Department - Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering
On the occasion of Dr. Jim Coder's tenure and promotion to Associate Professor
As an Aerospace Engineer, I have always appreciated the origins and early days of the United States space program. Tom Wolfe's unique writing style was able to turn that history into a compelling narrative, making this book a must-read.
On the occasion of Dr. Olivia Prosper's tenure and promotion to Associate Professor
This book sparked my imagination as a young girl and made me love to write fiction. The writing I do now requires a different type of creativity, but I love that I still get to do it every day.
Department - Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
On the occasion of Dr. Kai Sun's promotion to Professor
This is the autobiography of Dr. Daizhan Cheng, one of the top Chinese mathematicians in the field of control theory. From his real-life stories and moments of happiness and pains, I have learned a great example of what a real researcher should be.
On the occasion of Dr. Sara Ritchey's promotion to Professor
For me, this book by an emerging scholar represents the most compelling, inspired, and rigorous research in the discipline of history today. I hope that my students and colleagues will build on its methods to center Native voices and collaborative practices in historical research. Although it covers histories from hundreds of years ago, it is future oriented in its vision of power and nationhood in the gulf south today. Always missing home, the book also brings joy in its beautiful, lucid descriptions of the waterways, landscapes, and communities of coastal Louisiana.
The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South
Department - Theory & Practice in Teacher Education
On the occasion of Dr. Frances K. Harper's tenure and promotion to Associate Professor.
This book reflects the culmination of my experiences as a mathematics educator since I first began my career as a high school mathematics teacher about 20 years ago. That journey has been a process of learning from and with students, families, and other educators that math will not save us from the social injustices that plague us. Instead, we must be the ones to shape mathematics into a tool that facilitates exploring, understanding, and responding to social injustice as it exists both within and beyond the mathematics classroom. Finally, the two lesson plans that I contributed to this book both capture yet another guiding principle in my work as a scholar activist: collaboration is crucial to advancing change towards a more socially just world.
High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice
Author — Robert Q. Berry III, Basil M. Conway IV, Brian R. Lawler, John W. Staley, and Colleagues
On the occasion of Kimberly Sims's promotion to Senior Lecturer
This is a wonderful book for advanced Japanese students as a first step into reading novels in Japanese. Currently, there are very few Japanese novels at the UTK library, so this would be a great addition.
