Campus Notables

Marsha Maurer, languages, literature, and communications, had her book A Fragrant Fullness: The Spiritual Essence of Everyday Life published by Ambassador Emerald International. She will be the featured speaker at Reese Library's Meet the Author
program on March 24 at noon.

Pam Lightsey, bookstore, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Georgia Association of College Stores.

Shannon Stephens, Shannon Nix, and Ginny Luke, Counseling and Testing Center, presented a continuing education workshop at the 11th Annual Georgia College Counseling Association Conference in St. Simon's Island. The workshop was titled Therapeutic Homework Helps. Ms. Luke serves as past president and Ms. Nix is the Augusta regional representative for the Georgia College Counseling Association.

Jurgen Brauer, College of Business Administration, presented a paper in San Diego recently titled On the Production of Peace. Dr. Brauer will also present a program to the Richmond County Green Party at their annual meeting, following the showing of a film about world economics and how the United States' role impacts neighboring countries and U.S. citizens by the policies it has created.

Kristen Casaletto, fine arts, was featured at several recent exhibitions including Tamarind Group Invitational, (invitational printmaking show) E.J. Bellocq Gallery, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston; 2004 National Print Competition and Exhibition, (national juried printmaking show), Janet Turner Print Museum, California State University, Chico, CA; and Mississippi Voices: Stories and Visions of the South, Museum of Art, Hattiesburg. The Hattiesburg exhibition, a mixed media solo show, was the culmination of a collaborative project with historian Dr. Deanne Nuwer that was funded by a major grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council.

Dr. Ralph Watkins, sociology, presided over an awards program at Lucy Craft Laney Museum Feb. 21 in which several ASU faculty were recognized. Mr. Michael Searles, assistant professor of history, and Dr. Edward Cashin, director of the Center for the Study of Georgia History, were honored in the event hosted by Eta Alpha Chapter Alpha Phi Alpha and Delta House Inc./CSRA Classic, Inc. Youth Leadership.

Eric Skipper, languages, literature, and communications, presented a paper entitled The Spanish Tolstoy?: An Overview of W.D. Howells' Assessment of Armando Palacio Valdes's Novels at the 29th Annual Conference on Literature and Film, at Florida State
University.

Paul Harris, political science, had two guest-editorials published. The first, Anti-Jewish Feelings Rise in Germany, appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, on Nov. 17, 2003. The second, Proposed Guest Worker Program Lacks Adequate Provisions appeared in The Augusta Chronicle on Feb. 4. He also delivered a lecture, Post-Soviet Jewish Migration to the New Germany since 1990, to the Yale Club of Germany on Dec. 9, 2003, as part of their fall lecture series program, and participated in the workshop, Soviet Jews on Three Continents, sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation and the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish Studies, Potsdam, Germany, Dec. 10-11, 2003. He also organized the public forum How Does U.S. Trade Policy Affect the Local Economy, which was held on campus Jan. 15, and served as panelist on the Foreign Language Association and Paine College-sponsored panel France and Germany: Friends or Enemies? held at Paine College on Jan. 20.

Rob Foster, fine arts, directed the jazz ensemble in a concert Feb. 15 at the Morris Museum.

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