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Joann Allen is currently a Ph.D. student at the
University of Tulsa. She is preparing a prospectus for her dissertation. She has won two
GSAE awards, one for poetry and one for fiction. Her short story “The Hand on Nell’s
Shoulder” won first prize in this year’s TUGR fiction contest. She has published several
articles in Oklahoma Family magazine and had a
paper published in the 2000 Monograph Series of the National Association of African
American Studies. Micah Burch, contributor, is a senior biology major planning to attend medical school in the fall of 2002. Burch is a Presidential Scholar, member of the Honors program, and active in the TURC program. He volunteers at the emergency room at St. John’s Hospital, and also is regional President of Tri-Beta biological honor society. His research is done in the aerobiology lab under Dr. Estelle Levetin, and it focuses on the significance of mold spores, as they relate to asthma, allergies, and meteorological conditions. Leigh A. Davis, contributor, attended New York University where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production. Being a great lover of film, but not a financially successful filmmaker, she sought a challenging and creative field of study for her master’s education, namely computer science. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at The University of Tulsa. Besides film, Davis is a devotee of pillates as well as a writer and performer. A. Cristina Emanuela Dascalu, contributor, copy editor, and a Ph.D. candidate in literature, launched and founded the Research Colloquium at the University of Tulsa in 1998. She is an advertising manager for the James Joyce Quarterly. She has won numerous poetry prizes including third prize in the Sigma Tau Delta Literary Contests for her poem “Dispassion.” She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards such as the Teacher of the Year distinction at Petru Rares High School in Romania and Teaching Award at The University of Tulsa. She enjoys classical music and painting. David Farley, assistant editor, is currently working on his dissertation titled “Intellectuals Abroad: The Modernist Travel Writing of E. E. Cummings, Wyndham Lewis, and Rebecca West.” He has published on Yeats and has an article on Ezra Pound forthcoming from Paideuma titled “‘Damn the Partition!’: Ezra Pound and the Passport Nuisance.” Contributor Joshua Grasso is currently pursuing his master’s
degree in English at the University of Tulsa. Aside
from his studies, he enjoys reading Russian literature and attempting the odd short story
and one-act play. He also firmly believes
that on-hold advertising is the way of the future. Oris Hernandez, contributor, received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering
degree from Universidad Simon Bolivar, in Caracas, Venezuela. She is currently pursuing the Masters of Science
degree in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Tulsa working as a Research Assistant
in the new Paraffin Deposition Prediction Consortium. Contributor Rajkumar S. Mathiravedu received his B.S. in mechanical engineering in 1999 at the University of Madras, India and currently is working on his M.S. at TU. His research focuses on implementation of control system strategies for Liquid-Liquid Cylindrical cyclone compact separators; his research is being joint sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and Tulsa University Separation Technology Projects (TUSTP). His research work was presented at the 2000 AIAA/ASME Symposium and in the Regional level SPE-Students Chapter Conference. He is a proud member of Phi Kappa Phi and enjoys listening to music and painting. Doohyun Park, contributor, earned his B.A. in English from Choongang
University in Seoul, Korea, and his M.A. from Auburn University in Alabama. He recently
earned his doctoral degree in English from the University of Tulsa, and now is teaching
Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama at Choongang University in Seoul, Korea. Ben P. Robertson, contributor, is currently
writing a doctoral dissertation at the University of Tulsa on the romance form as
developed by Elizabeth Inchbald and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The 2001 recipient of the Graduate Teaching Award hopes to complete his
degree in the coming year and to continue his university teaching career. He won third place in the Third Annual TU Student
Research Colloquium for his paper titled, “Churches and Churchyards in Hardy and
Larkin.” Zhouhong Wei, contributor, is a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering at the University of Tulsa. His research focuses on the control system design for machine servo systems. Send Comments and Questions to: ©Copyright 2001 The University of
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