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IN FOCUS
 
March 31, 2006
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*SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAUNCHED $125 MILLION COMPREHENSIVE FUNDRAISING 
CAMPAIGN*

Southwestern University launched the largest fundraising campaign in its 
166-year history - a $125 million comprehensive campaign designed to 
fund priorities in the university's 2010 Strategic Plan. These 
initiatives fall into four broad categories:
 

    * Supporting students
    * Supporting faculty
    * Diversity enrichment
    * Enhancing the living/learning environment on campus

 
/Thinking Ahead: The Southwestern Campaign/ will run through June 30, 
2009. University officials announced that they have already raised more 
than $53 million of the campaign goal during the "quiet phase" of the 
campaign, which began on July 1, 2002.

Campaign kickoff events included a March 31 lecture by Thomas Kean, who 
served as chair of the 9/11 Commission, and a gala dinner that evening.

Read the entire article at 
www.southwestern.edu/newsroom/news/060331.html 
<http://www.southwestern.edu/newsroom/news/060331.html>.
 
*SOUTHWESTERN SHOWCASES STUDENT RESEARCH, CREATIVITY WEEK OF APRIL 3*
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The creativity and scholarship of Southwestern University students will 
be displayed at two different events the week of April 3.
 
Creative projects will be displayed Monday, April 3, at the 2006 King 
Creativity Symposium. Projects funded this year include a documentary 
about the rebuilding of New Orleans and a play based on actual student 
e-mail exchanges. The symposium featuring project exhibits and 
presentations will be held from 5-6 p.m. April 3 in the ballrooms of the 
McCombs Campus Center. In all, the symposium will highlight the work of 
19 scholars on 12 projects.
 
In conjunction with this symposium, Southwestern will host a screening 
of the film /My Father the Genius/ at 7:30 p.m. April 3 at the Palace 
Theatre, 810 S. Austin Ave. The screening is free and open to the 
public. Complimentary tickets for the screening may be picked up in Room 
33 of the Cullen Building (corner of University and Maple Streets) 
beginning March 21.

On Thursday, April 6, nearly 100 student research projects will be 
featured at the 7^th annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Works 
Symposium. The event will run from 5-9 p.m. at various locations 
throughout the McCombs Campus Center. Oral presentations of research 
projects will be given at 5 p.m. and at 7 p.m. in the ballrooms, and 
poster presentations will be on display from 6-7 p.m. in the Bishops 
Lounge.
 
Research projects in 27 different disciplines will be presented, ranging 
from a project on whether passing laws making counties "dry" actually 
reduces incidences of driving while intoxicated (DWI) to one on the use 
of artificial intelligence to design perfumes.
 
In conjunction with the symposium, 1992 Southwestern graduate Steve Perz 
will give a lecture on Wednesday, April 5, at 4 p.m. in Olin 110. Perz 
is now an associate professor of sociology at the University of Florida 
and conducts research on the effects of road building in the Amazon 
rainforest. The title of his lecture is "Fish Labs, Flycatchers, Brazil 
and Beyond: The Transformation of Self and Science from SU to the Amazon."
 
*SOUTHWESTERN STUDENTS PRESENT PAPERS AT AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY MEETING*
 
Students from Southwestern presented four papers at the upcoming annual 
meeting of the American Chemical Society. The meeting was held in 
Atlanta March 26-30.
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*Matt Halpert *presented research he has conducted on a metabolite of 
the anti-cancer drug tamoxifen. Halpert conducted his research with 
faculty members *Lynn Guziec, Martin Gonzalez* and *Maha Zewail-Foote*.
 
*Lauren Shepard *presented some related research on new methods of 
making tamoxifen compounds that might be able to stop breast cancer 
without increasing the risk of endometrial cancer. Shepard conducted her 
research with* *faculty member* Frank Guziec.*
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*Lindsay Jones *presented research* *she has conducted* *with faculty 
members *Stephen Alexander* and *Frank Guziec. *The research is part of 
an ongoing project to predict the next generation of anti-cancer 
compounds. Jones has been assisting with computer modeling of new 
compounds and assisting with synthesis of compounds to be studied.
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*Bhavik Kumar *presented research he conducted that involves the 
interaction of ruthenium complexes with DNA. Kumer conducted the 
research with faculty members *Maha Zewail-Foote *and *Gulnar Rawji. *
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Jones, Shepard and Kumar received funding for their research from the 
Welch Foundation. Kumar and Halpert received funding for their research 
from Merck.
 
*SOUTHWESTERN STUDENTS PRESENT RESEARCH TO THE SOUTHERN SOCIOLOGICAL 
SOCIETY*
 
Fourteen students from the Sociology and Anthropology Department 
presented their research at the annual meetings of the Southern 
Sociological Society in New Orleans, March 22-26. Support for this 
professional activity came from the Fleming Collaborative Research fund, 
administered by Stephanie Fabritius. Ali Hendley's paper was chosen as 
winner of the Odum Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Paper at the SSS 
meetings.
 
Two of the students presented research they did while studying in the 
London semester with *Maria Lowe*, associate professor of 
sociology. They are:
 
*Andy Morrison*: "Bitters and Cheers: An Ethnography of Pub Culture at 
the Churchill Arms."
 
*Nathan Turner*: "Minding the Gaps: Cultural Patterns on the London 
Underground."
 
Five students presented research they did while in the required senior 
Capstone seminar with *Sandi Kawecka Nenga*, assistant professor of 
sociology:
 
*Kelsie Alstead*: "You Must be a Very Special Person! Special Education 
and Identity Work."
 
*Annie Garcia*: "How Different are They? Friendships in a Home School 
Support Group."
 
*Ali Hendley*: "Barreras del Lenguaje: Children's Negotiation of 
Adult-created Exclusionary Structures."
 
*Ashley Heck*: "We're not Special Anymore: Identity Creation, Identity 
Loss, and Coping Strategies in Former Gifted and Talented Students."
 
*Krys Wyatt*: "Finding Me Through You: The First-year Struggle to Create 
and Maintain Identity and Friendship."
 
Seven students presented papers they developed while doing research in 
the required Research Methods course with *Edward L. Kain*, professor of 
sociology. They are:
 
*Alice** May Berthelsen*: "Religiosity and Income: Do They have an 
Impact on Attitudes Towards Marijuana?"
 
*Phillip Cantu*: "Income, Income Inequalities and Education and their 
Effect on Healthcare: A Cross-National Approach."
 
*Lauren Cox*: "Factors that Predict Attitudes Toward Immigration: Income 
and Socioeconomic Status."
 
*Jenna Hardy*: "Reading into Contraceptives: How Female Literacy Rates 
Affect the Prevalence of Contraceptives in an International Study."
 
*Jacque Holden*: "Religion, Politics and why no one Watches the News: 
How Religiosity and Extremity of Political Views Affect Confidence in 
the Media."
 
*Brian Kasper*: "Money and Alcohol Abuse: An In-depth Analysis of Income 
Levels Effect on Alcohol Abuse in Wet and Dry Counties."
 
*Lydia** Rudy*: "What Lies Within: Constructing Beauty through 
Advertising in Women's Fashion Magazines."
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*THE **UNIVERSITY** OF **TEXAS** HARP AND THE SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 
HARP ENSEMBLES UNITE FOR A CONCERT*

The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Music Department, will present the 
University of Texas Harp and the Southwestern University Harp Ensembles 
at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, in the McCombs Ballroom.

The University of Texas Harp and the Southwestern University Harp 
Ensembles will combine for a concert under the direction of harp 
instructor Delaine Fedson. Tuesday evening's program will feature 
diverse groupings of the harps - from solos, duos and trios to all ten 
harps performing the finale. The centerpiece of this concert is the 
premiere of a work commissioned for the UT Harp Ensemble from Robert 
Deemer, a University of Texas alumnus and visiting professor of 
composition at the University of Oklahoma.

This performance is free and open to the public. For more information 
about this event and other fine arts events at Southwestern University, 
call The Sarofim School of Fine Arts at 512-863-1379.**
 
*FACULTY FORUM *
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There is no Faculty Forum scheduled for Monday, April 3. The next 
Faculty Forum will be held Monday, April 10.
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*NOTABLES*
 
*Glenda Carl*, associate professor of modern languages, gave a 
presentation at the annual meeting of the South Central Association for 
Language Learning Technology (SOCALLT) in Plano, Texas, Feb. 25. The 
theme of the conference was "Teaching and Technology; All Languages, All 
Levels, All Institutions." Carl's presentation was titled "The REALIA 
Project: A Collaborative Resource for Teaching Languages." More 
information about the REALIA Project may be found at 
http://realiaproject.org.
 
*M. Cristina Alcalde*, assistant professor of anthropology, presented a 
paper titled "Discrimination and Violence Across Borders: A Preliminary 
Comparison of Battered Women's Experiences in Peru and the U.S." at the 
Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies Conference in 
Albuquerque, N. M., March 1-4. Research for her paper and travel to the 
conference were funded in part by a Sam Taylor Fellowship. 
 
*Erika Berroth*, associate professor of German, presented her research 
at an international conference "Trajectories of Memory: 
Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust in History and the 
Arts" in Bowling Green, Ohio, March 25. Her paper was titled "Postmemory 
and Creative Imaginaries in Monika Maron's German-German Memory Work" 
and contributed to the panel titled "The Holocaust and Evolving Cultural 
Discourse in Germany and Israel."
 
In October 2005, Berroth presented her paper titled "Rumjana Zacharieva:
Negotiating Identities in Post-Communist Bulgaria and Germany" on a 
panel titled "Disappearing Nations in German (Language) Literature" at 
the German Studies Association 29th annual conference (GSA), in 
Milwaukee, Wis.
 
In July 2005, Berroth presented her paper "Writing Post-Communist 
Identities in Bulgaria and Germany" at a conference titled "The New 
Europe at the Crossroads IX," at the Adam Mickiewicz University, in 
Poznan, Poland.
 
A review of Berroth's recent book on the German classic Heinrich von 
Kleist appeared in the journal /Monatshefte/.
 
*Aaron Prevots*, assistant professor of French, had several pieces 
accepted for publication in the journal /Archipel: Cahier international 
de littérature/. For a special volume on jazz, he submitted an article 
titled "Poésie, swing et Jacques Réda," about jazz influences in the 
French poet's work. Also included will be three poems by Prevots, all 
written in French and English versions: "À Jacques Réda / To Jacques 
Réda," "Harry 'Sweets' Edison' and "Ugly Beauty/Belle Moche." In 
addition, he presented a paper on "Fighting Words in Louise Labé's 
Sonnets" at the annual conference of the Modern Language Association in 
Washington, D.C., for a special session regarding "How to Teach 
Pre-Revolutionary French Literature to Undergraduates and Why We Still 
Should."
 
*SU IN THE NEWS *
 
The /Austin Business Journal/ ran an article about Southwestern 
University's campaign. Read the entire article at 
http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2006/03/27/story1.html.
 
/The Williamson County Sun/ ran an article on Professor of Economics 
Dirk Early's research on the measurement of poverty in the United States.
 
*CALENDAR*

 
April
 
1-9                   /Man of No Importance/, Jesse and Mary Gibbs Jones 
Theater
3                      King Creativity Symposium
3-7                   Undergraduate Research/Creative Works Symposium Week
4                      Guest artist, The University of Texas Harp 
Ensemble, 7 p.m., McCombs Ballroom
7                      Public viewing night, 8-11 p.m., Fountainwood 
Observatory
8                      Men's lacrosse vs. University of Texas at 
Arlington, 1 p.m.
8                      Baseball vs. Millsaps College, 2 p.m.
9                      Baseball vs. Millsaps College, 1 p.m.
11                    Baseball vs. Hardin-Simmons University, 7 p.m.
11                    Guest artist, Evangeline Benedetti, cello, 7 p.m., 
Caldwell-Carvey Foyer
14                    Baseball vs. Trinity University, 2 p.m.
14                    Easter holiday
15                    Baseball vs. Trinity University, 2 p.m.
18                    Tenure and promotion reception
20                    Guest artist, Weston Hurt, baritone, 7 p.m., First 
United Methodist Church
20                    New Found Glory concert, 7 p.m., Robertson Center
21                    Career Connections barbecue, noon- 2 p.m., Howry 
Center
23                    Southwestern University Chorale, 7 p.m., Lois 
Perkins Chapel
25                    Southwestern University Jazz Band, 7 p.m., 
Bishop's Lounge
26                    Guest artist, Enso String Quartet, 7 p.m., First 
United Methodist Church
27-May 9         Student art exhibit, Fine Arts Gallery
28-30               Dance Repertory Concert, Jesse and Mary Gibbs Jones 
Theater
30                    Southwestern University Wind Ensemble, 4 p.m., 
Georgetown High School Performing Arts Center
30                    Southwestern University Orchestra, 7 p.m., 
Georgetown High School Performing Arts Center

 

 

 

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