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<div class="style3" align="left"> IN FOCUS: March 28, 2008</div>
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<td rowspan="19" bordercolor="#000000" valign="top" width="113"><b>CAMPUS
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<p>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
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.southwestern.edu/tour/campus-map.pdf">www.southwestern.edu/tour/campus-map.pdf</a>).</p>
<p>Tickets for the concert are $10 for Southwestern students and
$15 for faculty, staff and the general public. Southwestern students
may purchase tickets online at
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.southwestern.edu/studentactivities/caketickets.htm">www.southwestern.edu/studentactivities/caketickets.htm</a> using Pirate
Buc$ beginning Wednesday, March 26.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>To read the rest of the story, click <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=75">here</a>.</p>
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<p>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
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:andersot@southwestern.edu">andersot@southwestern.edu</a>.</p>
<p>This event is free and open to the public.</p>
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<td scope="row" align="left" valign="top">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 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:russelle@southwestern.edu">russelle@southwestern.edu</a> 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 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vainl@southwestern.edu">vainl@southwestern.edu</a>.
<p>The concert, clinic and class are all free and open to the
public.</p>
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<p>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
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vainl@southwestern.edu">vainl@southwestern.edu</a>.</p>
<p>This event is free and open to the public.</p>
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<p align="left">• The <em>Austin American-Statesman </em>ran an
article about the 2008 Shilling Lecture. Read the article <a
href="http://www.statesman.com/search/content/news/stories/local/03/21/0321hinotes.html">here</a>.<br>
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• The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> 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.<br>
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• The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> ran an article about the April 5
art festival students are organizing.<br>
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• The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> ran an article about the Sarofim
School of Fine Arts upcoming performance of “Chanticleer.”<br>
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• Biology professor Max Taub is quoted in a March 24 <em>New Scientist
a</em>rticle about the effects of climate change on rice crops. Read
the article <a
href="http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn13517-major-food-source-threatened-by-climate-change.html">here</a>.
The April edition of <em>Natural History</em> magazine also includes a
short piece about Taub’s crop protein research.<br>
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• Biology professor Max Taub also was interviewed on <em>Radio
Singapore International</em>. You can hear his interview <a
href="http://www.rsi.sg/english/frontiers/view/20080219165052/1/.html">here</a>.<br>
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• The spring 2008 issue of the Pi Kappa Alpha national magazine, <em>Shield
& Diamond</em>, had an article about the revitalization of the
Alpha Omicron Chapter at Southwestern.<br>
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<p align="left"><strong>Alicia Betsinger</strong>, 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.</p>
<p><strong>Aaron Prevots</strong>, 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.</p>
<p><strong>Frank and Lynn Guziec</strong>, 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 <em>Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistr</em>y.<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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