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<div class="style3" align="left"> IN FOCUS: February 1, 2008</div>
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RECEIVES $66,000 GRANT FROM VERIZON <br>
TO FUND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUMMER INTERN PROGRAM<br>
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To view upcoming events at Southwestern by day, week or month, click <a
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. <br>
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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.</p>
<p>To read the rest of the story, go <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=60">here</a>.</p>
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<td scope="row" align="left" valign="top">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
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vainl@southwestern.edu">vainl@southwestern.edu</a>.
<p>This event is free and open to the public.</p>
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<td scope="row" align="left" valign="top">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.</td>
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<div class="style8" align="left">MEDIA COVERAGE </div>
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<p align="left">• The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> ran a story
about the nonprofit organization Chinese Professor Patricia Schiaffini
formed to help keep the Tibetan language alive. </p>
<p>• The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> ran a photo essay on an
evening in “The Cove.”</p>
<p>• The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> ran a story about the
groundbreaking for the Center for Lifelong Learning.</p>
<p>• The <em>Williamson County Sun </em>ran a story about the
grant Southwestern received from Verizon to fund a summer intern
program related to domestic violence.</p>
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<div class="style8" align="left">NOTABLES</div>
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<p align="left"><strong>Cristina Acalde</strong>, assistant
professor of anthropology, and<strong> Joe Zavala</strong>, 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”). <strong>Daniel Castro</strong>,
professor of history and chair of the Latin American Studies Program,
contributed an article to the book.</p>
<p><strong>Darren Aversa</strong>, visiting assistant professor
of Spanish, recently published an article titled “The Mystical Feeling:
Three Instances of Aporia in Madero, el otro.”</p>
<p><strong>Romi Burks</strong>, 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 <strong>Brandon
B. Boland</strong>, <strong>Mariana Meerhoff</strong>, <strong>Claudia
Fosalba</strong>, <strong>Nestor Mazzeo</strong> and <strong>Matthew
A. Barnes</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Dirk Early</strong>, 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.</p>
<p><strong>Mary Grace Neville</strong>, assistant professor of
business, has had an article accepted for publication titled “Using
Appreciative Inquiry and Dialogical Learning to Explore Dominant
Paradigms.”</p>
<p><strong>Hai Zheng-Olefsky</strong>, 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. <strong>Kiyoshi Tamagawa</strong>
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.</p>
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<p><em>Have a submission for “Notables”? Send it to
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:infocus@southwestern.edu">infocus@southwestern.edu</a>. </em><br>
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