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 IN FOCUS: March 28, 2008
 
* TOP NEWS *
	  	*CALENDAR*
CAKE TO PERFORM AT SOUTHEWESTERN APRIL 17 	  	*CAMPUS CALENDAR *

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

Cake, a California-based alternative-indie rock band, will be the 
featured performer at the annual Large Act Concert to be held at 
Southwestern University on Thursday, April 17. Doors will open at 7 p.m. 
and the concert will begin at 8 p.m. in the Corbin J. Robertson Center 
(building #16 on the campus map at 
www.southwestern.edu/tour/campus-map.pdf).

Tickets for the concert are $10 for Southwestern students and $15 for 
faculty, staff and the general public. Southwestern students may 
purchase tickets online at 
www.southwestern.edu/studentactivities/caketickets.htm using Pirate Buc$ 
beginning Wednesday, March 26.

Tickets will be available to the public beginning April 7. They can be 
purchased in person at the Student Activities Office on the third floor 
of the McCombs Campus Center or at a table set up on the first floor of 
the Campus Center. Tickets also can be purchased at the door.

To read the rest of the story, click here 
<http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=75>.

EVENTS
KEYBOARD PERCUSSION FESTIVAL CONCERT MARCH 29

Percussionist Eric Hollenbeck will be a featured performer at the 2008 
Keyboard Percussion Festival Saturday, March 29. The festival is an 
all-day event intended to provide an educational and performance outlet 
for percussionists. Participants will be high-school aged percussionists 
and up from Central Texas. Hollenbeck's concert will be at 4:30 p.m. in 
the Lois Perkins Chapel. For more information about this event, contact 
Thaddeus Anderson at 512-863-1369 or andersot at southwestern.edu.

This event is free and open to the public.

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SOTTO VOCE CONCERT MARCH 29
The Music Department of the Sarofim School of Fine Arts presents Sotto 
Voce in concert Saturday, March 29, at 7 p.m. in the Alma Thomas 
Theater. Sotto Voce is a tuba-euphonium quartet. A clinic and master 
class for euphonium and tuba players will be available from 10 a.m.-4:30 
p.m. Please contact Eileen Meyer Russell at 512-863-1732 or 
russelle at southwestern.edu to attend the clinic or perform for Sotto Voce 
in the master class. For more information about the concert, contact 
Lacy Vain at 512-863-1379 or vainl at southwestern.edu.

The concert, clinic and class are all free and open to the public.

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VOICES OF MUSICAL CREATION SYMPOSIUM APRIL 6

The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Department of Music, presents Voices of 
Musical Creation, a symposium showcasing scholarly work and compositions 
submitted by music majors. The symposium will be offered in three 
session: 1-2:45 p.m., 3-5:15 p.m. and 5:30-6:45 p.m. on Sunday, April 6, 
in the Caldwell-Carver Foyer in the Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center. The 
compositions will feature performances from guitar, marimba, trumpet, 
viola, cello, a flute trio and mixed chorus. The paper presentations 
cover music written by composers from the 17th through the 20th 
centuries on issues ranging from politics to portrayals of disability, 
performance practice and religion. For more information on the 
symposium, contact Lacy Vain at 512-863-1379 or vainl at southwestern.edu.

This event is free and open to the public.

MEDIA COVERAGE

. The /Austin American-Statesman /ran an article about the 2008 Shilling 
Lecture. Read the article here 
<http://www.statesman.com/search/content/news/stories/local/03/21/0321hinotes.html>.

. The /Williamson County Sun/ ran an article about the 2008 Brown 
Symposium. It also ran an article about the Rudy Pozzatti art exhibit 
that is being shown in conjunction with the symposium.

. The /Williamson County Sun/ ran an article about the April 5 art 
festival students are organizing.

. The /Williamson County Sun/ ran an article about the Sarofim School of 
Fine Arts upcoming performance of "Chanticleer."

. Biology professor Max Taub is quoted in a March 24 /New Scientist 
a/rticle about the effects of climate change on rice crops. Read the 
article here 
<http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn13517-major-food-source-threatened-by-climate-change.html>. 
The April edition of /Natural History/ magazine also includes a short 
piece about Taub's crop protein research.

. Biology professor Max Taub also was interviewed on /Radio Singapore 
International/. You can hear his interview here 
<http://www.rsi.sg/english/frontiers/view/20080219165052/1/.html>.

. The spring 2008 issue of the Pi Kappa Alpha national magazine, /Shield 
& Diamond/, had an article about the revitalization of the Alpha Omicron 
Chapter at Southwestern.

NOTABLES

*Alicia Betsinger*, director of institutional research, recently had a 
grant proposal funded. The grant was funded through the Association of 
Institutional Research and is a one-year research grant for $21, 733. 
The grant will be used towards research designed to measure the 
"graduation rate performance" category for liberal arts colleges by the 
U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Colleges. The research will 
provide a methodology and statistical approach to evaluate a college's 
own "graduation rate performance" as well as potential models to explain 
higher or lower-than expected graduation rates.

*Aaron Prevots*, assistant professor of French, was elected by the 
executive committee of the Modern Language Association-Division on 
20th-Century French Literature to serve as division representative in 
the MLA Delegate Assembly for the period January 2008-January 2011. He 
also received a 2008 summer scholarship from the American Association of 
Teachers of French for their two-week "Seminar in Switzerland and 
Belgium" sponsored by Présence Suisse and the Communauté française de 
Belgique Wallonie-Bruxelles.

*Frank and Lynn Guziec*, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 
recently published two articles: "Six-Membered Rings Containing Selenium 
or Tellurium" and "Six-Membered Rings with Two or More Selenium or 
Tellurium Heteroatoms." The articles were published in /Comprehensive 
Heterocyclic Chemistr/y.

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-- 
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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