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<div class="style3" align="left"> IN FOCUS: April 18, 2008</div>
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SHERMAN RECEIVES DISTINGUISHED ALUMNA AWARD </th>
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<td rowspan="16" bordercolor="#000000" valign="top" width="113"><b>CAMPUS
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To view upcoming events at Southwestern by day, week or month, click <a
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<p>Gwen Sherman, a 1980 graduate who serves as director of
finance and administration for the Seattle-based Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, has received the Distinguished Alumna Award from
Southwestern University.</p>
<p>The award was presented April 10 during a day of activities
that also included a panel discussion on equity in education – a topic
that is of personal interest to Sherman. Steve Seleznow, director of
education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, shared some of
the initiatives that the foundation has undertaken to ensure that all
children have equal opportunity to quality education.</p>
<p>Sherman earned a bachelor of business administration degree in
accounting from Southwestern. At Southwestern, she helped set up the
university’s Student Foundation and was its first president. She also
was instrumental in reviving University Sing after many years of
dormancy.</p>
<p>To read the rest of this story, click <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=79">here</a>.<br>
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GEORGETOWN MAYORAL FORUM APRIL 18</th>
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<p>Southwestern University will host a mayoral forum for
candidates George Garver and Doug Smith on Friday, April 18, from
7-8:30 p.m. in the Red and Charline McCombs Campus Center ballrooms. </p>
<p>The event is being organized by students in Professor Gilbert
St. Clair’s Media and Politics class at Southwestern. Audience members
will be able to participate in the forum by submitting written
questions to a panel of students. Both candidates will have the
opportunity to make opening and closing remarks.</p>
<p>The forum will be moderated by Eric McKinney, interim chaplain
of Southwestern University.</p>
<p>Garver and Smith are vying to replace Gary Nelon, who has
served as mayor of Georgetown since 2002. The election is set for
Saturday, May 10. Whoever is elected mayor will serve a three-year term.</p>
<p>For more information on the forum, call 512-863-1662. For
directions to the campus center, visit <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/tour/campus-map.pdf">http://www.southwestern.edu/tour/campus-map.pdf</a>.</p>
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<p>The Sarofim School of Fine Arts presents the SU Wind Ensemble
in concert <br>
at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 19, in the Alma Thomas Theater. The
ensemble is conducted by Lois Ferrari, associate professor of music,
and will feature works by David Gillingham, Kent Kennan, Jacques Press
and Percy Grainger. For more information, call 512-863-1379.</p>
<p>This concert is free and open to the public.</p>
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<p align="left">* The <em>Round Rock Leader </em>featured the
upcoming Cake concert at Southwestern on the cover of its weekly
entertainment guide. </p>
<p>* The <em>Williamson County Sun </em>ran an advance story
about the upcoming Georgetown mayoral forum.</p>
<p>* The <em>Williamson County Sun </em>ran a story on the
Student Works Symposium.</p>
<p>* The <em>Williamson County Sun </em>ran a story about the
upcoming production of “Suburbia.”</p>
<p>* The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> ran a preview of the
Shilling Lecture.</p>
<p>* The <em>Midland Reporter-Telegram </em>ran a story about
Biology professor Romi Burks and her chocolate class. Read the story <a
href="http://www.mywesttexas.com/articles/2008/04/14/news/top_stories/education_foundation_sunday.prt">here</a>.
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<p align="left"><strong>Steven Alexander</strong>, associate
professor of physics and holder of the Robert Sherman Lazenby Chair in
Physics, had a paper published in the journal <em>Engineering in the
Life Sciences</em>. The paper, titled “The Light Quanta Modulated
Physiological Response of Brassica Juncea Seedlings Subjects to Ni(II)
Stress,” was a collaborations between Southwestern University, the
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo and the University of
Texas Pan American and was co-authored by SU alum Landon Summer ’07.</p>
<p>Senior <strong>Mary Kierst</strong> presented her paper, "A
Study of Congressional Decision Making: The 2001 USA PATRIOT ACT and
the 2006 Renewal," at a poster session of the 2008 Annual Conference of
the Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago, Ill., on April 5.
Her paper is the result of a Mundy project with <strong>Tim O'Neil</strong>l,
professor of political science.</p>
<p><strong>Gulnar Rawji</strong>, associate professor of
chemistry, had a paper titled “The Importance of Pt(II) Catalyzed
Pt(IV) Substitution for the Oxidation of Guanosine Derivatives by
Pt(IV) Complexes," published in <em>Inorganic Chemistry</em>. It was
collaboration with a professor at Middlebury College.</p>
<p>Southwestern Men’s Basketball Head Coach<strong> Bill Raleigh</strong>
and the Southwestern basketball players were honored as the
Southwestern University Partner of the Year at the Georgetown Partners
in Education (PIE) Night at Dell Diamond Saturday, April 12. The
recognition is a result of the basketball team’s weekly mentoring at
Annie Purl Elementary School in Georgetown this year.<br>
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<strong>Richard Denman</strong>, associate professor of
mathematics and computer science, and student programming contest teams
“su-root” and “su-pirata-informatico” competed in the CCSC Mid-South
conference at Arkansas Technological University April 4. “Su-root,”
comprised of students <strong>Stephen Foster</strong>, <strong>Bobby
Potter</strong> and <strong>Tommy Rogers</strong>, placed second while
“su-pirata-informatico,” comprised of <strong>Sarah Doty</strong>, <strong>Lane
Hill</strong> and <strong>Carl West,</strong> placed eighth. In all,
over 20 teams from four states competed. If any students are interested
in participating or for more information about the program, contact
Denman at 512-863-1594 or <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:denman@southwestern.edu">denman@southwestern.edu</a>.<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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