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<div class="style3" align="left"> IN FOCUS: December 7, 2007</div>
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<div align="left">SEVEN SOUTHWESTERN FACULTY MEMBERS RECEIVE
AWARDS FOR RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT</div>
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To view upcoming events at Southwestern by day, week or month, click <a
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<p>Seven Southwestern University faculty members have been named
2007 recipients of awards from the Sam Taylor Fellowship Fund. </p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Read the rest of the story <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=52">here</a>.</p>
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<td class="style6" scope="row" align="left" valign="top">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.
<p>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.</p>
<p>Read the rest of the story <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=54">here</a>.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Read the rest of the story <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=53">here</a>.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Romi Burks</strong>, assistant professor
of biology, gave a talk titled "Bad Eggs...Bad Snails: An<br>
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.</p>
<p><strong>Melissa Johnson</strong>, 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."</p>
<p><strong>Elizabeth Green Musselman</strong>, 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 <a
href="http://www.eh-resources.org/podcast/podcast.html">here</a>. The
program can be listened to directly from the computer or downloaded to
an mp3 player.</p>
<p><strong>Tim O'Neill</strong>, 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.</p>
<p>Students <strong>Eva Graham</strong>, <strong>Kim Griffin</strong>,
<strong>Leah Jones</strong>, <strong>Ursula James</strong>, <strong>Shannon
Burge</strong>, <strong>Shaun Cooper</strong>, <strong>Tanlyn Roelofs</strong>,
<strong>Melissa Dison</strong>, <strong>Shireen Tabrizi</strong>,
<strong>Cameron Holland</strong> and<strong> Daniel Quentin</strong>
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.</p>
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