From su-infocus at southwestern.edu Fri Oct 6 08:29:14 2006 From: su-infocus at southwestern.edu (su-infocus@southwestern.edu) Date: Fri Oct 6 08:30:38 2006 Subject: [InFocus] In Focus 10/06 Message-ID: <45265A2A.7020806@southwestern.edu> IN FOCUS: October 6, 2006 * TOP NEWS * *CALENDAR * *SOUTHWESTERN RECEIVES GRANT TO HELP COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS TRANSFER TO THE UNIVERSITY* *October* *6* Volleyball vs. University of the South, 3 p.m. *6* Volleyball vs. Centre, 7 p.m. *7* Volleyball vs. DePauw, 2 p.m. *7* Volleyball vs. Oglethorp, 6 p.m. *8* Faculty recital, Eileen Meyer Russell, low brass, and Kiyoshi Tamagawa, piano, 3 p.m., Caldwell-Carvey Foyer *8* Volleyball vs. Rhodes College, 2 p.m. *9* Career Encounters: Blast-Off, noon-1 p.m., Bishops Lounge, McCombs Campus Center *9* Careers in Health, 4-5 p.m., Howry Center *10* Careers in Accounting, 4:15 - 5:30 p.m., Howry Center *11* Careers in Law, 4-5 p.m., Howry Center *11* Wednesday Wisdom, 5-6:30 p.m., McCook-Crain Building *11-12* Peace Conference 2006 *12* Making a Living...Making a Difference, 4-6 p.m., Howry Center *13* Volleyball vs. Lakeland College, 2 p.m. *13* Volleyball vs. Hardin-Simmons University, 7 p.m. *13* Chart Your Course: Pizza & Open House, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., McCook-Crain Building *14* Volleyball vs. Ohio Northern University, noon *14* Volleyball vs. Washington & Lee University, 5 p.m. Southwestern University has received an $85,000 grant that it will use to encourage minority and low-income students at community colleges to transfer to the university. The grant is from TG, a nonprofit corporation headquartered in Round Rock that helps students secure federal higher education loans. This is the second year that TG's Public Benefit Grant Program has awarded grants to advance college access, student retention and educational research. Southwestern will use part of its grant money to create four new $5,000 Dixon Scholarships, which will be administered through the Texas Methodist Foundation. Dixon Scholarships are awarded to help high-achieving African-American, Hispanic and Native American students attend Southwestern. The new scholarships will be targeted to students currently attending community colleges in Texas. Southwestern also will use some of the grant money to bring counselors and other key personnel from community colleges across Texas to its campus this fall to raise awareness of opportunities available at the university. Next spring, the university will hold a campus visit weekend for prospective community college transfer students and their parents. In addition, the university will use some of the grant money to create a new academic course designed specifically for transfer students. The course will help acclimate students coming from community colleges to the academic demands of a liberal arts college. Read the entire story here . * EVENTS * The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Department of Music, presents a faculty recital by Eileen Meyer Russell and pianist Kiyoshi Tamagawa, Sunday, Oct. 8, at 3 p.m. in the Caldwell-Carvey Foyer. Sunday afternoon's concert will feature "Sonata in F Minor" by Georg Phillip Telemann, the "Concertino" by Lars-Erik Larrson, "Sonatina" by Halsey Stevens and "Beautiful Colorado" by Joseph DeLuca. Another of the compositions to be performed is "Fantasy for Euphonium" by Hiroshi Hoshina; it will have an accompanying slide show of photos of the Corpus Christi Bay taken by Professor Russell. The performance is free and open to the public. For more information, call The Sarofim School of Fine Arts at (512) 863-1504. *FACULTY FORUM* There is no Faculty Forum scheduled for Monday, Oct. 9. MEDIA COVERAGE The /Williamson County Sun/ ran an article about the $50,000 grant provided by 3M for research focusing on the San Gabriel River Trail. Beverly Jones and Ansa Copeland appeared on Austin Faith Dialogue Sunday talking about the Oct. 11-12 peace conference. NOTABLES Three members of the Southwestern community were among those receiving awards this year from the Georgetown Chapter of Habitat for Humanity. The awards were presented at a Sept. 22 banquet. Junior *Jessica Hager* and *Ron Swain*, senior advisor to the president, received Habitat Ambassador Awards. This award is given to individuals who advocate for affordable housing issues and promote Habitat's mission at every available opportunity. Swain is a member of Habitat's Board of Directors and serves as advisor to Southwestern's Habitat for Humanity House project. Hager is the volunteer coordinator for Southwestern's Habitat Project. Junior *Kate Dallas* also received a Habitat Ambassador Award and was named Outstanding Youth Volunteer. The latter award is given to individuals aged 14-25 who have a passion for helping low-income families. Dallas chaired the fundraising component of Southwestern's Habitat Project. *M. Cristina Alcalde*, assistant professor of anthropology, had her article, " Going Home: A Feminist Anthropologist's Reflections on Dilemmas of Power and Positionality in the Field" accepted for publication in/ Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism/. *Romi Burks*, assistant professor of biology, published a book chapter titled "Center Stage: The Crucial Role of Macrophytes in Regulating Trophic Interactions in Shallow Lake Wetlands." This book chapter resulted from Burks' participation within a symposium of the INTECOL Wetlands meeting in the Netherlands in 2004. The chapter is co-authored with six European colleagues and contributes to the Springer-Verlag Ecological Studies Vol. 191 /Wetlands: Functioning, Biodiversity Conservation, and Restoration/. *Aaron Prevots*, assistant professor of French, had a manuscript of poetry in translation accepted. /Return to Calm/, from the original French by Jacques R?da, features seven sections and depicts in rhymed verse growing up, past loves, travel, seascapes, seasons and places in and around Paris. It is scheduled to be released in spring 2008 as a bilingual edition, with an introduction by Prevots. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.southwestern.edu/pipermail/su-infocus/attachments/20061006/d2d75018/attachment.html From su-infocus at southwestern.edu Fri Oct 13 08:59:17 2006 From: su-infocus at southwestern.edu (su-infocus@southwestern.edu) Date: Fri Oct 13 09:00:44 2006 Subject: [InFocus] In Focus 10/13 Message-ID: <452F9BB5.5040605@southwestern.edu> IN FOCUS: October 13, 2006 * EVENTS * *October* *13* Volleyball vs. Lakeland College, 2 p.m. *13* Volleyball vs. Hardin-Simmons University, 7 p.m. *13* Chart Your Course: Pizza & Open House, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., McCook-Crain Building *14* Volleyball vs. Ohio Northern University, noon *14* Volleyball vs. Washington & Lee University, 5 p.m. *18* Guest artist recital, Latiff Bolat, Turkish Mystic Music, 7 p.m., McCombs Ballroom *20-29* "The House of Bernarda Alba," Fridays and Saturdays 8 p.m., Sundays 3 p.m., Jesse and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater *20* Women's soccer vs. DePauw University, 1 p.m. *20* Men's soccer vs. DePauw University, 3 p.m. *22* Men's soccer vs. Centre College, noon *22* Women's soccer vs. Centre College, 2 p.m. *29* Guest artist recital, Bruce Rameker, baritone, 7 p.m., First United Methodist Church The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Music Department, presents Latif Bolat, Wednesday, Oct. 18, at 7 p.m. in the McCombs Center Ballroom. The concert will feature Turkish mystic music. Bolat sings and plays the traditional Turkish stringed instrument baglama. As an important part of the presentation, Turkish devotional poetry from the 13th-century mystics Rumi and Yunus Emre, as well as later Turkish mystic poets, will be sprinkled throughout the program. In addition to spoken elaboration, slides will be used to create a complete experience by providing scenes of the Turkish countryside, cities, artwork, architecture and people. This will provide a deeper understanding of the culture by combining the musical presentation with images of its origin. The performance is free and open to the public. For more information, call Lacy Vain at 512-863-1379. The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Theatre Department, presents "The House of Bernarda Alba" by Federico Garcia Lorca, directed by Lucien Douglas, Oct. 20-29. "The House of Bernarda Alba" centers on the emotional struggle among the women of a Spanish family as they mourn the death of their husband/father. Considered one of the theatre's great classics, the play chronicles the passions unleashed among the women trapped in a life that suddenly has few chances for happiness. Political yet private, "The House of Bernarda Alba" tests the constraints of social customs, the family and love. The play is a passionate struggle of emotions between the oppressed and the oppressor. Tickets are available at the Jones Theater Box Office; hours are Monday-Friday, 1-5 p.m. and one hour prior to curtain. For more information, call 512-863-1378. *FACULTY FORUM* There is no Faculty Forum scheduled for Monday, Oct. 16. MEDIA COVERAGE The /Williamson County Sun/ ran a front-page feature story on Southwestern student Amy Litzinger and her work as an advocate for the disabled. The /Sun/ also ran a story announcing the 29th Brown Symposium titled "Who Do We Think We Are?!" and a story on a grant to encourage minority and low-income students at community colleges to transfer to Southwestern. KXAN-TV ran a story on Arun Gandhi's lecture at Southwestern as part of the Peace 2006 conference. Read the story at http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=5528880. The /Chronicle of Philanthropy/ had a two-page feature on Southwestern's Hardware for Honduras program. NOTABLES *Edward L. Kain*, professor of sociology and University Scholar, is presenting a paper at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion in Portland, Ore., Oct. 18-22. The paper is titled "The Interconnections Between Measures of Religiosity and Attitudes About Homosexuality." The research examines 30 years of change in national survey data on attitudes about the morality of homosexuality as well as support for basic civil liberties of homosexuals. It also explores how these attitudes vary by religious affiliation and religiosity. *Aaron Prevots*, assistant professor of French, completed work on his ACS-Mellon Fellowship "Teaching French through Songs and Singing." The resulting Web site features new recordings of traditional and original songs on topics ranging from basic vocabulary to issues of gender and identity. The site was designed with technology support specialist *Pat Ramsey*. Music, lyrics and chords to 50 pieces are at http://www.southwestern.edu/~prevots/songs/. *Ron Swain*, senior advisor to the president for strategic planning and assessment, delivered the platform address for the Ethical Society of Austin. His topic was "Reflections on Martin Luther King Jr.'s Concept of the World House." In 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. authored Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community. In the midst of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Dr. King described the conditions of American society in terms of economic, educational, housing and psycho-social differences. He concluded that the peoples of the American society and beyond are in a "world house" in which they will either live together in community or perish in chaos. The address was a reflection of contemporary American society in the context of the "world house." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.southwestern.edu/pipermail/su-infocus/attachments/20061013/aad5457e/attachment.html From su-infocus at southwestern.edu Fri Oct 20 08:40:49 2006 From: su-infocus at southwestern.edu (su-infocus@southwestern.edu) Date: Fri Oct 20 08:42:18 2006 Subject: [InFocus] In Focus 10/20 Message-ID: <4538D1E1.60108@southwestern.edu> IN FOCUS: October 20, 2006 * TOP NEWS * *CALENDAR * *SHERRI BABCOCK TO RECEIVE 2006 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNA AWARD FROM SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY* *October* *20* Women's soccer vs. DePauw University, 1 p.m. *20* Men's soccer vs. DePauw University, 3 p.m. *22* Men's soccer vs. Centre College, noon *22* Women's soccer vs. Centre College, 2 p.m. *27-29* "The House of Bernarda Alba," Fridays and Saturdays 8 p.m., Sundays 3 p.m., Jesse and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater *29* Guest artist recital, Bruce Rameker, baritone, 7 p.m., First United Methodist Church Sherri Babcock will receive the 2006 Distinguished Alumna Award from Southwestern University Oct. 21. The Distinguished Alumna/us Award is the highest honor annually awarded by The Association of Southwestern University Alumni. Recipients exemplify the qualities of excellence as taught and represented by Southwestern. Babcock graduated from Southwestern in 1970 and was the first student to earn an American Studies degree from the University. Events surrounding Babcock's Distinguished Alumna Award ceremony will focus on diversity - a topic she has had a passion for since struggling as a woman in the male-dominated field of advertising. Events planned for the day include a chapel service that will celebrate cultural differences in worship and a forum featuring Southwestern graduates of different backgrounds. Read the entire story here . *WRITER'S VOICE SERIES BRINGS FORMER POET LAUREATE TO SOUTHWESTERN NOV. 8* Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky will be the featured speaker at the 2006 Writer's Voice series sponsored by the A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library at Southwestern University. "An Evening with Robert Pinsky" will be held Wednesday, Nov. 8, beginning at 7:30 p.m. with a reading and commentary by the author in the Lois Perkins Chapel. A reception and book signing will follow in the McCombs Campus Center. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Tickets will be available to the public beginning Oct. 20 and may be obtained by calling 512-863-1561 or following the Writer's Voice link at www.southwestern.edu/library. Read the entire story here. * EVENTS * The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Theatre Department, presents a pre-curtain talk for the production of "The House of Bernarda Alba" by Federico Garcia Lorca before the Sunday matin?e Oct. 22 at 2 p.m. in the Caldwell-Carvey Foyer. Presenters include director Lucien Douglas and Assistant Professor of Spanish Katy Ross. The talk is free, but tickets are required for the production. For prices and show times call 512-863-1378 or visit www.southwestern.edu/boxoffice. MEDIA COVERAGE The /Williamson County Sun/ ran an article on Distinguished Alumna recipient Sherri Babcock. NOTABLES *Phil Hopkins*, assistant professor of philosophy, is presenting a paper at the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at Fordham Oct. 21, titled "Zeno of Elea on the Place of Place." The paper interprets one of the least examined and most puzzling of Zeno's paradoxes. *Susan Mennicke*, director of intercultural learning, has been elected to the Institute for the International Education of Students' (IES) Academic Council. A key component of IES extensive academic governance system, the IES Academic Council sets educational policy for IES, advises the president concerning all academic matters, and provides systematic contact with its university Consortium members. IES Academic Council members are elected to a three-year term through the voting by study abroad professionals from the nation's top colleges and universities. *Star Varner*, professor of art, will have an exhibition of her work "The Mysteries Revisited" on display at Baylor University's Martin Museum of Art from Oct. 28 through Nov. 21 and Nov. 28 through Nov. 30. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.southwestern.edu/pipermail/su-infocus/attachments/20061020/cd55edb2/attachment.html From su-infocus at southwestern.edu Thu Oct 26 15:19:11 2006 From: su-infocus at southwestern.edu (su-infocus@southwestern.edu) Date: Thu Oct 26 15:20:42 2006 Subject: [InFocus] In Focus 10/27 Message-ID: <4541183F.3030308@southwestern.edu> IN FOCUS: October 27, 2006 * TOP NEWS * *CALENDAR * *SOUTHWESTERN NAMED TO COMMUNITY SERVICE HONOR ROLL* *October* *27-29* "The House of Bernarda Alba," Fridays and Saturdays 8 p.m., Sundays 3 p.m., Jesse and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater *29* Guest artist recital, Bruce Rameker, baritone, 7 p.m., First United Methodist Church *November* *4* Women's soccer vs. Trinity University, noon *4* Men's soccer vs. Trinity University, 4 p.m. *6* Guest artist recital, University of Arizona Steel Pan Band, 5 p.m., Bishops Lounge *10-Dec. 6* Chinese painting exhibit, Fine Arts Gallery *12* Southwestern University Chorale, 7 p.m., Lois Perkins Chapel *15* Southwestern University Jazz Band, 7 p.m., Bishops Lounge *18* Men's basketball vs. Texas Lutheran University, 7 p.m. *18* Southwestern University Orchestra, 7 p.m., Georgetown High School Performing Arts Center *21* Women's basketball vs. Hardin-Simmons University, 6 p.m. *21* Men's basketball vs. Hardin-Simmons University, 8 p.m. Southwestern has been placed on the first President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, a program designed to increase public awareness of the contributions that students, faculty and staff are making within their local communities and across the country through volunteer service. The program is sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service, the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation, and the U.S. Departments of Education and Housing and Urban Development. Last year, 60 percent of Southwestern students reported that they participated in some form of community service - twice the national rate of 30 percent reported in a recent survey by the Corporation for National and Community Service. These students contributed an estimated 22,500 hours of service to the community. Southwestern was one of only 16 colleges and universities in Texas to be named to the honor roll. Others were Austin College, Blinn College, Collin County Community College, Houston Community College - Southwest, Howard Payne University, Kingwood College, LeTourneau University, Richland College, Sam Houston State University, St. Edward's University, St. Mary's University, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, the University of St. Thomas and the University of Texas at El Paso. For more information on the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, visit www.nationalservice.gov. To read more about some of the community service projects Southwestern students were involved with last year, go to www.southwestern.edu/academic/exp/exp-community.html. * EVENTS * The Sarofim School of Fine Arts presents singer Bruce Rameker with pianist Kiyoshi Tamagawa, professor of music, in recital Sunday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary of the First United Methodist Church, 410 East University Ave. in Georgetown. Rameker possesses the unique ability to perform as both a baritone and a countertenor. He has appeared on the stages of Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Town Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Spoleto Festival in a diverse repertoire that includes ancient music, operetta, oratorio and tango. A specialist in Baroque opera and oratorio, Mr. Rameker has sung with the Skylight Opera Theatre, Chicago Opera Theater, New York City Opera, Anchorage Opera, Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, Waverly Consort, Voices of Ascension and New York Ensemble for Early Music. The concert is free and open to the public. Please call Lacy Vain at 863-1379 for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Fleming Lecture series presents David Noel Freedman, endowed chair in Hebrew Biblical Studies at the University of California, San Diego, on Thursday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. in Olin 105. He will be speaking on "The Tsunami: The Song of the Sea and the Song of Deborah or Vice Versa." Freedman is the general editor of the Anchor Bible. He has had many publications and teaches in the Department of History. For more information, please contact David Stewart at 863-1431. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *FACULTY FORUM* The members of the Director of Faculty Development search committee, Elizabeth Green Musselman, Marty Gonzales, Diana Tenkhoff and Dirk Early, will be on hand to hear from the faculty regarding this position at the noon Faculty Forum Monday, Oct. 30, in the Lynda McCombs Room. Jack Green Musselman, who held a similar position at St. Edward's University, will also be present to provide some general information about this position. Sodexho will provide a hot lunch for $4.25 per person and coffee and tea will be available for 50 cents. Faculty, staff and guests are welcome to attend. MEDIA COVERAGE The /Denton Record-Chronicle/ ran an article that featured Francie Larrieu Smith and her involvement in the Dallas Race for the Cure. NOTABLES *Shana Bernstein*, assistant professor of history, spoke at the Western History Association in St. Louis Oct. 14 as an invited roundtable panelist. The roundtable she participated in was titled "Comparative Perspectives on Mexican American Citizenship from Law, History and Cultural Studies." *David Gaines*, associate professor of English and director of the Paideia? Program, presented "Bobby's in the Canon and I'm in the Classroom Mixin' Up the Curriculum" on Oct. 25 at the New School in New York City. Gaines was one of the invited lecturers for a New School colloquium regarding the life and work of Bob Dylan. He is currently turning his lecture into a paper for publication. The lead article in the October issue of Teaching Sociology is titled "Bridging the Gap between Cultures of Teaching and Culture of Research." The article presents data from job listings for academic sociology positions in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and documents an increasing call for faculty who combine teaching and research in their careers in academia. The author of the research article, *Edward L. Kain*, professor of sociology and University Scholar in the Sociology and Anthropology Department, provides a series of suggestions for changes that are needed to help bridge the gap between teaching and research within the changing landscape of higher education in the United States. *Helene Meyers*, professor of English, gave an invited lecture to the Women's Studies program at Texas A&M. The title of her talk was "Jewish Gender Trouble." *Aaron Prevots*, assistant professor of French, interviewed Colin Newman, a prime mover on the British music and arts scene since the late 1970s, for his Creative Process series. Newman is a songwriter, record producer, label owner and founding member of the group Wire. The interview may be read at http://www.southwestern.edu/~prevots/colin_newman_interview.html . *Eric Selbin*, professor of political science, presented a lecture on Oct. 24 titled "Is Revolution Still an Option in Latin America?" at The University of Texas' Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. *Kim Smith*, associate professor of art history, gave a talk titled "Expressionist Art History and the Return of the Repressed" on Oct. 1 at the annual German Studies Conference in Pittsburgh. *Ron Swain*, senior advisor to the president, led a roundtable discussion on the Partnership for Engaged Diversity at the American Association of Colleges and Universities' (AAC&U) Diversity and Learning Conference in Philadelphia. The partnership, involving five liberal arts institutions, is designed to create a culture of engaged diversity on each campus through joint programs, shared resources, and the meaningful interactions of students and faculty. 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