Adjunct Professor, Zellar, Publishes New Book
Lone Star College–Montgomery Adjunct History Instructor Gary Zellar has a new book coming out in April. The book, entitled African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation, will be published by the University of Oklahoma Press. The book is based on Zellar's award winning dissertation and will be the first volume in a new series for the University of Oklahoma Press - Race and Culture in the American West.
To the Creeks, they were known as estelvste - black people - and they had lived among them since the days of the first Spanish entradas. They spoke the same language as the Creeks, ate the same foods, and shared kinship ties. Their only difference was the color of their skin.
This book tells how people of African heritage came to blend their lives with their Indian neighbors and essentially became Creek themselves. Taking in the full historical sweep of African Americans among the Creeks, from the sixteenth century through Oklahoma statehood, Gary Zellar unfolds a narrative history of the many contributions these people made to Creek history. >> more
Posted March, 2007
Adjunct Professor, Sokolowski, Co-authors Book
Lone Star College–Montgomery adjunct physics professor, Andrzej Sokolowski recently co-authored a book, "Pass the TExES Math 4-8 for #115." The book, authored by by Andrzej Sokolowski, M.S. and Judy Mattair, M.Ed., Ph.D., and Shavsha Davis, M.S., is designed to provide helpful study methods and test taking strategies in the style of all of the Pass the TExES books. Several math examples are included in each Competency chapter. The book is over 200 pages in length.
Andrzej Sokolowski is a graduate from University of Gdansk, Poland with a master's degree in physics. He teaches physics at Cypress Ridge High School in Houston in addition to teaching at Lone Star College–Montgomery. His professional interest in integrating the methodologies of mathematics and science resulted in a variety of articles published in periodicals for education. He is a member of NCTM and a convention speaker. He is also an advisor and a member of the physics committee at the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence. >> more
Posted March, 2007
Ferguson to speak at Oxford Round Table
Robert M. Ferguson, president of the LIVE Institute and adjunct professor at Lone Star College–Montgomery and Belhaven College, will participate in the Oxford Round Table in the United Kingdom from August 5 - 10, 2007.
The Oxford Round Table is conducted at Pembroke College, Oxford University in England. Participants, who include government ministers, legislators, corporate business leaders, university presidents, professors, lawyers, physicians and other professionals, discuss contemporary public policy issues. Papers presented are published later in the Forum on Public Policy. The Round Table meets periodically and each session is comprised of a small select group of leaders from both the public and private sectors of several countries. >>more
Posted January, 2007
Jeffrey M. Groah Publishes New Book
Associate professor, Jeffrey M. Groah published a new book titled "Shock Wave Interactions in General Relativity. A Locally Inertial Glimm Scheme for Spherically Symmetric Spacetimes" on November 24, 2006. This monograph is a self contained mathematical treatment of the initial value problem for shock wave solutions of the Einstein equations in General Relativity. The book covers the initial value problems for Einstein's gravitational field equations with fluid sources and shock wave initial data. The book will be useful to graduate students and researchers in mathematics and physics. The book, co-authored by J. Blake Temple and Joel Smoller, will appear in the Springer Monographs in Mathematics series, with the following publication information:
2007, VIII, 152 p., 7 illus., Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-387-35073-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-387-35073-8
Posted November 13, 2006
2006 Baskerville Publisher's Award
Dave Parsons, Montgomery County Poet Laureate 2005 - 2010 and Adjunct Creative Writing Professor at Lone Star College–Montgomery received the 2006 Baskerville Publisher’s Award for his poem NIGHT HAWK. The cash award is given each year for an outstanding poem by an author published in T.C.U.'S, Descant: Ft. Worth’s Journal of Poetry & Fiction.
Descant, one the oldest and highly acclaimed academic journals in the United States, has been published by T.C.U. (Texas Christian University) for over fifty years. The poem will also be included in the new collection of Dave Parsons’ poems entitled Color of Mourning, which is forthcoming from Texas Review Press (Texas A&M University Press Consortium).
Posted August 31, 2006
League for Innovation Feature Article
Cliff Hudder and Alicia Bankston recently submitted an article to the League for Innovation in the Community College which will be showcased in their January Innovation Showcase publication. With this new monthly publication, the League seeks to showcase innovative programs, particularly those that focus on the community aspect of the work we do. Their article describes the fall conference held last year on our campus. The Montgomery Literary Arts Council collaborated with Lone Star College–Montgomery to host this conference, The State of Publishing: A Texas Small Press Conference and Book Fair.
Posted August 31, 2006
Faculty International Exploration Grant
Debbie Cox, Lone Star College–Montgomery reference librarian and professor, has applied for and been granted a Faculty International Exploration Grant to attend the Sixth Annual University of Virginia Shakespeare Seminar at Oxford University, UK, from August 12-19, 2006.
Debbie teaches English 1302: Special Topics Course, “Writing about Shakespeare’s Works.” The grant is from the Lone Star College System Office of International Education. While in England, Debbie will also explore further study-abroad opportunities for MC students and faculty.
Posted July 25, 2006
J. Talmage Jones Award of Excellence
Dr. Craig Livingston recently won the Mormon History Association’s J. Talmage Jones Award of Excellence for an article entitled "Eyes on the Whole European World: Mormon Observers of the 1848 Revolutions," which was published in the Fall 2005 issue of the Journal of Mormon History. The article originated as a chapter in his dissertation and will soon become part of a book.
Posted July 25, 2006
Lone Star College System Annual Awards Banquet
At our annual awards banquet, recognition is given to faculty and staff for excellence in their job performance and to employees for their years of service with Lone Star College System.