April 13, 2007
 Department of Psychology students and faculty made another impressive showing at
the Southwestern Psychological Association (SWPA) annual meeting in Fort
Worth April 5-7, 2007. Presentations included “Latent Growth Modeling” by
Richard Osbaldiston; “Group attachment and eating disorder problem
dimensions among college females” by Jessica Vandivier, Jessica Harper, Diana De Luna and Bryan Neighbors; “Weddell Seal Mating
Strategies: Vocalizations, Behaviors and Social Interactions” by
Ludivine Russell and Jesse Purdy; “‘Her-she’ snacks:
The relationship between gender and chocolate consumption” by Hailey
Ormand, Patrick Egan and Traci Giuliano; “Gender and health-awareness:
The relationship between gender and beverage choice” by Rachel
Osborne, Braden Ackley and Traci Giuliano; “The Effect of mPOA
Lesions on Paced Mating Behavior” by Amanda Covington, Matt
Gilbert and Fay Guarraci; “Disruption of Olfactory Cues Affects Paced Mating
Behavior, but not Mate Selection in the Female Rat” by Sarah
McCracken, Milly Lee and Fay Guarraci; “Beyond the picket lines: Self-monitoring
and political activism in college students” by Shelly Tang, Andrew
Yusran and Traci Giuliano; and "Characterization of Human Milk Donors" by
Richard Osbaldiston and Leigh A. Mingle. In addition,
two submissions to the Psi Chi program earned $300 Best Submission awards.
These were “ZZZs
to As: The effects of limited sleep on executive functioning” by
Leigh Mingle, Sally Redden, Shelly
Tang and Jacqueline Muir-Broaddus,
and “Classroom crushes: An exploration of student-instructor attraction” by
Emily Travis and Traci Giuliano.
April 5, 2007
Emily
Niemeyer, associate professor of chemistry, recently received a $10,000
grant from the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry. She plans
to use the funds to purchase a new spectrophotometer that will allow
Southwestern to have a research-grade instrument in its upper-level chemistry
courses.
Kiyoshi Tamagawa, professor of music, accompanied violinists Damian
Green and Charles Yang at the Paramount Theatre in Austin on Tuesday,
April 2, as part of a ceremony honoring the 2007 Texas Medal of Arts
award recipients. This year’s recipients included Walter Cronkite,
Judith Ivey, Paul Baker, and the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, which performed
its signature work “Revelations” on the same program.
March 30, 2007
A.J. Senchack, holder of the Lucy King Brown Chair in International Business, and three business and accounting students in the SU Financial Analyst Program--Kate Dallas, Rebecca Wyatt, and Katy Lukaszewski--participated in the 4th Annual Texas Portfolio Symposium (TIPS) at Baylor University on March 24. This symposium brought together more than 100 students and faculty from 12 universities throughout Texas and the Southwest that offer student-managed investment portfolio programs. The meeting provided a forum for discussing current issues in finance and investments, sharing experiences in managing portfolios and participating in investment-related competitions.
March 23, 2007
Two sculptural works by Professor Mary Visser of the Art and Art History Department have been selected for the gallery exhibition for the 11th International Conference on Information Visualization in Zurich, Switzerland, and for the CGIV 4th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization in Bangkok, Thailand.
March 9, 2007
Daniel Castro, professor of history, had his book Another Face of Empire: Bartolome de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights and Ecclesiastical Imperialism published by Duke University Press.
At the 2007 meeting of the International Studies Association, Professor of Political Science Eric Selbin chaired and served as discussant for a panel titled "New Visions of Terrorism." He also participated as a panelist on a Presidential roundtable titled "Honoring the Legacy of Deborah Gerner: Middle East Scholar, Peace Activist, and Colleague Extraordinaire" and chaired the annual meeting of the New Millennium Books in International Studies series he co-edits with Professor Vicki Golich for Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
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