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<div class="style10" align="left"> IN FOCUS: October 6, 2006 </div>
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<div align="left"><strong>SOUTHWESTERN RECEIVES GRANT TO HELP
COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS TRANSFER TO THE UNIVERSITY</strong></div>
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<p><b>October</b> </p>
<p> <strong>6</strong> Volleyball vs. University of the South, 3
p.m.<br>
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<strong>6</strong> Volleyball vs. Centre, 7 p.m.<br>
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<strong>7</strong> Volleyball vs. DePauw, 2 p.m.<br>
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<strong>7</strong> Volleyball vs. Oglethorp, 6 p.m.<br>
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<strong>8</strong> Faculty recital, Eileen Meyer Russell, low
brass, and Kiyoshi Tamagawa, piano, 3 p.m., Caldwell-Carvey Foyer<br>
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<strong>8</strong> Volleyball vs. Rhodes College, 2 p.m.<br>
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<strong>9</strong> Career Encounters: Blast-Off, noon-1 p.m.,
Bishops Lounge, McCombs Campus Center<br>
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<strong>9</strong> Careers in Health, 4-5 p.m., Howry Center<br>
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<strong>10</strong> Careers in Accounting, 4:15 - 5:30 p.m.,
Howry Center<br>
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<strong>11</strong> Careers in Law, 4-5 p.m., Howry Center<br>
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<strong>11</strong> Wednesday Wisdom, 5-6:30 p.m., McCook-Crain
Building<br>
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<strong>11-12</strong> Peace Conference 2006 <br>
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<strong>12</strong> Making a Living...Making a Difference, 4-6
p.m., Howry Center<br>
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<strong>13</strong> Volleyball vs. Lakeland College, 2 p.m.<br>
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<strong>13</strong> Volleyball vs. Hardin-Simmons University, 7
p.m.<br>
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<strong>13</strong> Chart Your Course: Pizza & Open House, 11
a.m.-1 p.m., McCook-Crain Building<br>
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<strong>14</strong> Volleyball vs. Ohio Northern University, noon<br>
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<strong>14</strong> Volleyball vs. Washington & Lee
University, 5 p.m.<br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Read the entire story <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/newsroom/news/061002.html">here</a>.<br>
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<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>The performance is free and open to the public. For more
information, call The Sarofim School of Fine Arts at (512) 863-1504.<br>
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<p>There is no Faculty Forum scheduled for Monday, Oct. 9.</p>
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<p align="left">The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> ran an
article about the $50,000 grant provided by 3M for research focusing on
the San Gabriel River Trail.<br>
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Beverly Jones and Ansa Copeland appeared on Austin Faith Dialogue
Sunday talking about the Oct. 11-12 peace conference.<br>
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<p align="left">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.<br>
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Junior <strong>Jessica Hager</strong> and <strong>Ron Swain</strong>,
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.<br>
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Junior <strong>Kate Dallas</strong> 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.<br>
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<strong>M. Cristina Alcalde</strong>, 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<em> Meridians: Feminism, Race,
Transnationalism</em>. </p>
<p align="left"><strong>Romi Burks</strong>, 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 <em>Wetlands:
Functioning, Biodiversity Conservation, and Restoration</em>.</p>
<p align="left"><strong>Aaron Prevots</strong>, assistant
professor of French, had a manuscript of poetry in translation
accepted. <em>Return to Calm</em>, from the original French by Jacques
Réda, 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.<br>
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