On the occasion of the promotion of Ragan Schriver, PsyD, MSW, to Professor of Practice
My brother, Rob Schriver, an alum of UTK is the co-author and I reallly want to share my promotion with my family. He wrote this book with Joan Cronan, UTK Lady Vols athletic director emeritus! It has some great advice for living a full life.
Sport is Life with the Volume Turned Up: Lessons Learned from Sports that Apply to Business and Life
On the occasion of Sean Morey's promotion to Professor
My second monograph, Network of Bones, started as a chapter in this collection. In addition, the editor, Jeff Rice, has always been very encouraging of my work.
On the occasion of Shavetta Y. Davis's promotion to Extension Agent II
This collection of poems is thought provoking and inspiring. The poems are meaningful in capturing the feelings and insights of challenges we face and the strength we possess to overcome them. After reading this work, I felt empowered and resilient, and I hope that others will have the opportunity to experience the same.
On the occasion of Victor Petrov's tenure and promotion to Associate Professor
This was the first history book which showed me that histories can be written about ideas and 'losers' or 'failures' in history, rather than just about countries, geographical areas, wars, and winners. It was a very profound change in how I thought about history at the end of my school years, and helped me choose to do it as a university degree.
On the occasion of Dr. Vyron Vellis's tenure and promotion to Associate Professor
Fractals are among the most fascinating objects in mathematics and this book provides a nice approach to them from a geometric viewpoint. I and my graduate students have extensively used this book in our research.
Fractured Fractals and Broken Dreams: Self-Similar Geometry Through Metric and Measure
On the occasion of Anchalee (Joy) Panigabutra-Roberts's tenure as Associate Professor
I wrote the chapter titled, The Tale of Three Service Types for Researcher Identifiers and the Ethical Implication on Access to Information and Representation of Authors.
On the occasion of Dr. Amadou B. Sall's promotion to Distinguished Lecturer
This work struck a visceral chord in me, taking me back to my own elementary school days in Mauritania, then a French colony. The French were determined to destroy our culture, our way of life, our very identities, insisting that we were not who we knew ourselves to be. Thus, they forced us to speak Only French. My birth language is Fulfulde and I and my fellow students were pitted against each other, trying to "catch" one another anywhere, anytime speaking their native language. Whoever retained the dreaded wooden token, the last one to be caught speaking our own languages outside of class, was called out at the beginning of each day and physically punished and humiliated before us all. We were being taught to hate and to deny our very own birthright.
On the occasion of Dr. Andrew Lloyd Sigler's tenure and promotion to Associate Professor
"The Fifth Season" (the opening book of "The Broken Earth" trilogy) is absolutely stunning. I've been a life-long reader of sci-fi and to a lesser degree fantasy, and I can say that these books are in the top five series of all time. It was a close call between this work and "The Three Body Problem" by Liu Cixin, which the first novel of another thrilling trilogy. I couldn't recommend these more highly.
