2020 Scholarly Accolades

2020 Scholarly Accolades list of Faculty Intellectual Achievements that was presented at the 2021 King Haggar Haggerty Awards Ceremony. Schools included are: Neuhoff School of Ministry, Braniff Graduate College, Constantin College of Liberal Arts, and Gupta College of Business. Faculty listed are: Jodi Hunt, Marianne Siegmund, Irene R. Alexander, Daniel E. Burns, Bainard Cowan, William L. Cody, Scott Crider, Jonathan E. Dannatt, Richard J. Dougherty, Jacob I. Eidt, Chad Engelland, Thomas Esposito, O. Cist., Valeria Forte, William A. Frank, Elinor Gardner, O.P., Gilbert J. Garza, Kelly L. Gibson, Mark Goodwin, Peter Hatlie, Christina E. Ivers, Brittany K. Landrum, Tammy Leonard, Chris Mirus, Andrew D. Moran, Nefer Muñoz Solano, Cynthia Nielsen, Richard Olenick, Andrew Osborn, Joshua Parens, Marisa Pérez-Bernardo, Mark Petersen, Aida Ramos, Elizabeth Robinson, Gregory L. Roper, Jonathan J. Sanford, Kevin M. Saylor, Phillip A. Shore, Stephanie Swales, Inimary T. Toby, Joseph M. Van House, O. Cist., Matthew D. Walz, Gerard Wegemer, Michael G. West, Christopher Wolfe, Enoch Asare, Jennifer Bannister, Sri Beldona, Greg Bell, Sue Conger, Ali Dadpay, Blake Frank, Julia Fulmore, Jenny Gu, Cara W. Jacocks, Brett Landry, Richard Miller, Laura Muñoz, Renita Murimi, Judith Olson, Richard Peregoy, Michael Stodnick, Susan Rhame, Robert Walsh, J. Lee Whittington, snd Scott Wysong.https://digitalcommons.udallas.edu/king_haggar_haggerty_docs/1001/thumbnail.jp

Book Reviews

Lynn Willoughby, Flowing Through Time: A History of the Lower Chattahoochee River, by Dennis L. Scarnecchia; Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, by Larry E. River; Theda Perdue, Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835, by Shirley A. Leckie; Cynthia A. Kierner, Beyond the Household: Women\u27s Place in the Early South, 1700-1835, by Elizabeth Nybakkan; Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Methodism and the Southern Mind, by Stacey K. Close; John G. Crowley, Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South: 1815 to the Present, by John J. Guthrie Jr.; Edward A. Pearson, ed., Designs Against Charleston: The Trial Records of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822, by Robert Olwell; Timothy D. Johnson, Winfield Scott: The Quest for Military Glory, by John K. Mahon; David Williams, Rich Man\u27s War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley, by Kenneth W. Noe; Jeanie Attie, Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War, by Barbara A. Worthy; Thomas G. Dyer, Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta, by Frank M. Lowrey; Warren B. Armstrong, For Courageous Fighting and Confident Dying: Union Chaplains in the Civil War, by Edwin S. Redkey; Elizabeth York Enstam, Women and the Creation of Urban Life: Dallas, Texas, 1843-1920, by Merline Pitre; Cecilia Elizabeth O\u27Leary, To Die For: The Paradox of American Patriotism, by John M. Coski; Barbara Barksdale Clowse, Ralph McGill: A Biography, by Marie Hardin; Shelly Romalis, Pistol Packin\u27 Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong, by Deborah L. Blackwell; Jeff Roche, Restructured Resistance: The Sibley Commission and the Politics of Desegregation in Georgia, by Sarah Hart Brown; R. Douglas Hart, ed., The Rural South Since World War II, by William C. Hine; J. Morgan Kousser, Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction, by Hugh Davis Graham; Cynthia Griggs Fleming, Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, by Curtis Austin; Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson, Ol\u27 Strom: An Unauthorized Biography of Strom Thurmond, by James Edward Cross; Michele Gillespie and Catherine Clinton, eds., Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women Historians, by Pamela Tyle

HSUS NEWS Volume 40, Number 02

Expanding our mission: we extend the arm of our protection to wildlife (Paul G. Irwin) Spotlight Gray wolves start new life in Yellowstone In Memorium: Max Schnapp 1904-1995 Saving the Endangered Species Act: a powerful lifeline for animals is at risk (Aaron Medlock, J.D.) ADC\u27s lethal actions: agency undercuts its claims of change (Susan Hagood) From garden to wilderness: a place to know and work with nature (Vance G. Martin) More than a meow: communication with the felines in your life should be a two-way street (Kenneth D. White) HSI China & Taiwan: prescription for misery (Teresa M. Telecky, Ph.D.) HSI Tanzania: elephants slaughtered (Cynthia Moss) HSI Europe: new era for the intergroup (Betsy Dribben) HSI Canada: wildlife guardians (Michael O\u27Sullivan) Smallest among us (Martin Stephens, Ph.D.) Shelters without walls: The HSUS Wildlife Land Trust (John F. Kullberg, Ed.D.) To protect the Taiga (Jon A. Hartke) Earthkind and the IESC join forces (Jon A. Hartke) Peace Corps partnership (Jon A. Hartke

The Lover Reflected in the Exemplum: A Study of Propertius 1.3 and 2.6

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Tight Lower Bounds for Differentially Private Selection

A pervasive task in the differential privacy literature is to select the $k$ items of "highest quality" out of a set of $d$ items, where the quality of each item depends on a sensitive dataset that must be protected. Variants of this task arise naturally in fundamental problems like feature selection and hypothesis testing, and also as subroutines for many sophisticated differentially private algorithms. The standard approaches to these tasks---repeated use of the exponential mechanism or the sparse vector technique---approximately solve this problem given a dataset of $n = O(\sqrt{k}\log d)$ samples. We provide a tight lower bound for some very simple variants of the private selection problem. Our lower bound shows that a sample of size $n = \Omega(\sqrt{k} \log d)$ is required even to achieve a very minimal accuracy guarantee. Our results are based on an extension of the fingerprinting method to sparse selection problems. Previously, the fingerprinting method has been used to provide tight lower bounds for answering an entire set of $d$ queries, but often only some much smaller set of $k$ queries are relevant. Our extension allows us to prove lower bounds that depend on both the number of relevant queries and the total number of queries