category: Recognition Dr. David Yelton, Ph.D. By Gardner-Webb University On March 1, 2020 David Yelton; Spring 2015 Associate Provost for Arts & Sciences and Professor of History Dr. Yelton was recently awarded the Vandervort Prize from the Journal of Military History for his article “Older German Officers and National Socialist Activism: Evidence from the German Volkssturm,” that appeared in the April 2019 issue. Yelton is one of only four historians to receive the award this year. Formerly called the Moncado Prize, the honor was renamed on March 1 to honor the memory of Dr. Bruce Vandervort, former editor of the journal. The selection is made by a panel of five to six scholars in the broad field of military history, intended to recognize a significant contribution to the field. November 2019 Dr. Yelton was the commentator for a panel entitled “Soldiers, Sex, Chaplains and Horses: A Panel on the Wehrmacht in Honor of Gerhard L. Weinberg” at the German Studies Association conference in Portland, OR, October 3-6, 2019. The panel, moderated by Dr. David Grier (Erskine College), consisted of three presentations on various aspects of everyday history in the German Army in World War II by Dr. Geoffrey Giles (Univ. of Florida), Dr. Doris Bergen (Univ. of Toronto) and Dr. Sandy Cheney (Cottey College). Dr. Weinberg (who is 91 and attended the session) is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill and one of the world’s leading scholars on Nazi Germany and the Second World War. He was also the dissertation mentor for Drs. Bergen, Cheyney, Grier, and Yelton. April 2019 Dr. Yelton recently published “Older German Officers and National Socialist Activism: Evidence from the German Volkssturm,” Journal of Military History 83 (Nr. 2, April 2019): 523-56. He has also agreed to serve as an article referee for the journals War in History and The Jewish Quarterly Review. David Yelton; Spring 2015
Post Dr. Hebert Palomino Professors, School of Divinity Dr. Hebert Palomino, professor of pastoral care and counseling in the Gardner-Webb University School of Divinity, accepted an invitation to be the main speaker for the Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care Continuous Education Week, held at the Paraguayan Baptist Medical Center in Asuncion, Paraguay, South America. His trip was made possible by […] Gardner-Webb University | July 15, 2024
Post Teralea Moore, M.A. Professors, College of Arts and Sciences Dr. Totten and Marissa DiMatteo, Biology class of 2024, received research funding from Sigma Zeta, a science and mathematics honor society, to work on an undergraduate research project titled “Presumptive Drug Test Kits and Compounds That Are Responsible for False Positives.” This nationally competitive award is the first of […] Gardner-Webb University | July 1, 2024
Post Stacie Smith, M.S. Instructor, Department of Natural Sciences Four faculty presented a talk titled “Reimagining the Science Capstone Experience at a Liberal Arts Institution” at the Lilly Conference on Innovative Strategies to Advance Student Learning in Asheville, on August 8, 2023. Gardner-Webb University | July 1, 2024
