of the Appalachian State University Foundation Board of Directors. The annual fellowship is awarded to a full-time faculty member who has demonstrated extraordinary dedication and excellence in performing their duties as a teacher in general education courses.

Marty is a member of the General Education Council and served on the General Education Task Force that developed Appalachian’s signature program that builds the foundation of a student’s academic experience.

Marty earned a bachelor’s degree in theatre from the College of St. Benedict, a master’s in English and European renaissance drama from the University of Warwick, U.K., and a PhD in theatre from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She joined Appalachian in 2004.

Her teaching specialties include theatre history, dramatic literature, dramaturgy and cross-disciplinary topics.

“I consider teaching students in the liberal arts classroom to be the most important part of my professional life,” Marty said. Her teaching style develops students’ integrative thinking skills.

“By examining the diverse relationships between theatre practices and their historical contexts in a variety of eras, I strive to help students recognize that various events, forms, ideas, systems and policies are interconnected in complex ways in any given cultures” and so “they will be more likely to look for such interconnectedness in their own cultures and lives,” she said.

In nominating Marty for this award, department chair Marianne Adams described Marty as “a committed ‘idea’ person. She has been instrumental in developing the most innovative courses our department has proposed for the new general education program,” Adams said.

Marty also serves as the production dramaturg for student productions and creates Web sites and lobby displays in order to explain the historical contexts behind the plays. She has been published in various theatre journals and is currently working on a book about a festival held in 1575 in honor of Queen Elizabeth I.

Advertising student Jonathan Roten (left) received a $2,000 Advertising Women of New York Foundation Scholarship. It was presented to Roten by Department of Communication Scholarship Committee chair, Roger Gonce.

Melissa Burton (center), an advertising student in the Department of Communication, received a $750 scholarship from the Advertising Women of New York Foundation. Department of Communication chair, Janice Pope (left), and Department of Communication Scholarship Committee chair, Roger Gonce (right), presented Burton with the award.

Advertising students Jonathan Roten and Melissa Burton have been named the Advertising Women of New York (AWNY) Foundation’s Scholarship recipients.

Appalachian’s Department of Communication received a $2,750 scholarship donation from AWNY. The AWNY scholarship program provides advertising majors or students interested in advertising as a career choice with financial tuition assistance.

The Appalachian State Department of Communication Scholarship Committee announced the two recipients on Sept. 14. The five person scholarship committee, chaired by Roger Gonce, advertising design lecturer in the Department of Communication, awarded $2,000 of the scholarship donation to Roten and $750 to Burton. Both are members of the Appalachian State University Ad Club.

Those eligible for the scholarship were juniors or seniors graduating after December with a minimum GPA of 3.2 and demonstrated financial need. The recipients also must have past or current membership in the Appalachian State University Ad Club and knowledge of the advertising business. To apply for the scholarship, students were required to submit a resume; current GPA, both overall and major; and an essay that discusses the student’s desire to have a career in advertising, what he/she hopes to achieve through having a career in advertising and what area advertising the student would like to focus on and why.

AWNY is a professional organization of over 1,300 women and men in the communications industries in the metropolitan area of New York. The scholarship recipients will be invited to participate in AWNY’s 53rd annual Advertising Career Conference Nov. 13 and 14 at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.

A collaborative graduate student project in Appalachian’s Department of Technology has won a $9,991 Environmental Protection Agency People, Prosperity and the Planet (EPA P3) award in Phase 1 of the competition.

The primary goal of the project, “Biomass Gasification for Energy & Soil Enrichment,” is to develop an affordable gasification production that can cogenerate electricity, heat and soil amendment for agricultural production. The team hopes to enable communities to supply their own food during winter months using sustainably grown crops and local renewable energy.

David Domermuth, associate professor in the industrial design program, is the principal investigator for the project. Adjunct faculty member, Jack Martin, is the co-principal investigator. The lead graduate student is Mike Uchal, and the team members are Daniel Law and Eric Urban.

The EPA and its 40 partners launched the P3 Awards in 2004 to respond to the challenges of the developed and developing world in moving toward sustainability. This national competition enables college students to research, develop and design scientific, technical and policy solutions to sustainability challenges. Their designs are helping to achieve the mutual goals of economic prosperity while providing a higher quality of life and protecting the planet.

Students and their faculty advisors compete for EPA’s P3 Award and, in Phase 2 of the competition, the opportunity of up to an additional $75,000 in funding to move their designs to the marketplace or implement them in the field. The team will use the $9,991 grant to ready the project presentation for Phase 2.

To learn more about P3 and the competition, visit www.epa.gov/P3. For more information about the Department of Technology at Appalachian State University, visit www.tec.appstate.edu.

Read about it here in The Appalachian:

http://theapp.appstate.edu/content/view/5306/1/