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 IN FOCUS: February 1, 2008
 
* TOP NEWS *
	  	*CALENDAR*
SOUTHWESTERN RECEIVES $66,000 GRANT FROM VERIZON
TO FUND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUMMER INTERN PROGRAM
	  	*CAMPUS CALENDAR *

To view upcoming events at Southwestern by day, week or month, click 
here <http://www.southwestern.edu/sucalendar/main.php>.

Southwestern has received a $66,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation to 
fund a summer intern program that will enable students to work with 
victims of domestic violence.

During the summer of 2008, 10 students will work for agencies committed 
to addressing the epidemic of domestic violence. The students will help 
answer domestic violence emergency hotlines, provide care to children 
living at domestic violence shelters, work with law enforcement 
officials to provide support to victims, teach English as a second 
language to victims, assist agencies with grantwriting efforts, and help 
with public awareness campaigns such as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Agencies that students will work with include the Williamson County 
Children's Advocacy Center in Georgetown, LifeSteps in Georgetown and 
Round Rock, Services to At-Risk Runaway Youth (STARRY) in Round Rock, 
Hope Alliance Crisis Center in Round Rock, and SafePlace in Austin. The 
agencies will provide training, guidance and mentoring to the students 
to help them develop an understanding of their organizations as well as 
the issue of domestic violence itself.

Suzy Pukys, coordinator of civic engagement at Southwestern, said the 
program will benefit both students and the participating agencies. 
"Community partners will receive much-needed volunteer help for 10 weeks 
over the summer - when volunteer help traditionally dwindles - and 
students will gain insight and work experience around a pressing social 
problem," she said.

To read the rest of the story, go here 
<http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=60>.

EVENTS
CELLIST ANDRE EMELIANOFF TO GIVE RECITAL FEB. 5
The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Department of Music, presents cellist 
Andre Emelianoff in a solo recital at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 5, in the 
newly renovated Alma Thomas Theater of the Fine Arts Center. Emelianoff 
is an instructor of cello and chamber music at the Juilliard School. He 
will be accompanied by Kiyoshi Tamagawa, professor and chair of the 
Department of Music at Southwestern. For more information, contact Lacy 
Vain at 863-1379 or vainl at southwestern.edu.

This event is free and open to the public.

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GUITARIST MARKO FERI TO GIVE RECITAL FEB. 8
The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Department of Music, presents guitarist 
Marko Feri in a solo recital at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8 in the newly 
renovated Alma Thomas Theater of the Fine Arts Center. Feri is a 
professor of guitar at the Glasbena Matica Marij Kogoj in Trieste, Italy 
and also art director of the International Guitar Festival Kras in 
Slovenia.
MEDIA COVERAGE

. The /Williamson County Sun/ ran a story about the nonprofit 
organization Chinese Professor Patricia Schiaffini formed to help keep 
the Tibetan language alive.

. The /Williamson County Sun/ ran a photo essay on an evening in "The Cove."

. The /Williamson County Sun/ ran a story about the groundbreaking for 
the Center for Lifelong Learning.

. The /Williamson County Sun /ran a story about the grant Southwestern 
received from Verizon to fund a summer intern program related to 
domestic violence.

NOTABLES

*Cristina Acalde*, assistant professor of anthropology, and* Joe 
Zavala*, assistant professor of Spanish, co-authored a book titled 
"Visión del Perú de académicos peruanos en Estados Unidos" ("Vision of 
Peru by Peruvian Academics residing in the United States"). *Daniel 
Castro*, professor of history and chair of the Latin American Studies 
Program, contributed an article to the book.

*Darren Aversa*, visiting assistant professor of Spanish, recently 
published an article titled "The Mystical Feeling: Three Instances of 
Aporia in Madero, el otro."

*Romi Burks*, assistant professor of biology and chair of the Animal 
Behavior Program, has had her paper titled "Juvenile Snails, Adult 
Appetites: Contrasting Resource Consumption Between Two Species of 
Applesnails" published in the Journal of Molluscan Studies. The paper 
was a collaboration with student authors *Brandon B. Boland*, *Mariana 
Meerhoff*, *Claudia Fosalba*, *Nestor Mazzeo* and *Matthew A. Barnes*.

*Dirk Early*, professor of economics, presented "A New Geographical 
Housing Price Index for All Areas in the United States" at one of the 
American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association sessions at the 
Allied Social Science Associations meetings held in New Orleans. This 
work was coauthored with Edgar Olsen at the University of Virginia and 
Paul Carrillo of George Washington University.

*Mary Grace Neville*, assistant professor of business, has had an 
article accepted for publication titled "Using Appreciative Inquiry and 
Dialogical Learning to Explore Dominant Paradigms."

*Hai Zheng-Olefsky*, cellist and part-time assistant professor of music, 
has been invited by the conservatories in Guang Zhou and Macau to 
perform concerts and give master classes. In addition, Zheng-Olefsky was 
invited to perform a concert for the Asia Society in Hong Kong at the 
Hong Kong Club. *Kiyoshi Tamagawa* will accompany him on the Asia 
concert tour March 12-19. Their concert program will include premier 
works by Chinese composers as well as a work by the famous American 
composer Samuel Barber. A concert at Southwestern will be held Sat., 
Feb. 16 at 3 p.m. in the Alma Thomas Theater.

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