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 IN FOCUS: December 7, 2007
 
* TOP NEWS *
	  	*CALENDAR*
SEVEN SOUTHWESTERN FACULTY MEMBERS RECEIVE AWARDS FOR RESEARCH AND 
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
	  	*CAMPUS CALENDAR *

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here <http://www.southwestern.edu/sucalendar/main.php>.

Seven Southwestern University faculty members have been named 2007 
recipients of awards from the Sam Taylor Fellowship Fund.

The fund provides monetary awards for the continuing education and 
development of full-time faculty members of United Methodist colleges 
and universities in Texas. Applicants are required to submit programs 
that will "contribute to the improvement of the quality of intellectual, 
community or religious life of the state of Texas and the nation."

Southwestern received a total of $13,270 in grant money from the fund 
this year. Each faculty member will receive between $1,500 and $2,000. 
The recipients plan to use their funds for projects ranging from cancer 
research to private lessons with some of the country's leading musicians.

Read the rest of the story here 
<http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=52>.

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SOUTHWESTERN PROFESSOR PERFORMS AT CARNEGIE HALL DEC. 8
Pianist Kiyoshi Tamagawa, professor and chair of the Department of Music 
at Southwestern University, will perform in a chamber music concert at 
Carnegie Hall in New York City Dec. 8.

The concert resulted in part from a recital held at Southwestern in the 
spring of 2006 with Tamagawa and Evangeline Benedetti, New York 
Philharmonic cellist for 40 years. Tamagawa and Benedetti began 
discussing ways to perform together again. A recording of their 2006 
performance was submitted to Mid-America Productions, a company that 
produces concerts in major halls in New York. They will produce the 
recital for Tamagawa and Benedetti, which will also include Stanley 
Drucker, first clarinetist of the Philharmonic, and Serena Benedetti, an 
operatic soprano.

Read the rest of the story here 
<http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=54>.

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SOUTHWESTERN PARTICIPATES IN NEW GEORGETOWN-BASED BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTER

Southwestern University is among the founding partners of a new 
Georgetown-based biotechnology center that has the potential to 
revolutionize healthcare in the United States.

The new center is called the Texas Life Sciences Commercialization 
Center (TLCC). Its purpose is to help companies that have commercially 
viable biotechnology products take them to the next step.

"The center provides administrative support so companies can concentrate 
on product development," explains TLCC President Russ Peterman. Support 
services include business consulting, accounting, legal services, and 
advice on securing venture capital and other funding sources.

TLCC has begun operation in a 15,000-square foot building located in the 
Georgetown South Commercial Park. Three companies are currently located 
at the center: Orthopeutics, Quantum Logic Devices and Radix BioSolutions.

Read the rest of the story here 
<http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=53>.

EVENTS
RECOGNITION CEREMONY FOR SUMMER AND DECEMBER GRADUATES DEC. 16

The recognition ceremony for summer 2007 and December 2007 graduates 
will be held Dec. 16 in the Lois Perkins Chapel. The ceremony will begin 
at 2 p.m.

NOTABLES

*Romi Burks*, assistant professor of biology, gave a talk titled "Bad 
Eggs...Bad Snails: An
update on the ecology of the Texas applesnail, Pomacea insularum" on 
Dec. 1st at the 3rd annual meeting of a group of central Texas 
ecologists and earth scientists. Burks was also elected to co-chair the 
academic program for the meeting next year.

*Melissa Johnson*, associate professor of anthropology, presented 
"Cleaning the Yard: Trash and Bush in Rural Belize" in the panel 
"Rubbish, or Not" at the American Anthropological Association's Annual 
Meeting in Washington, D.C., Nov. 28-Dec. 2. She also was a discussant 
for the panel "Landscape Interrupted: Reflections on Experiences of 
Place and Displacement."

*Elizabeth Green Musselman*, associate professor of history, appeared in 
a half-hour interview about her South Africa research on the "Exploring 
Environmental History" podcast. The interview focuses on the 
relationship between environmental history and the history of science, 
the extent to which South Africa has a unique environmental history and 
how Africans' own environmental knowledge made its way into colonial 
science. The audio file is available online here 
<http://www.eh-resources.org/podcast/podcast.html>. The program can be 
listened to directly from the computer or downloaded to an mp3 player.

*Tim O'Neill*, professor of political science and holder of the 
Tower-Hester Chair in Political Science, published his review of Barbara 
Perry's "The Michigan Affirmative Action Cases" (Kansas, 2007) in the 
November issue of the Law and Politics Book Review.

Students *Eva Graham*, *Kim Griffin*, *Leah Jones*, *Ursula James*, 
*Shannon Burge*, *Shaun Cooper*, *Tanlyn Roelofs*, *Melissa Dison*, 
*Shireen Tabrizi*, *Cameron Holland* and* Daniel Quentin* attended the 
first annual Powershift gathering in Washington D.C. Powershift is a 
gathering of college and high school students across the nation to stand 
together against climate change. The conference held panel discussions 
on activism, greening university supply chains or cafeterias, and how to 
engage other students in environmental issues. Speakers at the gathering 
included Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Green Party Candidate 
Ralph Nader.

 

  	  	 

-- 
Katy Boose
Editorial Coordinator
Southwestern University
1001 E. University Ave.
Georgetown, TX 78626
512-863-1487
boosek at southwestern.edu
www.southwestern.edu

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