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<div class="style3" align="left"> IN FOCUS: February 29, 2008</div>
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<th class="style6" scope="row" align="left" valign="top">SOUTHWESTERN
TO HOST ENVIRONMENTAL SUMMIT FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS MARCH 8 </th>
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To view upcoming events at Southwestern by day, week or month, click <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/sucalendar/main.php">here</a>.<br>
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<p>Southwestern is hosting an “environmental summit” for high
school students and interested community members on Saturday, March 8,
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the F.W. Olin Building.</p>
<p>Summit participants will learn about environmental issues from
a variety of disciplines, network with students from across central
Texas, and learn about activism opportunities and organizing techniques.</p>
<p>“We want to get students engaged in the environmental
movement,” said coordinator Kimberly Griffin, a sophomore at
Southwestern. “The discussions are going to look at environmental
issues through economic, historical and philosophical perspectives. The
purpose is to try to get high school students talking to each other.”</p>
<p>Griffin helped organize the summit as part of an internship
project sponsored by the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS). </p>
<p>Keynote speaker for the conference will be Trevor Lovell of
Public Citizen in Austin. Other speakers will include Laura
Hobgood-Oster, chair of the Environmental Studies Program at
Southwestern; Melissa Johnson, associate professor of anthropology at
Southwestern; Erik Loomis, a visiting scholar in history at
Southwestern; Sue Mennicke, director of intercultural learning at
Southwestern; Emily Northrop, associate professor of economics at
Southwestern; and Suzy Pukys, coordinator of volunteer resources and
community-based learning at Southwestern.</p>
<p>To read the rest of the story, click <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=67">here</a>.</p>
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<p>Jeremy Battle’s experiences growing up in Brighton, Alabama,
led him to believe in the importance and power of diversity.<br>
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Brighton, near Birmingham, is home to 3,640 residents, 89 percent of
whom are African-American. Battle did not experience much diversity in
high school until the summer after his junior year, when he attended a
four-week college preparatory program at Stanford University. <br>
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“ I loved it,” Battle says of his experience at Stanford. “Getting out
and seeing what the rest of the world looked like was everything I
dreamed about as a kid.” <br>
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Battle performed so well at the Stanford program that faculty members
there urged him to continue his education at the university. He was
accepted at Stanford and spent his first two years there before
transferring to Morehouse College in Atlanta, which is the only
all-male historically Black institution of high learning in America.</p>
<p>“I was involved with so many things at Stanford that my
personal needs, as a kid from Brighton, were not being fulfilled,”
Battle says. “At Morehouse, I found a greater sense of confidence and a
sense of optimism that charged me to succeed.”<br>
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This spring, Battle is getting yet another experience in diversity by
attending Southwestern as an exchange student. He is the first student
to take advantage of the student exchange component of the Engaged
Diversity project, which is sponsored by the Mellon Foundation.
Morehouse and Southwestern are participants in this program, along with
Dillard University in New Orleans, Huston-Tillotson University in
Austin and Rhodes College in Memphis. <br>
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Battle says he has enjoyed meeting the faculty and students at
Southwestern. “I have been quite wowed by the hospitality and
incredible welcoming spirit that people have here,” he says. </p>
<p>To read the rest of this story, click <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=65">here</a>.</p>
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E-RECYCLING EVENT FOR THE COMMUNITY MARCH 1</th>
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<p>Students and staff members from Southwestern are partnering
with Austin-based Axcess Technologies to offer a communitywide
“E-recycling” event. Residents are invited to bring old computers,
monitors, printers, telephones, cameras, scanners and other “e-waste.”
All equipment will be reused, recycled or refurbished in an
environmentally safe way by Axcess Technologies. The event will take
place Saturday, March 1, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the parking lot
behind the Cullen Building at Hwy. 29 and Maple Street. A campus map is
available <a href="http://www.southwestern.edu/tour/campus-map.pdf">here</a>.
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<p>The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Department of Art, presents
an exhibit titled “Bestiaries” by Rudy Pozzatti. Bestiaries are books
on animals, both real and imagined, that exemplify moral messages. The
exhibit includes 28 lithographs and wood-cut prints from two bestiaries
– one by medieval writer Theobaldus titled “De Naturis Duodecim
Animalium” and another titled “Darwin’s Bestiary,” which is a
collaboration between Pozzatti and poet Philip Appleman. Pozzatti is a
distinguished professor of fine arts emeritus at Indiana University.
The exhibit will be on display in the Fine Arts Gallery until April 4.
A reception and brief gallery talk by Pozzatti will be Thursday April
3, from 5-6:30 p.m. The exhibit is in conjunction with this year’s
Brown Symposium topic, “Umwelt: Exploring the Self-Worlds of Human and
Non-Human Animals.”</p>
<p>The exhibition and artist reception are free and open to the
public.<br>
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<p align="left">• Laura Hobgood Oster, associate professor of
religion and philosophy, was interviewed on “Across the Nation,” a
radio show on <i>The Catholic Channel</i> (SIRIUS satellite station
159). She discussed whether or not animals have souls.<br>
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• The <i>Williamson County Sun</i> ran a story about growth of the
Pirate Buc$
program. </p>
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<div class="style8" align="left">NOTABLES</div>
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<p align="left"><strong>Alicia L. Moore</strong>, associate
professor of education, was invited to present two teacher workshop
sessions as a part of the Children’s Courtyard Professional Development
University. The workshops were presented to Early Childhood teachers
and caregivers and focused on the ABCs of Culturally Responsive
Teaching and their importance in <br>
educational settings.</p>
<p><strong>Bill O’Brien</strong>, professor of physics, will have
his paper, “Hassel-Free Energy Consumption Measurements of Electrical
Devices,” published in the May 2008 issue of <em>The Physics Teacher</em>.
The paper develops classroom uses of a new metering device, the
Kill-A-Watt, which makes it very easy for people to measure the energy
consumed by household (and dorm-room) appliances. The paper elaborates
on the themes developed in his 2007 paper in <em>Physics Education </em>titled
“Mining Power and Hydrocarbon Consciousness from the Monthly Electric
Bill: A Classroom Project.” This paper is accessible at <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/academic/bwp/pdf/2006bwp-obrien.pdf">http://www.southwestern.edu/academic/bwp/pdf/2006bwp-obrien.pdf</a>.<br>
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<strong>Ron Swain</strong>, senior advisor to the president,
participated in a Feb. 26 forum hosted by Concordia University. The
forum was titled “A Bold Vision: The Effect of Austin Area Colleges and
Universities on Closing the Gap.” <br>
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Four Southwestern students have been selected to receive Sumners
Fellowships beginning in the fall of 2008. The fellowships, which are
awarded by the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation of Dallas, are $5,000 per
semester or a total of $10,000 per year. Students recently selected to
receive Sumners Fellowships are <strong>Sarah Gould</strong>, <strong>Emily
Gutzmer</strong>, <strong>Heather Lesieur</strong> and <strong>Luis
(Fermie) Reyes</strong>. Students are selected for the fellowships
based on their academic history, extracurricular activities, and
leadership experience. In addition to assistance with tuition, students
selected to receive Sumners Fellowships have access to other programs
sponsored by the foundation, including a distinguished lecture series;
a variety of public policy, leadership and civic participation
programs; and several educational and internship opportunities in
Washington, D.C.<br>
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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></p>
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