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FSC faculty pursue academic projects

LAKELAND, Fla. (June 12, 2003) - Florida Southern College faculty engage in extracurricular academic pursuits throughout the year, giving presentations, publishing articles, and attending conferences. Following is a summary of their recent endeavors. 

Dr. Susan P. Conner, dean of the college and professor of history, has published a speech delivered at the Annual Conference of the Napoleonic Society of America in the Spring 2003 Bulletin of the Napoleonic Society of America. The article, "Napoleon's Courtesans, Citoyennes, and Cantinières," is also posted on the Napoleonic Foundation website at http://www.napoleon.org/en/reading_room/articles/index.asp.

Dr. Carmen Gauthier, chemistry professor and chair of the department, organized and chaired a symposium on Career Opportunities in Chemistry at the American Chemical Society Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition (FAME) in Orlando, Fla., May 8-10. In addition, Gauthier was elected program chair for FAME 2004. 

Dr. Gwendolyn Walton, computer science professor, attended two conferences in April, presenting papers at each event. On April 24, she presented "Mathematical Foundations for Modeling and Simulation" at the Enabling Technology for Simulation Science Conference in Orlando, Fla. At the Software Technology Conference April 29-May 1, Walton presented "Environment Model-Based Testing." Both papers will be published in the conferences' proceedings. 

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world. 

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