Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science articles from January 2007

Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science archives from January 2007

President of the Tennessee Academy of Science for 2007.
January 1, 2007... Many years ago, a friend expressed significant confusion concerning my professional status. Was I, she wondered, an historian masquerading as a scientist or a scientist masquerading as an historian? As the years have passed, this academic...

Proceedings of the Tennessee Academy of Science 2006.(Conference notes)
January 1, 2007... TENNESSEE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING 21 April 2006 President John W. Harris called the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Tennessee Academy of Science (TAS) to order at 6:40 PM CDT in the Massey Business...

116th meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science, 16-17 November 2006, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee.(Conference notes)
January 1, 2007... The annual meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science (TAS) was held in Clarksville, Tennessee, 16-17 November 2006 on the campus of Austin Peay State University (APSU) with TAS President John W. Harris presiding. President-elect George Webb...

Host of the 116th meeting: Austin Peay State University.(Company overview)
January 1, 2007... The early years -- Named for the Tennessee governor and Clarksville resident from whom the school took its name, Austin Peay State University was established in 1927 as a teacher's college with 158 students. Enrollment -- With a combined...

Distinguished Industrial Scientist Award.
January 1, 2007... Mr. Barry L. Kulback was the recipient of the Tennessee Academy of Science (TAS) Industrial Scientist Award. Mr. Kulback came forward to accept a plaque and recognition for his scientific contributions in the field of Information Technology...

Distinguished Secondary School Science Teacher Award: 2006.
January 1, 2007... Jennifer Dye was the recipient of the prestigious 2005 Distinguished Secondary School Science Teacher Award from the Tennessee Academy of Science (TAS). The award presentation, including a plaque and a $500 check, was made on November 17, 2006...

Abstracts of papers presented at the 2006 meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2007... BOTANY SECTION CLAUDE BAILEY, CHAIR DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS OF GEOREFERENCED HERBARIUM SPECIMENS. Ryan Miller, Andrew Carroll, and Joey Shaw, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Recent advances in...

Student presentation awards at the 116th meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science.
January 1, 2007... ORAL PRESENTATIONS Botany First Place -- Ryan Miller. Development and Applications of Georeferenced Herbarium Specimens. University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Second Place -- Jennifer Ellis. Fitness...

New distribution records of Gomphus consanguis (Odonata: Gomphidae) in Tennessee.(Report)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT -- Gomphus consanguis was found in two counties in eastern Tennessee (McMinn and Meigs) in 2004-2005. The streams in which the species was found are impacted by farm operations, and population numbers appear to be low. The species is...

Natural networks and the Google[TM] search engine.(Report)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT -- The Google internet search engine is well known for its success. In addition to it being of intrinsic interest, the underlying algorithm can be applied to any matrix Markov process and so has broad interdisciplinary applications....

Florida Ethnobotany.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Florida Ethnobotany. Daniel F. Austin. 2004. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. 909 pp. $149.95. ISBN 0-8493-2332-0 (cloth). For a book priced well above one-hundred dollars, one expects a great deal. After a cursory examination, it was...

A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks.".(Book review)
January 1, 2007... A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks." Clifford D. Conner. 2005. Nation Books, New York. 554 pp. $17.95. ISBN 1-56025-7482 (paper). In grade school and beyond we were taught that the history of science is...