From su-infocus at southwestern.edu Fri Feb 2 08:28:52 2007 From: su-infocus at southwestern.edu (su-infocus@southwestern.edu) Date: Fri Feb 2 08:30:42 2007 Subject: [InFocus] In Focus 2/02 Message-ID: <45C34AA4.1090502@southwestern.edu> IN FOCUS: February 2, 2007 * TOP NEWS * *CALENDAR * *MARCH 5-6 SYMPOSIUM AT SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY TAKES A NEW LOOK AT OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH ANIMALS* *February* *2-17* Fine Line: Mental Health/Mental Illness, Fine Arts Gallery *3* Baseball, alumni game, 2 p.m. *4* Faculty recital: David Asbury, guitar, and Hai Zheng, cello, 3 p.m., Mood-Bridwell Atrium *7* Gallery talk: "Madness in the Media: Mr. Monk's Postmodern Identity," 5 p.m., Olin 105 *9* Women's basketball vs. Trinity, 6 p.m. *9* Men's basketball vs. Trinity, 8 p.m. *10* Baseball vs. Schreiner, 2 p.m. *11* Baseball vs. Schreiner, 1 p.m. *12* Women's basketball vs. University of Dallas, 6 p.m. *12 *Fleming Lecture in Religion, 7 p.m., McCombs Ballroom *12* Men's basketball vs. University of Dallas, 8 p.m. *15* Baseball vs. Huston-Tillotson University, 3 p.m. *16-18* Family Days *16* Women's basketball vs. Austin College, 6 p.m. *16* Men's basketball vs. Austin College, 8 p.m. *17* Honors Convocation, 9:30 a.m., Lois Perkins Chapel *17* Guest artist recital: Walter Stout, organ, 3 p.m., Lois Perkins Chapel *17* Baseball vs. Concordia, 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. *17* Women's basketball vs. Hendrix, 6 p.m. 17 Men's basketball vs. Hendrix, 8 p.m. *21* Baseball vs. McMurry, 2 p.m. *23-March 4* Company, Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m., Jesse and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater *25* Baseball vs. University of Dallas, 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Animals. Sometimes we consider them our best friends and other times we experiment on them, mass produce them for food, use them for entertainment, and encroach on their habitats. This "dualism" will be the topic of the 29th Brown Symposium to be held at Southwestern University March 5-6. The symposium is titled "Who Do We Think We Are?!" Conference organizer Laura Hobgood-Oster, chair of the Religion and Philosophy Department, says the conference will take a new look at our relationship with animals from a variety of perspectives, including the scientific, legal, ethical and religious. She says the conference topic is timely because of our growing reliance on mass-produced animals for food. Most of the livestock and poultry we eat today are raised in confined feedlots or tiny cages known as CAFOs - concentrated animal feeding operations. "Factory farming is arguably the cruelest interaction humans have had with animals," Hobgood-Oster says. Speakers participating in the symposium include Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker; Marc Bekoff, a professor of biology at the University of Colorado - Boulder and co-founder with Jane Goodall of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; Ines Talamantez, a professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara; and Paul Waldau, director of the Center for Animals and Public Policy at the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. Tufts has the only veterinary school in the country that does not do research on live animals unless they are already sick or injured. The symposium also will include an art exhibition organized by Professor of Art Star Varner. The exhibition is titled "Measured Strokes, Spontaneous Beasts: Paintings by Sarah Canright and Melissa W. Miller." Canright and Miller are nationally acclaimed artists whose works have been in prestigious museum exhibitions and have garnered attention from the most influential art critics and publications including /The New York Times/, /Art in America/ and /Art Forum/. Also, on the evening of March 5, there will be a viewing of a 2002 documentary by Sarita Siegel titled "The Disenchanted Forest." The documentary focuses on orphaned orangutans that are rehabilitated and returned to their rainforest home in Borneo. Hundreds of orangutans in southeast Asia have been threatened by the destruction of their habitat and the illegal pet trade. The film will be shown at 9 p.m. in Olin 105. The symposium is free and open to the public. All the lectures will be held in the Corbin J. Robertson Center. For more information, visit www.southwestern.edu/brownxxix or call 512-863-1669. Read the entire story here . *SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR LEADS PROJECT TO GATHER STORIES OF FEMALE COMPUTER SCIENCE PIONEERS* This year, only one female student will be graduating from Southwestern University with a degree in computer science. Nationwide, the statistics are pretty much the same: only about 20 percent of students receiving degrees in computer science are women. Encouraging more women to enter the field of computer science is among the goals of a project being led by Barbara Boucher Owens, an associate professor of computer science at Southwestern. Owens is working on an oral history project to document the stories of the women who pioneered the field of computer science. The project began several years ago after a number of papers and books reported alarming trends in the number of students pursing careers in computer science, particularly women. Shrinking numbers are especially problematic for women, Owens said, because research shows that one of the keys to success for women in computer science is to have the support of other women. "As fewer women enter the field, there is no one for other women to talk to," she said. In 2004, Owens organized a meeting to discuss the problem with colleagues in the Association for Computer Machinery's Computer Science Education Special Interest Group. Owens has been a member of this group's board since 1995 and currently serves as its vice chair. One idea they came up with was to collect oral histories of women who have persevered in the field. The group got several experts to train them on how to collect oral histories, and Owens has received several grants to fund the project. In 2005, she received a grant from the Sam Taylor Fellowship Fund which helped her purchase the equipment needed to record the stories. Just recently, she received a $40,000 grant from the National Science Foundation that will help her and her colleagues continue planning the project. Still to be determined, she said, are questions such as how many people to interview and what age range should be covered. She noted that some men also will be interviewed for the project. Boucher helped collect the first interview for the project in 2005 with Maria Klawe, the first woman to serve as president of Harvey Mudd College, one of the country's premier undergraduate colleges for engineering, science and mathematics. Since then, Owens and her colleagues have collected oral histories from 11 women and three men. Excerpts from some of the interviews are posted online at a temporary Web site Owens set up at http://cs.southwestern.edu/OHProject/. This semester, students in the computer science capstone class at Southwestern are working on improvements to this Web site. The class is being taught by Vicki Almstrum, a well-known software engineering educator from The University of Texas at Austin who is working with Owens on the oral history project. In addition to posting the stories online, Owens hopes to publish a book with selected stories. Read the entire story here . * EVENTS * Robert Alter, professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of /The Art of Biblical Narrative/, /The Art of Biblical Poetry/, /Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem/, and numerous other books and publications, will present the 2007 Fleming Lecture in Religion on "The Body in Psalms" Monday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m. in the McCombs Ballroom. A reception will follow. As a scholar of comparative literature, Alter caused a revolution in Biblical studies by applying newer methods of literary analysis to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. His translation and notes for /Genesis/, and also for the books of Samuel under the title of /The David Story/, are probably the best that exist in English. The Fleming Lecture in Religion, a series named in honor of former President Durwood Fleming and his wife, is funded by a gift from St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Houston. The Sarofim School of Fine Arts presents "Madness in the Media: Mr. Monk's Postmodern Identity," a lecture by Davi Johnson, assistant professor of communication studies, at 5 p.m. in the F.W. Olin Building, room 105, Wednesday, Feb. 7. Contemporary television is filled with images of mental illness. Recent statistics show, for example, that more than 20 percent of prime-time television shows feature representations of mental illness. In the past, these images have been very negative: examples might include typical stereotypes such as "psycho," the serial killer, or the fool. Persons with mental illness have most commonly been portrayed as different, aggressive, violent and dangerous. This is starting to change; positive representations are becoming more frequent. For example, shows including "ER" and "Scrubs" have won awards from advocacy groups for their constructive images of persons with mental illness. In the talk, Johnson will address what is at stake in these changing patterns of representing mental illness. These representational shifts reflect broader transformations in social understandings of mental illness and what it means to be "normal." Johnson will look at the hit show "Monk" (the USA Network series about a detective with obsessive compulsive disorder) to illustrate the specific ways in which television representations reflect a more positive image of persons with mental illness. *FACULTY FORUM* Dan Hilliard, professor of sociology, and Mary Young, professor of economics, will lead the noon Faculty Forum titled "Attempts to Measure and Improve the Health of Williamson County Youth" on Monday, Feb. 5, in the Lynda McCombs Room. Sodexho will provide a hot lunch for $4.25 per person and coffee and tea will be available for 50 cents. MEDIA COVERAGE President Jake Schrum recorded a commentary on college tuition that aired Jan. 30 on National Public Radio stations across the country. It ran as part of the program called the "Marketplace Morning Report" that airs during NPR's "Morning Edition." Listen to the program on the Marketplace Web site at http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/01/30/AM200701302.html. The /Williamson County Sun/ ran an article about Southwestern University receiving a $2 million gift toward the Center for Lifelong Learning. The /Austin American-Statesman/ ran an article about Edward L. Kain, professor of sociology and University Scholar, receiving the 2007 Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award. NOTABLES *David Tabb Stewart*, assistant professor of religion and philosophy, presented the paper "Stories as Shades: (Bat-)Yiftach as Specter for the Outrage at Gibeah" at the annual conference of the Association for Jewish Studies in San Diego on Dec. 17, 2006. In November, he also presented two papers at the annual conference of the Society of Biblical Literature. The first was titled "Deafness and Temple Service: Why the Priests Don't Need to Hear;" the second, "The Politick Text: 17th-Century Text-Reception of Leviticus in English." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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George Oldziey, who teaches jazz piano and composition in The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, played a role in selecting the finalists for several of this year's awards, which are considered the most coveted of the many music industry awards. Oldziey chaired a committee responsible for selecting the finalists in the categories of Best Original Composition, Best Instrumental Arrangement and Best Vocal Arrangement. He was chosen for the task because he is a member of the Texas Chapter of the Grammy Association-an honor he earned because of his own reputation as a composer. In order to be invited to join the Grammy Association, artists must have their work featured in a certain number of commercial recordings. Oldziey has written the music for several Hollywood films, including "Spy Kids," "Once Upon a Time in Mexico," "Sin City" and "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D." He also has written music for some of the biggest hits in the computer game industry, including the "Wing Commander" and "Ultima" game series, and the Playstation 2 version of "Spongebob Squarepants." Oldziey explained that Grammy Association chapters across the country coordinate the judging of several categories. Committees such as his are appointed to screen the nominations that come in for the various categories and recommend five nominees in each category for all members of the Grammy Association to vote on. Ballots for the final voting are mailed to all Association members. Although he received an invitation to attend the awards ceremony this weekend, Oldziey had to turn it down because he his busy working on the score for a new Robert Rodriguez film called "Grindhouse," which is scheduled for an April release. Read the entire story here . *CALL FOR SUMMER CONFERENCE ASSISTANTS* The University Events Office is accepting applications for Summer Conference Assistants. Persons selected for these positions will have the opportunity to use their leadership and communication skills, work with diverse populations, and learn the details involved in conference and event planning. Interested applicants must not be attending summer school and be willing to work weekdays, evenings and weekends as necessary. The position requires a 30-60 hour workweek at $5.90 per hour, plus free room and board. Hours exceeding 40 hours in one workweek will be paid at time and a half. Current first-year, sophomore and junior students are eligible to apply and must be willing to live on campus in assigned housing during the conference season. The period of employment is approximately May 30 through July 31, 2007. To access the job description and application, please go to http://www.southwestern.edu/events/2007_SC_Job_Description_and_Application.doc or stop by the University Events Office, Cullen 33, and ask for a job description and application. Applications are due in the University Events Office by 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 19. Feel free to attach your resume to your application. * EVENTS * Robert Alter, professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of /The Art of Biblical Narrative/, /The Art of Biblical Poetry/, /Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem/, and numerous other books and publications, will present the 2007 Fleming Lecture in Religion on "The Body in Psalms" Monday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m. in the McCombs Ballroom. A reception will follow. As a scholar of comparative literature, Alter caused a revolution in Biblical studies by applying newer methods of literary analysis to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. His translation and notes for /Genesis/, and also for the books of Samuel under the title of /The David Story/, are probably the best that exist in English. The Fleming Lecture in Religion, a series named in honor of former President Durwood Fleming and his wife, is funded by a gift from St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Houston. *FACULTY FORUM* There is no Faculty Forum scheduled for Monday, Feb. 12. MEDIA COVERAGE The /Williamson County Sun/ ran an article on a collaborative service project with Southwestern and Georgetown High School students. As part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration, the students filled backpacks with school supplies for homeless children. The /Austin American-Statesman/ ran an article about Southwestern University receiving a $2 million gift toward the Center for Lifelong Learning. NOTABLES *Helene Meyers*, professor of English, published an article titled "Jewish Gender Trouble: Women Writing Men of Valor" in the latest issue of Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Other universities involved with the project will be Dillard University in New Orleans, Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Morehouse College in Atlanta and Rhodes College in Memphis. The five universities are already participating in a three-year collaborative leadership and student exchange project funded by a $100,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation. The new grant will help the five universities extend the benefits of the student exchange program to faculty members. Read the entire article here . *THREE SOUTHWESTERN STUDENTS EARN OPPORTUNITY TO PERFORM IN AMERICAN OPERA DEBUT* Three Southwestern students shared the spotlight last month as the Austin Lyric Opera performed the American debut of the Philip Glass' opera "Waiting for the Barbarians." David Smith, Dolores Noel and Katherine Wiggins were selected to be part of the 44-member chorus for the production, which received positive reviews from both critics and audience members. The opera is a dramatic allegory of oppressor and oppressed, based on the 1980 novel of the same name by John M. Coetzee, a South African writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. The students were very excited about performing in an opera composed by such a well-known musician and in a professional setting. "I was surrounded by such a large amount of talent and skill," Wiggins said. "To meet the composer himself was overwhelming and felt like the chance of a lifetime." Smith added, "You get an idea of how a professional staging works and you get to watch opera singers and the level of performance demanded from them. Most importantly, you can strengthen your voice dramatically as a result of all the singing you do in such a short time." Bruce Cain, assistant professor of music, reduced the number of scheduled performances of the opera "Don Giovanni" at Southwestern to give the students much-needed time for rehearsals with the ALO. He felt it was an educational and professional experience too important to be missed. "It is an incredible opportunity to be seen by critics and to work with directors and singers from around the world," Cain said. Smith graduated in December, but returned to Southwestern in January to play the lead role of Don Giovanni. Noel is working on auditions for summer opera workshops in Austria, and Wiggins looks forward to her roles in the opera "The Story of Silly Baby Mouse," which will be showing at Southwestern in April. * EVENTS * The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Theatre Department, presents "Company," the 1971 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical, directed by Rick Roemer. Performances run from Feb. 23 to March 4 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. in the Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater. "Company" is a passionate and wonderfully edgy and witty musical that takes a sharp look at love and commitment through the marriages of five couples as seen through the eyes of their single friend Robert. It explores love and commitment, fear and longing, and the simple joy of being alive. An honest and sophisticated look at relationships, "Company" offers a fresh perspective on our most cherished institution, marriage--its troubles and triumphs, its viciousness and victories. Individual ticket prices are $15 adults, $12 senior and $10 students. Call the box office at 512-863-1378 to reserve your tickets. *FACULTY FORUM* Aaron Prevots, assistant professor of French, will lead the noon Faculty Forum titled "Facilitating Connections: Collaboration through Technology and Music" on Monday, Feb. 19, in the Lynda McCombs Room. Sodexho will provide a hot lunch for $4.25 per person and coffee and tea will be available for 50 cents. MEDIA COVERAGE The /Williamson County Sun/ ran an article about the feasibility study being conducted on the proposed conference center on Southwestern's campus. The /Austin American-Statesman/ ran an article about the Southwestern dance team. A video clip of the team's performance at a basketball game was included on the /Statesman's/ Web site. NOTABLES During the week of Feb. 5, *Edward L. Kain*, professor of sociology and University Scholar, served on the external review team for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Berry College in Mount Berry, Ga. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Miller," 6 - 7:30 p.m., Fine Arts Gallery *6 *Faculty Recital: Thaddeus Anderson, percussion, 7 p.m., Caldwell-Carvey Foyer *6* Baseball vs. Howard Payne, 3 p.m. *7* Baseball vs. Mary Hardin-Baylor, 7 p.m. *9* Tennis vs. Kenyon College, 2 p.m. James Baker III, the former secretary of state who most recently served as co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, will give the 2007 Shilling Lecture at Southwestern University. The lecture will be held Wednesday, April 18, at 3 p.m. in the Corbin J. Robertson Center. Baker served in senior government positions under three U.S. presidents. His career in public service began in 1975 as under secretary of commerce to President Gerald Ford. He served as White House chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1985, and then served as secretary of the treasury and chairman of the President's Economic Policy Council from 1985 to 1988. Baker served as secretary of state under President George Bush from January 1989 through August 1992, during which time he traveled to 90 foreign countries as the United States confronted the unprecedented challenges and opportunities of the post-Cold War era. He concluded his White House tenure by serving as chief of staff and senior counselor to President Bush from August 1992 to January 1993. From 1997 to 2004, Baker served as the personal envoy of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to seek a political solution to the conflict over Western Sahara. In 2003, he was appointed special presidential envoy for President George W. Bush on the issue of Iraqi debt. In 2005, he was co-chair, with former President Jimmy Carter, of the Federal Commission on Election Reform. In March 2006, Baker and former U.S. Congressman Lee H. Hamilton were named co-chairs of the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan blue-ribbon panel examining a forward-looking approach to Iraq. Baker is presently a senior partner in the law firm of Baker Botts. He is Honorary Chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Houston and serves on the board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Tickets for the lecture will be available to the general public at http://www.southwestern.edu/shilling-lectures/ beginning April 2. Read the entire article here . *SUMMIT PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE* In November, Southwestern hosted a national summit of scholars and business leaders to discuss ways to improve the business programs offered at liberal arts colleges. The summit proceedings are now available on the project Web site at www.southwestern.edu/laab. These proceedings are being distributed to liberal arts colleges across the country. For more information about the summit, contact Mary Grace Neville . To join the project listserv, contact A.J. Senchack . * EVENTS * *SOUTHWESTERN TO SPONSOR E-RECYCLING EVENT FOR THE COMMUNITY MARCH 3* Students and staff members from Southwestern University are partnering with Austin-based Axcess Technologies to offer a communitywide "E-recycling" event on Saturday, March 3. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the parking lot behind the Cullen Building at the intersection of Hwy. 29 and Maple Street. Residents are invited to bring old computers, monitors, printers, telephones, cameras, scanners and other "e-waste." All equipment will be reused, recycled or refurbished in an environmentally safe way by Axcess Technologies. Southwestern sponsors of the event include Information Technology Services (ITS) and Students for Environmental Activism and Knowledge (SEAK). Ben Johnson, president of SEAK, said his organization jumped at the opportunity to be involved with the event. "The age of technology that we are experiencing today has brought many great things to our world, but it has also brought a huge amount of high-tech trash that is usually never recycled because people do not have access to a proper recycling service," Johnson said. "This lack of recycling often leads to the deportation of trash to Third World countries that have no way of properly getting rid of the waste. We want to help Southwestern and Georgetown take a step in the right direction and relieve pressure on the environment as well as on those who unfortunately receive responsibility for our waste." For more information on the event, call 512-863-1642. *'COMPANY' OPENS THIS WEEKEND* The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Theatre Department, presents "Company," the 1971 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical, directed by Rick Roemer. Performances run from Feb. 23 to March 4 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. in the Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater. "Company" is a passionate and wonderfully edgy and witty musical that takes a sharp look at love and commitment through the marriages of five couples as seen through the eyes of their single friend Robert. It explores love and commitment, fear and longing, and the simple joy of being alive. An honest and sophisticated look at relationships, "Company" offers a fresh perspective on our most cherished institution, marriage--its troubles and triumphs, its viciousness and victories. Individual ticket prices are $15 adults, $12 senior and $10 students. Call the box office at 512-863-1378 to reserve your tickets. *FACULTY FORUM* Joan Parks, head of reference services at the A. Frank Smith Library Center, will lead the noon Faculty Forum titled "New database (LexisNexis) supports a broad range of interdisciplinary research" on Monday, Feb. 26, in the Lynda McCombs Ballroom. LexisNexis Academic is a full-text database of English language sources arranged into five major categories for easy reference: News, business, medical, legal research, and reference information. The new Web-based academic version of LexisNexis is now available through the A. Frank Smith Library Center. The presentation will demonstrate ways to search each of its five categories. Sodexho will provide a hot lunch for $4.25 per person and coffee and tea will be available for 50 cents. MEDIA COVERAGE The /Williamson County Sun/ ran a story about Barbara Boucher-Owen's oral history project on women in computer science. The /Williamson County Sun/ ran a story on the presentation of the Martha Diaz Hurtado College Town Award to the Downtown Georgetown Association. The /Williamson County Sun /ran a story on the dedication of Southwestern University's Habitat for Humanity House. The January/February issue of /Austin Runner/ included an interview with track and cross-country coach Francie Larrieu Smith. NOTABLES *Michael Cooper* published the first-ever source-critical edition of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's settings of Psalms 2, 43 and 22 with B?renreiter-Verlag (Kassel). First published posthumously and reprinted numerous times only in fragmentary and corrupt forms, the works were written in 1843-44 as part of a project of sweeping German cultural reform and establishment of a reformed Protestant liturgy undertaken by the recently crowned King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia. For that reason and because of their musical and expressive merits they stand as milestones in the history of unaccompanied choral composition. *Elizabeth Green Musselman*, associate professor of history and chair of feminist studies, has had several guest essays appear on others'podcasts. You can hear her talking about her junior-high gym teacher on the Toronto-based storytelling podcast Quirky Nomads http://quirkynomads.com/wp/2006/11/16/ and reflecting on the history of men and knitting on the Sydney-based knitting podcast Sticks and String http://sticksandstring.com.au/. *Aaron Prevots*, assistant professor of French, recently published two articles. "U2 and Learning/Teaching: You Too" appeared in Brown University's Teaching Exchange and "Language and Culture through Music Online" appeared in Wabash College's Academic Commons. Prevots also led a professional development seminar for professors of French and Spanish at Austin Community College on "Songs and Language Learning." Southwestern University Music Department faculty and students were well represented at the recent Texas Music Educators' Association convention in San Antonio. *Eileen Meyer Russell*, associate professor of music, gave a presentation titled "From Legato to Staccato: Teaching Low Brass Players to Articulate." *William Dick*, instructor of music, and Laurie Scott, former Southwestern University faculty member and now assistant professor of music and human learning at The University of Texas at Austin, gave their presentation "Construction Zone: The Beginning Bow Arm." The SU student string quartet composed of *Eileen Kwee* and *Victoria Chang*, violins, *Rohan Sreenivasan*, viola, and *Megan McCarty*, cello, performed in the TMEA Music Showcase. The quartet is coached by *Eri Lee Lam*, assistant professor of music. *Kiyoshi Tamagawa*'s orchestration of the Handel-Halvorsen "Passacaglia" was performed by the Berkner High School (Richardson) State Honor String Orchestra. 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