Faculty News

Elizabeth Gailey is an associate professor in the Department of Communication. She will retire after 23 years of service to UTC.

Bob Marlowe joined the UTC faculty in 1985 and will retire at the rank of professor from the Department of Chemistry and Physics.

The Department of English will see two faculty retire this year. Immaculate Kizza joined UTC in 1989 and Joyce Smith joined in 1990. Both are valued members of the Literature faculty.

Lucas Van Der Merwe, professor of Mathematics, joined UTC in 2005 and will retire after 15 years of service to his department.

I. Nicky Ozbek and Ron Morris will both retire from the Department of Psychology. With 43 and 28 years of service, respectively, their contributions to the university will be missed.

Clockwise from top left: Obi Ebbe, Bob Marlowe, Elizabeth Gailey, Lyn Miles, Immaculate Kizza and Lucas Van Der

Merwe. Not pictured are Joyce Smith, I. Nicky Ozbek and Ron Morris.

The Department of Social, Cultural and Justice Studies has two faculty members retiring this year. Obi Ebbe, a professor of sociology, joined UTC in 2000 and Lyn Miles, UC Foundation Professor of Anthropology joined in 1976.

All are experienced teacher-scholars and will be greatly missed. n

Rembering Vic Bumphus, faculty member for 17 years

Victor W. Bumphus, a member of the UTCs Department of Social, Cultural and Justice Studies since 2002, passed away on May 31. He taught criminal justice and mentored undergraduate and graduate students as well as his junior colleagues in the department.

He was nationally and internationally recognized for his research on policing, police accountability and ethics, and he examined issues such as race, bias and attitudes on drug control policy and sentencing. His work was published in such journals as International Journal of Criminology and Sociology, Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Policy Review and American Journal of Criminal Justice.

He was principal investigator working on strategies to enhance law enforcement response and service to victims of crimes and also was developing a Southeastern Command and Leadership Academy and evaluating a Tennessee Meth Task Force. He served as an evaluator for a UTC Violence against Women grant and most recently was chair of the UTC Police Hiring and Promotion Board. 36 | method