The UCF Report, Vol. 06 No. 11, October 12, 1983

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The UCF Report
Volume 6, Number 11
for the Faculty and Staff
October, 12, 1983
Governor's challenge on growth
taps faculty for moderators
Four of UCF's faculty will chair four of
seven committees during the Governor's Challenge regional conference on
"Florida 2000: Growth Management."
Community leaders from six Central
Florida counties have been invited to
the two-day work sessions at the Americana Dutch Resort Hotel, Lake Buena
Vista, Oct. 26-27.
Cyndee Hutchinson (coordinator/
Faculty
workshops
announced
The Center for Faculty Development
announces two professional development opportunities for faculty members
during October.
On Oct. 1 9, a colloquium of UCF
faculty will be held on "Lecturing."
Ideas covered will be objectives in lecturing, methods of preparing the lecture, and teaching style and lecturing.
Faculty members speaking on the
topic will be Ramon Hosier, Mechanical
Engineering; Leroy Franklin, Statistics,
and Frances Smith, Nursing. Dr. Terry
Campbell, President of the Faculty
Senate, will introduce the session.
The session will be held in Instructional Resources, 107 Library, Oct. 19,
noon to 1:30 p.m. Faculty and graduate
teaching assistants are welcome to
attend and bring brown-bag lunches.
A "hands-on" introductory microcomputer workshop has been requested
by 50 faculty members. The workshop
will be held Mondays and Wednesdays,
from three to five p.m., beginning Oct.
24 and concluding Nov. 23.
Gary Orwig, who has conducted
numerous workshops for teachers and
other professionals, will teach, stressing instructional applications.
The College of Business has donated
computers and facilities in 448 Phillips
Hall for the faculty workshop, which is
an all-University effort funded from the
Office of Academic Affairs.
Interested faculty should call x2571
to reserve a space in either workshop.
Dr. Eve Hoth, Director of Faculty Development, is making arrangements for the
sessions.
Extended Studies) conference director
for the second straight year, names as
committee moderators, William Grasty
and Lawrence Tanzi, both associate
directors in Communications; Harry
Smith, Theater director, and Llewellyn
Ehrhart, associate professor in
Biological Sciences.
Sue Pins, Orange County community
leader; Carolyn Planck, Rollins college,
and Harry H. Morrall Sr., University of
Miami, will moderate the other
committees.
Phil Taylor (professor  Communications) will moderate the over all
conference.
Nelson lands
with Navy
at UCF today
Congressman Bill Nelson will be on
campus today (Wednesday, Oct. 12) for
the Navy's acceptance of 40 acres in
Central Florida Research Park and for a
town hall meeting with constituents.
Nelson will join Navy, State, local and
University dignitaries in the land
transfer at 2:30 p.m. A Naval Training
Equipment Center will be housed in a
future 300,000-square-foot research
facility.
Between 3 and 4 p.m. Nelson will ask
for views of people on campus in Room
115, Howard Phillips Hall.
Service recognition
Virginia Barr-Johnson (professor/Education) has completed two
years on the Traffic Appeals Committee and this week Safety
Director Jim Eller made sure she knew that he, the committee and
the whole Department of Business Affairs were grateful for her
service. She is shown receiving that appreciation in writing.
Series nets Bosworth for today's speaker
The distinguished speaker series,
hosted by the College of business
Administration, continues Wednesday,
Oct. 1 2, with Dr. Barry P. Bosworth, of
Washington's Brookings Institution,
who will discuss conflicts in monetary
and fiscal policy.
Bosworth's appearance is sponsored
by the Phillips-Schenck Chair in American Private Enterprise at UCF and M.G.
Lewis & Co., Winter Park investment
banking firm.
The program, which will begin at
10:30 a.m. in the UCF administration
building board room, is free and open to
the public.
Bosworth is a widely quoted economist with viewpoints on such subjects
as industrial policy, productivity,
research and development and domes
tic development. He served as director
of the Council on Wage and Price Stability from 1977-79 and has been a faculty
member at Harvard. He earlier served
as a staff economist on the Council of
Economic Advisors.
He has been a senior fellow in Brookings' economic studies program since
1979
UCF math experts go international
Manuscripts from Moscow and cables
from Calcutta could be all in a day's
work for a handful of faculty at UCF
who'll soon be turning out one of the
few mathematics journals published on
MANAGING EDITOR LOKENATH DEBNATH (CENTER) AND HIS STAFF
... L. to r.. Bob Brigham, Dick Caron. Ed Norman and Murray Barr
an American campus for an international readership.
Led by Dr. Lokenath Debnath, chairman of mathematics, the local group
will maintain a continuous chain of correspondence with an editorial board
comprised of counterparts who are
leaders in their field in countries around
the world.
Members of the 30-member board
are located in such far-flung places as
Nice, Tokyo, London, Moscow, The
Netherlands, Calcutta and Toronto, as
well as on several U.S. campuses.
Debnath, who is managing editor of
The International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences,
founded the quarterly in 1978 at East
Carolina University. In his move to UCF
earlier this year, he brought the publication with him. The result, according to
Arts and Sciences Dean Ralph Llewellyn, "puts UCF in the enviable position
of having a publication which is world-
renowned and which draws contributors on the forefront of their
profession."
To Debnath's knowledge, the journal
is one of perhaps 10 similar publications in the country edited by members
of a college or university mathematics
department. Others have offices at such
giants as Michigan, Brown, Johns Hopkins and Duke, he observed. "This is a
very prestigious activity for UCF," he
added.
Aided by a volunteer, part-time
quartet of mathematicians in his
department —Murray Barr, Bob
Brigham, Dick Caron, Ed Norman and
Howard Sherwood —Debnath will
screen articles submitted by authors
involved in research in mathematical
and physical sciences and related fields.
Their findings are then evaluated by
members of the world-wide editorial
board before a final decision is made by
the UCF editoral staff.
Not so surprisingly, the material that
finds its way into the journal is far
above most math majors. "I would say
the research findings in most cases are
at the post-doctoral level," Debnath
noted.
Which adds up to a big plus for UCF
and its place in the sun.